So what do we do?

So what do we do?

So we have understood that “we” ourselves are the key to our happiness/ our salvation/ the termination of our anxiety.

So what do we “do” to now become more happier, more content, more at peace?

Nothing.

You already are the One. You already are the Soul, unsullied, unblemished, true, shining, pure, love, peace.

You just have forgotten over your many births/ weeks / months (select whichever suits your faith or beliefs) that you are the One. Your “mind” has surrounded your “soul recognition’ with imagined anxieties, fears, plans, expectations, burdens….. or just random nonsense.

My favorite allegory.  A Diamond. It is so pure, radiant, shining, sparkling, precious. Then you throw it into the street. Mud, grime accumulates over it. Then it rolls into the gutter. More sludge encompasses it. Anyone seeing it doesn’t recognize it as a diamond. They see a rock or worse, a sludge. Slowly even the diamond forgets its diamond attributes. But inwithin, the diamond is still present. Someday shall come a deluge of rain, wash away most of the sludge. Then a jeweler will pick it & polish it, and the diamond will shine again. The Diamond that always was there. You are the diamond. You are the One.

So knowing we are the ‘diamond’ do we just sit around? And wait for the ‘enlightenment’ to happen?

Yes, you could….. but then the time period to your becoming a ‘diamond’ prolongs.

So follow a good set of Yama and Niyama. Do’s and Don’t’s. Inherently all of us know what is good for us and what is bad. So I wont sit here and pontificate.

Just follow the set of rules good for you….. For example, if eating only Vegetarian food keeps you healthier and fitter, follow that strictly, your Niyama. If you always make an ass of yourself after drinking, follow the Yama of not drinking at parties (anyways, its bad for your liver and your brain cells).

Secondly, exorcise your personal demons. It may be anger (commonest), jealousy, gossip, small thievery, bad tongue, perverted sexual desires….. Whatever..... The list is endless.

My personal flaw is my hair trigger anger with a chip on my shoulder. And that I don’t tolerate fools easily. Now in my profession I meet atleast 100 new people everyday. Everyone from different backgrounds, upbringing. My attitude, with the above flaws, wont do. So my first Niyama is to talk softly to everyone. My second Niyama is to never reply fast, always think the answer in your head, reply after a pause. Yet, usually everyday, my irritation for some silly patient always surfaces.When that happens, i use my favorite trick, I close my eyes and imagine my favorite God (Mahadev/Maa Durga) or my favorite person sitting in place of that patient. Immedeately a smile lights my face, anger melts and I talk to the silly patient with utmost love and compassion. That is My personal ruse to exorcise my demon. But slowly my anger has started reducing, it doesn’t rear its head too often. You find your ruse.

Lastly, analyse your personal demon. Think why you are doing this. Why are you acting or reacting like this. Why are you having this bad trait.

Usually it is our inherent feeling of superiority over someone else and our being judgemental. We are very judgemental about the beggar at the crossing, the man who doesn’t vacate seat for old people, the unbathed villager, the unmannered worker.
You were lucky to be born in a good house, to good parents, 3 square meals, an education, have your luxuries. What can you even guess about how those people grew up, through what poverty, through what tribulations, through what abject dreariness?

When you judge or snook your nose at them, remember - they feel the same emotions you do, the same wants that you do, they would love the things that you take for granted.

Mellow down. See the world a little more softly, with pink shades on !!! The world is filled with love, happiness, laughter.

Stop being a grumpy, hoity-toity, angry, judgemental prig. Loosen that silly tie you hang around your neck, remove your shoes, walk on the beach with naked feet, see the sunset with its myraid colors, eat a cotton candy/ gola……. Share it with a stranger if you can.

Slow down your life and its pace.

And learn to polish the “Diamond”….. It isn’t a one time thing, it is a daily grind… a daily process ….. some days shall be good, some days bad…. Hence the immutable Yama - Niyama….. They form the basis of a good character…… Of what use is all your education, your hoity-toity ness, your suit and tie, your attitude if you cannot stick to a simple promise to yourself of not smoking?……….GO… Don’t eat my head.... Eat your own Head..... Polish the ‘diamond’ everyday... Not for me or some Guru, for Yourself.

Some day the One shall shine through.... it may not be a small journey...It may be a tough journey, depending on the "grime and sludge" covering your Soul and your will to 'polish' it........So what?...... it is Your journey..... Journery on proudly... Happily..... One day the One shall shine from you.

The Promise of the Soul Healer.