Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

🌺IMPORTANCE OF ATTITUDE 🌺  There was a man who made living selling balloons at a fair. He had all colors of balloons Including red, yellow, green. Whenever business was slow, he would release a helium filled balloons into the air and when the children saw it go up, they all wanted to buy one. They would come up to him, buy a balloon and his sales would go up again. He continues this process all day.  One day, he felt something tugging his jacket. He turned around and saw a little boy who asked, "If you release a black balloon, would that also fly?” Moved by the boy’s concern, the man replied with empathy. "Son, it is not the Color of the balloon, it is what inside that makes it go up.”  The same thing applies to our lives. It is what is inside that counts. The thing inside of us that makes is go up is our attitude. A Jnani always looks forward to the time when he will be free from the bondage of the body and be able to throw it away. A person who carried a ...

Nature of the Mind  🌸 It takes skill to remove a delicate piece of silk cloth from the thorny bush. Same is the case with our mind. Mind either likes something or dislikes something. It cannot exist without the swing. 🌸 A golden point that lifts the mind out of blame’s and dislikes is wonder (where there is no concepts) . Very easily, the mind slips from wonder to concepts. 🌸for a more conscious person, his own mind becomes a problem. Even the smallest faults in him start bothering him.  🌸 *Points to wonder about * - *Sex, mindless, desires and fear * 🌸Sex is the oldest basic impression in the body. When sex is mature and down with emotions and at mental level, it is not focused on genital organs. That is the union of the soul. Unconscious mind results in lowest form of sex (focused on body only). 🌸 Ashtavakra says - how can an enlightened person have a feeling of mind? How can a personal feeling bother the feeling of universalness?  🌸many sadhaks do it...

ONCE GOD DECIDED TO GO TO A TEMPLE - A STORY ABOUT DEVOTION  There is a very nice story. Once God decided to go to a temple, which He rarely does. So He gave a dream to the priest. He said, “I’m coming into the temple tomorrow.” So the priest, for a change, started cleaning the temple.  If it’s a Hindu temple, it is a little messier than other temples. They throw water everywhere, prashad everywhere, here, there, and flowers will be lying down here and there and some dried flowers will be found. So he said, “Okay.” He kept cleaning. And he told all the people, “Today God is going to come to the temple.” Even the people who come to the temple did not believe. Say, “Oh, what has happened to the priest?” They felt sorry for him. “He may need a psychiatrist. Today he’s saying something very weird, like ‘God is going to come to the temple.'” They also had no faith.  Some people had compassion for him. Some people phoned a psychiatrist but somehow the priest made al...

Who shall we call a wise person A big factory was being built in Kerala and a grave problem arose during the construction of that plant. The problem was that a really heavy machine had to be placed at the bottom of a deep pit built in the plant, but the weight of the machine posed a challenge. The machine arrived at the site but how to get it down in the 30 feet deep pit, had become a big problem!! If not installed properly, both the foundation and the machine would suffer a lot. Now, this was a time when cranes that could lift very heavy weights were not available everywhere. The ones available could probably lift the machine, but to land it in the deep pit was beyond their capacity.  Finally, the company constructing the plant gave up, and issued a tender to find a solution to this problem. As a result, a lot of people sent their offers to fit this machine in the pit. They thought that they would call for a crane and get the machine installed.  Accordingly, they asked for 10...

01.06.2022 - Session 1- Understanding Desire - Notes when we examine our life , there are 3 different powers 1. Desire  2. Knowledge/wisdom/information 3. Power to act/instinct to act What is a Desire - Entire universe is made out of desire. Lord Buddha said, desire is the cause of misery, no doubt it is cause of misery only when we identify ourselves with desire. When we see desire as power, it rises to another level, and there we see desire is nothing but joy. The state of mind we are in before the desire arises is the same state whEn the desire is fulfilled which means desire takes you in full circle. when one desire is fulfilled, one more comes in, its a chain. the more u get fulfillment, more keep coming . What you do? you gallop on one after another desire . We seldom stay put and enjoy the moment because there is no time.  When life moves like this , then we are on a constant run, we seldom look in what is the source of joy?  When two people come togeth...

Scuffle between small mind and big mind Sometimes small mind wins over the big mind and then later it becomes miserable and come back to big mind. e.g: sometimes we want our smallest wish to get fulfilled and we become very feverish about it and later when it gets fulfilled we say oh may be I could have not wished for this. Because we see just short term benefits of a thing and not the bigger picture which big mind has idea about. We become more miserable and comes back to the divine.  QUESTION TO PONDER UPON_ : How big is our world? Have we ever thought?  Our world is bundle of our experiences. Our mind is caught up with those experiences and doesn’t go further. e.g: We crave for food that we have eaten so many times, we like music that we have heard many times. Our experiences with all the 5 senses are limited and same with people. Even people those come into our thoughts are same whom we have interacted with.  Our world is so limited. We are stuck with 4 or...

Body dropping us is death and you dropping the body is meditation or samadhi. We should learn to drop our body, before body drop us.  This We can do through meditation consciously unaware of our body. We r able to see the world through self . We r inside our body. Our consciousness , self is inside in every part of the body. So we should experience it that I'm nobody n I'm nothing. Like self  as water present I the mudpot  through its pores, outside n inside , everywhere of the universe. Janaka was astonished n amazed that I'm hollow n empty, so everyone around me also hollow n empty. So everyone is nothing inside. N everyone is same inside.  Only exerternally shapesn color n forms r different,  like all balloons r different in color n shape outside ,but they all made up of same thing. 1. We usually don't drop the body, the body tires of us as we don't treat it properly and drop us. Body dropping us is death and you dropping the body is meditation or...

Surrender and Devotion is the main skill  All our emotions,  anger or frustration  etc come out of love behind that.  Our life is originally made up of love   We should know the skill to experience it. We should see the life as Divine.  Then problems will be disappeared. Some conflicts,  confusions, situations or circumstances  arrive, but all are moving waves, which come n go. Nothing will happen to us . We should see the life as a play, a game.  Life is so charming n colorful.  We just need to know the skill of total surrender and innocence. King Janaka s heart n mind was so simple ,cleat n aligned to nature. So words touched his heart n he got recognition . Just hankering for knowledge  , Love and Divinity,  it gets us restless.  If we hold onto something,  nothing will happen.  In other way if someone drop it , that no need do anything   anyways,  then also nothing will happen ...