As originally published in India’s premiere spiritual magazine ‘Life Positive’ (January 2016 Issue)
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Krishna Bhaavin
I am a curious learner, an intense feeler and a self-absorbed thinker, in that order. My role in the world is that of a modern-day yogi; also a spiritual trainer and a thought-provoking author; a personal coach and a healer.
Divinely guided by Mahavatar Babaji, I have intimately learnt with enlightened masters like Guruji Rishi Prabhakar, Leonard Orr and now Dattatreya Shiv Baba (Dr. Pillai). Currently at 41, I enjoy getting to the bottom of things and actively sharing my learnings. I have a voracious appetite for reading.
I speak and write about a whole gamut of topics from spirituality and emotional healing to productivity and enlightened prosperity. My deepest interest lies in the science of easy living.
Handling Chronically Miserable People
Chronic misery is a disease. It takes a toll on the host and it takes a toll on everybody around the host.
Such people have a hard life for themselves. They find some or the other reason to become unhappy about. They become unhappy over things that do not warrant any unhappiness at all. They make a mountain out of a molehill. By the time, the issue is resolved they will find something else to be unhappy about. They thrive on misery. They also create challenges out of nothing so that they have something to be bothered about and something to overpower. As if becoming unhappy is their biggest love, their biggest hobby, their biggest pleasure.
Spirituality is not Self-Improvement
Of late, there is a rush of self-improvement movements calling themselves as spiritual movements. These movements focus on values like Non-violence, Forgiveness, Gratitude, Focus, Contentment, Detachment, Self-restraint, Silence, Love etc calling them as spiritual values. I myself teach most of them believing that I am teaching hardcore spirituality. But I have lately been wondering if it’s true.
To me, a spiritual value is something that by itself can cause self-realization or enlightenment without the assistance of any other value.
Silence v/s Spontaneity
Silence and Spontaneity seem to be opposite ends of the spectrum. I am in love with both and would love for myself to harmonize them. But is it possible in the first place?
When I wake up, just like others, my awareness is at a low. Ironically I find it easier to be myself during these times. There is nobody looking upon me from a watch-tower. Because my own self-aware self is absent. I am under nobody’s radar. There is no productive/unproductive or worthwhile/not worthwhile tag as applied to my actions. I can crack jokes at length (oblivious of any time management) and blabber away to glory with my little one. The watcher and the commenter are not home. There is nobody telling me what to do and what not to do.