As originally published in India’s premiere spiritual magazine ‘Life Positive’ (June 2016 Issue)
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Letting go, letting God
As originally published in India’s premiere spiritual magazine ‘Life Positive’ (June 2016 Issue)
Letting go is not easy. Each of us holds on to certainty, to security, to convenience, to the sphere of the ‘known’. I had a similar issue. All my life. Until I did an experiment that my master had exhorted many of us to do. My master, the late Guruji Rishi Prabhakar (founder of SSY), regularly undertook a padyatra, a lone voyage, by and large on foot, as a mendicant. This is actually an ancient practice favoured by Adi Shankara, Buddha, Mahavira and Swami Vivekanand among others.
He gave a definite purpose to it: The purpose was to see God in whoever you meet, make yourself useful wherever you go, and to find security in the middle of the manifest insecurity.
Transcend action addiction
As originally published in India’s premiere spiritual magazine ‘Life Positive’ (May 2016 Issue)
Are you a jack in the box, who jumps up to act at the drop of a hat? Compulsive action may not be the virtue it is considered to be.
In spirituality, we have a term, karma, and by extension we have another term – karma bandhana. Mostly, we interpret karma to mean a deed, a deed that is bound to the law of cause and effect. Bandhana means bondage. So karma bandhana implies being bound to the consequences of one’s deeds, negative as well as positive.
However, another meaning of karma is to act. In this context karma bandhana would imply bondage to action.
