'Know Yourself'- SLT01

Understanding Calculas of life by- Govind Sharma

I am sure you were taught in mathematics that 1+1 becomes 2; but life has different calculus to see things. In our life 1 problem simply doesn't have only 1 solution but many of the them and each one of us are blessed to imagine them in our own customized ways.

How big are we?- Among hundreds of billions of galaxies with trillions of stars in each one of them, we are living in the outskirts of this unexplored universe in one Star's solar system; on a planet called EARTH. 'Homo Sapiens' aka 'Humans' as we are popularly known; we are just one of the 8.7 million species on our planet; and there are 7.3 billions like us now and billions have lived before our time zone.

What are Humans?- A type of species which has unique ability to imagine and visualize things which doesn't exist and share common abilities with other species such as having a physical body made of flash, communicate with others and. Humans carry emotions such as Love, Anger, Disgust, Happiness, Sadness, Surprise, Trust, Remorse and Contempt (derived from 'Navarasa' in Sanskrit, meaning 9 Ras/feeling). Human carry their unique ability with help of their mind which is bigger in size then most of the other species on the planet (Including elephant & whale fish) and human mind have ability to control their body and vice versa- Humans can control their minds.

What is our history?- In last 3.3 million years of human existence on our planet, most of our ancestors spent their life- 'finding food', until 12000 years ago when agriculture revolution happened on our planet; this was no more a life goal. In the midst of living from caves to farm land to forming Kingdoms & armies, Humans have grown in living in larger groups in last 5000 years in colonial era.

What do we know?- Last 100 years of human race have shown unprecedented progress in all fields of life and now we can do all Godly task, impossible for ancient Human to imagine; like- we can Fly, can replace heart of patient or travel at blazing fast speed 28000 km per hour, know that earth is round and revolves around Sun & reached on Natural satellite- Moon; famously known as 'Chanda Mama'; can have instant face to face talk to any person on any part of the planet without going there (through cell phone), can know what is happening around the globe through TV. If you go back in time machine and tell our ancestors (Earlier than just 400 years) they will call you fool and will say you are crazy. Are we looking at life in the same way? Do we also have similar mental blocks?

Our ancestors indulge themselves to find out true meaning of life and have left many footprints in many books for us to follow. They had dreamed their future generations to have a life more fulfilling and peaceful. If ever there was a beautiful time to be on our planet, it’s now; when we are enjoying everything our previous generations has build for us to feed our body, mind & soul.

What is perspective of 'Mind'?- Our 'Mind' is a machine which can be easily programmed. Do you remember feeling change in the way you feel every time when you enter in a holy place or your own house or a friends place or a irritating person's house or your workplace. Why does that happen when you know all of them are build with same type of bricks, iron, cement, labor, lights, fan/ac etc; so many similarity yet two pole apart & diverse. Why some of the people feel fortunate to kill others on the name of religion while some want to give up their own life serving others. All this is result of choices your mind makes on your behalf as it was fed with information turned into beliefs and it was programmed to behave that way. Therefore it is your first priority to take charge of your own thoughts. Whatever you will focus upon, will grow in your life- Be it Personal, Professional or Spiritual well being.

What should then be meaning of life?- As per Vedas, every human being should try to find 'Moksha'- ways to connect our souls with the universal superpower and become part of it. On a lighter note, in a famous Indian Movie 'Anand', first superstar of Indian cinema, legendary 'Rajesh Khanna' has said 'Babumosai Jindagi Badi honi chahiye, Lambi nahi' (Life can be short but should be meaningful/ Megaliving). Rose flower lives too short span of life but spread immense happiness and fragrance.

How can we know Our-self?- We are nothing but consequences of our planned actions, derived from our thoughts, generated from our consciousness which functions in our mind. At the same time, our ancestors (mostly wise Monks) have believed that we are a spiritual soul who need to find its own purpose in life. Either of the ways, be it mind or soul; both have common thing of consciousness which need to be awaken by all of us for our self so that we make our self free from the vicious cycle of rebirth or live more fulfilling life.

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."- Aristotle

There are few ways we can know about our-self in more enlightened ways, grab a Pen and your personal Diary (Make one today if you don't have it already)

1. Define Yourself- (Include your 5 happy and 5 regretful moments)

This life changing activity will help you to identify Who you always have been, be truthful to write it.

2. Define your 5 likes & 5 dislikes- (Relate what relax or annoy you)

This activity will help you to to identify the perspective that you looked at your life in small ways

3. Define your 5 Personal, 5 Professional & 5 Spiritual goals based on 'Having'-

This will help you to identify what materialistic stuff moves you and later in my post we will compare what role it will have in making a purposeful or fulfilling life.

4. Write down your Ideal future life with timelines based on 'Living'-

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”- Mark Twain

This exercise is tough though, listing your materialistic desires are easy than writing your Spiritual desires based on you Ideal way of future 'Living'. While making the list, please make sure to avoid putting materialist things but anything which can give you sense of fulfillment.

5. Write down your passions and of those you love-

As a human being, we all are affectionate and want to live for others, along with living our own dreams. The happiness we receive by fulfilling dreams of people we love is incomparable to any pleasure on earth.

What should we do next?- Based on above 5 simple yet paradoxical, practices of self discovery you will get clarity of who you were, what you want to be; how you want to fulfill your life in both 'Materialistic' (Having) and 'Spiritual' (Living) ways.

Feed your 'Materialistic' Mind, should you choose to accept-

“Control your own destiny or someone else will.” Jack Welch

Feed your 'Spiritual' Mind, should you choose to accept-

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. we ourselves must walk the path.” Buddha

Stay tuned for this life changing journey with me, I will share next 'Self Learning Tool' in my future post on weekly basis; where I'll help you to live your dream life. If you want to know more about me or want to share something, please revert.

Catch you later…!!! Govind Sharma 9137-645-740.

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