Learning’s from Mahatria's infinipath June 29 , 2014

Discipline:

When you were child dint know what was right way or better way to live life. Your mom knew it is important for you to brush your teeth every day. For you, brushing was not your interest. She thrust it upon u, forced it upon you. You were chased. You were bribed. You cried. 

By repeatedly doing it over a period of time you learnt to brush and it became your life style. Giving you a bath was thrust upon you. Over a period of time you could learn that and bathing was your lifestyle

You were sent to school. You cried, refused, you revolted. No matter how much you cried, you were dragged to school. You had to be disciplined. A discipline was cultivated in you and eventually it became a lifestyle.  If all of us were left unto ourselves as children our life would not have been any different from an animal.

You did not like it when your Grandma told you to keep the things from where it was picked.  You did it for pleasing her but it became your lifestyle. If someone has not disciplined u, you keep things where even you can’t find. So disorganized you are that One day you will search “Where am I”? Only when you shift the house 14 years later, you will get the thing you lost.

Exposure:

Unless we are exposed that there is a better way to live life, we never scale up. Only we are exposed to the outside world, we get to know the opportunities that lie ahead.  The size of a person’s dream is shaped by size of the environment he is exposed to.

You can’t learn a language unless there is an environment in which you can use the language.  How you speak your language depends on environment in which you are exposed.  Go to New York, you will find yourself walking fast.etc …

Wishing someone for their birthday:

If someone celebrates birthday, then wish them happy birthday along with a quality you admire of him or her. Or recall a special incident with him or her.

If someone commits a crime in a village in Africa, the person is made to sit in the chair. All people come and tell the qualities they admire about him. Eventually, he will start crying and think “why did I commit such a mistake. Why did I stoop down?”  So, keep reinforcing the positives which a person has.

Emotions: 

To emote is human and not to emote is animal. Don’t be ashamed of your emotions.  Keep the child within you awake.

Stay awake and learn from everything:

Anything can teach you. A blade of grass dancing in wind can teach you something if you are ready to learn from it.

Awaken the giant within you:

If “no” is not an option for you, then you won’t search for alternatives. If no is an option for u, you will settle down with a no.  When failure is not an option, you will think of success ONLY. Don’t wander around life being satisfied that you are one step above animal. Just because you hail from great family, getting promotion etc, don’t be satisfied. Being son of a great person is fine. What are you going to do with your potential?   “I work for a great Brand”. What are you going to do so that the company is going to be proud of you? A giant is sleeping within u. awaken it.

Impracticability is the vocabulary of a mediocre who does not want to take the responsibility of implementation. Don’t settle for anything ordinary.

We are powerful magnets. Decide what you want. Soon you can achieve that. All 7.2 bill people in world want to have a better life. But few take the responsibility.

Buddha says:

Buddham saranam gacchami: Continue to stay in touch with course of action.

Dhammam saranam gacchami:  Continue to stay in touch with values, teachings

Sangham saranam gacchami:  Continue to stay in touch with like minded people

Buddha says:  don’t assume you will be like this till the end. You are consistently programmed by environment in which you live. You are not a machine. If once programmed it stays eternally programmed. The lava after leaving volcano can’t retain its heat for too long. Further and further it moves away from volcano, the sooner and sooner it will lose its heat. One rotten tomato will spoil all the good tomatoes.

Going to office:

I might go to a place of worship without taking bath but I will not go to my office without taking bath. When we go to work, we realize that it is okay to go to work without being dressed properly. It is your way of showing what the place of work means to u.

Man gets manipulated easily:

30 min before Kaikeyi was sure that she loves Rama more than anyone. She loved Rama more than her own son Bharatha. She listened to Mandhirai for 30 minutes and she began to see Rama as a rival and threat. Only 30 min was required to contaminate d mind of Kaikeyi

Duryodhana and Arjuna dint know what to do .Duryodhana’s fall back was Saguni. He was bad and became ugly. Arjuna’s fall back was Krishna. He was good and became best.

“I think my manager is not good”. You will share this with a friend and come back loving your manager or hating him even more. “I think my brother is not right”. You will share this with someone n you will go back n tell your bro that you love him or you end relationship with him. Who your fallback is matters a lot.

Talk to a group of people and you will be convinced that best time is ahead of us.  Talk to a group of people and you will feel demoralized.  So important is the environment, i.e. the people who you r relating with. It takes nothing to pull someone down. It takes a lot to bring someone up!

Keep watching people around u. Are they uplifting your thinking or contaminating your thinking? Are you becoming futuristic in my thoughts? Do you believe in infinite possibly?

How do we celebrate ourselves?

Loving ourselves is seen as arrogance, ego etc. none of us realize that if you don’t love yourself, you can’t enjoy others loving u. “Love thy neighbor as you love yourself”

How to be happy?

Everything has to be right to b happy. To make some1 happy do something they like. . It is very easy to make others happy. Any person you cross, ask yourself what is d one thing I do thy will become happy. Feel the happiness you feel making others happy. You should be source of happiness for everyone around.

 Rather than thinking “what I want to cook for myself” if you think “what I want to cook for your loved ones”, you become Mother Theresa. The reason is enough to celebrate life.

If you become blotting paper without reacting to the emotions which people display, you become Buddha.

Happiness in small things and Success in big things

We set very high standards for our happiness and we set very low standards for our success.

Ordinary accomplishments makes us feel successful n we are expecting big time perfections for us to be happy in life. Let simple things make you happy in life n don’t get satisfied with ordinary success.

You have very high bar for happiness and very low bar for success. Reverse it. Don’t be satisfied with ordinary accomplishments. But everything should make you happy.