25 way to rejuvenate the life.

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Dear friends and devotees,

 

Bhakti is eternal.

 

25 ways to rejuvenate life contd…..

 

3. Make your smile cheaper.

 

A research done in England found that a baby smiles 400 times a day, an

adolescent 17 times and an adult doesn’t smile at all! The more

successful one keeps a very stiff face. Is roughness a sign of success?

Is being stressed a sign of prosperity growth or dignity.

 

You should smile more. Every day, every morning, look at the mirror and

give a good smile to yourself. You know what happens when you smile?

All the muscles in your face get relaxed. The nerves in your brain get

relaxation, and you get the confidence, courage and energy to move on in

life.

 

You know, your smile is so fragile! Just one telephone call is enough

to take it away! But what is the big deal about your feelings? Bundle

them up and throw them into the ocean! Once you are rid of your

‘feelings’ you can be happy. Just see why your spirits go

down? Because somebody said something stupid to you, and why did they

say a stupid thing? Because they had some garbage they needed to throw

out and you were there, ready to catch it! And once you have caught it,

you hold on to it so passionately! Come on! Wake up! Don’t let

your smile be snatched away by anybody!

 

Usually, you give your anger freely and smile rarely as though a smile

is costly. In ignorance, anger is cheaper and smile costly. In

knowledge, a smile is free like sun, air, and water and anger is

extremely expensive, like a diamond. Make your smile cheaper and anger

expensive! You are here for a greater cause. Just remember that. Take

a challenge; “Come what may, I am going to smile today and be

happy!†Smile more.

 

4. Be enthusiastic and praise others.

 

Enthusiasm is the nature of life. We often have a tendency to put cold

water on other’s enthusiasm. Reverse this tendency. Take every

opportunity to praise others and support their enthusiasm. If you put

down other’s enthusiasm, the same may happen to you. As you sow,

so shall you reap? Recollect how much enthusiasm and joy you had when

you went to the primary school. Someone without enthusiasm is like a

corpse. But as you become mature, the enthusiasm curve declines. As

enthusiasm declines, we stop communicating.

 

How would you like to see yourself? Happy and bubbling with enthusiasm

are dull and difficult to please? Often, you like to be pleased,

appeased and cajoled. So you put up a tough, upset face and act

difficult to please. If a person has to appease and please ten people

all the time, it will be so tiring. People who keep a long face and

expect others to cajole and appease them make others run away. Lovers

often do this. They expend a lot of energy in cajoling, and this brings

down the joy and celebration of the moment.

 

If you feel down, appease and please yourself. Your need to be appeased

by someone else is the sign of grossness. If you want attention, all

you get is tension. It is not possible to attain Divine Love with a

complaining face. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies.

 

5. Make meditation a part of your life.

 

The higher goals in life can only be realized through a few minutes of

meditation and introspection.

 

What is meditation?

 

Mind without agitation is meditation.

 

Mind in the present moment is meditation.

 

Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is

 

meditation.

 

Mind that has come back home, to the

 

source, is meditation.

 

Mind that becomes “no mind†is meditation.

 

Deeper you are able to rest, dynamic you will be in activity. Even

though deep rest and dynamic activity are opposite values, they are

complementary. Before the body leaves you, you learn to leave

everything. That is freedom. What are you looking for? Are you

looking for some great joy? YOU ARE JOY.

 

I will give you an example. Have you seen dogs biting bones? You know

why they bite bones? Biting wounds their mouth. Its own blood comes

out and the dog feels that the bone is very tasty! Poor dog spends the

whole time chewing the bone but getting nothing out of it! Any joy you

experience in life is from the depth of your self, when you let go all

that you hold on to land settle down being centered in that space. That

is called meditation. Actually, meditation is not an act; it is the art

of doing nothing! The rest in meditation is deeper than the deepest

sleep that you can ever have because in mediation you transcend all

desires.

 

Meditation is letting go of anger from the past and all the planning for

the future. Meditation is accepting this moment and living every moment

totally with depth. Just this understanding, and a few days of

continuous practice of meditation can change the quality of our life.

 

The best comparison of the three states of consciousness, which are,

waking, sleeping and dreaming, are with the nature. Nature sleeps,

awakes and dreams! It happens in a magnificent scale in existence, and

it is happening in a different scale in the human body. Wakefulness and

sleep are like sunrise and darkness. Dream is like the twilight in

between.

 

And meditation is like the flight to the outer space, where there is no

sunset, not sunrise, nothing! I am sure that deep within, every one of

you feel that you have not grown, meaning you have not changed, not

grown old. This indicates the soul in you, the depth in you, the spirit

in you doesn’t change, doesn’t grow old, it’s not

aging. The body is aging but something in you is not aging. Getting in

touch with that something that doesn’t age brings beauty in life.

 

That is meditation.

 

to be continued next week....

 

With regards,

 

Sastry.