DOs & DON'Ts for Environment, Human Health & Animal Welfare

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Pearls of Wisdom from Rev. Master Kamleshji's talk

My Compilation of Pearls of Wisdom from Revered Master Kamleshji's speech at Beavercreek SRCM ashram at Dayton Ohio on 8th June 2015

1. Humility is a much bigger/greater virtue than love. When we could see only a small portion of a mountain, we feel humble when we get to know all the oceans etc. and admire the greatness of the Godlihood.

2. More than what we did, what we DID NOT DO haunt us and create guiltiness.

3. Quoted Babuji and said even laziness/inaction can create samskaras.

4. Like the man wearing his sneakers, going out and coming back every now and then without doing much outside, doing Meditation and going inward daily is not sufficient unless we firmly fix up the goal before meditation which is Complete Oneness with God and enable some transformation with us (My analogy of doing meditation everyday is equivalent to going to place of work and what we do at work and what we achieve/become matters the most).

5. We need to exteriorize our inner condition. The heart that is made to become tender by love and compassion through meditation needs to exhibit in dealing with our worldly situations.

6. Answering to a question, if soul can be lazy or inactive, Master replied that when the individual reaches the second point, he/she looses all the interest in the worldly duties momentarily and feel extreme love and compassion for all the worldly beings.
Hence Lalaji named the second point as Jesus point as Jesus Christ is the personification of love and compassion.

7. Christianity is known for Love and Compassion, Islam for its Ultimate Brotherhood and Hinduism for Devotion/Bhakthi. Quoted Babuji and said that Sahaj Marg is and will be known in the future for its Unity.

8. Quoted Swami Vivekananda's historic speech at Chicago at the Assembly of World Religions where he started his speech with the salutation, "Dear Sisters and Brothers of America" which instantly touched all the audience who stood up and applauded him. He encapsulated his love for humanity through those words.

9. Recalled an incident from Babuji's life when he was listening to a devotional song and had to stop the singer after the first stanza not because the singer was not singing well but Babuji got so involved in the meaning of the song, he was weeping his heart out such was the lightness or tenderness of his heart.

10. Very soon we should reach a state when there should be no need for meditation or cleaning as we should always be in a meditative state throughout the day.

11. Quoted that Lalaji was able to transform a person at a wink of his eye, but for that the person must have the condition/deservingness/ability to accept what He gives.

12. Like Snake and Ladder game, we tend to grow/go up spiritually and because of our ego caught by the mouth of the snake and descend. This way our birth and death cycle happens.

13. Layavastha or Merger with the God is not the final goal as the journey continues beyond that also.

Above all, my personal experience is that Rev. Kamleshji fully compensated for Master and helped me understand and reinforce the need for a Living Physical Master.

Embracing Spirituality through Meditation

Need for embracing Spirituality through Meditation.
A technique to relax and regulate your mind

Thanks to the IT industry where we are in, all of us are materially well off compared to our cousins working in other industries. In this industry we witness a constant rise in our business targets which in turn leads to pay hikes and thereby go through periods of boom as well as slowdown. We continue to live in this way and satiate our material needs or aspirations without ever realizing that there is something internal to us which also needs our care and attention. Since the time spend on accomplishing something external to us is immediately rewarding and therefore tempting, what is internal to us is always ignored and it takes a back seat.

But as years go on, sooner or later some problems start creeping into our life and and make us realize the importance and significance of something that is internal to us. It is during these times, one normally embraces a spiritual path as it makes the purpose of one?s life a holistic or complete.

The question that can then be asked is: What is meditation for? And why should one take up a spiritual life? Through meditation, one can control his outgoing tendencies and learn to look inward by closing his eyes. The spiritual life is considered to be the natural course of evolution in human life.

A child undergoes the schooling system without initially liking it. In fact it is forcefully put in a school and it might wonder as to "why on earth should I go to school when I can comfortably stay at home enjoying the enormous love and care from parents, grandparents. But it is a social norm to go through the schooling system even though one might not be able to appreciate its benefits immediately. Later on in life we understand the value of the school.

Similarly, now that we are all adults, quite learned and intellectually developed and of course independent, we will definitely ask ourselves to "why should I embrace a spiritual path when everything around me is good, and I am good - I don't harm anyone and am good to everyone". The answer to this question is by embracing a spiritual path; one?s life becomes balanced or complete, just as the child that has to undergo the schooling system. The pursuit of spiritual life becomes necessary as it can enrich the normal worldly life without anyway affecting it in an adverse way.

In this regard, Shri Ram Chandra Mission (www.srcm.org), a registered non-profit organization is committed to the spiritual welfare of individuals through the practice Sahaj Marg meditation which is offered free of cost. The details about the Sahaj Marg system of meditation can be found in sahajmarg.org.

Q1. Say I'm a PL today, and aspire to become a PM say 3 yrs from now and so on and so forth, . Will my career plan get affected or will I become less ambitious because of my pursuing the spiritual path?

A pursuit of spiritual path moderates your career ambitions and helps to avoid any obsessive destructive career aspirations which can spell disaster in the long run. The pursuit of spiritual path helps you to manage your internal conflicts and focus your attention.

Q2. Well I'm convinced that meditation is good, why is it attached to spirituality?

There are several types of meditation practices. Some of them lead to non-spiritual goals as well. Sahaj Marg teaches a system of meditation that promotes spiritual growth in a person.

Q3. Do I get detached from worldly affairs after I take up the spiritual practice?

Not really. The concept of attachment and detachment is based on our perception of reality and more and more one gets to know the reality, detachement comes naturally and does not give rise to the feeling of giving-up or staying away from it. For instance, as an adult, one doesn?t cry for the toy car towards which he\she was so attached when he\she was a kid.

Q4. What is my time commitment to do the practice.

Approximately, 90 minutes a day. 30-45 minutes for morning meditation, 30 minutes for evening Cleaning and 10 minutes for night bed-time prayer.

Q5. Say I don't believe in God, Can I still practice this system?

The speed of light is the same regardless of who does the experiment, provided the experimenter does it correctly and with an unbiased attitude. Therefore whoever practices the system as prescribed will get the benefit. Sahaj Marg system says: "Do and feel."

Q6. What is the impact of meditation on my physical system?

The practice of meditation makes a person become efficient in his work as most of the time, the reason for stress is because of conflict and lack of clarity of understanding of the end objective. This has obvious physical side-benefits.

Q7. I was feeling different at different point of time in my life. Will I not evolve automatically as I grow older?

It is medically known that the our brain grows and reaches full capacity within the first few years of life. Similarly our body too grows and remains as it is after 20yrs or so. Similarly intellectual growth too seems to stagnate after some time. Spiritual growth alone is something that can happen incessantly provided we put our effort into it.

-For more info, visit sahajmarg.org

Healthy Eating Healthy Living

Healthy Eating - Pure Blood - Healthy Living                                            Poor Eating - Impure Blood - Illness/Diseases - Medicines - Affects Health - Unhealthy-Diseases-Living/Dying Reference:- Below information is documented based on the speech given by Healer Baskar from Coimbatore (www.anatomictherapy.com). The speech is in Tamil and there is no English sub-title, hence I prepared the below document Medical/Health Myths Vs Truth after watching the entire speech for over 6 hours.  Baskar's recorded speech is available in the form of 2 DVDs which is really a life-saver for anyone especially those of you currently take medicines for High Blood Pressure / Diabetes or any internal diseases/disorders. 1. The contamination of blood is the root cause for all diseases. 2. By cleansing the blood of impurities all diseases can be cured. 3. By regulating/perfecting the food, drinking water, breathing air, sleep and work or physical activity the blood can be purified. 4. By regulating the food 50% of the diseases can be cured. 5. But only by regulating, drinking water, sleep, physical activity, and breathing air, the permanent cure/health can be maintained. 6. Human Body is comprised of millions of cells 7. Cells maintain the life energy by consuming oxygen and good glucose/sugar (Good Sugar - Sugar with insulin) from blood 8. Human body continuously rejuvinates itelf by constantly replacing the damaged/old cells with new cells 9. Food that we eat gets converted into glucose by the lower intestine and diffused into blood. 10. Three Components are vital for the body to repair/rejuvinate itself natuarally     (a) Body should have enough quantity of blood (b) All the essential elelments(minerals) should be present in the blood     (c) All the essential elements present in blood should be of good/acceptable quality
Organ/ Food	Myth	Fact	Exception
Eyes	When you face problem with eyesight or headache, wear spectacle	Human body/blood can repair and replace the cells in the Eyes and rectify the eye sight over a period of time. Wearing spectacle and not perfecting the food intake alone prevent the cells in the Eyes from reparing or replacing the impacted/damaged eye cells If someone started with -1 power glass would've only increased his power (-2, -2.5 and so on) during the course of time	If you are already using high power glasses, use it only when it is absolutely critical (like reading bus number etc.,). Don't use glasses within the house so that you can allow the eye cells to repair/renew itself.
Heart	High Blood Pressure is an illness/disorder and needs to be corrected/controlled by medication	Whenever any organ in the body has a problem, the cells in that organ take more sugar & Oxygen from blood to repair/replace the affected cells. Cells continue to take oxygen and sugar from blood until the damanged/affected cells are repaired/replaced. If the blood quality is not good, it'll take longer time to repair the cells and hence heart has to continuosuly pump more blood to the cells. Due to this, if the blood pressure goes up, we should not intervene and take medicine to suppress the blood pressure. If we do this, we are restricting the blood from circulating to the affected cells of the organs and thereby preventing the cells in the organs repair itself leading to diseases. High Blood Pressure medicines are invented to control blood pressure during surgeries and not meant for consuming during normal times.
Diabetes	High Sugar or Low Sugar is a serious disorder and needs to be controlled thru Diabetes medicine or Insulin	All that we eat gets converted to sugar/glucose in the lower intestine. Pancreas gland secretes Insulin and attaches Insulin only to the good glucose/sugar. Bad glucose is the result of poor digestion process and hence Pancreas cannot attach Insulin to bad glucose. Both good glucose with Insulin and bad glucose without Insulin gets diffused into blood. Whenever Cells have to perform some action, they take oxygen and good glucose (glucose with Insulin) from Blood. Bad Glucose (Glucose without Insulin) will be flushed out of body When the food and eating habits are poor, poor quality glucose will be created after the digesion process. As Pancreas cannot secrete Insulin for the bad glucose, cells will be deprived of energy as cells can consume only good glucose (glucose with Insulin). Since cells cannot consume the bad glucose, these bad glucose continues to circulate in the blood in high quantities (high blood sugar) and then leaves the blood (Low blood sugar) to get cleansed by kidney as Urine. This is when the person is termed as 'Diabetic' by the Doctors. Doctors should've blamed the person for not taking right food in the right time in the right way which would have ensured creating good glucose enabling the Pancreas to secrete Insulin for all the qualified glucose which in turn would've helped the Cells to consume the good glucose (with Insulin). Instead poor Pancreas :-( is blamed for not secreting Insulin. In order to circumvent above mentioned process, the Doctor prescribe Diabetes medicine that forces the Pancreas to secrete Insulin irrespective of the quality of glucose. Now all the glucose in the blood will have Insulin thereby making the cells accept all the glucose as they all have Insulin now. Since cells now accept even bad glucose as they too carry Insulin, they cannot perform their function of repairing/renewing the body cells properly and thats why the body/organs become prone to various pains/illness/diseases. As the so called 'Diabetic' patient continues to take 'Diabetic' medicine, along with other organs, even Pancreas gets repaired and due to the poor quaility of glucose intake by the Pancreas cells. Due to this the Diabetes medicine cannot make the Pancreas create 'Insulin' anymore and this when the 'Diabetes' patient evolves :-( to the next serious stage and Doctor prescribes 'Insulin' injection to them. Injecting Insulin directly into the body totally kills the body's 'Quality Control' mechanism and all the food that we eat, irrespective of the quality of glucose created gets diffused into the blood. The cells have no choice but to work with inferior quality glucose (as all glucose have Insulin now) and they poorly discharge their duty of repairing and renewing cells thereby leading to the body/organs totally susceptable to all kinds of diseases and poor immunity to external attacks from virus/backteria. Normally the lower limbs (legs) of the body undergoes higher blood circulation, as blood quality becomes very poor, the cells in the legs/foot get dead faster leading to numbness in the foot initally and hence any wound/injury happens in the foot, will not get cured and due to easy infection very soon the patient's entire legs needs to get amputated. Any organ of the body that undergoes more strain like eyes etc., too gets this pathetic end as the cells with bad quality of glucose from blood has totally lost its inherent capability to repair/renew the cells in the eyes. The message is 'right food taken at the right time in the right way' alone cannot make the body defend itself naturally and continue to renew/rejunivnate the cells of the body thereby the person stays healthy.The 'Diabetes medicine' & 'Insulin Injection' only kills the 'Quality Control' mechanism of the body and makes the body prone to all diseases and die a horrible death.
Eating (Earth)	Everybody should eat 3 meals a day at the fixed time	We discharge Urine/Motion, only when the body prompts. Likewise we should eat food only when we feel hungry irrespective of the time. (right time) Ideally the food we eat should contain all the 6 tastes a)Sweet b) Sour c)Salty d)Pungent e)Bitter f)Astringent We should precede the food with small amount of sweet, this will ensure the lever to secrete the proper digestive juices (right way) The preference of food to eat is a) Fruits b) Spinach & Vegetables c) Whole grains (right food) Once we put the food in the mouth, we should tightly close the lips and chew the food until it is fully grinded and only after that we should swallow the extract into the throat. (right way) While eating we should only think/concentrate (avoid discussing / watching TV) on food so that the brain lets the body secrete all the necessary digestive juices.  (right way) By following the above steps (right food-right way-right time), we allow the body's digestive system perform perfectly and all the food that we eat gets converted to glucose/sugar for which Pancreas will be glad to give Insulin before the Insulin added glucose mixes with blood.
Drinking (Water)	Plenty of water (8 litres) should be consumed. Water Therapy	Drink water only when you feel thirsty. If you are in a tropical place, you will feel thristy often and hence you will have to drink more water. However if you are in a cold place, you wouldn't feel thristy and hence you can limit your water consumption Dont drink water 30 mins before eating as hydrocloric acid(HCL) would've secreted in anticipation of food to digest and drinking water during this time would dilute HCL and affect the digestion process. Dont drink water 30 mins after eating as water will dilute the digested food and make the nutrients leave the body as urine thru Kidney.
Breathing (Air)	Wherever there is air circulation, you will get oxygen	The cells in the body need OXYGEN & GLUCOSE to generate heat to perform their functions. If the oxygen availability is less in the air we breathe, lungs will have to borrow from Kidney. If we continue to live in an less Oxygen atmosphere, due to continuous borrowing of oxygen by lungs from Kidney, kidney will get overloaded and repaired. Hence it is very important that we live/sleep in a place that has enough external air coming inside and there is enough ventillation for Carbon-di-oxide to exit.
Work/ Exercise (Fire)	Exercise or any physical work is Optional	The excess fat that is generated in the body is removed by exercise if the daily physical work is very less. The physical work/Exercise generates adequate heat in the body which is good for the normal functioning of the body cells.
Sleep (Ether)	Everyone should sleep for 8 hrs/day at night	Though everyone should lie down for 8 hrs, only those who undergo physical work tend to sleep for all 8 hrs. Others who have more mental/Sedantry work may not get sleep for all 8 hrs. They may take rest for few hrs and fall asleep after that. The blood cells in the blood vessels needs to be spaced out and this space is created by the adquate rest/sleep
Food	Once you've some disease or disorder you should've food restriction like less sugar/sweet, less salt, no coconut, no fatty oils etc.,	Anything that we eat, our body converts the food into glucose and other minerals that are required for the normal/optimum functioning of the body. In the name of disease/disorder if we obstain from eating any of the vital tastes/food, the cells will not be able to repair/renew the damaged/affected parts(cells)of the body. Hence there should NOT be food restriction. However we should moderately eat food and also live and eat accordingly to the body and weather conditions around us.

General

Allopathy or any other system of medicine or treatement is dangerous

Every system of medicine has its Pros & Cons and we must use our discretion to choose the right system of medicine for our body's illness/disorder. For eg., if there is an accident/snake bite/shooting by gun/ or any form of external attack, we have to resort to only Allopathy for quicker medical intervention and treatment. Similarly other systems of Medicine like Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Acupunture etc each has its merits and demerits. However by living right and not abusing the body, instead trusting the body we can lead a disease-free healthy life.  Save Life - Save Wallet too :-)

Babies/ Toddlers

Whenever a baby/toddler cries, they must be hungry,hence feed food

Whenever a baby/toddler cries, after checking if there is any insect or anything else is biting or hurting the baby, feed water to the baby. If the baby cries again, feed water again. Only when the baby spits water, feed milk/food to the baby.

Coconut

Coconut is not good for Cholestrol and it is a artery-clogging food.

Coconut has a lot of health benefits and it is capable of reviving a person from his/her death bed.

From Non-Vegetarian to Vegetarian to Vegan

Since I was born and lived closer to the coastal area in Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu India, eating fish was a natural part of daily diet and eating meat was well accepted and in fact people not eating meat or fish are considered odd man out. Being a voracious eater, I relished eating egg, fish & meat without any sense of guilt.

Thanks to the Sahaj Marg Meditation (sahajmarg.org) that I started practising in 1997, I became a vegetarian much to the surprise of my family and friends. It was very shocking to them because they knew with how much relish I used to eat fish, chicken etc., I had absolutely no sense of guilt when I was eating Non-Veg food.

During my stint in Singapore during 1998-2001, I got the opportunity to practice Sahaj Marg Meditation I was mostly in the company of abhyasis (people who practice Meditation are called abhyasis) who are mostly vegetarians, I had absolutely no temptation or opportunity to eat Non-veg food. During this time when I visited some of my relatives, they affectionately prepared some fried fish which used to be my one time favourite, I had to say "Sorry, I don't eat this, Thanks for your hospitality".

My much guarded vegetarian principle and practice came under attack when I first visited USA along with  my wife during 2003. When we went to some fast food restaurants like KFC, Wendys, I got  tempted to eat Chicken strips along with Ranch. It was very much pleasing to my tastebuds that was deprived of Non-veg for a long time. My wife who is a born vegetarian too liked eating chicken strips once in a while as it was tender and not very smelly and happily it went on for some time.

As I was continuously practising meditation, there was a strong sense of guiltiness whenever I was eating Non-Veg food. To my parents, friends and relatives who thought that I had quit eating Non-Veg earlier, I was hiding the fact that I restarted taking Non-veg food. Whenever anyone asked me about my food habits, I had to say veg/non-veg and I used to feel embarrassed and full of guiltiness and life went on like this until 2006.

After I moved to India and changed my work during 2006, I had to go by train to work and used to read newspaper during the 1.5 hrs journey to office. One day I happened to read about the impact of eating farm bred animals on Health and it was very alarming to me. The phrases I read in that article, 

"The animals die a slow death during their journey to the slaughterhouse and by consuming their meat, we will be the next in the death row; 

The farm animals are fed with lot of antibiotics and consumption of this meat leads to diseases

Also when young girls consume this meat they attain puberty earlier than the normal age"

All these messages immediately sent a strong signal to my system to resolve to quit eating meat again and also forced me to tell my dear ones about the ill-effects of consuming non-veg food. Another major reason for quitting meat was due to watching PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) clippings showing the cruel treatment extended to the animals while raising them in the farms.

I developed a sense of inclusivity that animals are part of my own family, hence killing and eating them are as harsh as eating my own affectionate children.

Though I became a Pro-Vegetarian & Anti Non-Veg Activist since 2006, I still couldn't quit my temptation towards eating fish. Like people who secretly smoke & drink I was eating fish and I was made fun of by my friends  in parties when I said that I dont eat meat, but I eat fish.

At last beginning 2011, I quit eating fish and became a real vegetarian. I felt really happy.

Thanks to my FB friend, Ramesh Amala Srinivasan who was a Vegan Activist and from whom and other activists I realised that even after becoming a Vegetarian just by consuming milk, milk products, egg, egg products, and any form of animal products, animals get cruelly hurt.

I became a Vegan since July 2011. What a great sense of relief! Let animals live happily! Let all my fellow human beings realize that they all can live happily and healthily just by consuming vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains and other plant sources. Being Vegan will also ensure they will pollute less the environment and lead a disease free happy long life forever!