THE WORLD BEGINS FROM THE SELF
Love begins from the self, and if we do not know how to love ourselves we cannot love anyone else. If we continue to judge and condemn ourselves and feel that we are worthless, then we will do the same to the person living next to us and the world at large.  The most dangerous person on the Planet is the one who cannot love himself, this person will be an angry person who would not hesitate to destroy himself, other humans, or the Planet in the name of religion, patriotism, or borders that can be noticed only on a map.  For many years religions and society have kept us within the walls of self condemnation, this is the reason for all the wars that are going on from ancient days till today.

When we condemn ourselves love becomes impossible, we cannot love ourself, we cannot love others, we will not allow others to love us, and neither will we allow God to love us.  Fear and guilt are the most debilitation feelings in a person and this person can be easily exploited, they will not fight back nor be rebellious.

We accepted the Creator’s offer and chose to come into this physical bodies at this time.  Each one of us are a unique creation of the Creator, there is an amazing amount of love and wisdom poured into the creation of a human being.  This Planet runs on duality, but duality is an exciting opportunity to take advantage and grow from.  Every contrasting situation in life is an opportunity to create a grander solution and harvest wisdom.  This is the most exciting purpose of life.  We are born with immense power to overcome obstacles and create grander and greater beauty on the Planet.  Our power comes from our union with our Divine Presence and not from our mind.

~ Premlatha Rajkumar and Sheryl Lynn Christian ~ excerpt from the Twelve Steps to Inner Peace
Copyright © 2012 P. Rajkumar, S.L. Christian All rights reserved.

WABI-SABI LIVING

WABI-SABI LIVING

Wabi-Sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. In Zen Buddhism Wabi is described as an active aesthetical appreciation of poverty; poverty in the more romantic sense of removing the huge weight of material concerns from our lives. Wabi is to be satisfied with a little hut, a room of two or three tatami mats and with a dish of vegetables picked in the neighboring fields, and perhaps to be listening to the pattering of a gentle spring rainfall.

Sabi can be applied to an imagery that is transient. The look of something that shows its age, that imparts something of its life. Sabi represents the passing of time, perhaps a longing for the carefree existence of childhood. When put together wabi sabi would logically mean being in a simple state of living placed in the context of the passing of time.

Wabi Sabi honors all things old, weathered, worn, imperfect and impermanent by finding the beauty and perfection in the imperfections a magical transformation happens. A Japanese art museum would put an old large vase with a big crack in the middle on a pedestal and shine a light on the crack. Or, they might fill the crack with 24k gold!

 Wabi Sabi is the practice of appreciating our own and everyone else’s imperfection, cherishing and valuing all things in life and making life more simple and joyous. Wabi Sabi is getting out of the mind stories.  By removing mind stories about your partner, your mate, or your friend, your relationship will be pleasurable.  By removing the mind stories of keeping up with the trend of modern life, your relationship with life can be more pleasurable and stress free. The simplicity of life brings immense joy and transformation.

We can start a Wabi-Sabi living today by recognizing the gifts we have around us, our bodies that help us to walk this planet, the sun, the air, the breeze, the food, the friends, the ability to experience through the senses.  The recognition of the beauty and harmony of life can be done only by taking a small break in our busy day everyday and connect with simple things that bring joy to our heart. We can make a list of simple things that we would love to do, it can be a moment of silence with oneself, it can be a walk in the park, it can be standing under a tree, or listening to the rain, painting or drawing for fun, flying a kite, playing with a pet, playing with children, jumping on a trampoline.
Let us choose to bring small, simple pleasure breaks, in our busy life.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

GOD WITHIN

GOD WITHIN

Physicist refer to matter as energy that pulsates in different wavelengths. Our body is energy that is denser, our mind is also energy but not so dense.  When we go within and bring awareness to the Self, we experience consciousness which is also energy but in a more subtle, more pure form.
When body and mind unitedly work with consciousness then the Divine Presence is felt in oneself and in all beings. The Divine Presence is not the totality of body, mind, and consciousness, instead when the body, mind, and consciousness come together  it is felt as the infinite being that holds all of existence.
The experience of the Divine Presence is very personal, it arises as feelings from the heart, it cannot be logically explained by the mind in anyway.  Each person has to go through the experience to know this.  When we come to this experience we know deep in our being that we are a part of this infinte being who experiences itself through us.
 By being conscious we participate consciously in every act of living, we become the witness of life and the Divine Presence becomes the Ultimate witness.
Beloved Master Mooji asks people in all of his discourses to contemplate on this one question “Can the perceiver be perceived?” If you have perceived the perceiver then you have awakened and you cannot go back to sleep.  When you have awakened you live as the awakened “God within”, and your creations are from the place of harmony and peace.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

MAKE LAUGHTER YOUR DAILY MEDITATION

Did you get to laugh today my friend? Can you try laughing for no reason?

Laughter is the best medicine and the best meditation.  Laughter brings you to the powerful place of enlightenment more quickly than any meditation can. Notice that when you laugh you stop thinking and get out of your mind and out of time and space for that moment.  When you laugh, you become ONE with all life.
The Buddhist monk Hotei, affectionately called as the Laughing Buddha, started laughing the moment he attained enlightenment and continued to laugh throughout his life.  His Presence healed people wherever he went.
No being on this Planet other than humans have been given the capacity to laugh.  Laughter is very contagious, it is a powerful gift you can give to this Planet.
So start your day with laughter, and end your day with laughter, and notice that you have brought in the most powerful energies of harmony and wellbeing into your life.
The Universal energies are supporting you at this time, try making laughter your daily meditation.
Blessings of Joy and laughter!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

REMEMBERING & ALIGNING WITH 'PATIENCE'

Patience is a grand quality.  Unfortunately, In this busy world we have stopped to exercise this grand quality called patience.

The mind is always in a hurry. We have become addicted to "instant everything" from instant coffee, instant painkillers, to instant answers from the internet, everything is supplied but nothing satisfies.  Humanity is still searching, searching for that meaning, that missing spirit in life.

If we choose to slow down, to relax in the moment and observe patiently, we will be amazed by the grand enlightening experience and wisdom each moment brings.  Life is never boring, life is a vast journey, a beautiful mystery.  And this beauty can be unfolded with complete satisfaction only by patience.

The magic and miracle in a child's laughter, a hug from a friend, the blossoming of wild flowers on the edge of the roadway, the grand experience of cooking for yourself and your loved ones by pouring your conscious presence of gratitude, hugging a huge tree, feeling the gentle touch of the breeze on a hot summer day, looking into the eyes of a stranger and blessing from the heart, holding the hand of a loved one, sitting silently under the vast expanse of a starry night sky, asking a question and searching for an answer within the heart and allowing for the experience to unfold, sitting with pain and communicating within the body for answers and allowing the body to show us the wisdom.....the list goes on and on.  Every moment of life is magical and precious if we are able to be patient enough to be present in the moment.

It is imperative that we choose to exercise patience every moment, for the journey of life is timeless and full of wisdom.  If we live in a hurry we will be at a loss and will keep on searching and the search can never be satisfied.

 Patience is not being passive, patience is being very alert to life, it is  being in excited anticipation of what the next moment brings.  Patience is wisdom, it is waiting for life with great love, it is a great trust towards the Divine.

Let us choose to anchor patience and harvest the immense wisdom life brings our way.  Let us stop searching for instant answers on the outside and patiently learn to go within and realize the great wisdom we have brought with us into this Planet.  We are the wisdom keepers, it is time to wake up!

Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~
© 2012 Premlatha Rajkumar

WHAT MAGIC HAVE YOU NOTICED IN YOUR PATIENCE TODAY MY FRIEND? PLEASE SHARE ...

WE HAVE THE POWER TO TRANSFORM OUR LIVES

Have you ever thought about questioning your beliefs? 

Your beliefs have the capacity to either destroy you or empower you. Whatever you put your belief on becomes true for you.

How many of us believe certain things and create them again and again in our lives and also ask 'why is life so hard on me?' 

How many times we repeat in our minds and in our

 speech things like - ' I get a cold at least 3 times a year/ this is the flu season/at age 40 my aunt and my mother had cancer/there is unemployment everywhere/people get old and sick/money is hard to come by/ this world is not a safe place/I am a sinner/ nobody loves me.....etc'

What are your beliefs today my friend?

Sit with yourself in silence and take time to note down your thoughts, take courage to question them. Ask how your life would be without these thoughts. Take each negative thought and think an opposite thought for it. If your thought says 'my mother does not love me', think an opposite thought for this, it can be 'my mother loves me/ I do not love my mother', and when you think the opposite thought, find good reasons for the opposite thought, and you will be surprised that you will remember the times you have not loved your mother, and the times your mother really went out of her way to do things for you. Then you will realize that the world around you was not crazy, but your beliefs about the world around you made you the crazy one!

It takes real courage to question our thoughts, accepting that we are the creators of our reality and that no one other than our own selves is responsible for the way things are is the first step to transforming our life to a richer, healthier, and more positive place.
When we change our thoughts, things around us automatically change!

Let us choose to give this gift to ourselves, let us choose to sit in meditation with our thoughts, be very aware, and notice that we are powerful beings beyond limitations, and we can choose to create the reality we want with what we choose to believe.
ARE YOU READY MY FRIEND?
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar

© 2012 Premlatha Rajkumar

THIS WORLD ~ OUR HALL OF MIRRORS

THIS WORLD ~ OUR HALL OF MIRRORS

This world is a 'Hall of mirrors' that reflects your consciousness truly and perfectly.  To make the mirrors to reflect  beauty, joy, harmony, and peace, you need to hold the consciousness of beauty, joy, harmony, and peace within.
To hold the consciousness of beauty, joy, harmony, and peace within, you must be willing to take the journey to quieten the mind.
From the time the mind was born with the body, the mind took its job of safeguarding the body very seriously.  Hence, it became a collector of every data from the outside, constantly alert; constantly pessimistic. Its job is to scare you so that you do not go beyond its boundary.  The mind knows only what it knows, it does not know anything beyond the data it collects.
Meditating and connecting with the Self is the simplest most profound tool that brings the awareness that you are not your mind, it differentiates you the watcher from your mind.  You realize that you are much more than your mind, you are the magnificent miracle of life.
Just for fun while watching a movie or television, just witness yourself watching, and notice the difference.  The moment you witness yourself, you will not be involved in the drama happening in the television or the movie.  You will SEE the drama only and be amused, you will never get involved in it.
This is the way with meditation, it is the art of being a witness of the world around you every moment.  You are a witness, you see everything, but you do not identify yourself with anything that goes around.
This is the most powerful place to be, for from this place you can see the beauty of creation, and the drama chosen by each and every soul around you without judgement. This is the most powerful place where you can choose to hold the consciousness of
beauty, joy, harmony, and peace within.
 When you start allowing the world to do its business its way,  and carry on with your business of holding beauty, joy, and peace within surprisingly you come to notice that the world around you magically changes to beauty, joy, peace, and harmony.  This is very, very true!
We are the world, everything we see around us is our creation.  In order to change the nature of the creation on the outside, the only way is to go within and change the nature of the truth on the inside.  For this world is a 'Hall of Mirrors' that perfectly reflects the consciousness you hold on the inside.
Every responsible human with a noble heart will take the journey of connecting with their inner SELF.
Let us choose to bring 'Heaven on Earth', let us choose to hold beauty, joy, peace, and harmony on the inside.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

BEING CONSCIOUS OF NEEDINESS

BEING CONSCIOUS OF NEEDINESS

Most of us are unconsciously addicted to neediness.  This unconsciousness makes us constantly need others' love, approval, and attention.  In order to get this we go out of our way to do all that which is not true for us.
 We forget how to be ourselves. In our neediness, we strive to do the things that the other person likes; we forget what we like.
We put up with things that our body and mind does not approve of, just to satisfy the need of getting the attention of the other person.  We easily accept any kind of abuse or humiliation just because of our neediness of the other person's love, or approval.
This unconscious behavior makes every human relationship painful.  Then worry, doubt, stress, and anxiety becomes the norm of everyday life.
We come into this world alone, and we go back alone.  We are Divine beings, and our Divinity within is abundant enough to satisfy all our needs.  The problem began when we lost focus on our Divinity within, and started focusing on the outside for our needs.  Attachment to something outside the self is an illusion.  Even if people love each other very much, and tend to cling to each other while awake; at one point sleep walks in and takes away each one to far away mysterious lands.
As soon as our senses start working we see that we are alone, as we never train our senses to go within, we often end up attaching ourselves to people, power, and material things on the outside.
Every indulgence of clinging, or neediness on the outside is a sure sign of forgetting to connect with the Divinity within.  Every neediness comes out of the fear of being alone.
When we choose to focus, connect, and grow with the Divinity within us, we are doing real work on this Planet.  We become, mature, alert, awake, loving, and compassionate.  We become the wellspring of understanding and wisdom.  Our actions and relationships are authentic when they come from the place of the Divinity within; all other actions and relationships arise only out of neediness.
Only when we become enlightened and full of the light of wisdom within, we can go beyond need and share our light with others.  Otherwise when we have no light in us, we will become addicted to things on the outside to satisfy, and the things on the outside can never satisfy us, we will continue to seek and in our seeking we will not be able to live in our truth.
We can help others only when we have helped ourselves first.  I remember the flight safety instructions on the plane, it simply says first put the oxygen mask for yourself before helping anyone else.
Let us choose to identify, to notice our neediness with an open mind, let us catch ourselves in the act of self-sabotage, and change our programming to self-growth and well-being.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

WE ARE ONE
Generosity is our true nature.
It is possible to be generous, only when we choose to acknowledge, appreciate and be in the place of gratitude for the things in our life.
As humanity we are ONE CONSCIOUSNESS, let us activate our ONENESS from the place of Gratitude today.
We are energy beings, the whole world is made up of energy, energy can be exchanged not only physically but also by the power of kindness from the heart, because we are ONE CONSCIOUSNESS.
So let us activate our generous nature by being consciously present in whatever we do.
While enjoying your food, consciously take a few minutes of your time to think about the people who suffer from hunger, send them blessings from your heart, see them happy and filled in your mind's eye.
As you are enjoying your walk, consciously take time to think about all those who have lost their capacity to walk, send them a blessing from your heart.
As you hug your loved ones consciously take a few moments to send love and blessings to all those who have lost their loved ones, all those who live in distant lands away from their families, and to the orphans who have no one to call as family.
As you are out shopping for groceries, take a few moment to send a blessing to people who cannot afford to buy groceries.
As you are out enjoying the sunshine, the park, the freedom of being in a beautiful country, take a few moments to send a blessing to people who live in war zones, who live without freedom, see them happy and free in your mind's eye.
When we connect and bless from our heart consciously, we are sending powerful energy waves out into the Universe, this beautiful energy is like a powerful army of angels, it goes and fulfills your intention in amazing ways.
We are one consciousness, what we choose for ourselves, we choose for the ALL.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

ARE YOU WILLING TO 'SWITCH ON' THE LIGHT?
In a dark room if you 'switch on' the light, the darkness disappears. In the same way when you are in the dark with low frequency thoughts of anger, guilt, shame, hatred, or fear, you can switch on the light of peace, kindness, harmony, and fun.

The 'switch' is the willingness to drop the thoughts of low frequency and become more loving towards yourself.
Know that low frequency, or darkness is created only by thoughts, you are much more powerful than your thoughts.

It is possible to 'switch on' to thoughts of higher frequencies of love, peace, and kindness. Have you noticed that when you think about a comedy or some fun activity that you did a few weeks, months, or even years ago, immediately makes your body to smile or even laugh out loud. Also have you noticed that when you think about a tragedy that happened years ago, it makes you feel sad.

Notice that your body does not know if the situation you are feeding it by thoughts happened yesterday, a year ago or eons ago. The body lives in the now moment, and it accepts obediently what you feed it.  So if you feed it thoughts of love and kindness, it will respond with joy and well being.  And if you choose to feed it negative, fear thoughts, it responds with sadness, anxiety and increased amount of adrenaline secretion which leads to innumerable physical discomfort and problems.

The 'switch' is in your hands, you can either switch on the thoughts of high frequency or live in the thoughts of darkness, of low frequency.  Remember the light will dissolve the darkness, it always does!  The choice is yours.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

THE TRUTH

You are a timeless, infinite being of immense magnificence and beauty.  You love your infinite expansion, you love to go and experience the farthest, and the deepest. In your quest you chose to enter into this experience called human, ..space, ..time, and all limitations.  You are the Ocean, and sometimes you like to experience yourself as the wave.  The wave rises, but falls back to become the magnificent ocean.  Yes, being a human is a dream to experience limitation, in order to more deeply know your magnificence.
The mind is the tool that holds you in this dream called human, ...time, ...space... you think you are a hostage.  But it is possible to wake up from the dream of humanity. The powerful truth is that you are Pure Awareness.  You are awareness, you do not need to make awareness happen.  You walk, you eat, you breathe with the body, when you start listening with alertness to your walk, to your eating, to your breathing, it becomes the meditation that wakes you up from the dream.  It makes you realize that you are the watcher, the infinite, timeless Presence. Let the Presence of the Watcher be in everything you do.
Every human is responsible to wake up from this dream.  And the awakening can happen only by awareness.  When the mind is full of thoughts, when there are complications and suffering, pull yourself out of it by practicing listening, feeling, noticing; in silence see the beauty of nature, feel the breeze touching you, listen to the voice of the birds, the children, do not think about it, allow it, just be there, just be aware.  And in that moment walks in the wisdom of the timeless part of YOU.
When you get to know the timeless part of you, the experience of the You in time and space flows with ease and grace.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

A POWERFUL EXPERIENCE TO SHARE

THE LITTLE FLEAS - My Teachers

Beloved Friends,
I have a most intriguing experience to share about how I came to understand that this is a perfect world created by a perfect God.
At one time my house was infected with fleas .  I do not have pets but these tiny creatures had walked in from next door where there were 2 dogs and 2 cats!
These fleas were stinging me and my family so badly.  I went to the store to get a flea spray it did not work, the more I sprayed the more they got into the whole house, even inside the bed and closets!  In desperation I approached the apartment office and they sent an exterminator to bomb the apartment to get rid of the fleas.

The week the exterminator came it was wonderful, no fleas! A friend called and I told her about the fleas, she assured me that they have not left because they lay eggs on the edges of the carpet and that they will come back.  I was disappointed, the minute I hung up the phone I got stung by the fleas.  I was so angry at these little creatures and they annoyed me so much, I could not even have proper sleep at night because of the stinging and scratching all night long.

I sat down in despair and focused on the fleas.  I asked them why are they doing this.  As I was sending these thoughts, slowly Spirit revealed to me so much about my power to speak words of power!  I called the guardians of the fleas because I believe that every being is born with its guardian on this planet.  So I lined up all the fleas and their guardians in front of me in my thoughts.

I told them 'thank you for coming to me in this annoying disguise and letting me know that I am powerful and that I can speak words of power.  I spoke to them that my body and my home were my space and that I thank them for letting me know my power and that I wish them well and send them to love and light.  I felt a calm settle over my heart.
That very moment the fleas LEFT MY HOME AND NEVER CAME BACK!  My friend was amazed.

I now understood the application of this powerful tool.  A few years ago I had planted some wild flowers in my pots, they bloomed with all the colors and they were so beautiful.  One morning I saw a swarm of green bugs eating away all the buds and the tender shoots, I tried to spray water mixed with a little cooking oil which made the bugs to slip away, but the oil scortched the plants when the sun came up.  So I stopped spraying the oil-water, the bugs came back in large numbers.

Spirit reminded me of the tool I used with the fleas, so I sat near the plants and asked the bugs and their guardians to leave.

That evening I saw the bugs were still there, but a very strange thing had happened.   I was wondering how did so many tiny red flowers appear on my plants, when I took a closer look they were actually a group of ladybird beetles ravenously eating all the green bugs on the plants.   They finished all the bugs and left after a week.

The plants became healthy, had so many flowers on them all through the summer and gave joy to all who passed by that way!
These incidents brought to me the greater truth that we are the power in our life, this is our gift from Creator.  We have the power to speak words of power over any situation in our life.  The so called "imperfect situations" are actually blessings-in-disguise to help us to tune into our power.  Hence bless and let go the 'fleas' in your life.  They obey to your command when it comes from love and gratitude from within!

You have the power to speak words of power over any situation in your life.  This is your birthright!
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

LIFE
Life is magical and mysterious, it is never mundane, the very idea that life is mundane is an illusion.  Life is a feast, a celebration, a continuous discovery of wonderment.  The wonderment of it is that it can be lived only in the present moment, never in the past or the future.
 You never live life, LIFE absolutely lives through you every moment.  You are being breathed, you are being lived every moment, absolutely. And you can notice it only when you dissolve the 'You' in life and allow yourself to be absorbed by it.
In every moment of life there is a birth and a death, if you are afraid of death then you can never know life. There is nothing called 'time' in life, the concept of 'time' creates fear. Life happens only in the Present moment. Hence, acknowledge the precious Gift of the Present moment.
In this moment of life, there are no ideals, nothing to achieve, nowhere to go, no one to be; life just happens.  Becoming busy with things to do and achieve from the mind, removes us from the magic of life, removes us from the very center of our being, and we lose ourselves in stress and fear.
Life happens, and there is nothing that you or me could do to change that.  So let us allow life to happen.  We do not even know what is best for ourselves or anyone else, so why bring the stress and obsession of controlling life into our hands.  Let us welcome things as they come and go. Let us live now, here, and notice each breath, each heartbeat, each moment as it rises and falls anew every time.  The noticing brings to us the realization that we never left the Original Oneness, and that we were never born and so can never die.
Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

PRACTICING KINDNESS

Kindness is the greatest art of human living. Kindness makes life more sacred. Kindness builds Heaven on Earth.  

Some may say that knowledge is the first requirement for living a human life, but I observe that kindness is the first requirement.  For, knowledge can be easily available through books, teachers, and experiences; knowledge is just an imitation of all things learned.  They can never truly connect with, or weave harmony among humanity.

In fact knowledge and cleverness so far has only helped to create a world of chaos. Knowledge and cleverness cannot give birth to Wisdom.

Wisdom comes from practicing the 'heart truths' of kindness, gentleness, and understanding.  Practicing the art of kindness starts with oneself. Practicing kindness, one does not attach to thoughts of fear, sadness, guilt, or resentment that arise in the mind. One does not terrorize oneself with the fear stories and imaginations of the mind. One lives in kindness as kindness itself;  living totally in the place of trust.

 Kindness towards oneself brings the  understanding that life is not difficult, but it is the images created in the mind (the thinking), that makes it difficult.  When we undo the turmoil on the inside, the world around us becomes peaceful and quiet.Our world on the outside is projected from the consciousness we hold on the inside.  When we choose to practice kindness on the inside, we project a much kinder world on the outside.

 Let us practice being kind to ourselves so that our world on the outside becomes more kinder.

 Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

GOING BEYOND GOOD OR BAD




The TAO says, “ When people see some things as good, other things become bad.”



In this world of duality consciousness, we have practiced our minds to see some things as good and some things as bad. Also the mind has a storehouse of filed ideas and thoughts about good and bad as perceived by our senses and as taught by the society. And we are the Creators and the organizers of this entire play of good or bad. The meaning for everything in life is the meaning we have given it. We are absolutely responsible for our creation. No one else is responsible to make us feel good or bad.



We give meanings to life situations and create judgments. We continue to judge others and ourselves creating pain, stress, and divisions against ourselves and other people. Resistance, comparisons, and competitions become the theme of everyday situations. They start at a very early age as, I am not good enough, I cannot be satisfied with myself, I have to be better, bigger, faster, smarter and it goes on and on, and then it plays out with our relationships with other people, other countries, and the world at large. Everything gets divided and there becomes a huge amount of pain and anguish in the heart.



Life as a human with the mind anchored in judgments creates suffering. The suffering is always because of the perception of good or bad. Running the race is good, but when it is judged as winning then it becomes suffering. Pain is an experience but when it is judged as bad it becomes suffering.



The heart is the place of purity, a place where there is oneness, a place of undivided limitlessness. We are great magnificent beings who chose to keep a tiniest part of ourselves in these human bodies to experience the gift of a human life. We have forgotten our magnificence, only our heart knows this greater part of our being. Hence the heart is never compromised by the illusion of judgments of good or bad.



To live in oneness with the heart brings comfort and peace. To live in oneness with the heart one has to die; I am reminded of the verse in the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, that says “It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”

The real truth about dying while alive is letting go of all the divisions of good or bad, going beyond good or bad, going beyond what appears to be, being in a neutral state , in a place of choiceless consciousness. It is the art of getting out of the mind, watching the mind, being a witness. Just stopping to watch the mind, taking short breaths of awareness, brings greater understanding and helps to drop all illusions of good or bad.



Let us choose to go beyond the concept of good or bad, we are powerful beings and it is possible for us.

Blessings!


~Premlatha Rajkumar~

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE IS OUR TRUE NATURE




Love is not an emotion, love is who we are. When one is full of love there is no need for something on the outside to create love.



"I enjoy this life, I enjoy everything around me, if you are in my space I enjoy you, if you are gone there is more that life brings to my door to enjoy, I enjoy because I am love."

In love there is no need, love creates love.



Love is beyond likes and dislikes. Everything in nature vibrates with love. Animals teach us unconditional love, if we stand under a tree, it fully gives its shade, its fruits, it gives everything of itself to us unconditionally without expecting anything in return. It neither has likes or dislikes.

Nature is the best teacher of unconditional love. Unconditional love has no expectation.



When humans choose to live in unconditional love, they live without expectation, and this helps to live a life which is free of frustration. Free of the frustration of expecting others to fulfill ones need. Nobody needs to fulfill another's needs. Each one of us is born powerful and capable of unconditional love.



Love can never happen in the mind, the mind if full of needs and opinions, the love of the mind is always a bargain. "If you are good to me I am good to you then I love you" this is the love of the mind.

True love is unconditional, it is a state of being, it is giving the gift of freedom to the other, it is the state of grace that transforms the sickness of hate and misery. Unconditional love can only be experienced by practicing silence and awareness. The more we practice silence, the more we will anchor ease and grace into our every act of living.



Practicing silence, taking time to witness life, and choosing to accept reality makes us more loving; not towards a particular person, but we become the wellspring of unconditional love. Then nothing in life can disappoint us, for life becomes an adventure to discover.

Unconditional love is who we are!

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

LAUGHTER ~ A POWERFUL MEDITATION


LAUGHTER is a powerful tool. It has been given as a gift only to humans. No one has heard plants or animals laugh at any time. Laughter is infectious and when someone sees you laugh they are also motivated to laugh, and when they laugh their stress level is reduced, and you have given them a gift of wellbeing in their life.








Laughter provides great physical and emotional release. Laughter is a higher state of consciousness, and when one is able to hold that state of being, the person becomes lighter, and can vibrate in a place of absolute well being.







The mind stories disapper when there is laughter. Life becomes magical and full of fun when we choose to hold the vibration of laughter. Laughter takes us to a state of egolessness and a non-judgemental attitude, when we laugh we become like little children. In reality laughter brings solutions to all kinds of physical, mental, emotional or spiritual problems.







Medical research has revealed that laughter reduces the level of stress hormones and increases the level of health enhancing hormones like endorphins and neurotransmitters, it also increases the number of antibody producing cells which promotes a strong immune system, thereby bringing amazing healing and wellbeing in the physical body.







A good belly laugh works our abs, shoulders and makes our muscles more relaxed. It is a good work out for the heart muscles also.







Many people try to do meditation and have failed because it sounds to be very serious, but when laughter is tried as a meditation, there will be complete benifit for body, mind and soul.



Practicing laughter for no reason is a powerful meditation. Great teachers like the Zen Monk 'Hotei' who is called as the 'Laughing Buddha' taught the simple technique of enlightenment through laughter.







Choose to bring laughter into your life with light hearted people who laugh a lot, movies and videos that are hilarious and funny, playing games with friends and family, telling jokes and involving in all kinds of celebration and fun. This helps to be in this higher state of vibration which is the sure path to wellbeing in life.







According to the Zen Master Hotei, 'laughter is our birthright' and no matter what happens in our life we must come back to laughter.



By choosing laughter, we bring 'Heaven' into our lives and into this Planet.



May your moments be filled with love, joy, and LAUGHTER, my sweet friends!



Blessings!



~Premlatha Rajkumar~

CREATIVE POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD

As humans we have created language to communicate with each other. The spoken word is something that would touch a person and create a response in them. Language is a powerful tool that carries emotions, codes, and tones that produce a powerful creative energy. We are who we are today because of all the words we thought, spoke, or listened to. Words spoken are very powerful, they become self-fulfilling prophecy. Words thought do not have as much power as words spoken. Spoken words carry tones and codes which manifest. Words have the power either to create life or to create death. So you can either bless your life with your words or curse your life with your words.




One of the Buddhist Gatha (a Gatha is a poem which serves as a reminder for every activity of life) says:-



"Brushing my teeth and rinsing my mouth,



I vow to speak purely and lovingly.



When my mouth is fragrant with right speech,



A flower blooms in the garden of my heart."



Our spoken words can build a world of peace and joy or it can build hatred and discord.



With this reminder let us choose to bless each other with our words, let us use our words to talk about solutions and not create stories of our problems. Let our words bring out the truth in us and others, let us not use untruthful words for self-interest or to impress others. Let us not use the power of our words to gossip, criticize or to condemn.



Let us use our spoken words to declare Divine Favor, to call in the light of understanding, to call in good things, to call in faith and love.



Let us use the spoken word for truth and kindness. Let us nourish each other with the sweet fragrance of rght speech, so that the flowers in the garden of our Heart can bring "Heaven" on Earth. Let us remind ourselves that we are the builders of 'Heaven' on this Planet.



Blessings!



~Premlatha Rajkumar~



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NAMASTE/NAMASKARAM

Namaste to you my Sweet Friends!




NAMASTE!



'Namaste' is a wonderful way of greeting each other.



This word is a sacred Sanskrit word, originated in India, that has a deep meaning.



'Namaste' is a salutation done when people meet each other, in South India the word is said as 'Namaskaram'.



The deeper meaning of this beautiful word is powerfully awakening human consciousness.



Namaste or Namaskaram means "I acknowledge that my body is the temple where the Divine resides, and I also acknowledge that your body is a temple for the Divine, and so the Divine in me salutes the Divine in you".



'Namaste/Namaskaram' is said by looking into the eyes of the person in front of you, folding your palms in front of your heart and gently bowing your head. In this way you salute the Divine.



This is a powerful way of reminding one another to love God in the other person.



The extent to which you can love another human being absolutely depends on the extent to which you are connected with respect and gratitude to your own Divine Essence.



NAMASTE TO YOU MY SWEET FRIENDS!



Blessings,



~Premlatha Rajkumar~



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LIVING EFFORTLESSLY; LIVING FROM THE HEART


It is a powerful spiritual practice to connect with our physical hearts.
Placing our awareness on our heart connects us to our "God within", our heart is the gateway to Universal Wisdom.



The physical experience of conscious breathing and bringing the pressure and warmth of the hand on the heart, opens the heart and allows us access to our 'Spiritual Home', our 'Kingdom within'.



Experience this moment now, bring your hand to your physical heart and take in deep conscious breath releasing it with a sigh or a sound. This connects you powerfully to your heart space which holds understanding, wisdom and awareness.



Practice being in this moment, this moment of the heart space and you will be amazed by the transformation that happens to you.



Practice for the enrichment of energy and transformation, practice whenever there is worry or anxiety, when you need a solution to a problem. As you continue to work with your heart you will naturally connect with your Divine Blueprint, your Divine Wisdom, and your Divine Light.



Living in conscious connection with the heart is true living; life flows effortlessly with ease and grace.



Blessings!



~Premlatha Rajkumar~



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CONSCIOUS RESPECT FOR WORK




The things we do with our body-mind are our creations in this physical realm. We lived before we came into this body, we took this human body at this time so that we may satisfy our Divine longing to do things in the physical. The body comes and goes but who we are is an eternal spark of the Creator that can never be damaged or destroyed.



We are great Spirit beings who come to live for a short time in a human body on this beautiful Planet. This is our opportunity to anchor our Divine Qualities of love, kindness, compassion, forgiveness, patience, generosity, and gratitude on the Planet.



The moment we enter the planet in a physical body we absolutely forget our Spirit selves, and create a new chapter called “life on Planet Earth”. Our new body-minds start to develop, and the body-mind does not remember. But the heart that carries Divinity in its sacred sanctuary remembers and knows everything.



Practicing the art of awareness, bringing conscious awareness into every walk of life helps us to connect with our hearts and helps us to remember our mission here on Planet Earth.

We have been given this body-mind to work, to serve others, this Planet and ourselves. Are we conscious of our work at this moment? Every act of work whether cooking, cleaning, washing dishes, doing the laundry, taking care of children, teaching, working in an office, selling products, or working on a computer, writing a book, talking to people, construction work, serving, tending, farming, gardening etc., is a profound gift we give ourselves and this planet. Our work is a kind of worship; it is an attitude of gratitude we give to the Creator for this beautiful experience on this Planet.




When we bring our conscious awareness to the work we do, we are merging the Divine Qualities of Spirit with matter and we are building “Heaven” on Earth. No work is insignificant; every work we do with our body-mind is a MIRACLE, it is a beautiful gift. When we bring our consciousness into the work we do, we become aware of the perfectness every moment, we then do not need anyone else to appreciate us for what we do, and we can never see our work as being low or high. We realize that the place, time, the body-mind, the people around us, and the work we do have been Divinely Orchestrated.



It has become a human sickness to believe that we work hard for others, for a boss, for an institution, for a country, etc. and this very belief makes our work drudgery. Another belief that work is for earning money makes people addicted to work. But the Greater truth is that we work for ourselves, every act of work is an opportunity to expand ourselves, it is an opportunity for kindness to our fellow beings, it is an opportunity to harvest knowledge through this grand experience. When we realize this we will always respect the work we do, our work will never be about harming or destroying, our work will always be about building and uplifting. Being grateful every moment, and holding the joy of doing work in a physical body uplifts our Spirit, we open ourselves to knowledge and wisdom, and we allow our body-mind to grow in all our God-Qualities. Our work then becomes true worship.



Let us choose to respect ourselves, and the work we do everyday.



Blessings!

CONSCIOUS EATING






Every particle of food we eat become us. It enters the body and becomes the cells and tissues of our body. So if we do not respect the food we eat then we do not respect our very own bodies. When we eat food and are concentrating on our worries or watching the television where there are depressing stories being told, or talking about depressing things with our friends, we are actually eating our sorrows and worries, and they go into the body and react in the body as dis-ease. Our bodies go into dis-ease because of the constant mindlessness, and then it makes us to slow down to think about what has gone wrong.



If we take time to sit down at every meal and look at our food consciously we will know that every grain of rice, wheat, corn, animal, or plant has willingly given its life for our bodies to live. What an amazing sacrifice this is! Realizing this is enough to make us be in the place of immense Gratitude for all these beautiful beings around us.



Our bodies are sacred temples where the Divine resides, if we do not realize this and continue to feed our bodies with things that are not in harmony with it then we go in for all kinds of physical, mental, and emotional problems. Every addiction is due to mindlessness.




Humans are powerful beings born with the gifts of love, compassion, kindness, gentleness, intuition, and the power to heal themselves. Unless we consciously connect with ourselves all these gifts that we have brought with us will never be revealed.

Our bodies have great intelligence; if we take time to respect our body and listen to our body we will evolve our grand gifts.



Taking time to loving touch and prepare our food is very important; the love and conscious connection we have with our food adds a miraculous spice to the food. The food becomes enriched with healthy and happy energy. The food tastes good.

When we sit down and eat our food consciously tasting and loving each bite we are adding immense healing energy and we will never over eat or under eat, and we will never put things into our body that does not resonate with the body, also we will never get addicted in anyway. When we eat consciously we allow all the senses of the body (smell, taste, touch, hearing, seeing) to take part in the awesome creation of the experience of eating food! It becomes a Grand Experience! An experience that creates contentment for the body and mind!



I have witnessed people get out of diseases, loose unwanted weight, even get out of addiction when they sincerely take time to respect themselves and their food, and consciously savor the experience of eating food.



I find it very satisfying when I eat silently by totally concentrating on every mouthful and affirming in my mind “I enjoy every food I eat, I love every cell of my body”. I have personally witnessed and experienced the enormous healing for body, mind, and spirit through this exercise.



Let us choose to respect our food, our bodies and our Planet. Let us create “Heaven” on Earth.



Blessings!

CONSCIOUS HUGGING


Hugging is one of the greatest joys of being a human being. When we hug another human being, an animal, or a tree, with total awareness, our hearts connect and bring immense healing and happiness.

Our hands are the extensions of our hearts and when we embrace with our hands we accommodate the entirety of another being into our hearts. I simply thrill when I watch my hands, I am so much in gratitude for my hands that bless me everyday, my hands take care of me, they feed me, they dress me, they comb my hair, they make things for me and the best of all they help me to hug other beings with my heart!



Our hearts are the sacred sanctuary where the Divine resides, the sacred sanctorium of our body temple.

Hugging mindfully brings the awareness that we consider each being as sacred and we bring their Divine essence into the sacred place of our hearts.



Our conscious breath enables us to feel from our hearts, breathing in and breathing out the sacred Presence of the other brings the realization of the gift of this Present moment, the gift of togetherness, the gift of the silent support we give each other in this Planet of Beauty.

Every conscious hug brings one to the Present moment, a moment that makes us aware to be mindful, a moment that shows us the sacred in every life, a moment that shows us the ease and grace of life beyond language, a moment that creates healing and reconciliation. It also brings with it an opportunity to bless another being from our hearts. The blessing can be silent or in language acknowledging the preciousness of the other being.




Conscious hugging brings a powerful connection that can never be destroyed, a connection that stays sacred in our hearts long after the physical form has dissolved.



Let us choose to bring this sacred connection into our lives. Let us choose to hug every being with sacred love from our heart center, let us choose to give this gift to ourselves and to the Planet.

Blessings!

CONSCIOUS BREATHING




You are LIFE. You come to know that you are life only when you are aware of your breath. Many a times we go through the busyness of our human situations without giving another thought to our breath. But we all know that we are now here only because of the breath, if the breath is taken away then we do not exist on the Planet anymore.



All religious, spiritual, meditative, and therapeutic practices talk about the breath as the way to health, wellbeing, self-discovery, and self-transformation.



Placing one's awareness on the breath is a powerful way to connect with our body, with our inner world. The ego-mind is constantly busy, keeping us rooted either in the past negative happenings or in the worry about the future. Placing awareness on the breath is the only way to be released from this sickness of the mind.



One conscious breath can overpower the thoughts and stop them.

Start to practice being aware of the breath without making any change to slow it down or speed it up in any way. Just bring attention and awareness to the sensation of breathing without imposing any changes. This kind of relaxed awareness takes us deeper into the sensations and feelings of the body. Strangely, this awareness is so powerful that when we are breathing there are absolutely no thoughts. Then as awareness on the breath increases, our breath rises and falls from the nostrils to the belly. A person who is anxious always breathes shallow from the chest alone. Breathing from the belly is so powerfull healing for body, mind, and soul. The body, the brain, and the immune system is rejuvenated with more oxygen.



The Vedas say that when you breathe consciously, the breath that enters your body becomes the Prana -the vital life sutstaning energy of the Creator.



Being aware and conscious of the breath brings us to the realization that we are absolutely being breathed, we do not need to do anything to breathe, we are being lived, life lives through us every moment. It is humbling to notice that we are not the doers of anything, we are just a collection of patterns and memories. This liberates us from the thought that we are separate selves. It brings immense peace and freedom in the knowing that we are being breathed, moved, and lived every moment.




Breathing consciously we bring ourself to the Present Moment, to the freedom from the unconsciousness of the ego. Conscious breathing is a loving action, a most powerful gift we can give ourselves!



With each conscious breath we choose life, we choose love, we choose to liberate ourselves from the many burdens we carry. It is our birthright to be alive, to be loved, to be in the Present Moment.

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

GRATITUDE - THE GREATEST PRAYER, THE GREATEST VIRTUE




Life is an awesome experience, and experiencing life through a physical body is extraordinary!

We, every human, animal, plant, minerals etc, began as a thought in the mind of the Creator. The powerful Creator being expanded itself into infinite individualized experiences, and each experience is beautiful, awesome, powerful, and enlightening!



When we humans took a body, we birthed something called the 'Ego-Mind', it was a beautiful tool to help protect and care for the body. Yes, it is a beautiful tool, but it is not who we are.

We are not this body, nor its personality, nor the mind. But sadly, as humans we get so caught up in living and surviving the physical experience that we lose our focus on the truth of who we are.

We are pure Spirit, Pure Consciousness, that emanated from the radiance of the Creator's light. We emanated and we co-created with the Creator to experience and enjoy the physicality. Life of a Spirit being in a physical form is truly an awesome experience!



When we enjoy physicality from the place of the Spirit, we come into the knowing of the complete wholeness of who we are. Only then we can acknowledge life as a grand valuable gift to celebrate every moment. Otherwise, the 'ego-mind' focuses only on the survival of the physicality and thus takes us into a journey of fear and pain. Fear and pain are stories of the mind about what happened to the survival of the body and what might happen.

It is refreshing to know that we always have a choice either to play the game of life totally believing and sticking with the 'ego-mind', or choosing to move and expand and enter into a journey of trusting the powerful Spirit in us, seeking guidance from Spirit and live life fully as a Spirit being experiencing a physical body.

Acknowledging the Spirit of the Creator inside our body temples makes life a great wonderment and joy every moment. Not even a single moment can pass by without the feeling of Gratitude. Life experience becomes a prayer of Gratitude. The knowing that everything around you, the people, the flowers, the trees, animals, the land, the rocks, the river, the air, everything has been lovingly created FOR you, for you to experience the bliss of the Creator's love.




When we choose to see every life experience (good or bad) from the place of Gratitude, our heart opens and our life becomes a prayer, a gratitude prayer that is held in awe by the body temple.

The moment Gratitude enters, every aspect of life,- physically, emotionally, mentally- every aspect of living is completely HEALED!



"Gratitude is the Greatest of all Prayers and the Greatest of all Virtues."

Let us choose to consciously hold the attitude of Gratitude.

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

KNOWING THE CREATOR




So many of us want to touch God, to know the Creator. In order to do this we pray, we sing, we chant, we meditate, we fast, we torture ourselves. We search and then fianlly come to a conclusion that we are not worthy of God's attention. This is the greatest suffering that one can endure.

The simplest and most profound way to gain God's attention is learning to love the Self. Before doing anything we need to learn to love. Love is the catalyst , the powerful bridge that allows one to touch the face of God.

When we love the Self as a part of the Creator's Divinity, then we undertand that we are worthy of God's love and attention.

There is no need to spend time in rituals and painful processes, for love makes known that God is as near to you as your very next breath.

The basic law of life is that whatever you do to yourself you will do to others. If you are judging or unkind to yourself you will definitely be unkind and judgemental towards others.

If you start loving yourself as the Creator's Divinity, you feel yourself become bigger and bigger in consciousness, and your expansion includes everything around you and everything that comes into your space, everything becomes a part of your loving being.

Loving the Self is the frist step in loving the Creator. Through loving the Creation we start loving the Creator. Only when we start loving God's creation we can truly partake of God's love.

When I say loving God's creation, many are of the opinion that only that which they see as 'good' in their mind is of God, they limit the Creator by giving a name and a meaning. This is why many times I hesitate to write the word 'God', for it has different meaning for each individual. When I refer to the word 'God' I refer to the Divine, the Creator, the ALL.

Accepting the Self, 'the good and the bad' is the first step towards Loving the Self. Accepting oneself helps to accept the good and bad in others also.

Self acceptance brings immense wisdom, clarity, and understanding. It helps one to see the Greater picture of life. It brings greater understanding about the 'good and bad' in oneself and others. It helps to move out of the judgements of the mind and emerge into the light of enlightenment.

Loving the Self makes the heart to bloom and the wisdom of the heart becomes easily accessible.

We become loving beings who radiate the powerful aspects or Love, kindness, forgiveness, patience, and understanding. We experience ourselves as magnificient beings of love and light. We experience our magnificience through every act of love, kindness, forgiveness, and understanding that we extend to every person and situation that is placed in our life.


We come to understand life as LOVE, a love that can love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable.

Being in the radiance of this bliss of LOVE, we come into the KNOWING of the Creator.

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

LOVE or EGO


You are LOVE.

You were never your EGO; bring the LIGHT of Awareness to KNOW.

Love and Ego cannot exist in the same space.

The ego loves to be special, it wants to be right all the time, it loves conflict, it loves to spot the otherness of the other person, it creates a space for jealousy, anger, hate and misery. The ego has no kindness and it cannot share. The ego loves competition and comparison and creates stress and misery. The ego keeps us unconscious always.

The difference between ego and love, is the difference of being a somebody or a nobody. The ego thrives only on being a somebody, but when you are full of a somebody there is no space for LOVE/GOD to enter.

We can never fight against the ego, the best and the only way to rise above the ego is to bring the light of awareness. The moment we are aware of the hate, jealousy, anger or misery in our thoughts, they disappear from our space. It is as simple as that. Then you come into the understanding that you were never your ego. In order to know who you are, you experienced who you are not.

Practicing to connect with our breath takes us to the place of stillness, to the place of awakened consciousness. The place of awakened consciousness is the “heaven within”.

The more we connect with the heaven within, the more we create “heaven” in our reality.

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

YOU ARE THE RIVER OF LIFE


Fear is the most powerful enemy of all times. Fear cripples and confuses and makes one to die many times while alive. The concept of fear arises only in the confused mind, a mind that knows only what it knows, a mind that does not know anything before the body came into existence, a mind that can ride its vehicle only through the help of the 5 physical senses.

The experience of the 5 senses are just a miniscule part of life. LIFE is who YOU are, you are the great river of life that flows infinitely. Birth, death, pleasure experiences of the 5 senses are all the attractions on the banks of the river of life.

A confused mind attaches itself to the attractions on the banks of the river and does not let go. Fear arises because of attachment, fear arises because the river of life is flowing and you remain stagnant.

Live life fully each moment. Do not cling to, but enjoy and celebrate the attractions on the banks of this river of life and move on with the flow. For, You are the river, You are life! The river flows infinitely, and creates amazing magical adventures all through its path. Go as the river, enjoy the magical adventures, and be in the place of excited anticipation of the next moment, move on.


YOU are the river of life, KNOW the river, GO with the flow.

Blessings!

EMPOWERING THE SELF




Loving begins with the SELF. If you do not know how to love yourself, then you will not be able to love anyone else. You are the only person in the entire universe who can love yourself fully and completely, no one else can do this for you.

When you love and accept yourself completely, the Love you create will support you, guide you, and inspire you in every aspect of life. You will be inspired to make wise, powerful choices for yourself and others.

Loving the Self is the kindest way of giving the gift of yourself back to yourself. You then need not search for yourself in others. When you start loving who you are, you then do not need anyone to make you a 'someone'. Do not create the loneliness of not being there for You.

Loving and accepting the Self brings contentment and joy, you become your own best friend. You start living in your Truth, you do not seek to compete or compare yourself with others anymore, self confidence radiates from you and you see yourself as a success every moment. This is the greatest empowerment!


Choose to love and celebrate YOU, You are a magnificient creation, one of a kind, there was no one born like you or will ever be born like you, nature never repeats itself! Celebrate YOU! You deserve the Best!

I found that affirmations on loving the Self are very empowering. Affirmations work wonders on everyone who chooses to empower themselves sincerely.

You can do affirmations like:-

"I love myself, I am wonderful",

" I am a beloved child of the Universe/God, I deserve to live a wonderful life, All is well in my world"

Affirmations receive their magic from the feelings you bind with the words. Pour your feelings on to every word of affiramtions you say and make them true for yourself.

You can do these affirmations by looking at yourself in the mirror, or you can write them many times during the day as a love letter to the Self, or you can recite them with feeling many times during the day. Whatever you choose to do sincerely will work for you.

Choose to give this gift for yourself today.

Blessings!

ARE WE WILLING TO LOSE OUR CREATED WORLD?




We live in the world but we, each and everyone of us create our own world on the inside in our minds. The world outside is totally different from the world we create on the inside. The world outside is perfect, and everyone is being who they are exactly as they are supposed to be, there are no mistakes here. But suffering comes when we choose to believe our judgements about the world outside and hold these as beliefs in our inner created world.

Our inner world is created by the mind that can only know a person or situtation through just the five physical senses. The data stored by the mind does not include the thoughts, emotions or feelings of a person. So the data stored and believed in the mind is definitely insufficient data.

Taking this insufficient data as the truth we make ourselves suffer thinking that the world is the cause of our suffering. But the truth is, what we choose to believe about the world is the cause of our suffering completely.

If we truthfully start inquiry into the belief datas of our mind, we will let them go for they are not true, the world then becomes a kinder place. We come to understand that we were at war with the ways of the world, we believed that the world was a crazy place, but the truth becomes clear that the world was never crazy, we became crazy by holding on to our beliefs about the world.


When we are not at war with the world outside, our inner world is peaceful, and it projects a peaceful outer world.

When there is inner peace we come into the freedom of living in Grace and Ease, for we understand that what we have right now is what we wanted. Life is benevolent and it always brings to us that which we need at the right time, nothing more, nothing less.

Living in Trust and Gratitude is the Highest form of Devotion.

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

TRANSFORMATION ~ A JOURNEY THROUGH PAIN AND FEAR




My Sweet Friends,



I invite you today to take a sacred journey into your inner world and liberate yourself from the bondage of pain, both emotional and physical. I truly believe that our unresolved issues in life have a direct correlation to the health of our bodies and our wellbeing.



The key to our healing is to straight away deal with our wounds, to process our fears, forgive from the heart, and stand in our Truth.

Only a courageous person who is passionately seeking freedom can take this journey of moving through unresolved fears.

It is my observation that our physical bodies are formed not from the food and nutrients we take in, but from our life experiences, our attitudes to life, and our emotions and pain buried from past experiences.



It is a human tendency to hide behind wounds and create walls so thick that we are unable to move ahead in life.

We are powerful energy beings but it is sad to notice that we give away our energy for things that do not support us in any way.


We give away our creative energy to judge people, situations, places and things and lock them into wounded memories and attitudes.

We do not realize that our wounds cost us a great deal both physically and monetarily.

Our health is intimately connected with our emotions and attitudes. Our unprocessed fears and emotions are injurious to our health and wellbeing.

Our stress pours into our bodies as acid. Our blood pH is alkaline, and so to process the acid the body organs struggle everyday. Our bodies create fat cells to engulf the excess acid in the body and store it away from the vital organs and delicate systems of the body. Our bodies start holding fat and go into dis-ease.



I notice that locking ones focus into a negative past, focusing all ones attention and energy on it, feeding it by talking about it, and exaggerating it everyday, seems to be a most powerful pastime of our society and culture today! I find it very funny that people feel that if there is nothing to grumble about or be negative about, then there will be nothing else to talk with each other. In fact I lost all of my friends some 15 years ago when I stopped having a pity party with my stories, and my friends' stories of some unpleasant past. We develop powerful habbits of spoken language and body language that keep our wounds of the past alive.

Our habbits have become our culture, and our culture has taught us not to care for ourselves or to take responsibility for our happiness.



As I had mentioned before we are energy beings and our bodies thrive on life force energy. Our life force energy depends on our every thought, emotions, and attitudes. If we choose to encourage negative thoughts and emotions, we are in for great trouble. For, these are more toxic to the body than any toxic food or drink. The more judgemental we become, the more energy will become depleted from our system, our body becomes tired and weak, we become irritated and short tempered all the time, we even stop doing things that we were usually doing. This is very serious because we are heavily losing our life force energy. Negative beliefs and judgements cost a lot of energy, deliberately saying negative comments to people drains enormous amounts of energy.




How we create heaven or hell in our lives depends on how we treat ourselves and others. Being human is challenging, every person goes through trauma in life.

I have noticed that people sometimes take the power from their trauma, build up stories around it and use it to control other people, this is why the saying, "hurt people are the ones who hurt others" is true. We become so connected with our wounded past that we use them to manipulate others.



Every person, every place, every situation has been created benevolently by life for our growth physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Every interation with another human being, every experience with every situation is a beautiful opportunity to expand, to amass and gather enormous knowledge and wisdom. All we can deal from the mind is only what we see in front of us, we do not know the bigger picture. If we truly analyse from our heart, we can know that our past has brought us to where we are right now. Life has always been benevolent, reality / God is always good and there is no argument. When we argue with reality we suffer a lot.

The only key to avoid suffering of body, mind, and soul, is forgiveness towards oneself and others. Pain is not an enemy, it is a bringer of wisdom and knowledge, it is a guardian who shows us the way to freedom. Paying attention to life, living every moment fully and completely, allowing and accepting our reality, making room for forgiveness, choosing to focus our energy on our strengths and our gifts, and living from the place of Gratitude, are the most powerful ways of healing and liberating ourselves from the illusion of fear and pain. When we liberate ourselves, our life force energy is powerful enough to liberate everyone who comes into our space!




Making peace with humanity and Divinity is the MAGIC OF LIFE.

Let us choose to create magic and miracles for ourselves and our Planet.

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

THE ULTIMATE SUCCESS



The mind loves to play the game of "telling stories" stories about people, places, situations ~ neverending stories. I sit and watch my mind and its stories, they amuse me so much, the stories are about so many judgements, creating a whole new world of "suffering".


A quiet mind realizes that thoughts argue with reality, creating war within oneself. The war is over when I start loving what is in front of me, my reality. It is always stressful and difficult to compete or compare my situation, or belittle my actions about what I should or should not have done.


The moment I question my mind I realize that I am not my story thoughts, they do not belong to me, the thoughts come and they go. It is always my choice to attach or not attach my emotions to them, it is always my choice to live in true freedom. Freedom is giving the gift of KINDNESS to oneself, it means never allowing fear, anger, or sadness to cloud your life. It means to live life with total acceptance, flexible, and without resistance. There is no success to be achieved, there is no failure either, for whatever I am doing at this moment with total love and acceptance is the Ultimate Success.

Blessings!
~Premlatha Rajkumar~

THE POWER OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS




Conscious awareness is mastery. Conscious awareness is the light that absorbs the darkness, it brings information to erase the illusion of fear.



Be conscious of each moment, be the witness, notice that you are awareness.

Witness the world around, notice the gentle breeze touching your cheek and rustling your hair, hear the birds singing on the trees, the dogs barking, smell the flowers, be aware of the warmth of the sunshine on your skin, be fully aware and present in your pain, in your sadness and in your joy, be in the moment alive and aware.

You are awareness, and awareness is powerful.



When awareness is present it fills the space that may otherwise be occupied by thoughts of fear, anger, or desire. The thoughts captured by the mind keep us in a kind of hypnosis , this hypnosis creates the illusion called ‘fear’. When we buy into our fear we are lost in the illusion of 'suffering' created by the mind. Awareness does not come from the mind, it comes from within, and awareness brings timelessness into the dimension of time, it brings the connection and inspiration from the formless dimension. The more aware you are the more you understand that you are the awareness expressing in form for a little while.



Holding awareness, you are fully present. When you are Present you allow things to be, instead of exaggerating or feeding your pain. When you aware in your pain, the light of understanding shines through. Every aspect of life becomes beautiful and sacred. Life is this moment. And when this moment is lived with awareness, the next moment will also be the best.



Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

SMILE -A SPIRITUAL TOOL TO TRANSFORM STRESS




In the words of the Siddha,



" A smile from the soul is spiritual relaxation."



The Siddha suggests that we learn to smile in the sweet way of a child to make everything bright and beautiful around us.

Everytime we smile at someone, we are bring a beautiful gift of peace to that person. It brings sunshine into their lives.



A smile is the most inexpensive and most attractive cosmetic you can wear all day. It is the most beautiful jewel on the face, it makes you the most attractive person in the world.

Smiling is a special language of humans, the more this language is practiced, the more love, joy, peace, happiness, and harmony is anchored on the Planet.

Smile for no reason, keep smiling when people are not around, you will be surprised, for energetically, smiling attracts wisdom and joy into your life.



A smile is a very powerful spiritual tool. It anchors the timeless Presence of the higher dimensions. In our busy mechanical lives we forget this tool.

Have you ever noticed that when seeing a picture where people are smiling, it automatically makes us smile and bring happiness to that moment.



Just try bringing a smile to your face during a moment of stress, or confusion or an argument. At a time when you feel that the energy around you is so dense, you will notice that the moment you squeezed in a smile, the entire atmosphere within you and around you becomes lighter and full of ease. Just try it and you will see the MAGIC.



You can post a smiley face, or write the words 'SMILE' or any other method of reminder to smile, near your bed, your work place, or on your fridge to make a reminder to smile and keep yourself in a place of ease and grace.



Choose to smile for no reason, just smile :-) it is a powerful gift that you can give yourself today. It is a tool for instant transformation of stress.

Let us choose to practice this powerful and ancient Spiritual tool everyday at all times, and bless ourselves and our Planet!

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

PARENTING WISDOM


Every human parent strives to provide the best for their children. Every parent wants to see their child grow into a happy, healthy individual. It brings a lot of pain when things go wrong, for you have brought up your children thinking that you know what is best for them.

Many times children are looked down upon as little people who do not know anything, and well-intentioned parents, teachers, and gurus try to impose their beliefs, ideas, fears, rules and laws on the children. The result produces fear, when there is fear there is no place for love.

It has become a collective learned human behavior to always be behind the children telling them what they should do and should not do, and also believe that punishment was for the child's good. This created so much fear in the child, and fear and fear made the child to break the laws and also be careful not to get caught. By creating laws and fear we are teaching them to cheat and lie. We go on infecting children with ideas which have not even proved valid in our own lives. Many things we ask our children to do might not have been acceptable to us when we were in their age.


By forcing our children we do not allow them to be authentic, they fear that they would hurt us if they are true, and they feel hurt when they are not true to themselves.

Many times we forget that we only gave a part of our physical bodies to our children, but the Spirit that activates the body comes only from the Creator. Children were never our possessions in the first place, in this planet we are only their guardians.


If we realize this truth, we will also come into the understanding that we really do not know what is right or what is wrong for our children. They were brought into this world by the Creator through us. And the one that brought them into this world knows them more than we do.

Parenting is an art, and the best and most effective way to parenting is to serve as an example and not to impose our will.

Children need privacy and freedom, they are also individual souls who need to be respected, and allowed to be themselves. They are not here to fulfill somebody's ideas. Their future is open and supported by a loving Creator.

A wise parent is one who is there to give support, courage, and confidence to the child without harassing the child to live up to his/her expectations.

A wise parent understands that every human is beautifully programmed by the wisdom of the Creator, there are no accidents, and everything goes according to the program.

The best gift a parent can give the child is allowing and accepting the child to be his/her natural self wherever it leads to, and you will be surprised by the magic and miracles that get created by this acceptance.

Blessings!


~Premlatha Rajkumar~

TRUE FREEDOM




True freedom is responsibility. The ability to live conscious, alert, aware, and respond to life, is true freedom. It brings in the realization that there is no one out there to control you, you are free to live your life the way you choose.

I have noticed that when there is a law given, people tend to go against it. There was a rule in my son's high school that chewing gum is not allowed in the classroom. The students started to chew gum secretly and my son said that if you put your hand under the desk or chair, you can find innumerable chewed gums stuck underneath.

Then they dropped this rule in school and surprisingly no one bothered to chew gum in class anymore.

I am reminded of the words of the TAO which says "Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice."

Forgetting our Divine Nature is the only illusion on this Planet, and it has helped to build up this game of Duality.

From the time we are born it has been drummed into us that "we are not good enough", and that "we do not deserve". The two most powerful thought patterns that helped to maintain this game of duality.

We have burdened ourselves so much by walls of laws, rules, governments, and religions, thinking that we are not good enough. We are born good, we need not strive to be good. Goodness is our Nature. We are a part of the Creator, and every part of the Creator is magnificient and beautiful like the Creator,every human is precious in the eyes of the Creator.

People who have recognized their divine nature have self-esteem and self-trust, they are able to make good wise decisions , they do not depend on others for anything, and they are able to create a joyous reality for themselves. They have respect for themselves, this is not ego because they also know to respect others, they know that no one is better or worse than themselves.


Let us choose to create a world of true freedom, freedom begins by processing our fears. If we turn fear around only love remains. Love is all there is.

Let us choose to live in love rather than fear, let us teach our children to live in love, to grow in self-esteem and self-worth, and learn to believe in themselves. Let us know and understand that we only gave a part of our bodies to them but their spirits came from the ever-wise part of the Creator.

It is time we recognized and remembered our Divine Nature.

It is time to wake up the Buddha qualities/the Christ qualities in ourselves. These qualities are True for every human being, every human heart is made of this material.


When we choose to live from our heart, we raise our vibration. By each person's higher vibration, the collective vibration of humanity becomes higher, and we create "Heaven on Earth".

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~

SABBATH ~ REMEMBERING OUR SACRED CONNECTION


We attach ourselves to our physical world intensely. We have hypnotised ourselves into believing that being busy all the time is puposeful and noble. The busier we are the more important we feel about ourselves. We forgot that the material world is only one part of our reality.



We are multidimensional beings who also live in the invisible and spiritual dimensions. Just by watching our thoughts we know that there is a being who watches the thougths. Just by watching the body perform its actions we know that there is a being who works the body. Our dreamtime feels so real that it makes us wonder if we were in another place at another time.



Every religion talks about a day of rest, a Sabbath. Living in our minds we believe that it is a day of a week where we do things other than our regular work. But what I notice from the many explanations from different scriptures is that 'a Sabbath' or 'a day of rest' or 'sacredness', is actually a practice to move into a STATE OF MIND, or a state of being, a state of rest, renewal and conscious connection to the Divine. It is a spiritual practice to realign with our birthright to inner peace.




By ignoring this practice, we have started to define ourselves and others by what we produce. We stress ourselves out with achievements and productions. The result is our hearts harden, and in a world of overwork, our illness and pain becomes our 'sabbath'.



When we take time to anchor our Spiritual Energy, it balances our life and we find our way back. This is because we become our wholesome selves, we come into our power.



A sabbath can be a moment, a day, a week, or a month. It is a time of silence, a time of connecting with the SILENCE within, a connection with our Sacred Presence.



A Sabbath can be taking in a deep conscious breath anytime during the day, or it may be meditation, or it may be sitting with nature, or sitting in stillness and counting our blessings. A true sabbath helps us to realign with our consciousness.

At the deepest level we are pure consciousness beyond form and content. This pure consciousness is the love that we are, the moment we connect to it, it embraces everything within and around us. Mysteriously our body feels embraced, healed, and comforted by this love, and every situation on the outside is also set right.




Let us choose to connect with our wholesome power, let us take time to laugh more, to play more, to choose to celebrate every aspect of life and bring Heaven on Earth.

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar

OUR HEARTS ARE HUGE TRANSFORMERS ~ Heart Meditation ~


The Creator breathed creation into existence. We are deeply connected by our breath with each other and with all of creation. This ocean of air is the world's heart, it holds all the joys and all the darkness that have been thought, felt, or said through the ages.

The purpose of entering the Planet as a human being was a very well planned way from the soul level of bringing in mercy and blessing to the Planet.

We are beloved children of the Universe and the Universe cherishes us and loves us and needs our love in return.

We are powerful beings with an amazing heart that can transform negativity into joy. Negative thoughts and feelings do not disappear they become forms, and stay in the atmosphere, and when we live unconsciously we are affected by the thoughts that are not even our thoughts.

Our HEARTS are huge transformers, they are huge wellsprings of compassion. Our hearts have the capacity to breathe in the entire world's suffering, transmute it with compassion, and breathe out all the benediction and joy into the Planet. We have the power to transform pain into love!


HeartMath science now prooves that the electric field around the heart is so huge, the heart's bioelectric capacity is 5000 times more powerful than that of the brain. And science has also proven that the feelings emanated from the heart talks to the magnetic grid of the Planet and creates reality in amazing ways.

The capacity of our hearts are enormous, physically the strongest muscles in our body are the muscles of the heart, they are the first to form before any organ is formed in the womb. We literally begin life as 'OUR HEART'!

We have been so long living from the mind and our senses that we never thought of connecting or living from our hearts.

Inhaling breath into the heart and exhaling out through the heart, brings an enormous calming effect. When we practice this art we will discover our inner magic. The magic of the inner healer within us.

We do not need to breathe in love all the time, our hearts have the power to transform pain into love.


As benevolent beings of unconditional love, we can breathe in the suffering of the world into our heart and breathe our all the joy and blessing and mercy to the Planet. In practicing this HEART MEDITATION, we tap into our own healing energy, we discover our inner magic, we become fearless, and start feeling a tremendous connection with the world. The earth transforms wherever we are.

Heart Meditation can be done anytime, anywhere, for 10 minutes everyday, by placing the awareness on our heart as we breathe.

This Heart Meditation is a most powerful way of bringing 'HEAVEN' into our life and for this Planet. Let us choose to bless our beings, our home, our Planet, and build Heaven on Earth!

Blessings!

~Premlatha Rajkumar~