Align your Actions with your Intentions
Kalpataru is a unique one-day meditation program that leads you to blissful living.
It prepares you through special meditations to receive the touch of a living enlightened being. It empowers you with the energy to align your intentions with your actions so you naturally move with outer success and inner bliss.
Any suffering happens only because of misalignment of intention and action. When our intention is right but our action is not aligned with it, we miss the whole thing. But first, our intention itself needs to be right! Most of the time, we have self-contradictory intentions giving rise to confused actions, and therefore confusing results.
As long as the intention and action are not right and aligned with each other, we will feel continuously dissatisfied in life. This is a deep secret of life. Only when we don't know these secrets, we don't understand why we are dissatisfied.
Take a simple example. Your intention is to be free from worry, is it not? But if you just observe, you will see that you search for the slightest excuse to enter into worry! This is what we call 'self-contradictory'.
Let me tell you a small story:
A man was suddenly found searching for something in front of his house.
A passerby stopped and asked him what he was searching for.
The man replied, 'I lost a gold coin.'
The passerby felt sorry for him and started searching along with him.
Soon, another person came by and asked what they were searching for. Then he too started searching for the gold coin.
Soon, they became a group of people searching for the gold coin.
Suddenly one of them asked the man, 'Are you sure you dropped the coin here?'
The man replied, 'I lost it inside the house, but there was light only here, so I am searching here.'
This is what we too do in life when we don't align our intentions with our actions! The moment we know our intention well, every ounce of energy, intelligence, clarity and devotion, we should spend only to fulfill the intention. Then, there will be no hangover, no stress, no emptiness, no worry. We will integrate as a mature individual. We will be fulfilled.
Take for example what happens at a typical situation at work. Say you have a deadline for a project and your colleague on the same project does not do his part of the work. Now what do you do? You get angry but you know that work has to be done for the project to be completed. So you end up finding some help or finishing it yourself. You find some alternative but with an undercurrent of hatred and vengeance. You may end up finishing the work and the project may meet its deadline comfortably.
But just step back and see the way the whole sequence of actions has materialized. The intention is actually straight: complete the project. The action needed also is straight – aligned with the intention.
But what branches and diversions have we introduced on this straight path? All the emotional disturbances and negativities we spit out in our inner space are like road-blockages that we ourselves introduce on the straight highway. After creating these obstructions ourselves, we then search for diversions to get to our destination.
What happens? We take more time and worse still, we don't enjoy the journey. Even if we reach the destination on time, the whole purpose of the journey - to experience fulfillment – does not happen when we reach the destination.
Having the right intention is the first step.
How do we determine what is really our intention, our true desire? And how do we know it is the right intention?
This deep self-analysis is what Kalpataru guides you through. The very process brings alive from its very roots your latent natural intelligence. The powerful support of the Master's presence is the ultimate assurance – it takes you to the very depths of your being, and brings you face to face with your true self. The intense and focused effort to realize your ultimate desire in life just brings that desire up within you.
Now how can you be sure the desire, intention is 'right'? By right, I don't mean socially right. That 'right' is variable and depends on what culture and background you live in. What I mean by 'right' here is according to the laws of the Cosmos, of Existence. Anything in tune with Existence has to be right because it can only be for the good of everyone.
Understand, anything that comes from your consciousness, out of pure awareness, will by its very nature be in tune with Existence. By very nature, you are bliss. Bliss is intelligence and compassion both merged into one.
Aligning this right intention with action is the next step.
This is the real test of the strength of your intention. Only when the intention is based on the strong foundation of your complete awareness and consciousness can it grow and actualize to action.
Be very clear, if you find yourself saying, 'I want to really do this but I am not able to…I don't feel motivated enough to see it to completion,' then you have not put the light of awareness on your intention. The very lack of intensity shows that somewhere inside, you yourself are not clear, not convinced about the need for that desire to fulfill in your life.
Kalpataru is the fire that burns away all the impurities of your distractions and confusions so that only your ultimate desire remains like dazzling gold. When this happens, a deep integration happens inside you. All the escape routes and diversions which had distracted you, start fading away and you seamlessly enter into the zone of aligned thought, word and action.
Then automatically, intensity and intelligence will happen and your life will transform into deep fulfillment. By its sheer strength, the desire will lead you with full intensity and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of fulfillment. Your awareness will be so deep, your sensitivity so high, you can see subtle yet quantum changes in yourself. These 'small' transformations are the real big ones but we don't understand that and want big transformation. These small transformations are actually so powerful they directly open up a huge space for more transformations.
This integration within yourself will bring about a very important change in your life – you will feel more and more settled and relaxed with yourself. That relaxation with what you are is such a tremendous freedom!
Naturally, you will be an honest person within yourself and to others in your interactions. You will no more struggle to maintain an image. You will be blissful being honest about yourself, being just the way you are. And you will find people responding to the energizing presence you radiate rather than to the mere words. So just be yourself and you can enjoy the unfolding miracles of aligning your action with your intention.
Kalpataru bestows upon you the energy to imbibe the right intention, and align every action with the intention.