Five Techniques for a Gemini Mind
Give up boredom!
Are you feeling bored? If you think too much, naturally, you will be bored. Through thinking, you compare time as past, future and present. Through thinking you can hope. Your thinking will ask for the meaning of it all. If you ask 'What is the meaning of life?' you will give a meaningless answer to it. And when this meaninglessness is felt, one feels bored. Animals are never bored; trees and stones are not bored. They never ask what the purpose of life is, so they never feel it is meaningless. They accept their existence as it is. There is no boredom ever. Man only feels bored. And to counteract boredom laughter is necessary. Laughter is the natural antidote to boredom. Seriousness is the fuel of it. So which will you choose?
Live your devotion
Devotion towards God is the ultimate happening in life; it paves the way to your enlightenment. When your prayer becomes gratitude, you attract more benevolence to you. Real prayer is not reading prayer books, it is not offering material things to god, it is not donating money to temples; it is deep and silent gratitude to the whole of Existence for being what it is. It is the undaunted trust that Existence is taking care. Prayer is a celebration of the benevolence of Existence. When you pray this way, Existence responds. When Existence responds, it comes to you as more benevolence in your life. This is the virtuous cycle of prayer and blessing.
Learn to surrender
Worry and tension come when you think you are the doer. And you get tired soon. But if you shift the sense of ownership to a higher energy and continue to do your work blissfully, you will feel tremendously relaxed! Be very clear, when you surrender to an enlightened Master, you are actually surrendering to one who has no ego, no identity and hence no vested interest of his own. He is one with and overflowing with Existence. By holding his hand, you ask him to take you also to the ocean of bliss he is in. When you surrender to the higher energy, you can never feel drained and exhausted because you are directly connected to the one who is an embodiment of infinite energy. This is the gift of surrender. Become the surrender.
Be Physical
Our problems in life are not speculative. You cannot solve them by thinking only. You can only solve them by feeling them. You can only enter into those experiences of struggles and pain, instead of standing aside and trying to resist it. To integrate your reactions to life, you have to feel them fully, instead of suppressing them pretending everything is alright. The mind thinks it can even find solutions to emotions without feeling them through the body. First you have to feel things, and then you can become a witness of it. Otherwise, you will lose your connection to the physical. You will operate from the head only, and the body will disconnect itself from the mind. Slowly, we have lost our contact with our own presence.
Stop debating!
Spending time arguing for your point of view and then working on healing the situation afterwards is a waste of time. Your very views, your very mind, are just a creation made out of all the samskaras collected through your own life experiences. The person standing in front of you is also a creation of her own experience, which is different from yours. Fortunately, why there is so much diversity in the world is a question without answer! It is not there to be discussed, but there to be enjoyed! Any knowledge that brings you back to the understanding that life has no logic at all is the right knowledge. If people don't understand it, then better not debate with them for some time.
Budha (Mercury god) as represented in Tiruvannamalai Ashram (India). Around Mercury stand the other 8 Navagraha deities (deities associated with the nine planets), along with their Navagraha trees (trees associated with the nine planets), to bless all with abundance. The circle of deities is placed around the main deities of the temple, Sri Anandeshwara and Anandeshwari; located near a powerful energy field of 1008 ¹iva lingas radiating ¹iva's cosmic energy in an extremely auspicious atmosphere.
Glossary:
Nak¾atra:** the constellation in which the moon sits in the heaven at a particular time, commonly called as 'birth Star'
Vedic sciences: refer to a number of disciplines found in the Vedas, a large body of texts originating in ancient Bharat, among the oldest sacred texts
§g Veda: an ancient Indian sacred collection of hymns, counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas
¡ryabha°a: one of the first astronomer and great mathematician of India, born in 476
Copernicus: (1473-1543) the first astronomer to formulate a heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the Universe
Galileo: (1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and important astronomical observations
Yojanas: a Vedic measure of distance used in ancient Bharat, between 6 to 15 km (4 and 9 miles)
¨¾i: a sage through whom the Vedic hymns flowed, a "seer" able to reach states of higher consciousness.
Yogi: a practitioner of various forms of spiritual discipline, as yoga
Par¢ºara: a §g Veda Maharishi and author of many ancient Indian texts and important astrological texts, known as a traveling Master
B¨hat Par¢ºara Hora ¹¢stra: a prominent astrological scientific text. It is written as a recorded dialogue between Parashara and his disciple Maitreya.
Vaºi¾°a: R¢ma's guru, a great ¨¾i and had complete knowledge of the whole cosmos and the gods
Veda Vy¢sa: a sage of ancient India, compiler of the Vedas and great epics like the M¢h¢bh¢rata
M¢h¢bh¢rata: one of the major Sanskrit epic of India and philosophical scripture, depicting a great war that happened in India; written in 250 000 verses
Sa¼sk¢ra: engraved memories, memories stored in the subconscious part of the mind. They are continually interfering with our decision making process
Grahas: energy centers, energy fields that planets exert in the universe. They are generally assimilated to 'planets'
Karmas: the collection of unfulfilled experiences and actions that stay in us and constantly pull us to fulfill them
Ayurveda: a system of traditional medicine native to the Hindu Subcontinent; ayus, meaning 'life', and veda, meaning 'related to knowledgne' or 'science'
Yoga: literally union, union of the individual self and the divine Self, often taken to mean Hatha yoga, which is one of the components of yog¢sana, relating to body postures
Rudr¢k¾a: a large broad-leaved tree whose seed is traditionally revered and used for prayer beads, or mala, mainly growing in foothills of the Himalayas up to South-East Asia
Sanskrit: the Indo-Aryan language, language of the §g Veda and of many scriptures, as well as mantras
Mantra: a sound, a formula, sometimes a word or set of words, which because of their inherent sounds, have energizing properties, an approach to spiritual evolution
Unclutching: understanding that each thought is completely independent, unconnected to the precedent; which leads to disengage oneself from the mind, resulting in experiencing the no-mind state
Sanskrit: the language of the §g Veda and of many scriptures, as well as mantras
Priyangu flower: priyangu literally means that which is lovable or charming, herb mentioned in all ancient scriptures of Ayurveda
Cakra: literally a 'wheel': refers to energy centers in the mind-body system
Viºuddhi cakra: the fifth cakra, or subtle energy center located in the throat region, locked by comparing ourselves with other
Vi¾´u: the preserver in the trinity, His incarnations include K¨¾´a, R¢ma, etc. in ten incarnations; also means 'all encompassing'
Guru: master, literally one who leads from gu (darkness) to ru (light)
Brahma: the creator; one of the Hindu trinity of supreme gods, the other two being Vi¾´u and ¹iva
P¢rvati: consort of Lord ¹iva, mother to Ga´eºa
Lord ¹iva: rejuvenator in the trinity also means 'causeless auspiciousness'
S¤t¢: consort of R¢ma, revered as an incarnation of Goddess Lak¾mi
R¢ma: hero of the Ramayana epic, one of the two most popular incarnation of Vi¾´u, along with K¨¾´a
R¢m¢ya´a: Famous Indian epic
King Janaka : a noble and benevolent king who ruled Mithila; father of princess S¤t¢ in the epic R¢m¢ya´a
Vata: one of the three humors (body constitution) of Ayurveda, related to the principle of movement in the mind and body; air element
Rudra : another name of Shiva, denoting his fierce aspect
Prana: life force present in the air we breathe
Doºa: in Ayurvedic medicine, one of the three biological humors or energies (kapha, pitta, vata) which combine in various proportions to determine individual constitution, mental and physical disorders
Vajr¢sana: common yoga and meditation posture, where the person sits on his heels
Cin mudra: palms upraised with thumb and forefinger forming a circle and other three fingers outstretched
Guru P¦ja: form of worship offered to the master
Asana: body postures performed in yoga, literally means 'seat'
A¾°¢nga namask¢r A¾°¢nga namask¢r: prostrating to a deity or master by lying on the floor with all eight limbs of the body touching the earth
Bhujang¢sana: 'cobra posture' in yoga, in which the head and chest are raised while lying down
Pranic layer: the second layer of energy of the body, related to pranaor life energy
Lord ¹iva: rejuvenator in the trinity also means 'causeless auspiciousness'
Brahman: the unchanging, infinite, immanent, and transcendent reality, the Divine Ground of all matter, energy, time, space, being, and everything beyond in this Universe
B¤ja mantra: refers to the single syllable mantra used to invoke certain deities
P¦ja: a ritual made of different offerings related to the deity propitiated
Navagraha doºa: literally means 'planetary defects' or inauspicious alignment of planets
Homa: ancestral Vedic fire ritual
Nirvanic layer: seventh subtle body that we have and last layer of energy which is the space where one experiences intense bliss
Physical layer: the gross body made of flesh and bones
Aum: the primordial cosmic sound from which the whole Universe emerged
¹akti: energy, intelligent energy, considered feminine aspect of ¹iva
J¤van Mukti J¤van Mukti: the state of achieving liberation from the cycle of birth and death during one's lifetime
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