Wisdom Teachings : Meditation and Obstacles on the Path

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🌹 Meditation and Obstacles on the Path 🌹 

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

The life of an aspirant or of a disciple is not an easy life. We all have our obstacles on the Path. Once we decide to do regular medi tation, according to the ancient rules, many unexpected obstacles start to appear. The disciple, however, is a man not paralyzed by obstacles, but one who is inflamed more and more with a continuous inner radiance. He even enjoys obstacles because “he grows through them.”

Each obstacle evokes a new line to be developed in our nature, a new tool to be built for the battle, a new means to bridge the gaps and to master our nature. We do not ask for happiness, only for growth....

The student is tested also by his beloved ones. His wife, her husband, or the children may create many problems and put him in a state of worry or depression in which it seems to him that it is im possible to carry on his walk on path, meditation, his study, and special type of service.

He must remember that his problems cannot be solved by fighting with them on the same level where they are found, but they can be handled by raising himself higher than his problems. Real help comes from above, not from below.

In such cases, you may go into seclusion and try to concentrate your mind upon a great vision, a great plan, a great beauty in any form, and lift your consciousness toward Infinity. In such an en deavor you will suddenly notice that your consciousness is expand ing, you have a greater vision, greater inspiration, and a flaming joy is pouring into your heart.

You may read the Bhagavad Gita,  or any other great words of mahathmas and meditate on them

In addition to those you may regularly meditate upon the following seed thoughts:

a) “Be not afraid of loneliness. The Soul that cannot stand alone has naught to give.”

b) “Seek freedom from the past.”

c) “Develop joy and self-forgetfulness and serve your brothers.”

d) “Pain comes from form-attachment.”

e) “Leave all the past to Us, and think only of the Future.”

f) “The co-workers who walk in self-denial will be victors.”

g) “Amidst treason of the spirit, amidst strife and sorrow, My shield is over thee.”

h) “One must affirm that victory underlies the bond with the high est will.”

When you really meditate on these verses, a great change will come in your consciousness, and when you return to your daily routine of life you will see that most of your problems have de parted and those which still remain have lost their power over you.

Thus you will still continue your meditation and service, knowing that these are two main channels from which you receive strength, joy, wisdom, and new inspirations to handle your life as beautifully as possible — “through harmlessness and self-forgetfulness.” ....

Remember that times of crisis in our lives are times for growth and opportunities to show the Great Ones just how much we have developed. We can face the crisis, take it and conquer it, and then move along to the next step higher on the spiritual way. That is what the disciples ever have to do.

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Wisdom Teachings : How We Learn The Wisdom Teachings

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🌹 How We Learn The Wisdom Teachings 🌹 

📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

If a student wants to learn, he must make himself ready to learn. Before he learns, there are lots of things he should do. He must:

1. Clean his body.

2. Get rid of his negative way of feeling.

3. Exercise control over his mouth.

4. Make his mind disciplined and clear.

After these things are achieved, one can impart higher knowledge to him. Before this he will either distort any higher knowledge and use it for self-interest, which means against his true progress, or he will not be able to receive any higher knowledge although he will think he is receiving it. In the latter case, the “higher knowledge” will give him deep disappointment during the time of real need or test.

If a teacher imparts higher knowledge before the student is ready, the student's consciousness will not grow, but his personality will puff up. This will create an imbalance in his system while the consciousness remains empty.

One of the steps of readiness is that the student must realize that he does not know. He must see his emptiness. Sometimes it takes fifty or sixty years to come to this realization. Vanity is a heavy fog. When it descends upon the consciousness of a person, it stays a long time, affecting all his relationships.

The next step that the student must take is to find a real Teacher and surrender himself to him. Here he has two problems to overcome: He must have an instinctual discrimination and real humility. Discrimination is the ability to make right choices. Humility is the ability to overcome one's vanity or one's false belief that he knows.

One may ask, what if someone finds a real book in which higher knowledge is given; if he buys it and begins to study it, he will not need to resign his vanity, develop humility, and surrender himself to a Teacher. The answer to such a question is that unreadiness, vanity, and blindness (or absence of discrimination) are elements which make the understanding of the book impossible. If one tries to understand the book, his unreadiness, blindness, and vanity will produce in his mind those conditions in which the knowledge will increase his unreadiness, blindness, and vanity. It will also make him a very dangerous person in the world – a source of distortion, a bad example, an impostor, and a person who manipulates people for his own self-interest.

Then one may ask, why does a good Teacher, knowing all these things, write such a book? The answer is: Those who search must find.

Those who search for their own interest must also meet their interest. The Sun shines upon all. Every life-form takes light and nourishment according to its nature. Some grow to increase poison; others grow to give fruits. The gardener knows what to do with them. Some plants are cared for; others are burned away.

Consciousness grows and expands because of two elements: first – true, real knowledge, and second – psychic energy. If these two elements do not mix together, the consciousness cannot expand. You must receive knowledge, and the psychic energy must help you to assimilate it. Without psychic energy, knowledge remains in your consciousness like unassimilated food in your stomach which you eventually vomit.

Psychic energy cannot operate if traces of vanity, blindness, and self-interest exist because psychic energy is a conscious Entity in all Its actions, in all locations, and in relation to everything. It is the all-pervading Holy Spirit. It operates like a fire: If you put it in a wrong container, it burns the container to ashes, but if you provide a proper container, it serves you in many ways.

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Wisdom Teachings : Contacting your Guides

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🌴 Contacting your Guides 🌴

 🌻 -- from Masters of Shambala, The Masters of the Spirit World.  🌻

 📖. Prasad Bharadwaj

Simply open your heart and feel this message—don’t try to analyze it with the information contained in your brain.

Theme for this message is to answer two questions:

1. “Does every soul on Earth have guides, a guardian angel, or celestial advisors?”

2. “How do I go about contacting them or hearing their advice?”

The answer to the first question is a resounding Yes, and to the second that it’s easier than you think. The crucial issue in understanding the way guides may assist you is to be aware of the way you choose to interact with them.

Back Home, before you entered your current body, a group of twelve advisors (frequently called your Council), helped you decide exactly what it was that you wanted to experience in this particular life.

 Together you reviewed those lessons you had not yet learned or completed, which you wished to incorporate into your wisdom. You visualized how it would best serve you to undertake these lessons, and you decided with whom you needed to have contracts to insure that you would be confronted with situations needed for each lesson. Once you had finalized your plan, having chosen the type of environment you needed including the time of your birth, your parents, siblings, health status, and so on, you finally entered into your chosen body and began your learning process. With all these well-laid plans, the only problem for you was that you came down to Earth with amnesia and now have no idea why you are here!

Before embarking upon your journey, you chose and agreed with other souls to have them available to assist you. Your selection of advisors, guardian angels, and guides (whatever you wish to call them) may be constant throughout your lifetime, but it’s more likely that you selected various experts to accompany you into new areas of learning. Even with all these arrangements in place, the fact is that you are now physical while the guides remain energetic, which means they cannot assist you as planned, unless you actually request their help while you remain in physical form. For them to intervene in your life, just because you had arranged for their assistance before you came into a body, is insufficient. In physical form, as at all times, we all have freedom of choice to change our mind.

So now you find yourself in a pickle and can’t decide what to do about this doozy of a lesson that’s facing you. You’ve consulted all your friends, prayed for outside intervention (so you don’t have to take responsibility for your actions), and now you think of them. Those, possibly mythical, guardian angels and guides are supposed to help you out—but you don’t know how to contact them. What can you do?

The answer is to ask for our assistance with the clear understanding that, because we cannot interfere with your freedom of choice, we cannot tell you exactly what you should do. We can support you, and we can let you see both the benefits of the pathway you are currently traveling and alternatives that are open to you.

How are you to “hear” us? We place the word “hear” in quotes because we do not have vocal cords, so you cannot hear us speak with a distinctive voice. We communicate in vibrations somewhat like your unseen radio waves. These are then translated into thoughts or actions that are understandable to you. You must be fully aware and observant of the things around you in order to receive our messages. We use many things that can be perceived by your senses as signs for you to affirm your decisions. A very popular way for us to help you is giving you dreams that show you pathways. We also use things in nature—animals, birds, weather, lightning—and even objects such as billboards, bells, writing on trucks, familiar scents, and numbers.

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