Don’t be proud of your looks as you are not this body

Bimbisar, the king of Koshal, was a devotee of Buddha and would pay him a visit quite often. His wife, Kheema, was extremely beautiful and was very proud of her beautiful looks. Her motto in life was to ‘eat, drink and be merry.’ She would often say to the King, ‘Life is too short. Why don’t you spend it enjoying to the maximum? Why do you go to Buddha? What does the poor mendicant have and what can he give us?’

But the King had an earnest desire that Kheema too should realize the greatness of saints like Buddha. Once he tricked her and asked his ministers to bring Kheema to Venuvana, the forest where Buddha lived in those days. When Kheema got off her palanquin, she did not see the king and instead found a mendicant sitting under the tree.

Perturbed, she said, ‘Where is his majesty?’

Happiness Quotes from the Truly Happy Ones

To remain ever cheerful and equanimous is the greatest devotion to God. -Asaramji Bapu

Inner Contentment is the destroyer of all three - desires, anger and greed. -Swami Ramsukhdasji

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Gautam Budha

The earnest purpose of this blog

Last evening, I was writing one of the blog and my four year old son asked me, “Dad, why do you keep writing on the laptop?”

“I know, why...,” replied immediately my seven years old daughter.
“Tell me, why?”
“Dad, you might laugh at me,” replied my daughter while shying away from me.
“Come on Sanya, I won’t laugh. No one will laugh,” I tried to make her comfortable while holding her hands.
“Because you love God and you want to make Him popular. So you write and keep busy on your laptop.”

I hugged my daughter with tears in my eyes. My soul expanded in gratitude and appreciation of the divine power that resides in her heart and that inspired those words out of her mouth. How true! The only purpose of writing this blog is to introduce you to the supreme impersonal God that is omnipresent and also resides in our heart. I want to make that eternal-conscious-blissful God popular, so that those who know him find supreme peace and eternal joy within. I want to introduce everyone to that everlasting inner bliss.

The purpose of this blog, my friends, is to slowly introduce you to the inherent blissful Self.The Self realized mystics enlighten us that the true nature of our spirit is Sat-Chit-Anand, meaning Eternal-Conscious-Bliss. You cannot experience long lasting bliss in the enjoyments of worldly pleasures. The momentary joy, that you experience while engaging in the outer sensual pleasures, is just a glimpse of your true blissful nature.

Bliss is a wonderfully sublime experience that cannot be put in words. Those who have ever fallen in love would know that how difficult is it to describe love in words. The bliss of the Self is many times more profound and sublime than the love. As per the ancient scriptures of India, which are nothing but the sermon of the Self realized mystics, if you are able to calm your mind completely and if you manage to remain drowned in the sublime realization of inner bliss for even as short as three minutes, all your unhappiness is dissolved,  all your doubts are evaporated, you become blissful, you achieve liberation and in such doing, you fulfil the highest purpose of human life.

If bliss is our true nature then why don’t we remain blissful all the time? Why do we become inflicted with worries, tensions, sorrow and grief? Bliss, my friend, is your true nature, the essence of your spirit and the truth of your consciousness. However, it is only at the level of mind that all the sorrows and worries exist. Sorrows and worries are creations of your mind. These don’t belong to your true nature, or else you would have experienced such undesirable feelings even during your deep sleep. All the temptations and countless thoughts of your mind have formed a temporary cloudy veil over it. A child remains blissful because his mind is pure, not yet corrupted by all kind of impressions of the world. The veil of all the unnecessary worries and thoughts and missing and hence, the luminous blissful spirit shines through effortlessly on the face of the innocent child.

Bliss is present in every heart. However, those who have realized the ever present inherent bliss are very rare. The purpose of this blog is to introduce you with the wisdom of such blissful mystics of India who have realized the ever present bliss as their true nature. Each article will bring you closer to your own true Self. Come let’s rejoice in the true realization of the Self.


May you all realize the importance of Self knowledge, become the earnest seeker of inner bliss and rejoice in the Self !! Om... Om ... Om....!!