Spiritual Living

OK: choosing a purpose.

Traditionally there are four goals of life; spirituality, (moksha), libera- tion; purpose, (dharma); love, individual and universal, (kama); and Arta, which is wealth.

And in the world today (because normally if you have these four you are automatically healthy) but in a world where the Food and Drug Adminis- tration allows foods that are untested or worse, known to be toxic, to be put on the grocery-store shelves and from there into your system, you have to add health to the goals of life.

Now, about you making a difference: on one hand we said whatever you do is okay and on another hand, there are obviously things you can do that bring you greater rewards than different actions! For example, holding up a bank will undoubtably get you more money than playing Monopoly un- less... you figure it out. Even though there may be worlds, light years away from us where there is suffering going on, you have no control over that.

You do have an influence over the arena that you are in right now. There is a story if you have been on the Internet at all, you have probably seen this e-mail story of this man who goes for a walk on the beach and appar- ently there has been a big storm and there is thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of starfish all over the beach. The man is walk- ing alone down the beach and comes across a boy picking up one starfish after another, throwing them back into the ocean. The man looks at all of the thousands of starfish and he says to the boy, “Why are you doing this? There are so many starfish, no matter how much you do, it won’t make a difference.” The boy picked up a starfish, threw it into the ocean, and said, “it makes a difference to that one.”

Like that, you can make a difference to somebody. So to do that one has- this is a reason for right action versus wrong action. We are going to define right action but the idea is that you can be wondering on- whatever you do is fine.

If you want to go on doing something that will put you in prison because you cause some pain and misery for someone or you killed someone or you rob someone or something, that is your choice but you have to accept the responsibility for it and the karma will come to you because of it and you need to accept that.

And that is why we would want to do what is called right action. And what is right action mean?

Most people think that right action is that action which gets the prize.

So I am walking down the street and I see some man jumped out of an alley with a gun and he robs the people and he takes their money and we would say that based on this criteria of right action is the one that gets the prize, he got the money, he got the prize, therefore that would be what is considered justifiable action and this is a great thing. You know, "The ends justify the means".

Well the truth is you get your karma back from every part of the process. So it could be that you have it temporary gain. this man who has robs somebody who has a temporary gain of some money but somewhere along the way, whether that he actually ever gets caught and goes to prison or whether the karma is delivered to him because someone that he loves gets taken away by an illness or an auto accident or something, some unpleas- antness happens to him, then we would say that that action which causes unpleasantness in the future to arrive, that is not a right action.

A right action would be that which would give you positive results now, positive results means positive experiences, and only positive results in the future.

So stealing money may temporarily solve a problem but because it violates some laws, and that means bad will come of it at some time, now or in the future, it does not seem to be a right action in the long run.

So right action we could define as action in accord with God’s will which is natural law.

So one of the first things we would say to do is, do not violate the laws of nature and- because now what is wrong action? what is a mistake? Mother Divine in a lot of healing session we have been doing lately has been de- fining “sin” as that which takes you away from what you want.

A “sin” would be a wrong action because it prevents you from having/ getting/experiencing what you want. Not because it hurts somebody else, but because it hurts somebody and what you do comes back to you, which means you will get hurt, which is taking you into pain, which is taking you away from happiness and bliss. Now if you want that experience, then great, you got it. Most people, given the choice of pain or happiness, will choose happiness. When you choose to hurt someone, you are actu- ally making a choice that you will get hurt. That’s what we would consider a mistake, because your goal is happiness yet you do something which brings you pain. It is an interesting way of looking at it.

Now the truth, for most of us, is there is not an option that is all right or all wrong because individually we are not all right or all wrong. It is said there are three types of karma, action: right, wrong, and then I think it is called white.

There is a separate karma for those people who have reached the state of grace, the spirituality, this wholeness that we have been talking about where they are totally functioning in accordance with God’s will, with the laws of nature and for them because everything is completely in ac- cordance with the natural laws and God’s will. Automatically they cannot choose to do something that will return negativity. , it is as if they do not even have karma coming back.

It is just a completely different ballgame and they are free and clear, whatever that- they have complete freedom because whatever they spon- taneously do, not that they figure it out but whatever they spontaneously do is always in support of natural laws, it is always in support of the whole creation.

So they do not make mistakes. Now, imagine that no matter what choice you made, only good would come from it. This is true freedom, the inabil- ity to make a mistake! The reason we all hate to make choices is because we’re afraid we’ll make the wrong choice. But how would you feel if you could never make a wrong choice again? Oh, and by the way, you are also in bliss 24/7. This seems like it’s worth aspiring to, don’t you think? and this is why we suggest taking advantage of these programs to learn to transcend to rid your body off the stresses and strains so that you can be in tune with natural law and only have good coming to you.

Now, up until this state of living in grace and divine grace, living in wholeness, living in complete attunement with the will of God and being spiritual and everything, up until that state, all of our action is a percentage of natural law/God’s will that you are living.

20/80

So if you are 20% in tune with natural law, 20% “enlightened” 20% free of stresses in your body and acting in accord with natural law, then that means that 20% of what you do is going to support everything in creation but 80% of what you do is going to violate natural law.

What this means is that the more stressed you are, the more likely you are that you are going to be having problem is and that things will become- and that bad results will be coming back to you.

90/10

If you are 90% in tune with natural laws then that means 90% of every action is going to be in tune with natural law, meaning supporting creation and 90% of everything that comes back is going to be beneficial and supportive of you, while 10% is not so good.

So actions which stabilize natural law, there are things called “behavioral rasayanas.” “Rasayana” is that which enlivens natural law at every level.

There are things that you can do that automatically help increase the percentage of attunement to natural law that you are and some of them are simple: Get enough rest. That means, get enough of the right kind of rest. Go to bed by 10 o’clock at night, when Nature rests. Resting during the day is not as effective, because Nature is active, not restful, during the day. Follow the old saying, “early to bed early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

Eat right, speak well of others, do not pass judgment. Even demons, even Rakshasas (demons) get enlightened. Everybody has a purpose. Avoid high drama— not getting upset and not allowing yourself to feel disturbed helps keeps the system settled. Doing things which will add to your health without straining the body, of course will be useful.

Cultivate the habit of staying out of misery. Cultivate the habit of happiness that we have talked about because the happier you are, the more your body produces chemicals that help you be in tune with health and wholeness.

It’s best to establish in our main habits actions and daily routines which cause us to grow in our percentage of attunement to natural law because that means increased health, happiness, joy, and support; effortless accomplishment of desires. Until we reach the state of grace, when grace over- takes us, although that is really not a goal as much as it is just opening, receiving, and allowing.

The bottom line here is being happy. All the rasayanas (life-balancing remedies), attunement to natural law, exercises and routines, are just so you’re happy— at your “best” more and more of the time.

By cultivating these habits and this daily routine so that more and more every day, more and more good things are coming back to us than bad thing, then automatically as time goes on, we start being less affected by the negative things and we start experiencing them less and less.

I have friends who have been doing these programs for so long, that these days if they stub their toe they sit back and take notice; simply because for them, that is as bad as it gets. They figure that is a big shock from nature telling them that they need to adjust their thing and for most of us we need to get hit in the head with something.

Now the next thing we want to consider is what are the criteria for action?

Now that we have talked about we want to cultivate the habit of actions which help stabilize natural law and help us grow in this direction, which helps us have a more spiritual life in this crazy, screwy, nutso World, we have to determine what actions are worth doing and how to determine what is worth pursuing.

And we want to encourage you never to base your decision our happiness on something that will not last and everything is transitory. Everything in nature is transitory.

There is a story in the Shiva Puranas, one of the different examples from the Vedic literature that people lived in the past and at one point these people come up to this one great rishi, great sage and they say to him, “wow you are amazing you remember all of your lives, all of your past lives through 10 cycles of creation and dissolution and based on that we want to know, what should we want? What brings the greater happiness- greatest happiness?”

And what this enlightened man says is, “Nothing. Everything is always changing. Changing means dying, which means it only brings pain. So the wife, money, everything all gets lost eventually, only gives you pain and the only thing worth striving for is living this state of Divine Grace, of wholeness, of spirituality that we have been talking about.

The point is and we do not mean to depress you but we do mean to help you have more balance in life, so we want you to understand that every- thing you would now have, you will not have someday.

Every friend that you have someday we will be gone. All the clothes that you have, the car the Lover, the Partner, the house, all will be lost. Every cell in your body will change; even with your body will change.

Everything will be lost at some point in time and the advantage of knowing this is not that you become massively depressed and doom and gloom but just to not get too attached. Do not get overly stirred by those things which are not going to last permanently.

You will have good days; you will have not so good days. It is a given. That is what life on Earth is. That is what a crazy, screwy, nutso World is about. Some things are good some things are not good.

If you were in a place that is all good, that is called Heaven.

If you were in a place that was all bad that is called something else, I am sure you can, you know, what is it? Hell or whatever.

OK

But what we are trying to say is that these things have their value and certainly enjoy them to the extent that is comfortable but do not take them too seriously.

You know really good salespeople, really good people and Investors in the business world know that, when they have a great win, when they have a great return on the investment, that- that is OK, it is nice, it is certainly a nice day. It is better than a nail in the foot but they know that a time will come when they will have a day that is the exact opposite, they will have a slump or they are not making sales or their investments are not returning.

So the only thing worth taking seriously in life is the joy of life.

Everything else is going to come and it is going to go and it is going to come again and one of the advantages of that actually is when everything- as each of these things that you have now leave, it creates a vacuum for something greater and more wonderful to come in, if you are open to it.

Vedas say, “He who is awake, the Vedas seek him out." "Veda" means "knowledge.” On our website we have that as, “he who is awake, the Divine seeks him out." Wholeness seeks you out and this is very useful in life, to know that as certain things leave, that instead of being attached to the pain or the grief about it and there are products for healing grief at HigherVibration.Living

and to help you get over these transitions; there are other powerful products as well.

So that when one loses something, instead of being lost in pain and loss and emptiness that actually more fullness comes in, more fullness comes in.

In fact it is one of the things that happen when someone passes away too. In a family is, the first things that happens in this time of great loss is, all of the family, with all of their love and all of their support rush in to fill this vacuum that has been created by this loss.

So the traditional tendency of nature is when something is lost, there is an emptiness, there is a vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum and something greater and more wonderful, if we are open to it, comes rushing in.

So now when we are thinking about the criteria for doing an action should not be something that is only transitory— and money is just transitory. Now what we are talking about here is not motivation as in "should I go to work? Or should I go to the beach?" although we may be talking about that as well. We are talking about the general trends in life, what things are we willing to do? And at what cost?

You know of fun fantasy movies where someone gets offered $1,000,000.00 or $1,000,000,000.00 or a trip to somewhere if the main character will do something that apparently violates who they are —the lawman if he commits a crime, the devoted wife if she sleeps with the moneyman—with the quandry, "it worth it?" from what we have understood so far, whether it is worth it or not depends on who you are and what you want to experience. But the main criteria for choosing is your life’s purpose. Choose the experiences, areas and the directions that you want to invest in your life to fulfill the life you desire. Basing your life decisions solely on money or anything too transitory is a waste.

Or it isn't—if you want to create experiences just to clutter.

Wealth, affluence is one of the four goals but not the only one. The
thing that said, “the primary reason for doing an action is if it serves your life’s purpose” and any temporary loss or gain is irrelevant if it serves your purpose your life’s purpose to do this item, to do this thing or if by not doing it, it will prevent you from fulfilling your life’s purpose, then by all means you will need to do it, regardless of temporary loss or gain.

And we have seen many great people who are willing to do great sacrifices to achieve what they came to do.

We see Gandhi and we see other great people. You know, Abraham Lincoln and others who have gone through great personal sacrifice or trauma or trial to achieve what they came to do but not for money.

You do not hear of people who are great simply because they accumulated a lot of money although accumulating a lot of money may be a side benefit to being great but it is a side benefit it is not the primary focus.

In fact when we think of people who are known for having money ...

So the reason for doing something is not money, it could be love. I mean, is it love? Is it sex? Is it- can- I mean, here is a great reason for doing something; it is convenient.

You know how many great achievements? How many people do you see about in the News, if they are- or in the history books? let us say ...

Where they have achieved fame because what they did was convenient or because they were lazy, although a friend of ours write a book called, “The Lazy Man’s Guide to Success” and we actually support that because he is talking about being in tuned with natural law as well.

So the first criteria about what- whether to do something or not is if it fulfills your life’s purpose or if leaving it undone stops your life’s purpose and then beyond that, something that is very transitory does not demand as much focus as something that is longer in its benefits or in the rewards from it. so we cross the street now to do something for 10 minutes but we do not want to spend all our time doing things that just give us immediate gratification because if we ever lose the ability to stop doing that, we have nothing built up for ourselves

[Does that make sense? let us pretend it does and we will go on]

So when we are continuing- so continuing into what criteria we use to determine what we want to do, well it really depends on what you want.

We have talked about how you have infinite possibilities and you make a decision on and some of the things are no longer possible but now you have new possibilities that go into it, so there is always an infinite number of possibilities.

Now when you decide, when you- or determine what you want to do with your life in general, shall I go to school? Or shall I travel to India? Or do I want to get married? Or do I want this job or that job? or whatever the more major choices are, when we are making those, we make them based on what we want but most people do not know what they want and I am assuming that you probably do not know what you want, so where are actually going to tell you how to do that.

If you know what you want great. Most people what they think they want and what they really want are different.

So let us say we say, “What do you want?” and you say, “I want to be happy” and we say, “Ok, well, for you to be happy it means making these changes that we have been talking about in this book.”

We want you to change your diet, we want you to change your lifestyle, we want you to change your thinking.

And they go, “Well, I do not want to do that” and so what they really want is not to be happy if it means that it is inconvenient for them.

So what they really want in that particular case is, to go along, is what they are saying that they want is more than happiness, “I want things to be the way they are or I do not want to have to change.”

Now that may or may not be true for you and we are going to assume it is not true. We are going to assume that you would like to know what you re- ally want and way to find out is to understand that usually what you want is 4 to 7 layers deep.

So the exercise that we have for you is, that you simply get out a piece of paper and you write, “what do I want” and then you list them all and it may be a Mercedes or a Honda Civic. It may be a new boyfriend or girl- friend. It may be mastering the Kama Sutra. It may be whatever it is that you- and you make the list and when you are done with that list, you look at it all, you draw a line through it all and you assume that you have it all.

If I have all of those items, if I have mastered the Kama Sutras and I have my Mercedes and I have my Honda Civic, then what do I want because you will want something and then you write that list down and then you draw a line through all that and you say now, “got all that. Now what do I want” and you keep doing this and you do it through 4 times, a minimum of 4 times; 5, 6, 7 times until you realize what it is that is the deepest most underlying principle, characteristic, item, tendency, whatever it is that you really want.

And we know someone who was doing this, a similar exercise following a self-help program and they tell them to write the 10 things that they felt they wanted the most and he wrote 10 things and then he was about to unpause the program and go on to the next and he realized that there was on eleventh thing and that eleventh thing that he wrote down was really the Number 1 thing and what it was, was, “the ability to be happy regardless of the circumstances or whatever was going on around him.”

What a fabulous thing to want that is?

Because if you have that, all of these other things that we have been draw- ing the line through, it does not- if we are happy, if we are fulfilled if we are in a state of wholeness, if we are in that state of spirituality, in that state of divine grace, it does not matter what comes to us.

All of these little incidentals about whether it is $10.00 or $100,000.00, it does not matter. The whole purpose of having a great deal of wealth is the ability to fulfill your desires.

If you can fulfill your desires or better yet are in a state where you are feel- ing the fulfillment of the desires without even having to fulfill them, you are fulfill, you are happy, you are- everything is good you are in that state of grace and that is worth living and that is what we call spiritual living and that can be done here and now on Earth and we will be talking more about that later.

Again check out HigherVibration.Living and check out our references and our links and what we offer and what is available out there but if you want this, there is no reason on Heaven or Earth that you cannot have that at this time in the world.

Maybe in the past you could not but today you can.

Now, the thing is about your list as you go are going through, it does not matter what you want and what we mean by that is, you do not need to agonize over it.

What you want is what you want. it does not have to be socially accept- able. You do we need to understand that if you violate something or some- body that you have that responsibility of the law of karma coming back
to you but basically to decide whether you know, you want a pizza with anchovies are without anchovies, just pick one.

You know, for a lot of these things it- just the something great to do and do it.

You can all- first of all you can always change later but that state of indecision is crippling.

Two things are crippling, indecision and doubts. So do not allow yourself either, just pick something great to do and go ahead and ask for guidance and ask for the fulfillment and ask if there is something better that you should be doing, that it be presented in a way that you cannot possibly miss it.

So pray to whoever you pray to and ask for these things and intend it.

Pray to your higher self, pray for openness to be awake to receive that.

Again there is things that can help you make these choices but it is not worth agonizing over it.

We take it easy, we never stress over this, we just accept and learn that sometimes good enough is good enough, that we do not always have to be the best, that in spite of the nice Championships of you know, at the Olympics, we have you know so many people aspiring to win a particular thing and you have you know, the Gold the Silver and the Bronze medal but truth be told anybody who made it to the Olympics in the first place, well done you.

I mean that is pretty impressive.

That is way more than good enough and if you are somebody who can get on the Team, that is good enough.

If you are somebody that can play and have a good time, it is good enough.

If you are somebody who makes it to the Finals, that is good enough.

If you are somebody that is moving in the direction that you want to be moving, it is good enough.

Well done you.
Pat yourself on the back and move forward at your own pace