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Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if that be after his heart.

But the intelligent man is one who can convert every work into one that suits his taste.

No work is petty.

Swami Vivekananda

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There are few things which will always remain a secret. Love, Purity, Supreme Peace, Contentment ,serenity and a few more.. For ages wise men and women have done their best to express these deep feelings. Yet they remain a secret until you have realized it, experienced it in its fullness… Today we will talk about one such big secret: Evolution.

What is Evolution?

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A tremendous power which is trying to express itself and circumstances which are holding it down, the environments not allowing it to express itself. So in order to fight with these environments, the power is taking new bodies again and again. An amoeba in the struggle gets another body and so on until it become a human being. Now if you carry this idea to its logical conclusion there must come a time when that power that was in the amoeba and which evolved as a human being will have conquered all obstructions that nature can bring before it and will thus escape from all its environments. The idea expressed in metaphysics will take this form, there are two components in every action, the one the subject and the other the object, and the one aim of life is to make the subject the master of the object.

Swami Vivekananda

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How does the concept of Evolution relate to our day to day problems?

Consider an example:

The little fish wants to fly from its enemies in the water? How does it do so? Go ahead and think about some possible solutions…

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Do you want to know the answer?

By evolving wings and becoming a bird…

The fish did not change the water or the air, the change was in itself.

Big Secret:

Change is always subjective.

Read this a million times.

We saw a little earlier there are two aspects to every problem:

a) The subject which is You

b) The object - the environments and the circumstances putting you down.

You cannot conquer all the objective environments. You cannot get rid of every person, every problem and every uncomfortable event that you encounter in your life.

So what do you do?

Like the little fish you evolve wings and become a bird.

You take: MENTAL FLIGHT……

We are all trying to express ourselves a little better with every passing day. We are evolving beings. If you pay close attention you will find that you can trace all the great discoveries of the world to two essential things. All these great discoveries came as a result of

a) A pressing problem OR

b) An expression or idea of freedom.

Take the discovery of the airplanes for instance. I have no clue about what triggered this discovery neither am I interested. History might have recorded a few things but if you make an attempt to go very deep into the mind of the person who made this fantastic discovery you might find the idea of freedom, the will to fly, to take mental flight …… You might notice that he did not attempt to change the objective circumstances the laws governing the earth, the air or the body which stopped him from flying… he developed an airplane through which he could take off from this earth and fly far above..

Change is always subjective.

You cannot conquer all possible objective environments. There is tremendous potentiality in you, terrific power within you which wants to express itself, an unlimited amount of energy at your disposal waiting for your orders… You have to give this force a new direction, a mental flight..

So what exactly does mental flight mean?

Mental flight is a art through which you arrive at a special place (not a physical place) and the moment you come in contact with this special place there is no conflict within you. There is no push and pull. You see things as they are not as they seem to look like. This is a very long subject and cannot be discussed in few paragraphs. We have a 30 day challenge program where we take our participants step by step through this process of taking mental flight to help them achieve their lifelong dreams) One of the many things which happens when you come in contact with this place is :You feel complete, absolutely complete you own everything and you do not desire anything. It is a very deep feeling which guides you towards your next best decision in relation to your problem. This place becomes your most authentic source of guidance and it is freely available at your disposal at any time for any duration.

Many people think that you require intellectual mastery to attain mental flight or reach a higher level of consciousness. This is not true at all. What you need is:

A TASTE FOR HIGHER LIFE.

Do you know what happens when you master the skill of mental flight?

Circumstances around you automatically change without any effort on your part to change it. This is the biggest secret . The secret of Zero Effort which all wise men and women imbibe in their daily life.

All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to the daily problems and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. This is how the whole system gets its force on the subjective side of human beings. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry. If I am proof against all hatred, I never feel hatred.

Swami Vivekananda

When you take mental flight the people harassing you or creating problems for you will either disappear from your life, or they will no longer wake up with the idea of troubling you or you might probably discover another environment suitable for your growth.

Taking mental flight which is nothing but the art of Zero effort is one of the greatest secrets and skills which we should learn, experience and express it in our daily life…….

If you do this, you will make swift progress. Faith and love will accompany you. Courage and strength will sit on your shoulders and inspiration and divine insight will lead your way to allow you to make the best choices in your life. Life will no longer be a mystery; doubt will no longer consume much of your attention. Problems will still exist, but they will not blur your vision of life. Problems will no longer define your life and the force of goodness coupled with the love of the spirit will find its way into every area of your life and influence and correct it as needed.

As you progress you will make fantastic discoveries in the world of spirit, great insights will be revealed to you, and you’ll reach new heights of understanding both in the external world and in the world of spirit. You will win life and win it handsomely.

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” Listen to a story. Some cowherd boys used to tend their cows in a meadow where a terrible poisonous snake lived. Everyone was on the alert for fear of it. One day a yogi was going along the meadow. The boys ran to him and said: ‘Revered sir, please don’t go that way. A venomous snake lives over there.’ ‘What of it, my good children?’ said the yogi. ‘I am not afraid of the snake. I know some mantras(sacred verses).’ So saying, he continued on his way along the meadow. But the cowherd boys, being afraid, did not accompany him.

In the mean time the snake moved swiftly toward him with upraised hood. As soon as it came near, he recited a mantra, and the snake lay at his feet like an earthworm. The yogi said: ‘Look here. Why do you go about doing harm? Come, I will give you a holy word. By repeating it you will learn to love God. Ultimately you will realize Him and so get rid of your violent nature.’ Saying this, he taught the snake a holy word and initiated him into spiritual life. The snake bowed before the teacher and said, ‘Revered sir, how shall I practise spiritual discipline?’ ‘Repeat that sacred word’, said the teacher, ‘and do no harm to anybody’. As he was about to depart, the yogi said, ‘I shall see you again.’

“Some days passed and the cowherd boys noticed that the snake would not bite. They threw stones at it. Still it showed no anger; it behaved as if it were an earthworm. One day one of the boys came close to it, caught it by the tail, and, whirling it round and round, dashed it again and again on the ground and threw it away. The snake vomited blood and became unconscious. It was stunned. It could not move. So, thinking it dead, the boys went their way.

“Late at night the snake regained consciousness. Slowly and with great difficulty it dragged itself into its hole; its bones were broken and it could scarcely move. Many days passed. The snake became a mere skeleton covered with a skin. Now and then, at night, it would come out in search of food. For fear of the boys it would not leave its hole during the day-time. Since receiving the sacred word from the teacher, it had given up doing harm to others. It maintained its life on dirt, leaves, or the fruit that dropped from the trees.

“About a year later the brahmachari came that way again and asked after the snake. The cowherd boys told him that it was dead. But he couldn’t believe them. He knew that the snake would not die before attaining the fruit of the holy word with which it had been initiated. He found his way to the place and, searching here and there, called it by the name he had given it. Hearing the teacher’s voice, it came out of its hole and bowed before him with great reverence. ‘How are you?’ asked the yogi . ‘I am well, sir’, replied the snake. ‘But’, the teacher asked, ‘why are you so thin?’ The snake replied: ‘Revered sir, you ordered me not to harm any body. So I have been living only on leaves and fruit. Perhaps that has made me thinner.’

“The yogi said: ‘It can’t be mere want of food that has reduced you to this state. There must be some other reason. Think a little.’ Then the snake remembered that the boys had dashed it against the ground. It said: ‘Yes, revered sir, now I remember. The boys one day dashed me violently against the ground. They are ignorant, after all. They didn’t realize what a great change had come over my mind. How could they know I wouldn’t bite or harm anyone?’ The brahmachari exclaimed: ‘What a shame! You are such a fool! You don’t know how to protect yourself. I asked you not to bite, but I didn’t forbid you to hiss. Why didn’t you scare them by hissing?’ “So you must hiss at wicked people. You must frighten them lest they should do you harm. But never inject your venom into them. One must not injure others.

Is this possible? Let us find out.

You might have experienced it in your life that there are few people who might give you a hard time. They will go out of their way to ensure that your day is ruined. No matter what you do they are hell bent to destroy you . So what do you do in such circumstances?

I will answer this in my next post. It is one of the closely guarded secrets of all the wise men and women who walked in this wonderful kingdom .

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Vish

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There was a poor man who wanted some money; and somehow he had heard that if he could get hold of a ghost, he might command him to bring money or anything else he liked; so he was very anxious to get hold of a ghost. He went about searching for a man who would give him a ghost, and at last he found a sage with great powers, and besought his help. The sage asked him what he would do with a ghost. ‘I want a ghost to work for me; teach me how to get hold of one, sir; I desire it very much,’ replied the man. But the sage said, ‘Don’t disturb yourself, go home.’ The next day the man went again to the sage and began to weep and pray, ‘Give me a ghost; I must have a ghost, sir, to help me.’

At last the sage was disgusted, and said, ‘Take this charm, repeat this magic word and a ghost will come, and whatever you say to him he will do. But beware; they are terrible beings, and must be kept continually busy. If you fail to give him work, he will take your life.’ The man replied, ‘That is easy; I can give him work foe all his life.’ Then he went to a forest, and after long repetition of the magic word, a huge ghost appeared before him, and said, ‘I am a ghost. I have been conquered by your magic; but you must keep me constantly employed. The moment you fail to give me work I will kill you.’ The man said, ‘Build me a palace,’ and the ghost said, ‘It is done; the palace is built.’ ‘Bring me money,’ said the man. ‘Here is your money,’ said the ghost. ‘Cut this forest down, and build a city in its place.’ ‘That is done,’ said the ghost, ‘anything more?’

Now the man began to be frightened and thought he could give him nothing more to do; he did everything in a trice. The ghost said, ‘Give me something to do or I will eat you up.’ The poor man could find no further occupation for him, and was frightened. So he ran and ran and at last reached the sage, and said, ‘Oh, sir, protect my life!’ The sage asked him what the matter was, and the man replied, ‘I have nothing to give the ghost to do. Everything I tell him to do he does in a moment, and he threatens to eat me up if I do not give him work.’ Just then the ghost arrived; saying, ‘I’ll eat you up,’ and he would have swallowed the man. The man began to shake, and begged the sage to save his life.

The sage said, ‘I will find a way out. Look at that dog with a curly tail. Draw your sword quickly and cut the tail off and give it to the ghost to straighten out.’ The man cut off the dog’s tail and gave it to the ghost, saying, ‘Straighten that out for me.’ The ghost took it and slowly and carefully straightened it out, but as soon as he let it go, it instantly curled up again. Once more he laboriously straightened it out, only to find it again curled up as soon as he attempted to let go of it. Again he patiently straightened it out, but as soon as he let it go, it curled up again. So he went on for days and days, until he was exhausted and said, ‘I was never in such trouble.’ ‘I will make a compromise with you;’ he said to the man, ‘you let me off and I will let you keep all I have given you and will promise not to harm you.’ The man was much pleased, and accepted the offer gladly.

This world is like a dog’s curly tail, and people have been striving to straighten it out for hundreds of years; but when they let it go, it has curled up again. How could it be otherwise? One must first know how to work without attachment, then one will not be a fanatic.

We are often too much obsessed with the historical events of the world. We give far too much attention to social reform. If you notice the history of mankind you will find out that while we have advanced to a great extent on the technological and economic front our progress has been dismal when it comes to leading a quality life. One of the biggest mistakes we make is we equate increase in the standard of living to a quality life. We have so far been busying ourselves in matters of economy and social reform and so our standard of living has exponentially increased. However, in this mad rush towards changing the outward circumstances we have distanced ourselves from the present moment which forms an important aspect of our life.

Social reform of any measure will never be able to increase the quality of human life. Never. It has to be backed by spiritual reform. The present moment has to be strengthened without which all our efforts, all our work in the external world would only give a momentary high and very soon would curl back to its original position like the story of the dogs curly tail.

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Have you ever noticed that a vulture soars high in the sky but its eyes are always cast on the charnel pits where carcasses of animals are burnt.

Bhagvan Ramakrishna

I have all along been like a hero - I want my work to be quick like lightning, and firm as adamant. Likewise shall I die also. Therefore kindly do my work for me - no question of success or defeat enters here at all. I have never retreated in a fight - shall I now . . . ? There is success and failure in every work. But I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance. Well, shall I after all be born as a worm?

In my eyes this world is mere play - and it will always remain as such. Should one spend six long months brooding over the questions of honour and disgrace, gain and loss pertaining to this? . . . I am a man of action. Simply advice upon advice is being given - this one says this, that one says that; again that man threatens, and this one frightens! This life is not, in my view, such a sweet thing that I would long to live through so much care and caution and fear.

Money, life, friends, and relatives, and the love of men and myself - if one wants to enter into work fully assured beforehand of all these - if one has to be so much ridden with fear, then one will get just what Gurudeva used to say, “The crow thinks itself very clever but it cannot help eating filth - well, he will get that.

Swami Vivekananda

Today I want to tell you a very special story.
There was a very steep, high and rocky mountain in a village in southern India. No one had ever reached to the top of the mountain. One day 100 people mustered sufficient courage to climb this huge mountain. They had no clue of how much time it would take to get to the summit. However each of them was determined to succeed. In the beginning they helped each other but as days passed by a handful of them who were more talented at mountain climbing went quite a distance ahead while leaving the others behind.

The man who was ahead of everyone was very happy and pleased that he had beaten everyone. He was surging ahead with a rapid pace, determined to reach to the top of the mountain before anyone else. The other people in the group were also equally resolved to succeed. They looked upon this man, knowing his reputation, for inspiration and motivation. They talked at length about him his character, his confidence and personality, and admired him.

Their climb continued each person covering sufficient ground every day and making progress. Days turned to months and months to year but the journey went on. The man who led the race could see from a distance the top of the mountain but the more he advanced towards the summit he found more extra ground to cover. When he looked back at the height he had already covered it gave him tremendous satisfaction and the confidence to master the remaining distance. Meanwhile the distance between him and the others had also widened depending on the progress made by each of them.

There was a small child in the village who was watching all this. His dad was part of the group and ten years had passed by and his dad had not yet returned home. He was desperate to see him again. But no one could fulfill his wish. His mother had no clue of the whereabouts of his father. This child began to ask all the elderly people for advice but no one could really help him. Finally, the child met a wise old man who told him that a huge river flowed behind the vast mountain with a beautiful island at the other end of the river. “Your dad might be in that beautiful island,” the old man said. “I can show you a way to reach that island in a week’s time. But you have to cross a thick dense forest.”

The little child was thrilled. . He was bold and determined to meet his father and readily agreed to cross the dense forest.

The wise old man then took a piece of paper and wrote two words on it. “On the third day of your travel in the forest you will meet a person. Hand this paper to him and he will take you to the beautiful island where you can meet your father.”

The little child couldn’t hide his excitement. Seeking the wise man’s blessing he grabbed the note and headed in the direction of the forest.

On the third day of his journey he met a strange man in the forest. As advised by the wise man the little child handed the note to this person. No sooner had he handed over the note this man seized the child, slapped him hard, and tied him to a nearby tree with a strong rope. The little child was all in tears. He had eaten very little for the last two days and he had no clue of what was happening. He thought this person would help him meet his dad but instead this ugly man was beating him to death. He cried bitterly.

This strange man was the head of a tribal community and he told the child that tomorrow by 12 noon he would kill him and offer him as a sacrifice to the Forest God. The little child pleaded for mercy to be released. But the strange man refused to pay any heed to him.

“Why did the wise man lie to me?” How could he be so cruel? Why did he do this to me?” the little child wondered. Weeping bitterly he fell fast asleep. He had a beautiful dream that night. God appeared before him. The little child complained to God that the wise man had fooled him and the tribal head was going to kill him by 12 noon tomorrow. With tears rolling down his eyes he asked God whether He could him get out of the forest and meet his father.

God knelt down, took the tender child in his arms, and whispered two words in the child’s ears. ” Utter these two words tomorrow morning when the tribal head comes and he will free you and help you meet your dad.” God kissed the little child and bid him goodbye.

Early next morning the tribal head arrived. The little child smiled. He uttered the two words and then …? To read the full story you can visit our site at

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