Evolve-Make it happen

In general, we all nourish an intense desire to progress in our lives, look forward to a change for better. A better tomorrow, but for that we need to make that change today, now, in the present. A change in either the situation or others is not in our hands, but a change within ourselves is very much a conscious choice we can make, to develop a process of self-growth culminating into progress in our own life.

We can always go for a change in our lives with quick fix changes in our image by learning personality development techniques, attitudes and behavior skills but the results may only be deceptive, outwardly and short lived unless we also cultivate the principles of Respect, understanding and love internally as pillars of our way of our life to be effective, long lasting and gradually evolve inside-out.

Evolving inside-out is a continuous process of development where you work on your own abilities consciously to learn, unfold, and gradually blossom on your path to progress. In simple terms, you are the script writer of the story of your own life and for it to become a hit, the content has to be good, thus build a  respectful  and a loving character which has a good understanding, live it, love it, expose it to various live situations, fail, adapt, learn, deal effectively and most important enjoy the script. 

Fundamental problems we all face in changing ourselves is the old habits die hard, we are generally happy in status quo, difficult to get out of the comfort zones, procrastinate, lethargy and contentment. we cannot offload this baggage overnight but complete focus, perseverance and hard work on your character building can help to overcome these hurdles, effectively.

It is just a matter of your mental state to be changed from negative to positive by simply igniting your positive energies of I can do it, do it and enjoy it loudly and clearly. The process is sow a thought, reap an action, sow an action reap a habit, sow a habit reap a character, sow a character and reap a destiny.

 The best example in annals of history is of Rishi Valmiki, who was a dacoit  who went to rob saptrishi but the sage felt pity on him, pardoned him and showed him the path of meditation, this in turn transformed him so much, that he went on to script the first and the most revered epic poem  on the earth, “Ramayana” on love, righteousness and shastras which depicted Rama as the ideal man,  Sita as a gem of a lady, Laxman symbol of duties and Bharat a symbol of devotion and sacrifice.

Knowing above, which ever your state of mind and or situation you may be in, if you wish to transform and progress  in your own  life, just become your own programmer, write your own script based on principles of Respect, understanding and love, act as a hero, use your immense natural abilities of the mind, body and soul to  defeat the enemies and negative energies within to evolve victorious.

The moment is now, thus make a choice, be responsible for your own life, choose your script to progress, enjoy every moment of action, keep failing as each failure is an experience in itself and the moment for self-realization, learn from it  and move forward to keep evolving in upward spiral mode.

Satish Shitut

Jaihind

Love-An enjoyable journey of Seeker to become a Spreader

Love is a reality and not a mere sentiment, our soul is love which is eternal and universal, love is pure consciousness. Love cannot be found in duality, it is just oneness thus it can never be found in other or any relationship but within yourself, in your mind, though elusive. One and only thing above all of us is love, highest experience anybody can imagine- the ultimate truth.

In literal and practical world most of us consider and experience it as intense feeling of affection, great interest or liking, sexual act, beloved one, friendship, sweetheart, fondness, admire or cherish, pleasure, enjoy, passion and compassion. We do get happiness out of these acts of love & relationships, but these are temporary, as they come from external source thus bringing with it the fear of loss while any disillusionment can also lead to hatred and despair.

In order to understand in simple and easy way, the difference in practice of love as per above two perspectives, I am taking liberty of broadly dividing these two practices in four categories, two each of seekers and spreaders of love and also apply the 80:20 rule to see which category each one of us belong to and what can we do to reach higher levels of pure love as follows-:

Seekers

1.Those who seek love in others, relationships and worldly things like food, wealth, career, profession, entertainment, drugs, liquor, possessions, power, name and fame.80% of the humanity belongs to this category, few of us do long and try to get in higher category but quite often oscillate between the seeker and spreader due to lack of conscious efforts and meditation.

2.Those who seek love in their passion of things like artists, sportsmen, professionals,

scientists & spiritualists.15% belong to this category who do spread love to others while seeking it, the best examples are Sachin Tendulkar, Roger Federer, Dr A P J Kalam, Ratan Tata, Narayan Murthy, Lata Mangeshkar and many more in their respective fields.

Spreaders

3.Those who are compassionate towards others, care for their wellbeing, treat all equally and consciously work towards alleviation of their sufferings. 4% belong to this category whose life is dedicated and devoted for humanity, best examples are Baba Amte, Florence Nightingale, swami Vivekananda and many more who are the torch bearers of Love in any society.

4.Those who transcend all above, enlightened to have witnessed pure love the “ultimate truth”.1% belong to this category who experience true and infinite love, and then share, teach and bless the whole humanity with their wisdom, best examples are Dalai Lama, Sadhguru and many more honorable saints and sages of our glorious civilization.

In short, all of us have the ability to practice pure love but 80% of us remain entangled in seeking love from other while 20% are able to do better because they consciously respect their abilities, understand the fallacy of temporary love thus consciously work hard to taste the ecstasy of permanent love ,experience it , share it and keep evolving as loving human beings.

The temptations, emotions and the wavering mind are natural distractions thus we all normally end up in first two categories and seek love. The journey of unconditional love is painful but is also the most joyous, like that of a mother giving a birth to a child. Our own journey from a seeker to a Spreader, to total surrender for oneness, may not take us to the higher levels but surely help us in leading an effective, joyful and a balanced life.

Satish Shitut

Jai Bharat

           

To Understand- a Seeker’s process

Understand is one of the key four fundamental principles of natural laws of life, the process of understanding self, life, relationships and the matter plays an important role in building a character-based lovable personality in your pursuit to lead a balanced and an enjoyable life.

Understanding could mean to know well ,perceive, interpret, learn, memorize, get the meaning, know the significance, be empathetic, inference, comprehend, believe, assume & in literal terms “stand under” to get a 360 degrees view of things rather than stand over and view only half of it, to form your own understanding thus we quiet often differ on the same except in science.

Total understanding is a process which involves relevant data, collective information, analysis, conversion of that to knowledge, application, experience, practice, improvisations and then perfection to become wisdom. it is all about focus, observing power, listening skills, care and judge by yourself to make it clear for the best possible understanding on anything.

Understanding requires our brain to think about any person, subject or a situation and use the concepts learnt to deal with them adequately. The abilities of both left and right side of the brain as well as the intelligent and emotional quotients as per the need are used, to grasp any given information mentally and then act upon to process the same, to have a full understanding.

It sounds tough and difficult but if you develop a habit of constructive questioning as a tool to reach lasting and positive conclusions, you shall easily evolve as a very understanding person.

Following aspects help you in your pursuit of “seek to understand” rather than be understood.

 Be a child: Start with, I do not know anything as well as desire to know everything(curious).

Be aware: know well your own abilities and use them to satisfy the needs of person or subject.

Be sensible: Aptly use all your senses viz feel, touch, hear, taste, smell and importantly common sense to analyze, comprehend and respond to any given person object or situation.

Be empathetic: Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself, be respectful to all.

Self-realization: Based on each interaction and experiment, you shall learn and improve your understanding. It is an enjoyable and ever evolving learning process to find the truth. There is no better teacher than your own experience, each failure is a forward step towards success.

All human beings have a common basic need to be understood thus most often we want only to be understood as we feel we know everything though we may know nothing and mess up. Always remember that lack of understanding and or misunderstanding has only negative consequences thus it is better to try and seek to understand first and then be understood.

For a True seeker, understanding is the key to the gateway of love, which is the “ultimate truth”.

Satish Shitut

Jai Bharat

RESPECT- Do we practise inside-out

Respect is one of the key four fundamental principles of natural laws (inherent values) of life, it plays an important role in building a character-based personality in pursuit of a balanced and an enjoyable life.

 Right from our childhood we are told to respect all human beings, parents, teachers, elders, nature, the laws, the state, the nation and the constitution. Maybe we are not taught, thus we do not understand and consciously nurture this ability into practice.

Respect means differently to each individual or a thing, thus could be any of regard, heed, attention, aspect , reference, politeness, consideration, admire, esteem, revere, show concern and  gratitude, all these words are nouns as well as verbs thus apply to things, place and person as a noun and have to be demonstrated by action(acted up-on) as they are a verb, too.

Respect is a way of treating yourself, someone or something, differently as above, based on the intrinsic values attached to each of them, thus different strokes for different folks. Simply put, we must first learn self-respect which then enables & empowers us to duly respect others and in turn earn respect from them.

A person who desires to live his life respectfully lives his life based on the natural laws of respect, understanding, love and evolve. He uses these inherent values as a continuous process in his way of life, a laborious and lifelong project but enjoyable to improve your self-belief and boost the self-esteem to become a worthy person.

A self-respecting person having learnt to treat himself well based on this process shall always treat others the way he likes to be treated himself thus respect for others for him is natural as he has internalised the habit of respectfulness. This knowledge of what to do, Why to Do and How to Do, inside-out becomes a practise.

The personality ethic based focus on just the outwardly behaviour and manners to show respect may look good but will be inconsistent, artificial and will not develop self-respect in you, whereas the cultivation of these four principles of natural laws to build an inside out character is a continuously strong, lifelong and evolving process.

Once you are on a path of building a self-respecting personality, all the virtues of honesty, consideration for others, tolerance, forgiveness and accepting things as it is, are by-products. The emotional and reactive outbursts are always bound to happen, but a self-respecting person also then develops a habit to realise them, forgive and improve in an upward spiral growth of his own development.

Today, it is a sad reflection all around us, we find disrespect as a norm, respect is reduced to just a noun and is rarely seen as a verb and practised because the role models were based on personality based ethics and not the character based. Time to introspect and create awareness to build a character-based society, respectfully.

The task is laborious but worth it, practise to evolve as respectful human beings.

Satish Shitut

Jai Bharat

Life: A divine work in progress

We as humans are just a tiny part of this lovely creation all around us of atoms, molecules, organisms, ecosystems, planets and of course the whole universe. Our own life is just a microscopic part of this divine creation where everything is happening all the time. In order to survive, where change is constant, our life must keep evolving to stay ahead and in tune.

Life is a divine and continuous living process, 24/7 in action throwing challenges at us all the time, what we make out of them, how we take them on, it is always our call to make or mar the most of it. This phenomenon is happening all the time thus it is vital that we accept the same as it is, understand the working and enjoy the twists & turns of the whole process.

The process happens within our body, mind, spirit and the soul and we can choose to ignore and fail to understand thus end up living like a creature and become a victim or a beneficiary of instincts or choose to just be a party to it, live aimlessly and become yet another one in the world, in the bargain may even harm its longevity.

Gainfully, we can choose to be a witness and a facilitator for its smooth functioning and lead a balanced life. A step further, with due awareness of the process, proper understanding of its use and benefits, we can explore the immense potential of these four faculties and use the process properly to lead a meaningful and enjoyable life.

 

To put it simply, we all as human beings get life as a divine gift, which is basically a golden goose that can lay golden eggs. By choice, we may remain ignorant of its capabilities thus lose any benefit, with carelessness lose its capacity to be productive, with lust we may go for the overkill and ruin the capabilities or with greed we may even kill the goose itself. All Lose-Lose propositions.

A grateful person shall respectfully understand the importance and value of the goose, its capacity to produce golden eggs and the eggs. He shall focus on proper nourishment so that the goose lives long and nurture the egg producing capacity to maximum, to ensure that the golden eggs are laid regularly and over a long period.

Thus, if we want our living mechanism (body, mind, spirit & soul) to produce golden eggs and improve its productivity we need to focus and work on following aspects-:

Body: Give proper food, rest, regular exercise and meditate for its growth and vitality.

Mind: Feed information, convert it into knowledge, constantly upgrade and keep balance.

Spirit: Cultivate mental awareness, consciousness and reasoning for actions.

Soul: Seek to know the truth, enjoy the life and share love with all.

Once you are on this path of Life-management, it is an upward spiral growth which leads to a meaningful and enjoyable life. In this process name, fame, shame, recognition, wealth, success and or failure are all by-products so do not get carried away or fall to their lure, very often most of us end up pursuing by-products as life and get disillusioned, we must let them come and go in our lives and continue to focus on the main product i.e. the process.

Life is always a divine work in progress, thus you must enjoy the work, so that the progress is a happening thing, for you as well as for people around you, too.

Satish Shitut                                                                   

Jai Bharat

Frame your own “Constitution”

Frame your own “Constitution”

Since late 2019 we all hear about our constitution in danger, right from an ignorant child to an old uneducated lady to a so called activist are misled and willing to give their lives to save the same, at the behest of few pseudo intellectuals, liberal columnists and dubious political leaders. To uphold the values of our constitution there is no need to fight for the right instead frame your own “constitution of my life” and enrich yours as well as others lives as follows-:

Preamble

I, the responsible owner of my personal life, wilfully and solemnly resolve to do justice to my body, mind, spirit and the soul towards the harmonious growth of all towards achieving a purposeful balanced lifestyle and humane social behaviour.

Fundamental rights

I must protect the fundamental rights as below of the four integrated constituents of my life.

Body: The right to be given proper food, rest and regular exercise for its growth and vitality.

Mind: The right to get information and be used to convert it into knowledge & proper usage.

Spirit: The right to cultivate mental awareness, consciousness and reasoning for actions.

Soul: The right to know the truth, enjoy the life and seek liberation.

These fundamental rights shall be duly exercised and protected by me confirming to the model directive principles for a balanced growth with due discharge of my duties as follows-:

Physical growth: Develop and ensure proper maintenance of a fit & healthy physical body.

Mental growth:  Learn, develop & nurture the brain to convert information into knowledge.

Financial growth: Apply the knowledge & skills acquired to seek financial stability & growth.

Spiritual growth:  Live life moment by moment to attain a peaceful, happy & soulful attitude.

Both these rights and duties shall be implemented, executed and maintained with the enforcement of natural laws of life to promote a harmonious & balanced growth of my life-:

Directive (Governing) principles of Life.

Respect myself, family, others, nation, environment and practise it in my social behaviour.

Understand the importance of a conscious approach towards the need of a balanced growth.

Love is the most essential part of life to be nurtured and demonstrated in all my actions.

Act upon above principles as a habit to keep evolving into a responsible human being.

As I am the executive as well as judiciary, due diligence and introspection of above aspects is required regularly to make amendments as and when deemed fit for an equitable growth. Once the life is in balance, it is easier to deal with emotions, stress, upheavals, ups and downs positively and strengthen the spirit towards a harmonious and peaceful state of living.

The current situation all over the world with protests, violence, state atrocities, racial abuses, rich poor divide, corruption and religious hatred is a mix of lost values, materialism, selfish and misplaced priorities. What goes around comes back thus if everyone follows “my own constitution” and shares with others, we shall not only save constitution but whole humanity.

Satish Shitut

Jai Bharat

Keep the child in you kicking and alive “New normal”

An act of love between a romancing couple, seeking to give and get pleasure from each other, sows the seed of love as fetus in the womb of a woman, the would be mother then carries the baby in the womb for almost nine months. She joyously goes through the aches, agony and finally the intense labor pains to give birth to a child of love and hold in her arms.

This bundle of joy, a naughty and adorable source thus enters the lives of many and unknowingly all those who are close to the child start laughing, singing, dancing and enjoy those moments of unconditional love. The child throws tantrums, cries and puts innocent demands from them and they willingly try and go all out to please the child for that one smile and have fun.

As the child starts with a clean slate in the mind, of course except the transmissions given through the mother in womb, ignorance is bliss which makes the child curious about everything around and the search for knowledge starts by trusting people around. The fearless Child is playful and imaginative enough to enjoy the process of explore, innovate and learn. A genius by nature.

The quality of accepting things as they are and forgiveness helps a child make more friends and they often play with each other even to lose for fun. With enough time on hand, no responsibilities and or worries for money, a child makes the most while sun shines and enjoys the life to its fullest.

Sadly, during this growth, We initially start telling the child to behave, later behave like a grown up child, in the teens is told to behave like an adult, in the adulthood cannot be childish, childlike behavior is taboo in middle age and the worst is in old age when it is termed as infantile behavior.

This parenting, schooling, social norms and office or business environment compels us to start thinking and behaving in a certain fashion as per our age and stature in the society, which in turn restricts our behavior within those accepted norms and we start thinking only inside that box. In the process we lose the maverick child in us who can think outside the box, to be a problem solver.

Over a period, the matured adult replaces the pure and curious child and we forget the art of having fun in life. The materialistic and competitive world with added responsibilities too starts weighing in our search for a big ticket to success, to the extent that we forget to find joy in small measures and moments. Sadly, the right way to live a childly life then become just fond memories of childhood.

All play and no work during the Lockdown, the child in me came alive and now I am relearning the best way to live which I had forgotten. This child has not only helped me overcome the fear but also helped me to forget all the material losses, too. I am laughing again and become playful, now I live in every moment and am curious enough to explore the inner potential in me to bring that smile back on my face and around.

 I am now born again, more aware of the child in me who appreciates little things in life, makes friends easily, neither bothered about what world says about me nor worried about the worldly things. I now laugh when my child tells my so-called matured adult to behave, asks him to keep the greed, rudeness, obsession and I know all attitude aside and enjoy each moment of life, as it comes.

I am living and loving life again, thanks to the long-lost child found again. That is my “New Normal”.

What is your “New Normal”

Satish Shitut

Jai Bharat