No one can oppress you unless you do not give others permission and authority to oppress you, that is a solemn truth.

There is an overt permission and then there is inert permission. When you do not act or raise your voice against oppression, then you are giving the oppressor an inert permission to oppress you. “Inert” is defined as “lacking the strength to resist” leading to “inertia”. Inertia comes from Entropy, the law of least effort.

The Law of Least Effort is a law of the cosmos, that works in everything. Under this law everything is subject to entropy. Entropy means that everything in the universe eventually moves from order to disorder, unless an effort is not put otherwise. For example, let’s say you have just built a magnificent mansion. Now, unless you regularly clean, maintain and repaint it, this beautiful mansion will turn into a dilapidated house with time. 

This same law works in our relationships, business, professional competence, body, mind and soul. In simple terms, whatever is not improved will atrophy. 

Because of this law, we do not resist oppression when it is mild. This emboldens the oppressor. And slowly he or she keeps on increasing the intensity of his or her oppression.

There’s a fable that, “If you throw a frog into very hot water, the frog will jump out, but if you put the frog in room temperature water and just slowly heat the water up to a boiling temperature, the frog will die there.”

Now I don’t know whether that’s true about a frog, but it’s sure as hell true about most oppressed people. Initially, they do not resist mild oppressions and this inert permission is enough for their oppressor to continue his or her oppression and the oppressed never realises when the oppression reaches to a boiling temperature. But usually then it is already too late.

Now, the million dollar question is: “Why on earth, you allow someone to oppress you even mildly?” 

The answer to this question is very simple. Either, you have some weakness, some lack of competence, or lack of character, or wrong attitude, that the oppressor exploits. Or, he or she exploits your fears. So, in reality, it’s your own weaknesses and fears that are your biggest traitors. 

So how do you overcome your weaknesses and fears?

That’s what you will learn in the most practical sense inside GOD YOGA.

So, join GOD YOGA today.

To your empowerment and enlightenment….

If there is less salt in a dish, it doesn’t taste so good. If you put more than necessary, the dish becomes poison. If you put too much pepper, again the dish doesn’t taste good, nor if there is too little pepper. 

Now, salt is so necessary, isn’t it? But if you put a lot of it in your kheer, a sweet dish, or you mix a lot of it in your chocolate milk, you won’t be able to eat or drink either. 

A dish becomes good if everything in it is in balance. A meal becomes good if it is balanced in protein, carbs and vitamins, etc.

In life also, one needs balance. Food is good, music is good, work is good, sex is good, rest is good, holidays are good, prayer is good, virtues are good; but everything in moderation.

Moreover everything in its right time and right place. Otherwise it would be like putting salt in the chocolate milk. 

A toothbrush on the dressing table is as out of place as a toilet brush in kitchen. Yes, having sex on the dining table may seem rebellious and give you a kick in your pants, but it is as out of place as having a photo of your deity in your toilet.

Life becomes good when everything in it is in balance and everything is in its right place and at the right time.

The one who makes money his God is as out of balance as the one who hates money.

The one who treats sex as entertainment is as out of balance as the one who thinks sex is sin.

The one who works too much and forgets his family is as out of balance as the one who ignores his work and worry too much about his family.

One who does not exercise his body is as out of balance as the one who over-works his body.

The person who sets his priorities right and practices moderation is the one who ultimately comes out a winner.

Live with moderation, you will live a more tasty and long life. Bon appetite.

To your health, harmony and happiness….

Hunger is usually associated with the poor. That is the bodily hunger for nutrition and food. But there are other types of hunger that the poor have never known. These types of hunger are the domains of rich and famous:

The hunger for more power,
the hunger for more fame,
the hunger for more followers,
the hunger for more appreciation,
the hunger for more money,
the hunger for more security,
the hunger for more awards,
the hunger for more likes.
etc., etc….

And now, the social media feeds and fuels these hungers to disproportionate magnitude.

I wonder if there is even a single moment of peace and fulfilment in a celebrity’s life?

It’s like the story of the devil who is never satiated. The constant desire to post and please the followers, how does it feel?

“It comes in a moment when I capture something happening, and I go, ‘Oh, that would be great for Instagram. I should post it.’ I know it’s boring, but that’s genuinely what I do,” Singer-actress Selena Gomez, who is one of the most followed celebrity on Instagram told The Hollywood Reporter.

It seems the poor are living to feed the hunger of their body and the rich and famous are living to feed the hunger of their minds, both classes poor in soul and spirit. And the middle class torn between their hunger for food, clothing, a roof over their head, and the hunger of their minds.

So if you want peace, happiness and fulfilment, please stop feeding and fuelling your hunger of the mind. Because till you are hungry you can never know and experience true peace and happiness. You will never be fulfilled.

Instead, start doing something about the poverty of your soul and spirit. Start feeding your soul and spirit. As Lord Jesus Christ said, “First seek the kingdom of your father and everything else shall be added unto you”.

This applies to the middle class, to the poor and to the rich and famous. If you would be rich in your soul and spirit, everything else including the hunger of the body and the hunger of the mind, will be taken care of.

Join GOD YOGA today.

To your peace, happiness and fulfilment…..

Are you confused that:
“Even after sincerely doing everything your spiritual gurus asked and taught you to do, why are you not happy? Why are you not experiencing any inner peace and fulfilment?”

This might be the most blunt and shocking post you would ever read. Because no lollipop guru is ever going to tell you this as bluntly as I am going to tell you today.

If you are the disciple (Arjuna) that has come to your spiritual guru after running away from your circumstances (your Kurukshetra), then of course how can you have peace? As Lord Krishna (Arjuna’s spiritual advisor & guru) explained to Arjuna in ‘Bhagawad Gita’, peace comes after Kurukshetra. After you overcome your circumstances and win your daily battles, then only you can experience peace.

If you are afraid of the Cross, it’s obvious that you can never incarnate your Christ.

If you are afraid of facing Mara and his three daughters, then it’s obvious that you can never become a Buddha.

This whole new age evolutionary movement has created a big lie and illusion about the spiritual journey. And the Indian lollipop spiritual gurus are equally responsible for creating many fallacies about the spiritual path in not only Indian minds but, they polluted the western minds as well. 

Spiritual journey is not about running away from our circumstances, from our daily fights, but facing them and winning them as per the divine laws. Spiritual journey is not about running away from adharma (vices), but overcoming them. 

The truth is spiritual journey is full of trial (tests) and tribulations (annoying, frustrating and catastrophic events) meant to test the spiritual initiate at every step, and anybody who tells you otherwise is a liar.

Being Spiritual does not mean living in an ashram, shunning material life. Being spiritual means to live life fully but as per Dharma (divine laws; the Commandments of God).

You have to understand that eternal peace and happiness are the final prize of this journey but, they are won after many battles. No one can have eternal peace and happiness on this plane, on earth. Only in Nirvana, one can have eternal peace and happiness. And nirvana is won after many battles, trials and tribulations.

It’s not a path for weak people who run away at the first sight of difficulty or for the one who is looking for an easy way. 

If it was so, Lord Krishna would have never left Gokul (his childhood home) and Lord Rama would not have gone to the forest (vanvas) leaving his kingdom behind.

Lord Buddha overcame Mara, Lord Christ overcame Satan in the desert when he was fasting there for 40 days, Lord Krishna overcame Kansa, Lord Rama overcame Ravana.

To gain Nirvana, we have to fight and win our daily battles within and without. 

But what do most spiritual aspirants or seekers do? The moment they have to face themselves – their Mara, Satan, Kansa, Kurukshetra or Ravana; they run away. 

And they keep changing spiritual gurus and spiritual organisations, hoping one day to find a way to find peace without facing their Mara, Satan, Kansa, Kurukshetra or Ravana. 

Let me tell you dear seeker, there is no such way. Stop running, stop fooling around, come home and face your Mara, Satan, Kansa, Kurukshetra or Ravana. Otherwise, life after life you will keep searching, keep running like the deer in search for the musk, but you will never find it.

One thing I have learned after more than 23 years on the path, it’s not a 100 metre dash, it’s a marathon and in a marathon only those win who keep running without stopping and without changing directions or goals. It’s a path for the tortoise not for the hare. On this path you need the tenacity and steadfastness of the tortoise to win. And the winners take the prize of eternal peace and happiness.

If you want continuous support and guidance in your spiritual journey to win your daily battles and overcome your difficult circumstances, join GOD YOGA today.

To your peace, happiness and fulfilment….

Seeking Enlightenment:
How To Find A True Teacher, Sat Guru?
Whom To Follow and Whom Not To Follow

“A blind leading a blind, both will fall into a pit.”

A guru is the one who removes the veil of ignorance from the eyes of his disciples. But, most modern gurus who lead a cult just do the exact opposite, they pull over a veil of ignorance and fanaticism over the eyes of their followers. 

We give a lot of thinking about what profession we would go into, whom would we marry, or where would we go for our next vacation. Why don’t we give equal importance to whom we should follow? 

Buddham Sharnam Gacchami
Dharmam Sharnam Gacchami
Sangham Sharnam Gacchami

Buddha is the Enlightened One, the avatar, the saviour.
Dharma is the cosmic principles or the doctrine of the Buddha, spiritual knowledge.
Sangha is the group, the organization led by a guru.

Here Shakyamuni gives us the 3 prerequisites of sure success on the spiritual path. You need the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. All three are essential. Even if one is absent, it would become almost impossible for someone to succeed on the spiritual path.

Now, whenever you are attracted or invited to a group or spiritual organization, firstly, find out about the lineage which this group or spiritual organization follows. Now a days, it’s so easy, just search the internet or their website. A Buddha is the one who has been there, done that. A Buddha is not just repeating someone else’s words. He has self-expression. He reveals the cosmic secrets or at least some part of it. He teaches the cosmic laws, the Dharma and gives the world a new understanding of the laws we are subject to in this cosmos we cohabit.

Secondly, find out what is their philosophy, what principles do they follow, not preach but follow and practice. Preaching is one thing, practicing is another. What is their spiritual doctrine? Neither a kriya, yoga asanas, pranayama, a stress alleviating technique or methods are doctrines, nor vegetarianism, chanting and meditation techniques are philosophies or Dharma. A philosophy or Dharma is the path that organization follows to reach enlightenment, Nirvana or Buddhahood. A lot of people can talk eloquently with wit and intelligence, but what is their core philosophy, that’s the million dollar question? Do they have any? 

Thirdly, if they are solely based on a personality, the founder — and the whole organisation fanatically and blindly just keep chanting the guru’s name, then there should be no doubt left in your mind and heart that they are a personality cult without a Buddha and Dharma. 

Now a days, a self-confessed atheist runs a very famous yoga school in India which has a huge following all over the world. Another most famous Indian guru, touted as the love guru, an apostle of peace, with a world wide following, is in fact known to be a homo-sexual in his inner circle. Some famous modern Indian gurus have been already exposed in sex scandals. And what is common in all of the above is that all their followers fanatically worship their guru. That is a surest sign of a personality cult. Moreover, none has a Buddha guiding them. Of course, they would want their followers to believe that the guru is a Buddha. 

But a Buddha will never charge for teaching Dharma, and of course a Buddha will teach the Dharma. But neither these gurus have any Dharma to teach, nor they follow any Dharma, except for some meditation techniques, the same old yoga postures and hyperventilating breathing exercises peddled with some old Vedic verses and new kindergarten spiritual blab. Of course, they can be forgiven for charging for those. Because these postures, techniques and breathing exercises are not spiritual knowledge. At best they cleanse and energise your Vital and Physical Body, that’s all. Know this that a spiritual organisation or guru guided by a Buddha will never charge for spiritual knowledge.

So here are some sure signs of a cult you should stay away:
1. There is no lineage leading back to a Buddha.
2. A lot of verbal coquetry, but no real doctrine. There is no philosophy – core wisdom, a path that leads to enlightenment, no Dharma guiding the organization. Or they charge money for spiritual knowledge, if they have any.
3. The guru is fanatically and blindly worshipped, it’s a personality cult.

Alas, the masses believe that if some guru has millions of people following him, comes on tv and talks eloquently, he or she must be spiritually enlightened. This is the biggest fallacy. Remove the veil of ignorance from your eyes and evaluate intelligently before you commit your life and soul to any such guru.

To your enlightenment…