Unfulfilled Desires: Nice idea from Kamlesh D. Patel about Happiness inversely related to Desires

Our Prayer says one fundamental thing: We are yet but slaves of wishes.  As Long as we have these desires and wishes, they will stop us from going further.

Happiness is inversely related to desires. If you have ten desires and five are fulfilled, you have 50% happiness or 50% sadness. Now, anything that you divide by zero becomes infinity. If you have zero desires, your happiness will have a quantum jump and it will become infinite.

We have to realise that having desires is only going to increase our unhappiness and that having zero desires is going to infinitely increase our happiness. In this state, we don’t expect anything.

How do we destroy our condition & our humanity?  As per GITA, when desires are not fulfilled there is disappointment. Disappointment leads to anger, anger makes you lose your balance, and once you lose your balance, your mental equilibrium, you are destroyed and you lose your humanness. We have to be careful of those things.

Whatever we do or even think, or even will through our heart, there are two consequences. Either the results are favourable or not. When the results are favourable, we are at peace. When the results of the actions are against us, we are disturbed. Now when these things are handled properly and when things go right, you feel a lot of peace.

When you have too much fear, you star creating illusions in your mind and that affets your cosmic region. And the cosmic region (the mind) cannot tolerate illusions. When the mind gets disturbed like that, you have lost your humanity, your human traits. So, we should not succumb to these things. We must overcome them as early as possible. Otherwise they spoil our entire existence.

BE COURAGEOUS, BE LOVING, BE PEACEFUL  AND LESS INVITING TO DESIRES. THAT IS THE SAHAJ MARG WAY OF LIFE.

Master Kamlesh D. Patel came up with this beautiful concept of Happiness inversely related to desires. He even did some mathematical equation to make it very easily understandable to all people. 

Who can solve personal problems?

If a divorce happens in a Christian family, do they blame Christ?
If a divorce happens in a Hindu family, do they blame Lord Krishna?
If a divorce happens in a Muslim family, do they blame the Prophet?
Personal problems need to be dealt with at the personal level. Nobody can solve our problems except ourselves.

Sahaj Marg is trying to offer to this world a simple Heartfulness meditation practice that promotes individual peace and potentially leading to peace on earth and goodwill among men. Masters of SRCM, Shri Ram Chandra Mission, Lalaji Saheb, Babuji, Chariji, and the current Master Kamlesh D. Patel are working tirelessly for this simple cause with a noble intention.

Go Inside

We should pray from the beginning, when we are happy, when we are healthy, when we are successful, just to balance the outer success and money and whatnot. You must sit in meditation every day so that you go inside and see that all that is worth nothing.

Taken from the book "HeartSpeak 2005", Chapter "Senstivity", pg. 235, by Revered Chariji

Master Kamlesh Patel has also emphasized in the recent bhandara about sensitivity and how we all should try to develop sensitivity and how to maintain the condition that we receive in the satsanghs and meditations that our Masters of Sahaj Marg of Shri Ram Chandra Mission offer us for free. 

Karma (As Shri Ram Chandra Mission Master Kamlesh D Patel told it)

Karma performed with Bhakti is a beautiful and an ennobling state. Having matured in this state it will find its own way and give birth to another state under which we shall be working and this saga goes on. Idea is to excel every time while focussing on the purity of the heart. No point performing any action or indulging in acts that can shrink consciousness and make the conscience questionable. Questionable conscience can convert even a roaring lion into a goat!

Shri. Kamlesh D. Patel talked about how important Karma is in one's life. 

According to Wikipedia: Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म; IPA: [ˈkərmə] ( listen); Pali: kamma) means action, work or deed; it also refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect where intent and actions of an individual (cause) influence the future of that individual (effect)

A Turning Point in Humanity Through Heartfulness Meditation

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Forget your Fear

If you want, you will learn. When we think it is difficult, we create a barrier. So it is our own creation. There is nothing difficult or easy if we think it is that. If a woman is afraid of the dark, but suppose her child is sick, at midnight she walks to the doctor. Why? How? Because she has forgotten her fear. Isn't it? So when you forget your fear, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Heart Speak 2004, vol. 2, p. 80 –Rev. Chariji

Expect Not

The main thing is not to want anything. We are always wanting something. We expect something from our friend, something from our beloved, something from society, and every time we expect, we will be disappointed - no happiness. So I gave an eleventh maxim: Don't expect and there won't be any disappointment.

Heart Speak 2004, vol. 2, p. 78 –Rev. Chariji

Right Thoughts

So please adopt the right means for the right end. No wrong means can give the right end. Right ends may happen because it is destined to happen. But if human effort is to succeed, you must follow the rule of the Buddha: right thought, right action, right result.

Heart Speak 2004, vol. 2, p. 75 –Rev. Chariji

Patience

Babuji always praised women. He said, "Woman only knows love, because she sends her children out to school, she sends her husband out to the office, and patiently waits until they come back, prayerfully perhaps, but patiently." Because prayer cannot supplant patience. Patience also shows faith that this will happen.

Heart Speak 2004, vol. 2, p. 73-74 -Rev. Chariji

Impatience shows lack of faith. "No, no, I want it now." You will have it when you are to have it. When it is good for you to have it - even in spiritual values, even spiritual blessings. He knows, the Giver knows, when you are ready for it.

Heart Speak 2004, vol. 2, p. 74 –Rev. Chariji

Guilt is sin

That is why Babuji said, "If you carry guilt with you, you are sinning much more than what made you guilty." Repentance means forgetting and determining not to do it again. No ritual can absolve you of your sins.

Heart Speak 2004, vol. 2, p. 73 –Rev. Chariji

Loneliness

Let us remember Babuji's sensitivity. Love flowers in isolation, in secrecy, in loneliness. All the love poetry in the world came from loneliness of the lover. Now they were not ecstatic songs sung by carpenters. They were songs of loneliness expressing the anguish of separation. "Let my loneliness cover me," says one ghazal [Persian Poetry]. "It is my only companion." So that is one thing about [love].

Hidden Love

He who loves must be silent, must be hidden, must not seek to be exposed. What is hidden is love. What is exposed is desire, is lust. So let us be modest in our love; let us hide its flame, not embarrass him and embarrass ourselves into the bargain.

Sacred Things

Babuji said: Love is a sacred thing. It is not secret; it is sacred. Something sacred should not be made profane by being broadcast in public.

Secret things are not sacred; like the weaponry strength of powerful nations. These are secret things but they are hateful, devilish, demoniac things; they are not sacred. So secrecy hides devilry. Sacredness veils something which is divine, which is higher in value, which cannot be exposed to the profane gaze.

Nothingness

If Sahaj Marg claims to give you anything, it is nothingness. That having which you have nothing, but without which you cannot exist--that is what Babuji said. When Lalaji made Babuji like himself, he said, "Now I have given you everything. I have made you into myself," and Babuji said, "Is that all?" So he said, "Ram Chandra, if that is all that you think about it, let me take this condition back from you." And Babuji said, "Lord, I cannot live without it." So Lalaji said, "It is that, having which you have nothing, but without which you cannot even exist." Love is like that.

Blessings

All this asking for blessings, to my mind, is unnecessary. Blessings are always there. Are we utilizing them? Babuji said, "The sun is shining for everybody. It rains, but only the man who prepares his field will harvest a crop." Isn't it? So we have to be prepared for the blessings.

Sensitivity

We should learn from our heart. Heart must respond. I have known Babuji waking up somebody who is sleeping at eleven o'clock at night and saying. "You didn't have your food." I said, "How do you know?" He said, "I feel it."

Opportunity

This famous ancient saying you know: four things come not back the sped arrow, the spoken word, the opportunity lost and the time wasted. None of these things come back. So that is the final wisdom, you know, how to use these four things properly. Never tell a word which must need to be withdrawn or has to be withdrawn. An apology is something like that. Never waste an opportunity, a Satsangh.

Strength, Wisdom and Acceptance

Strength

The proof of strength is in not evincing strength, not using strength. Babuji said, "Strength should never be used. It should be there, but never used." Like knowledge. We are not always using knowledge. We have a library of books for reference.

Wisdom

So where is wisdom? Wisdom must be permanent. Babuji said that a fool is wise after the event but not for long. A wise man is wise during the event. He knows, and now he will not do it again. A saint is wise before the event. He doesn't have to see to know; he doesn't have to experience to know.

Acceptance

I am reminded of a story where a man is walking with his son aged eighteen. He goes home and his son goes to the market. Somebody comes and tells him that his son had an accident and has broken his leg. He says, "Everything happens for the good." So the other man says, "What is this old fellow? He is a damn fool. His son's leg is broken and he says, 'Everything is for the good.'" Then there is a war declared with the neighbouring country. He says, "Everything happens for the good." [Laughter] All the young men are called up and his son is missing, somebody says, "It is a good thing your son had a broken leg." He says, "I told you everything happens for the good." [Laughter]

Simplest

Babuji said, "The simplest are those who have nothing." Because, according to the Hindu tradition, he who has nothing has everything, whereas if you have even the whole world, you have only something.

Ego

Another time I asked him, "Babuji, why do you want us to write to you about whatever we have to tell you? Why this idea of confession when you know everything?" He said, "It is true I can know everything. I don't always know everything, but I can, if I want to." So then I said, "Why then do you want us to write to you?" He said, "you know, when you are able to open yourself up and to confess (in a sense, because anything you say about yourself is tantamount to a confession), it shows that your ego is being whittled down to proper proportions, and that is what I want to see!"