Note 9: This Master Approach to Life Can Lift You to the Sky And Above

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There is one little change in your approach toward your life that when made can make a massive difference in your life.

When this small adjustment is made, one literally experiences results he or she has never had in his or her entire life. All of a sudden the heaven gates open for you. You become a whole new person. You start to see your potential tapped considerably.

A small change. nevertheless a small, strong change. Maybe you can say, a small change bringing big changes in your life.

The Sutra:

When you change from "Why I?" to "Why not I?” you change the entire course of your life to a better world. You may have said all along, "Why I." You never believed you are neither entitled nor enabled. Just starting today, declare boldly at every big opportunity, "Why not I?"

The notes I shared with you on (NOTE 2 "Fighting a good fight") if married to this insight now I am sharing with you can make you the "Badshah,” the king, of your life.

You always fight a good fight, and in addition you also take up all the important challenges and opportunities saying "Why not." This will literally put you on the way of riches.

In fact, there is an imaginary "dump place" in all the worlds where I have been and seen. I go and visit many worlds on a single day, since Rishis like me are faithfully entrusted with many (big) celestial assignments that cover the entire gamut of the universe. And tell you what, there has not been a single day when I have seen these "dump places" empty.

This "dump place" exists in all the worlds. It contains all the big projects, tough assignments, hard-to-do activities, high-thinking demanding positions and fields, strenuous ventures, excellence-demanding jobs, etc., all thrown into these "dump places" by majority of people who never think they can handle them.

It is this same place where the movers and shakers of worlds get their "breaks." The same places where these people get their fortune. The same places they turn around their life. The same places (from) where they come up with new solutions!

Unlike other dumps, this has precious stones and other valuable things in it...in disguise.

Whoever has the courage to embrace what people have dumped, because they thought it was beyond them, that person would reach high stations in life. For this you need the "Why not" attitude. And the questions that go along with it are:

Why not do it?
Why not give it a try?
Why not make it happen?
Why not be the first one to accomplish it in my community?
Why not overcome this big challenge?
Why not find a solution?
Why not find a cure?
Why not be the youngest to have ever done it?
Why not (be) the oldest one to create this record?
Why not I...for God's sake...why not I?
Why not surprise the world by coming up with an answer to this problem?

We Rishis always discern through severe observation that often simple things are the most powerful things. A simple change in your approach gives you the life that you have longed for.

From today, from now on, you can use "Why not" in every experience that comes your path. Why not use the “Why not” approach?

Try this and you will surprise yourself. You have Maharishi Yaj's promise!
What you have said "No" to before, say "Why not" now, if that can improve your life.

What others have said "You can't", say "Why not" now, if that can make your life a better one.

Whenever your project in your profession challenges you severely do not get discouraged. Start changing your response: Say "Why not overcome it instead of passing up the opportunity?"

It is this mettle of mind that has changed this beautiful, wonderful, all-comfortable worlds in this universe. In fact, there is a man on Planet Jupiter who has millions of what you call here as "Patents." The reason for this man's success, I know, is (that) he always says "Why Not I." You are every bit as good as this man from Jupiter…always remember this.

Just because some courageous souls said "why not" in the past we are now living in the comfort we are.

And personally this approach can give you whatever you ask for. Just apply this to every fiber of your life everyday.

The day when the world can say about you,” Take it to him or her if you want it to be done because he or she always says 'Why not.'"

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Note 8: A Mighty Way to Perceive the World And Yourself

 

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Should you see yourself as a hero of life or as a speck of dust in this big universe?

Once a girl who lived in what is now well known as Sweden, in the early fifteenth century asked me a question about this insight, when I was on my mission to help her.

Her name was Adina. She was a girl who had no self-esteem and thought herself to be inferior to others. She had been tortured by her own self-assumed inability to be like others and to do what others had been doing. She thought that God had made her that way and that all were different as far as their potential was concerned. she believed that she was different in a way that she saw herself as a bad version of others.

In reply to what I had suggested to her, she asked me, "Maharishi Yaj, I already see myself as an inferior product from God...a defective piece. But you suggest that I see myself as a speck of dust and to ever carry that humble feeling in my heart. I don't understand. Would not that hurt me even further?"

I asked her, "How do you feel about yourself. Tell me again?"

She replied sadly, "I see myself as a worm."

I said, "How about the people around you. Do you respect them and treat them properly?"

She said with sudden excitement,” Why, I have always respected them, treat them well, I love them and I cherish the nice relationship with them.”
I said, “You don't have problem with people but with yourself...with your self-image."

She said, "I don't understand Maharishi. What should I do?"

I said, "Let me give you the complete insight that I have come here to give you. Then you'll understand what I mean by thinking yourself as a speck of dust and that it doesn't mean to think yourself as inferior to others...not even remotely.”

She said, "Please do so."

I said to Adina, "What you do is you always stay humble with people. But, on the flip side, you always be like a brave princess with your life's challenges, testing times, hardships and your hurdles. You already have one half of the coin. I mean you already see and treat people well regardless of their nature. That's the humility part. This is not as easy as it sounds, but it is the way of higher beings. For you to transcend to a superior level, you have to change the way you have followed. No other way.

That's thinking of yourself as a "speck of dust" in the grand orchestration of the universe and knowing that no one can reign ever, that life is very short compared to the eternity of cosmos and saying 'Let's live happily without pride or superiority feeling or fault-finding or arrogance or egotism, etc.'

The other piece of the coin is the 'super hero' image that you must incorporate immediately when it comes to tackling your hard-as-steel challenges, threats, difficult problems, etc. Here, you don't think of yourself as a speck of dust with no powers. That will not help you. The more difficult the situation, the tougher will be your belief and your opposing forces to your obstacles.

So Adina, cultivate the second part of the coin and your life will never be the same again. Start believing in yourself. You have the same natural reservoir of greatness in you that everyone does. You are not inferior and will never be. But be humble with people as you have always been."

Now, Adina is one of the female equivalents of Rishis here. And she serves many worlds through her mission.

Humility is part of thinking yourself as a speck of dust. While others think high of themselves in an egoistic way and cause havoc, to themselves and others, due to their pride, arrogance, domination, super-ego, pompousness, etc., you function from the knowledge that things are fleeting and what we fight for today, proud of today, cheat others for today, hurt others for today, express our superiority for today, will all be nothing even just a fifty years from now.

When you see yourself as a speck of dust, you see in the grand scheme of things.

The Sutra:

With people see yourself as a speck of dust and with your challenges see yourself as a hero, a mighty hero and a master.

People reverse this. They fight with people. And become humble and cringe with their challenges when they put an appearance. Battle bravely with your problems and be humble in a noble way with all your relationship with people no matter what they are made up of."

You see, you yourself, the folks around you and this whole universe are nothing but a divine manifestation and that you can't claim any ownership or mastery over them. In that sense, you see yourself as a speck of dust, just as others are.

You now say, "If that's the case, why all the "Am I powerful or are you powerful or am I beautiful or are you? (The self-created battles of influence, power, beauty, handsomeness, position, wealth, etc. that are rooted in comparing each other in an unhealthy way).

We Rishis are the toughest when we are on our mission but we consider ourselves as nothing when compared to whole story of God.

The truth is when you think yourself as a speck of dust, what happens right away is a kind of humility surrounds you and that gives you a kind of spiritual power. You now join both the pieces and you will possess a powerhouse of life.

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Note 7: Perfect Day Is The Cause Of All Trouble

Note 7: Perfect Day Is The Cause Of All Trouble

How do we realize what we experienced last year?

Obviously, one does not and cannot experience the entire year all at once. The experiences that one gets from all the days give one the personal feeling how that person lived the year.

So what one experiences in a year is so vital that it can give that person a perennial source of strength and peace of mind or, on the contrary, can be his or her nightmare.

So, what decides what kind of experiences a person gets in year? Is what you experience in your hands?

How you experience a day depends on what you see as the most important factor for a day to be well lived. People see this on the basis of what is good and bad. Easy and difficult. Well-treated or ill-treated. Easy day or a difficult day. Rose day or a thorn day.

They place importance on what happens to them on a day; whether a string of good things happen to them or a myriad of bad things happen to them that cause them to feel bad.

In addition, they have this strong notion of expecting a day to happen exactly as how they have pictured it. Mostly, this picture is too unrealistic. There is always a chance for disappointments, when a day does not turn out to be what that person had in mind, even if the day was well spent.

This is where people who seem to be poised and possess wonderful peace of mind differ significantly from the rest.

They see this in the light of what they give not how a day unfolds or what happens to them on a day (Their sense of how a day is lived comes from what they have “offered” in a day, rather than what they “received.”)

Don't focus on attaining a perfect day or even a good day rather focus on how good you feel (about your efforts), how good you are to others and how good you do at your job, at your home and at other places. Focus on what kind of efforts you put into the day. Focus on what comes out of you. Focus on what you give on that day, especially related to your dreams.

A good day isn't completely in your control. But the things cited above are in your control (Controlling what you can control is taking control of your life. Trying to control what one cannot ever control is making ones life unnecessarily unhappy and complicated).

The feeling that you get after a day is over and also while you are living the day is very important for your inner growth. This feeling depends on what you think to be the factor for a day to be well spent (Let that factor be "what you give" on a day, not how other external factors unfold to and for you on that day, for they cannot and do not have to be controlled).

What you feel about yourself and about how you have lived your day is vitally important. That is having control. But, when you start "expecting" things that you think must happen in a day exactly just as you expect, you are giving away your control. When you react to things that happen to you in a day, you are again giving away your control.

Don't perceive a day as something that happens to you in an assorted way, some bad days and good days (That is looking at the world from a "I do not have control over myself" way).

Do not think it's the day's duty to make you happy if it is to be a good day. When bad things happen then we stamp that as a bad day. This is giving your control to the day instead of owning the day and controlling how you feel about the day.

Say for instance, Monday morning you go to your office and your boss yells at you. You immediately mentally mark the day as bad and expect it to be that way or expect it get worse. You start to give out those set of behaviors that you have developed for days that you consider as "bad days."

Sometimes a very pleasant experience happens the first thing in the morning. Now you have a tendency to name it as a good day even if a few bad experiences surround it afterward.

The Sutra:
 
Let the day be whatever it is. Don't see a day in the light of "good day" or a "bad day." Let whatever comes. Really...let...whatever comes!

The problem is not when people expect a day to be a good day. But when they expect and their expectations don't get satisfied, they develop bad moods or negative mindsets or become upset and irritated.

A day can be a day that brings you many challenges or a day when people seem to want to fight with you or quarrel with you or humiliate you or it can also be a day where you seem to breeze through your tasks just like that or it can be a day even someone who loathes you smiles at you or a day when you receive that inheritance from your wealthy uncle. Instead of judging a day upon what happens to you, assess a day depending upon what you put out. You can say to yourself,

"How I weigh I have lived a day doesn't depend upon what happens on that day or on the results I get on the day or even how people treat me, but on what I gave on the day. What kind of attitude went out from me. What kind of work went out from me. My colleagues or friends or strangers or my family members may be rude or unkind to me, but the mindset I put out is what matters. The day may bring me the king of challenges, but again it if I put out the hard work and my best foot forward that is what counts. Nothing else!"

What goes out of you means what you focus on how much effort you put on that day, what kind of outlook you wore on that day, how you treated people on the day regardless of their bad treatment, how well you managed to focus on the positive things and didn't allow your past and your present to control you in the now as discussed in a previous note.

Even if you haven't done your best and know you haven't lived the day as best as you could have, still take it lightly. Say that you would live the next day better by giving everything in your stock. Have this "you-always-have-another- chance" mindset. Never carry the guilt that springs from the feeling of under-performance on a day. Just get rid of it by taking it lightly (Start the next day fresh).

Remember many days are waiting yet to come that can be used to sort out the challenge that have come your way today, challenge which you now see as the end of the road, or to get over with that heart-breaking experience that has happened today.

Whatever happens to you never carry the "end of the world" feelings. Nothing is too big or too tragic to give up hope in this life (The quality of a day depends up on the quality of you and not on the quality of some outside uncontrollable forces).

There aren't perfect or good or bad days. Only feel good and do good days.

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Note 6: The Power That Sages Have Always Used

We sages take an oath periodically.

For myself I do the following, "I Maharishi Yaj will always be a present... will always be in the present...will always be available for the present."

We don't talk when we do this. We don't have to. Our thoughts are projected and when they are, they can be heard just like words can be when we talk.

This is a cardinal oath for us. Even though we are not bound by the time factor, we know the power that lies in the "now" point which is your current living point.

The point from which your life unfolds just as you want it. The point where you can choose to travel in an entirely different direction.

This world that you live in has conditioned its people in such a way that they seldom use the power that lies in the "Now."

Either the past abducts them or the future keeps them hostage. They seldom return to the present, forgetting that it is a present (gift).

When you are in the present, you make yourself a present for the person you are interacting with. That person feels good about himself or herself by your presence. This helps you with the great principle called “The Golden rule.”

The greatest challenge even for a sage is to learn the art of living in the present. Enjoying in the present. Focusing in the present. Deciding in the present. Observing in the present. All this in its purest form, meaning, not mixing the past, present and the future together when living in the present.

Recalling something from your memory is not the cause of problem. Nor visualizing your magnificent life in the future.

The question is, on what purpose do you go and visit these places?

Do you go to your past to live the painful experience again in the present?

Do you think about your past failures regularly?

Are you once more embarrassed when you recollect in your memory that moment when you faced that humiliation years or months back?

Do you surge with indignation for an act of cruelty that was done to you long time back?

Do you imagine yourself failing miserably in that venture you are going to start next week?

Or do you marry your past to your future by thinking that your past flaws, mistakes and bad experiences are going to repeat themselves in the future?

These experiences are felt in the now and uproot all your positive energy that are supplied to you in the now; the very moment where you have the power to change your life!!

Instead of experiencing the "now” people have this tendency to experience their bad past or a future they imagine to go awry. But what they seem not to realize is that through their memory they are torturing themselves in the "now."

We sages have known from time immemorial that all the feeling of powerlessness in all the worlds we visit arise not from the "real" problem most of the time but from reliving or “pre-living” your "thoughts” to ones own destruction.

One cannot change what happened in the past. But one can take a new approach now than what one took in the past.

People who have become spiritually mature focus on the moment and they fully live in the NOW. They allow the present moment to completely own them. This is allowing.

When you begin to practice living in the present, initially you will feel that you are going too much slower in this modern age. You will feel that you are moving slower than you are capable of. And will start to feel a kind of uneasiness that arises from the mindset that you need to be doing many things instead focusing on just one at this point.

Rishis refer to this living in the moment as "tasting each moment like a gourmet, who is highly awake at each meal."

This is not synonymous with doing things as you please at your own pace. We understand that current world works faster than the earlier ones. But speed is different from rashness, isn’t it? Doing things at a higher rate of speed can also mean rashness not only speed. When you live in the “Now” you travel faster but safer too.

Instead what following this principle means is that at any one point, you give your attention, your love, your passion, your power of imagination, your potential, your senses, your thought energy, and everything to the experience at hand.

You become like a sage when you practice this philosophy—You become more patient but faster. You will not be in a hurry but not lazy. You will develop an impeccable concentration and more than anything else you will be a lot more free from stress and worries.

Does this mean that you shouldn’t think about your past or future?

Of course not, the only moment where you have the ability to think about your past or your future is your present moment and that too only for planning your future or reviewing something about your past; definitely not to worry or become anxious about them.

Would you believe that we Rishis and other sages of different order can go back to the past, kind of like time traveling, and think about what is happening now from that vantage point. We can do the same with the future too. But for you, it's only the "NOW." It is easier than what we do (and ought to do) here.

Always, once you have planned or reviewed a plan or an idea, just forget about them and enter the next stage as quickly as you can: the execution stage. That’s where your present comes in to the scene. This execution part depends up on how well you could concentrate on your present and how well you could avoid being overwhelmed by your past or future.

The sad thing is to see people everywhere on your planet reading incessantly the old, dull stories they once wrote, when they can write a new, beautiful story now.

The Sutra:

Let your present be your present. Allowing ones "did's" and "will be's" to affect the present adversely is the reason why this moment is utilized much less than how well it could be used.

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