The meaning of Hanuman

Hanuman when broken down further means: na hanye manaha. (Sanskrit).

Ever wondered what does Hanuman mean? I think you never did. I was reading one of the many spiritual discourses and thats when I found its meaning. Hanuman resembles the almighty deity who technically is not a human but an monkey. What does monkey resemble to? A monkey resembles a hyperactive animal which jumps from one branch to another, similar to our mind which has undulating thoughts, thoughts rise up and falls back and forth; again and again. A monkey in a similar fashion jumps from one branch to another and one day it jumps on a poisonous thorny tree which huts him and eventually kills him in course of time. Try resembling this with our mind, which has the nature of being unstable all the time with innumerous thoughts waving inside. And one day a thought rises in him which forces to do him a bad deed in life. Thats when the good soul within him dies and he keeps doing repetitive mistakes to hide them which leads him to perdition.

Hanuman contrary to that symbolizes "na hanye manaha", someone whose manaha (mann in hindi) or mind in English is never haunted. Because his mind is taken. He has done the samarpan (submission) of his mind to Lord Rama which is why when asked he opened his heart open to show then there is only Rama within his heart. He symbolizes the stability of his mind. He symbolizes that monkey state of our mind which once was a monkey but now is the invincible Hanuman..

Think about it...

Problems of life

I often think and wonder as to why do we run into problems. Problems are of many types, self created or it may be invoked externally. But regardless, a very less chunk of people do not succumb to their problems. Which is very contrasting to the fact that we are intelligent beings and we can take our own decisions using our intellect. But still problems don't fall back but we do. Why???

I think I'd justify it from the sayings of Sri Babaji baba that you are the begetter of everything that impregnates your mind with illusions. You try to convince your mind saying you have a problem and we start losing ourselves to it. Sometimes I feel that we love to live with problems.

More to come...

The need of Sat Guru

Of course technically I dont have a Guru, but yes I have someone whom I believe in my mind as my Guru and to whom would look myself as a disciple. The thought here is why do we need a Guru? What I feel is we think of Guru as an object, someone who could guide you, show the path of fire and light and who shies you away from the path to perdition. But what happens when your Guru dies? Someday or the other he will have to leave for the holy abode. What does he do then? Cry for him? Who guides his karmas at that point? Who shows him the light? Is it gone?

More to come...

The love for God

I sometimes wonder if we really loved God? or it was just I love God because God gives. We all go to temples mosques, churches seeking solace and blessings from God, but what did you give to God? A pack of sweets? some beautifully designed flowers? Is that all? Think about it, you're visiting a persons house who is a potter by profession and would you ever think of gifting him a pot which you bought from his store? You're gifting back the same thing which he has made himself. The same applies to God as well. God doesn't need flowers to make him happy. May be putting flowers on the God/ Goddess makes the idol look beautiful, but nothing more than that. What God actually wants is your heart. When I say heart, what exactly from your heart does it want? Whatever my opinions are may vary with yours but I feel, a complete "samarpan" is what is meant by giving your heart. "Samarpan" means submission, submission means you agree and accept that everything that happens to you is God's wish. But when by heart we start thinking about it, do we really mean it? That I have given my entire heart to God? Everything? Think about it, after visiting the temple and saying to God that my entire heart is yours God, whatever happens is your wish. You reach home and you find that your son is back home and he has failed in his exams and he will be detained by an year. Will you keep your patience thinking whatever happens is God's wish? Will you not beat him? Think about it... We never would, instead we might land up cursing God, saying I prayed so much to you and is this the day that you wanted me to see? Its hence proved that we didn't give our bit to God. We never will rather. We're selfish creatures and just think about the benefits of this body and the objects to which we are attached to.

When we're sad..

Its just another day and life keeps moving on. Whether bereaved sad or you're happy life never stops. Then why am I sad? Sad for what if life will still keep moving on? Karma is life and to do the right karma is our dharma.The sun sets at the time it has to set, rises when it has. If the sun was upset then would it stop rising? No it wont. It cant. Its Sun's karma to rise everyday and rotate around the world. And so is our lives. We cant forget our duties which we generally do when we're upset or depressed. We shouldn't. That shies us from our dharma. Love the one life you have got. Do good deeds. Good deeds for others and for the soul within you. That is the way that you will love yourself and god will love you..