Monday, September 28, 2015

Divya Samaj Nirman (DSN) : Art of Living

Attended 4 day DSN course, and it was amazing!


DSN is a very unique course at Art of Living. It pulls you put of where ever you may be stuck navigating this complex life, and self-created barriers. And empowers you from within to conquer fears, inhibitions, and take action in the present moment, right now. You drop everything and become like a child again with no fear, no inhibitions.  And jump into doing something now (DSN).

Our nature:

Our fundamental nature is to expand. More money, more power, more fame, more this, more that. We feel contracted in our current state. We want to expand from it to something bigger. This expansion brings us closer to our true nature and we feel good, at home when we are expanding.

Responsibility:

We usually don't take responsibility because of:

1. Fear of failure.
2. Habit of being in the comfort zone.
3. Even if we overcome #1, #2 we don't know our own capacity if we can do it.

However taking responsibility magically expands, and stretches us.  Power and valor follow responsibility. One expands in proportion of responsibility one takes. Bringing one closer to his/her true nature.

So the wise man follow the path of more responsibility.

And we have infinite capacity to take on.  That we are unaware of.

Ironically the bigger the responsibility gets, the more the effortlessness happens. Instead of being limited to 1 thing, you can expand to doing 10 things. So if 1 thing is stuck, you can go do something else. And it is likely that while you are doing something else that 1 thing that was stuck resolves itself (bringing effortlessness from divinity). Whereas if you are only doing 1 thing, you will be 100% stuck even with 100% effort.


Mind Play:

There is subtle YES and NO mind, when faced with a real world challenge.

The YES mind, or all inclusive consciousness accepts everything and ends all conflicts. It calls for expanding and stretching you to meet whatever challenge there is.  Bringing PEACE, and dropping all barriers. When you Just start doing it with YES mind the whole universe/divinity welcomes and supports your action.

The NO mind is start of conflict, self-doubts, self-barriers. It makes you small,  contracted. Prevents you from taking action.  So observe this, and stop this from taking over.

Action:

We should be like a LION in taking an action without any doubts, fears at all. With 100% of oneself into it. Then the universe starts doing it for us. Melting down the barriers, making the impossible possible.

There should be no feverishness in taking action.

Take the action with full confidence. The confidence behind action is more important than anything else that is needed for it to happen.

The occurrence of odds during a taken action only signal lack of purity (doubts, conflicts) in intention or attention in the action. 100% of one's intention and attention is all that is needed, coupled with full confidence.


Defensive Consciousness:

Whenever we have failed at something we should avoid going into defensive consciousness. It's makes us small, taking our prana down. Falsely makes others or situations more powerful than us.

We should rather accept what is. Take full responsibility of it. In doing so we keep the prana high, and it helps us stretch and expand.

Commitment:

There is lot of energy with us and commitment gives direction to that energy which otherwise would be randomly dissipated. Just like lot of water can just go nowhere, or it can become a river.

Commitment is everywhere. In a family husband and wife are committed to each other. As parents they are committed to their kids. The kids are committed to education, to their parents. Eduction is committed to having a better society. And so on...

Commitment forms a solid structure to make big things happen, allowing divinity to come help us in form our hidden talents, dormant energies that rise up in face of challenges, obstacles when we are committed to make something happen.

The Law of Nature:

Nature/Divinity supports you in your responsibility. The more you take, the more it gives. Its the law. And more will come only if you take on more. Not if you don't.


Total Surrender:

Surrender is realizing that great things happen not because of your effort. But when we totally completely surrender to the divine.

In total surrender we acknowledge that we can only do so much with our small minds, and then let the divinity take care of the rest.

And we gotta surrender it all, the good, the bad everything that we have. Offer it back to divinity.

Seva:

Our existence is not useful if we don't do Seva.

Seva is true seva only if nothing is expected in return. Nothing at all.

If seva is done as part of an organization then it is even more impactful, more powerful. As one's seva can build on top or in collaboration of others seva.



Five Fires:

There 5 fires driven by:

Hunger
Desire, Obsession, Lust
Social criticism by others.
Knowledge
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Tools:

When in doubt or in face of challenges do the follow things:

1. Extra Sadhna,
2. Ashtavakra Gita
3. Prayer with complete Surrender.
4. OM Namah Shivaya
5. Get into ACTION







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