We all know that knowledge expands by sharing it with others yet many of us seldom practice it. We should encourage all to share their positive ideas with people around them to spread good thoughts and positive energies around us. As a matter of fact, whatever we are going to talk about now are the basic facts which are known to almost all people yet it remains dormant in most cases since we seldom explore it.

To start with, a term that I have come across plenty of times during my interactions with different groups is “the difference between truth and belief”. In very simple terms, the truth is something experienced by ourselves and belief is what others have experienced and conveyed us. Something what can be truth for you may be a belief only for others. For example, my truth is that meditation helps us gain mental peace and bliss since I have experienced it myself and when I share it with you then whosoever has practiced it and felt the same, it’s their truth as well but for those who have not experienced it yet, it will just be a belief till they experience it themselves.

Similarly another term that I come across several times is “the difference between target & result”. Here to put it simply the target is in your hands, result is not. While my discussions with some friends about concentrating on efforts and not the results the first reaction came that how was it possible to keep a target and not expect the result while you are working on it.

If you come to think of it, when we keep ourselves a target and device a strategy to achieve it then all that’s left with us is to do efforts (karma) to achieve it. Here I would like to share one of my truths with you to explore it further and that is “we form our future ourselves through thoughts, actions and feelings.” With positive thoughts, positive actions & positive feelings we can force the desired results to happen but mind it clearly please that results “HAPPEN” when efforts are “DONE”. We can MAKE things happen by DOING certain efforts, by THINKING positively and by FEELING good.

How to feel good, how to feel happy, how to feel in complete bliss? The answer is by living in present and by enjoying what you have instead of crying for what you don’t have. Most of the times, we focus on what our friends, relatives or peers have and we don’t. If you think that you fall into similar situation sometimes, then try to focus on what you have. Whether others have it or not should not bother you for your peace of mind. You may have a clean heart, a loving family, mental peace, good health, a respectable image in society or so on… and you must feel good about it. When you want to feel good, you will find many reasons for the same and when you want to feel bad, you can find plenty of reasons for that as well. How desperate are you to feel good, ask yourself ?

The thoughts are like magnets; if you think positively you will attract more positive thoughts. Similarly more & more negative thoughts are attracted by negative thinking. Sometimes, you feel on the top of the world & sometimes too low. That largely depends upon your thoughts & situations you are into which are formed by the actions and thoughts in the past. Miraculous thinking brings miraculous results when it’s accompanied with miraculous efforts & feelings also. Working hard with negative thoughts or dreaming positive without working for it will never fetch you desired results. Thinking of meditation will not fetch you that eternal bliss, you will have to practice for it regularly. So do good to feel good, feel good to think good & think good to have good.

There is a basic fact that worries don’t give you solutions but actions do. Yet whenever we fall into a problem, most of us start worrying about it to extremes thinking to the extent that the worst in the world is going to happen with us only. With such negative frame of mind whatever efforts we do are also infected with negative thinking & thus attracting negative results to invite more & more negative thoughts to us.

How to avoid negative thoughts? You can do so by keeping the company of learned people, reading good books, listening good music, practicing meditation & self-control, doing good deeds like helping the needy people or by doing anything that helps you feel good about yourself & your situation.

One simple scientific reason for why we should help the needy people is that whenever a person in need is helped by someone else, he feels so good about it that he prays for blessings for the person who has helped him. This generates positive feeling in him and positive energy around the person who has been the source of help to him. Similarly the satisfaction gained by the person who has helped him also makes him feel better and thus generating positive energy. This is called the power of blessings & positive energies. The more of such energies are spread around us, the more we will attract the same to create a heaven here, around us.

Quite a lot of people ask me what is meditation & why should we practice it. Some of them carry many wrong notions about it. What I have learnt from Patri sir during my interactions with him, I will try to mention it in most simple terms here that meditation is “being in complete control of your mind (your thoughts)”. That means that with regular practice of meditation, you will be able to attain a level of complete bliss which is the supreme form of happiness. Meditation should be practiced by students, professionals, businessmen, housewives, politicians, bureaucrats etc. for all round success in their respective fields. A success that will bring you satisfaction and make you feel good about yourself. It’s not something that carries you away from your family but it is what brings you close to yourself. It’s not a spiritual activity but anything that you do for the benefit of others without any personal interests in it is the highest form of spirituality. That’s what Pyramid Spiritual Society is doing by spreading seeds meditation around the world.

Let’s all contribute to it by practicing it ourselves and encouraging people around us to do so for the benefit of mankind and our future generations.