Positivity sources

Should I welcome all with a few graceful words, as this is the opening statement of Chait-angle? Being the initial article of this blog, this must be a positive one. I try to be, to think, and to work with a positive vision. But searching for good in worst—searching for the God in evil—and searching for positivity in total negative circumstances, just for the sake of a positive thought may be a bit unwise. Then question comes to me—do I really know what is positive and what is negative? What is good and what is bad? Since years, whatever a larger group of people accepts is a good for all and the thing this group rejects turns bad. Is this a perfect way to decide good or bad? Instead of thinking it by our own, nowadays, we are following spiritual gurus to decide what is good and what is bad for us.

“Our Guruji is not like other self-made hypocrites. He never performs fake magic tricks; never counsel us to be isolate from the materialistic world neither told us to avoid luxuries in life.” My friend was very much energetic while describing his Guruji.

“Well, then what did he do?” I asked plainly.

“See, in our Ashram, we do meditation, we recite mantras for mental piece, and we obey Guruji’s orders which give us mental strength and positivity in vision. With this strength, we find peace and pleasure in life. Our Guruji is a source of positivity for us.”

“So, you depend on Guruji for the positive vision. Ever you asked how he gains positive energy to serve you.” This question aggravated him and he left saying “We don’t ask questions to Guruji.”

In fact, questions must be asked instead of hearing discourses, not only to others but also to self as questions let us think and thinking is progress. To follow somebody else’s path blindly is ignorance. The Gurujis, priests, and Babas suggest us Mantras, hymns, various techniques of stress management and religious discourses to find out the so-called pleasure in life, which we follow like orders. In fact, one who orders is a dictator, and those who fallow dictatorship are slaves. We are becoming spiritual slaves by fallowing somebody else without applying our mind.
The real Guru only hints an idea and let the disciples realize it through their though process.

There were two disciples of one Guru. Once, Guruji ordered them to bring wood from forests. He also suggested them to go and come back avoiding the Sun. One of the two disciples went in forest with a big sun umbrella and came back empty handed in the afternoon. The other one was a thinker. He realized the original message of his Guru and went into forest before the sunrise. He came back after the sunset with a heavy bunch of wood. He avoided the sun while going for and coming back from the work and successfully completed the given task too. How it happened?

The second disciple asked questions to himself. What may be the reason behind Guruji’s message? How to cut the wood avoiding sunrays?, and many more. His thought process continued and finally he got the real sense behind the message. The right way of thinking made his job easier. The Guru also let his disciples think because he does not want them to be spiritual slaves. He knows that to realize the knowledge, they have to think. Similarly, we have to think in order to realize the way of our life. How we can depend on somebody else’s experiences?

Their thoughts may be great, their studies may be vast, their experiences may be grand, but they are their thoughts, their studies, and their experiences. Where are our thoughts in this process? We may use great men’s thoughts as references. The epics, the religious, spiritual messages, discourses, experts’ views, and poems may be the study material, not the final answer sheet. Everyone have to prepare his final answer sheet by himself. At least everyone should prepare. When we will think, it will generate a vision, a positivity and the search for positivity sources will end right there. Then, there will be no need of meditation centers, Ashrams, Pravachans, speeches and rituals as every home, every mind, and every heart will become a lighthouse.