Ramkrishna Paramahansa Conversations

A rare conversation between Ramkrishna Paramahansa & Swami Vivekanand, which is an eye opener to many questions in our life….

Swami Vivekanand:- I can’t find free time. Life has become hectic.

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you free.

Swami Vivekanand:-  Why has life become complicated now?

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:-  Stop analyzing life.. It makes it complicated. Just live it.

Swami Vivekanand:-  Why are we then constantly unhappy?

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- Worrying has become your habit. That’s why you are not happy.

Swami Vivekanand:-  Why do good people always suffer?

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don’t suffer. With that experience their life becomes better, not bitter.

Swami Vivekanand:-  You mean to say such experience is useful?

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- Yes. In every term, Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Swami Vivekanand:-  Because of so many problems, we don’t know where we are heading…

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides the way.

Swami Vivekanand:-  Does failure hurt more than moving in the right direction?

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you.

Swami Vivekanand:-   In tough times, how do you stay motivated?

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.

Swami Vivekanand:-   What surprises you about people?

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- When they suffer they ask, “why me?” When they prosper, they never ask “Why me?”

Swami Vivekanand:-  How can I get the best out of life?

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.

Swami Vivekanand:-  One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.

Ramkrishna Paramahansa:- There are no unanswered prayers.  Keep the faith and drop the fear.  Life is a mystery to solve, not a problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.

Wisdom Pointer:

Pure knowledge and pure love are one and the same thing. Both lead the aspirants to the same goal. The path of love is much easier -  Ramkrishna Paramahansa

First Anniversary of ParamanandBliss

Today ParamanandBliss blog has completed 1 year. This blog was started with following objectives:

1.   To humbly share some simple wisdom pointers.

o   In today’s world it is very difficult to be simple. It is easy to be difficult and to be complicated. We have to decide what we want.

o   The blog’s core essence is Wisdom Pointer, which is given at the end of each blog. It will only point. The reader needs to be receptive in order to get what it is intended for. The core focus of the entire blog is more on the wisdom part than the knowledge (information).

2.   To enable the readers to get what they are searching in life.  

3.   To be anonymous

o   So no readers will have any preconditioning in their mind about the blogger, while reading the blog. This will help them to absorb the content directly without any preconditioning filters.

o   So only those readers will be able to connect with this blog who are in actual need of it. Existence plays a perfect role in connecting right people with the right source at the right time. 

Now, I feel a tremendous urge to thank and express gratitude to…..

First of all I sincerely thank existence to enable my wisdom center and for the being, I am today. It seems that some unknown forces, which I cannot explain, are helping me to write this blog.

I sincerely thank my friend who motivated me to write this blog and google to provide such a beautiful platform.

I sincerely thank all my beloved ones who have directly supported me to expand and explore my fullest being.  

I sincerely thank all my non-beloved ones (ha…ha..) who have indirectly supported me to expand and explore my fullest being.  

I sincerely thank all the readers for reading this blog and I presume it might have helped them directly or indirectly.

My best wishes to everyone, including readers who might have not got an opportunity to read this blog, to follow the habit of reading which has tremendous ability to transform life.

Kindly share this blog with other users, if it has helped you. It may help others.  The art of sharing is the most wonderful attribute of a person. If you share knowledge and wisdom to others it will expand your being or consciousness.

Wisdom Pointer:

In the end, I would like to say only I thing. Thank you. Thank you and Thank you from the bottom of my heart...May you get what you are searching in life…ParamanandBliss

Laughter is the best medicine

Today we will touch the topic of Laughter. There are lots of articles on this topic, but in this blog we will discuss the essence of it.

Meaning

Everyone knows the meaning of it, but still needs some clarification. Laughter here simply means; laughing innocently like a child. Reasons may be needed or may not be needed. It doesn’t matter.

Stages of Laughter

1.   Initially we put an effort to laugh(I and Existence are different). This happens at most of the laughter clubs. Most of them stop at this point. They are not able to go the next stage. This stage has it own advantage.

2.   Suddenly laughter takes us over (Existence enters us. There is no I). This is the most beautiful experience.

3.   There is only laughter (I get merged in Existence. There is oneness). This is the ultimate experience.

Types of Laughter

1.   When you laugh at someone else. This is the meanest, the lowest, the most ordinary and vulgar when you laugh at the expense of somebody else. This is the violent, the aggressive, the insulting type Deep down this laughter there is always a feeling of revenge.

2.   When you laugh at yourself. This is worth achieving. This is cultured.  And this man is valuable who can laugh at himself. He has risen above vulgarity. He has risen above lowly instincts – hatred, aggression, violence."

3.   This is not about anybody – neither the other nor oneself. It is just Cosmic. You laugh at the whole situation as it is. The whole situation, as it is, is absurd  – no purpose in the future, no beginning in the beginning. The whole situation of Existence is such that if you can see the Whole – such a great infinite vastness moving toward no fixed purpose, no goal – laughter will arise. If you can see this whole Cosmos, then a laughter is inevitable. “

What happens when we laugh:

Physical Benefits

• All our muscles and nerves are relaxed
• We become healthy
• Our breath becomes more deep and relaxed
• Our eyes starts having tears which is good for eyes

Mind Benefits

• Our mind which gets entangled in unnecessary and involuntary continuous association of thoughts gets suddenly broken. Energy which was going to unnecessary thoughts will move towards your real self (consciousness).
• Our mind becomes healthy
• Lots of vision and foresight becomes available

Spiritual Reasons

• The sex energy which is stored at the Muladhara/Swadhisthana Chakra (refer Chakras, Yoga and Healing) rises to Sahasrara (Crown Chakra). Lot of Hatha Yogis do tough [Sadhnas] to achieve the above. It is said that life opens new dimensions / secrets when our energy is at this state.

Why we don’t laugh often

• Society conditioning especially the East
• Stress and Tension. Our energy is focused on stress and tensions. It’s a vicious circle.

How to laugh

Just see the laughter clubs which are operating. It has become today more as a ritual or a technique, which is helpful to a certain extent, but lacks feeling and the real essence.

When we really laugh, our face becomes relaxed, our lips has a relaxed emotions. Our belly (naval) starts vibrating or moving randomly. Our body becomes like a hollow bamboo or like a grass which is flexible. We may have tears in our eyes.

In the end, I would like to state that don’t catch the words, but just see what the words are pointing to.

Also refer Jokes-Introduction and Jokes-1

Wisdom Pointer:

Laughter is the key to lead a happy and blissful life.