Knowledge knots

19/11/11 - Just like the Warrior, who always plans his moves before the war. Always take your DECISIONS and PLAN accordingly.

20/11/11 - On days you know, time would just pass away, Take up things that keep you engaged in those passing moment.

12/12/11 - gift is always at the centre of wrapping. One who go through the wrapping with a unfaded smile, gets the gift!!

13/12/11 - silence is your only option and friend when with people who love to argue.

14/12/11 - its foolishness to interfere into others war, bullets don't spare outsider.

15/12/11 - expressing may not always provide relief, it may enhance the problem at times!!

16/12/11 - we act enlightened when we advice others, if we implement our own advice even a few times, we are enlightened !!

17/12/11 - when one has the luxury of time, he should analysis all possible opportunity to explore rather than jumping of to the easiest one!!

19/12/11 - Be willing to meet new people and listen to them. It adds more value than meeting same people

30/12/11 - we always get signs, we just need to trust them!!

21/1/12 -  when you feel completely lost, stand up and take charge of every action. If you don't see a path, make your own and stick to it

22/1/12 - To stay loyal to your dreams, stay away from T.V.

Introduction to happified

Happified is an initiative by the youth to promote honesty and spread happiness.

Every morning we read a number of newspapers where the first page starts with the news on latest scam and from murders to rape, its goes on and on. This leaves very strong impressions on our mind that every one in this world is mean and cruel which is not true. Misdeeds of few are glorified and we starts generalising things. This has lead to Slogans like, "100 mein 99 beiman, phir bhi mera bharat mahan!!"

Mean while we completely fail to notice the good deeds done every where around us. Happified brings up the stories of such humans who selflessly work towards betterment of the society and happified does it the youth way, where it serves a complete platter of a star of the edition, walk an extra mile where we promote people who went a step ahead to help others, peoms, yes+ achievers, kitchen corner, jokes, bawa dinesh corner, sri sri corner and a lots of stuff. We intend to bring a smile to our readers face and awaken the hero within them.

There are 2 ways to do a thing, like in corruption, either you fight against it or support honesty. We face a lot of resistance when we fight against something. But when we support something like honesty, it grows. Its grows within us and in this outer world.
Like in gardening, sowing seeds for plants and flowers is easier than removing the unwanted weeds that grow up. Happified sows the seeds of honesty, love which is already within us, helps it grow and a smile is the fruit it bears!!

Why should you be a part of happified??

Simply because you already are a part of it!! Everything we do right from the first thing in the morning, is to be ,happy!! Our final intentions behind every action is to be happy. we meet people with whom we stay happy, we try to stay away from people, in the company of whom, we get upset!! happified is that platform where you can stay happy and spread it to the world. A wise men named justin timberlake once said, "what goes around, comes around!!" When we make others happy, our happiness is taken care of!!

Why we shout in anger!!

A Hindu saint who was visiting river Ganges to take bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples smiled 'n asked.

'Why do people shout in anger shout at each other?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'

'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner.' asked the saint

Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples.
Finally the saint explained, .

'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.

What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small...'

The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper 'n they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other 'n that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'

He looked at his disciples 'n said.

'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, Do not say words that distance each other more, Or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.'

Disclaimer : ”its not written by me, I read it somewhere”

Ashtavakra gyaan day 24

Day 24

Be spontaneous in your actions, spontaneous action is the right action.

Be content and happy in action and inaction.

Ashtavakra gyaan 17,18,20,21,22,23

Day 17

If one can see beyond appearance, he will get firmly established in the reality and the divinity. It is all hollow and empty.

Day 18

Life is purity and inertia is impurity. Whatever is inert is impure amd whatever is dynamic or active is pure. When you are dull, you are impure. When you are alive, you are pure.

There are three places of action: body, mind and speech.

Day 20

Thoughts come and go in the mind. None of the thoughts are yours. They have their own wave.

There are two ways to drop the worries, one way is to be aware of the reality of the truth that everything is changing. And the other way is to be more centered. This is called dispassion.

Being unaware of the grace, love and the joy that the divine is pouring on us all the time, is the cause of worry.

You are the mind, the consciousness, you are the energy inside the body, you are neither the body, nor this body is yours.

Walk as though you are already enlightened, move like a cloud. Everything is done and finished. The whole journey is finished

Like all rivers flow into the seas and oceans, for the one who is satisfied, all desires, even before they arise, get fulfilled.


Day 21

This entire creation is amazing, just observe it, it is a bog amusement park.

Be in silence, weigh your words and spend them. Do not throw them about, and lose them for nothing.

Your mind has to be one-pointed to achieve things in the world. The mind becomes restless to achieve things, but to attain self realization your heart has to be one-pointed.


Day 22

Samadhi is silence in the mind through meditation, singing, dancing, intoxicated devotion, and through hundred percent effort in any activity.

Disturbance in the small mind vanish when they are in the assembly of the big mind.

The day when you feel bad is the day you should go out and ask what you can do for others.

Day 23

Your concept that things should be in a certain way, causes pain in your mind. Set concepts in the mind are the cause of distress. Living in the present moment is only possible when you can drop these concepts.

When you see a mistake and just a mistake, and not 'my' mistake, then there will not be any guilt. You will see mistake that needs rectification(whether it is yours or someone else's). Then your mind will become lighter.

Keep moving like a cloud.

Ashtavakra gyaan day 13-16

Day 13

To one who has made himself hollow and empty, devoid of all conflicts, devoid of all hankerings, none of these worldly things will either please or bring sorrow.

The difference between enlightenment and un-enlightenment is like the difference between a game and a war. War aims at joy in the end, where as in a game the very process is joy. (Pg164)


Day 14

Balance in activity, balance in food, balance in your rest, you sleep, will bring equilibrium within you - the balance and union.

When your mind retreats from all five senses and goes inside, you are in laya i.e. Rhythm and dissolving

The beginning of spirituality is when personalities disappear from your head.

Krishna said, there is no difference between enlightened i.e. One who knows himself and him(krishna) because enlightened are not away from him, even for a moment and he is not away from them.


Day 15

Three type of purity
purity of body
Purity of speech
Purity of feelings

Your criticism of other people should be just from the throat, if it goes little beyond, deeper, it is poisonous.

The identification - becoming one with the feeling, is the cause of the turbulence or turmoil.

An emotion is healthy only if it stays as long as a line on surface of water.

Through the eyes of janaka, the entire world was just bubbles on the surface of water i.e. One consciousness manifesting itself in so many ways.

The whole universe is a magic show and people are lost in their show and display various emotions.


Day 16

Bondage is not anywhere outside, it is in the mind, in the consciousness.

When you do good to people, do it out of your nature. Forget about how they behave and their reaction towards you.

Consciously being aware, dissolving the 'I' in me; when 'I' ceases to exist, that is freedom, that is liberation.

When you know that something is unknowable then you have known about it. Wanting to know creates the desire and keeps you in the future. Knowing it is to know that it is unknowable by the intellect or the mind, and that existence cannot be measured through your tiny intellect.

Spirituality is honouring the secret and accepting it. It stabilizes,it flowers and it blossoms.

Shraddha means not knowing what it is, but being willing to know with love something that is unknown. Loving the unknown is shraddha.

When there is shraddha, knowledge dawns in you.

'Why' is like a hook; a question mark is like a hook. It means you are hooked to the past.

Dispassion is the only way you can be centered.

Everything, every event in this world is to bake you, heat you up. And if you put your finger deeper into it, you get burned.

Page 207 and 208 - must read pages!!

Be contented with what you have and you will see perfection and siddhi dawning in you.

Ashtavakra gyaan day 10-12

Day 10

Only when you are ready to lose yourself in your infinite nature, are you totally united with brhama, the infinity, the divine.

Joy is an intense sensation arising in you. Observe and you'll realize that all the sensations are arising here

Like a wave in ocean, the entire universe springs from me. I am all this. I am the infinite ocean.

All the Desires arise when your mind is not fully conscious. A semi conscious mind is the mother of desires.
In an awake mind, there are no desires because everything is already acquired!

The liveliness of consciousness comes in every cell of our body. If every cell of your body becomes alive the desire will automatically vanish

In the morning when you get up, feel as though you are the infinite sky.

Seeing fleeting events as though they are reality

You are the most amazing and wonderful being. You are this infinite being - endless and pure, full of light and love.



Day 11

There is one golden point by which the mind can be lifted up, and that is wonder.

Wonder awaken you, and makes you aware of what is happening.

If you feel anything is unacceptable, uncommon, or not the way it should be, you can either work your mind on it, losing all your love, faith and positive direction towards it, or you can just wonder about it.

You mind is not clear and focused when there is an obsession, or when desire is burning in you. And see how calm, collected, cool and aware your mind is when desires drop.

See the self, the one self everywhere and in everything. And there will be no anger, disturbance or fulfilment by the things around. The whole thing is like a game.

When activities and actions happen in the body, look at them as though they are happening in some other body.
Look at hunger in the stomach as though it is happening in another body

Detach the connection you have with the words of others i.e. Being the football of others opinions.


Day 12

Fear is like salt, a little bit of it keeps one alert. You become awake in the present moment.

You can only wonder at fear if it exists even after enlightenment. Because these are moments, not your permanent nature.

Desire arise when we think present moment is not enough, it is a craving for a future moment.

Curiosity is the beginning of mind and wonder is the end of mind. Curiosity is the mother of science and wonder is the mother of spirituality.

Maya means that which can be measured. Universe is called a maya.

 The entire universe and its experiences are present in some degree within our self.

One who has known one's self knows that entire universe is as amazing as one's own self.

If you see the world out of curiosity, you will never understand it as maya. But the one who can see this universe as a maya, has surpassed curiosity.