Mission #4: In Action for sad hoarder

> OM Tool used: the wisdom of letting go

If you are swimming on the shore of an open ocean and a wave hits you, you will be drawn towards the sand bottom for few seconds. During these seconds you will lose the sense of direction and control while struggling to find the surface. All you will be able to hear is the sound of the water guiding your body through the movement of the wave.



We connect to our Divine within when we simply accept whatever situation we are going through. We disconnect from our Divine within when we try to solve the problem. We connect when we look deep at the pain we feel and make friends with it. We disconnect when we fight to take the pain away. The process of fighting against something gives it permission to occupy our minds. Simply acknowledging and accepting a situation gives you the possibility to let it go.

We are so attached to our past that we do not even realize that we have become sad hoarders carrying too many boxes of good and bad memories. We explain the luggage on our shoulders by saying: “It is my personality. This is who I am. I am my history. This is my point of view and my opinion. I am like this because of my mother and I don’t do like that because I did it once and it didn’t work”. We are never here and now. We are always looking through our boxes to find out what to do next.

The notion that being present in the moment is the master key for the Gates of Heaven is not a new concept at all. The first rishis and sages knew it over 5000 years ago and created systems that explain how to drop the boxes on the ground to go on a journey without the unnecessary heavy weight. For these systems we gave the name Yoga.

When you miss the great and bad times you used to have when you were a child you open the gates of hell. When you say hi to your old neighbor as you are talking to him for the first time ever you open the Gates of Yoga. Being present opens a whole new world of brand-new possibilities and pathways.

First of all, we have to acknowledge that we have been carrying heavy boxes for too long. Second, we need to notice how much pain and limitation they provide us with. Third, we make friends with the pain and forgive us for our foolishness. Then, the boxes simply drop on the ground by themselves letting us go on our way. Unless you follow these steps you will always be attached to your heavy luggage and identified with your boxes. You will always suffer for not being able to walk faster.

When you get so fed up for walking in circles with so much heavy weight on your back you will feel the pain dominating your whole body. You will notice that there is nothing else you can do but seat down out of exhaustion. This will be the moment of giving up and letting go. The boxes will fall as you stand up on your two feet and you will notice that your real journey is about to begin.

When you are under water struggling to find the surface, three seconds become an eternity. The secret to save yourself is to let the body relax enough not to fight with the ocean so it can emerge from the wave back to the air.

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Mission #3: In Action for the blind searcher

> OM Tool used: the force of courage, determination and discipline

The great majority of us are blind searchers. We are all on a life journey looking for happiness and satisfaction even though we can never truly get them. As we do not even know how we got into this odyssey we walk along the way not really thinking about where we come from, why we are here or where we are going to head after it.

Let me explain you in a simple and quick way how the Universe works:

First, there is the Great Energy that many of us call God, a Force that cannot be limited by time, space or any word in any language. This Force is expressing itself by creating the material reality as we feel with our 5 senses (maya). We are all a little sparkle of the Great Force (spirit) living in a material body to inhabit the physical world.

A body is given to us so we can enjoy our senses and find happiness, but there are three main conditions for that: 1) every time you find happiness, happiness will fade away from you, 2) after being born the body will develop, suffer, get sick, disintegrate and die, and 3) another body will be given to us. The cycle of being born, developing, suffering, getting sick, disintegrating and dying happens over and over again for the whole eternity (samsara). We keep getting new bodies (reincarnation) for the gratification of our senses.

During a lifetime, a bank account keeps running with all the positive and negative thoughts and actions based on our desires (karma). Some debts are paid in the same life; some are postponed for the next one. When we die, as a spirit of consciousness, we decide what we want to accomplish in the next life. We go through the karma bank account and create a core plan of milestones and tendencies (destiny) that determines how the next life will be. The rest of the choices are done by free-will during the life as a human being.

So, this is the journey: You get a body, look for happiness with no success, enjoy your senses, suffer, die and get a different body to continue the endless cycle. Do you ever find fulfillment and happiness? No. Whenever you think you find it, it escapes from you – this is a fact.

The intelligent human being notices that he will never become happy by looking for happiness and decides to take what we call a self-discovery spiritual journey. In this journey he studies and learns about his body, mind, emotions, personality, patters of behaviour and tendencies. Gradually he becomes more conscious and develops himself as a better human being.

The first class wise human being takes a huge step further and decides to break the machine by taking a journey back Home. He discovers that he is not what he sees in the physical world, his body or tendencies; instead, he finds out that he is a sparkle of the Great Spirit and that he has the power to stop the suffering created by the cycle of death and rebirth. The wise man is determinate to follow scientific guidelines on how to think, act and feel so he can understand and use the tools necessary to go back to the Great Energy of True Happiness.

It takes courage and discipline to become a first class human being. Many of us are still blind searches and live in constant pain. Many of us are so used to suffering that we do not even notice it. We keep justifying our personal hell by blaming the world as the source of our misery.

This blog is about the scientific guidelines and tools that are needed by the first class man to get out of the powerful machine of suffering and take the path back Home. The question you have to ask yourself is: Am I courageous, determinate and disciplined enough to face this exciting and beautiful challenge?

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Mission #2: In Action for godless dude

> OM Tool used: the eternal energy of Absolute Truth

“Do you believe in God?” – the godless dude asked. I looked deep inside his eyes with a smile on my face and answered: “What do you mean ‘believe’? There is nothing to be ‘believed’ about God. God simply is - that’s it”.



Every machine needs an operator. An airplane cannot fly without a pilot - the same happens with nature. Who is the operator? Who is behind day and night? Who makes the arrangements for two cells to become a human being? Who controls the development of trees and mountains? Give me less than 10 minutes and I can find out who created the granola bar. Now, can you tell me who created the apple? There is a force behind all of it.

Every person who claims himself or herself as godless has science as guideline. These individuals consider the concept of God very limited since God “cannot be seen or touched”. They normally use the word “spiritual” as synonym of superstitious and believe religion to be a waste of time.

What the godless person lacks to understand is that religion is science. Religion tells you where you are as an individual, explains you where you are going to get and gives you the tools to get it there. Yoga is also a precise science and religion at the same time. It makes you more self-conscious; it gives you the goal of reaching God and sets guidelines for the journey.

The issue is that the godless dude never tried to experience God. If you want to know if gardening works or not you read books on the subject, learn the ways to do the job, go shopping for seeds, get to the backyard, water the soil properly and wait for it to work. There is a system that needs to be followed for the seeds to become plants. The same process has to be used for understanding God. You have to follow a system, other wise you will always think that it is not possible to get to Him. Put your hands up and say: “Oh, garden, come to life in my backyard!” – nothing is going to happen because you have to act for it to come to life. Now, put your hands up and say: “Oh, God, come to me. Let me see you, God!” – of course nothing is going to happen. You have to experiment a system and trust the path.

Trusting is scary because you have to believe that a little seed will become a huge tree. You have to do the job, let it happen by itself and give up your own self to the forces of nature that we cannot fully understand.

It is important to say that even the most godless individual in this planet is spiritual. We are all spiritual; there is no way this can be changed. Do you think that the sun stops shinning in a rainy day? Our perception changes and we think the sun is not there but it has never stopped shinning, even though you look up and see gray everywhere.

No one can be forced to accept the existence of God because the Divine is something that a person cannot understand with the limited mind. To be seen and touched God has to be watered as a seed. Before even learning about God you have to learn about yourself to give up yourself. How do you want to know God if you don’t even know your own being?

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Mission #1: In Action for monkey on a mat

> OM Tool used: the magic power of self-questioning

We cannot deny the word yoga is all over: yoga studio, yoga store, yoga gear, yoga water, yoga, yoga, yoga thunderstorm on us.

Every day new people are entering the world of yoga by signing up on studios and going to a number of different styles of classes: power yoga, hot yoga, vinyasa yoga, power vinyasa yoga, power vinyasa intermediate yoga, advanced power pranayama meditation vinyasa yoga blah blah blah.

The fact is that the name yoga has become a prosperous business in various parts of the world. In the 80’s and 90’s fitness was the cool thing. In the 2000’s, aerobic classes, old fashion leggings and gym steps are dull and dated.

When asked the simple question “What is Yoga?” the majority does not know the right answer. “Hum...isn’t yoga the stuff I do on a mat after work, that makes me sweat a bit before I go home to relax, watch TV and eat pizza?” I am sorry, no.

There are many meanings for the Sanskrit word Yoga depending on how and where it is applied. Basically, Yoga means union, path or the path for/of union. “Union of what?!” – the monkey asked.

Yoga is the journey taken by the person who is searching for Real Complete Happiness, also called Consciousness, Krishna or God – name it as you wish. The final destination of a yogi is the union between what he is searching for and his own being – call it Enlightenment if you want.

The monkey stopped his posture and said: “Wow! How can a person do that?” There are a few different specific life paths that can be taken by the yogi and they are all going to end in the same final station: Union. The knowledge about the different paths of Yoga and how to follow them are not provided by the studios because the focus is on jumping up and down on a mat. The fact is that jumping up and down sells because you sweat, burn fat, get stretched and feel a little bit better about yourself. Education about genuine paths for Union does not sell because it shows people they are really screwed. Making people question about their life styles will make them realize that their whole system of thinking and action needs to be changed and the majority will not want to change because it is comfortable to be where they are even though it is crap.

Ask yourself the reason for “doing yoga” and search for an answer that is way deeper than “Because I feel good”, “Because it is a good exercise”, “Because I forget about my day” or even “Because I connect my mind and body, and get healthier”. Go beyond all of that to find the true meaning of Yoga.

Until we understand clearly and deeply what we are doing in a yoga class, why we are stepping on a mat and how this is being done we are simply monkeys jumping up and down on pointless pieces of expensive plastic, proudly giving it the name yoga.

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OM Helpers in ACTION!

"We came from God and our ultimate destiny is to return to Him. The end and the means to the end is yoga, the timeless science of God-union." Paramahansa Yogananda