Hi, oh it feels good; it feels good to connect back, sitting in front of this camera, reaching out to my extended family. It has been perhaps close to a year or maybe a little more than that, since we started this Facebook exercise. We did with the concept of trying to facilitate a spread of this way of life to people beyond our workshops, talks etc. and very interestingly whenever I have contemplated that maybe I have done my bit and I should take a break from this, its amazing to see how the universe, in its own crazy way, sends me a very gentle reminder, to tell me that the show must go on.
So just a very quick two-minute on the last affirmation I got on this, about ten days back, I was in Dubai. The last video I had shot was ready for upload, I got Vasu’s message, he is the person handling this whole program, and I was thinking, ya, maybe we have done enough, we ran this for a year, touched people’s lives, I should maybe now take a sabbatical from this exercise and almost bizarrely this happened at 5:45 in the evening, I leave my workshop at 6:00 pm, I am on the foot path, this is in an alien country, a different city, and I am just walking on the foot path, car comes stop, a person gets down, I don’t know this person, comes right in front of my life, asks me if I was the Yuvraj who does the videos, and I am a little psyched, because it is very bizarre to have an know an unknown person in an unknown country just walking up to you and talking to you like this! Then he tells me I haven’t done any workshops of yours and I haven’t done any spiritual programs but somehow I have just been following your videos for a year and they have completely changed my life, in and out. So, I was driving on the road, on instinct, I turned, saw your face and thought, it is an excellent time to tell you that it is great work, please, fantastic, and for me, I felt so small, so humble, humbled, I would say, simply because this is the universe telling me in no uncertain terms, telling me, dude it is not you, you are chosen as a channel for something to flow into the universe, what gives you the right to even think that you are the one doing it, so you are the one who needs to take a break! That’s coming from your ego!
So, let’s go to the ego. The human mind as we all know, is this one huge sponge, and it is this sponge which keeps soaking in believes, experiences, realities and through that process, each one of us develops a mould of a certain behaviourr, or a certain way of living, through which we identify ourselves, which is our ego.
So if I were to give a very complicated definition of the ego, it would be, “just the position of all the experiences we go through along with the intertwined emotional interplay that comes out of it which we then choose as core believes to identify ourselves with”. Of course, these are the usual, because, they come from the world. But we choose to believe them and then the moment we make them as our belief, as long as our life moves with that belief we are living. And then sometimes, we get a punch, sometimes we get a hard knock and the mould suddenly crashes. The crashing of the mould is perhaps one of the most challenging moments in a person’s life. Why is it challenging?
Because, every single thing, which you believed was you, you were told this by your parents, by your system, by your family, by your education, by your job, by your boss and suddenly one fine day, it’s not working! You feel you are the same person and yet it’s not working. The mould begins to crack! The cracking of the mould could be either a very very, painful journey or it can be a moment of great divine revelation. In both situations, the cracking of the mould brings you to your knees. It brings you to your knees, either in pain or it brings you to your knees by reverence, humility & wisdom.
The cracking of the mould compels you to pray. So, whenever in life you are in great pain, your ego is getting shattered, the mask that you are wearing in your interplay with your universe is systematically being dismantled and that is the time you seek the benevolence of prayer and when you are praying and when you are on your knees, you are essentially relating to that part of yourself which is free from all this drama.
Now in your minds because of your upbringing, because of your associations you may give shapes names and images to this purity of consciousness. So for some of us when we pray, we pray to our masters. For some of us when we pray, we pray to our spirit guides, for some of us when we pray, we pray to our angles, for many of us, when we pray, we pray to the divine.
My question is who is this divine that you are praying to? So that divine is nothing but the purest form of your own consciousness. It’s you, confronting you without your drama. So whenever you are praying, you are seeking to establish a bond with the purest form of your being hoping that through that association, through that chord, through that connection, that purity of consciousness gets seeded into your core space. The greater the degree of purity of consciousness, in your core space, the more transparent your life is, and the more transparent your life is, the greater is the ease with which you will look beyond the illusions of life and the greater these with which you look beyond the illusions of life the greater is the degree of mastery that you achieve over your day to day living.
So, for this particular series of videos that is what I am going to focus on, this video is like an intro, an intro of going beyond your ego, it’s like an intro of going down in prayer and confronting yourself without your drama. Its like an intro to a process which will gradually bring you to an understanding that the light is not out there, it is all in here and if the light is all in here how do I get the awareness to just be in it so that I am a complete and replete light being. A light being whose belief manifests his choice of reality around him. I just hope, wish, pray and of course completely believe that this journey will be as exciting for you as the previous ones have been.
Good luck....
Dr. Yuvraj Kapadia is a student of life. He has learnt quite a deal from the many dramatic experiences of his life. Through this page he is connecting to his group and to people who want to follow his anecdotes on how life can be simple and easy.
