SAVERS

SAVERS 6
1. Silence: meditation, prayers, connecting to unconscious, POWER OF NOW.
2. AFFIRMATION: written reading, four steps: what on health, relations. Organisations, lifestyle, b. WHY, C. IMPORTANCE, D. HOW 
3. Visualisations : whatever wanted, achieved 
4. EXERCISE PRANAYAMA, यJUMPING, STREACHINH, SURYANAMASKARS,
5. Reading what ever I have already prepared.
6. SCRIBE, NEXT DAY MOVE. WHOM TWO BEST P ERSONS I HAVE MET YESTERDAY, WHOM I AM GOING TO MEET TODAY.


Kashmiri Lal, Shiv Shakti Mandir, RK Puram sector 8 M
New Delhi 110022.

क्या बहुमत से ही सच्चाई जानेंगे?

श्री ठेंगड़ी जी कहते हैं की हरियाणा के एक स्कूल में एक शाखा में मैंने बालकों से प्रश्न पूछा की संघ किसने शुरू किया? एक बच्चे ने डॉक्टर हेडगेवार का नाम लिया और दूसरे ने श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी का क्योंकि उसी वर्ष श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी जी की शहादत हुई थी और उनका नाम प्रसिद्ध था। उसके बाद पूरी शाखा में कई बच्चों ने श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी का नाम लिया। संदर्भ ध्यान रहे कि 53 में मुखर्जी का बलिदान हुए थे और 'मुखर्जी अमर रहे', ऐसे उद्घोष उस समय हवा में तैरते थे। तब ठेंगड़ी जी ने मजाक- मजाक में कहा कि कैसे निर्णय होगा कुछ डॉक्टर हेडगेवार बोल रहे हैं कुछ श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी सही कैसे पता लगेगा? तो एक लड़के ने हाथ हिलाते हुए कहा वोटिंग करा लीजिए । तो पूरी शाखा में वोटिंग हुई 8 ऐसे थे जो डॉक्टर हेडगेवार जी के पक्ष में, उससे दुगने 16 श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी के पक्ष में, और आठ ऐसे समझदार थे वह चुप रहे किसी और भी नहीं बोले यानी नोटा! तब ठेंगड़ी जी ने कहा अब यह समस्या और गड़बड़ हो गई क्योंकि कुछ इधर बोल रहे हैं कुछ इधर बोल रहे हैं, सच्चाई कैसे पता चलेगी ? फिर उस चतुर लड़के ने कहा कि निर्णय हो तो गया! क्योंकि 16 वोट श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी को पड़े हैं इसलिए संघ के संस्थापक श्यामा प्रसाद मुखर्जी ही कहलाएंगे!!!!
ऐसे ही आजकल हम सोचते हैं क्योंकि ज्यादा वोट जिस पार्टी को पड़े हैं उसकी हर बात सच्ची, दूसरों की हर बात गलत, इसको वर्डिक्ट मिला, जनादेश मिला है, और यही सच्चा है, बाकी झूठे हैं या नहीं, इस पर अलग से  जरूर चर्चा होनी चाहिए।

क्या मानसिक अवसाद सबसे बड़ी बीमारी है?

दुनिया की बड़ी समस्या मानसिक रोग व आत्महत्या
  क्या आपने सुना या कहीं पढ़ा कि कल 10 अक्टूबर को 'विश्व मानसिक स्वास्थ्य दिवस था'?इसका उद्देश्य ये था कि मानसिक बीमारियां बहुत बढ़ रही हैं, उसके लिए जनजागरण करना। क्या आप जानते हैं कि
1. चार में से एक व्यक्ति को अपने जीवन में मानसिक रोग का सामना करना पड़ता है।
2. एक साल में आठ लाख लोग मानसिक रोग से पीड़ित होकर करते हैं आत्महत्या करते हैं. यह सड़क हादसों में मौतों के बाद दूसरा बड़ा मरने का कारण है।
3. मानसिक रोग की वजह से 15 साल के किशोर भी कर ले रहे हैं आत्महत्या। ग्लोबल बर्डेन ऑफ डिजीज स्टडीज के अनुसार सालाना दो लाख यंग एडल्ट हर साल आत्महत्या करते हैं.
4. इस वर्ष की थीम के द्वारा आत्महत्या रोकथाम पर फोकस किया जा रहा है। विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन के अनुसार प्रत्येक 40 सेकंड में एक व्यक्ति की मृत्यु आत्महत्या के कारण होती है।
5. भारत में आत्महत्याएं
लांसेट पब्लिक हेल्थ जर्नल के मुताबिक 2018 में भारत में आत्महत्या के कारण 2.30 लाख मौतें हुईं। 2016 में नेशनल क्राइम ब्यूरो के अनुसार 131,008 लोगों ने आत्महत्या की।, और 2015 में 1,33,623 ने। 
इस हिसाब से एक घण्टे में 15, और हर चार मिनुट्स बाद एक व्यक्ति कहीं न कहीं भारत मे आत्महत्या कर रहा है।
गौरतलब है कि भारत में अभी भी आत्महत्या की रोकथाम के लिए कोई मज़बूत नीति नहीं है। 1990 में चीन में आत्महत्या की दर सबसे अधिक थी। चीन सरकार द्वारा कीटनाशक की पहुँच सीमित किये जाने के बाद आत्महत्या की दर में काफी कमी दर्ज की गयी थी।
मैंने सेपियन्स नामक किताब में से कुछ इसी प्रकार की बात पढ़ी थी, ज्यों का त्यों उद्धरित कर रहा हूँ:
In year 2000, total of 3,10,000 (three lakh 10 thousand ) individuals were killed in wars, and violent crime killed another 5,20,000. Each and every victim is a world destroyed, a family ruined, friends and relatives scarred for life. Yet from a macro perspective these 8,30,000 victims comprised only 1.5 per cent of the 56 million (5 crore sixty lakh) people who died in 2000. That year 1.26 million (12 lakh 60 thousand people died in car accidents (2.25 per cent of total mortality) and 8,15,000 people committed suicide (1.45 per cent).

The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died of violent crime (a total of 741,000 victims of human violence). In contrast, 8,73,000 people committed suicide. It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person was more likely to kill himself than to be killed by a terrorist, a soldier or a drug dealer."

फिल्म से जागरूकता की पहल : हाल के दिनों में कंगना रनाउत और राजकुमार राव की फिल्म ‘जजमेंटल है क्या’ ने लोगों का ध्यान खिंचा था. जबकि मनोचिकित्सक बताते हैं कि इस तरह केस सामान्य है. अवसाद में ज्यादा समय तक रहने और समय पर इलाज न होने से बीमारी बढ़ जाती है. इससे लोग सेवियर डीप्रेशन विद साइकॉटिक सिप्टम में पहुंच जाते है, जहां आत्महत्या करने की इच्छा प्रबल हो जाती है.
 इसमें लोगों को कासव, अस्तु, आइ एम जीजा और अ ब्यूटीफूल माइंड जैसी फिल्में दिखायी गयी।  थी. जिनमें  अल्जाइमर्स, डिमेंशिया, डिप्रेशन, सिजोफ्रेनिया, ऑटिज्म, फोबिया जैसे मेंटल हेल्थ इस्यू से ग्रसित व्यक्ति के लक्षण को दिखाने की कोशिश की गयी थी.

बड़ी समस्या व समाधान: इसके लिए आमतौर पर लोग झाड़फूंक वालों पर या पीरों की मज़ारों पर जाते है, नशों व ड्रग का प्रचलन भी इसी कारण बढ़ रहा है, और जिनसे बात कर सके ऐसे पक्के मित्र भी होते नहीं, हैं तो फेसबुकिया दोस्त जो मरने की खबर पर भी लाइक मार देते हैं।

किसी ने ठीक ही लिखा

                  उम्र का बढ़ना तो

                   दस्तूरे-जहाँ है

                   महसूस न करो तो

                   बढ़ती कहां है

                   उम्र को अगर

                   हराना है तो..  

                   शौक जिन्दा राखिए

                   घुटने चले या न चले

                   मन उड़ता परिंदा राखिए।।

                मुश्किलों का आना

                   'Part of life' है

   और उनमें से हँस कर बाहर आना

                  'Art of life' है । ।

पीटर ड्रकर व उसकी उक्तियाँ

पीटर ड्रकर (Peter Ferdinand Drucker ; 19 नवम्बर 1909 – 11 नवम्बर 2005) एक अमेरिकी प्रबन्धन सलाहकार, शिक्षक एवं लेखक थे। वे मूलतः आस्ट्रिया के निवासी थे। प्रबन्धन शिक्षा के विकास के क्षेत्र में उन्होने नेतृत्व किया। उन्होने 'लक्ष्यों द्वारा प्रबन्धन' (management by objectives) नामक कांसेप्ट दिया। पीटर ड्रकर की कुछ उक्तियाँ संपादित करें प्रभावशाली नेतृत्व भाषण देने या पसन्द किये जाने से सिद्ध नहीं होता; नेतृत्व परिणाम से दिखता है, गुणों से नहीं। काम को सही तरीके से करना ही दक्षता (एफिसिएन्सी) है; सही काम करना ही प्रभाविकता (इफेक्टिवनेस) है। 'लक्ष्य द्वारा प्रबन्धन' अवश्य काम करेगा यदि आप लक्ष्य जानते हैं। सौ में ९० बार आप लक्ष्य ही नहीं जानते। 'निर्णय लेने' से सम्बन्धित अधिकांश चर्चाओं में यह मान्यता दिखती है कि केवल सिनियर इक्सक्युटिव ही निर्णय लेते हैं या उनके द्वारा लिए गये निर्णयों का ही महत्व है। ऐसा मानता बहुत बड़ी गलती है। लक्ष्य, दिशा हैं भाग्य नहीं। लक्ष्य कोई आदेश नहीं हैं। लक्ष्य भविष्य का निर्धारण नहीं करते बल्कि वे भविष्य के निर्माण के लिए संसाधन एवं ऊर्जा जुटाने के साधन हैं। भविष्य के पूर्वानुमान का सबसे अच्छा तरीका भविष्य का निर्माण करना है। संचार में सबसे महत्वपूर्ण चीज उस बात को सुनना है जो कही ही नहीं जाती। जिस काम को किया ही नहीं जाना चाहिए था, उसे अत्यन्त दक्षतापूर्वक करने से बढ़कर बेकार काम नहीं हो सकता। समय ही सबसे दुर्लभ संसाधन है और जबतक समय का समुचित प्रबन्धन नहीं किया जाता, किसी अन्य चीज का भी प्रबन्धन नहीं हो सकता। जहाँ भी आपको एक सफल व्यवसाय दिखायी पड़ता है, अवश्य ही वहाँ कभी किसी ने साहसपूर्ण निर्णय लिया होगा

गांधी जी कहते थे

गाँधी जी कहते हैं
1. Gandhi Speaks - 5 Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt. जब राज्य कानून विहीन या भ्रष्ट हो जाता है तब असहकार पवित्र फ़र्ज़ बन जाता है।
2.Gandhi Speaks -  The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states. जिस क्षण कोई गुलाम यह तय करे कि अब वह गुलाम नहीं रहेगा, उसी क्षण उस की जंजीरें टूट जाती है। स्वतंत्रता और गुलामी एक मानसिक स्थिति होती है।

3. I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. मैं लोकतंत्र को ऐसी कुछ बात समझ रहा हूं कि इस में दुर्बल व्यक्ति को भी सबल व्यक्ति जितने ही अवसर प्राप्त हों। 4. स्वदेशी: Much of the deep poverty of the masses is due to the ruinous departure from Swadeshi in the economic and industrial life. If not an article of commerce had been brought from outside India, she would be today a land flowing with milk and honey! लोगों की भारी गरीबी मोटे तौर पर आर्थिक एवं औद्योगिक जीवन में से स्वदेशी की विनाशक बिदाई है। भारत के बाहर से किसी भी व्यापारी चीज़ अगर नहीं लाई जाती तो आज इसमें दूध और मध की नदियां वाली भूमि होती।
Speaks -4, In democracy, individual's opinion and actions are carefully protected. Therefore, I believe that minority has full rights to behave differently from that of majority. लोकतंत्र में व्यक्ति के मत और कार्य की स्वतंत्रता की सावधानी से रक्षा की जाती है। इस लिए मेरी मान्यता है कि अल्प मत को बहुमत से भिन्न आचरण करने का पूरा अधिकार है। लोकतंत्र कोई ऐसी व्यवस्था नहीं है कि जिसमें लोग भेड़ों की तरह बर्ताव करें। अंतरात्मा की आवाज़: The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. इस जगत में मैं सिर्फ एक ही त्रासवादी का स्वीकार करता हूं और वह है मेरे अंदर से आ रही मजबूत आवाज :

5. Gandhi Speaks -  In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. अंतरात्मा के मामले में बहुमत के कानून का कोई स्थान नहीं है।
6.Speaks : The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within. Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves. बाहर से लोकतंत्र की भावना थोपी नहीं। जा सकती। वह तो अंदर से आनी चाहिए। स्वतंत्रता तो जन्म जैसी है। हम सम्पूर्ण स्वतंत्र हों वहां तक हम गुलाम ही होते हैं।

7. A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. पूर्ण निष्ठा के साथ कही गई 'ना', यह सिर्फ किसी को खुश करने हेतु या, इस से भी बदतर, मुसीबत टालने हेतु कही गई 'हां' से ज्यादा अच्छी है।
8. No government on Earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will. पृथ्वी पर की कोई भी सरकार ऐसे मनुष्यों को उन की इच्छा के ख़िलाफ़ सलामी देने वाले नहीं कर सकती जिन्होंने अपने हृदय में स्वतंत्रता सिद्ध कर ली है।

10.  असली अर्थशास्त्र: The economics which preaches worship of wealth and allows the powerfuls to amass wealth at the cost of the weak, is wrong economics, and it is fatal. जो अर्थशास्त्र धनपूजा का उपदेश दिया करता हो और जो अशक्त लोगों की कीमत पर शक्तिमान लोगों को धन संचय करने देता हो, वह गलत शास्त्र है, और वह घातक है।

11. Nothing is more shameful in the whole history for the human intelligence than the acceptance of the remedies offered by present economics as a science
. वर्तमान अर्थशास्त्र के उपायों को विज्ञान के रूप में स्वीकार करना उस से ज्यादा शर्मनाक चीज़ मनुष्य बुद्धि में समूचे इतिहास में दूसरी कोई नहीं है। Speaks

12. If we establish power of ethics instead of wealth in our homes, in our palaces and in our temples, we will be able to fight any kind of a group of enemies without suffering from the burden of a gaint military. Only this is real economics.
अगर अपने घरों में, अपने महलों में, अपने मंदिरों में हम धन की सत्ता के बजाय नीति की सत्ता को प्रस्थापित करेंगे तो, बड़ी सैना का भार बर्दाश्त किए बिना हम किसी भी प्रकार के शत्रु समूह के सामने लड़ सकेंगे। यही सच्चा अर्थशास्त्र है।

13. The economics which ignores ethics and emotions is like a wax statue, life can't enter into it.
जो अर्थशास्त्र नीति एवम् भावनाओं का अनादर करता हो वह मोम के पुतले जैसा है, उसमें जीवन का प्रवेश नहीं हो सकता।

14. Every human being has a right to life and therefore, he as a right to acquire means for his own nutrition and own clothings and house wherever needed. But, we don't need any help of economists or their theories for this very simple function.
हरेक मनुष्य को जीवन जीने का हक है और इसी लिए उसे अपने पोषण करनेके साधन एवम् जहां ज़रूरत हो वहां वस्त्र और घर प्राप्त करने का हक है। लेकिन, इस अति आसान कार्य के लिए हमें अर्थशास्त्रीओंकी और उन के सिद्धांतों की सहायता की कोई आवश्यकता नहीं।
15.  The economics which damages the moral well-being of an individual or a nation is unethical and therefore sinful. जो अर्थशास्त्र व्यक्ति या देश की नैतिक कुशलक्षेम को हानि पहुंचाता है वह अनैतिक है और लिए पापी है। 

16. The economics which allows hunting of one country by another country is immoral. जो अर्थशास्त्र एक देश को दूसरे देश का शिकार करने की अनुमति देता है वह अनैतिक है। Source: Young India, 13-10-1921.

17. A poor and illiterate person is a very big person than the clever trader, lawyer or doctor who earns money through improper means. अयोग्य साधनों से पैसे कमाने वाले चतुर व्यापारी, वकील या डॉक्टर से तो गरीब और निरक्षर व्यक्ति बहुत बड़ा आदमी होता है। Speaks - 41 [11/28, 22:46]

: ऋतस्य श्लोको बधिरा ततर्द । - (ऋग्वेद, 4.23.8) सत्य की प्रशंसा बहरों के भी कानों को खोल देती है। [11/29, 06:03]

18. Speaks - 59 Economic equality is the prime key of perfect non-violent swaraj. आर्थिक समानता अहिंसक पूर्ण स्वराज की प्रमुख चाबी है।1 29-11-2018. [11/30, 06:01]

19. Speaks - 60 Working for economic equality means ending of a permanent quarrel between capital and labour.
आर्थिक समानता के लिए काम करने का अर्थ है पूंजी और मजदूरी के बीच की स्थायी लड़ाई को मिटाना। . [12/1, 06:01]

20.Speaks - 61 My ideal is equal distribution but it is not possible to achieve till I see, therefore, I work for the just distribution. मेरा आदर्श समान वितरण का है पर मैं देख सकूं वहां तक इसकी सिद्धि संभवित नहीं है इस लिए मैं न्यायी वितरण के लिए कार्य करता हूं। . [12/2, 06:21]

21. Gandhi Speaks - Swaraj of my dream is the Swaraj of the poor. All the needs of life used by the king and the rich class should also be easily available to the poor. मेरे सपने का स्वराज गरीबों का स्वराज है। राजा और अमीर लोग जीवन की जिन ज़रूरतों का इस्तेमाल करते हैं वे उनको भी सुलभ होनी च

22. Speaks - Coal made of burnt woods may have become cheaper after the fire, bricks of fallen house may have become cheaper after the earthquake, but nobody would dare to say that fire and earthquake were beneficial to the people. आग लगने के बाद लकड़े जलके बने कोयले सस्ते हो सकते हैं, भूकंप आने के बाद गिरे हुए घरकी इंटें सस्ती हो सकती हैं, लेकिन इस से आग और भूकंप प्रजा के लाभ के लिए हुए ऐसा कहने की हिम्मत कोई नहीं करेगा। (चीन व ऐमज़ॉन के बारे में ठेड़क है)

23. Speaks -  It is useless talking about India's freedom by those people who are not glad in their hearts by seeing goods produced by our poor artisans and who do not wish to renounce something for them. हमारे गरीब कारीगर स्त्री- पुरुषों द्वारा बनाई चीजों को देख कर जिन का हृदय प्रसन्न नहीं होता, जिन्हें उनके लिए थोड़ा त्याग करने का मन नहीं होता, वे भारत की स्वतंत्रता की बात करे यह बेकार की बात है

24. Gandhi Speaks -
Only those companies can be called Swadeshi where control, management and administration by a managing director or a managing agent are in the hands of Indians.
जिन कंपनीओं में नियंत्रण, प्रबंधन एवम् मेनेजिंग डायरेक्टर या मेनेजिंग एजेंट द्वारा चलनेवाला प्रशासन भारतीयों के हाथ में हो उसे ही स्वदेशी कहा जा सकता है। :

25.Gandhi Speaks -  I cannot expect to establish economic equality of my imagination. If it is to be established, I will have to drag myself to the situation in which the most poor person lives.
मैं अपनी कल्पना की आर्थिक समानता की स्थापना करने की आशा नहीं रख सकता। अगर इस की स्थापना करनी हो तो मुझे अपने आप को गरीबों में भी जो गरीब है, उस की स्थिति में ले जाना चाहिए।

26.speaks -  I cannot expect to establish economic equality of my imagination. If it is to be established, I will have to drag myself to the situation in which the most poor person lives. मैं अपनी कल्पना की आर्थिक समानता की स्थापना करने की आशा नहीं रख सकता। अगर इस की स्थापना करनी हो तो मुझे अपने आप को गरीबों में भी जो गरीब है, उस की स्थिति में ले जाना चाहिए।

27.  We all should do that kind of labour for one hour which is being done by the poor and in that way we will achieve solidarity with them and through them with the whole humankind. I can not imagine a more noble or national work than that labour.
हम सब एक घंटे के लिए गरीबों को जो मजदूरी करनी पड़ती है वह करें और इस तरीके से हम उन के साथ और इन के द्वारा समूची मानवजात के साथ एकता सिद्ध करें। इस से ज्यादा अच्छा या राष्ट्रीय कुछ और भी हो सकता है,ऐसी कल्पना मैं नहीं कर सकता।

28. Speaks - Each and every individual should do physical labour for bread, the body should be bent, that is the Divine Rule.
रोटी के लिए प्रत्येक मनुष्य को मजदूरी करनी चाहिए, शरीर को मोड़ना चाहिए, यह ईश्वरीय नियम है। The state is a necessary evil. We need it to protect our rights...the state has to tax us to protect us, and the violence it thus commits is necessary to protect us from greater violence.

29. राज्य एक अनिवार्य अनिष्ट है। अपने अधिकारों की रक्षा के लिए हमें इस की आवश्यकता है.... राज्य को हमारी रक्षा हेतु हम से कर वसूली करनी पड़ती है, और इस तरीक़े से वह जो हिंसा करता है वह ज्यादा हिंसा से हमारी रक्षा करने के लिए आवश्यक है। By Amit Varma (Indian writer, 1945 - ):

30. Speaks - In cities and palaces, crores of people can never live with each other in peace. There, they can not escape from taking resort to violence and untruth. शहरों और महलों में करोड़ों लोग एकदूसरे के साथ कभी भी शांति से जी नहीं सकते। वहां हिंसा एवम् असत्य का आसरा लिए बिना उन के पास कोई चारा नहीं है। Source: 'The Last Phase - 2', p: 544. By Pyarelal. . Source: 'Harijan', 12-11-1938.

31.Speaks - As long as democracy is sustained by violence, it can't protect or maintain the weak people.
जहां तक लोकतंत्र को हिंसा द्वारा टिकाए रखते हो वहां तक वह न तो दुर्बल लोगों की रक्षा कर सकेगा या न तो उनका निर्वाह कर पाएगा।

32. Speaks -  Purchasing or using goods produced by exploited labour is a sin. शोषित श्रम से पैदा हुई चीजों को खरीदना या इन का उपयोग करना पाप है। Ahmedabad.15-12-2018.

33. Gandhi Speaks -  Today the machines help few people to ride over the back of the lakhs of people. The inspiration behind them is not the instinct of philonthrophy for labour saving but it is greed. With all my powers I am fighting against this kind of social composition. आज तो यंत्र बहुत थोडेसे लोगों को लाखों लोगों की पीठ पर सवार होने में सहायता करते हैं। इसके पीछे की प्रेरणा श्रम बचाने की परोपकारी वृत्ति नहीं है बल्कि लोभ है। मैं अपनी पूरी ताकत के साथ समाज की ऐसी रचना के ख़िलाफ़ लड़ रहा हूँ। Source: All Men Are Brothers, Navjeevan, p: 162.

34. Gandhi Speaks -  The ideal of continuously creating necessities in unlimited terms and satisfying them is an illusion and a conspiracy.
अमर्यादित मात्रा में ज़रूरतें पैदा करते ही जाने का और इन की परिपूर्ति करने का आदर्श एक भ्रम है, और यह एक साज़िश है। Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol.6, p:326.

Review of book Power of Now by EKHERT TOLLE

THE POWER OF NOW: My views

One-Sentence-Summary: The Power of Now shows you that every minute you spend worrying about the future or regretting the past is a minute lost, because really all you have to live in is the present, the now, and gives you actionable strategies to start living every minute as it occurs.

The Power of Now by EKHERT TOLLE 

The article is a sort of review on a very important and popular book THE POWER OF NOW BY EKHERT TOLLE. It has been divided in five parts A to E.

A. About the writer and the book and it's reception. B. Why we need this book. 3rd point and also sapiens facts on brain....

C. Summary in three points and three exercises. D. Further understanding some terms like surrender, forgiveness, clock time and psychological clock, E. Some Q and A, about is it imaginary, 2nd if other person is not responding in relationship, 

Part A, writer and the book: 

The writer of the world famous book "The Power of Now" and a Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle believes in the practice of staying present. Published in the late 1990s, the book was recommended by Oprah Winfrey and has been translated into 33 languages including Hindi and Arabic.  As of 2009, it was estimated that three-million (30 lakhs) copies had been sold in North America. But the book became popular due to Winfrey Oprah appreciating it more and more. In 2000, the book was listed as recommended reading in Oprah Winfrey's O magazine and, according to Winfrey, the actress Meg Ryan also recommended it. During the television debut of “Oprah and Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth,” a 10-part series presented by “Super Soul Sunday,” Tolle explains how people can condition themselves to slow down and appreciate the present. It all begins with one question. 

The beauty of the book is that writer has not written it by copying good material from scriptures and self hell books. It's based on his real life experiences. fLeading a very troubled and problematic life, coined by many periods of serious depression, Eckhart Tolle found peace overnight, quite literally.

Plagued by depressing late-night thoughts, he started questioning what it is that made his life so unbearable and found the answer in his “I” – the self-generated from the power of his thoughts in his mind. The next morning he woke up and felt very much at peace because he’d somehow managed to lose his worrier-self and live entirely in the now, the present moment.

After spending several years doing nothing but enjoying his new-found peace, eventually people started asking him questions – so he answered. Eckhart started teaching and published The Power of Now in 1997, which eventually went on to become a New York Times bestseller in 2000 after Oprah Winfrey fell in love with it and recommended it.

In popular culture

When Paris Hilton was incarcerated at the Century Regional Detention Facility in California in June 2007 she brought with her a copy of The Power of Now. Singer Annie Lennox chose The Power of Now as one of her "desert island books", as did the comedian Tony Hawks. Singer Katy Perrystated that she was inspired to write "This Moment", a song from her 2013 album Prism, after she heard the audio book of The Power of Now.

Overview

The book draws from a variety of "spiritual traditions", and has been described by one reviewer as "Buddhism mixed with mysticism and a few references to Jesus Christ, a sort of New Age re-working of Zen." It uses these traditions to describe a "belief system based on living in the present moment". Its core message is that people's emotional problems are rooted in their identification with their minds. The author writes that an individual should be aware of their "present moment" instead of losing themselves in worry and anxiety about the past or future.

According to the book, only the present moment is important, and both an individual's past and future is created by their thoughts. The author maintains that people's insistence that they have control of their life is an illusion "that only brings pain". The book also describes methods of relaxation and meditation to aid readers in anchoring themselves in the present. These suggestions include slowing down life by avoiding multi-tasking, spending time in nature, and letting go of worries about the future. Some of the concepts contained in The Power of Now, such as the human ego and its negative effects on happiness, are further elaborated in the author's later books, in particular A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005). In the talk show with Oprah he  also offers two shockingly simple exercises that anyone can do to truly live in the now — anywhere, at any time.

1. Exercise:“Ask yourself, ‘Am I still breathing?’” Tolle says in the above video. “You suddenly feel the air flowing into your body and out of your body... At that moment, you’ve entered the state of presence. Even if it’s only five seconds.”

2. Exercise 2:  Tolle suggests involves using all your senses when going through habitual, everyday motions, such as washing your hands. "Do it consciously,” Tolle instructs. “For example, [when] you wash your hands, feel the water. Smell the soap. Becoming acutely conscious of sense perception means looking, hearing, touching. It brings you into the present moment.”These exercises may take a little effort at first, but Tolle says that they do end up becoming second nature. “The more you bring those moments of presence into your life, the more your old conditioning becomes eroded, gradually,” he says. "I got it now,” on this Oprah says. “Just learning to do the simple things begins to retrain your mind.

B. Why we need to study this book:  

Mental problems are increasing these days. It has taken the shape of an epidemic. Anxiety, melancholia, Depression are forms of this malaise. After accidents it is one of the major cause of deaths of young people. The book suggests s sure shot way out of this problem, a man made problem. Peace of our times and how suicides are increasingly. Let me quote from another most popular book of our times rotten by Prof. Harare: 

“In the year 2000, wars caused the deaths of 3,10,000 (three lakh 10 thousand ) individuals, and violent crime killed another 5,20,000. Each and every victim is a world destroyed, a family ruined, friends and relatives scarred for life. Yet from a macro perspective these 8,30,000 victims comprised only 1.5 per cent of the 56 million people who died in 2000. That year 1.26 million (12 lakh 60 thousand people died in car accidents (2.25 per cent of total mortality) and 8,15,000 people committed suicide (1.45 per cent).

The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died of violent crime (a total of 741,000 victims of human violence). In contrast, 8,73,000 people committed suicide. It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person was more likely to kill himself than to be killed by a terrorist, a soldier or a drug dealer.

The reasons is human intellect is a marvellous thing. It is just two  to three percent of our body and intellect ratio but brain consumes 25 % of total energy, not only in awakened status but also during sleep. So if it's not properly used, it's a havoc. Though these data aren not in this book, but conclusion is the same.  That's why reading and practising such a book is of paramount importance.

C.  Three important lessons of Tolle: Here are 3 lessons from it to help you worry and regret less:

Life is just a series of present moments.

All pain is a result of resistance to the things you cannot change.

You can free yourself from pain by constantly observing your mind and not judging your thoughts.

Ready for a trip to this beautiful place called the present? Let’s go!

Lesson 1: All life is a series of present moments.

If I asked 100 people to name the two most common bad feelings they can think of, 99 of them would probably respond with regret and anxiety. Wouldn’t you?

The reason we regret and worry about a lot of things lies in the way our minds work. The constant stream of consciousness and thoughts in our head, which plays 24/7 in our heads, is mostly preoccupied with 2 things: the past and the future.

Example on of regret...: When you wake up 10 minutes too late in the morning, what’s the first thing you think? “Shit, I overslept, I wish I hadn’t hit the snooze button.” closely followed by “Oh no, now I’ll be late for work, I’m sure my boss will yell at me!” – and voilà, ( An exclamation, there it is, or there you are)you’ve ruined at least the first half of your day. Therefore, living in any other moment than the present is useless. Or second example is: If your task is to hand in a research paper in 14 days, neither regretting all this time you procrastinated nor worrying about the big workload that’s to come will actually help get you there. But if you just start solving the first tiny problem and come up with an outline, it’s all downhill from there.

Tolle says that the only important time is the one we think about the least: the present. The reason only the present matters is that everything happens here. Everything you feel and sense takes place in the present. When you think about it, the past is nothing more than all present moments that have gone by, and the future is just the collection of present moments waiting to arrive. (Is it also the power of concentration)

Two important exercises he shares with Winfrey Oprah and the third of cat and mouse for the next thought.

Lesson 2: mental problems or pain bodies are our mental creations and thus curable.

Any pain you feel results from resisting the things you can’t change. I’m a big fan of stoicism. Part of their philosophy includes the idea that the only pain you really suffer is the one you create yourself.

Tolle argues that pain is nothing more than the result of you resisting to all the things you cannot change. We think a lot about the future and the past, but can live only in the present and have therefore no means to change many things from the other two that we’re unhappy about.  Then we fill the gap between these by developing a resistance to these things, which is what we experience as pain, whether psychological or physical.

When you’re angry, that anger usually makes you think and act less rational, which more often than not results in a worse situation and thus, more pain – but it’s really all in your head.

Lesson 3: You can free yourself from pain by constantly observing your mind and not judging your thoughts.

How then, can you get rid of pain? Tolle recommends 2 things:

Constantly ask yourself: “What will my next thought be?”

Stop judging your thoughts and urges.

The first strategy is based on an effect from physics, called the quantum zeno effect. It says that you can freeze any system in its current state by constantly observing it. Asking yourself this question over and over will usually delay your actual next thought, thus giving you enough time to realize how much time you actually spend in autopilot mode. This way you can start interrupting your mind and thus separating from it.

The second method is meant to help you listen to your body and learn to accept the constant, nagging thoughts in your head, about what you should be doing or not doing. The next time you do wake up late for work, just listen to that voice that says “You should’ve done better!”, but don’t act on it. Notice it, see it, accept that it’s there, but don’t give in to its advice.

These two tools will help you separate your body from your always-on, thought-driven mind, after which you’ll be in less pain because you resist the things you can’t change a lot less.

D. Further understanding some terms like surrender, forgiveness, clock time and psychological clock which the writer uses several times..

1. CLOCK TIME AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME : You need clock time for everyday actions. Psychological time is harmful because it traps you in the past or future. You learn from the past and use it in the now. If you set up a goal and work on it in a focussed manner, you are using clock time. If you become excessively focussed on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfilment, you are not honouring the now. Then it is psychological time. Your life’s journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to “make it”. You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the now. To alert you that you have allowed yourself to be taken over by psychological time, ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If it isn’t, then the time is covering the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle. .....If there is no joy in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than “what”. As you honour the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love-even the most simple action. ........So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. Karma Yoga of Bhagvad Gita-oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in yoga.

2. Surrendering...Q. What to do if really I am in problems? Change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. ...If you find your ‘here and now’ intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of these three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear. ...If you take any action- leaving or changing the situation, drop your negativity first, if at all possible. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity. ...,Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear can’t prevail against it. If there is truly nothing that you can do to change your ‘here and now’, and you can’t remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. This is called surrender. It is not a weakness. There is a great strength in it. The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can no longer survive. Only a surrendered person has spiritual power. Through this you are internally free from the situation. You may find that situation changes without any effort on your part. In any case, you are free. ....Or is there something that you “should” be doing but are not doing? Get up and do it now. Alternatively, completely accept your inactivity, laziness, or passivity at this moment, if that is your choice. Go into it fully. Enjoy it. Be as lazy or inactive as you can. Done consciously, you will soon come out of it. Or maybe you won’t. Either way, there is no inner conflict, no resistance, no negativity. 

3. IMPORTANCE OF FORGIVENESS:The moment you forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind. Non-forgiveness is the nature of mind, just as ego can’t survive without strife and conflict. The mind can’t forgive, only you can. “ That is why Jesus said, before you enter the temple, forgive. “ 

E. Some Questions and Answers in the book (FAQs):

1. Why we work effectively in life-death emergencies:  The hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focussed on the future. This perpetual denial of Now creates unhappiness. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is Now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real. Your life situations may be full of problems-most life situations are-but find out if you have problems at this moment, not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do you have a problem Now? .....When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation. .....When you create a problem, you create pain. (The story of young executive in hot country and car's four nuts lost) All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself, I will create no more problems. Although it is a simple choice, but it is very radical. ....If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn’t a problem. The mind didn’t have time to fool around and make it into a problem. In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over. This is why there are many reports of ordinary people suddenly becoming capable of incredibly courageous deeds. In an emergency, either you survive or you don’t. Either way, it’s not a problem. 

2. Q. What to do if really I am in problems? Change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. ...If you find your ‘here and now’ intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of these three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear. ...If you take any action- leaving or changing the situation, drop your negativity first, if at all possible. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity. ...,Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear can’t prevail against it. If there is truly nothing that you can do to change your ‘here and now’, and you can’t remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. This is called surrender. It is not a weakness. There is a great strength in it. The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can no longer survive. Only a surrendered person has spiritual power. Through this you are internally free from the situation. You may find that situation changes without any effort on your part. In any case, you are free. ....Or is there something that you “should” be doing but are not doing? Get up and do it now. Alternatively, completely accept your inactivity, laziness, or passivity at this moment, if that is your choice. Go into it fully. Enjoy it. Be as lazy or inactive as you can. Done consciously, you will soon come out of it. Or maybe you won’t. Either way, there is no inner conflict, no resistance, no negativity. 

3. Q-This sounds to me like denial and self deception. When something dreadful happens to me or someone else close to me-accident, illness, pain, or death- I can pretend that it isn't bad, but the fact remains that it is bad, so why deny it? A- You are not pretending anything. You are allowing it to be as it is, that's all. Remember that we are not talking about happiness here. For example, when a loved one has just died, or your own death is approaching, you can't be happy. It is impossible. But you can be at peace. There may be sadness, tears, but provided that you have relinquished resistance, underneath the sadness you will feel a deep serenity, a stillness, a sacred presence. This is the emanation of Being, this is inner peace, the good that has no opposite. ...Somebody says something that is rude or designed to hurt. Instead of reacting, let it pass through without resistance. That is forgiveness. You can still tell that person that the behaviour is unacceptable

Review of book Power of Now by EKHERT TOLLE

THE POWER OF NOW: My views

One-Sentence-Summary: The Power of Now shows you that every minute you spend worrying about the future or regretting the past is a minute lost, because really all you have to live in is the present, the now, and gives you actionable strategies to start living every minute as it occurs.

The Power of Now by EKHERT TOLLE 

The article is a sort of review on a very important and popular book THE POWER OF NOW BY EKHERT TOLLE. It has been divided in five parts A to E.

A. About the writer and the book and it's reception. B. Why we need this book. 3rd point and also sapiens facts on brain....

C. Summary in three points and three exercises. D. Further understanding some terms like surrender, forgiveness, clock time and psychological clock, E. Some Q and A, about is it imaginary, 2nd if other person is not responding in relationship, 

Part A, writer and the book: 

The writer of the world famous book "The Power of Now" and a Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle believes in the practice of staying present. Published in the late 1990s, the book was recommended by Oprah Winfrey and has been translated into 33 languages including Hindi and Arabic.  As of 2009, it was estimated that three-million (30 lakhs) copies had been sold in North America. But the book became popular due to Winfrey Oprah appreciating it more and more. In 2000, the book was listed as recommended reading in Oprah Winfrey's O magazine and, according to Winfrey, the actress Meg Ryan also recommended it. During the television debut of “Oprah and Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth,” a 10-part series presented by “Super Soul Sunday,” Tolle explains how people can condition themselves to slow down and appreciate the present. It all begins with one question. 

The beauty of the book is that writer has not written it by copying good material from scriptures and self hell books. It's based on his real life experiences. fLeading a very troubled and problematic life, coined by many periods of serious depression, Eckhart Tolle found peace overnight, quite literally.

Plagued by depressing late-night thoughts, he started questioning what it is that made his life so unbearable and found the answer in his “I” – the self-generated from the power of his thoughts in his mind. The next morning he woke up and felt very much at peace because he’d somehow managed to lose his worrier-self and live entirely in the now, the present moment.

After spending several years doing nothing but enjoying his new-found peace, eventually people started asking him questions – so he answered. Eckhart started teaching and published The Power of Now in 1997, which eventually went on to become a New York Times bestseller in 2000 after Oprah Winfrey fell in love with it and recommended it.

In popular culture

When Paris Hilton was incarcerated at the Century Regional Detention Facility in California in June 2007 she brought with her a copy of The Power of Now. Singer Annie Lennox chose The Power of Now as one of her "desert island books", as did the comedian Tony Hawks. Singer Katy Perrystated that she was inspired to write "This Moment", a song from her 2013 album Prism, after she heard the audio book of The Power of Now.

Overview

The book draws from a variety of "spiritual traditions", and has been described by one reviewer as "Buddhism mixed with mysticism and a few references to Jesus Christ, a sort of New Age re-working of Zen." It uses these traditions to describe a "belief system based on living in the present moment". Its core message is that people's emotional problems are rooted in their identification with their minds. The author writes that an individual should be aware of their "present moment" instead of losing themselves in worry and anxiety about the past or future.

According to the book, only the present moment is important, and both an individual's past and future is created by their thoughts. The author maintains that people's insistence that they have control of their life is an illusion "that only brings pain". The book also describes methods of relaxation and meditation to aid readers in anchoring themselves in the present. These suggestions include slowing down life by avoiding multi-tasking, spending time in nature, and letting go of worries about the future. Some of the concepts contained in The Power of Now, such as the human ego and its negative effects on happiness, are further elaborated in the author's later books, in particular A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (2005). In the talk show with Oprah he  also offers two shockingly simple exercises that anyone can do to truly live in the now — anywhere, at any time.

1. Exercise:“Ask yourself, ‘Am I still breathing?’” Tolle says in the above video. “You suddenly feel the air flowing into your body and out of your body... At that moment, you’ve entered the state of presence. Even if it’s only five seconds.”

2. Exercise 2:  Tolle suggests involves using all your senses when going through habitual, everyday motions, such as washing your hands. "Do it consciously,” Tolle instructs. “For example, [when] you wash your hands, feel the water. Smell the soap. Becoming acutely conscious of sense perception means looking, hearing, touching. It brings you into the present moment.”These exercises may take a little effort at first, but Tolle says that they do end up becoming second nature. “The more you bring those moments of presence into your life, the more your old conditioning becomes eroded, gradually,” he says. "I got it now,” on this Oprah says. “Just learning to do the simple things begins to retrain your mind.

B. Why we need to study this book:  

Mental problems are increasing these days. It has taken the shape of an epidemic. Anxiety, melancholia, Depression are forms of this malaise. After accidents it is one of the major cause of deaths of young people. The book suggests s sure shot way out of this problem, a man made problem. Peace of our times and how suicides are increasingly. Let me quote from another most popular book of our times rotten by Prof. Harare: 

“In the year 2000, wars caused the deaths of 3,10,000 (three lakh 10 thousand ) individuals, and violent crime killed another 5,20,000. Each and every victim is a world destroyed, a family ruined, friends and relatives scarred for life. Yet from a macro perspective these 8,30,000 victims comprised only 1.5 per cent of the 56 million (5 crore sixty lakh) people who died in 2000. That year 1.26 million (12 lakh 60 thousand people died in car accidents (2.25 per cent of total mortality) and 8,15,000 people committed suicide (1.45 per cent).

The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died of violent crime (a total of 741,000 victims of human violence). In contrast, 8,73,000 people committed suicide. It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person was more likely to kill himself than to be killed by a terrorist, a soldier or a drug dealer.

The reasons is human intellect is a marvellous thing. It is just two  to three percent of our body and intellect ratio but brain consumes 25 % of total energy, not only in awakened status but also during sleep. So if it's not properly used, it's a havoc. Though these data aren not in this book, but conclusion is the same.  That's why reading and practising such a book is of paramount importance.

C.  Three important lessons of Tolle: Here are 3 lessons from it to help you worry and regret less:

Life is just a series of present moments.

All pain is a result of resistance to the things you cannot change.

You can free yourself from pain by constantly observing your mind and not judging your thoughts.

Ready for a trip to this beautiful place called the present? Let’s go!

Lesson 1: All life is a series of present moments.

If I asked 100 people to name the two most common bad feelings they can think of, 99 of them would probably respond with regret and anxiety. Wouldn’t you?

The reason we regret and worry about a lot of things lies in the way our minds work. The constant stream of consciousness and thoughts in our head, which plays 24/7 in our heads, is mostly preoccupied with 2 things: the past and the future.

Example on of regret...: When you wake up 10 minutes too late in the morning, what’s the first thing you think? “Shit, I overslept, I wish I hadn’t hit the snooze button.” closely followed by “Oh no, now I’ll be late for work, I’m sure my boss will yell at me!” – and voilà, ( An exclamation, there it is, or there you are)you’ve ruined at least the first half of your day. Therefore, living in any other moment than the present is useless. Or second example is: If your task is to hand in a research paper in 14 days, neither regretting all this time you procrastinated nor worrying about the big workload that’s to come will actually help get you there. But if you just start solving the first tiny problem and come up with an outline, it’s all downhill from there.

Tolle says that the only important time is the one we think about the least: the present. The reason only the present matters is that everything happens here. Everything you feel and sense takes place in the present. When you think about it, the past is nothing more than all present moments that have gone by, and the future is just the collection of present moments waiting to arrive. (Is it also the power of concentration)

Two important exercises he shares with Winfrey Oprah and the third of cat and mouse for the next thought.

Lesson 2: mental problems or pain bodies are our mental creations and thus curable.

Any pain you feel results from resisting the things you can’t change. I’m a big fan of stoicism. Part of their philosophy includes the idea that the only pain you really suffer is the one you create yourself.

Tolle argues that pain is nothing more than the result of you resisting to all the things you cannot change. We think a lot about the future and the past, but can live only in the present and have therefore no means to change many things from the other two that we’re unhappy about.  Then we fill the gap between these by developing a resistance to these things, which is what we experience as pain, whether psychological or physical.

When you’re angry, that anger usually makes you think and act less rational, which more often than not results in a worse situation and thus, more pain – but it’s really all in your head.

Lesson 3: You can free yourself from pain by constantly observing your mind and not judging your thoughts.

How then, can you get rid of pain? Tolle recommends 2 things:

Constantly ask yourself: “What will my next thought be?”

Stop judging your thoughts and urges.

The first strategy is based on an effect from physics, called the quantum zeno effect. It says that you can freeze any system in its current state by constantly observing it. Asking yourself this question over and over will usually delay your actual next thought, thus giving you enough time to realize how much time you actually spend in autopilot mode. This way you can start interrupting your mind and thus separating from it.

The second method is meant to help you listen to your body and learn to accept the constant, nagging thoughts in your head, about what you should be doing or not doing. The next time you do wake up late for work, just listen to that voice that says “You should’ve done better!”, but don’t act on it. Notice it, see it, accept that it’s there, but don’t give in to its advice.

These two tools will help you separate your body from your always-on, thought-driven mind, after which you’ll be in less pain because you resist the things you can’t change a lot less.

D. Further understanding some terms like surrender, forgiveness, clock time and psychological clock which the writer uses several times..

1. CLOCK TIME AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME : You need clock time for everyday actions. Psychological time is harmful because it traps you in the past or future. You learn from the past and use it in the now. If you set up a goal and work on it in a focussed manner, you are using clock time. If you become excessively focussed on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfilment, you are not honouring the now. Then it is psychological time. Your life’s journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to “make it”. You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the now. To alert you that you have allowed yourself to be taken over by psychological time, ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If it isn’t, then the time is covering the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle. .....If there is no joy in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than “what”. As you honour the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out of the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love-even the most simple action. ........So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. Karma Yoga of Bhagvad Gita-oldest and most beautiful spiritual teachings in yoga.

2. Surrendering...Q. What to do if really I am in problems? Change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. ...If you find your ‘here and now’ intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of these three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear. ...If you take any action- leaving or changing the situation, drop your negativity first, if at all possible. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity. ...,Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear can’t prevail against it. If there is truly nothing that you can do to change your ‘here and now’, and you can’t remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. This is called surrender. It is not a weakness. There is a great strength in it. The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can no longer survive. Only a surrendered person has spiritual power. Through this you are internally free from the situation. You may find that situation changes without any effort on your part. In any case, you are free. ....Or is there something that you “should” be doing but are not doing? Get up and do it now. Alternatively, completely accept your inactivity, laziness, or passivity at this moment, if that is your choice. Go into it fully. Enjoy it. Be as lazy or inactive as you can. Done consciously, you will soon come out of it. Or maybe you won’t. Either way, there is no inner conflict, no resistance, no negativity. 

3. IMPORTANCE OF FORGIVENESS:The moment you forgive, you have reclaimed your power from the mind. Non-forgiveness is the nature of mind, just as ego can’t survive without strife and conflict. The mind can’t forgive, only you can. “ That is why Jesus said, before you enter the temple, forgive. “ 

E. Some Questions and Answers in the book (FAQs):

1. Why we work effectively in life-death emergencies:  The hope is what keeps you going, but hope keeps you focussed on the future. This perpetual denial of Now creates unhappiness. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is Now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real. Your life situations may be full of problems-most life situations are-but find out if you have problems at this moment, not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do you have a problem Now? .....When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation. .....When you create a problem, you create pain. (The story of young executive in hot country and car's four nuts lost) All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself, I will create no more problems. Although it is a simple choice, but it is very radical. ....If you have ever been in a life-or-death emergency situation, you will know that it wasn’t a problem. The mind didn’t have time to fool around and make it into a problem. In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over. This is why there are many reports of ordinary people suddenly becoming capable of incredibly courageous deeds. In an emergency, either you survive or you don’t. Either way, it’s not a problem. 

2. Q. What to do if really I am in problems? Change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. ...If you find your ‘here and now’ intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of these three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear. ...If you take any action- leaving or changing the situation, drop your negativity first, if at all possible. Action arising out of insight into what is required is more effective than action arising out of negativity. ...,Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear can’t prevail against it. If there is truly nothing that you can do to change your ‘here and now’, and you can’t remove yourself from the situation, then accept your here and now totally by dropping all inner resistance. This is called surrender. It is not a weakness. There is a great strength in it. The false, unhappy self that loves feeling miserable, resentful, or sorry for itself can no longer survive. Only a surrendered person has spiritual power. Through this you are internally free from the situation. You may find that situation changes without any effort on your part. In any case, you are free. ....Or is there something that you “should” be doing but are not doing? Get up and do it now. Alternatively, completely accept your inactivity, laziness, or passivity at this moment, if that is your choice. Go into it fully. Enjoy it. Be as lazy or inactive as you can. Done consciously, you will soon come out of it. Or maybe you won’t. Either way, there is no inner conflict, no resistance, no negativity. 

3. Q-This sounds to me like denial and self deception. When something dreadful happens to me or someone else close to me-accident, illness, pain, or death- I can pretend that it isn't bad, but the fact remains that it is bad, so why deny it? A- You are not pretending anything. You are allowing it to be as it is, that's all. Remember that we are not talking about happiness here. For example, when a loved one has just died, or your own death is approaching, you can't be happy. It is impossible. But you can be at peace. There may be sadness, tears, but provided that you have relinquished resistance, underneath the sadness you will feel a deep serenity, a stillness, a sacred presence. This is the emanation of Being, this is inner peace, the good that has no opposite. ...Somebody says something that is rude or designed to hurt. Instead of reacting, let it pass through without resistance. That is forgiveness. You can still tell that person that the behaviour is unacceptable