Align your Actions with your Intentions
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Kalpataru is a unique one-day meditation program that leads you to blissful living.
It prepares you through special meditations to receive the touch of a living enlightened being. It empowers you with the energy to align your intentions with your actions so you naturally move with outer success and inner bliss.
Any suffering happens only because of misalignment of intention and action. When our intention is right but our action is not aligned with it, we miss the whole thing. But first, our intention itself needs to be right! Most of the time, we have self-contradictory intentions giving rise to confused actions, and therefore confusing results.
As long as the intention and action are not right and aligned with each other, we will feel continuously dissatisfied in life. This is a deep secret of life. Only when we don’t know these secrets, we don’t understand why we are dissatisfied.
Take a simple example. Your intention is to be free from worry, is it not? But if you just observe, you will see that you search for the slightest excuse to enter into worry! This is what we call ‘self-contradictory’.
Let me tell you a small story:
A man was suddenly found searching for something in front of his house.
A passerby stopped and asked him what he was searching for.
The man replied, ‘I lost a gold coin.’
The passerby felt sorry for him and started searching along with him.
Soon, another person came by and asked what they were searching for. Then he too started searching for the gold coin.
Soon, they became a group of people searching for the gold coin.
Suddenly one of them asked the man, ‘Are you sure you dropped the coin here?’
The man replied, ‘I lost it inside the house, but there was light only here, so I am searching here.’
This is what we too do in life when we don’t align our intentions with our actions! The moment we know our intention well, every ounce of energy, intelligence, clarity and devotion, we should spend only to fulfill the intention. Then, there will be no hangover, no stress, no emptiness, no worry. We will integrate as a mature individual. We will be fulfilled.
Take for example what happens at a typical situation at work. Say you have a deadline for a project and your colleague on the same project does not do his part of the work. Now what do you do? You get angry but you know that work has to be done for the project to be completed. So you end up finding some help or finishing it yourself. You find some alternative but with an undercurrent of hatred and vengeance. You may end up finishing the work and the project may meet its deadline comfortably.
But just step back and see the way the whole sequence of actions has materialized. The intention is actually straight: complete the project. The action needed also is straight – aligned with the intention.
But what branches and diversions have we introduced on this straight path? All the emotional disturbances and negativities we spit out in our inner space are like road-blockages that we ourselves introduce on the straight highway. After creating these obstructions ourselves, we then search for diversions to get to our destination.
What happens? We take more time and worse still, we don't enjoy the journey. Even if we reach the destination on time, the whole purpose of the journey - to experience fulfillment – does not happen when we reach the destination.
Having the right intention is the first step.
How do we determine what is really our intention, our true desire? And how do we know it is the right intention?
This deep self-analysis is what Kalpataru guides you through. The very process brings alive from its very roots your latent natural intelligence. The powerful support of the Master’s presence is the ultimate assurance – it takes you to the very depths of your being, and brings you face to face with your true self. The intense and focused effort to realize your ultimate desire in life just brings that desire up within you.
Now how can you be sure the desire, intention is ‘right’? By right, I don’t mean socially right. That ‘right’ is variable and depends on what culture and background you live in. What I mean by ‘right’ here is according to the laws of the Cosmos, of Existence. Anything in tune with Existence has to be right because it can only be for the good of everyone.
Understand, anything that comes from your consciousness, out of pure awareness, will by its very nature be in tune with Existence. By very nature, you are bliss. Bliss is intelligence and compassion both merged into one.
Aligning this right intention with action is the next step.
This is the real test of the strength of your intention. Only when the intention is based on the strong foundation of your complete awareness and consciousness can it grow and actualize to action.
Be very clear, if you find yourself saying, ‘I want to really do this but I am not able to…I don’t feel motivated enough to see it to completion,’ then you have not put the light of awareness on your intention. The very lack of intensity shows that somewhere inside, you yourself are not clear, not convinced about the need for that desire to fulfill in your life.
Kalpataru is the fire that burns away all the impurities of your distractions and confusions so that only your ultimate desire remains like dazzling gold. When this happens, a deep integration happens inside you. All the escape routes and diversions which had distracted you, start fading away and you seamlessly enter into the zone of aligned thought, word and action.
Then automatically, intensity and intelligence will happen and your life will transform into deep fulfillment. By its sheer strength, the desire will lead you with full intensity and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of fulfillment. Your awareness will be so deep, your sensitivity so high, you can see subtle yet quantum changes in yourself. These ‘small’ transformations are the real big ones but we don’t understand that and want big transformation. These small transformations are actually so powerful they directly open up a huge space for more transformations.
This integration within yourself will bring about a very important change in your life – you will feel more and more settled and relaxed with yourself. That relaxation with what you are is such a tremendous freedom!
Naturally, you will be an honest person within yourself and to others in your interactions. You will no more struggle to maintain an image. You will be blissful being honest about yourself, being just the way you are. And you will find people responding to the energizing presence you radiate rather than to the mere words. So just be yourself and you can enjoy the unfolding miracles of aligning your action with your intention.
Kalpataru bestows upon you the energy to imbibe the right intention, and align every action with the intention.
Deeper Secret of Life
You need to understand a deep secret of this universe. It is a truth, a cosmic law.
Nothing can ever be taken away from you for which you are worthy of. Whatever you are worthy of, whatever responsibility you take, whatever you are able to handle, will never leave you. Even death cannot separate that from you.
Nothing can be enjoyed by you, even if you acquire and legally keep around you, that for which you are not worthy of. Whatever you are not worthy of, even if you have it legally in your name, you will not be living it.
Please understand, you don’t even have to believe what I am saying. All I am saying is have little sympathy to what I am saying and experiment with this understanding in your life. I experimented with this truth not only in my life but in the lives of tens of thousands of disciples; I can say this is 100% true in the case of all 100% of them. One more thing, I have no vested interest to convince you about this truth. I don’t get any money or there is no company to fund me for every person getting enlightened! So what I am saying is the truth and I have verified it based on my experience.
I have seen people all over the world, they can’t enjoy the scene unless it is legally theirs. They will go to lovely hill-stations and beautiful beaches; but they can’t enjoy. First thing they will want to know is how to own an apartment or resort in that place. They will go on buying resorts and beach-houses but they are never be able to have vacation – because they are too busy buying another vacation home somewhere! And the watchman at the resort will be enjoying the wealth!
In the Vedic tradition, two types of wealth are described – Kubera’s wealth and Lakshmi’s wealth. Kubera is a demigod. He goes on accumulating; neither does he enjoy nor does he allow others to enjoy! It will be there for the future. When that future will come, nobody knows! This is Kubera’s wealth – accumulated out of insecurity.
Please understand, that wealth will never come of use when you really need it. Because when the need arises, you will think, ‘No; worse needs may arise. Worse times may come. For that let this wealth be there.’ Lakshmi’s wealth is circulating wealth. Kubera’s wealth is not wealth; it is sheer load and pressure on your body, mind and system. Lakshmi is wealthy but constantly showering.
Wealth created and maintained out of insecurity brings more and more bondage and fear. Wealth created out of overflowing energy, intelligence, clarity and freedom brings more and more freedom. So the basic attitude with which you function is going to play a major role in whether you are going to be a Kubera or Lakshmi.
Understand, the cosmos runs based on dharma. Whatever you carry – intelligence, energy, relationships, love, wealth, awareness – everything stays with you even if you die. It is like you are a bubble that disappears here and reappears somewhere else. If this one truth you are able to internalize, you will be liberated from the fear of death now itself.
You will be completely liberated from all the insecurities and fears you constantly carry. Now you are carrying your own hell. The constant fear and insecurity we carry with us can be healed this minute.
Be very clear, the cosmos is not an accident. It is an order; it is pure auspiciousness.
If you believe the whole thing is chaos, depression is inevitable. Because at every step, there is fear, there is no order. You don’t know what can happen next moment. If you think you are here to be punished, you are in hell. But if you think you are here to be fulfilled, you are in heaven. Hell and heaven are not geographical; they are psychological.
A small story:
A man was driving his car on the highway when he heard an announcement on the local radio station, ‘There is a car driving at 180 mph on Highway 205. Please drive carefully while the traffic police are at work to catch the culprit.’
The man exclaimed to himself, ‘One car? God, there are hundreds!’
The man was himself driving on the wrong lane but was blaming others for driving on the wrong lane! Understand, if you feel life is a chaos, you are driving on the wrong lane!
Understanding the purpose of cosmos, purpose of your existence and the connection between the two is what I call awakening to the truth, awakening to the enlightenment. Then the cosmos will simply live through you.