DON'T BE A SPIRITUAL DONKEY !

HOW TO BE FREE FROM EGO (DON'T BE A SPIRITUAL DONKEY !)

Idol of a goddess

Once a sculptor in a village made a beautiful idol of a goddess and thought of selling it at a good price in the city. So he loaded the idol on his donkey and started towards the city. When he was going through the village, the villagers bowed in front of the idol as it looked like a real goddess. Whichever street he crossed, a crowd would bow in front of the idol.

  Thrilled with the newfound respect

But a strange thing happened. TheDonkey, which was carrying the idol, thought that he was special and that was the reason why people were bowing to him. He was thrilled with his newfound respect.

Angry people

Soon the sculptor returned after selling the idol. While he was crossing the village, the donkey stopped in the middle of the road, expecting a warm welcome. But nobody paid attention to him. The donkey felt insulted and started braying, so much so, that the villagers drove him away.

Realized the truth

The same mistake, what the donkey did, is what most of us do. When we are on the divine path of self - realization, with God's grace, a glow enters our demeanor and we stand out in the crowd. People respect such persons and often bow in respect. But we should realize that people are bowing not to us but to that glimpse of God whom they realize resides within us. So the credit of this respect goes, solely to God, not to us. If we start taking the credit, we cross the thin line of demarcation and enter into an area of false ego, which God dislikes most.

The basic difference between material and devotional lifestyle is that, in material life the more we progress, the more ego we develop. In a devotional lifestyle, the more we progress, the more ego we shed.

3 Keys for Making Your Dreams a Reality

May 1, 2012 Will Edwards

It is said that everyone has a dream but relatively few people believe that they can actually achieve it. Nevertheless, some people do achieve their dreams while others live lives of regret. Some are inspired and follow through with transformative action, whilst others delay or even give up entirely; settling, in exchange, for whatever comes along.

So, what are the factors that make that difference between the person who achieves and the one who ends up with nothing but regrets?

Here are three simple keys that can help you on the way to getting to live the life of your dreams:

1. Get Yourself Motivated

Everyone has their own motivators so consider what benefits await you when you finally do achieve your goal. It might be financial freedom, more free time or a second home in the Caribbean. Whatever it is, remind yourself of those things on a daily basis.

• Having pictures of your dream Caribbean home hung on the fridge or in your work space will remind you of your dream and fire your mind with motivation.
• When you suffer inevitable setbacks or frustration, a visible reminder of your dream will help motivate you to do what is necessary to get back on track toward your goal.

It is also important to give yourself rewards along the way. Rewarding yourself after making a breakthrough such as acquiring a new client or learning a new computer skill is absolutely necessary to keeping your spirits high along the route to your goal.

• Treat yourself to a nice dinner, take the day off for a game of golf or reward yourself with something else you like. Your reward will give you a refreshing break from the trials and tribulations on your path to success and bring you new energy to continue working toward your goal.

Giving yourself a reward as you reach important milestones along the way will reinvigorate your determination to succeed.

2. Remember the Peas

As they they particularly poor planning produces particularly poorperformance! You might have heard a variant of this expression 

Although developing a proper plan may seem a rather obvious step if you want to achieve your goals, many people overlook or downplay the importance of the planning process and then wonder why they aren’t moving forward. So be sure to take the time to plan your path toward greater success.

Once you have a broad plan to reaching your goal, you must fine-tune all the details. Get it down on paper and determine the steps necessary to make that goal a reality.

• Put a time frame on it.
• Put all excuses aside and set a deadline for each step.
• Be realistic with regard to your own competencies.

Creating a realistic step-by-step plan with a deadline will bring your dream to life. Setting definable, measurable little steps will energise you and enable you to follow your plan to success.

3. Stay in Motion

Lastly, no dream or goal can be achieved without action. When you’ve developed your plan, you need to commit to following those little action steps on a daily basis.

• Your little steps are the route to your treasure.
• Stay in motion and follow your plan.
• Each step you complete brings you closer to your goal.
• Evaluate your actions and revise your plan as necessary.
• If a particular step fails, then be adaptable and change it until you find a method that works for you.

Motivation, planning and action are three keys that can enable you to create and live the life you’ve always wanted. It may take you some time, but so what? Better to be on the right path than to be a victim of circumstance. Remember, as one wise person once said, “a person going nowhere … usually gets there!”

3 types of Student who want to attain Perfection

There are 3 types of Student who want to attain Perfection

as we study as a Student we have different levels in Institute

one who study in school is a student

one who study in College is also a student

one who study in Univ is also a student

but all have different Levels & understanding on subject

in Spirituality Subject matter is to attain our lost relationship with Absolute Truth (Param Satya)

Transcedentalist have 4 level according to Vedic Sastra

0) Kermi = eat sleep sex defending

1) Gyani = Knowledgeable person 

Concept : Understand God as Light , or Brham jyoti 

Goal : want to merge in Light

2) Yogi = Penance & Austries of Yogic Siddhi

Concept : Understand God as Super Soul, or Parmatma

Goal : Attain Higher Planet

3) Bhakt / Devotee = Surrender with Love & Devotion

Concept : Absolute Truth is Bhagwan God with Personal Features

Gaol : to attain Love of Godhead by taking shelter of bonafide spiritual master of Disciplic Succession

Glycemic Load

Taking Glycemic Load Index Knowledge To The Next Level

Scientists that were studying the GI soon found that the Glycemic load index was even more important than the Glycemic index. You can review the history of the GI here. The GL index is another way of ranking carbohydrate foods, but this time, it’s based on portion size. Let me explain.

You can get the GI of foods by referring back to article 2 and 3.

Why Should Cantaloupe, Popcorn and Watermelon Be Penalized?

Here’s the bottom line on this concept: Some foods are full of water, like watermelon; yet there are very few carbohydrates in this fruit. Some foods like chocolate frosted white cake are full of carbohydrates with very little water.

Watermelon shouldn’t be penalized because it has a lot of water in it. It’s not a bad food, compared to that piece of cake. So the Glycemic Load Index corrects the Glycemic index so that you can still eat the good foods with a lot of water in them and high GI.

Here are a few examples to show you how this works:

See the difference? It’s actually a lot because the Glycemic Load Chart range of values for foods is rated right here:

• 0 to 10 - Low
• 11 to 19 - Medium
• 20 or more - High

Aim for the 0 to 10 category for the individual carbohydrate foods in your diet. Here are a few examples:

Glycemic Load Chart for Various Foods

• 2 cups popcorn 7
• 1 tablespoon honey 9
• 1 cup orange juice 12
• 1 cup brown rice 23
• 1 baked potato 28
• 1 cup white rice 33
• 1 apple 6
• ½ grapefruit 3
• 1 cup corn flakes 21
• 1 bagel 25

Do you see how this is all coming together now? There’s one more thing to know: You have to total the GL Indexes for all foods eaten for the day. The goal is to be below 80. This number includes all snacks.

So when you create your diet, as shown here, add a new little column for the foods' Glycemic Load.

By adding the Glycemic Load index concept into your plans for your low Glycemic diets, you can now be better assured of good control of your blood sugar levels. 

Create Glycemic Control with These 6 Tips

It’s time for you to have Glycemic control in your life. That’s control of your blood sugar levels whenever you want. The word Glycemic means blood sugar.

The benefits of Glycemic control are vast:

• Better weight control
• Lose fat weight faster
• Fewer headaches, irritability, anger outbursts, and mood swings
• Better focus and concentration
• Better sleep at night
• Less hunger
• Better workouts because of better endurance
• Less risk of endometrial cancer and heart attacks
• Healthier babies
• Healthier when pregnant
• Enhanced learning and memory

To gain Glycemic control, you may want to re-read the general guidelines in Getting Started with Low Glycemic Diets. Also, review the charts here .

Then you’ll start by creating low Glycemic diets for your weekly meal plans. You already know this, so here are 6 specific guidelines:

1. First write out your meal plan for the Glycemic diets.

• On a plain sheet of paper, write Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner up at the top in a horizontal line. Write Snacks to the right of Dinner.

2. Add in your protein source

• Eggs, chicken, turkey, beef, bison, pork, fish or lamb. For example, if you like eggs for breakfast, add eggs under the breakfast category. If you like spicy chicken wings for lunch, add them under the lunch category. And if you are a steak lover, add steak under dinner.

3. Now add your carbohydrate foods.

• The ones that are primarily low GI. Again, review the charts and here. For example, if you like grapefruit with eggs in the morning, add a grapefruit. If you like a big salad for lunch with chicken wings, add salad ingredients. And if you like potato with your steak, well…substitute Uncle Ben’s converted rice.

4. Add another serving of carbohydrate foods.

• From the Low GI category to the meals and fill in your snacks with nuts that have a GI of 0 or are low GI.

5. Add fat to the meals

• To increase the calories a little, or only for one meal a day if you are trying to lose weight. For example, if you ate eggs for breakfast, fry them in butter. Add a salad dressing for lunch. Cook the steak with mushrooms marinated in olive oil.

6. Add a beverage to your meals and you’re finished.

• Avoid soda, coffee and drinks loaded with sugar. Try fresh fruit juices, teas or just plain water.

When you want Glycemic control, there’s no doubt about it that you will have to compromise. The first week is the most difficult because some of the foods you are used to eating aren’t anywhere in sight. But keep your eye on the goal: monthly Glycemic diets that lead you to all the benefits.

The benefits are felt as early as Day 1! And that alone is a lot to look forward to.