Seven
Spiritual Laws of Success
--Deepak
Chopra.
A very good
book on Spiritual teachings based on India's centuries old philosophy. The
book I read is a very small, practical and also easily appliable- that is
the whole beauty about this book.. A great book if you are a kind of person
who often finds himself lost in the materiality of the world. If you feel
direction-less or lost in a rigid cycle of day to day life, this book is
definitely a good reading for yourself.
You are lucky
that you are reading this page on my website. In a few minutes, you will
get a 10 minute summary of Deepak Chopra's teachings and how to put the
same in practice.. Better, go out and buy the book itself or just borrow
is from a library near you.
Law of Pure
Potentiality:
- I will get
in touch with the field of pure potentiality by taking time each day to
be silent, to be just Be. I will also sit alone in silent meditation
at least twice a day for approximately thirty minutes in the evening.
- I will take
time each day to commune with nature and to silently witness the intelligence
within every living thing. I will sit silently and watch a sunset, or
listen to the sound of the ocean or a stream, or simply smell the scent
of a flower. In the ecstasy of my own silence, and by communing with nature,
I will enjoy the life of ages, the field of pure potentiality and unbounded
creativity.
- I will practice
non-judgment. I will begin my day with the statement, " Today, I
shall judge nothing that occurs," and throughout the day I will remind
myself not to judge. ( Do you know how many times in a day we judge things?
Count whenever you say Good, Bad, Awesome, correct, wrong. You would be
amazed by how much pressure we put on mind, heart and brain in judging
things daily than simply feeling them.)
The Law of
Giving:
- Wherever
I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may
be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to
everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of
circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and the lives of others.
- Today I
will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will
receive the gifts of nature: sunlight and the sound of birds singing,
or spring showers or the first snow of winter. I will also be open to
receiving from others, whether it be in the form of a material gift, money,
a compliment, or a prayer.
- I will make
a commitment to keep wealth circulating in my life by giving and receiving
life's most precious gifts: the gifts of caring, affection, appreciation,
and love. Each time I meet someone, I will silently wish them happiness,
joy, and laughter.
The Law of
Karma or Cause and Effect:
" Karma
is the eternal assertion of human freedom....Our thoughts, our words, and
deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves. -Swami
Vivekanand.
- Today I
will witness the choices I make in each moment. And in the mere witnessing
of these choices, I will bring them to my conscious awareness. I will
know that the best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be
fully conscious in the present.
- Whenever
I make a choice, I will ask myself two questions: "What are the consequences
of this choice that I'm making?" and "Will this choice bring
fulfillment and happiness to me and also to those who are affected by
this choice?"
- I will then
ask my heart for guidance and be guided by its message of comfort or discomfort.
If the choice feels comfortable, I will plunge ahead with abandon. If
the choice feels uncomfortable, I will pause and see the consequences
of my action with my inner vision. This guidance will enable me to make
spontaneously correct choices for myself and for all those around me.
The Law of
Least Effort:
- I will practice Acceptance.Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances,
and events as they occur. I will know that this moment is as it should
be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I will not struggle
against the whole universe by struggling against the moment. My acceptance
is total and complete. I accept things as they are this moment, not as
I wish they were.
- Having accepted
things as they are, I will make Responsibility for my situation
and for all those events I see as problems. I know that taking responsibility
means not blaming anyone or anything for my situation (and this includes
myself). I also know that every problem is an opportunity in disguise,
and this alertness to opportunities allows me to take this moment and
transform it into a greater benefit.
- Today my
awareness will remain established in Defenselessness. I will relinquish
the need to defend my point of view. I will feel no need to convince or
persuade others to accept my point of view and not be rigidly attached
to any one of them.
The Law of
Intention and Desire:
- I will make
a list of all my desires. I will carry this list with me wherever I go.
I will look at this list before I go into my silence and meditation. I
will look at it before I go to sleep at night. I will look at it when
I wake up in the morning.
- I will release
this list of my desires and surrender it to the womb of creation, trusting
that when things don't seem to go my way, there is a reason, and that
the cosmic plan has designs for me much grander than even those that I
have conceived.
- I will remind
myself to practice present-moment awareness in all my actions. I will
refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the quality of my attention
in the present moment. I will accept the present as it is, and manifest
the future through my deepest, most cherished intentions and desires.
The Law of
Detachment:
Like two golden
birds perched on the selfsame tree, intimate friends, the ego and the Self
dwell in the same body. The former eats the sweet and sour fruits of the
tree of life, while the latter looks on in detachment. -The Mundaka Upanishad.
- Today I
will commit myself to detachment. I will allow myself and those around
me the freedom to be as they are. I will not rigidly impose my idea of
how things should be. I will not force solutions on problems, thereby
creating new problems. I will participate in everything with detached
involvement.
- Today I
will factor in uncertainty as an essential ingredient of my experience.
In my willingness to accept uncertainty, solutions will spontaneously
emerge out of the problem, out of the confusion, disorder, and chaos.
The more uncertain things seem to be, the more secure I will feel, because
uncertainty is my path to freedom. Through the wisdom of uncertainty,
I will find my security.
- I will step
into the field of all possibilities and anticipate the excitement that
can occur when I remain open to an infinity of choices. When I step into
the field of all possibilities, I will experience all the fun, adventure,
magic, and mystery of life.
The Law of
"Dharma" or Purpose in Life:
Everyone has a purpose in life......a unique gift or special talent to give
to others.
And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience
the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal
of all goals.
When you work
you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to
music. .....And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with
threads drawn from your heart even as if your beloved were to wear that
cloth. -Kahlil Gibran.
- Today I
will lovingly nurture the god or goddess in embryo that lies deep within
my soul. I will pay attention to the spirit within me that animates both
my body and my mind. I will awaken myself to this deep stillness within
my heart. I will carry the consciousness of timeless, eternal Being in
the midst of time-bound experience.
- I will make
a list of my unique talents. Then I will list all the things that I love
to do while expressing my unique talents. When I express my unique talents
and use them in the service of humanity, I lose track of time and create
abundance in my life as well in the lives of others.
- I will ask
myself daily,"How can I serve?" and "How can I help?"
The answers to these questions will allow me to help and serve my fellow
human beings with love.
Summary:
The seven spiritual
laws of success are powerful principles that will enable you to attain self-mastery.
If you put your attention on these laws and practice the steps outlines
in the book, you will see that you can manifest anything you want- all the
affluence, money, and success that you desire. You will also see that your
life becomes more joyful and abundant in every way, for these laws are also
the spiritual laws of life that make living worthwhile.
There is a
natural sequence for the application of these laws in your life that may
help you to remember them. The Law of Pure Potentiality is experienced through
silence, through meditation, through non-judgment, through communion with
nature, but it is activated by the Law of Giving. The principle here is
to learn to give that which you seek. That is how you activate the Law of
Pure Potentiality. If you seek affluence, give affluence; if you seek money,
give money; if you seek love, appreciation, and affection, then learn to
give love, appreciation and affection.
Through your
actions in the Law of Giving you activate the Law of Karma. You create good
karma, and good karma makes everything in life easy. You notice that you
don't have to expend a lot of effort to fulfill your desires, which automatically
leads to an understanding of the Law of Least Effort. When everything is
easy and effortless, and your desires keep getting fulfilled, you spontaneously
begin to understand the Law of Intention and Desire. Fulfilling your desires
with effortless ease makes it easy for you to practice the Law of Detachment.
Finally, as
you begin to understand all the above laws, you begin to focus on your true
purpose in life, which leads to the Law of Dharma. Through the use of this
law, by expressing your unique talents and fulfilling the needs of your
fellow humans, you begin to create whatever you want, whenever you want
it. You become carefree and joyful, and your life becomes an expression
of unbounded love.
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that I enjoyed a lot myself with great people like you. The great gurus
and philosophers of ancient India have put a wealth, truly a treasure,
of knowledge and teachings for us. However most of us are lost in only
one direction- creating money and constantly justifying to ourselves,
and others, about how happy we are (externally). )
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