Is there good or wrong? Or are they just concepts, which if they not affect you in any harmful way, there are good, if not they are bad.

Is there truth and lie? And is it bad to lie? What is more important telling the truth, or the intention of a lie?

“What is the appropriate thing to do in every situation? This is how life should be lived…” Sadhguru

Paying attention to life and trying to understand each action, will just bring joy and calmness to your life. Once you understand, if there is no other way, you can endure with a smile on your face, if there is another way, manipulate the “rules” of the universe in your own betterment, your own convenience.

“Yoga teaches us to cure what needed not to be endured and endure what cannot be cured.” bks iyengar

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One day in Rishikesh, India “the capital of yoga”, a teacher was finishing his class. Now this is a thing that happens on a daily basis, monkeys where gathering at the door steps of the class. Very intrigued by the dozens of shoes lying in front of the room.

When alone, the monkey are peaceful, but sometimes they turn out to be aggressive.

The people in the class where afraid of coming out from the room and they were all looking at their teacher to go first, so he could scare the monkeys away.

Now the teacher knew, that the monkey can turn aggressive and he turning aggressive, himself it will lead to a bad example to class, he was just talking about ahimsa the whole hour.

Ahimsa (Sanskrit: अहिंसा; IAST: ahiṃsā, Pāli:avihiṃsā) is a term meaning ‘compassion’ and ‘not to injure’. The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hiṃs – to strike; hiṃsā is injury or harm, a-hiṃsā is the opposite of this, i.e. cause no injury, do no harm.Ahimsa is also referred to as nonviolence, and it applies to all living beings – including all animals – according to many Indian religions.

Ahimsa is one of the cardinal virtues and an important tenet of 3 major religions (Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism). Ahimsa is a multidimensional concept,inspired by the premise that all living beings have the spark of the divine spiritual energy; therefore, to hurt another being is to hurt oneself. Ahimsa has also been related to the notion that any violence has karmic consequences. While ancient scholars of Hinduism pioneered and over time perfected the principles of Ahimsa, the concept reached an extraordinary status in the ethical philosophy of Jainism. Most popularly, Mahatma Gandhi strongly believed in the principle of ahimsa.

But as he was coming out the class the monkeys were in shock and attempted to attack him. He just stood there, and their attempt happened, so they started biting the teacher, people were screaming and come into the rescue of this person.

 People as the monkey where filled with anger and scared about the event that just happened.

But the teacher had an epiphany, he remembered a resembling story about a guy called Jesus, when he was attacked and put to a cross, because he was different in the conception of others, as he was a strange concept to monkeys, and out of fear they decided to kill him.

Now he could never understood the peace on Jesus face and he was apologizing for the acts of these lost people for God to have mercy on them.

The teacher understood that this is happening every day, this is the response of most of beings here on earth, respond to fear with power, destruction.

Destroy that which you don’t understand. He understood that compassion, diplomacy and a certain understanding is needed towards all situation. Because aggressiveness will just build more aggressiveness, but peace will slowly soften the heart of all living beings and slowly build a peaceful world and sometimes ones suffering cannot be avoided in order for others to take a lesson.

He was just smiling with tears in his eyes, raising up, felt that he was actually touched by life, he had a sense of understanding life and the universe, as he was recovering from his shakedown. Because life sometimes give you lessons trough pain.

His further steps were to feed the monkey, every day if possible and make them used with human presence, and treat them as superior, like this they will never feel threatened again. Because he was superior, he had the understanding, he was more aware so it was his duty to raise others. 

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Life is full of such events, but when you understand there is a higher purpose to your life than the “difficult” steps that the universe brings in your path, life gets a lot easier.

After all, we really are just spirits occupying a body and every matter has a start and an end.

Live your life purposely, and even if it is for a second a day, act and be what you have been before you were born here, a compassionate living being, be grateful for every moment you exist in this human form and help others to raise with you. Not for them but for you, because is so boring to be the only enlightened person on earth.

Nap, listen to beautiful music, move, think, feel, breath, bath, love, read and try to live your life through the experience of all your senses. And when you start getting tired of them, develop new ones.

The kind of senses where is enough just to stay with your eyes closed, shutting down all other senses, bringing you in a state of peace, comfort, joy and  gets you in touch with your “grandmother”, which is not earth, but the universe itself.