Switch to Living Mode by Swami Brahmdev
Kumar Raghavan
When you board an aircraft, you switch on the airplane
mode in your phone. Just like that, in life, too, make an essential switch from
survival mode to living mode. The survival mode is full of questions: what will
happen to me in the future, where will i live? How will i fit into society and
that too “successfully”?
The predominant emotion is that of fear — fear of change. you want
to keep as many things as unchanged as possible.
In the living mode, change becomes excitement. Life becomes an adventure you
seek in your dreams. Change means betterment, advancement.
Once you switch on the living mode, the universe gets busy supporting you. It
is like switching on the phone when you land, all connectivity begins. So, too,
with life when you switch on the living mode. All connectivity begins. It is
happy news for the planet that one person has started living and is not content
just surviving.
Sometimes you may worry that by switching on the living mode, by doing that
which is not routine, you may upset your kith and kin. Do not worry, you will
actually help them also move forward, start living. Every new action is met
with some resistence till you understand why.
Where is the switch? Where is the button that you have to press to change your
mode? It lies embedded in experiences.
If you let your experiences teach you, you will
be able to allow any difficulty, problem, any faltering of your step to show
you the right way. If you are closed to the experience and think life is being
unfair to you, then you cannot reach the switch. If you listen to what the
experience is saying, it will show you how to press the switch.
Once you think you have pressed the living mode,
follow six activities daily. If you do this regularly, automatically the living
mode will be strengthened.
First when you wake up in the morning, smile at
life. Look at life and declare how much you love it. Physically smile. It
helps.
Second, fold your hands together in a namaskar
to the whole universe. By doing so you are thanking every being, the sun, the
moon all things around you. This is the simplest way to establish contact with
the world around you. Once you do that they know you are there and they will
take care of you.
Third, never allow any negative thought to enter
your head. The moment you see a negative thought coming, delete it. Counter it
with a positive thought. Resolve that you will think only positively, see
things only in a positive light.
Fourth, aspire for something for the day. Plan
how you would like that day to be. Aspiration is different from desire in that
desire has an inherent demand hidden inside it. Aspiration comes with the
dominant emotion of giving. Any goal that involves your giving is an
aspiration.
Fifth, never feel alone or lonely. Feel the
universe is with you, all the time, everywhere.
Sixth, at night before going to bed, tell the
divine to organise your life. You are taking care of the day-to-day planning,
let the divine do the larger planning.
This way your living mode will come on and life
will become fully blissful.