Passion

Passion...
This word has been playing in my mind from the last two days.. ever since I heard Swami Chinmayanda's dvd in which he states that..
" Its important to have an ideal.. a goal ..
because without a goal, without any inspiration..
the best in you cannot come out.
When you want to achieve something , you bring out the best in you ,
The talents, the abilities, the capacities, which are now lying dormant in you, of which you are unaware, they will start bubling up to the surface.. once you have an inspired goal in your life..
You realize your strenghts and weaknesses when working towards your goal."

I thought how true, and looked back to my life, and found that whenever I needed to do something, which I had never done before, but wanted to..it went off very well..
and I thought,
'Well I never thought I had it in me to do it!'
Of course I worked very hard, but it was fun, and did not seem like work at all..
I was consumed by the work ..

Which brings me to Passion
What is passion.. I would define it as something which consumes all your mental energy joyfuly, when you can think of nothing else but the work at hand,,and even though you work night and day at it, you are not exhausted, but you feel energized.. Theres a buzz in your life...

Then I realized ..
This is akin to falling in love.. when all your energy and time is consumed in thinking about the love of your life...

This is the first tast of passion in the physical form..

It is this same Passion that one has to apply to life I thought..
For when there is passion in whatever you do, life becomes wonderful.. It becomes magical..
Things happen to you, things fall into place.
Your positive energy attracts into your life/sphere... events,people,things, etc...whatever is needed to get the job done.

So why is it that we dont teach our children to find their passion..

Why is success measured in terms of money and not in terms of ...
"Am I happy doing what I am doing.."
"How do I feel each morning?
"Am I excited about today!"

And if the answer to all the above is YES, then you are success..

That money is something which is in your destiny..
But happiness is in your hands..in doing what you love to do, in what you are are intrinsicly good at...

Which then led me to think, Why did God put this feeling of passion in us?

First at the physical level,
Then at the mental level via our work..

And then the answer came to me..

To Find the God within , there are 3 different paths..
1) The path of work or Karma yoga
2) The path of devotion or Bhakthi yoga
3) The path of knowledge and contemplation or Gyan yoga

I know a friend who is totally into bhakti, and does it with all her heart and soul..its her passion..
I am into the gyan path..its my passion, as you can sense it when reading my blog!
And we are both passionate about feeling/experincing the God within, even though our paths are different.

And that is the purpose of PASSION
To lead you from the physical,
To the mental,
To the most subtle.

For it is only at this level that you can experience the DIVINE ,which is ..
YOU.