The secret is that there is no Secret

If books could transform and propel one to higher levels of existence, Arjuna would have not required Sri Krishna as his charioteer but would have won the war of Kurukhshetra by following the Bhagwat Geeta as a tool kit! The book would then have come before its Creator and we would have perhaps worshiped Sanjay (the narrator) or the unknown author and Sri Krishna would have probably receded in the back ground as just another mentor or teacher.

Sounds stupid and ridiculous right? But then isn't that what we are rampantly doing? Picking up some self-help book, using it as a tool kit and either imagining that we are on the way to enlightenment or if it doesn't work, dismissing the book as not effective. 

Wake-up man from your tool-centric self-imposed disability. Books were never meant to be and can never be your teachers and mentors. At the most, and that too a few selected books, can serve as sign posts to lead you to some place within yourself for exploration, assuming you are capable of 'reading'.

This mail that I received from one of my proteges a couple of days back reinforces my belief in the power of Transformational Coaching and mentoring. It urges me to write this blog to dispel the myth of all Secrets and for once attempt to awaken you too a reality that you also need a friend, a guide, a master - in short a awakened soul who is ready to mentor - to heal your fragmented existence and help you to move on your transformational journey.

The excerpts of the mail read as follows:

"I am writing to you, with a sense of achievement and an overwhelming feeling of gratefulness. 

I have completed my first milestone of this intent driven mentoring engagement. The successful completion of what I had set out to achieve in little more than a month seems like a magic. This wouldn’t have happened if I did not have your relentless guidance and encouragement to follow the discipline which we created mutually. 

When I started I didn’t even know where it would lead me to, except for my complete faith in you as a mentor. You helped me visualize my dream and create milestones and also enabled me to follow the path of intentful action where I am working on myself, clearing the webs that had held me back from achieving my dream and to create actions which would give me the response that I have been looking for. 

It seems magical to look back and see how did this happen. There was no best practice to be followed, none that you gave me either. There was only my intent and the dream I have which led me in the direction that I am meant to be going. There were days when nothing seemed to work, yet you helped me deal with my anxiety and apprehension and showed me that those days were most precious as they brought out the value of reflection from where came out never seen before approaches and strategies. 

What made it happen are two very important factors –

1.  The absolute surrender to the discipline I decided to follow
2. The Unshakable faith in my intent. .

I am now on the second leg of my journey, this reflection and sharing was a sojourn for me to get ready to move on. 

We started this engagement with a commitment from you and a commitment from me, you have honored your commitment and I am experiencing you continue to do so. 

As a token of gratitude I would at this point in time like to share with you a part of my success fee. I want to state this is in no way compensating for whatever I have received from you, its just a small gesture to show my love, faith and gratitude towards the process and to honor the engagement we got into."

This mail leaves me feeling touched and humbled. What awesome sense of self-respect and self-worth! It always over-whelms me to see, in this world full of self-assumed powerlessness and worthlessness, someone upholding the true worth of Being Human and showing promise of manifesting the Divine. 

You are the Krishna, You are the Christ

I lead you from being Serviced to being a Servant

In my walking along with you as a coach, mentor or just a guide I am doing no favor to you.

It is an act of Commitment, an act of service to the Unity of Man. It is living my Service Level Commitment (SLC) to myself through a relationship of servitude and not just delivering to a Service Level Agreement (SLA) through some transactions. It is the outcome of a shift from being Serviced to being a Servant. To the God-self. In you and in me. And in the Unity of you and me.

When you fall and break, licking the dust, I hold you up to see the possibility of your spirit breaking free.  Breaking free the life force to sprout into a flowering tree. And in your sprouting and breaking free do I release my shackled me.

When you are sad and break into tears, I collect them in my palm to help you see in each drop the Sea. And in your beholding this Sea do I manifest the Ocean in me.

When you defy the Law, you deny my existence. When you denigrate your dream, you deprive me of my journey. In your despondency, my Intent awakens. And in the awakening of my Intent, you reach out to your Destiny.

When you feel rejected, I uphold your Being, which is not your mind-body that can be accepted or rejected. And in upholding your Being, the triune of Supreme Consciousness, the Understanding and the Spirit of Existence makes itself manifest.

In being of service, I lead you from being Serviced to being a Servant. And in so being, you finally begin to Live. You finally begin to Love.

This is no excerpt from an inspirational self-help book. This is an act of authentic self-disclosure to all those who I am accompanying and have accompanied as a mentor, coach and guide. It is also an invitation to those who are waiting to cross over, on the edge of the Cliff of Existence. On the one side of which is Extinction and on the other, Evolution. It’s an invitation to them, to make a move and in doing so, join the never ending Celebration of Being the Man.  

Come to me. I am waiting for you. For in walking together through the duality of You and Me, shall you transform to realize the Unity. 

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Lead right, enable wise

The Leader leads himself before he imagines leading his men. Unto a realm of everlasting wealth, wisdom and well-being.

And in leading himself, the others are led. In knowing himself the others are known. In loving himself the others are loved.

He now moves from the limits of understanding to understanding of the limits and in this understanding he goes beyond; from choice making to making of the choice and in this making realizes the unique path; from holding the big picture to picturing the Big Hold and in this picturing uncovers the collective destiny.

He knows now to create from conflicts, draw passion from passivity and supervise with servitude.

He preaches not but practices, talks not but walks without shadows and makes every act of giving, profitable.

Sounds like a page from one of the self-development books? Nice to read, impossible to implement?

Far from it. In times like now, when all acquired knowledge seems to be limited, there are ways that are mystical which will lead to magical metrics. Ways that are hidden in the fog and mist of your past. 

Come to me and I will show you the way.

 

As a bodhisattva, I have been called upon to guide and accompany those who lead others to a new awakening.  Through Transformational Coaching and Executive Mentoring. And I live to help you lead right, enable wise.