The fruitfulness and significance’s of life lies in making one’s life one big UTSAV.
When mind is at peace, body at rest, heart in love, soul in tranquility, and energy in its optimal balanced state or in coherence… then it is a state of Bliss, an Utsav inside your body.
There are birth to be cherished , victories to be celebrated, festivals to be enjoyed, which make us Blissful. Those people who are spiritual, become blissful by experiencing the oneness with their ISHTA. Those who practice Yoga become blissful by experiencing oneness with self through pranayama and meditation. Those who are artists become blissful by getting lost in their art.
Bliss can although be made a perennial state of being. It can be harnessed and cultivated. It will be created through following a life of Discipline.
A comparative new trend in the philosophical spiritual world is BLISSIPLINE… BLISS THROUGH DISCIPLINE.
Blissipline is a concept that combines discipline and bliss to help people achieve their goals while enjoying the process. It’s based on the idea that when people practice discipline towards their goal with such intensity that it brings them immense joy.. the bliss.
The concept of Blissipline can help achieve a healthier mindset and live a more meaningful life.
In Michael Bernard Bechwith’s, ‘Life Visioning: A Four Stage Evolutionary Journey to Divine Love’, he coined the term Blissipline.
Bechwith’s Blissipline
- Focussed on the process, on the entire path towards the goal rather than just achieving the goal.
- Is driven by the inherent positive energy, rather than fear.
- Is all about knowing what’s right for you.
- Is all about celebrating the fundamentals of life.
The more this bliss grows, the more we are able to share and shine in the world and help grow bliss in others.
Now this is exactly what our Sanatana Shastra have been incessantly been telling. The whole gamut of existence is about making a human reach a stage where he is always in bliss. Our only purpose is to remain always at joy.
Hence the culture of celebration is intricately woven into our daily lives in our Sanatana culture. Every tithi holds immense value and is observed and celebrated in some profound way to enhance its effectiveness.
Observing the rituals, the ceremonies in our culture in a strict disciplinary way invariably enthuses extreme positivity in our lives and makes us reach a stage of perennial bliss.
Chaitra Shukla pratipada marks the beginning of the Hindu new year calender. It is the New beginnings of new cycle of life, new harvest, new cycle of seasons.
Our Sanatana Dharma revels the cyclical nature of Death and Life, of Shiv and Shakti, of Purush and Prakriti. Chaitra Navami starts this cycle with the celebration of life, of Shakti, of Prakriti. Nine nights and nine days we will worship nine forms of Adi Parashakti in extremely disciplined atmosphere, with deep austerity, and with this complete awareness that ‘which is not’… SHIVA is only Shava without an activating energy I( ee as pronounced).
This first date of Chaitra Shukla paksha is also celebrated as Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra, Goa, Daman and Diu.. as Ugadi in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka .. as Cheti Chand by Sindhis, Samvatsar Padvo by Hindu Konkanis, Baisakhi in Punjab..Vishu in Kerala..Puthandu in Tamil Nadu.. Poila Baisakh in West Bengal… and Navreh in Kashmir.