THE HOLY WAR What’s In Your Head? By Guru Aditya Mudbhary ii Table of Contents Foreword ............................................................................................................................. 1 What’s The War All About? ............................................................................................... 2 Chapter One: Perceptions ....................................................................................... 3 Chapter Two: Emotions .......................................................................................... 4 Chapter Three: Freedom ......................................................................................... 5 Chapter Four: Curiosity .......................................................................................... 6 Foreword Firstly, it is wonderful to know that you have finally reached this moment in your life where internal peace maybe brokered and you may now understand yourself in a deeper sense. Therefore, congratulations should this book help you. This book is a work of art that seeks to understand a global problem which is invisible to the eye in the current times. The book looks into the internal problems faced by mankind, individually. The author believes that there is a war taking place, and it is taking place in your head. The war is between you and your head, and it is a battle that has plagued every person that has ever lived. Have you ever heard voices in your head that you don’t want? Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Have you felt emotions that are negatively affecting you and they occur randomly for no reason? Ever feel attacked by external forces through your brain? Well, if you have then the good news is this book seeks to broker peace and to bring absolute control to you. Personally, I hate long books so I will keep this as short as possible, so let’s get right to it. Aditya Mudbhary, THE HOLY WAR: What’s In Your Head? 2 What’s The War All About? The world is a magical place, it is a place of unlimited freedom. Things you thought or were taught as a child are all hypothesis for there is no human, animal, book, or anything that knows anything for sure. Math which maybe one concept that is almost impossible to believe to be non-concrete is in reality, non-concrete. For example, imagine that you were the first person to have thought of the concept of 1+1=2. Millenniums later, almost everything around us, from computers to rockets are built on the basis of math and that concept you brought to life. Therefore, math must be something we cannot question. But imagine, instead of 1+1=2, you began with the concept 1+1=3. Would we be able to create computers and rockets? Well, of course. That is because all things that we humans created over millenniums was built on trying and failing until something worked. Not because 1+1 actually equaled 2. So no matter what 1+1=, by repeated trails and errors for thousands of years, a different set of numbers might have led us to computers and rockets. I hope you understand my concept because things are going to get very wild and the exploration of the head will lead us to places we have never dreamed of. My point with the example above is that life as we know it, at least when it comes to thoughts and concepts, is limitless and is full of freedom. The issue lies here, your thoughts and concepts control your body, how you perceive things affects how you feel, and therefore, the head affects how you act and how you act affects the world around you. Do you see how powerful thoughts can be? People take their own lives because they didn’t know how to deal with their thoughts. People have conquered continents because they knew how to control their thoughts. Just remember this, it is you who finds a thought, and it is you who accepts or declines what that thought does to you. Perception is your crown, power and tool. It allows you to decide how that thought will affect you. The one thing I want to make sure you don’t get wrong from what I am saying is that, thoughts don’t magically lead to the changes you want. There is a rational set of steps that lead to the changes. You’ve heard of ancients stories of the great fight between the black and white wolves. You’ve heard of the stories of good versus evil, the devil versus god . It all leads down to the internal war that I speak of, the war between random thoughts and your control over them. Now we are not going to state what is good and what is bad, that is for you to decide. The point here is to give you total control over your thoughts. So what is the war all about? The war is as always, about control. What is the enemy? Your inability to control how thoughts affect you. Aditya Mudbhary, THE HOLY WAR: What’s In Your Head? 3 Chapter One: Perceptions So I’m going to tell you about the most valuable asset in the world, it is perception. It defies every law of economics, it gives you the power to defy everything or gives you the power to have everything you ever wanted in a blink of an eye. Perception might as well be what alchemists have been looking for all their life, the p hilosopher’s stone. A perception is individualistic, it is unique to everyone and there is an unlimited supply of perceptions. A perception is how you allow a thought to affect you. It is the process where a thought enters you, then you acknowledge that thought and decide what to make of that thought. If you want to make a toy made of plastic more valuable than a kilogram of gold, you can with perception. How? Share memories with the toy, play with it or give it to your child to play with. Over the years, when you get older you will learn that you give value to those things that make you happy. Money/Gold makes people happy because you can do a lot of things with it that will most probably make you happy. What happens when you have more money or gold than anyone in the world but you are about to die. You start to value other things that money can’t buy, things like memories. Imagine, someone you love who you can no longer see because you are about to die, used to play with that toy made of plastic. Imagine that the love of your life cannot visit you. A person walks in and asks you, what do you value more at this given time - a kilogram of gold or the toy the love of your life played with? All it took was a change in perception. The only thing that’s import ant now is if you take advantage of your own perception and how creative you can be with it. An example of creative changes in perceptions comes from a joke I heard in a stand-up where a child gets frustrated with his parents and shouts I hate being poor. The father of that child gets up and tells the child, “Hey, you aren’t poor, you’re broke”. Now what’s creative about that? Well, if you’re broke it tells you that you were never poor in the first place. That gives you confidence to get yourself back to the place you were. If you think about it, it’s always easier to do something you’ve already done , than to do something you’ve never achieved. If you’re rich and broke, it’s easier to get back to the top than to think you’re poor and you’re going to become rich. The second seems more unlikely. So with that, I leave you with a crown. Remember princes and princesses become kings and queens with a crown. The way they use the crown and its powers actually decides their future. How you use perception to your advantage strategically will determine your life. Never forget, you had to win a race against billions of other sperm cells to get life. No matter what anyone says, even yourself, you are special and you were born a champion. We live in a world of champions, and the world expects you to act like it. You came into this world, no one forced you in. You were a tiny cell giving whatever it takes to be first, to come alive and live amongst the giants. Look at you now, here you are as tall as the giants, living amongst them, you are one of them now. Aditya Mudbhary, THE HOLY WAR: What’s In Your Head? 4 Chapter Two: Emotions Thoughts leave room for decisions to be made. Perceptions lead in decision making and when that decision is made, emotions are created. Emotions are by far one of the most influential substances in life. Why is this? That is because emotions make you feel a certain way, and it is through feelings that new thoughts are found. It is a wild circle, a dangerous circle. Let me give you an example, a young boy falls in love with a girl. The young boy and girl talk and actually like each other. They begin texting each other. Normally the girl would text back within 3 to 4 minutes. Now, overtime the girl becomes a little busier and so she starts taking a little longer to text than she normally would. She still likes the boy, she is even starting to fall in love with him. The boy however feels neglected because she doesn’t text him as fast as she used to. Now perceiving and defining that feeling as neglect rather than the feeling of missing her is the problem. Perception is the decision maker, even between the conversions of emotion to thought, and thought to emotions. The boy decides that she has started ignoring him. A feeling through a certain perception has now led to a new thought. You can imagine what happens next, the boy has two options, he can either believe in this thought that he just created or decline that this thought is for real. He still has a chance to correct his past mistake, he has a chance to change everything at any given moment. All he has to do is change his perception. Now, perception is the most important aspect here. All the boy had to do was to define that feeling of her not texting him as fast as she used to as “a feeling of missing her” rather than neglect. The more he misses her, the more he knows how much she means to him. It would have led to him loving her more rather than create a sense of insecurity and anger. Being able to define your emotions in the right way is all it takes to have better thoughts, better mental health and of course achieving greater control over how you experience your grand prize, life. Aditya Mudbhary, THE HOLY WAR: What’s In Your Head? 5 Chapter Three: Freedom Oh freedom, the greatest prize and yet our greatest threat. What is freedom? The ability to do what we feel, whenever we feel it? Or is freedom the ability to do what we feel only when we have learnt to control our emotions through the control of our thoughts? I believe the second to be true because unless we have control of what we want, only then can we truly experience freedom for what it is, the experience of our true virgin desire uninfluenced by anyone or any form. It is therefore very important to understand the stark difference in the two definitions stated above, because if we believe in the first, we have been disillusioned and thus lost the holy war. Those who are unable to control their own emotions through thoughts are always influenced by others. And thus when doing what we feel whenever we feel it without the control of our emotions and thoughts leads us to do things that is not in our interest. So how can we know if we have control over our thoughts and our emotions? Well, the moment there are no unpleasant conversations in your head, the moment there are no more unjustified emotions that make you feel unpleasant and finally the moment you know your thoughts and emotions are aligned to what you want – that’s when you know you have control over your thoughts and emotions. What then? Once freedom is achieved, the greatest battle has been won. Control over your mind, body and soul is achieved. However, as the great Genghis Khan said: “ Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.” As with conquests, once freedom is achieved, finding things to do is what will be hard. The whole reason you lost control over yourself was because you achieved what you had set out to achieve. Your goals whatever they may be, completing college, reaching the Olympics, becoming world champion, establishing a profitable company or becoming a well-known public figure, once such goals are achieved if no desire is left, we are led astray into the abyss. It is in the abyss that we humans might lose our way. Aditya Mudbhary, THE HOLY WAR: What’s In Your Head? 6 Chapter Four: Curiosity When the abyss or void is starting to appear in one ’ s life, there is one word that overshadows all other things for defensive purposes, that is curiosity. This is a tool best learnt from cats, as they are incredibly curious creatures who wish to know more, who wish to experience more either through smell, vision or adventures into unchartered places. In ancient Egypt, Cats were not worshipped as gods themselves, but as vessels that the gods chose to inhabit, and whose likeness gods chose to adopt. They are the masters of control especially in times of void for they are normally fulfilled with all they need. Once the holy war has been won, it is inevitable that you will reach the pinnacle of the things you wished to achieve. When you feel you have nothing else to do or nothing else you need, a void is created. Through that void begins the sparks of curiosity. It is curiosity that leads you to a new place or new experiences. In these voids we find boredom, and because of boredom we start looking for new ways to enrich our lives. In finding these new ways, change is necessary. For change to happen, the way you perceive things must change. When perception changes, thoughts and emotions change. Through curiosity, your entire entity changes. They say change is inevitable, like a river. But the nature of rivers don ’ t change, they always flow. The sun might change its position however it stays illuminated and provides heat. The wind may change its direction but it blows. Therefore, the final point is that a person may perceive things differently but the nature of thoughts, perception and emotions remain the same. It is thus clear that you and only you have the power to let go of control over yourself, to allow thoughts, perceptions and emotions to go their own way. Aditya Mudbhary, THE HOLY WAR: What’s In Your Head? 7