What is transformation
you may find various types of transformation as mentioned in wiki's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation)
but lets generalize it... it is change in form...
if one can make statue out of stone its transformation of stone, or dish out of raw vegetables again its transformation. Changing its meaning or appearance or way we perceive it. Transformation of mind is when meaning is changed, example person might take a project as task/burden and later might take it as opportunity, this is transformation at level of mind as what has transformed is mind. One might see different meaning of same word, One might see physical change in object or change might just appear. It is restructuring of information, object, process etc. A bharatnatayam dancer may show 10 different mudras or emotions but dancer is same :). In vedanta transformation is basis of maya. And one may like to see beyond it.
It is important to see what is changing to notice what is unchanged all the time. What do we transform or restructure every time. It is being said, every end actually a begining, death is always followed by life, its transformation at physical level but something never changes. It is what we are made up of, stone is transformed into statue but material is still same. Words are transformed or meaning is transformed, but sound is same. Even the present state of stone is its transformed state from its earlier state, may be it was bigger stone, or molten lawa, or scattered atoms. What we see today is state which is already being transformed billion million times. At fundamental level nothing has ever transformed, and if that is understood, everything is one and same and there is no concept of even time or space. as nothing is changing with time, its exactly same, thus time is also meaning less parameter.
But since we are already in state which is transformed and designed to see transformed, and in trap of Maya, so lets enjoy it in being in it and understand it through its own rules and play with it little bit and do little bit transformation. People fall in trap of right and wrong, good and bad types of transformation, but lets see it as process and nothing else. People who understand the foundation are detached and thus nothing affects them, but if we are still part of beautiful transforming pattern, and have decided to get attached with this process of transformation we should understand transformation.
Few Things to be kept in mind about transformation.
What is not changing is consciousness.
Transformation is associated with energy.
what is transformed or resulted is in form of state, structure or sequence.
Some energy goes here and there in this process. Sometimes that energy is static and sometimes it is dynamic, when it is static it is change in structure of information and when it is dynamic in nature it is sequence. Knowing so much of transformation it is easy for one to transform from A to B. It can be journey or it can be just jump if you are lucky. But with little understanding it is easy to transform.
Now lets say you want to be more active person, or dynamic. Or you don't want to get affected with petty matters in life. Or you want to transform into Arnold type body or Einstein type brain. These all are example of transformation. Learning is transformation, acquiring skills is transformation, reading this blog is also transformation at certain level.
lets put in simple form your present state is point A and you want to go to point B.
There is not a single way, and we have our own ways, each of us have learned and mastered them.
Let me compare this A and B as two destination your home and your work place.
If you have been driving to your office, it is now your habit to follow particular directions, that is adopting transformation in habit form, it is important when you are changing destination. So habits are important, for shifting between local states like everyday we sleep and get up for office, so we need to just make it habit that moment my eyes are open or when i see 6 am, i will get up. Habit format works best.
Now lets compare A and B as two cities, your home town and your present town. These transformations are not like habit, we are either in this state or other. Being from active to dynamic. Being from follower to leader. or novice to expert, learning license to driving license. Sometimes its permanent transformation ( learning swimming) and sometime it needs to be practiced. Key for such transformation is announcements(sankalp) and reminding self about that announcement (add motivational factor or imaginative) and constantly working towards it.
There might be more examples but major are these two. In first key is habit and in second key is announcement(sankalp) along with continuous effort. Key here means one of the important point in reaching to point B. There are many but I have mentioned what I felt is simplest.
May be this will be helpful for people to reach or to transform them self. Identify your point B, also identify if you want to be there for long and how long or permanently and choose one of the strategy suggested. Or learn that there are no two points.
