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Monday, May 27, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
ARE YOU A CAPABLE PERSON?
Monday,
20th May 2013
ARE
YOU A CAPABLE PERSON?
When
you are a capable person life flows smoothly to get on with any job. Here is a
test for you to try. Answer “Yes” or “No” to the questions before turning to the key at
the end.
Are
you good at getting on with your work?
Is
it your habit to organise the day ahead so that you are never in confusion?
Do
you select the essential and do that first
Do
you tackle one job at a time, not do a bit of this and a bit of that?
Do
you divide long, complicated or monotonous jobs into convenient stages and
finish each stage n turn before continuing the next?
Do
you finish jobs, not leave them half-done?
Do
you take a pride in every thing you do and give it your best?
Do
you work at fining the reason for anything going wrong?
Are
the setbacks and failures a challenge to you to further effort?
Do
you welcome responsibility and being left in charge?
Are
you good at helping other people sort out their difficulties and troubles?
Are
you good at working with other people and getting them to work with you ?
Do
people listen to you when you find fault and make suggestions?
Are
you good at doing the small maintenance jobs in your house?
Could
you feed and look after yourself satisfactorily if you were left in the house
on your own?
Are
you methodical about handling your correspondence and keeping a record of your
financial incoming and outgoings?
Are
you good at adapting yourself to different people , change of plans , different
circumstances?
Are
you good at coping with emergencies?
Do
you know enough about first aid and home nursing to be able to render reliable
assistance?
Could
yo handle a quarrelsome fellow effectively ?
Count
five marks for every “Yes’” A score of 70 plus is good and 60 to 70
satisfactory 50 to 60 may be counted fair but under 50 is poor.
Try
being interest if yo want to be a capable person when you are interested, you
have the desire to do things and enjoy doing them with other people .
If
you do not know what you like doing and have no sense of satisfaction in
accomplishment. It is easy to become indifferent to any job and end up
incapable of doing anything
Best
Tonic is Laughter
Best
ornament is Humility
Richest
wealth is Wisdom
Strongest
weapon is patience
Best
security is Faith
Best
tonic is Laughter.
Create
confidence
For
confidence promotes Love
Love
fosters Peace
Peace
nourishes Truth
Truth
confers Happiness.
Better
World
The
world today would be much better
If
each man starts loving the other,
If
all evils and sins are shun,
If
all men behave as one.
If
all greed and envy is shed.
If
all ugly thoughts are suppressed,
If
each man has faith in the other,
If
each considers the other a brother
If
friends reman true,
If
enemies are few,
Oh,
what a wonderful place the world would be then!
I
have heard that your father was a gentleman
Thomas
Moore, the poet, came of a humble family, a fact which made him to be proud of.
At the height of his fame, he was invited to join a fashionable London Club
dinner. At the meeting he was approached by a Lord who said to him, “Mr, moore
I came to understand that your father was a shopkeeper” Indeed it is so and a
very honest one too”, replied Moore. How interesting , said the noble man, “
May I ask why you did not follow his footsteps” Because sir my talents are limited”,
replied Moore and added. “I have heard that your father was a gentleman, why
you do not follow his footsteps”
Quote
from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Such
analysis can direct the mind of man towards his own real nature and towards Him
who is his real friend through eternity . Madhvachrya says that though tun
universe is made up of three factors –matter, souls and God-still these are
independent existences our goal is God. Real happiness and real wisdom, He
alone can give . in order to go to Him we must go away from the world. We
belong to God and not to matter, since we are spirit. How are we to go to God?
This world, this universe, is infinite in every way. Its age is eternal, and
its extent is infinite; even the swiftest locomotive engine can neve take me
out of space. But in order to go to God, I must go out of the world, because
God si extra cosmic. How? Here all Aryan philosophers agree Sri Madava says I
am distinct from the world; so I can separate myself from the world, so I can
separate myself from it by closing the gateway of my sense. Thus I can go
towards God. Let me analyse a portion of the world to find out its nature, for
it is like understanding the nature of the ocean by analysing a few drops of
its water. Take for instance, the chair before me, it has from, hardness, etc.
and form, touch and taste exist so long as there are eyes, skin, and tongue, by
which we perceive them. In this way, if the world si full of phenomena, no
phenomenon an exist without the corresponding sense of perception. I too ,just be one of the factors
by which all these have come into existence, if I can separate myself in any
way from these then the world of phenomena will vanish.
But
Madhavachrya also believes in the indestructible nature of phenomenon when he
localises them in the eternal and infinite mind of God.
But,
if He exists?
I
drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and
evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed
at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on
something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well,
if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He
exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten
minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy
that I derive 4m.
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
What is Real Culture?
Monday, 13th May 2013
What is Real Culture?
What distinguishes a human being from billon of other creature that share the Earth with him not his ability to think or reason , but the opportunity God has given him to close the gap between himself and him through evolution
The first step he has to take in that direction is to imbibe culture. A formidable quantity of literature exists in ever language spoken on Earth which describes what culture is . culture is what we need to acquire as we grow up and mature from infancy to childhood to teenage to youth to middle age to old age, through observation acceptance , and absorption through discipline.
That is why during Brahmacharya Ashrama the period of learning, the brhmachari is ordained to live a simple life , his wants reduced to bare essentials, his enter focus remaining on education . His mind thus focused on learning a lone, remains undisturbed and he lives a life of purity in the sanctified precincts of the “ashrama” of his Guru , and his mind blossoms in its ambience.
It is only when the teacher is entirely satisfied that his pupil has gained sufficient knowledge, expertise, and is capable and wise enough is he given permission to return to the society to be productive and contribution member. It is only at this stage he is qualified to marry. From this stage onwards he continues his pilgrimage of life with his wife, described as ‘dharma patni’ one who follows the path of ‘dharma along with him.
When he acquires a wife, it does not mean that someone comes to live with him who would serve him, meet his needs and bear his children . the sacred Mantras he has to chant during marriage rituals are profound in meaning. They are in effect, a sacred oath, taken with Agni, the God of Fire , as witness.
During the ‘samskara’ of Viovaha ‘ he seeks from his bride companionship , a mate , one who would share his joys and sorrows , someone who would always stand by him, encourage him, and be a source of comfort and solace. She would be of equal status , indeed. One entity in two bodies . in return, he promises to give her everything as much as he seeks from her or more, treat her as friend and a companion, one who is his equal.
To me , it is this promise which embodies real culture. Only those who treat their spouses as their equals and as companions and truly cover them with warmth , affection, love and adoration, throughout their life together, can be called person of real culture. Only when such a bond exists between a husband and wife , can culture radiate.
A person may be a great scholar. He might be a wealthy person. He might also be a very powerful person. He could be any of these and more. However, if that person doesn’t lvie up to the sacred oath he takes, when he takes the hand of a damsel in his own and asks her to be his wife, he is yet to acquire what true culture is.
Unity of Indian Culture
There are three outstanding features of India’s cultural and social life. First , its fundamental unity in the midst of the baffling diversity , second , its capacity to absorb and adjust; and third , its power to survive and consequent continuity. This is composite culture in the sense that, although in the ultimate analysis . it is Indian in origin, it has not hesitate to absorb whatever came in its way from other lands and others peoples in its long and chequered career. Thus in the languages. Religions , life, customs and traditions of the people , there has been a continuos flow and intake from outside. Whatever has come in its way has been absorbed and assimilated and ahs become apart and parcel of its own inheritance. If one dares peep into the future, one can say that the horoscope of this exquisite and composite culture is not yet exhausted, and it may , in the future as in the past, furnish in its own humble way, the technique and practical experience of binding in unbreakable but soft and silken cords of active love and tolerance (courtesy Better live)
Qoute from the True charm and power of Vedanta
Vednata means the latter portion of the Vedas. So before we can understand the Vedanta, we must know something of the former portion of the Vedas ie, the Vedas proper . The Vedas were originally one. Sri Krishna, Dvaipayana, seeing the materialistic tendency and the mental inferiority of the people of the kali age. Divided the Vedas into four sections –Rik, Yaju, Sama and Atharva. The word Veda is from the root Vid, ‘to Know’ so Veda means science, for the word Science also is derived from ‘scio’ or I know’ The modern age glories in thinking that it is exceptionally scientific. Let us compare modern science with that science which goes by the name of the Veda. Modern science treats of the whole universe, and it has found out that indestructibility of matter. It has also taken up for consideration the human mind and the soul. But unfortunately its conclusions are not definite. Some plainly confess that it si not possible for them to know about the existence of the should, while some others doubt and still others ignore it. They have given us this idea of the universe, that it si guided on all sides by blind forces. An unconscious, dull metal universe is the picture we have of our environment. It is soulless , dead universe . this is the picture given b modern science.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Respect every human Being
Monday, 6th May 2013
Respect every human Being
We have several wonderful scriptures, for example , srimad Bhagavatam, it is a very holy book in which a Divine being taking a human form tells us. “If you insult me in human beings; Do not worship me in an image in a temple. I will not accept that worship”
That was the wrong we in India did in the past centuries. We insulted God n man and worshipped Him only in the temple . so nothing happened to us except political slavery and foreign invasions.
Now we have learned this lesson. All this distinction of caste and creed must be put to an end to Respect every human being. The divinity hidden within all. Among the verses in the Srimad Bhagavatam referred to above God in His human form as Kapila gives the advice to Devahuti, his mother . Here is the meaning of that famous verse.
“Worship Me in all being as their self who are already my temples by removing their left wats and respecting them with an attitude of friendliness and non –separateness”.
Swami Vivekananda referred to the central theme of this verse in his lecture on “Future of India” delivered in Madras in 1897. “Do not merely serve people but worship them. “ he said, service with respect becomes worship . There is divinity in every human being. Therefore, worship Me in every human being. I have built a temple for myself in everyone of them. Worship Me, not merely serve Me.
How to worship God in men? It can be done by removing their earthly wants. If they are hungry, find food, if they are unemployed find employment for them, If they are suffering from diseases, find medical treatment for them. In every way, try to remove their felt wants. That is called “Daana” . While doing so, also respect them. Do not look down upon them. What a beautiful idea of inter human relations?-Then comes a friendly attitude . “ I am your friend “
When town people go to village to help the villagers , the villagers suspect them. People there have been exploited all the time. So make them realise that you are their friend. Then comes a wonderful word, an attitude of non –separateness. There is the same Atman in you and in me.
Serve people respect them. Look upon them as a spank of the divine whether they are Christians, Muslims Hindu or low class” This ancient Vedantic message India receives today from Sri Ramakrishna Swami Vivekananda and Holy Mother Sarada Devi through both teaching and example Except from his speech delivered at Madurai)
Find True Happiness within You Heart
Hopelessness, anxiety, worry and irritability cannot cure the ills against which they are directed. They only add more misery to the troubles hat prompt them. The cultivation of a calm spirit cannot be overlooked if lie is to yield any measure of usefulness and happiness. Even greater troubles, which annoy, would soon dissolve and disappear if confronted with a temper that refuses to be disturbed. Personal aims, wishes , sachems, and pleasure will meet with checks, rebuffs and obstacles; and it is in learning to meet these reverses in wise and calm spirit that we find the true and abiding happiness with our heart .
Quote from the Cham and power of Vedanta
As thought guides all our bodily activities , so the Sages found that thought was the best medium for directing this life force. How little attention we pay to this great instrument which is placed in our hands by God Almighty! How often we abuse or misuse it! Yet our actions can never produce the best results until our thoughts are properly regulated. Only as we cease to dissipate our mental energies and are able to establish a balance between our outer and our inner activates, between our body and our mind , can we hope to have either peace or strength.
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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