Monday, 22, September 2014
Aging Gracefully
Ageing is a natural process . Accept this fact and make the best of it
at every age and stage.
Here are few tips:
Make use of your time. Put your wisdom, experience and your capabilities
to good use. A community always needs volunteers for teaching children,
narrating them stories from our classics, the Panchatantra, the Mahabharata or
the Ramayana. It is a wonderful way of passing on some wisdom and getting joy.
The enjoyment is on both sides.
Develop a hobby , something you enjoy doing, for the sake of doing .
writing , painting, paying, gardening or music are some subjects.
Don’t be back seat driver, allow your children to use their judgement
and choice, instead of constant interference and advice.
When they need advice an ask for it, then do give it. Only then it is
valued accepted.
Be generous in your behaviour, in your actions , in your thoughts. When
you forgive someone, you are doing
yourself a service.
Many physical problems stat in the mind. When we hold a grudge, it makes
us sick. It harms us more than them.
Don’t be a grumbler . look at what good in a situation, instead of what
was wrong. Some of us are always gloomy and spread gloom. Regular exercise.
Even if you have not done it before, it is never to lat to start and the
benefit starts from day one. A morning walk is most refreshing.
Smile a little more. It adds beauty to your face. Do look god and feel
good. Every age has its beauty and charm. There is nothing more beautiful than
the sight of a well turned out grandmother or a grandfather. (Courtesy : Better
Life)
Reading
For general improvement , a man should read whatever his immediate
inclination prompts him to; though if he has a science to learn, he must
regularly and resolutely advance . what we red with inclination makes a
stronger inclination. If we read without inclination half the mind is employed
in fixing the attention so there is but half to be employed on what we read. If
a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go
on, let him not quit to go to the beginning
He may , perhaps not feel again, the inclination.
Nature creates merit, and fortune brings it into play
Method and dispatch govern the world
Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta
And you become strongest when you
surrender all your strength to that great breeze of Grace that blows all the
time. For He alone is; we are only just a spark of that divine fire. We have
not to ru after, to pine after, Divine Grace; we have only to become
grace-worthy. And that grace-worthiness if what one gets by achieving manliness
through a life of self reliance, hard work, and struggle ot develop character
strength. This takes us closer and closer to that final spiritual revolution in
total self-surrender=praptti or sarnagati
When the mind is dominated by nature’s powers of tamas and rajas,
sarangati or self-surrender, if practised, will not be genuine. It is best then
to practise purusakara, or self-reliance, accompanied by a general feeling or
devotion and dedication to God. But, when the mind rises to the level of sattwa,
or even satwa –dominated rajas, it gets the capacity for self-surrender and the
appreciation of Divine Grace. It is at this level that bhakti shines at tis
purest and best, and human life reaches the level of spontaneity, naturalness
and effortlessness. The Srimad Bhagavatam gives a beautiful picture of such a
life, in its exposition of the nature of Bhagavatttama, the best among the
devotees , by the Navyagindrss
‘He is the best among the devotees of Hari(God) , who sees the Blessed
Lord as the Self in all beings (Shiva),and all beings in the Blessed Lord as
their Self
IF HE EXIST
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