Apple Tree & the Boy

Monday, December 28, 2015

Apple Tree & the Boy

Long ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy used to come and play around it. He used to climb the tree and eat apples. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by. The little boy grew up and no longer played around the tree.

One day, the boy came back to the tree, looking sad. “Come, play with me” the tree said to the boy. “ I am no longer a kid. I don’t play around trees anymore, the boy replied. I need money to buy things for me. “

“Sorry . I don’t have money but you can pluck all my apples and sell them. Then you will have money”

The boy was very excited. He grabbed all the apples and left happily. The boy never came back after plucking the apples.

The tree was sad.

One day , the boy (now a young man) returned and the tree was excited . “Come with me” the tree said, “I don’t have time to play I have to work for my family . we need a house for shelter. Can you help Me?”

“Sorry , I don’t have a house. But you can chop off my branches to build your house, said the tree.

So , the boy cut down all the branches and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back The tree was again lonely and sad.

One hot summer, the boy (now a middle age man) returned and the tree was delighted “Come , play with me!” the tree said.

“I am getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?”

“Use my trunk to build your boat. You an sail far away and be happy” So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never returned for a long time.

Finally , the boy returned (now an aged man) after many years. “Sorry, my boy. But I don’t have anything for anymore” the tree said with tears “I don’t need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired, after all these years”, the boy replied.

Moved by the boy’s plight the tree said, “Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest. Come sit down with me and rest. The boy sat down. The tree was glad and smiled with tears.

The little story is for everyone . The tree is like our parents . when we are young, we love to play with them when we grow up, we leave them. And only come to them when we need something. No matter what, our parents are always there to give us everything they can afford to, for our happiness. You may think the boy was cruel to the tree, but that is how most of us are. Courtesy Wisdom

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Prayer in Daily Life

Since we are engaged in different types of activities, we are bound to get influenced by different types of people and surroundings. Sometimes, even our own mind creates problems for us . Success in work gives rise to egotism. Which leads to arrogance and a superiority complex. Failures make us depressed and create inferiority complex. Guided by our own impure intellect we err and try to justify it with futile arguments Sometimes, we neglect our duties and responsibilities and try to escape from problems, out of fear or weakness. To handle day-to-day affairs. We need to train our intellect, mind, emotions and feelings ,without which we cannot have a happy and peaceful life. This can easily be achieved by developing a prayerful attitude thought-out the day. In Christianity, this is known as ceaseless prayer. Asked by Arjuna Sri Krishna suggested some techniques. “Remember me constantly and then fight” Let us seek divine guidance remember Him and pray in Him for right understanding. Courtesy The power of Prayer and The Art of Positive Thinking

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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Golden Words

Monday, December 21, 2015

Golden Words

Your country requires heroes, be heroes. Stand firm like a rock Truth always triumphs

Great things can be done by great sacrifices only.

It is the struggle against Nature and not conformity to Nature that makes man what he is.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Swami Vivekananda

Purity , patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all, Love

Plowing- Most Important Human Occupation

Plow is a tool used in agriculture to prepare large areas of ground for planting. The plow cuts into the soil to a certain depth, lifts it. Turns it over and breaks it up. Plowing has been one of the most important human occupations since the Bronze Age. When the first plows were made.

Until the dawn f the Bronze Age, about 3500 B.C the spade and the hoe were the only implements used to prepare the ground for planting.

In North America while men first introduced the plow to the Indians. The first plow was merely the forked branch of a free. Roughly shaped and dragged along the ground by man. Later man started using oxen and in some Western Counties the oxen were replaced by horses and mules.

In the 18^th century cast Iron plows made their appearance New improvements were made later by the American Charles Newbold and John Deere that had speeded up the process of plowing . After 1850, the introduction of steam plows led to the cultivation of vast areas of land.

Today enormous areas of land are plowed swiftly and efficiently by multibladed machines drawn by powerful diesel tractors. Courtesy wisdom

We have just enough religions to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Have Sraddha________

We always say, even at the time of initiation that without devotion and faith it does not become fruitful. Hence we must have faith. One has to receive the mantra with sraddha. Only then the mantra, like a seed, will sprout and flourish into a full grown tree, bearing flowers and fruits. Hence it must be borne in mind that preparedness before receiving the spiritual initiation is mandatory. In fact, nothing is spiritual life can be achieved without preparation.

The scriptures recommend that a spiritual seeker must approach the guru for learning the ideal by being serviceful, humble, with selfless devotion, making himself pure and blemshless. Why is so much importance laid in the scriptures on preparedness? The reason is , the moment is an invaluable one, when the name of God is presented to us. Receiving that holy name in our heart with faith and devotion and concentrating our mind on it, if we can dive deep into our being, like the oyster, and remain engrossed in it, the most valuable gem will take shape within us. This is to be especially borne in mind. We get this lesson for the teachings of Sri Rama Krishna. Courtesy spiritual Initiation

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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My Best Friend

Monday, December 14, 2015

My Best Friend

In a church there was a very good priest who was loved by everyone except for one old man who used to ring the bell . After every sermon the devotees would praise the priest, saying what an excellent speaker he was. But as soon as they had left that old man would go up to the priest and only criticize him. He would find fault with him in every possible way. The father listened to all this patiently and kept quiet but the devotees got very angry when they realized what was happening. They started to call this old man the devil.

After few years the old man died. The devotees were quite happy about this. They went to the priest and said. The devil is finally dead” The priest kept quiet for some time and then with a sad expression on his face said; “Alas! I lost my only friend.” The devotees did not understand what he meant and so he explained. Remember I am not a worldly man. I want to reach God. I want to be humble and remove my ego. But your praises only helped to inflate my ego the old man was the only one who pointed out my mistakes. By making me humble , he brought me closer to God. That is why he was my best friend.” –Swami Amritagitananda –courtesy “Matruvani”

Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

‘When the notion and attachment that one is the physical body is dissolved, and the supreme Self is realized, whenever the mind goes (there) one experiences Samadhi

By thus presenting the universe , in its fundamental aspect, as pure Consciousness only. Vedanta does not destroy the universe or its matter but only illumines the true nature of both, just as modern quantum and relativity physics does not destroy the stable structures of the physical world by presenting the world as an ocean of energy only, but says that the stable familiar world presented by classical physics I sonly a limiting case of the world presented by quantum and relativity physics.

Knowledge does not destroy but it only illumines, says Vedanta. The material universe of daily experience which physics sets about to study, will reveal its true from as pure Consciousness, when physics dissociates the matter that it studies from the dogma of ‘materialism’ that it wrongly associates with it, says Vedanta . Materialism is an intruder in physical science while matter is useful working concept of it , says Thomas Huxley.

The physical universe, we see and know but never experience; consciousness, we experience but nee see and know in that way. Vedanta as philosophy combines knowledge with experience. That is the meaning of Wisdom. courtesy science and religion

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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How To Overcome Feeling of Inferiority?

Monday, December 07, 2015

How To Overcome Feeling of Inferiority?

There is an essential element in human lie, without which we cannot face the world successfully. That element is self respect.

With self respect you can conquer the world. Without it you are defeated. It should be your firm belief that you are worthy to yourself and to your community.

If you suffer from feeling of inferiority , understand how the feeling has come about, why it persists in your life and take practical steps to be free from such feeling.

A person felt bad in the presence of other people. When it is analyzed it was fond that as a young boy he had a humiliating experience at a party. Later he tired to forget about it. But the experience had stayed with him.

A great deal of inferiority feeling is an expression of earlier humiliation. A small girl was sure of her mother’s affection. The one ambition of her infant life was to be accepted and loved by her mother. To her surprise a brother was born. She developed the feeling that her mother loved the baby but does not love her. And so inferiority feeling troubled her.

What does a child do when in his search for satisfaction finds himself  humiliated? He turns the energies that would normally go into fulfillment and happiness and employs them n his rebellion.

As he cannot find fulfillment in acceptance and love secretly he becomes the enemy of those who seem to “trouble” him and in rebellion, he gets a kind of satisfaction.

As he cannot get his joy out of being admired, he will suffer until his heart suffers with pain. This practice becomes habit forming. You must break this pattern of life at all costs.

As a child, you felt yourself rejected and therefore felt worthless. This was you first mistake. It is the first error you must rectify.

Now repeatedly, you must tell yourself you are wanted and loved you must break the feeling of humiliation and revenge by understating its origin and by giving up the habit that rooted itself in your life.

You must create a new pattern of life. You cannot do it in a day. Constantly the old pattern of worthlessness will try to assert itself again. But you must tontine to try and overcome such feeling.

Tell yourself that you are as good as anyone else .insist on happiness and fulfillment. Build a new habit of thought and experience. Develop feeling of hope, optimism ad happiness. Start every day by strengthening your determination.

Make sure what your real desires are. Do your really want happiness. Affection and success? Work this out every morning before you start the day, Once you have the right burring desire coupled with determination, the way to freedoms is in your hands.  

Believe in yourself. Increase your self respect and appreciate your value . Know you are wanted and loved. Start life afresh knowing that the new satisfaction of love and acceptance are richer in reward. Courtesy wisdom

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

We should pray for the welfare of all. We should behave in such a manner that no one’s feelings are hurt and no harm is caused to anyone. We must not do anything by which anyone is hurt physically or mentally or whereby evil befalls anyone. The scriptures speak of Ahimsa or non injury. It not only implies not hurting physically or mentally anyone it also means not to think ill of others or harm others. This must be practiced in thought, word and deed.

We must hold on to truth always in such a way that under no circumstance should we deviate from it. We should never have recourse to falsehood. We must honour our commitments. Sri Ramakrishna used to say, One who holds on to truth rests in the lap of God” He further says. “Truth fullness is the austerity for Kaliyuga” I am not saying that it is easy to tick to truth. It is to at al easy. We will have to make a lot of sacrifice in life to observe truthfulness. Hence, it is never an easy job. But we should not forget that holding on to truth is our ideal courtesy spiritual imitation

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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Philosophy of existence.

Monday, November 30, 2015

Life Can Begin at 60

Many people feel unhappy after 60 years of age owning to less importance given to them. But it need not be se, if only we understand the basic principles of life and follow them. Here are few tips to age gracefully and make life pleasant after retirement.

Never say I am aged: There are three ages chronological , biological and psychological. The first is calculated based on our date of birth: the second is determined by the health condition and the third is how old you feel you are. While we don’t have control over the first, we can take care of our health with good diet. Exercise and cheerful attitude. A positive attitude and optimistic thinking pattern.

Health is wealth: if you really love your kith ad I, taking care of your health should be your priority. Thus you will not be a burden to them. Have an annual health checkup and take the prescribed medicines regularly. Do have health insurance cover.

Money is important: Money is essential for meeting the basic necessities of life. Keeping good health and to ensure family respect. Don’t spend beyond your means. It is time you enjoyed a harmonious life with your spouse. If your children are grateful and take care of you. You are blessed. But never take it for granted.

Relaxation and recreation: Most relaxing and recreating conditions are healthy religious attitude, good sleep and laughter. Have faith in God, learn to sleep well, love good music and see the funny side of life.

We should accept change –it is inevitable change ay bring out many pleasant things.

Observe selflessness: All of us are basically selfish; Whatever we do, we expect something in return . we should definitely be grateful to those who stood by us. But our focus should be on the internal satisfaction and happiness we derive by doing good to others, without expecting anything in return.

Forget and forgive: don’t bother too much about others mistakes. For the ask of our own health and happiness , let us forgive and forget them.

Take life as it comes; Accept yourself as you are and accept others for what they are.

Over come the fear of death; We all know that one day we have to leave this world Still we are afraid of death. We think that our spouse and children will be unable to withstand our loss But the truth is no one is going to die for you; they may be depressed for some time Time heals everything. (Courtesy Hindu)

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Philosophy of existence.

All human begins struggle constantly for the sake of happiness and get entangled n the process, in some kind of crisis everyone struggles for freedom and gets caught in some form of bondage. They strive for name and fame, but humiliation lies somewhere in wait to pounce of them unawares The attempt to evade death continues , but the fear of death is drawn, man is swept through the current of life by the conflicting waves of laughter and tears, hope and disappointment, love and hatred , victory and defeat. He sometimes becomes a helpless as a fly caught in a spider’s web. None can escape from these conflicting forces, neither the peasant in the countryside not the eminent stats man I the capital, neither the owner of a place or monastery noir the occupant of a cottage or a cave. Is that all there is to life? Why then has man not made a compromise with his state? Why does he not remain satisfied with this limitation? Why does he try so hard to overcome them? Why does he constantly try to escape from

these shekels? Why should imperfect man? The truth is this. Man is not truly mortal, hot, truly bonded, not truly imperfect. Because of ingrained ignorance he believes that he is mortal, bonded and incomplete, but his inner spirit resists this constantly. Without shedding his ignorance, he cannot see the inner truth. His struggle is, thus unending until he realizes his real nature. Courtesy learn to LIVE

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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Patience As A Principle

Monday, November 23, 2015

Patience As A Principle

Just about everyone would agree that patience is a good quality: we admire it and desire it, those of us who need it most are least inclined to cultivate it, however. we need patience in order to develop patience. Arnold Galsgowstated, “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it. “In the long run, you will find that patience with people is beneficial to you. But you may not see a return right away. It may be something you have to wait for. If you are an impatient person and have hard time prioritizing patience now, then understand this: the people around you benefit from it immediately. As Greek Philosopher Aristotle noted. “The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons”

Anything really worthwhile in this life takes time to build, and that’s’ true of relationships. The more people involved in the relational circle, the longer it takes . For example, think about how long it takes for a work group to develop proper work relationship. Tow or three people can get to know each other and learn to work together fairly and fast. It takes five people a lot longer. The bigger the group, the longer it takes . So to develop patience, you have to practice the exchange principle. you need to appreciate how other people think and be sensitive to how they feel Every person thinks…

·         his problems are the biggest

·         his jokes are the funniest

·         his prayers should get special attention

·         his situation is different.

·         his victories are the most exemplary

·         his faults should be overlooked

In other words each of us thinks of our circumstances warrant special consideration –people should be extra patience with us instead we should turn the tables: we should put ourselves in the other persons place, and be extra patience with them

Recognize that all relationships have Give-Ups. Give-Ins, and Give-and Takes. Nobody can make you give up, give in, or give and take. They are voluntary activities. But if you want relationships to last, you have got to be flexible. Courtesy wisdom

Quote From the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Karma Yoga ; This Karma –Yoga is purifying the mind by means of work. Now if any work is done, good or bad, it must produce as a result a good or bad effect; no power can stay it, once the cause is present. Therefore good action producing good Karma, and bad action bad karma, the soul will go o in eternal bondage without ever hoping for deliverance. Now Karma belongs only to the body or the mind, never to the Atman. The veil cast by bad Karma is ignorance. Good Karma has the power to strength the moral powers and thus creates non-attachments; it destroys the tendency towers bad Kara and thereby purifies the mind. But if the work is done with the intention of enjoyment , does not purify the mind or Chitta. Therefore all work should be done without any desire to enjoy the fruits thereof. All fear and all desire to enjoy here or hereafter must be banished forever by the Karma-Yoga. Moreover this Karma without desire for return will destroy the selfishness which is the root of all bondage. The watch word of the Karma-Yogi is “ Not I, but Thou”, and no amount of self-sacrifice is too much for him but he does this without any desire to go to heaven, or gain name or fame or any other benefit in this world. Although the explanation and rationale of this unselfish work is only in Janana-Yoga. Yet the natural divinity of man makes him love all secretive simply for the good of others, without any ulterior motive whatever his creed or opinion. Again with many , the bondage of wealth is very great; and Karma-Yoga is absolutely necessary for them for braking the crystallization that has gathered round his love of money. Courtesy Religon and its practice

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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