Monday, 27 August 2018

Savour your uniqueness

The Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET

By JANINA GOMES

Each one of us is unique. No one laughs and cries the way you do and no one walks, talks and works the way you do. We are all eminently qualified — to do the work just we can do in this world and to live the life only we can live in this world. Samuel Silver said, “Your thumb is a reminder that you are not just one more animated toy stamped out by a factory, but an individual, capable of doing and saying things differently from anyone else, capable of making a unique contribution, large or small, in your world, your home.”

The essence of spiritual life is to just be. When we are what we are meant to be, we reveal what we are by what we stand for and what we stand against. When our horizons widen, we see our personal ups and downs, desires, cravings and efforts in scale: small and transitory spiritual facts, within a vast abiding spiritual world and lit by a steady spiritual light.

Our uniqueness makes us aware of our goals and enables us to pursue them single-mindedly. Our journey in life is not meant to be left to chance, else, we would never get to our destination. There is a difference between the archer who aims deliberately and hits the target and one who keeps shooting arrows without direction.

Don’t bury your uniqueness to become one unidentifiable mass, losing your individuality and uniqueness. Paradoxically, real unity is not built on a lack of individuality and uniqueness. Real unity grows when we can celebrate our differences and pursue and build on our own God-given uniqueness and gifts.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Here we shall be inclined to be skeptical saying if we existed before, why is it we do not remember our past? This seeming potent argument against pre-existence and reincarnation is really a very frail objection for how little we can depend on our memory . sometimes we do not remember what has chanced yesterday or the day before , while there are people who have a genius of remembering details of their lives even during infancy, nay, even prior to their infancy back into a former life. Merely non –recollection of parts of our life does not disprove our existence. For instance , we cannot say that our soul did not exist in our infancy because we cannot recall that period of our life. There is however, a great blessing in this forgetfulness, for sometimes our past recollections prove to be most fatal to our progress . they hang over us like dark clouds ever shadowing our destiny. Therefore, this veil is great mercy of Divine Providence causing us to forget and helping us to start afresh with each new life.  Courtesy Reincarnation and immortality

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, 20 August 2018

Rouse from deep sleep

The Speaking Tree Lifestyle | ET

K HARISH

Acentral idea in George Gurdjieff ’s philosophy was that man is in deep sleep. He is an automaton and each of his actions, thoughts and feelings are just passive and mechanical responses to stimuli. Things just happen, with no true and independent thought or action. Without self-knowledge, he says, man will remain a slave, a plaything of the forces acting upon him.

Gurdjieff considered human beings incomplete, but endowed with an ability to develop potential. The way is self-observation, the beginning of a long journey of self-discovery. In the process, your deceptive sense of self-becomes apparent. Gurdjieff calls them ‘I’s. The ‘I’s are false personalities that appear and disappear at will, to which you are continually enslaved. Your deeds or emotions are determined by the peculiar characteristics of each ‘I’ — a schizophrenic existence that seems to tear your life, swinging you across happiness and sorrow.

Gurdjieff ’s teachings divide man into three centres: the moving, thinking and emotional centres. The moving centre is responsible for physical work, thinking centre for logical reasoning, and emotional centre for emotional states. We need to harmonise all the three centres equally.

But most of our lives are limited to one or, at best, two centres. Our lasting memories are ones where our physical, emotional and thinking centres have combined to create a complete experience. Man cannot do this by himself. He must work in a group with like-minded people. To overcome their sleep, they can

wake each other up.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

Jealousy is the central vice of every enslaved race. And it is jealousy and the want of combination which causes and perpetuates slavery.

Organization is power, and the secret of it is obedience.

Do you know, the least show of leading destroys everything by jealousy?

Be positive do not criticize others. Give your message, tech what you have to teach and there stop. The lord knows the rest…

Use agreeable and whole some language towards even the greatest enemy.

Know that talking ill of others in private is a sin. You must wholly avoid it.

Cultivate the virtue of obedience, but you must not sacrifice you own faith. No centralization is possible unless there is obedience to superiors . No great work can be done without the centralization of individual forces. How to be a leader Vivekananda

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, 13 August 2018

Call of the unknown

The Speaking Tree   India | ET

By Swami Sukhabodhananda

The call of the unknown is the call to unite. All the waves in the ocean are nothing but water, but to see this oneness, a certain spiritual apparatus is needed.

Hence, in India, you put a dot on your forehead. That is seeing the world not through ordinary eyes but through the eye of intuition. This inner apparatus supports one in transformation.

For this to happen, the body, emotion, intellect and sex centres have to be pure. Each of these centres has a mechanical part and a magnetic part. When the magnetic part of the centres is harmonised, then one can drawin a different faculty to see.

Then oneness can be seen. Like how you need an X-ray or scanning machine to see deeper parts. So, the discipline is to drop negativity of all the centres and enhance positivity so that the faculty to see oneness happens.

One has to learn how not to identify with negativity and learn the art of delinking. For this to happen, learn to have non-consideration when these forces attack us. Our inner consideration is a part of identification with them.

What is blocking us is our mind that is not cultured, not purified, a mind with its “dogmas, conclusions and opinions”. When all of these exist, ego will exist. The ego identifies with an ideal and anyone disagreeing with the ideal is a block in his life.

When a child is born, there is no ego, it is innocent. Then, slowly,society and family put in the “I” in the child. Even our education system, in an indirect way, gives vitality to it. The true purpose of spirituality is to help us overcome ego.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Of Amarnath & Shravana

Pranav Khullar

Tirtha, pilgrimage is an occasion for soul-searching, a time to express and expand, when the temporal and the timeless conjoin. Nowhere is this better embodied than in the annual pilgrimage to the cave-shrine of Amarnath where the ice lingam waxes to its full height on the full moon day of Shravana in August.

Here, Shiva whispered the secret of creation and dissolution of the universe to a half-asleep Parvati, unwittingly overheard by a pair of pigeons. Sighting the immortal pigeons here is considered auspicious.

Shiva granted the boon of immortality to the gods, to be ‘amar’, hence the name ‘Amarnath’. Swami Vivekananda’s mystical trance at Amarnath on the Sravana Purnima day of 1898 has been described by Sister Nivedita who was present.

Vivekananda is said to have received the “Iccha-Mrityu Vara”, or death as desired, from Shiva. Amarnath embodies and captures the essence of the Kashmir Shaivite tradition, or the Trika tradition, corresponding to the three states of Shiva, Shakti and Jiva.

The Amarnath area stands at the centre of the Kashmir Shaivite cosmology, expounded by Abhinavagupta in the Bodhapanchadasika which locates Shiva at the very heart of “pratibimbavada” monism as opposed to Shankara’s Advaitic monism which denies a personal God.

The cave-shrine of Amarnath with its three kinds of lingas, representing Shiva, Parvati and Ganesh, reflects this Shaivite mysticism.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

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, 06 August 2018

Friendliness &  Friendship

Economic Times in The Speaking Tree | Spirituality | ET

By Gurudevshri Rakeshbhai

To attain the Divine, it is essential to dive into the depths of love. Only those who can soften their hearts and allow themselves to flow towards the world, in the form of friendliness and compassion, are truly religious.

The Divine is revealed only to those who are ready to extend and flow with compassion and friendliness. What you understand as love is conditional love. If your heart is filled with love for only one person, naturally, there is no love for the rest of the world. Then that love is surely selfish, conditional and sullied with expectations.

The love that has no selfish motive is unconditional and has no expectations in it. The love that stagnates starts accumulating the dirt of negativities. The love that stops flowing, the love that gets trapped in one, starts smelling of possessiveness and expectations. The love that flows is fresh, alive and fragrant. The love that is static becomes stale and dies. The love that streams forth keeps increasing. The more it flows, the more it deepens and extends to others.

The depth of love is measured by its extensiveness. They go hand in hand. The love that is not bound to one, and flows towards all becomes friendliness. Such love has non-attachment, humbleness, open-mindedness and no reservations.

Love is formless; friendliness has a form. Love is an experience; friendliness is an expression. Love is unmanifest; friendliness is its manifest form. Love is a poem in a poet’s heart, friendliness is the recitation of the poem on the lips. Thus, love in action is friendliness.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vednata

If the parliament of Religion has shown anything to the world it is this. It has proved  to the world that holiness purity, and charity are no the exclusive possession of any church in the world and that every system has produced man and women of the most exalted character. In the face of the evidence , if anybody dreams the destructions of the others. I pity him form the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon of my heart and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written in spite of resistance “ Help and not Fight” Assimilation and not Destruction” “Harmony  and peace and not Dissension”

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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