Monday, 13 August 2018
Call of the unknown
The Speaking Tree India |
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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.
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.
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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