Monday, 26 November 2018
The Spirit of Inclusiveness
The Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET
By Sadhguru Jaggi
Vasudev
Educating yourself
fundamentally means to broaden your horizons. From being in limitedness, you
want to enlarge yourself. Increasingly, in large cities worldwide — in India as
well — even two people are unable to live together. They have separate homes and
meet during weekends. We are becoming so exclusive that loneliness has become
a big problem.
Gypsies live a completely
different kind of life. They have a different attitude that is considered
romantic and, in some ways, very beautiful. Once a gypsy was scolding his son,
“You good-for-nothing fellow, if you don’t learn some magic and jugglery to
make a living, I will put you in school and make you an educated man and then
you will suffer from endless want.” This is what education has done to people:
endless want. The more educated societies are becoming, their wants are
becoming unbelievable. Soon, an individual will want a separate planet for
himself to dig up resources. All of us cannot live on one planet. It is not
information that damages people, it is the way you gather it and the way it is
given, and with what context. Inclusiveness is disappearing from society. The
whole dimension of spirituality means ‘all inclusiveness’, not exclusiveness.
Inclusiveness is life. Exclusiveness is death.
Today, education is just
about survival. But it should be about broadening your horizons. We want to
produce not just loving wonderful adults, we want to produce very resilient
adults. If you put him in hell, he will slowly convert it into heaven.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed
above are the author's own.
Quote from the True Charm
and Power of Vedanta
Continence is another
virtue which is essential for the practice of any from of Yoga. The man who is
chase in thought, word, and deed is free from many of the troubles which a
slave f passion brings upon himself. His continent habits enable him to store
an amount of mental energy which can be easily diverted to the building up of
his higher life. A common method employed by spiritual aspirants throughout the
ages, for overcoming their passions has been the infliction of various forms of
austereness on the body which the all-loving st Franci of Assisiused to call “Brother
Ass” The body undoubtedly exerts considerable influence over the mind; but as
all the great mystics were not slow to realise, mortification, however rigorous
of the body alone is not sufficient to bring the mind under control. On the
contrary, a healthy body is generally a prerequisite for a healthy mind. Only the
man who has come to know even partially , his divine nature and whose mind, as
a result of such knowledge, has undergone complete transformation can be
perfectly chaste in though world and deed. Others will have to struggle and be
on their guard against the passions until they acquire such knowledge in the fullness
of time. One thing is certain-that in the practice of any difficult virtue like
continence as in life itself. It is always better to emphasis positive thoughts
in preference to negative ideas. “If you go towards the East. As Sri
Ramakriahna used to say “you are so much farther from the West” The more ne
acquires genuine love for God or Truth, the safer is one from the influx of
base thoughts. That is an inescapable law of the mind which the psycho-analyst calls
“sublimation Curtsey
common sense about yoga
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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