Monday,
28 January 2019
Celebrate Differences
The
Speaking Tree , India | ET
By R K
LANGAR
Unity is
life; its negation is death. Unity is to be achieved through unity of minds.
Our mind perceives and creates the world around us. Beauty, love, compassion,
benevolence, reason and order help us embrace with equal ease all things great
and small.
Unity is
strength. Bahá’u’lláh, who spoke of the need for Oneness, said that so powerful
is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole of earth. Religion is to
enhance love and unity, for we are fruits of one tree.
Those who
make no effort to expand their process of thinking and improve their level of
awareness are not receptive to new ideas. Men may seem to get together but they
remain divided by difference in perceptions.
Unity is
best achieved when minds are elevated. At an average level of our
consciousness, all our differences get exaggerated and distorted. Higher the
consciousness, the better the adaptability to unite.
He sees
farthest who ascends highest. Unity of mind does not mean we have to eliminate
differences. Live with them and achieve unity, not uniformity, for uniformity
goes against Creation.
Differences
are a blessing as long as we respect and accept them; they activate and inspire
the mind and accelerate the thinking process that leads to intellectual
development.
When
differences are understood, they enrich us and lead to progress and
development. We have no choice but to work with people who are different than
us.
When we
accept that variety is the spice of life, we obtain unity despite differences.
Peace can only be achieved by understanding and acceptance.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote
from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Inner
spirit of Hinduism
The
Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET
by M N
Kundu
Swami
Vivekananda highlighted the inner spirit of Hinduism behind the mist of
mythology and rituals in the light of his own direct experience. He held that
the highest concept of the inexpressible Spirit has been elucidated in the
Upanishads; intellectual analysis of the same is in the Brahmasutras, while
practical application of spiritual wisdom has been prescribed in the Gita.
And
Swamiji has highlighted all these with scientific analysis, and the art of
living in yoga with universal fraternity, divine humanism, spiritual harmony
and service as worship. He held that Advaita, Monism, is the last word in
religion from which one can look upon all religions and sects with divine love.
In the
Parliament of Religions in Chicago, he overwhelmed the intelligentsia with his
exposition of the essence of Hinduism —incorporating the agnosticism of the
Buddha, atheism of the Jains, and the many gods and goddesses along with the
highest spiritual dimensions of Vedanta. He asserted that we all are moving
from lesser truth to higher truth, and all streams are bound to reach the ocean
of the ultimate. Hence, instead of divisive factionalism with foolish sense of
superiority complex, we need to make mutuality and harmony part of our lives.
External
worship is the lowest stage, mental prayer is the next stage, but the highest
is when the Ultimate is realised. Swami Vivekananda developed his ideal of
neo-Vedantism, that is, divine humanism, with wonderful empathy, selfless
service and divine love as a way of supreme realisation.
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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