Monday, 22 April 2019
Quote from
the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look
back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get
help from others which never came. All the help that has come was from within yourselves.
You only had the fruits of what you yourselves worked for and yet your were
strangely hoping all the time for help. A rich man’s parlour is always full ;
but if you notice , you do not find the same people there . the visitors are
always hoping that they will get something from those wealthy men, but they
never do. So are our lives spent in hoping , hoping , hoping which never comes
to an end. Give up hope , says the Vedanta. Why should you hope? You have everything , nay you are everything.
What are you hoping for? If a king goes mad. And runs about trying to find the
king of his country , he will never find him, because he is the king himself. He
may go through every village and city in his own country, seeking in every
house, weeping and willing, but he will never find him; because he is the king
himself . it is better that we know we are God and give up this fool’s search
after Him; and knowing that we are God we become happy and contented . Give up
all these mad pursuits and then play your part in the universe as an actor on
the stage.
The whole vision is changed and instead of an eternal prison
this world has become a playground; instead of a land of competition it is a
land of bliss where there is perpetual spring, flowers bloom and butterflies
flit about. This very world becomes heaven, which formerly was hell. To the
eyes of the bound it is a tremendous place of torment, but to the eyes of the
free it is quite otherwise. This one life is the universal life, heavens and
all those places are here all the gods are there the prototypes of man . the
gods did not create man after their type, but man created gods. And here are the
prototypes, here is Indra, here is Varuna, and all the gods of the universe. We
have been projecting our little doubles, and we are the originals of these
gods, we are the real, the only gods to be worshipped. This is the view of the
Vedanta, and this its practically. When we have become free. We need not go mad
and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest of the cave; we shall
remain where we wee only we shall understand
the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain, but with a new meaning
. we do not know the world yet; it is only through freedom that we see what it
is and understand its nature. We shall see then that this so-called law, or
fate or destiny occupied only an infinitesimal part of our nature. It was only
one side but on the other side thee was freedom all the time. We did not know
this , and that is why we have been trying to save ourselves from evil by
hiding out faces in the ground, like the hunted hare. Through delusion we have
been trying to forget out nature, and yet we could not; it was always calling
upon us, and all our search after God or gods or external freedom , was a
search after our real nature. We mistook the voice. We thought it was from the
fire, or from a god or the sun, or moon , or stars, but last we have found that it was from within
ourselves. Within ourselves is this eternal voice speaking of eternal freedom;
its music is eternally going on. Part of this music of the Soul has become the
earth, the law, this universe , but it was always ours and always will be . in
one world, the ideal of Vedanta is to know man as he really is, and this is its
message, that if you cannot worship your brother man, the manifested God, how can
you worship a god who is unmnifested? Courtesy Practical Vedanta
4 Paths Of Kriya Yoga
The Speaking Tree India | ET
By MN KUNDU
Yoga is intended to facilitate union of the individual self
with the cosmic. This can be achieved through expansion of consciousness
encased in the body-mind complex.
There are four ways to do this: through spiritual action,
discriminatory wisdom, self-effacing love and through meditation. Kriya yoga is
an effective blending of all the four paths.
The word kriya means to act or to perform. The kriya
technique shifts your attention from sensory reactions to subtle perceptions in
the brain and central nervous system to expand consciousness. Patanjali has
referred to three essential components of kriya yoga: tapasya, swadhyay and
Ishwarpranidhan.
They are interdependent. Together, the three comprise the
path to Oneness. In isolation, not one of them can give the entire effect of
kriya yoga. Tapasya means wilful withdrawal from sensual attachments and
practice of some special psychophysical techniques or rites to elevate
consciousness.
Swadhyay means imbibing lessons in self-realisation from
scriptures. Human bondage is caused by ego. Hence Ishwarpranidhan — offering
all our endeavours and achievements to God and assertion of the spirit of
equanimity through surrender — paves the way to Self-realisation.
To realise the Absolute, we need to elevate ourselves to
that level by discarding the core of egoism with a spirit of total surrender to
the Supreme will.
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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