Monday,
13 May 2019
Stay
Focused for Peace
Times in
The Speaking Tree | India | ET
By SANT
RAJINDER SINGH
The outer
world floods our brain and senses with a continual stream of data input.
Messages
from all around us flow into our brain, which then processes it. Non-stop
competition in the outer world grabs our attention.
What
should we do to find peace? What happens when the input we receive daily is
predominantly information filled with things that upset us, trouble us, or put
us into states of fear? The good news is that we have a choice about where to
direct our focus. We can decide whether to focus on what is negative or on what
is positive.
We have
free will to determine what input we want to have flooding our being. We could
fill ourselves with the peace already within us.
We have a
place of calm inside us all the time. It is free from the problems and
conflicts of the outer world. It is like a sea of tranquillity that lies in the
stillness within. We can dip into those healing waters anytime we want, through
meditation.
Meditation
allows us time each day to turn our attention away from the problems of the
outer world to swim for a while in a sea of peace. We then experience moments of
bliss, joy and happiness.
While we
can balance our lives while being aware of what is happening in the world
outside, and even do our best to help make it a better place, we can also tap
into the peace within us through meditation. When we find inner tranquillity,
we can be a source of calm that radiates to others, promoting peace.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote
from the true charm and Power of Vedanta
Of
Purusha and Prakriti
Economic
Times in The Speaking Tree , India | ET
By NAVTEJ
S JOHAR
The
concept of Purusha informs all Indian thought. It is that spiritual core within
each one of us that is resonant, still and constant. Out of it ensues quietude.
Purusha
is constant: it was, is and will be. It is universal: each of us is endowed
with an equal measure of Purusha. It is the Shiva, or male principle, and its
very nature is to remain full, still and continuous.
In
contrast, all that moves is Prakriti or Shakti, the feminine principle. Thus,
any movement that takes place in relation to either the spiritual core within
or the world without is Shakti at work.
Dance and
music are traditionally designed to take one from the material to the sublime.
The idea of abhinaya is to move from the outer to the inner, and through
process of externalising the impressions of the outer upon the heart and soul
of the dancer: abhinaya literally being the art of externalising the interior.
The goal
of abhinaya is to offer the viewer a shift in her vantage point. Midstream
through a performance, the viewer begins to see something other than what the
eye actually sees.
To view
dance is to witness meaning in the making, a meaning that lies in a
transformation of the material into the sublime.
This
transformation is not a result of mimeabhinaya, but the result of surrender of
a readied, disciplined, material body of the dancer offering itself in full
public view to the will and forces of an intangible imagined/real universe. But
this will be possible only till the dancer remains unselfconscious.
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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