Monday, 06 May 2019
The undying flame: Love
The Speaking Tree ET
By-AVATAR MEHER BABA
Of the forces that can best overcome all difficulties, love is the most potent force because the greatest law of God is love, which holds the key to all problems.
This mighty force not only enables you to put the ideal of selfless service into practice, but also transforms one into God. It has been possible through love for man to become God; and when God becomes man, it is also due to His Love for us.
Love is dynamic in action and contagious in effect. Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
To those whose hearts are pure and simple, true love comes as a gift through the activating grace of a Perfect Master, and this Divine Love will perform the supreme miracle of bringing God into the hearts of men.
To realise God, we must love Him, losing ourselves in His Infinite Self. We can love God by surrendering to the Perfect Master who is God’s personal manifestation.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
Tune In to the Cosmos
The Speaking Tree India | ET
By K S RAM
Japa, repetition of God’s name, helps to activate a resource centre in our system that is otherwise dormant. God has a number of names, because the names are all adjectives, not nouns: they refer to some aspect of divinity. Conflicts begin when the adjective is made into a noun: we then err in trying to differentiate between gods, whereas the Supreme is undifferentiated, the One.
In the epilogue to the Vishnu Sahasra Nama, Parvati asks Shiva: how do the wise chant the thousand names in brief? And Shiva responds with the well-known couplet, “Sri Rama Rama Rameti, Rame Raame Manorame.…” Rama nama, he says, is singularly equal to the thousand names. Mohandas Gandhi trusted the power of Rama nama for guidance in moments of personal as well as political crisis.
Mirabai turned ecstatic when she discovered the potency of Rama nama. It was like coming upon a treasure — “Payoji maine Rama ratan dhan paayo!” The mind is bound to wander; it must, however, be repeatedly and gently drawn back to the japa. Regular practice of mental japa leads to effortless chanting in the subconscious mind.
This leads to an exalted state where the individual ego begins to dilute, because the self is logged on to the Cosmic Self. This state is marked by pranava dhvani, the ceaseless, primordial reverberations within.
Practised for its own sake, japa serves to burn away the sanchita karmas — the garbage that makes life toxic. The more evolved will contemplate on the formless, an expanding light, or a brilliant void.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote from the True Charm and power of Vedanta
Nor is that Self to be gained by one who is destitute of strength, or without earnestness, or without right meditation. But if a wise man stoves after it by those means (by strength, earnestness and right meditation), then his Self enter the home of Brhaman.
“When they have reached Him (the Self) the sages become satisfied through knowledge; they are conscious of their Self, their passions have passed away, and they are tranquil. The wise having reached Him, who is omnipresent everywhere, devoted to the Self enter into Him wholly” courtesy Vedanta in practice
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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