Reincarnation and immortality

Monday, 28 October 2019

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Reincarnation and immortality

Living the life in harmony with our spiritual ideal alone will enable us to benefit by the privileges of a higher sphere. All that is asked of us is to perform our daily tasks in a prayerful and consecrated attitude of mind. Then whatever the here after may owe us will be given us. It is better to ask nothing because we cannot ask wisely. But we can do each thing with humility, with surrendered and with the prayer. “Thy will be done” When we do this, we are safe. Our human side always blunders, but this human side can be brought into such absolute harmony with the Divine that it will become permeated with Divine . Life and move in rhythm with it.

Within us is immoral life. When we know that , how can we fear death? Our conciseness must be trained to dwell on the immortal part in us-that is the only way to conquer the afflictions of this mortal life. Until we possess the knowledge of our immortal nature, nothing can relive us permanently from the fears and miseries which confront us. To know and to become –these alone will enable us to enter into that other life with perfect peace and freedom.

  

Money and happiness

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BY RADHANATH SWAMI

The role of money can’t be undervalued; at the same time, it can’t be overrated. Most successful business magnates don’t seem to be born with a silver spoon, and among those who have earned that silver spoon, many don’t seem to always ascent to cloud nine happiness, trapped as they are, in the trifling things of life. Those who ascend to cloud nine do not always seem to stay at that position and those who stay for long at that state don’t always seem to be running after money. It shows there is a distant connection between how much money one has and how long one can experience the bliss.

Often, the pain and strain of earning and maintaining capital outgrows the happiness it can earn. The total happiness value money can produce can only be increased when it is shared with the causes that can bring happiness to others in need. Our scriptures say, ‘Let no one face the misery.’ Working for alleviating others’ pain is the simple key to personal happiness, since it takes away the mind from personal pains.

Theological writer Hosea Ballouhas written, “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”

According to spiritual wisdom, real happiness is the natural byproduct of ceaseless service to God without any ulterior motives. If we can set aside our ego, then we can truly feel the bliss of the Soul surging in our consciousness. The experience of such a shelter within and sharing of that shelter through an exemplary life and practical help for others can make us truly happy.

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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From theory to practice

Monday, 21 October 2019

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Essential of Spiritual life

Before the highest Truth is realised meditation on the Divine are mostly imaginations, but they are to baseless. for there  are imaginations and imaginations. By seriously thinking of the castle in the air, one is not able to live in it. By taking the mirage to be real, one can near quench one’s thirst. By taking the mother –of-pearls to be silver, one is not able to buy food for appeasing one’s hunger. These are also, they take us way from Truth and make us live in a world  of illusion . as distinguished from these , there are imaginations that are based on Reality and help us in the supreme quest. The self conscious bubble of the human soul by meditating  on the ocean, realities its true reaction with the ocean and becomes one within . By dwelling on the true nature of the Infinite  Light, the living ray of light reflected on a practical of sand becomes indentified with it . the tiger accustomed to thinking that it is a sheep knows itself to be a tiger again by constantly thinking that it is really a tiger and not a sheep . before knowledge illuminates the soul. It is with thoughts founded on Reality that the forces of ignorance have to be counteracted. These thoughts may be imaginations in the sense, but they are imagination that takes us to the Real.

It is thus that the bound soul realizes its union or unity with God, the infinite Principle . the process in , as Sri Ramakrishna puts it, like the removal of a thorn in the flesh by means of another thorn form the true. When the first thorn has been taken out. Both may be thrown away.

From theory to practice

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By Sant Rajinder Singh

Just as physics or chemistry could be complicated if the teacher is not sure of the fundamentals, with spirituality, we need to go to those who know the subject clearly, so that they can guide us past all the hurdles. How far teachers can take us depends on how far they have gone.

Just as we can perform some of our experiments in a science laboratory, similarly, our spiritual laboratory is our body and aspiritual guide teaches us the way to do the experiments here.

They help us connect with the inner Light and Sound so that we can go within, experiment and watch our progress. They can give us not only the theory but also the practical aspect of Self-realisation so that we can experience God.

A spiritual guide wants us to know who we really are. They help us realise that we are not the body; that the real thing is the soul; that the soul in us is a part of God, and we have to love and respect every human being, and each form of creation.

If we can get to a stage where we realise that the soul in each form of creation is a part of God, then we will have no trouble seeing the Light of God in everyone.

As soon as we get to that state where we see the Light of God in everyone, then the connection of our soul with God happens immediately. Once we go within and we do the experiments in this laboratory that God has given us, then we can see for ourselves the benefits of meditation.

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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Money

Monday, 14 October 2019

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Money

 

A greedy man does not care for your Vedanta philosophy

For, he has his own philosophy which is more convenient and more profitable!

A greedy man may die, but ever remains his greed.

Neither do I condemn money nor do I condemn man. Rather, I condemn greed.

A greedy man’s property is grabbed by greedy man only.

]I pray;

May everybody have enough money but not greed.

Man without money is flower without honey.

Verily you are good. O money! Yet the bad names to you are many!

Because you held bad company.

So, please remain, O money! always in holy company!

Some are corrupt with regard to money.

Some are corrupt with regard to women.

Some are corrupt with regard to power.

But corruption does not lie in money, women or power.

It is lurking in the mind .Educate the mind and eradicate corruption.

O money! How much tear of sorrow you have brought to many!

O money! How may hand have caressed you lovingly!

O money! How much tear of joy you have brought to many!

The object of religion

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By Swami Ramdas

 

The object of religion is to raise human life and consciousness to divine life and consciousness. It is, in fact, a God-possession by which every aspect of life is elevated and transformed into an absolute state of perfection.

The purpose of all spiritual discipline such as prayer, worship and self-dedication is to attain to this exalted state. It must be at the very outset understood that the supreme Truth that we aspire to realise is dwelling within every one of us.

By a continuous recollection and meditation of this Truth, we ought to provide favourable internal conditions so that this supreme Reality may purify the emotions of the heart and fill it with love, compassion and peace; that it may illumine the intellect with the vision of equality and a universal sense of oneness in the multitudinous revelations of nature, that it may be made to flow out spontaneously by the balance of a purified heart and inspired intellect as selfless action that tends towards the regeneration of humanity without any distinction of race, creed, colour or nationality.

The intellect, detached and merged in the super-conscious and static existence behind the manifestation, should stand as an eternal witness, calm, serene and filled with radiance, supporting the workings of universal love and service for which the heart and body are made the instruments.

God, who is at once the immanent and transcendent spirit, who is the one sole Reality, is not only the silent and attributeless Brahmn but also a Truth revealed as eternal light, infinite love and endless peace and bliss.

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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Mind according to Vedanta

Monday, 07 October 2019

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Mind according to Vedanta

You have to reach the superconcious level through effort; you have to go beyond ego through ego; you have to go beyond reason though reason. Not by discarding reason, you have to go beyond action though action. Sri Krishna declares in the Bhagvad gita that you cannot reach the state or worklessness by simply giving up work. If you want to attain serenity of mind and the ability to live a contemplative life, you have to attain it through the right kind of work. Simply by giving up your duties or by not undertaking duties’ you cannot reach that state. Through work you go beyond work . if the work is rightly directed it can lead you beyond work . Similarly, your reason , rightly directed can lead you beyond its scope . Reason has a limited range, beyond that it is helpless. if you lose your way , you ask a traffic policeman for directions. He will direct you , but will not take you there personally . Reason functions in the same way. A man of God tells you of the nature of God and the world and of the path to take to realize God, but he cannot take you all the way. You reason on his works and eventually reach the goal, thus using reason to go beyond reason.

Through will you surrender the will . Self surrender does not mean that you are nothing. A simpleton. There are different kinds of self-surrender in this world. A robber enters your house and says that you have to give all your money to him otherwise he will kill you . you give him all the money you have. You surrender to him a compulsory self-surrender. In another case you understand the worthiness of a great noble laudable cause and you dedicate all you have to that cause; a voluntary self-surrender. Perhaps you find a person who can really guide you and you submit to his superior knowledge; another kind of self-surrender. or another man come and gets you to do certain things by bribing you; another kind of self-surrender . our will in the foregoing cases is overcoming through will .

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By S P Mehta

There are only two things in existence. One is the ‘happening’ that we know as physical creation. And the other is the ‘lap’ in which such creation happens. A ‘happening’ — small or big — always happens in time.

That which happens in time is fleeting in nature and, hence, is temporary. Being temporary, physical creation is always subject to rise and fall. In a certain period of time, a ‘happening’ becomes happened.

The important thing is the lap in which creation happens. In yogic lore, though this lap is named variously such as Consciousness, Reality and Truth, we can simply call it as the ‘Sakshi’, or witnessing. It’s non-physical and, hence, is never a part of the time. Sakshi is like the cinema screen on which entire creation appears and disappears and, yet, the screen remains unaffected. Also, the screen is there all the time. It never changes — neither appears nor disappears like physical existence.

Spirituality means to go beyond the physical. Because if you are lost in the physical, then you will belong to samsara that means continue moving in circles but not reaching any place.

Being a sakshi means becoming the very screen on which are projected all the happenings including what happens within you and, yet, remaining untouched by such happenings. An enlightened being is one who is always rooted in sakshi.

Liberation — mukti as we know in yogic wisdom — from physical existence is possible only by becoming a sakshi to the physical world. Meditation is the way forward to becoming a sakshi.

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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