Monday, 11 November 2019
Quote from the True charm and Power of Vedanta
The modern world is experiencing
a fareaching re-assessment in all aspects of human life and thought. Initiated and
sustained by the positive science and modern technology, this process began as
an intellectual movement but soon developed into a dynamic socio-political
force. In its methods and results it was as much a destructive force as a constructive
one. It lifted man from many fears and uncertainties of his primitive past and
landed him in new and more gnawing fears and uncertainties. It destroyed many a
fable and mytn and superstition imbedded in his past traditions and challenged,
and continues to challenge, the credentials of every one of his beliefs and
practices in the moral , religious socio economic, and order fields of his
life.
These are solid gains;
but the are not enough, they have lengthened the ropes without, however,
strengthening the stakes; as the bible puts it. The tree of life has branched
wide without correspondingly roofing deep. In the modern achievement, the
science of nature have far outstripped the sciences of man, leaving man puny
and unstable, with his centre of gravity always outside of himself. Moral and spiritual
values emerge only from the sciences of
man. Referring to this imbalance, the bitter fruits of which are found in the
shallowness and sterility of much of modern intellectualism and in the
widespread cynicism among the intellectuals, Bertrand Russell says (The scientific
Outlook)
Break free of limitations
The Speaking Tree | India
| ET
By Swami Ramtirtha
The spiritual law has been described as seeing divine reality in all manifestation. Religion as spirituality is that advanced stage of mind, in which peace, felicity, spiritual bliss, satya-guna — truth, equanimity and cheerfulness, large-heartedness, universal love, power and knowledge of Self become spontaneous and natural. Our thoughts, words and deeds will not remain tied to the limitations of our body, mind and intellect. These will be free in consonance with our unlimited universal Self. Religion should help us directly to experience the true Reality behind all names and forms in the universe.
The best form of
religion is to do away with egoism and to merge in the universal Self to such
an extent as to be oblivious of the little self. The best way to practice
religion is to ponder over the elevated and sublime spiritual teachings like
those of the Upanishads and the Gita and to practice them in daily life. To be
in constant company of spiritually evolved persons who by their practical
wisdom can inspire peace and tranquility within you. To make sincere effort to
remove ignorance and sinful ideas from our hearts. To realise ourselves to be
above the body, mind and intellect and shift our mental abode from the desert
of worldly attachments and selfish desires to the flower garden of Reality.
When a man submerges his
mind, intellect and ego in his desired object, he acquires a state of
self-forgetfulness, and is in communion with the One.
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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