Monday, 13 January 2020
Self surrender
Quote from true charm and power of Vedanta
It is a great and unselfish work to be happy, strong and
cheerful for the sake of your ideal. By working with such unselfishness you
will gain every day more and more purity and strength. But this can be done
only through constant thought of the ideal and earnest prayer. The Mother will
not fail to fulfil the prayers which are said from the heart with
unselfishness. She will always protect you and give strength and guide you .
will she make you unhappy when you try to serve . Her always with whole heart
and soul? She will not, for She is an ocean of mercy and cannot Her children
unhappy. No fear, if any misery comes Her heart will always be ready to share
it with you.
Then why so often do our prayers remain unanswered, you
ask? We cannot know. We are only children- we should not wish to know much. She
knows the Divine Mother knows. This is Her world. She will take care of Her children.
We should hold the thought. “I am only a child , a simple child; i am the
servant of all Her children” There is some happiness in serving Her children unselfishly
, so let us always try to serve them. But here also we find differently because
we do not know what real service means. Out of our foolishness we hurt those
whom we intend to serve. In this way we make mistakes and cause unhappiness to others.
Life is very hard without the power of proper understanding .
But still let us try to depend upon Her entirely. Although
cloud some times gather so darkly about us, we must stand and be patient. Let us
walk on steadily without being afraid of anything. Never mind for the results. Know
that good will always produce good, it cannot be otherwise. It may not show
outwardly; still this is the only true and desirable path to follow.
The Meaning Of Prayer
The Speaking Tree | India, Lifestyle | ET
By K S RAM
Some people who, even as they sit at prayer, are
constantly interspersing it with household instruction — to the spouse,
children or staff. Some try to pray during bath time to save time before
leaving for work. They would probably argue that it is part of the pressures of
modern life. However, if something is worth doing, it is worth doing well. This
dictum applies to prayer more than to any other everyday activity.
Kabir ridicules the practice of such multitasking,
“Mechanical fingers turn the beads; the tongue rolls inside the mouth; the
fickle mind wanders all over: this isn’t simran — not at all!’ Prayer, as Kabir
indicates, is simran, meaning, communion, or a simulation of it. The Srimad
Bhagavatam says, “Religion is not for the purpose of securing a place in
heaven. It is an inquiry into Truth, and its ideal is the knowledge and the
realisation of Truth.”
Simran is the process of Self identification, of
recognising the essential unity, non-differentiation, self-expansion. This is
not an intellectual idea that, once grasped, sticks forever. It is a matter of
spiritual activation that is ideally done everyday, preferably at fixed hours.
Such prayer is essentially meditation.
To reduce prayer to a session of pleading your wants
before God is to corrupt it, even though it is possible that you get the things
you ask for during prayer. Making prayer into a thanksgiving session is better.
The best, however, is to keep it as a session of reaffirmation of your bond
with the One, the All. This is the same as making it a session of humility and
surrender.
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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