Monday, 06 January 2020
Quote from True Charm and
Power of Vedanta
Spiritual Healing
We must not imagine that all
bodily diseases is the result of wrongdoing . There are those who think hat
when ever there is any physical disturbance it must be due to sin and they are ashamed
to have it known. On the contrary the disturbance may be the outer sign of an
active cleansing process, which is preparing us for a new spiritual awakening. it
is very great thing to have a healthy body, but a healthy body alone does not
lead one to the loftiest pinnacle of spiritual attainment. There are plenty of
healthy animals and there are also plenty of healthy people who have not begun
to approach the state of spiritual consciousness. Physical health is not the
end and aim of life. Bodily healing is not always a blessing. It may even prove
a drawback. Suffering also has a purpose in our experience. It lessens the hold
of the flesh on us and enables our mind to
rise to a higher plane of consciousness. Sometimes an illness brings a lesion
of which we have need. People are awakened often to higher thought and ideals
through bodily affliction or through misfortune. A person who is full of
aspiration learns both through good fortune and ill fortune, he learns equally
though physical dieses and through health. There are many different disciplines
in life and if we do not have an all round experience our consciousness remains
incomplete.
This does not mean that we should deliberately invite ill
health. Health is a great blessing. A healthy body is an undeniable advantage
in our spiritual pursuits, but we must not let ourselves become absorbed in the
idea of health as an end in itself. the best form of health is where we are
least conscious that we have a body. When we are really healthy we do not thinking
about the body at all, our feet scarcely touch the ground, but when we are
thinking constantly of the body that is not a healthy attitude of mind or a healthy
sate of body. We should try to regulate our life in such a way that we do not
violate the law, because nothing contributes more towards good health than an orderly
life of moderation. We must be careful not to be carried away to minor details.
we must desire a strong body wholly that we may express Divinity within us ,
and that we may have and serve the ideal. If we do not use our health to this end,
we are bound again and again by physical fetters.
Say goodbye to your ego
The Speaking Tree | India | ET
BY ULLHAS PAGEY
Once a man asked Gautama Buddha, “I want happiness,” to
which the Buddha replied, “First remove ‘I’, then remove ‘want’, so you are
left with only ‘happiness’.” Simple as it may sound, its implications are deep
enough to be reflected upon.
Ego smacks of arrogance. No one likes to deal with people
who are arrogant or who display ‘attitude’. Their sense of superiority prevents
them from listening to others and renders them unresponsive to constructive
criticism. Little do they realise that in the ‘war of ego, the loser always
wins’. But as people ‘progress’ in a materialistic world, their ego further
gets reinforced primarily because of pampering by friends, relatives, employees
or sycophants surrounding them that further pushes them towards their downfall.
To avoid these complications, it is better to skip ‘e’ and then let it ‘go’.
The other aspect of Buddha’s advice relates to ‘wants’ or
‘desires’, which emanate from attachments we have for worldly things and
beings. Unbridled desires, if not satiated, often lead to anger that, in turn,
creates delusion, loss of memory, destruction of intellect and, ultimately,
misery. Similar sentiments are reflected in Aristotle’s quote, “I count him
braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the
hardest victory is over self.”
It is abundantly clear by now that ‘ego’ and ‘wants’ are
the biggest obstacles in our spiritual evolution. So, let us resolve to
dissolve our ego and desires to pave the way to discover the ‘Supreme Self ’
within.
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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