The Source of Healing Power

Monday, 27 April 2020

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

The Source of Healing Power

Whenever we feel turbulence in our mind or disturbance in our body, if we can fix our thought on our spiritual Source and give Nature a chance to restore us by trying to forget the cause of our pain , we shall be haled without any outside help, God is our common property . we do not have to gain access to Him through any book or minister or church or healer. All that we need is purity of thought an open heart and sincere childlike longing. When we have these , all darkness vanishes quickly and healing takes place. When we touch the reservoir of life, the storehouse of Prana or vital energy, all our weakness must disappear . some accomplish this by a definite system  of thought; others do it though simple faith and devotion.

            There are many simple people who by mere faith and ardent devotion have performed what we cal miracles , but they are not miracles in the sense that they could not happen to any one Healing comes wholly though fitness . let us all strive to make ourselves fit for the manifestation of divine power . let us make it our first duty always to turn towards that inner . Source for all our needs . let us tune ourselves in such a way that we shall never be jarring note in the cosmic harmony. If we learn to keep ourselves in tune, there will be no need of healing because when our body mind and soul attuned in the central spiritual power, this physical machine will run smoothly and we shall be scarcely conscious that we have t body. Our whole thought will be turned towards God

The Present is a Gift

The Speaking Tree  India, Lifestyle, Roots & Wings

BY SWAMI VENKATESANANDA

The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead, says Krishna in the Bhagwad Gita (2.11). This is one of the key messages of the Gita — grieve not. This verse can be used as a mantra, a talisman. When worry knocks on our door, when grief threatens to overwhelm us, let us visualise Krishna standing in front of us and telling us, “You are grieving or worrying unnecessarily.”

When we are consumed with remorse over the dead past and with sorrow concerning the unborn future, let’s visualise him saying to us, “You are worrying unnecessarily.” When a man dies, his body is cremated (or otherwise disposed of). If not, it will decompose and stink. All created things are subject to change and dissolution.

When an event is past, do not keep it and cherish it in your head. Cremate it and forget it; otherwise, it will decompose in the mind and stink. Do not worry about the future, for tomorrow will bring its own problem and the problem will have its own solution, just as yesterday’s and today’s problems have had.… There is a distinction between thinking and worrying.

Thinking is essential; worrying is unnecessary — it actually prevents thinking. Constructive thought is the first step to contemplation and eventual cessation of divisible thinking. It is made possible only when the inner awareness is freed from the past that exists but as memory and the future, which exists but as worry, a mixture of fear and hope. Only the present is — it is a present (gift) from God.

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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Healing and Redeeming

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

A view of Vedanta

So you can see that when it came to religion. I did not find that I had to reject anything in Vedanta. I have practised ritualism and found it quite satisfying i have practiced meditation and found it quite satisfying. I have absorbed myself in devotional attitudes. I have found that , too, quite satisfying . I have also practiced the path of janana or reasoning a great deal and I have found that, also quite satisfying , I have become absorbed in ACTION and I have found that satisfying too. In other words from my own personal experience I have been convinced that all paths are equally fruitful for all equally spell for me the same truth the same monism. I have not , there fore, seen any contradiction in following a variety of paths.

Yes this is the great game . Something is there because of which the one reality appears as manifold. But i am not convinced that the individuals in this manifold difference in the quality of Divinity that they manifest. in this , all are the same . There are difference but they are differences of kind only . For example there is a kind of consciousness. Let us say tree consciousness, which is different from human consciousness, but it is equally effective, equally great. I can imagine also along the same train of thought, that there is a kind of consciousness known as stone consciousness which is equally as important , as significant , and as high as human consciousness or as ANGELIC consciousness- it is just different in kind. As long as I am completely identified with human consciousness or tree consciousness or lion consciousness, but if i could become pure consciousness, separating myself form the human ingredients in me. I could then identify myself with any type of consciousness and perceive it intuitively, directly. I myself have known some who have done that, and they say that tree consciousness, for instance , is an equally high state of consciousness , but completely different from human consciousness, but completely different  that when the hour passed in which their consciousness was beyond the limits of its own kind of knowing and they had indentified once more with human consciousness, they could not express what they had experienced in that state of elevation in terms of their human existence.

Healing and Redeeming

The Speaking Tree | Spirituality | ET

By MURALI KRISHNA

Prayer is an earnest hope or a wish, a request for help or expression of thanks made to God. Petition is the kind of prayer that begs for determinate objects. Supplication is when things sought are indeterminate. Obsecration is a solemn adjuration, asking a favour. Thanksgiving is the returning of thanks for benefits received.

Among all the means of salvation recommended by Jesus Christ in the Gospel, the first place is given to prayer. “Cry to me, and I will hear you. Call upon me and I will deliver you. Ask and it shall be given to you. Seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.” Prayer is a source of strength.

By reading and meditating, we learn a lot, but by prayer, we obtain the grace to do it. Worldwide, the tradition of prayer has been a source of immense faith and strength. Brahma got the Gayatri Mantra, by akashvani, divine voice. It is said that because of this, Brahma got the power of creation.

The holy rosary of Mother Mary is a profound and meaningful form of prayer. Therein we contemplate the central mysteries of Christian life — the redemption of humankind through the incarnation, passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God’s son born of the blessed Virgin Mary. The rosary is a powerful form of traditional prayer; it involves our whole person.

 

The rosary employs repetition, an essential element in the language of love. As a result, we identify with our Lord and his blessed Mother by applying their saving deeds to our own life with its joys, sorrows and triumphs.

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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The dangers of stupidity

Monday, 13 April 2020

Quote from the True charm and Power of Vedanta

This message, the blessing of nivriti , is slowly percolating into the Western mind, through not only  influences going from India, but also from China and Japan and from their own writers, thinkers and psychologists, reacting wisely to their one-sided  cultural situation. By pravriti, you achieve social welfare-good houses , plenty to eat and drink, good dress, education, lighted streets and good roads; but too much of it is called consumerism today . for being peaceful, harmonious, fulfilled, and for the development of capacity to love people and to live in peace with them, we need the blessing of nivriti, which helps to manifest the spriutal energy that is within all in the form of the inherent divine spark. And , that nivritti can inspire all our pravriti also. That is what is taught in the Gita; nivriti inspiring pravriti. We have plenty of pravriti in India. Just now we have had our elections, and what an amout of pravritti we witnessed –full of violent thinking, violent actions, somebody snatching away the ballot boxes and many such things. Why do we do so? Because there is so little nivritti to stabilize and purity our thinking today. We should think and ask ourselves, . Why should we do this? Is it good for our democracy? Why have to give our people the freedom to vote as they lie; why should any political party control or interfere with it? We have all these distractions in our politics and much corruption along with it . but a touch of nivritti can change all this.

The Gita is going to tell us about that kind of life where there will be tremendous efficiency, great productivity and better inter-human relaxations. Mark the comprehensiveness of this approach of the Gita to human life and destiny! Sankaracharya is giving us in a nutshell this comprehensive spirituality of the Gita. It says that every human being is spiritual , even when he or she is in the pravriti field of life; one is never outside spirituality . That is a wonderful idea.

Spirituality is the encompassing, you are never outside of spirituality. That is the attitude of the Gita and the Vedanta. That is why I like this second sentence of his commentary beginning with. ‘Dvividho hi vedokto dhamah’ We never understood this truth these several centuries; we had diluted our religion and philosophy until in the last century our religion became like a the milk in our erstwhile market-90% water and 10% milk!

The dangers of stupidity

The Speaking Tree | Spirituality | ET

Ishan Chaudhuri

What is it about stupidity that makes it so susceptible to religions?

I know that many of you would find the previous sentence to be an error of some sort, and think that the actual intended query to be: what is it about religions that make it so susceptible to stupidity? But, no, the onus is not on religions but on stupidity to explain why those infused with it throw caution to the wind even when they put, never mind others, but themselves and their loved ones in harm’s way.

Absurd as it may seem to those not steeped in it, stupidity breeds its own logic. There are the usual harmless acts of stupidity, such as performing a yagna or religious ritual to, say, rid the coronavirus. Then there are downright dangerous ones, such as congregating to conduct a ritual to do the same while ‘knowing’ that any gathering while a contagion rages is realistically dangerous.

Stupidity thrives in believing anything its possessor chooses to believe in, and in not believing anything it chooses to not believe in. So, a stupid person can choose to believe that pigs can fly, while refusing to believe that an antidote, rather than an exorcist, can cure a snakebite. Religion becomes attractive for the stupid as the former runs on belief, essentially relying on believing in the comforting properties of believing.

There is a certain happiness to be gained in being fond of the notion that UFOs or Santa Claus exist. But to hold one’s breath till either descends from the sky or the proverbial chimney will only lead to asphyxiation, or worse

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.

The Role of Fate

Monday, 06 April 2020

The Role of Fate

quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

The scriptures say that only one who has a strong body, powerful sense organs and meditative mind is fit for Vedic learning. Where is such a person to be found today? We see in India such a lot of inactivity on the pretext of “fate” Do you think that it is the result of faith in God? Not at all. The chief reasons for it are weakness and inertia. It is true that unless fate or divine intervention is favourable no work can be accomplished. but Sri Krishna says that divine intervention happens to be just one of the five causes needed to make any work a success . Along with that there must also be;

The scripture say that without divine intervention nothing can be achieved. Holding on to this idea strongly we sit tight. We refuse to notice and listen even after seeing and hearing that the scriptures also say “Be strong, don’t be lazy, continue to make efforts , go on doing work” And this is because we don’t possess even a little of these qualities immersed as we are in great inertia.

There should be desire to work and along with it there should be divine intervention. Both are essential for success. It is in our hands to be energetic and active. Over the result we have no control, nor is it necessary for us to bother about it. Our concern should be to see that we have been faithful to the ideal. This is what Sri Krishna asks us to do while practicing Karma Yoga.

            Karma Yoga has one more goal and that is to prevent the loss of energy. yoga is the art of doing work. It is a technique for work through which we employ just enough energy, neither less nor more . This becomes possible only if there si no desire for the result. Suppose we desire the result and the work is unsuccessful. Then how much energy we lose in mental depression! Then how much energy we lose in mental depression! Karma Yoga says. Don’t fritter away your energy. Accumulate it and transform the best part of your physical energy into mental and spiritual energies. This is the teaching of Karma Yoga and of self-control. Employ only as much energy as is called for . Always see whether you have worked to the limits of your capacity. But don’t break down in dismay and waste your energy over matters not under your control. Those immersed in enjoyment and seeking fruits of action always lose their energy is this way. Naturally their capacity to work also diminishes day by day. So we must always focus only on the ideal and continue to work.

Shh, Be Still, Be Calm

The Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET

By Denise Mihalik

It was the day of my senior undergraduate voice recital. I was both terrified and excited, as I wasn’t used to performing in public as a soloist. When I stepped on to the stage, I looked out and saw an audience full of friends and family.

My heart beat strongly as my accompanist began to play. I don’t remember many details except for the special encore surprise that I had planned. My dad was a closet song writer and one of his songs touched my heart deeply. “Today I will change, but I don’t know where to start.

It is my wish the Lord will calm my heart. Days of silence and obsession, nights of trouble and despair, me on my knees asking simply please, dear God, do you care? And the answer came… Shh, be still, shh, be still and listen to your heart.”

These words, 30 years later, still float through my mind. As I bring meditation to those who are either new or struggling with the practice, I hear about the fear, unease and trouble with being still. How do we find that stillness? Simply by beginning a practice. And doing it the next day and the day after that.

For, with as much activity that we have in our mind and system, how can we expect that just a few minutes of trying to be still, will be enough? But it starts with that one conscious breath. And moves to a second one. And when the mind wanders, we simply bring it back to the next conscious breath. Today, as we are being thrust out of our familiar routine and feelings of safety into the unknown, it’s almost as if we are being deeply encouraged to find a place of stillness and reflection.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.