Path beyond Sorrow

 

Monday, 14, September 2020

 

Quote from the true Charm and Power of Vedanta

Path beyond Sorrow

This Divinity Who created the universe and Who pervades everything always dwells in the hearts of creatures, finitized by emotions, intellect, will and imagination. Those who realise this become immortal.

 

Only when men shall roll up the sky like a skin, will there be an end of misery for them with out realizing God.

 

He is the Lord of all , and all object are the manifestations. He is the one agent in the universe working through everything. He is the soul of all as well as the power residing in them. He is the first cause that explains every finite cause. To all. He is common and to Him alone is due the worship of every noble heart. Realizing Him- Who is declared a Vasudeva or the Omnipresent Divinity-one becomes immortal and divine it is absolute the most high. The Supreme is not attained because of our indulgence in sense enjoyment, because of our rankling doubt regarding the real, and because of our mind being preoccupied with other objects. With an absolutely refined mind we can know Him, but we cannot reduce that realisation into language for the. Mind has to be cognized with the mind and Seer by the sight (ie Self cognition being unique, the experience it yields cannot be described like ordinary objective cognitions) He, the imperishable. One is reached by purifying to living beings both in the seen worlds and the unseen. Vishnu puran

 

Vedic insights on wealth

The Speaking Tree | Economy, , India, Lifestyle, Roots & Wings | ET

BY RADHANATH SWAMI

 

One of the world’s richest men recently added $13 billion to his net worth in one day. It was reported that this was the largest singleday increase in a person’s wealth.

 

Strictly speaking, this is not exactly creation of wealth. We cannot assume that he actually has that money in his hand and was swimming around in a big pool of it like Scrooge McDuck.

 

It’s all a virtual calculation, nobody just handed him $13 billion and patted him on the back. It’s all about his stock worth in his company that many rely on absolutely, during the current situation.

 

If something happened and the company’s stock dropped tomorrow, he’d be ‘worth’ way less. Vedic wisdom, especially in the Isha Upanishad, says that one should see one’s wealth as a composite of many things: one’s entrepreneurial success, a gift of one’s past activities, an opportunity to share with others through benevolent and intelligent charity and so on.

 

Even after that additional $13 billion, one might have the same two toasts and a hot coffee for breakfast. A text from the Atharva Veda may work as a guideline for today’s billionaires, ‘May you earn as by a hundred hands and disburse by a thousand!’

 

When you are involved in benevolent work, your capacity to earn multiplies, increasing a hundredfold.

 

Charity, CSR and other initiatives by corporations in uplifting human quality of life can be safely called real net worth and businesses must strive to create such net worth consistently.

 

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.