Influence of Thought

 

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

Influence of Thought

Just as every action that emanates from us comes back to us as reaction , even so our action may act on other people and theirs on us. Perhaps all of you have observed it as a fact that when persons do evil actions, they become more and more evil, and when they begin to do good, they become stronger and stronger and learn to do good at all times. This intensification of the influence of action cannot be explained on any other ground than that we can act and react upon each other. To take an illustration from physical science, when I am doing a certain action, my mind may be said to be in a certain state of vibration; all minds which are in similar circumstances will have the tendency to be affected by my mind. If there are different musical instruments tuned alike in one room, all of you may have noticed that when one is struck the others have the tendency to vibrate so as to give the same note. So all minds that have the same tension, so to say, will be equally affected by the same thought. Of course, this influence of thought on mind will vary according to distance and other causes but the mind is always open to affection. Suppose I am doing an evil act, my mind is in a certain state of vibration, and all minds in the universe, which are in a similar state, have the possibility of being affected by the vibration of my mind. so when I am doing a good action, my mind is in another state of vibration; and all minds similarly strung have the possibility of being affected by my mind , and this power of mind upon mind is more or less according as the force of the tension is greater or less

Bloom to full potential

 

By Meena Om

When Spring arrives, earth awakens to the loving warmth of the sun and flowers begin to blossom. Flowers spread joy, positivity, colour and fragrance. A flower is a symbol of consistently working on the self and then offering it to the world. Its seed represents continuity of sankalpa; it’s indicative of the resolve of imparting the best of your being.

 

 

 

 

A flower tells us in silent language that we are perfect, reflections of the Divine, and by working on ourselves, and taking the right nutrients and withstanding natural calamities and other challenges, we can blossom. Flowering symbolises the journey of life. A flower gives food, nourishment and good karma to insects like butterflies and honeybees. It does not hold back. We could do the same, too.

 

A plant may eventually perish but it knows the perfect mechanism of nature, that is, full blossoming of being. Everyone can blossom into perfection, to that divine beauty, which is beneficial for all of creation. Flowers are offered during both joyful and sorrowful occasions, as in births and deaths, celebration and grief. Like the yogi that the Bhagwad Gita talks about, flowers too are centred in sambuddhi and are stithaprajna karmyogis, providing solace to everyone.

When a flower blossoms, it does so for its own joy, according to its own gunas, as per Nature’s law, in complete surrender. A seed captures the essence of the flower when it blossoms fully. We are mostly unaware of the kind of seeds, that is, thoughts that we are leaving behind, being totally engrossed in the external world.

 

IF HE EXIST

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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LEARN TO LIVE

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LEARN TO LIVE

He started living amidst these savage people exposing himself to grave danger. It was not easy to carry on this long =drawn struggle. Great undertakings are always taught with many obstacle=this statement because true of Duncan’s social service. The very people whom he wanted to serve rebelled against him. Their leaders opposed him . the businessmen who had been fattening themselves by exploiting the people opposed him. The priests were against him. But off these adversities he faced with unparalleled adventure, enthusiasm self-confidence and unending struggle –singe –handed , but with success.

His struggle bore fruit after sixty years. The Simshin community, once notorious for their terrifyingly savage behaviors are today a very peace loving gentle and cultured group of people . no barbaric actions are committed by them any more . None of them drink alcohol today.

It was Duncn who declared after his experiment and investigation the wisdom that old-die-hard  habits can be conquered with new constructive habits. In 1918 when he was eighty six years old. Duncan breathed his last. But he remained the apple of the eye of the Sushin community and was always held in great respect.  

IF HE EXIST

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.-

Heaven, Hell Your Choice

 

By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

 

When a person dies, he loses his body, and his intellect or discerning mind. The memory part of the mind, however, continues to function but only as tendencies within him. He cannot choose anymore because he does not have a discerning mind. Because of this lack of choice, if the memory bank is full of unpleasantness, this unpleasantness can multiply a million times over.

 

For example, right now if you get angry, you can use your discerning mind and control it. But if you did not have this discerning mind, the anger would flare up into madness. So, once a person has died, whatever is the content of his mind — the moment of death is a significant part — if he has cultivated pleasantness as the general content of his mind, it could multiply many fold because of lack of discernment.

 

At the same time, if he cultivated unpleasantness, that can also multiply many folds. If a person gets into extreme states of unpleasantness, we say this person has reached hell. If he has reached extreme states of pleasantness, we say he has reached heaven. Hell and heaven are not places but different states of experience, particularly after death.

 

There is a beautiful story in the yogic lore. There was a yogi who was 84 years old and he started telling the other yogis around him, ‘You know, I am going to die shortly and go to heaven.’ The other yogis asked him, ‘How do you know you are going to heaven? Do you know what’s on God’s mind?’ The yogi replied, ‘I don’t care what’s on God’s mind. I know what’s on my mind.’

 

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Thoughts on Vedanta

 

QOUTE FROM THE TRUE CHARM AND POWER OF VEDANTA

Thoughts on Vedanta 

    

There is a screen here, and some beautiful scenery outside. There is a small hole in the screen through which we can only catch a glimpse of it. Suppose this hole begins to increase, as it grows larger and large more and more of the scenery comes into view, and when the screen has vanished, we come face to face with the whole of the scenery. This scene outside is the soul, and the screen between us and scenery is Maya-time, space and causation. There is a little hole some where , through which I can catch only a glimpse of the soul. When the hole is bigger. I see more and when the screen has vanished , I know that I am the soul . So changes in the universe are not in the Absolute, they are in nature . nature evolves more and more. Until the Absolute manifests itself. In everyone It exists; in some it is manifested more than in others. The whole universe is really one. In speaking of the soul, to say that one is superior to another has no meaning . in speaking of the soul to say that man is superior to the animal or the plant has no meaning; the whole universe is one. In plants the obstacle to soul manifestation is very great ; in animals a little less; and in man still less; in cultured spiritual men still less and in perfect men; it has vanished altogether . all our struggles , exercises , pans, pleasures , tears and smiles all that we do and think tend towards that goal, the tiring up of the screen making the hole bigger, thinning the layers that remain between the manifestation and the reality behind . Our work, therefore, is not to make the soul free, but to get rid of the bondages. The sun is covered by layers of could, but remains unaffected by them. The work of the wind is to drive the clouds away, and the more the clouds disappear, the more the light of the sun appears. There is no change whatsoever in the soul –infinite , absolute eternal, knowledge, bliss and existence . neither can there be birth or death for the soul. Dying and being born, reincarnation and going to heaven, cannot be for the soul. These are different appearances, different mirages, different dreams, If a man who is dreaming of this world now dreams of winked thoughts and wicked deeds, after a certain time the thought of that very dream will procure the next dream. He will dream that he is in a horrible place, being tortured. The man who is dreaming good thought and good deeds. after that period of dream is over, will dream he is in a better place; and so on form dream to dream. But the  time will come when the whole of this dream will vanish. To everyone of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a mere dream, when we shall find that the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. In this struggle through what we call our environments. There will come a time when we shall find that these environments were almost zero in compression with the power of the soul. It is only a question of time and time is nothing in the infinite. It is a drop in the ocean. We can afford to wait and be calm.

 

Back to the original

 

By Meena Om

 

We have come full circle from being simple, pure, pious, soulful and real humans, to shrewd, conniving, manipulative and hypocritical, without realising how much we have maligned our natural process of spiritual evolution. We are supposed to be ‘beings of light — reflection of the Divine’ but have become products of mind tactics, lost in the darkness of ignorance, to the extent that we don’t even realise this truth. Now, Nature seems to have taken the reigns in her hands — either succumb to unawareness, or work on the self for empowerment to come out of it.

We can change this. First step is to go for a digital detox by leaving all typical, mechanically framed, fabricated messages and borrowed phrases. The planet and its aura are netted with unaccountable, unnatural and unnecessary vibrations of useless words, tuneless, disharmonious sounds, and frivolous thoughts produced by exploiting the digital media to the maximum. Now Nature is cornering us all to mend our existing, selfish, fashionably acquired ways of overusing everything provided by Nature and science for personal comforts.

 

Connect with Nature; learn to live without too much dependence on digital devices and artificial means. Acquire the habit of dhyana, meditation, and have right nutrition from natural sources — foods without preservatives — to detox your body and mind for the next quantum leap for evolution. Let’s be natural, spontaneous and original for newness.

IF HE EXIST

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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How to live

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

How to live

A community which, according to the prevailing social system , is subjected to contempt, abuse and exploitation , is likely to associate with tits self-image, the labels which the ruling class or exploiters use with reference to them to season and out of season such as wicked evil, unworthy, useless good-for-nothing, etc. distrust about one’s own ability gets established in the mind and the individual may begin to hate himself . in short these feelings deal a death blow to the whole some development of the individual.

People who are little more advanced than the rest, economically, socially, culturally and intellectually, in religion and spiritual practice, to whatever community they belong have a tendency to show off, to display their bloated ego consciously or unconsciously before other who are less fortunate than they are. They dub their less fortunate brethren ‘stupid, dull idling with contempt and scorn. The earlier they give up such a habit, the better for the whole society. this aptitude which is present in those who support exploitation and to those who are supposedly forward, characterized by arrogance and feelings of superiority deflates the self-confidence of those who are deprived of the opportunities in education and culture , and  presents them form ever trying to lift themselves up. Do they ever contemplatewhat kind of shock they cause to people lagging behind because of their contemptuous and belittling attitude. If they don’t have the farsightedness to realize that by instilling negative features in the self-image of the poor downtrodden people, they indirectly do harm to them and in the long turn pave the way for their own destruction what is the meaning of their feelings of superiority? Man’s worth should be assessed not on the basis of the limitations and weakens of the moment but on the basis of the limitation s and weakness of the moment, but on the bass of his potential and the possibility of development and achievement. we should develop the habit of respecting an individual on the basis of this possibility of achievement . Otherwise our society will go on erecting hurdles on the way of its own development. It ahs already erected enough hurdles. Do we see the signs of the development of such consciousness among our educated youth?

Ability to be self-aware

According to Aristotelian theory, humans are the most evolved form of thinking and feeling beings so far. What is more, we alone have the potential to grow and evolve into the spiritual dimension. But what precisely, if anything, sets us apart from other living creatures? Is it the faculty of reasoning? But reasoning does not, and cannot, teach us anything new. Socrates was a man, a mortal being. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

You can see here that there is no new truth that the third and concluding statement expresses that is not clearly implied in the first two sentences.

The conclusion of any piece of syllogistic reasoning does not enable us to learn anything new other than what is contained in its premise. You have the same limitation with inductive logic where you arrive at general truths from particular examples.

 

The mind grasps reality by establishing relationships between entities that it perceives new and perceptions that it carries from the past. The distinguishing feature of humans lies in our capacity for self-awareness.

 

Other living creatures may have the ability to perform a greater variety of tasks or may have developed superior sensibilities in certain areas, but we have the capacity to look at ourselves and be aware of ourselves.

We can attain knowledge, but what is unique about us is that we can also get to know how we can attain that knowledge. A human being is like a computer that can see how it has been programmed and, thereby, transcend its programming.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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