Quote from
the True charm and power of Vedanta
Soul of
a man
We have found out the true seat of the ego to be the heart , which it knows nothing about . It is simply seated there, in spite of the ignorance about the place, and hence how can it have any control over it? But we have to say that it presides over the whole of the nervous system, for without it, the nerves are absolutely powerless as we have seen it to be the case in the condition of sound sleep when all the sensory and motor nerves are perfectly inactive. The moment the ego comes back to them, they are all able to work. The senses are able to sense. The organs of activity are able to be active, and the mind is able to think, feel, will and remember. So the ego is the rightful master of the entire nervous system, and the cause is to be sought in its own sheer weakness and nothing else. The ego has no control over the heart which works perfectly well even when it sleeps soundly. Who directs the movement of the heart at that time, and through its ceaseless contractions and expansions, presides over the circulation of the blood all over the body? It is God. ‘When all the inner and outer organs of the body are sleeping. he who keeps awake and goes on producing thing that they desire most, is the pure One. He is Brahman . He is described in all scriptures as the one deathless Being. All the spheres exist in Him He is beyond all, none can go beyond Him . This is what He is
World
As A Sanctuary
The
Speaking Tree, India, ET
A placewhere you can feel protected and be safe – that’s what the word ‘sanctuary’ means. In a sanctuary, all life is revered, and there is balance, harmony, peaceful coexistence and above all, safety and security.
This is
perhaps why Henryk Skolimowski, the Polish philosopher who avidly promoted eco
philosophy, added this tagline: ‘The world is a sanctuary’. The human species
is perhaps the only one that fouls its own nest.
Our
individual homes – the house or apartment in which we live – are regarded as
sacred spaces; we take care to keep them clean, happy, safe and secure. Yet,
when it comes to our collective home, Planet Earth, all these protective
instincts fly out the window and we pollute the planet and its atmosphere,
denude forests and drive other species to extinction.
Skolimowski
believed in a living philosophy, rather than confining it to abstract thought
and rituals that have lost their meaning. Abstraction may be part of human
intellectual pursuit, but one needs to also apply what we learn and discover in
our daily lives so that we have a living philosophy that promotes constructive
behaviour for individual and common good.
‘Ecosophy’,
as propounded by European thinkers Guatteri and Naess, looks at the whole
picture and pleads for applying ecological wisdom in our relationship with the
environment. Skolimowski also upheld the value of light as energy that nurtures
life and helps all species thrive, giving us the potential to overcome our
ignorance so that we can lead more enlightened lives.
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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