Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta
The
Practice and use of Religion
Excepting the infinite spirit everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change. Permanence is nowhere except in yourself. There is the infinite joy, unchanging. Mediation is the gate that opens that to us. Prayers ceremonials and all the other forms of worship are simply kindergartens of mediations. You pray you offer something. A certain theory existed that everything raised ones spiritual power. The use of certain words flowers, images temples, ceremonials like the waving of lights brings the mind to that attitude, but that attitude is always in the human soul nowhere else. (People) are all doing it, but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly., that is the power of meditation. All knowledge you have –how did it come? From the power of mediation. The soul churned the knowledge out of its own depths. What knowledge was there ever outside of it? In the long run this power of mediation separates ourselves from the body and then the soul knows itself as it is –the unborn, the deathless and birthless being. No more is there any misery, no more births upon this earth, no more evolution. (The soul knows itself as having) ever been perfect and free.
Drop dogmas to make full use of the intellect
By Shri Shri Anandamurti
The internal urge to attain liberation in every sphere of life is a natural wont of every human being.
The essence of the human mind is known as intellect. Intuition cannot be
called the essence of mind. In fact, intuition is subtler than the mind. It is
a special aspect of human existence and should be called the 11th organ or the
sixth sense.
Discrimination between holy and unholy, permanent and impermanent, pure
and impure in the intellectual sphere has a certain yardstick of its own. This
yardstick should remain unstained. Due to the bondage of various types of
exploitation and tyranny against the intellect in the physical sphere, the
human spirit writhes in suppressed agony. Likewise in the mental sphere, the
human capacity to think is snatched away. And in the same way in the
intellectual sphere, when human beings try to think and act for their spiritual
and intellectual unfoldment, various kinds of dogmas arise and create
obstacles.
Wherever there is dogma, even 10-20% of the human intellect cannot be
properly utilised; and the meagre amount of intellect used is not something
worthwhile.
The greatest treasure of human beings is their psychic faculty, their
intellect. When I cannot utilise this precious intellect to its fullest
advantage, what more tragic situation could there be than this. So, we need the
liberation of the human mind, and even before this, we need the liberation of
the human intellect.
Suppose the intellect wants to follow a particular path; in the meantime,
dogma comes from all sides and forbids it, ‘Oh no! Don’t take a single step
further in that direction. If you do, you’ll be doomed to hell for eternity.’
When the intellect wants to make the fullest utilisation of mundane wealth,
dogma comes in and says, as it were, ‘Oh no, you must not do it. It is harmful
for human beings; it is sheer blasphemy. It will lead to the degradation of
humanity.’
When the human intellect becomes ardently eager to venture into a new
enterprise in the psychic sphere, dogma again comes into the picture and
insists, ‘Oh, no! You must not do this. It will bring about your ruin.’ Thus,
in every sphere, at every step, dogma puts a blockade on the human mind, on the
human intellect. That is why until we liberate our intellect from bondages, we
cannot make its fullest utilisation. For the service of humanity, the intellect
must be liberated from all sorts of bondages, dogmas and unholy influences.
Unless that is achieved, we cannot have a radiant future.
If we want to herald the advent of golden dawn, we will have to bring
about all-round emancipation of the human intellect through a relentless
struggle against dogmas, backed by unlimited, uninhibited courage.
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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