Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta
Vedanta in Daily Life
The practice of this ideal will bring the most wonderful result which are
morally and spiritually perfect. Therefore we should teach our children to love
all creatures for even the lower animals possess life and feelings. From our
childhood, we have been taught that lower animals have been created for our
food. Now, we must change that idea and teach out children that the lower animals
are also fulfilling certain principles of life and are on certain grades of
evolution and in course of time; they will rise to the plane of human beings
and will reach perfection. Therefore, we must be kind to them. Thus in practical
life we should learn compassion and that compassion, when properly carried out will lead to Divine love and realization of
the Supreme.
Mysticism can link finite with infinite
By Shri Shri Anandamurti
Since the dawn of civilisation, one often-asked question is about salvation of human beings. The supra-psychic existence that remains in close proximity to a corporeal framework, and uses that very corporeal framework as the only medium of its own emittances and emanations, can attain salvation. As per ancient scriptures, Shiv states that even having a corporeal structure one can attain salvation, if one changes the idea of microcosm into macrocosm.
Possibilities and potentialities of attaining salvation lie in the very
existence of the supra-psychic being. What is infinite in macrocosm is finite
in microcosm, but potentialities are the same. So, what is required is to
develop one’s finite attributes into infinite ones through the process of
mystic approach.
What is mysticism? Mysticism is a never-ending endeavour to find out the
link between finite and infinite. And when that link is established, Shiv-vakya
comes true, that is, Shiv-vakya materialises.
Para And Apara
In Brahmn Vandana, while ascribing so many attributes to Brahmn, it has
been said that He is Paresha. What is Paresha? Para and apara are two
counterparts of each and every existence.
Para and apara are two portions – two counterparts of the same entity.
The seen portion is called apara and the subjective portion is para. Now,
what you see or do with the help of your sensory, motor organs or that external
object, in the first phase, is apara and your sensory and motor organs are para
– the para counterpart of that apara. And in the second phase, the next
interior phase, those gates or organs are apara and the mind is para. Then in
the next inner phase, your mind is apara and the unit spirit is para. And in
the final phase your atman, your unit spirit, is apara and He is the Supreme
Para. He is the Lord of all Paras. Hence, he is called Paresha.
Best Existence
So, when one withdraws one’s propensities from the objective world towards
subjectivity, one attains that Paresha.
One becomes one with that Paresha, and therein lies the secret of
sadhana. So, the Supreme Entity is Paresha and is also the Prabhu. ‘Pra’ means
‘Prakrsta’, that is the ‘best’ and ‘bhu’
means ‘being’. Prabhu, therefore, means ‘the best existence’. It is said that
He is Sarvendriyagamay – He cannot be achieved by any indriya. What are
indriyas? There are five motor indriyas, five sensory indriyas and the 11th one
is the mind. Mind is also an indriya; that is why the Vedas too say, ‘That is’,
where all the expressions of indriyas, where all the inferences fail and where mind
too fails, that is Supreme Subjectivity. When that mind along with indriyas is
withdrawn and placed into Him, then it is param sthiti, supreme stance. In that
stance, there is no fear. Sarvendriyagamay Satya – it is the Supreme Truth,
that is, where ‘sat’ is fully established, it is called ‘satya’. And what is
‘sat’? Sat means ‘that which undergoes no metamorphosis’. So, in this universe
of ours, that Paresha, that entity, is the only satya. He cannot be your mental
object. While meditating on the Supreme, you cannot accept Him as your object,
because everything is His object. He is the Supreme Subject. So, what is
necessary – and herein lies the charm – is that while doing japa and dhyana,
you should think that He is seeing you, you are His object.
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 7 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 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting
your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why
should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-
ILLUSTRATED REVIEW : 7th heaven moment of
the week India won second t20 scoring
227/7
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