Trust in Divine

Monday, 23 March 2020

Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

Trust in Divine

May our trust in Him ever remain unshaken.

God’s work no mortal can resist. This is what you must be conscious of all the time. Often the task before you may seem like cutting a road through rocks but remember that everything is possible through his will and grace. Be brave and stand by your post faithfully. The Lord will bless you and give you strength. Trust in Him and all will go well. Try to do each task with masterly spirit and calmness and do not let things wear you out. Try and the Lord will help you.

Be patient, everything is conquered through patience and perseverance . the Supreme Being is always protecting you. He will make you able and strong. Always place your faith and heat on the Divine, the only true Protector . Through His Grace all out efforts are of no avail.

In Him must we trust; in none else, in none else. Our faith in Him and love for Him must make us immovable , Impatience, planning or any human effort is not the characteristic of a true devotee. He is our guide and we must get all our support from Him. In the face of every difficulty we must look to Him for peace and understanding. True devotees alone are fearless and all-blissful. No one can be fearless who has a doubting mind. Everything goes well when we feel His presence. he is the sun, the dispeller of all darkness and clouds of sorrow. What is there to fear in this world so long as we do not forget Him , being led away by worldly thoughts?

Make Optimal Use Of Gifts

The Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET

By RAM KRISHNA SINHA

We are bestowed with precious gifts of mind, heart and hand. We have mind but we are not mindful. Mindfulness is our ability to be fully present in the moment. By having a focused and relaxed mind, by being mindful, we can leverage the power of the present. But, the absence of mindfulness is bringing decay in relationships, increasing anxiety and stress, affecting work performance and productivity, undermining rationality and creating barriers.

Next, we have heart but we are not heartful. Heartfulness means being warm-hearted, compassionate, kind, loving and caring, to make our world a better place to live in. We all seek peace but, as the Dalai Lama says, “the key to inner peace is warm-heartedness as it helps bridge the gap of separation between us humans”.

But heartless and merciless acts of extremism and terrorism across the world demonstrate how little use we are making of heart. Last, but not the least, is our reluctance to use our hands.

Our attitude of looking down upon apprenticeship and skills has not only pushed our large productive workforce to incapacitation for long but also gave rise to elitist and feudal mindset and social inequality. Not respecting manual work is tantamount to denying dignity to labour and grace to workmanship.

Humans have immense capacity for good. But if we do not make optimal use of the gifts we have, then we are not living to our full potential.

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.

 

Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

 Monday, 16 March 2020

Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

 Vedanta in Daily LIfe

Vedanta reaches that the less passion for work there is , the greater and more we work. If we read the lives of all the great workers of the world, we find that they were wonderfully calm men. Men and women of impulsive nature are restless and impatient, and so they cannot do great work and such, they cannot be steady workers they will lose their heads. Persons who are easily disturbed by passions like anger, jealously, hatred, ambition and selfishness, cannot accomplish much. They will shatter their nerves and eventually become useless. As we find in this country (in America) person who are impulsive , can do great work for the moment, but in the reaction, they break themselves in pieces. They suffer from nervous prostration. Therefore, self control is the secret of great work viz success in business, health and longevity. This we learn from Vedanta . What can be more practical or beneficial than to gain self-control and to exercise it in our everyday life?

Vedanta teaches how to be strong physically, mentally and spiritually. Physical strength proceeds from mental strength, and mental strength in its turn is the outcome of spiritual strength. Spiritual strength must be at the back of mental and physical strength, and that spiritual strength will come to those who live the right kind of life and understand d the laws that govern our lives . The knowledge of these laws will keep us free from mistakes, and this knowledge comes through the study of Vedanta. The practise of Raja Yoga will help us in acquiring that knowledge. that branch of Vedanta which is called the Raja Yoga, is the most practical of all applied sciences. Every step of this science depends entirely upon practice. It must enter into the daily life of every individual. take, for instance , one of the teachings of the Raja Yoga, the concentration . How absolutely helpful and necessary this power of concentration is ! Nothing can be achieved without it; no one can accomplish anything without possessing some amount of this power; no one can become a great artist; astronomer or physician, no one can have success, even in the Stock exchange, without this power of concentration. It is absolutely necessary for success in business, and this power we acquire through the practice of Raja Yoga.

Money and Well-Being

The Speaking Tree India | ET

By SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV

Some time ago, someone brought a man to me. He was depressed and broken and wanted to commit suicide. Why? Because about five years ago, he was worth Rs 3,000 crore. Then he played in the stock market, things went a little wrong and his worth dived a little bit.… If you keep money in your pocket, it is great. But if it enters your head, it becomes misery because that is not its place.

Wealth is just one of the tools towards human well-being, not the whole of it. What we need in the world is not just ‘wealth creation’. We need to create well-being. Wealth means making the outside pleasant for ourselves. Money is just a means; it is not an end by itself. We are making it too big for nothing.

Is it bad? Is it good? It is neither; it is just a tool that we created. It is not the money that people want. It is just that money has become the means for what they consider as a better life. Everyone wants their life to be pleasant.

When we say pleasant, pleasantness happens in five different ways. If your body becomes very pleasant, we call it pleasure. If your mind becomes pleasant, we call it peace; if it becomes very pleasant, we call it joy. If your emotions become pleasant, we call it love; if they become very pleasant, we call it compassion.

If your life energies become pleasant, we call it bliss; and if they become very pleasant, we call it ecstasy. If your surroundings become pleasant, you call it success. This is all you want, isn’t it?

Money can only create external pleasantness, it cannot create inner pleasantness.

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.

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Gratitude to ancestors

Monday, 08 October 2018

Gratitude to ancestors

Times in The Speaking Tree , India | ET

Muraleedharan Appath

‘Pitru-Paksha’, homage to ancestors performed as a ritual during a certain period every year, reminds us to express our gratitude to our elders and lighten our burden of any debts we feel we owe to them for not having given thanks earlier. A high gratitude quotient is the hallmark of inner growth. Karna, in the epic Mahabharata, remained eternally grateful to his benefactor Duryodhana.

For a single act of saving him from humiliation, Karna was always thankful; he even paid back with his own life. Remembering the goodness of others and sending positive vibes towards them are natural processes of pure minds. Divinity graces such hearts that have embraced prayerful gratitude.

Ancestors symbolise the past. Past modified in time, is the present. Present being an extension of the past, cannot be separated from it. Therefore, remaining grateful to all those who came into our lives, including the lineage, teachers, friends, institutions, situations, struggles and opportunities — and also remembering their contributions to our lives — contribute greatly to making our lives total and holistic.

To quote Thunchath Ezhuthachan, a 14th-century Malayalam devotional poet, “The one who forgets his debt content is dead, though alive.” The shradh ceremony institutionalised once a year, however, is indicative of having such a grateful heart all the time. It is an opportunity for remembrance and reflection, and feeling thankful to our ancestors. Pitru Paksha is being observed from September 24 and concludes on October 9.

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

The spheres of science and religion being different there is no necessity for them to clash. How is it, then that there used to be talk about a conflict between science and religion?

All conflicts between science and religion arise from avoidable causes, such as:

a.    The clash of a particular expression of religion belief with facts of science;

b.    The clash of a particular scientific philosophy with religious feeling;

c.     Attempts to combine in one statement scientific and religious formulations: or

d.    The application of psychological inquiry to phases of religious experience.

An analysis of all conflicts between science and religion will show that they originate in misunderstand and in a false antithesis between two incommensurables.

The only way of avoiding conflict between religion and science is to be truly spiritual and truly scientific.

Theoretically speaking and also practically, it is perfectly possible for one to be truly scientific and spiritual simultaneously. In fact, for a fuller understating of the world of being, man needs to bring about as pervasive an encounter as possible between these two ways of knowing in his personal life.

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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