Fearlessness.

Monday, 10 February 2020

Monday, 10 February 2020Quote from the True Charm and Power of VedantaFearlessness.So long as life remains in the body, our whole life must be a struggle to serve our ideal with pure and unselfish love. Never mind what others say infinite strength in behind us. We are children of the Divine Mother and thee lies our strength . we must live boldly whole boldly, and die boldly. Fear is weakens fear is sin. We must have nothing to do with that .Shake off all impurities from the system and say, “I am pure , I am free ! No sin, no death and no fear for me. Shivoham! Shivoham! I am a child ofGod. I am immortal! Thee is no difference between an immortal father and an immortal child. Both are one and the same.  Strength , strength strength is necessary. No weak person can attain freedom. So be strong person can attain freedom. So be strong and shall of all weakness. Say day and night think , day and night “I am pure, I am blissful, I am free”May He who is the eternal Lord of the universe may He who comes in different forms for the good of humanity , make us strong steady pure and fearless, So that we may live In Him and Him alone!

Realise your potential

The Speaking Tree | India | ETBy Swami Nirannanananda SaraswatiThe purpose of yoga is to create the awareness to separate the negative from the positive. We have to reject the negative and connect with the positive. Why do we react? Why do we desire one thing and not another? Reactions are a result of identification with negativity and dislikes.

Actions follow positivity. We can practise asanas only as long as we are fit. We practise meditation only as long as there is the desire. If there is no desire to practise yoga, we give it up. If we just revolve around our likes and dislikes, actions and reactions, desires and rejections all our life, it means we have not learnt the lesson to bring out the positivity. That positivity has to be expressed in every situation, whether it is an exam, a human relationship, social living or reclusive living. This is the understanding that yoga tries to give.We go through various experiences, good and bad. Whenever we react, it is a bad experience, and whenever we accept and act, it is a positive experience. Positivity and acceptance have to be our focus if we want to succeed in life. If this focus is lost, we cannot claim to be practitioners of yoga, only practitioners of asana, or meditation.Change has to come from within. In the third sutra of the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali discusses being established in one’s own nature as the seer, the drashta. To be established in one’s own nature means there has to be harmony, a flow in life. This optimism-and balance does not encounter nor is affected by blocks.

Meaningful Meditation

The Speaking Tree | India | ETBy ACHARYA MAHAPRAJNAThe criterion for wholesome thinking is to determine whether thought is born of equanimity or not. Two kinds of feelings dominate your life: like and dislike; craving and aversion. Totally unconditioned thinking is rare.Someone dear to us says something and we appreciate it; but the same thing uttered by an adversary and we feel contempt or fear. All action is conditioned or motivated by passion or disgust, approbation or disapprobation, attachment or indifference, attraction or revulsion.Aman shops for the best quality food; he does not want his family to consume adulterated foodstuff. Yet, the same person sells adulterated medicines to others, because he is indifferent to their fate. Due to lack of affection, he indulges in corruption.This feeling of attachment or unattachment powerfully affects one’s approach and all perversions in thought and action originate from there. True meditation helps you go beyond like and dislike, craving and aversion, to awaken in you a state of dispassion. Meditation is meaningless if it does not bring about a complete transformation.If a meditator keeps tranquil enough in the meditation hall, but on returning home continues fighting and quarrelling, his family would rightly look upon such a person and his meditation with misgiving.Meditation should awaken inner consciousness. The conscious mind becomes inert, but the inward consciousness becomes so active and expands so much that it transcends all conditioning. It remains steadfast and unchanging.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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Solitude and Silence

Monday, 09 December 2019

Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta

A belief is true if it has stood, and can always stand, the test of experience, and not because it has been said by a man or written in a book. The essential Vedantic truths belong to this category; they possess universal validity as they are verifiable by all men.

This is forcefully brought out by Sankara in a remarkable passage of his commentary on the Brahadaaranyaka Upanishad dealing with the validity of scriptural statements

The test of the validity of a sentence is not that it just states something about a thing or about an act. What (is it) then? (it is) its capacity to generate certain and fruitful knowledge. A sentence that has theis is valid; while one that lacks it is invalid.

Such truths are far different from the private beliefs of an individual or a group, a sect or a church, held with all emotional intensity and projected for other people’s acceptance with equal fervour. Such beliefs cannot claim; the greatest reward: because they have not paid; the heaviest penalty: involved in being subjected to the rigorous scrutiny of reason and being thrown open to universal verification referring to this unique characteristic of Vedanta. Romani Rolland says (the life of Vivekananda and the Universal Gospel, Third Impression. ) of truth characteristic of these Upanishads . Any reader of this literature cannot also escape being struck by the rational bent and speculative daring of these sages of ancient India.

Solitude and Silence

The Speaking Tree | India | ET

By CHITRANJAN SAWANT

Solitude and silence played a pivotal role in achieving emotional balance in the Vedic social order. The four ashrams made up the cornerstone for a happy life. Social homogeneity was as important as solitude in a gurukul where children and adolescents learnt lessons of life at the home and school of their gurus.

Sanyasins, as a rule, are not subject to any ritualistic injunction. By nature a sanyasi talks little and thinks more. His lifestyle lets him taste the sweet fruit of Ekant from the Brahmamuhurta when meditation is practised. Mantra meditation and abstinence preclude all forms of audiovisual communication. The bliss of solitude is perfect for creating the right ambience towards achieving liberation and enlightenment.

Moving away from the ashrams, we find that even in a military establishment like the National Defence Academy, observance of a quiet period is mandatory for cadets to enable them to recharge their batteries to cope with the training schedule. Silence is energy-giving.

A period of quiet helps us organise thoughts, reflect and introspect, helping one to rejuvenate with a fresh perspective. When you become a chatterbox, you are divorced from silence. If an individual is enamoured of hearing some sound or the other, let him hear the sound of silence. Eventually silence prevails over sounds and provides the perfect environment for lifting spirits through meditation.

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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Healthy mind is the best way to sound Body.

 

Monday, 18 March 2013

Healthy mind is the best way to sound Body.

Men of robust minds do not dwell upon their bodily condition . if it be in any way disordered they ignore it, and work on live on, as thought it were not. This ignoring of the body not only keeps the mind sane and strong, but it is the best resource for curing the body if we cannot have perfectly sound body, we can have a healthy mind. And healthy mind is the best route to a sound body.

A sickly mind is more deplorable than a disordered body. And it leads to sickness of body. The mental ivalid is in a far more pitiable condition than the bodily invalid. There are invalids who only need to lift themselves into a strong unselfish, happy frame of mind to find their body is whole and capable.

How to be attractive

Often we come across a man by far the most popular person in the city Although he is not by any means as attractive in appearance as some citizens. He wins more admiration than others from both men and women of the city. People comment on his charming personality . they call him an attractive person!

We must find out why he appeals to others, why he holds strong powers of attraction to others. He respects the rights of others. He praises people when they have done something praiseworthy, He helps others to feel that they have a personal  worth by showing them that they are important to him. He accepts cheerfully the wishes of others when they are different from his own. His ready smile helps others to see the life is not so gloomy as some of them think

You can also become attractive in the eyes of the public generally. People will like you best if you speak and act naturally without making any attempt at sell-display. When you don’t make any effort to create a good impression there is not artificiality and the genuineness of your personality gives it real beauty.

You would be the most attractive person if only you were yourself. But you would lose half your attractiveness by imitating another person. By copying someone else in your ideas. You are impoverishing rather than improving your personality. If you are ever to be come a distinct individual, you must develop your own original ideas and establish your own principles in lie.

Funny Job definitions.

Architect. One who is fill of plans when he meets a girl.

Author; A person who can read and do imitation.

Archaeologist; One whose career lies in ruins.

Bankers; “A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shinning and wat it back the minute it begins to rain.

Boss. (a) The poor man who has to get up early to see who come in late.  (b) The man who si erly when you are late and late, when you are early.

Committee; (a) A group of the unfit, appointed by the unwilling. To perform the unnecessary.  (b) A body which keeps minutes and wastes hours.

Census taker; The man who goes from house to house increasing the population.

Consultant; He to whom no employment is available.

Dentists; He who bores everyone  to tears.

Efficiency expert; The girl who finds what she want on the first dive into her handbag.

Housework; What a woman does that nobody else notices unless she does not.

Night watchman; He who never does a days’ work in life.

Professor; Oe who talks in the sleep of his students.

Tightrope walker; A man who keeps to the straight and narrow.

Tax inspector; he who believes twice what people tell him.

Veterinarian; He has the toughest job of all. Can you imagine some of the difficult cases? Trying to cure a giraffe with a sore throat a centipede with fallen aches, and elephant with sinus trouble.  (From “The lighter side of Employment)

Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

Thus you see that whatever might be our natural propensities, we are led to an entirely different way of valuing  things when we analyse s our environment. We find that this so –called life, this commination of body and soul, is not so desirable a thing. I am naturally deathless. Love of matter does not enable me to love God. In my true nature I am only a dweller in this body, the body and myself are not one and the same. It is because I forget this fact that Identify myself with the body, bring myself down to the most material condition, and regard myself as a being three and half cubits in length of weakness, physical and mental.

Such analysis can direct the mind of man towards his own real nature and towards Him who is his ral friend through eternity. Madahvacharya says that though the universe is made up three factors –matter, souls and God –still these are independent existences. Our goal is God. Real happiness and real wisdom. He alone can give.

 

 

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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