Knowledge

 

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Knowledge

Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Knowledge is the goal of all life. We are all of us struggling towards knowledge. The real life of man consists of knowledge. He who can become made with an idea , he alone sees light{177)

All our knowledge is based upon experience. Instinct, reason and inspiration are the three instrument of knowledge. Generation is the essence of knowledge. Books are infinite in number and time is short therefore the secret of knowledge is to take what it essential.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

The first end of life is knowledge; the second end of life is happiness. Knowledge and happiness lead to freedom. No action can give you freedom only knowledge can make you free. Knowledge is irrisistable; the mind cannot take it or reject it. Knowledge alone can make us perfect. {VII=18) Knowledge is power (144) The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening the disciplining of the mind .

All knowledge must stand on perception of certain facts, and upon that we have to build or reasoning. All human knowledge proceeds out of experience , we cannot know anything except by experience . all knowledge is by reaction. All knowledge and all power are within and not without. Curtsey pearls of wisdom

What Makes You a Leader

By SHRI SHRI NIMISHANANDA

Today, no one is working with full potential. That is why we are anonymous. Usually, one notices three patterns in the lives of people. Some lead, others follow, while many quit. Leaders are those who have self-motivation, zeal and dedication. They have the ability to tune into their inner Self, so they can guide and motivate others. Those who follow must have the enthusiasm to comprehend and implement the mission and vision placed before them.

 

They must also work at transforming their own shortcomings. We see many quitters around us. They flow with worldly currents and lead mechanical lives. Which quality prevents us from becoming mechanical? Awareness. If we are constantly aware, life is always interesting. We enjoy everything, for everything inspires us. Awareness is not alertness.

 

Alertness requires effort and has an element of stress. Awareness is alertness without tension. We should do nothing mechanically. Even stirring a spoon of sugar into a cup of tea should be done with complete awareness. Then there is always a deep sense of joy and connectivity with Divinity. Awareness is a relaxed and expansive state that eliminates tension.

 

Lack of awareness also generates indifference for others, while awareness creates complete connectivity with Divinity and all beings. We become natural leaders who inspire and ignite the flame of awareness in every being

 

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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Spiritual Practice

 

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Spiritual Practice

It is best for the ordinary Sadhaka , the spiritual aspirant not to concern himself with human love. Let him give himself heart and soul to God as He is in Himself. That will purify his mind and clarify his vision. If he indulges in human love as an ally in the path of spirituality, there is every chance of Moha, infatuation, stopping in, with a blurring of the spiritual vision and eventual fail. All such experiments must be carefully avoided . But the right and privilege is always left of serving others as God Himself –but observe. It must always be as God, and not as man; and there must be as reference to the usual love-relations. The human element must not be allowed to creep in ; for they are fraught with danger.

We must here insist that what we have written above, only applies to sincere spiritual aspirants and not to the average man. There are many who are redeemed by the touch of human love. There are many again. Whose life would dry up without the springs of human love? Most men are in this condition. Then duties then are in this condition. Their duty then is to conceive their love-relations in the best possible spirit, to purify, ennoble, and exalt them. Then they are for their good and essential  to it. But beyond even this noble state, is the life spiritual . when a man has been sated with human love, when a man has been sated with human love, when finite life and reality have made him restless to escape  their limitations, when his heart yearns for the Infinite and Eternal, even as the mother cries for her child, then spiritual life begins . and then so called human love appears as a dark, deep, weed-smothered well, to quoted the significant description. Of Sri Ramakrishna . Like the fabulous Cahataka bird, a man then cries for the rain-drops in order to slake his thirst and refuses to drink from rivers or ponds evewn though they be full.

The modern age with its cheap idealism, its secularity and tendency to cover the corpse with flowers has been trying to create a glamour about normal life, the life, of the senses and surface mind . spiritual aspirants , if they are serious and sincere  must beware of its pitfalls . men have tried in every age to idealize the real, to shut their eyes to the grim reality  that this world with all the joys and sweets  is after all false . but they have not succeeded yet and they never will .

 

Live without regrets

 

By Atul Sehgal

Life is a mixed bag. For most of us, it brings goodies interspersed with adversities and many opportunities for progress. Some folks are deeply regretful of missed opportunities, follies or blunders that cost them heavily through the course of their lives. Yet, there are others who always appear to be thankful for what life gave them, never regretful for what they did not get.

 

Regret may appear to be a natural emotion to some, but to others, it is equally natural to never grieve over their past or present adversities. Regret can also be a negative emotion that dissipates your mental and physical energies.

The only difference between regret and worry is that the former is in the context of past and the latter in the context of future. In the spiritual context, regret means a mental expression of unhappiness with some action or outcome. One should remember that man always acts as per his best understanding in each situation. Unforeseen problems can emerge and they could be absolutely beyond his control.

 

Then why should an unfavourable outcome bother him? Fretting or regretting, therefore, is against the immanent and inviolable laws of the universe set in operation by the creator. Regret is different from remorse, in the sense that remorse is a feeling of penance for the wrongs committed by a person.

It sets him on a corrective course. In the divine setting, whatever happens is for your ultimate betterment. Learn from your mistakes but never curse yourself. So, no regrets, happy living.

 

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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HOW TO ATTAIN SUPREME LOVE

 

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HOW TO ATTAIN SUPREME LOVE

It is said in the Bhagavad Gita;

“Freedom from activity is never achieved by abstaining from action. Nobody can become perfect by merely ceasing to act. In fact nobday can ever rest from this activity even for a moment. (Here activity menas also mental action conscious or subconscious). All are helplessly forced to act by Gunas.

“A man who renounces physical action but still lets his mind dwell on the objects of his sensual desire is deceiving himself. He can only be called a hypocrite. The truly admirable man controls his senses by the power of his will. All his action are disinterested. All are directed along the path to union with Brhaman.

“The world is imprisoned by its own activity, except when actions are preformed as worship of God. Therefore you must perform every action sacramentally and be free from all attachment to results.

Sri Kishna teaches the secret of worhsipping God through all one’s activities . He says ;

Whatever you action

Food or worship;

Whatever the gift you give to another;

Whatever you vow to the work of the Spirit O Son of Kunti

Lay these also as offering before me.

Sankara, having realized his secret of work, said. “Whatever I do O Lord all that is they worship.”

“Worldliness means to feel that “I” am the doer and attachment to worldly objects and persons is to feel that “I” possess them , they belong to “me” and they are “mine” Sri Ramakrishna of the used to say ,”I am machine. Thou art the operator. I am the house Thou art the dweller in the house. I do as Thou makest me do. I speak as Thou makes me speak.

God is the king, the ruler within our hearts but when through ignorance, we become forgetful of his benign presence within us, we have usurped his throne. We must shun the false sense of ego. And let the true king, the Lord within rule us , guide us in every way. Say day and night “Not I not I but Thou my Lord”

The spiritual aspirant should try to imitate the lives and actions of the enlightened ones. He should keep his goal always before him: union with God. The best method of reaching this goal is to cultivate faith that union can be achieved, not in the distant future but at any moment. At the same time, however, he must have patience. Patience and perseverance are the two characterizes of a true spiritual aspirant.

In union with Nature

By: Osho, ET

To be against nature is utter foolishness. The divine cannot be against nature; it is hidden in nature itself. So nature has not to be fought against, rather it is a veil that has to be removed. Nature is a part of the divine, it is its expression. Fighting with nature we can go further and further away from the divine but never closer to it. But we have been taught to fight nature since eternity: the divine has been put in opposition to nature. Result: nothing but spiritual poverty.

Nature is in God, and God is in nature. Godliness does not mean being free from nature: it is a complete union with nature. Teaching us to be against nature has taken away the very bridge between our lives and our meeting with the divine.

Nature is a bridge. It is a road that will lead to your destination. There is no other road than that. Nature has to be loved. Only love opens its door. And from that very door, we can see the divine. But we have been told that nature is a bondage. It is a prison. It is sin. These wrong teachings have poisoned man’s mind. And so his love toward nature and his possibility of true knowing have been greatly damaged.

 

Before the divine can be brought into people’s lives, they must bring back nature into their lives. Without nature first being present in our hearts, the divine cannot be present. The love for nature ultimately transforms itself into a prayer to the divine. Freedom is not from nature, freedom is in nature

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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Influence of Thought

 

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Influence of Thought

Just as every action that emanates from us comes back to us as reaction , even so our action may act on other people and theirs on us. Perhaps all of you have observed it as a fact that when persons do evil actions, they become more and more evil, and when they begin to do good, they become stronger and stronger and learn to do good at all times. This intensification of the influence of action cannot be explained on any other ground than that we can act and react upon each other. To take an illustration from physical science, when I am doing a certain action, my mind may be said to be in a certain state of vibration; all minds which are in similar circumstances will have the tendency to be affected by my mind. If there are different musical instruments tuned alike in one room, all of you may have noticed that when one is struck the others have the tendency to vibrate so as to give the same note. So all minds that have the same tension, so to say, will be equally affected by the same thought. Of course, this influence of thought on mind will vary according to distance and other causes but the mind is always open to affection. Suppose I am doing an evil act, my mind is in a certain state of vibration, and all minds in the universe, which are in a similar state, have the possibility of being affected by the vibration of my mind. so when I am doing a good action, my mind is in another state of vibration; and all minds similarly strung have the possibility of being affected by my mind , and this power of mind upon mind is more or less according as the force of the tension is greater or less

Bloom to full potential

 

By Meena Om

When Spring arrives, earth awakens to the loving warmth of the sun and flowers begin to blossom. Flowers spread joy, positivity, colour and fragrance. A flower is a symbol of consistently working on the self and then offering it to the world. Its seed represents continuity of sankalpa; it’s indicative of the resolve of imparting the best of your being.

 

 

 

 

A flower tells us in silent language that we are perfect, reflections of the Divine, and by working on ourselves, and taking the right nutrients and withstanding natural calamities and other challenges, we can blossom. Flowering symbolises the journey of life. A flower gives food, nourishment and good karma to insects like butterflies and honeybees. It does not hold back. We could do the same, too.

 

A plant may eventually perish but it knows the perfect mechanism of nature, that is, full blossoming of being. Everyone can blossom into perfection, to that divine beauty, which is beneficial for all of creation. Flowers are offered during both joyful and sorrowful occasions, as in births and deaths, celebration and grief. Like the yogi that the Bhagwad Gita talks about, flowers too are centred in sambuddhi and are stithaprajna karmyogis, providing solace to everyone.

When a flower blossoms, it does so for its own joy, according to its own gunas, as per Nature’s law, in complete surrender. A seed captures the essence of the flower when it blossoms fully. We are mostly unaware of the kind of seeds, that is, thoughts that we are leaving behind, being totally engrossed in the external world.

 

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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LEARN TO LIVE

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LEARN TO LIVE

He started living amidst these savage people exposing himself to grave danger. It was not easy to carry on this long =drawn struggle. Great undertakings are always taught with many obstacle=this statement because true of Duncan’s social service. The very people whom he wanted to serve rebelled against him. Their leaders opposed him . the businessmen who had been fattening themselves by exploiting the people opposed him. The priests were against him. But off these adversities he faced with unparalleled adventure, enthusiasm self-confidence and unending struggle –singe –handed , but with success.

His struggle bore fruit after sixty years. The Simshin community, once notorious for their terrifyingly savage behaviors are today a very peace loving gentle and cultured group of people . no barbaric actions are committed by them any more . None of them drink alcohol today.

It was Duncn who declared after his experiment and investigation the wisdom that old-die-hard  habits can be conquered with new constructive habits. In 1918 when he was eighty six years old. Duncan breathed his last. But he remained the apple of the eye of the Sushin community and was always held in great respect.  

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.-

Heaven, Hell Your Choice

 

By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

 

When a person dies, he loses his body, and his intellect or discerning mind. The memory part of the mind, however, continues to function but only as tendencies within him. He cannot choose anymore because he does not have a discerning mind. Because of this lack of choice, if the memory bank is full of unpleasantness, this unpleasantness can multiply a million times over.

 

For example, right now if you get angry, you can use your discerning mind and control it. But if you did not have this discerning mind, the anger would flare up into madness. So, once a person has died, whatever is the content of his mind — the moment of death is a significant part — if he has cultivated pleasantness as the general content of his mind, it could multiply many fold because of lack of discernment.

 

At the same time, if he cultivated unpleasantness, that can also multiply many folds. If a person gets into extreme states of unpleasantness, we say this person has reached hell. If he has reached extreme states of pleasantness, we say he has reached heaven. Hell and heaven are not places but different states of experience, particularly after death.

 

There is a beautiful story in the yogic lore. There was a yogi who was 84 years old and he started telling the other yogis around him, ‘You know, I am going to die shortly and go to heaven.’ The other yogis asked him, ‘How do you know you are going to heaven? Do you know what’s on God’s mind?’ The yogi replied, ‘I don’t care what’s on God’s mind. I know what’s on my mind.’

 

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Thoughts on Vedanta

 

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Thoughts on Vedanta 

    

There is a screen here, and some beautiful scenery outside. There is a small hole in the screen through which we can only catch a glimpse of it. Suppose this hole begins to increase, as it grows larger and large more and more of the scenery comes into view, and when the screen has vanished, we come face to face with the whole of the scenery. This scene outside is the soul, and the screen between us and scenery is Maya-time, space and causation. There is a little hole some where , through which I can catch only a glimpse of the soul. When the hole is bigger. I see more and when the screen has vanished , I know that I am the soul . So changes in the universe are not in the Absolute, they are in nature . nature evolves more and more. Until the Absolute manifests itself. In everyone It exists; in some it is manifested more than in others. The whole universe is really one. In speaking of the soul, to say that one is superior to another has no meaning . in speaking of the soul to say that man is superior to the animal or the plant has no meaning; the whole universe is one. In plants the obstacle to soul manifestation is very great ; in animals a little less; and in man still less; in cultured spiritual men still less and in perfect men; it has vanished altogether . all our struggles , exercises , pans, pleasures , tears and smiles all that we do and think tend towards that goal, the tiring up of the screen making the hole bigger, thinning the layers that remain between the manifestation and the reality behind . Our work, therefore, is not to make the soul free, but to get rid of the bondages. The sun is covered by layers of could, but remains unaffected by them. The work of the wind is to drive the clouds away, and the more the clouds disappear, the more the light of the sun appears. There is no change whatsoever in the soul –infinite , absolute eternal, knowledge, bliss and existence . neither can there be birth or death for the soul. Dying and being born, reincarnation and going to heaven, cannot be for the soul. These are different appearances, different mirages, different dreams, If a man who is dreaming of this world now dreams of winked thoughts and wicked deeds, after a certain time the thought of that very dream will procure the next dream. He will dream that he is in a horrible place, being tortured. The man who is dreaming good thought and good deeds. after that period of dream is over, will dream he is in a better place; and so on form dream to dream. But the  time will come when the whole of this dream will vanish. To everyone of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a mere dream, when we shall find that the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. In this struggle through what we call our environments. There will come a time when we shall find that these environments were almost zero in compression with the power of the soul. It is only a question of time and time is nothing in the infinite. It is a drop in the ocean. We can afford to wait and be calm.

 

Back to the original

 

By Meena Om

 

We have come full circle from being simple, pure, pious, soulful and real humans, to shrewd, conniving, manipulative and hypocritical, without realising how much we have maligned our natural process of spiritual evolution. We are supposed to be ‘beings of light — reflection of the Divine’ but have become products of mind tactics, lost in the darkness of ignorance, to the extent that we don’t even realise this truth. Now, Nature seems to have taken the reigns in her hands — either succumb to unawareness, or work on the self for empowerment to come out of it.

We can change this. First step is to go for a digital detox by leaving all typical, mechanically framed, fabricated messages and borrowed phrases. The planet and its aura are netted with unaccountable, unnatural and unnecessary vibrations of useless words, tuneless, disharmonious sounds, and frivolous thoughts produced by exploiting the digital media to the maximum. Now Nature is cornering us all to mend our existing, selfish, fashionably acquired ways of overusing everything provided by Nature and science for personal comforts.

 

Connect with Nature; learn to live without too much dependence on digital devices and artificial means. Acquire the habit of dhyana, meditation, and have right nutrition from natural sources — foods without preservatives — to detox your body and mind for the next quantum leap for evolution. Let’s be natural, spontaneous and original for newness.

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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How to live

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How to live

A community which, according to the prevailing social system , is subjected to contempt, abuse and exploitation , is likely to associate with tits self-image, the labels which the ruling class or exploiters use with reference to them to season and out of season such as wicked evil, unworthy, useless good-for-nothing, etc. distrust about one’s own ability gets established in the mind and the individual may begin to hate himself . in short these feelings deal a death blow to the whole some development of the individual.

People who are little more advanced than the rest, economically, socially, culturally and intellectually, in religion and spiritual practice, to whatever community they belong have a tendency to show off, to display their bloated ego consciously or unconsciously before other who are less fortunate than they are. They dub their less fortunate brethren ‘stupid, dull idling with contempt and scorn. The earlier they give up such a habit, the better for the whole society. this aptitude which is present in those who support exploitation and to those who are supposedly forward, characterized by arrogance and feelings of superiority deflates the self-confidence of those who are deprived of the opportunities in education and culture , and  presents them form ever trying to lift themselves up. Do they ever contemplatewhat kind of shock they cause to people lagging behind because of their contemptuous and belittling attitude. If they don’t have the farsightedness to realize that by instilling negative features in the self-image of the poor downtrodden people, they indirectly do harm to them and in the long turn pave the way for their own destruction what is the meaning of their feelings of superiority? Man’s worth should be assessed not on the basis of the limitations and weakens of the moment but on the basis of the limitation s and weakness of the moment, but on the bass of his potential and the possibility of development and achievement. we should develop the habit of respecting an individual on the basis of this possibility of achievement . Otherwise our society will go on erecting hurdles on the way of its own development. It ahs already erected enough hurdles. Do we see the signs of the development of such consciousness among our educated youth?

Ability to be self-aware

According to Aristotelian theory, humans are the most evolved form of thinking and feeling beings so far. What is more, we alone have the potential to grow and evolve into the spiritual dimension. But what precisely, if anything, sets us apart from other living creatures? Is it the faculty of reasoning? But reasoning does not, and cannot, teach us anything new. Socrates was a man, a mortal being. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

You can see here that there is no new truth that the third and concluding statement expresses that is not clearly implied in the first two sentences.

The conclusion of any piece of syllogistic reasoning does not enable us to learn anything new other than what is contained in its premise. You have the same limitation with inductive logic where you arrive at general truths from particular examples.

 

The mind grasps reality by establishing relationships between entities that it perceives new and perceptions that it carries from the past. The distinguishing feature of humans lies in our capacity for self-awareness.

 

Other living creatures may have the ability to perform a greater variety of tasks or may have developed superior sensibilities in certain areas, but we have the capacity to look at ourselves and be aware of ourselves.

We can attain knowledge, but what is unique about us is that we can also get to know how we can attain that knowledge. A human being is like a computer that can see how it has been programmed and, thereby, transcend its programming.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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