Essential of Spiritual Life

 

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 Essential of Spiritual Life

 

The person who follows the path of selfless activity has to possess devotion, discrimination and concentration along with non-attachment. Aspirants of the other paths too, besides being endowed with common moral qualifications, should have-it may be in varying degree-all-these indispensable laments of spiritual life. Thus it is practically impossible in draw a dividing line between different types of aspirants and the paths they pursue. For example, evenness of mind which Sri Krishna speaks of as Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita is a virtue which all Yogis alike should possess. We may further quote the following verses of the Gita to illustrate the common features of the Yogas

 

“Content with what comes to him without effort, unaffected by the pairs of opposites, free from envy, and even minded in success and failure the wise man is not bound even though he be acting.

“Resigning mentally all deeds to me, the divine Being, having Me as the highest goal, and resorting to the devotion of right knowledge, ever fix your mind on me

“The Yogi who, being established in unity, worships, Me dwelling in all beings-he abides in Me, whatever his mode of life may be

All these words of Sri Krishna are more or less applicable to every type of Yoga. There is a conscious or unconscious combination of all noble attributes in the perfect ones as also in all real aspirants.

 

A simple method to attain Self-realisation

 

By Anup Taneja        

 
Paul Brunton, who visited Ramana Maharshi’s ashram in 1931, placed before the latter two fundamental questions: Is it necessary to renounce the world and move to secluded jungles or mountains to realise the Truth? What method should be pursued to attain Self-realisation?

 

In response to the first question, the Maharshi said that solitude is in the mind of a man. One might be in the thick of the world and yet maintain perfect equanimity; such a person is always in solitude. Another may stay in the jungle or mountain-top but still be unable to keep the mind calm. Such a person cannot be said to be in solitude. Solitude, thus, is an attitude of the mind; a detached man is always in solitude.

 

Ramana Maharshi further said that the life of action need not be renounced in case the seeker is able to meditate for an hour or two every day. This is because the spiritual currents generated during meditation will continue to flow even in the midst of one’s work. Then the seeker can perform his worldly activities in that very current at high efficiency and output levels. Thus, while the seeker is engaged in search of God ‘within’, ‘outer’ worldly activities go on spontaneously.

  
Replying to the second question, the Maharshi said that the method of Self-inquiry is the simplest and direct method for Self-realisation. He explained that the first and foremost of all thoughts, the primeval thought in the mind of every man, is the thought ‘I’. It is only after the birth of this that any other thought can arise at all. The thought ‘I’ is also known as ahankar, ego, feeling of one’s personality. Therefore, the seeker desirous of attaining jnana must constantly ask himself the question, ‘Who am I?’

 If you meditate on this question, said Ramana Maharshi, and “begin to perceive that neither the body and brain, nor desires are really you, then the very attitude of inquiry will eventually draw the answer to you out of the depths of your own being”. Something else will spontaneously arise from behind your mind and take complete possession of you. That ‘something’ is the Pure Self – infinite, divine and eternal.

 

The mind, according to Ramana Maharshi, is a mere bundle of thoughts and has no concrete existence. Further, there can be no thoughts in the absence of the thinker, the ego. Through constant self-inquiry, when the seeker delves deep into the innermost recesses of his being, the ego gets dissolved and merges in Pure Consciousness. When this happens, the seeker attains the exalted state of Self-realisation.

 

Ramana Maharshi illustrated the process of annihilation of the ego by giving the example of the stick that is used in cremating bodies in the cremation ground. The stick that helps in pushing the bodies into the funeral blaze is itself in the end consumed by the same blaze. The stick is the ego and the blaze is the fire of jnana, Pure Consciousness, which abides in eternity and destroys ignorance. Therefore, the seeker who wishes to extricate himself from the vicious cycle of transmigration, “must retreat into his impregnable citadel” by realising his identity with the Pure, Immortal Self, the One Ultimate Reality.

 

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.-

 

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Spiritual Healing

 

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Spiritual Healing

 

All real healing is quite involuntary. It comes from the central reservoir of life, and that reservoir is shut off when our consciousness is fixed on the physical. If we are overcome by aches and pains and look to material means only for relief, this may come or it may not but even if it comes, it will be merely temporary. There can be permanent healing only when we turn to the Source of all supply which is within.    We must learn to retire within. We must learn to retire within ourselves when there is any trouble. Whatever overtakes us –whether it is physical illness, nervous excitement or mental disturbance-we must not reach out to the external world for help, we must try rather to make ourselves more fit for the manifestation of the divine Spirit. If we can draw close the cosmic Source within ourselves, we shall be relieved from our aches and pains and darkness. 

 

That inner Light the wise men say is the cure for all ailments, but we do not seek help there. We seek everywhere else; we turn to the spiritual Source as a last resort. Yet until we bring ourselves into contact with That, we shall have no real peace or rest or strength Mediation therefore becomes a vital factor in all healing. I have known many instances of involuntary cures, through mediation, and it is easy to explain them. The power of mediation enables me to transcend the physical to forget the limited self with its endless concerns and occupations, which now absorb and distract the mind.

 

Your response to situations can immortalise you

By

  Sudhamahi Regunathan

 

One of the elements in storytelling is to keep a little secret going till the end. Some call it suspense, others call it the climax. As a story is being told, there comes a twist, an unexpected challenge, and the plot intensifies. The listener typically asks, “And then what happened?” and there comes a turn of events. O’Henry was known for the sudden twist at the end of his stories.

 

Adikavi Valmiki wrote his famed story of the Ramayan, which has inspired many generations, with a difference. It may be surprising to learn that in the very first chapter, he tells the entire story of the Ramayan, with all the details. If he has missed out anything, he repeats the entire story in the third chapter again, right to the end when Ravan is slain and Ram returns to Ayodhya and is coronated.

 

Whether you read the Ramayan with devotion or as a piece of literature, the mind could feel an ennui since the story is completely revealed at the very beginning. But the charming thing about reading Valmiki is that interest never flags. Why?

 

 

The secret lies in framing the question. The Ramayan begins with Valmiki asking Narad, who was visiting his ashram, a question that he had been pondering over. “Who, in this wide world, is endowed with all qualities? Who is he who knows the right from wrong, is courageous, abides by dharma, is full of resolve, committed to Truth, has integrity in his actions, is full of moral rectitude, a man of knowledge, powerful, humble, who has subdued his senses, is gentle and soft spoken, splendorous, has a generous heart but when provoked can make even gods tremble?” Valmiki wonders if there can be one person who has all these qualities and more.

 

Narad agrees that it is a rather difficult question, but yes, he does know of such a person. And he proceeds to tell Valmiki the entire story of Ramayan. Valmiki hears attentively. The conversation comes to an end and feeling edified and happy, Valmiki proceeds to river Tamasa for a dip when he sees two krauncha birds in great harmony. Even as he is appreciating them, a hunter kills one, leaving the other helpless in grief. An enraged Valmiki pronounces a curse. And suddenly he finds his curse has found poetic expression.

 

He is struck by the metre and rhyme in his curse … Then Brahma himself comes to tell him, “I was the one who created this situation and also gave you the power of expression so that you may tell the story of the Ramayan.” And then Brahma tells him the story of Ram all over again.

 

So within the first three chapters, the entire story is told twice. That is because the focus of the Ramayan is not on Ram killing Ravan. It is on the qualities of Ram and his character. The storyline is but a series of challenges that come his way … challenges to his integrity, courage, generosity, his commitment to Truth and so on.

 

It does not matter which trajectory your life takes; it does not matter who behaves how. What matters is your response. And that is what immortalises men and women.

 

 

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.-

 

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DHYANA AND SAMADHI

 

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            DHYANA AND SAMADHI

We have taken a cursory view of the different steps in Raja-Yoga, except the finer ones, the training in concentration which is the goal, to which Raja-Yoga will lead us, We see, as human beings, that all our knowledge which is called rational is refereed to consciousness. My consciousness of this table, and of your presence, makes me know that the table and you are here. At the same time, there is very great part of my existence of which I am not conscious. All the different organs inside the body, the different parts of the brian-no body is conscious of their

When I eat food, I do it consciously, when I assimilate it, I do it unconsciously. When the food is manufactured into blood, it is done unconsciously. When out of the blood all the different parts of my body are strengthen, it is done unconsciously. And yet it is I who am doing all this; there cannot be twenty people in this one body. How do I know that I do it, and nobody else? It may be urged that my business is only in eating and assimilating the food, and that strengthening the body by a man comes out the very same man the food done for me by somebody else. That cannot be because it can be demonstrated that almost every action of which we are now unconscious can be brought up to the plane of consciousness. The heart is beating apparently without our control. None of us here can control the heart; it goes on its own way. But by practice men can bring even the heart under control until it will just beat at will slowly or quickly or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control. What does consciousness are also performed by us , only we are doing it unconsciously. We have, then, two planes in which the human mind wake First is the conscious plane, in which all work is always accompanied with the feeling of egoism. Next comes the unconscious plane where all work is unaccompanied by the feeling of egoism. That part of mind work which is unconscious work , and that part which is accompanied with the feeling of egoism is conscious work. In the lower animals this unconscious work is called instinct. In higher animals and in the highest fo all animals man, what is called conscious work prevails.

 

Time doesn’t flow, it doesn’t stop, it just is

By Jasmine Sehgal

 

The idea of time is not easy to grasp, its nature is a great mystery. All actions and events that happen are ordained to follow a linear order of time; they have a beginning, peak and an end. Ancient Indic scriptures have used the word ‘Kaal’ for time.

 

According to Vaisheshik, one of the six theist schools of Indic philosophy, founded by Maharshi Kanad, who proposed the atomistic approach to understanding the universe, kaal is an abstract entity. It is one of the nine kaaran dravyas, causative elements of creation. They are: mann, mind; atman, consciousness; kaal, time; and disha, space; and the panchbhutas, five elements – akash, ether; vayu, air; agni, fire; jal, water; and prithvi, earth. Prashastapada, the famous commentator on Vaisheshik Darshan from 500-600 BCE, spoke about kaal to be eka, one, in number – a continuum. Acharya Charaka stated: ‘Kaalah punah parinamah’, kaal is the process of parinaam, transformation.

  
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein’s relativistic theory relates matter and energy by the following equation: E=mc2, where E: energy, m: mass, and c: speed of light. So energy and matter are really the same thing. It is just the transformation of one into another. Einstein’s one-time teacher and colleague, Hermann Minkowski, introduced the relativity concept of proper time, ‘The actual elapsed time between two events as measured by a clock that passes through both events.’ Two events are nothing but transformation, close on heels.

 

Everything happens for a reason and the only reason for time to exist is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

 

Talking of the qualities of time, Maharshi Sushruta said that time is swayambhu, it’s just there; Anadi madhya nidhanah – it is without a beginning, peak and an end; and Sookshmatam kalaam na leeyate – it does not stop in subtlest fractions.

 

Time is quantised for practical purposes of planning and execution of all activities. Another theoretical physicist, Carlo Rovelli, putting forth his idea of time, has stated that it is the human brain, not just fundamental physics that determines what we call the flowing of time and the sense of the speed at which it flows.

 

The term ‘space time continuum’ refers to the interpretation that time and space are without a beginning, peak and an end and are in continuity. Time doesn’t evolve into anything; it’s just there, all, at once.

 

Modern physicists believe that time does not ‘flow’, it just ‘is’. This view of time, according to Paramahansa Yogananda, is consistent with the philosophical view mentioned in the Bhagwad Gita: God is the Eternal Consciousness, unchanging and indivisible, in which the illusions of time, change; and space, division; present an infinite variety of forms interacting in a progressive mode of past, present and future.

 

The writer is an Ayurveda practitioner

 

 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.-

 

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Who am I?

 

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Who am I?

 

There is boundless energy within each one of us but we are not aware of the invaluable treasure or heavenly store within ourselves. Man sometimes makes a fool of himself by believing that he is nothing but a bundle of foibles and limitations. He sometimes acts like a neurotic, and at other times like a murderous criminal. What is really meant by the “I” or every one?

When we understand that the real seat of energy is within us, one which we are normally ignorant of, we surmount our limitations and overcome our emotional idiosyncrasies. We become free and we attain knowledge and wisdom. With this attainment, no matter what position, we are in, our speech, our behavior our activities undergo a radical transformation. Poet Bendre said. Get into thyself, see thyself, be thyself. What is meant by “Be thyself”? When we try to understand our true nature by means of proper thought technique, inquiry and experience we get immersed in the depths of our beings. Then we have glimpse of the profound light latent within ourselves.  

We realize that this light is not a figment of our imagination but a matter of profound truth.

 

“Dwell , O mind within yourself.

Enter no other’s home.

If you but seek there, you will find

All you are searching for.

 

God, the true philosopher’s stone.

Who answers every prayers.

Lies hidden deep within your heart

The richest get of all.

How many pearls and precious stones

Are scattered all about.

The outer court that lies before

The chamber of your heart!”

 

When we properly dissect and analysis this principle of “I” we get to know the secret behind it and its immense potential. We are actually gifted with wonderful energy that is beyond verbal description and that is only limited by our imaginations. If shackles itself with imaginary thoughts about restrictions. How one can free oneself from this shackles is and extremely exciting and thrilling investigation. We don’t have to conduct experiments in any laboratory to hold this investigation. Our mind itself is the laboratory. It is thought itself which serves as a sword to cut the Gordian knot of the problem. How do we realize our own strength, using this sword of effective thought?

 

Courtesy learn to live

 

Seek help to tune yourself to higher vibrations

 

By Sant Rajinder Singh

 

If we are to succeed in any new endeavour, we require the guidance of an expert in the field who has achieved mastery of the subject. Such mastery requires many years of diligence, hard work, sacrifice and painstaking determination. Whether in the arena of medicine, sports, engineering, or any other field, an expert can help guide us and show us the way forward. Spirituality is no different.

 

To excel in the spiritual arena, we need to find an expert who has already unravelled the mysteries of life, has completed the spiritual journey and can guide us step by step through the vastness of inner regions. Such an expert is known as a spiritual master.

 

 

Principles of spirituality work like scientific laws that govern our planet. Laws that work in our universe are reflections of those that govern the higher realms of creation. Principles at work both in the physical and spiritual realms can help us understand how a spiritual master serves as a catalyst to ignite our spark within.

 

Think of how scientists and engineers connect sources of power and energy to people’s homes. Engineers devise systems in which electrical energy from the power plant is channelised to a home. They make new connections and fix broken ones.

 

Also, making connections to receive electronic or digital signals in this physical realm is analogous to making connections between the soul and God. For both, we need a sender and a receiver. The divine sender is the Lord. The receiver of God’s broadcast is our soul. The master is a specialist who makes the connection so that our soul can be receptive to the messages from God.

 

We need such a specialist because God’s messages come only as spirit and do not involve any matter. Since the receiver in the physical body is the brain and the senses made of matter, it is limited to only receiving communications from the material world. The master is a catalyst that tunes our attention to these higher vibrations. The latent spark of the Divine is within each human being. It awaits a catalyst to ignite it so that its brilliant flame can be actualised.

 

To receive spiritual communication from the Divine, we need to be in tune with another system of reception, known as the soul. Right now there is a static interfering with the connection between the soul and God. On our own, we do not know how to eliminate interference to open lines of communication. A spiritual master helps us understand the purpose of our lives and reminds us of the soul’s long journey and separation from God. He teaches us meditation techniques by which we learn to withdraw our attention from the outer physical world and focus it on the third eye, the gateway to inner spiritual worlds. We embark on this journey and awaken to our true nature as souls through meditation. With continued guidance from a master, we then gradually advance towards the soul’s ultimate destination – God’s Abode.

 

If we are to fulfil the supreme purpose of our lives, it is imperative that we seek guidance from a spiritual master.

 

 

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.-

 

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Duty and Service

 

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Duty and Service

 

The spirit of true service, however, never dawns in the heart without self abnegation and non-attachment. If we would do for others, we must be willing to forget our own little self, our physical comforts, our individual happiness. Only as all our action are based on the principle of working not for results, but through love, do we learn to help others truly . a worthy  lover  of making is like a flower, which gives its fragrance whether we place it on our head or trample it under our feet . His nature is to give without any regard for his won personal gain our loss.

 

The story is told of a holy man in India who, going one day to a well to drink found a scorpion struggling in the water. The sight touched his loving heart and lifting the poor creature from the well, he pressed it against his breast to warm and revive it. But no sooner had the scorpion regained its strength then it stung him. The saint placed it gently on the ground and in a moment it feels back into the well. Forgetting that it had done him any injury, again he rescued it and held it against his heart, but the scorpion stung him as before. Still a third time he drew it from the water and gave it the same loving care, wholly unmindful of the harm done to him. He had reached the ideal preached by Buddha and Christ of loving even his enemies for all self –love had merged into the great love which embraces every living creature .

 

Performing effortless action is true yog

 

By KV Raghupathi

 

The word ‘yog’ is understood in several ways. One meaning predominantly attributed to it is ‘action’. Yog is an action. It is described in the Bhagwad Gita as ‘Karmeshu kausalam yog’. Action is simply understood as our emotional, neurological and mental response to a situation. It happens either with volition or with no volition. When it happens with volition, it is thoughtful action; if it happens without volition, it is called choiceless action. However, thought precedes action. Thought is crucial to performing actions. When the same action is constantly repeated, a habit is formed. Habits thus formed by constantly repeated actions describe our character.

 

Without getting into the complexity of action, let us first understand how action is performed. Action is done in two ways: one is with effort and the other without effort. Effortless action is true yog.

 

 

How is it achieved? We all perform actions with effort. This is the beginning of action; action is done with ‘me’ consciousness. Action thus performed, with ‘me’ consciousness, is not yog because it involves effort. Yog emphasises swift action without giving much credence to I-thought.

 

When we want to excel in one skill, we need to put in a lot of effort in the beginning. In time, it becomes effortless. This is called efficiency. Take teaching as an example. Teaching a particular subject requires effort in the beginning, such as preparing notes, rehearsing before stepping into a classroom, self-evaluating, and so on. As we teach the same subject, assisted by our constant learning that enhances our knowledge, we gain efficiency in time. We need not take lecture notes to the classroom, we need not prepare seriously. We might as well walk into the classroom empty-handed and deliver the goods. Or we may take along lecture notes but not look at them now and then while teaching as we did in the beginning. This way efficiency is achieved. Effortless action is nothing but achieving efficiency. When we gain this efficiency in whatever we do, we are in a state of yog. Our bodies and minds get totally involved in whatever we do with no effort. That is, we do not feel tired or become a spent force.

 

The whole creation is moving in this direction – effortless action. The only difficulty is that we are not aware of it.

 

Effortless action also means responding to a situation spontaneously, without thinking too much about it. Otherwise, it would bind us to karma, which is inescapable. Instead, we wait for the situation to unfold before us and when it does, we act like a cat on the wall that lies in wait for a rat to come out of its hole. Once the rat appears and is close enough, the cat jumps and catches it. This is true action. There is no effort involved.

 

 

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.-

 

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The path of spirit, the way of peace and Blessedness.

 

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The path of spirit, the way of peace and Blessedness.

 

The path of the spirit is so simple that a child can walk in it; but grown up people who have complicated minds, for them the path is as sharp as the blade of razor. The simple minded are ever protected by the Divine Mother and She creates such an atmosphere about them that nothing can touch them. Everyone can acquire this atmosphere. Whatever you really want, you can gain. The power is within you. But you can not do it if you take the egotistic point of vice. If, however, you surrender to Divine Mother and pray to Her with whole-hearted devotion, then nothing can prevent you from moving onward. You are sure to attain.

            What you want is the living quality in the spiritual life. You must be spiritually living before you can enjoy life. You must know what life is. You must have a full consciousness of its meaning and purpose, so that even when things go wrong you will be able to stand up and face the difficulty like a true child of God. You must go round and round your being. You must penetrate into every corner with the light of wisdom, so that nothing is hidden from you. You must arise, awake and shake off all lethargy.

Then when you begin to live, every thing will begin to live for you. As long as you are spiritually dead, as long as your heart is deadened by thinking constantly of matter, everything must seem dead to you. But as soon as you are living, living things will come to you. Whenever the soul is ready the seed comes; so when your heart is properly prepared and ready to receive the living seed, the life giving force then it will surely come. You cannot expect someone else to give you a beautiful vision of blessedness. He might do it but you could not keep it. You must prepare the field by earnestness, humility, child-like simplicity and faith.

 

What Einstein can teach theists and atheists

 

By Sumit Paul

 

Was Albert Einstein an atheist or a believer? Neither. The theoretical physicist never called himself an atheist, something the likes of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett will have you believe. Einstein was an agnostic, a sanshyatma, sceptic, in the true sense of oriental philosophical traditions. He believed that God could never be understood through a rigmarole of religious and ritualistic mumbo-jumbo. His nirakar, formless, God was a transcendental consciousness.

 

Finding God

 

Einstein found God in the perfect symmetry of the cosmos. His cosmic religion and distant deistic God of cosmic order and elegance fit neither the agenda of religious believers nor that of tribal atheists. His highly evolved scientific brain never anthropomorphised God the way general people do.

 

 

He never attended religious services or prayed. He could not conceive of a God who punished and rewarded people, partly because he was a thoroughgoing determinist. Einstein repeatedly distanced himself from the idea of a personal God. He refused a traditional Jewish burial. All in all, not very religious. But he was a spiritual man and a moralist who abhorred wars to the point of being an irenic, a pacifist.

 

Religion an impediment

 

The spiritual facet of Einstein’s persona underlines that one doesn’t have to tie oneself to the apron-strings of any organised religion whatsoever. His whole life was a living manifestation of the exalted spiritual concept of Sufis, called Shavanaaii, ‘belief sans religion’ in Persian. “The soi-disant God is independent of all religions. In sooth, religion is an impediment to reaching and realising God,” he wrote to his friend and fellow Nobel laureate Niels Bohr.

 

Einstein hated extremism both in belief and unbelief and tellingly wrote in 1940, “There are fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics.” The atheists may lap up the words in a letter written to Jewish philosopher Eric Gutkind, “The word ‘God’ is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible, a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

 

But the same ‘atheist’ Einstein could euphorically say in public that Sebastian Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms’ ethereal creations were ‘God’s symphonies’.

 

Ultimate compass

 

Einstein’s God was the epitome of the highest moralistic virtue and value. His God was a metaphor for immaculate existence and a spotless spirit of Elysian blissfulness. In other words, Einstein saw God as the ultimate compass of universal rectitude and perfection. He could strike an admirable balance between theism and atheism. That’s why, his amorphous spiritual fluidity is happily atheistic to non-believers and satisfactorily theistic to believers.

 

To sum it up, like his famous Theory of Relativity, Einstein’s God was a relative concept and a fiercely subjective perception, which wasn’t a part of a universal belief system.

 

 Today is Albert Einstein’s birth anniversary

 

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.-

 

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Healing in Meditation Spiritual Healing

 

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Healing in Meditation  Spiritual Healing

 

That happiness which belongs to a mind which by deep meditation has been washed lean from all impurity and has entered within the Self , cannot be described by words it can be felt by inward power only- Maitrayana Brahmana Upanisahd Now what most contributes to the growth of these wings of the soul is meditation, by which we learn little by little to wean our affection from earthly tings ,and to get a habit of contemplating the things that are immaterial and intelligible  and to shake off the pollutions if has contracted by its union with the terrestrial and mortal body. And indeed by these advantages it revives in some manners it rouse up itself, it is filled with divine vigor and reunites itself to the intelligent Perfection within.

 

Whenever we are in trouble physically, or distressed mentally, we seek for help in the outside world, but very seldom we think that there is already within us the most potent and infallible remedy. Meditation opens to us such a source of remedy , it has a decided healing power over both body and mind but unfortunately the majority of people  regard it as a negative state, entirely aloof from our everyday, active life . But it is not so. It is the greatest creative force within us consciously and unconsciously we all make use of it. There are certain thoughts which have a hold upon us, we cannot get away from their influence, but whether our meditation is voluntary or involuntary, and our mind always takes the imprint of our thoughts. Whenever we are able to keep our mind connected for any length of time with something beautiful and restful we feel refreshed. A tired person coming in contact with nature becomes rested just by looking at the trees the flowers and the birds. It is not that he has actually taken anything away from Nature. Nature still stands intact, but the thought has lifted him from his tired bodily conditions and restored him.

 

Save the world from war, spread meditativeness

 

By Osho

 

Only one thing can save the world from the coming war – which will be a total war – this is going to destroy the whole of life on the earth. Trees, birds, animals, man – anything living will simply be gone.

 

There is one way only, and that is to spread to people more meditativeness, more love, more friendliness, and more rejoicing. If we can make the earth sing songs and dance in joy, in gratitude because existence has given so much – otherwise, it would have been impossible even to purchase one sunrise.

 

And a sunrise is a big thing – the whole wealth of the earth would not be able to produce a single rose. And all this is given to man without his asking. You don’t deserve it, you are not worthy of it. It is out of the compassion of existence, the overflowing joy of existence, the continuous creativity of existence that you are so rich. Millions of stars in the night.

 

 

Make people aware of their gratitude towards life, and make people love, sing, dance. If we can spread this at-ease around the world, the third world war will be prevented. We need not bother about it. Joyous people don’t want war; it is only those who are already dead who would like everybody else to be dead.

 

They are really suffering because they are dead. They cannot laugh, they cannot enjoy, they cannot love, they cannot feel. They don’t have any heart, and others have. It is making them so jealous! It will be far better that everything is finished. At least there will be no grounds for their jealousy – they will also be finished in it.

 

So I don’t say that there is any direct way to prevent the third world war. That is what the pacifists of the world say: “Protest. Have protest marches to Washington, to Moscow” – but nobody listens to those protest marches. And I have seen those pacifists shouting and screaming against the war – I could not see any difference between them and the people who are getting ready to fight.

 

The weak, the powerless, scream. The powerful takes his gun, puts his army on alert. The pacifists continually go on protesting. This helps nobody.

 

I am not a pacifist, and I don’t want my people to be pacifists. That is fighting with those who are preparing for war – but you are doing the same on a small scale. No, that won’t help. We want to create our own movement which has nothing to do with the third world war.

 

Do you see my point? If we can make humanity happier, more loving, more silent, more peaceful, we will create a real barrier against the third world war. The leaders cannot go without their people. If the people refuse, the armies refuse, if everybody refuses and says, “I am so happy, I don’t want to die. And I love humanity, so I don’t want to kill. If you can manage on your own, you do it.” A peaceful and happy man does not want to die and does not want to kill. (Abridged from ‘From Bondage to Freedom’, courtesy: Osho International Foundation, www.osho.com)

 

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.-

 

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