Reading Vedic literature unfolds
potential of Life
Sunday,
01.13.2008, 11:31pm
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi points
out that the discovery of
Veda and Vedic Literature in
the human physiology has
important practical
implications, for reading
the Vedic Literature
phonetically-without
attending to meaning-on the
basis of the practice of the
Transcendental Meditation
program restores the
sequence of the unfoldment
of Natural Law:
I was sitting with Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi one afternoon in the
fledgling settlement called
Maharishi Nagar, about fifty
miles west of New Delhi. We were
alone in the modest house he
occupies, surrounded by the
school and hospital buildings
that were still under
construction.
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Man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards
Sunday, 01.11.2009, 10:02pm
The sense universe is only one por-tion, one bit
of that infinite spiritual universe projected
into the plane of sense consciousness. How can
this little bit of projection be explained, be
understood, without knowing that which is
beyond?
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Body drops, but Consciousness stays where it is
Sunday, 01.11.2009, 09:58pm
Cosmic Consciousness (CC) is a state where the
small 's' has become big 'S'. And big 'S' Self
means unboundedness. Eternity. When the status
of the individual has expanded to unboundedness,
that is his status and that is he. When the
status is unbounded, he is beyond time and
space.
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King who left throne and lived in a forest
Sunday, 01.04.2009, 09:24pm
They told me that in a forest among the
mountains lives a young man in solitude who once
was a king of a vast country beyond the Two
Rivers. And they also said that he, of his own
will, had left his throne and the land of his
glory and come to dwell in the wilderness.
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The spiritual eminence of Sri Lahiri Mahasaya
Sunday, 01.04.2009, 09:20pm
Reverend Mother, I was baptized in infancy by
your prophet-husband. He was the guru of my
parents and of my own guru Sri Yukteswarji. Will
you therefore give me the privilege of hearing a
few incidents in your sacred life?"
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Enquire into true nature, which is ever bodiless
Monday, 12.29.2008, 09:17pm
Apart from the statement in the Veda that
wherever there is body there is misery, this is
also the direct experience of all people;
therefore, one should enquire into one's true
nature which is ever bodiless, and one should
remain as such. This is the means to gaining
that state.
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Time to wake up & discover why we are here
Monday, 12.29.2008, 09:15pm
Outside my window there is a lilac bush which I
see every morning at breakfast. A month ago I
had only to open the window to smell its heady
perfume, and for two or three weeks it was in
opulent blossom. Then one day I looked out and
noticed that the delicate flowers had turned
brown.
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Unconditional love flows from Mother Meera
Sunday, 12.21.2008, 10:14pm
Tt was 1994 when I first wrote about my
spiritual mother. I said then that Mother Meera
is an extraordinary gardener, silently
nourishing a steady flow of visitors to her tidy
German home as though they were gardens
deserving of the most tender care. Now, I add
that Mother's nourishment continues as constant
as rain and sunshine.
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'Jesus lived and taught many years in Kashmir'
Sunday, 12.21.2008, 10:12pm
German author Holger Kersten begins his book,
"Jesus Lived in India" as follows: "It is simply
of vital importance to find again the path to
the sources, to the eternal and central truths
of Christ's message, which has been shaken
almost beyond recognition by the profane
ambitions of more or less secular institutions
arrogating to themselves a religious authority.
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Vision and experiences of enlightenment
Wednesday, 12.17.2008, 02:37am
After a year of studying, meditating, and
working at stoop labor in and around the fields
near the ashrama, he (Ramdas always refers to
himself as third person) took to taking long
solitary pilgrimages into the mountains.
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Immensity of the content of Unconscious brings
humility
Wednesday, 12.17.2008, 02:35am
The conscious mind, realizing its own
limitations, becoming aware that it hasn't got
any other channel or groove to function in, can
become spontaneously quiet.
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The highest bliss is to live without
effort
Sunday,
11.23.2008, 10:54pm
To most of us the idea of
evolution implies a series of
achievements, that is,
achievements born of continual
choice between what we call the
unessential and the essential.
It implies leaving the
unessential and moving towards
the essential. This series of
continual achievements resulting
from choice we call evolution.
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Life is role playing and you are the
player
Sunday,
11.16.2008, 11:42pm
You cannot avoid relating as
well as responding to the world,
whether you like it or not. You
must necessarily relate to the
world in order to live your
life; you need not relate to the
world just to be alive. When you
are in deep sleep, you are alive
but you do not relate to the
world; there is no world, in
fact, for you.
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Consider the mind as the cause of
all ignorance
Sunday,
11.16.2008, 11:35pm
In the state of deep sleep, the
mind is absent, absorbed in its
causal state, nothing exists.
Everything is a creation of the
mind. As the wind creates and
destroys the clouds, so too does
the mind create and destroy this
bondage.
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Foolproof method of getting desires
fulfilled
Monday,
11.10.2008, 01:34am
Man is moved by desire. Life is
maintained by hope of getting
one's desires fulfilled.
Instinctive desires, impulsive
desires, rational desires,
irrational desires, worldly
desires, spiritual desires-they
chase man all through life. Even
the old man who is approaching
death has a myriad desires in
his mind.
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No one's God is better, all Gods are
the same
Monday,
11.10.2008, 01:31am
All over the world, the military
forces of all the countries are
called defensive armies. Then
who is offending? Every country
claims that its army is an army
for defending itself. Than who
is offending?
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What Gita teaches is not a human,
but divine action
Sunday,
11.02.2008, 10:29pm
The Gita with its rich and
many-sided thought, its
synthetical grasp of different
aspects of the spiritual life
and the fluent winding motion of
its argument lends itself, even
more than other scriptures, to
one-sided misrepresentations
born of a partisan
intellectuality.
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Not work but sadhana for
self-realization
Sunday,
11.02.2008, 10:24pm
By merely staying here
(Sivananda Ashram in Rishikesh)
on this holy spot on the banks
of the Ganges one gets Eternal
Bliss and perennial peace. In
this great place we have the
blessed good fortune to serve a
God-realized sage.
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Become effort-free and permit God to
enter
Tuesday,
10.28.2008, 11:35pm
Siddhartha Gautama said, "Do not
complain or cry or pray, but
open your intuitive eye and
'see' (i.e., be the Awareness)
for the light is all about you
and it is wonderful, so
beautiful, so far beyond
anything that man has ever
dreamt of or prayed for and it
is forever and ever."
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Turning inward doesn't mean
renunciation
Tuesday,
10.28.2008, 11:32pm
It is entirely possible that we
are literally bathed and
surrounded by the transcendent
and yet have not tuned it in. In
this light, Veda is like the
whole radio band. But over time
its significance became
distorted as people lost contact
with pure awareness.
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Destiny not a blind force but
Intelligence in action
Monday,
10.20.2008, 03:09am
Man lives a two-fold life, an
outer material life and an inner
emotional-mental life. His
outward deeds and actions are
simply the result of his inner
thoughts and feelings. They may
take centuries to materialize,
often not till a later birth,
but ultimately they do.
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Hinduism most tolerant of
all religions
Sunday,
09.28.2008, 10:52pm
Believing as I do in the
influence of heredity,
being born in a Hindu
family, I have remained
a Hindu. I should reject
it, if I found it
inconsistent with my
moral sense or my
spiritual growth.
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Mystic Rumi's poetry has the
capacity to uplift
Sunday,
09.28.2008, 10:47pm
Jalalud'din Rumi is one
of the world's most
revered mystical poets.
During his lifetime he
produced a prolific
range of inspiring and
devotional poetry which
encapsulates the Sufi's
experience of union with
the divine.
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Don’t shy away from duties
of householder
Monday,
09.22.2008, 03:11am
A griha (house) is an
ashram or hermitage.
That is how the word
"grihasthashrami"
(householder) came into
being. A griha can be
converted into an
ashram. An ashram is a
place where people
devote all their time
and energy to the
remembrance of God,
doing selfless service
and developing qualities
like love, patience and
respect for others.
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There are no miracles, just
laws of universe operating
Monday,
09.22.2008, 03:09am
At one time or another
we all experience the
phenomenon of
precognition. We feel
that some one is about
to call us, and sure
enough that person
calls.
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Higher knowledge and lesser
knowledge
Sunday,
09.14.2008, 11:53pm
Jijnasa means thirst for
knowledge, a desire for
knowledge. Our ancients
were men of brahma-jnana
(direct knowledge of
Brahman (God)). They
were brahma-jnanis,
atma-jnanis, they had
knowledge. Modern
scientists, physicists,
mathematicians, nuclear
physicists, they also
have knowledge.
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Buddhism -the religion
Sunday,
09.14.2008, 11:48pm
In ancient India
Brahmanical priesthood
was exacting, and made
laws to suit a
specialized class, who
kept the non-Brahman
communities in a state
of stagnation. Religion
of the higher class was
not to be given to the
servant class. Caste
became a stereotyped
institution, and class
hatred was born. But the
servile class had no way
to rebel.
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Real Raja Yoga starts from
concentration
Sunday,
09.07.2008, 11:36pm
If you focus the rays of
the sun through a lens,
they can burn cotton or
a piece of paper; but,
the scattered rays
cannot do this act. If
you want to talk to a
man at a distance, you
make a funnel of your
hand and speak. The
sound-waves are
collected at one point
and then directed
towards the man.
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Peace is not to be found in
external knowledge
Sunday,
09.07.2008, 11:31pm
Peace is a most familiar
word. Each seeker knows
what peace is according
to his receptivity's
capacity. I am a seeker.
I wish to share with you
the peace that I have
experienced. By offering
my experience, I wish to
become totally one,
inseparably one, with
your life of aspiration
and dedication.
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Originality - A distinct
feature of Guru Granth Sahib
Sunday,
08.31.2008, 11:32pm
Originality is one of
the special fea-tures of
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
which makes it distinct
from other holy
scriptures.
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Demystifying the legend
Sunday,
08.31.2008, 11:29pm
One wonders what the
difference is between
Ganesha Jayanti and
Ganesha Chaturthi, or
Sankashta Hara Chaturthi
which comes once every
month. It is, of course,
a mythological event of
a "birth" with a
mythological date.
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Origins of Shree Krishna Pranami
Faith
Wednesday,
08.06.2008, 03:34am
As its name implies, the
followers of this faith worship
and bow before the Supreme Lord
- in the form of Shree Krishna.
They greet each other with the
salutation Pranam, recognizing
the Divinity in each person.
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Peace is not something created; it
always is
Sunday,
08.03.2008, 11:25pm
Peace is achieved in different
ways. Let's say you eat to a
full stomach and lie down; just
see how peaceful you are.
Somebody else may drink alcohol
and become very peaceful and so
on. Whenever your ego is
satisfied, you are very
peaceful.
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Ramacharita-Manas - Tulsidas' gift
to humanity
Sunday,
08.03.2008, 11:22pm
The life and work of the great
soul whose birthday we joyously
celebrate on this auspicious
seventh day of the month of
Sravan, are themselves rich
legacies left by the saint-poet
to us of the present-day.
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Secret of success in getting desires
fulfilled
Tuesday,
07.29.2008, 11:56pm
Man is moved by desire. Life
is main tained by hope of
getting one's desires
fulfilled. Instinctive
desires, impulsive desires,
rational desires, irrational
desires, worldly desires,
spiritual desires-they chase
man all through life.
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Manyness of universes doesn't
mutilate Wholeness
Tuesday,
07.29.2008, 11:54pm
The self-generated complex
wholeness of Life, has been
ever unfolding its
complexity, through the
emergence of hundreds, if
not thousands, of universes,
with their own planets and
solar systems etc. It is an
ever
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'I endeavor to accomplish His will
in all things'
Monday,
07.21.2008, 12:07am
In conversation some days ago, a
devout person told me the
spiritual life was a life of
grace, which begins with servile
fear, is increased by hope of
eternal life, and is completed
by pure love; that each of these
states had its different phases,
by which one arrives, at last,
at that blessed consummation.
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A ten-point summary of Blavatsky's
Isis Unveiled
Monday,
07.21.2008, 12:05am
To comprehend the principles of
natural law . . . the reader
must keep in mind the
fundamental propositions of the
Oriental philosophy which we
have successively elucidated.
Let us recapitulate very
briefly:
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For knowing Guru swarupa, know first
your own swarupa
Sunday,
07.13.2008, 10:17pm
He is the proper Guru to whom
your mind is attuned. If you
ask, how to decide who is the
Guru and what is his swarupa, he
should be endowed with
tranquility, patience,
forgiveness and other virtues
capable of attracting others
even with the bare eye, like the
magnetic stone, and with a
feeling of equality towards all
- he that has these virtues is
the true Guru.
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No word in English can convey the
meaning of Dharma
Sunday,
07.13.2008, 10:11pm
Sanatana Dharma was most
appropriately so named for
various reasons. The first word
Sanatana is easy enough to
translate; and it means Eternal;
but the second word Dharma is
difficult to translate into
English
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'How, how' is the problem; the only
problem
Sunday,
07.06.2008, 10:47pm
Upon U.G.'s return to Bangalore
Chandrasekhar was going through
some old files from the
"archives", and Nagaraj was
sitting comfortably on the sofa
reading some magazine when U.G.
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Inspirational compositions of Fifth Guru
Arjan Dev
Sunday, 06.08.2008,
10:12pm
Arjan Dev, the youngest of three sons of
Guru Ram Das, was the favorite grandson
of Guru Amar Das.
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A Guru always takes you for a ride
Sunday, 06.01.2008,
11:28pm
How do I know if my guru is taking me
for a ride? Let's come to it directly.
Let me tell you, you are always being
taken for a ride, because you are still
not yet in that state where I can either
expose or impose or even tell you what
Enlightenment is about.
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God is bored with wise people; He likes
fools
Sunday, 06.01.2008,
11:25pm
Fools make you laugh. Fools keep you
happy. Fools are very essential. God is
bored with wise people. He likes fools.
He loves fools. Even the job of God is
very foolish. Why does He make leaves
fall every autumn? He does it over and
over again.
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Problem is not the mind but ‘I’
centeredness
Monday, 05.26.2008,
01:15am
The Katöhopanisad presents the na-ture
of the choice available to a hu-man
being in the two words, sreyas and
preyas. It looks as though these two
ends, sreyas and preyas, are open to a
human being. This is like having to
decide which road to take when you are
at a crossroad in a new place and you
have a destination in view.
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Your being is centered but you’re
eccentric!
Monday, 05.26.2008,
01:10am
Your being is always centered. Your mind
is always at the periphery. Your mind
constantly seeks outward led by the
senses. Your being stays centered at the
core and is directed inwards you are
constantly tugged between the centre and
the perimeter.
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Practical Vedanta is a living experience
Monday, 05.19.2008,
02:52am
Wholesale preaching of Vedanta to the
Masses is not advisable. It will result
in chaos, bewilderment and stagnation.
Grasping of Vedantic principles and a
right understanding of the philosophy
and Sadhana are very difficult.
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Mind is source of all states, good or evil
Sunday, 05.11.2008,
11:14pm
Mind is the forerunner of (all evil)
states. Mind is chief; mind-made are
they. If one speaks or acts with wicked
mind, suffering follows one, even as the
wheel follows the hoof of the
draught-ox.
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Ramanuja's qualified monism is a philosophy
of love
Sunday, 05.11.2008,
11:13pm
Ramanujacharya maintained that the
wisdom of the Shrutis points to the fact
that Shiva and Jiva (Universal Soul
(God) and the individual soul) are not
same, although they are not separate
from each other. While universe is the
body of Brahman, He is the Soul and
controlling Power of the universe.
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Works cannot be the cause of Liberation
Sunday, 05.04.2008,
11:31pm
Let people quote the Scriptures and
sacrifice to the gods, let them per-form
rituals and worship the deities, but
there is no Liberation without the
realization of one's identity with the
Atman, no, not even in the lifetime of a
hundred Brahmas put together.
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Young Rama pleads for deliverance from grief
Sunday, 04.13.2008, 11:56pm
Young Rama toured the whole country from the
Himalayas downwards, alongwith his brothers.
Upon returning he is found growing thin and full
of grief. Upon being asked by Sage Vashistha,
who is about to begin Rama's education, Rama
replies thus:
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'Injury to others is injury to oneself'
Sunday, 04.13.2008, 11:53pm
Mahavira used to pose a question: "Can you hold
a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because
some one wants you to do so?" The listeners
would instantly reply, "No, never". Then
Mahavira would ask them, "Then, will it be right
on your part to ask others to do the same thing
just to satisfy your desire? If you cannot
tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind
by others' words and actions, what right have
you to do the same to others through your words
and deeds?"
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The basis of success in all human endeavors
Wednesday, 04.09.2008, 03:41am
What you think, that you become.This is a
universal law. You should always ceaselessly
affirm that which you want to become, and then
one day you will end up becoming that. This law
is inevitable and nothing can hold it back.
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Nature of love is union, nature of ego is separation
Wednesday, 04.09.2008, 03:34am
The spiritual path begins when the heart is
awakened to His eternal pres-ence. The Beloved
looks into the heart of His lover and in that
instant the lover knows the secret of divine
union, that the lover and Beloved are one. The
glance of the Beloved carries the consciousness
of His eternal presence.
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All 'knowledge' and 'cognition' is insufficient: Lao
Zi
Monday, 03.31.2008, 02:20am
In time, every principle that has been derived
from external experience will be disproved and
become obsolete. For as mankind progresses man's
knowledge of the world changes; and, in the end,
the known world is the only existing 'world'.
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Who was greater, Buddha, Rama or Krishna?
Monday, 03.24.2008, 03:49am
Those were good old days, when there was no road
to Jillellamudi, no build-ings, no telephones,
no water supply, no electricity and blurring of
loud speakers. One had to walk from the 7th mile
with his load on his back or head. Many a time,
one had to wait thru keen deep or even neck deep
waters with all the attending perils of unseen
thrones, rocks, pits and reptiles.
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Let come what comes and let go what goes
Monday, 03.24.2008, 03:42am
Questioner: As I can see, there is nothing wrong
with my body nor with my real being. Both are
not of my making and need not be improved upon.
What has gone wrong is the 'inner body', call it
mind, consciousness, antahkarana, whatever the
name.
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Only a Jivanmukta can recognize Jivanmukta
Sunday, 03.16.2008, 11:17pm
It is very difficult to judge a Jivanmukta. A
Shakespeare only can understand a Shakespeare. A
Jesus only can understand a Jesus. A man of
experience who has mixed with Sadhus and
Sannyasins and lived with them for a number of
years may arrive at certain definite conclusions
and infer something. But he may or may not be
accurate.
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Keep a diary to monitor spiritual progress
Sunday, 03.16.2008, 11:10pm
Even after following all the prescribed
spiritual practices faithfully, you may run into
obstructions in your efforts at meditation. In
almost all cases where a seeker complains of
lack of progress, it is because his subtle body
has grown grosser.
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Uncontrolled mind can never bring peace
Monday, 03.03.2008, 04:15am
One Karta Krishna met Ramdas with anxiety
weighing on his mind. "Maharaj, I pray to you to
get me transferred from here to some other
place. I am tired of the present office."
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Even Sattvaguna is a robber, said Ramakrishna
Sunday, 02.10.2008, 11:32pm
Kindness is very good. There is, how-ever, a
great difference between daya (kindness) and
maya. Kindness is good, maya is not good. Maya
is love for one's own near and dear ones wife,
son, brother, sister, brother's son, sister's
son, father and mother love for these.
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Time doesn't bring order or peace
Sunday, 02.10.2008, 11:26pm
I am tempted to repeat a story about a great
disciple going to God and demanding to be taught
truth. This poor God says, "My friend, it is
such a hot day, please get me a glass of water."
So the disciple goes out and knocks on the door
of the first house he comes to and a beautiful
young lady opens the door.
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Ways to overcome the bondage of karma
Monday, 02.04.2008, 01:39am
Karma is the accumulated impression of past
activity, either of thought, emotion or physical
action. The quality of the karma that you gather
is not necessarily in terms of action alone; it
is also in terms of the volition with which
action is performed.
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You have to take initiative to know what is love
Monday, 02.04.2008, 01:35am
You do not learn anything without effort on your
part. Experience does not teach unless you
actively learn from it. People often say that
experience teaches. I wish it did. People are
what they are, not for want of experiences.
There is experience enough in everyone's life.
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Cobbler saint who put Brahmins to shame
Sunday, 01.27.2008, 11:15pm
Ravidas (Raidas) was born in the village of Sear
Goverdhanpur, close to the holy city of Kashi or
Varanasi, in the cobbler community. From early
childhood, Ravidas developed spiritual
tendencies while attending to his family
vocation of repairing shoes.
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How Ranade discovered the true Gandhi
Sunday, 01.27.2008, 11:11pm
Gandhi and Ranade would make strange bedfellows.
Prof Dr RD Ranade, a former Vice-Chancellor of
Allahabad University, was a philosopher and a
mystic who often lost consciousness of his
surroundings, both in time and space. Gandhi was
a man of action who spent each minute of his
life in the service of fellow human beings.
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Vipassana: Self-transformation through
self-observation
Sunday, 01.20.2008, 11:39pm
Vipassana, which means to see things as they
really are, is one of India's most ancient
techniques of meditation. It was rediscovered by
Gautama Buddha more than 2500 years ago and was
taught by him as a universal remedy for
universal ills, i.e., an Art of Living.
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Mystery of the inner and outer Guru
Sunday, 01.20.2008, 11:36pm
There is a belief in India that it is impossible
to make any progress on the spiritual path
without the help of a Guru. As a result of this
belief all sorts of mistakes are made. One type
of person promptly gets himself initiated by the
family Guru, who may be anything from a
competent professional ritualist to an ignorant
mouther of formulated humbug.
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People who hunger and thirst for Truth
Sunday, 01.13.2008, 11:25pm
There are people who hunger and thirst for
truth. If they examine the problems of life and
are sincere with themselves, they soon become
convinced that it is not possible to live as
they have lived and to be what they have been
until now; that a way out of this situation is
essential and that a man can develop his hidden
capacities and powers only by cleaning his
machine of the dirt that has clogged it in the
course of his life.
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Hafiz expressed divine ecstasy in poetry
Monday, 12.24.2007,
10:23pm
Shams al-Din Hafiz (1320-1390) was a
great Persian mystical poet who, as a
professor of Koranic exegesis, composed
some of the most sensitive and lyrical
poetry ever produced in the Middle East.
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'Happiness and spiritual growth are
connected'
Monday, 12.17.2007,
02:47am
Mother Meera: First of all, I bring down
the Light and establish Peace, also I
help the people to surrender to the
Divine, to remember the Divine and to be
faithful and sincere to their religion
or to their belief. I help people to be
happy in their families.
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The prophecy and the birth of Christ
Monday, 12.17.2007,
02:39am
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was
sent from God to a city of Galilee named
Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man
whose name was Joseph, of the house of
David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
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Jnani goes through life 'as if' it is real
Wednesday, 12.12.2007,
11:04pm
From the point of view of the Jnani,
there is no illusion of the manifest
uni-verse at all, and therefore there is
no question of the duality of
male/female relationship. The Jnani is
aware that what appears to the ignorant
as three separate things - the
male/female individual, the world and
the creator - are in reality the
manifestations, appearances in
consciousness, of the unicity that is
the Absolute.
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Plunging into a state of relaxation or
nonaction
Wednesday, 12.12.2007,
11:00pm
Life is one organic whole. When you
touch life at any point, physical,
verbal, psychological or psychic, when
you touch life at one point, you have
touched the whole of it. It is going to
affect the whole your life.
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The Inner is more important than the outer
Monday, 12.03.2007,
02:06am
By changing the outer, the inner
re-mains unchanged, untransformed. The
outer cannot change the inner, but the
outer can help, or it can hinder. The
outer can create a situation in which
the inner can explode more easily.
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Not effort, but earnestness needed for
realization
Monday, 12.03.2007,
02:03am
Where is the need of changing any-thing?
The mind is changing any-how all the
time. Look at your mind dispassionately;
this is enough to calm it. When it is
quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep
it busy all the time. Stop it, and just
be.
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A simple meditation technique for everyone
Thursday, 11.29.2007,
10:43pm
Meditation has long being accepted as a
way to peace, happiness and a fulfilling
life. Medical practitioners through
research now endorse the health benefits
of meditation. Doctors around the world
have started prescribing meditation for
treating and managing stress related
deceases.
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Deepak Chopra & his mind, body medicine
Thursday, 11.29.2007,
10:38pm
Deepak Chopra is one of America's best
known healers and alternative medicine
advocates. Main tenets of his philosophy
include mind-body medicine, Ayurvedic
healing, meditation, Quantum Healing,
understanding the connection between
diet and health , and recognizing one's
dosha.
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Why is Ganesha an Akhanda Brahmachari?
Sunday, 11.04.2007,
10:23pm
Lord Vinayaka is an Akhanda Brahmachari.
He has no consort. There is a story of
deep significance behind this vow of
celibacy. It is said that once when He
was a small child, Ganesha in a mood of
playfulness beat a cat and injured it
rather severely. He did not know what
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Life is nothing but a risk, insecurity
its very basis
Monday, 10.08.2007,
01:02am
Insecurity is the very basis of
life. When we hear this, we are
totally shaken. We are overcome with
fear. We do not want to listen
further. We like to believe that
everything about life is assured and
that life is in our hands.
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Gandhi's politics was part of his quest
for Truth
Wednesday,
10.03.2007, 03:01am
Though it appeared like politics to
people observing from outside, yet
to Mahatma Gandhi his political
activity was, but the form which his
quest after Truth took. He has very
clearly stated that politics was but
the least part of his life and that
the real part of his life was a
ceaseless quest after the great
Reality in and through all
activities, through all names and
forms that he contacted.
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‘Path of devotion & selfless service
is the safest’
Sunday, 09.23.2007,
11:40pm
Amma does not teach anything that
she herself does not practice.
Living from moment to moment in a
constant state of supreme happiness,
Amma warmly embraces thousands of
people day after day, wiping their
tears, giving them her divine
guidance and offering solace to all
who come to her.
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'All obstacles are rooted out by
worshipping Ganesha'
Sunday, 09.09.2007,
11:28pm
Ganapati or Ganesha, is the Lord of
Categories. All that can be counted
or comprehended is a category
(gana). The principle of all the
classifications through which the
relations between different orders
of things, between the macrocosm and
the microcosm, can be understood is
called the lord-of-categories (Ganapati).
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You cannot reach God without bhakti
Wednesday,
09.05.2007, 02:52am
Scriptures say there is only one
path to God-realization. And that
path is bhakti. There are other
complementary paths, sure. But you
still need bhakti. You need to blend
bhakti into the alternative paths.
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If Gita is understood well, everything
is understood well
Wednesday,
09.05.2007, 02:47am
Praising the Bhagavadgita, this
verse says that the Gita has to be
studied well, gita-sugita kartavya;
what will you gain by studying other
books in detail, kim anyaih
sastra-vistaraih? This verse
presents the Gita as a book to be
studied, a book containing
everything that one has to know
through the scriptures [Vedas].
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Only action intentionally done produces
a result
Monday, 08.27.2007,
02:10am
What is karma? Karma means action.
Here karma is action that is
deliberately performed by a human
being with a sense of doership. Any
action that is deliberately
performed by us is an action that
brings about a result. It is an
action for which we are accountable.
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The touching comradeship of God and man
Monday, 08.27.2007,
02:05am
God, while He is the powerful parent
and ruler over all things, to whom
everything is subject as dependent
and servant, He is also the friend
of man, as in the symbol of the
concept of Narayana and Nara, God
never separable from man's welfare,
Krishna never forsaking Arjuna, and
coming to his succor and help even
unasked and unsolicited.
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Woman as capable as man in
inner nature & spirituality
Wednesday, 08.01.2007,
02:06am
Just because women are
physically weaker than
men, man has done
everything to make them
psychologically weaker
than himself,
spiritually lost and
financially nowhere.
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Existence, Non-Existence and
the Source
Wednesday, 08.01.2007,
02:01am
Sat and asat are two
terms in Indian
philosophy which one
very often comes across.
Sat means existence, and
asat means
non-existence. Existence
is something that
becomes, that grows, and
that fulfils.
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How can you surrender ego
when it doesn't exist?
Sunday,
07.22.2007, 11:39pm
How are you going to
surrender the ego, when
it does not exist?
Suppose you are sitting
in a dark room. You want
the darkness to
disappear. But can you
push it out? Can you
fight darkness and force
it to leave the room?
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'Gautama Buddha was reborn
as Adi Samkaracharya'
Sunday,
07.22.2007, 11:29pm
Gautama, an incarnation
of pure Wisdom, had yet
to learn in His human
body and to be initiated
into the world's secrets
like any other mortal,
until the day when He
emerged from His secret
recess in the Himalayas
and preached for the
first time in the grove
of Benares.
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Grace? Nonsense. You have to
do it all yourself
Wednesday, 07.04.2007,
02:44am
When engaged in an
enquiry into the nature
of the truth concerning
the world, oneself,
relationship and why the
relationship exists,
where does the answer
come from? In olden days
especially, it was usual
to insist upon
revelation.
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There is nothing, absolutely
no reason for existing
Wednesday, 06.27.2007,
12:12am
The thing which was
waiting was on alert, it
pounced on me, it flows
through me. I'm filled
with it. It's nothing: I
am the Thing. Existence,
liberated, detached,
floods over me. I exist.
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In soul alone God is
subjective; objective
elsewhere
Wednesday, 06.20.2007,
02:38am
Mister Eckhart
(1260-1327) Dominican
friar and German mystic
was a renowned
theologian whose
teachings, though
popular among the
monastic and lay
populations that he
preached to, deviated
enough from the accepted
language of the Catholic
Church that he was tried
as a heretic in 1327.
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Meditation and the art of
questioning
Wednesday, 06.20.2007,
02:29am
Siritual life begins
with asking the big
questions: "Why am I
here?" "Who am I?" "What
is God's will for my
life?" These and other
such questions form the
very basis of a
self-reflective life.
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Compilation of Guru Granth
by Sri Arjan Dev
Monday,
06.11.2007, 12:45am
The Guru Granth Sahib
was first compiled by
the Fifth Sikh Guru,
Arjan Dev, in 1604 in
the city of Amritsar. A
situation had arisen
which required the
Guru's complete
attention. Reports came
to the Guru that Prithi
Chand, his elder brother
who coveted the Guru
Gaddi, was conspiring
against him.
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The meaning & significance
of word Upanishad
Monday,
06.11.2007, 12:41am
The word Upanishad is
the name of a given
subject matter,
self-knowledge, just as
the words geography and
biology are names
denoting particular
subject matters. Thus,
the meaning of the word
Upanishad is
self-knowledge.
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Greater evolution is
seeing from
viewpoint of others
Monday, 04.30.2007,
03:23am
One form of
expansion is
trying to look
at everything
from another's
point of view.
Also, trying to
think also as
the other person
thinks.
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Lord Buddha's
teaching of sublime
love
Monday, 04.30.2007,
03:18am
Lord Buddha had
vowed to devote
life after life
to the
perfecting of
His char-acter
so that in the
end He might be
able to gain the
Supreme
Enlightenment
and come forth
as a Teacher of
the Truth able
to show the Way
of Salvation to
all suffering
beings.
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History of Sri
Hanuman and Hanuman
Jayanti
Thursday,
04.12.2007, 12:01am
In the Heavenly,
Divine Realms,
there was a girl
named
Punjikasthala
who was an
attendant to
Brihaspati, the
preceptor of the
gods.
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Divine Name has
power to transform
the world
Wednesday,
04.11.2007, 11:55pm
Swami Ramdas was
born in 1884 at
Hosdrug, Kerala,
India, and named
Vittal Rao by
his parents,
Balakrishna Rao
and Lalita Bai,
a devout
Saraswat couple.
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Navratris - the
nine-day worship of
Durga
Monday, 03.26.2007,
02:59am
In Hindu
mythology, Durga
is a fierce form
of Devi, the
Mother Goddess,
the all-powerful
almighty
goddess.
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Mahavir simplified
religion, freed it
from ritual
Monday, 03.26.2007,
02:54am
Lord Mahavir was
the 24th and the
last Tirthankara
of Jain
religion.
According to
Jain philosophy,
all Tirthankaras
were born as
human beings but
they have
attained a state
of perfection or
enlightenment
through
meditation and
self
realization.
They are the
Gods of Jains
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Rama - The
apotheosis of human
perfection
Wednesday,
03.21.2007, 02:23am
Ramayana is an
Epic of
humanity.
Humanity does
not mean mankind
but that which
particularly
characterizes
human nature.
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Mantra is the ladder
to reach
Consciousness
Monday, 03.05.2007,
12:04am
The science of
mantra is very
great, because
mantra is the
ladder by which
we reach the
formless
Consciousness.
According to the
mantra
scriptures,
speech manifests
within a human
being on four
levels.
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Ouspensky searched
for & explained the
'miraculous'
Sunday, 02.25.2007,
10:29pm
Ouspensky's
Tertium Organum,
writ-ten in
1911, was
published in New
York in 1922 and
within a few
years became a
best-seller in
America and made
him a world-wide
reputation.
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Art is a kind of
Upasana, or
devotional practice
Sunday, 02.25.2007,
10:26pm
Concentration of
mind for which
the Yogi
practicing the
Yoga of
Patanjali
Maharishi has to
struggle hard,
comes easily and
effortlessly to
the Brush Yogi.
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Sri Narayana Guru was an extraordi-nary phenomenon who strode over the spiritual firmament of Kerala like a colossus during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Some ignorant people say: "Krishna is not the Lord. He is not an Avatara. He is a passionate cowherd who lustfully played with the Gopis."
