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"The yogi who is filled with the contentment of wisdom asn discriminative knowledge,who is firm as a rock,who has masteres his senses,and to whom a cold of earth,a stone and gold are the same,is possessed of Yoga." Jnana here means listening to reading from shastras,mediating over them,studing them,and vijnana means realizing the atman in direct experience.Jnana is understanding through reason,and vijnana is that knowledge which sinks through reason into experience.Jnana is knowledge obtained from shastras,where as vijnana is knowledge whish is part of one's experience.Non-violence will have become direct experience for us in this sense when our whole life comes tp be permeated wit the spirit of compassion,when non-violence manifests itself in us in its true essence.That boy who comes to fell compassion as his own experience will to that extent have purifies himself ,or attained knowledge of the self. He whose atman is filled to perfect contentment with such Jnana and vij...

A person who imbibes these twenty qualities and makes them apart of his character, he is successful in all endeavors in all conditions. The failure is not his slot. He is a winner all the way. The 20 lessons we a can learn from various creatures to emerge a winner in all our endeavors. the lessons are as under The lion : It stalks the prey, pounces on it with full force, grabs it and does not relax its hold till the job of killing is executed. Similarly a man must plan , launch the project with full force and keep up the pressure until the project is not completed. The crane : It spots fish, immobilizes its entire body., calculates all the aspects of the attack during the frozen period; the time , place distance, angle force required, speed etc. then it attacks. In a flash the fish is taken. Similarly, a man must concentrate on his project and calculate all the requirements minutely before beginning it. The Donkey : Learn three thing from donkey; work tirelessly be stoic and ...

The one great idea that to me seems to be clear and comes out through masses of Superstition in every country and in every religion, is the one luminous idea that man is divine, that divinity is our nature - By Swami Vivekananda. Religion is a very sensitive matter to explain. But we have to explain about Religion to become a complete person . To my experience all the religions and Gurus and babas of those religion are all preaching the same thing in different ways. Religion does not consist in doctrines or dogmas. It is not what you read, or what dogmas you believe that is of importance, but what you realize. " Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God," yea, in this life. And that is salvation. There are those who teach that this can be gained by mumbling of words. But no great Master ever taught that external forms were necessary for salvation. The power of attaining it is within ourselves. We live and move in god. Creeds and sects have their part...

A man should save money for bad days but woman should be protected even if it takes the money saved.But for self preservation,the money and the woman should be sacrificed,if required.But in case of family,to protect family or Nation you have to sacrifice yourself. A man should not make a place his home where there are no;prosperous people,soldiers,scholars,a government, river and physicians.These things are must to live in a place to make home you can ensure much better future there. A real brother is one stands by;in the period of grave illness,in times of misfortune,during famines or invasions by enemy,in royal court and inn death. He will stick through thick and thin.If you are a brother you should follow the above mentioned things to be a real brother and complete person. The one who runs after an uncertain object leaving the certain one,does not get any .He loses the both. A complete person should think about his project before starting it and don't take mi...

reedom is the anger of the Soul - Moshe dayan All of us are born with freedom those expect where people affected by wars and terrorists.. The only bound is your Ego, you are thinking of you as you are now. But that's not you and you are limit less, when ever you think beyond your ego you can become free from all. Take an example of an eagle who was accidentally breed with a flock of chickens. It was hatched in the chicken farm,. It lived it life with chicken and it thought it also a chicken and start to doing all the things that a chickens do for living. Since she thought she also a chicken .One day it saw an eagle flying above the sky and said I want fly like that bird. All the chickens said it is majestic Eagle which flies high above the sky and said that your a chicken and you can' fly like an Eagle. So the eagle thinking it as a chicken never tried to fly like an eagle and lived like a chicken and dead like chicken . Even ego is like a chicken which preve...

"The yogi who is filled with the contentment of wisdom asn discriminative knowledge,who is firm as a rock,who has masteres his senses,and to whom a cold of earth,a stone and gold are the same,is possessed of Yoga." Jnana here means listening to reading from shastras,mediating over them,studing them,and vijnana means realizing the atman in direct experience.Jnana is understanding through reason,and vijnana is that knowledge which sinks through reason into experience.Jnana is knowledge obtained from shastras,where as vijnana is knowledge whish is part of one's experience.Non-violence will have become direct experience for us in this sense when our whole life comes tp be permeated wit the spirit of compassion,when non-violence manifests itself in us in its true essence.That boy who comes to fell compassion as his own experience will to that extent have purifies himself ,or attained knowledge of the self. He whose atman is filled to perfect contentment with such Jnana and vij...

For understanding the meaning of shastras,one must have a well-cultivated moral sensibility and experience in the practise of their truths.The injunction against sudras studing the vedas is not altogther unjustified. A sudra,in other words,a person without moral education,with out sense and without knoledge,would completely misread the shastras.No person,even if grown up in age,is qualified to understand difficult problems in algebra without preparqation.Before anyone can undestand such problems,he must have studied the elements of the subject.How would 'Aham Brahmasmi'souns in the mouth of a lustful man?what meaning,or distorted meaning,would he not attach to it?Hence,anyone who offers to interpret the shastras must have observed the prescribed disciplined in his life.A mechanical observance of these disciplines is as futile as it is difficult.The shastras regard it essential that one shoul have a guru.

It is stated in the Gita itself that everyone,whether a woman,a vaisya or a sudra,can acquire spiritual know2ledge if they have devotion to God.All the same,learning should not be slighted. TO understand any mater,one must have the knowledge which comes from learning. In Gita there are,however,principles for the guidance of the common man too.Any interpretation of a shastra which is opposed to truth cannot be right.The shastras are not meant for those who question the validity of the principle of truth itself,or,rather,the shastras are no better than ordinary book for such a person. No one can meet him in argument.Anyone,on other hand,who does not find the principle of non- voilence in shastras is indeed danger,but his case is not hopeless.Truth is a positive value, While non-voilence is a negative value.Truth affirms,Non-voilence forbids something which is real enough.Truth exists,untruth does not exist.Voilence exists,non-voilence does not.Even so,the highst dha...

Tapascharya is certainly necessary for the realization of truth. Some sage who had realized truth revealed to the world the goddess of non-violence from amidst the prevailing violence,and said:"violence comes of illusion;it avails not.Non-violence alone is true."Without non-violence,it is not possible to realize truth. The vows of brahmacharya, non-stealing and non-possession are of importance for the sake of non-violence,they help one to realize it in oneself. It is the life- breath of truth. Without it, man is a beast. The seeker after truth will discover all this very early in his quest, and then he will have no difficulty at any time in understanding the meaning of Shastras. The second rule to be followed in determining the meaning of a text in a shastras is that one should not stick to its letter, but try to understand its spirit, its meaning in the total context. Tulasidas's Ramayana is one of the greatest works because its spirit is that of purity...

In Gita the subject matter is simply the realization of Brahman and the means thereto;the battle is only the occasion for its teaching.One can say,if one likes that the poet used it as an occasion because he did not look upon was as morally wrong.On reading the Mahabharta I formed quite a different impression.Vyasa wrote his supremely beautiful epic to depict the futility of war.What did the Kauravas' defeat and the Pandavas'victory avail?How many among the victors survived? What was their fate?What was the end of Kunti,mother of the Pandavas? what trace is left today of the Yadasva race? Since the Gita's subject is not description of the battle and justification of violence,it is perfectly wrong to give much importance to these.If,moreover,it is difficult to reconcile a few of the vewrses with the idea that the Gita advocates non-violence,it is still more difficult to reconcile the teaching of the works as a whole with the advocacy of violence. When a poe...

We need to learn from nature.According to scientists,the bumblebee's body is too heavy and its wingspan too small for it to be able to fly.but the bumblebee doesn't know that and it keeps flying. We are all Gifted with some strengths The small size of the hummingbird,weighing only a tenth of an ounce,give it the flexibility to perform complicated maneuvers,such as beating its wings 75 times a second.This enables the hummingbird to drink nectar from flowers while hovering,but it cannot soar,glide or hop.The ostrich,at 300 pounds,is the largest bird,but it can,t fly.However.its legs are so strong that it can run at up to 50 miles per hour,taking strides of 12-15 feet.There is good examples are in our Indian cricket team too.Our players like Mahindra singh dhoni and virendra sehwag both are playing unorthodox and the shots not in cricket book but still they are playing good cricket now.Dhoni is the No:1 batsman in the rankings ans sehwag have two triple centuries in t...

"What is moral is what you fell good after,and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." Nowadays----Good is not perfect and perfect is not possible. Why?Because day by day our society losing moral values.Standards of morality have consistently gone down in politics,bureaucracy and low enforcement.Corruption has become so common in public life that people can now hardly think of public life with thinking it with corruption. People know which is good and which is bad,but still moral values are vanishing.Why these things are happening? "writing codes of ethics is one matter,practicing it is quite another and likely more challenging" Every body doing many mistakes,knowingly or unknowingly.But still they are finding faults of others. If a person wish to do good things,he can't get any chance .Because every where people are encouraging corruption,bribery and wrong things. How horrible is this,how can we change this world? Yes,we can I had one good Idea. Wait,wait,...

"You are the biggest obstacle for you" "All action is entirely done by the gunas of prakriti.man,deluded by the sense of 'I' thinks 'I' an the doer" The man who is sunk in ignorance believes in his pride the his actions are his,where as the are prompted by his nature,by sattva,rajas and tamas.(Any one who says that he bats his eye-lids is either a fool or suffering from a disease of the eye.He does not wink his eyed really,he harms them.)But he who acts ;as if he were a mere witness of his actions will win admiration for everything he does.The work done by a person without much ability but also without attachment of his ego will produce better results than that done by another who is attached to his ego.Take the example of a state ruled by a king and his minister.The latter works within the framework of the administrative set-up.In just the same way,we are pilgrims in this world and obey the laws of the world.If we lay claim to what we are prompted b...

It is most important to develop a happy outlook on life. Many persons act like spoiled children. They feel deeply hurt when they cannot get their own way all the time. Mature people never act like pampered children. Things cannot always go the way we would desire. We must learn to work in harmony with others, in spite of our different points of view. It is so easy to make mistakes that raise tensions within us, leaving the mind troubled and distressed. Laughter and tears are the best antidotes for failure. These are Nature's ways of releasing our inner tensions and bringing us back to a more normal way of life. Have you ever noticed how difficult it is for a depressed person to either laugh or cry? He may make an attempt but it is never genuine, probable because he is so obsessed with his own feelings of frustration. If he is of a suspicious nature, he is busy trying to measure the motives of those around him. A good memory is a wonderful thing, but there are times when it is more ...

Tratak: Sit in padmasan pose,erect.Gaze at a picture of your deity for some time.Then close eyes and visualize the form of the image.Repeat several times.Think of a lotus flower blooming in the heart or of a candle lighted. Focus at a point between the two eyebrows. Invoke the name of the Lord and then stop and imagine that the same voice is coming out from the heart. Think always positively;leave ;anger,jealousy and hate. Ponder over the good things in life. Visit holy places,see holy men,study holy scriptures. Eat only pure food,befriend good beings and perform duty with out a self motive. When mind is relaxed,divine feelings arise in the heart.Mundane desires,allurement and attachments drive a person away from God.But when one develops love for God in the heart.It is filled with joy.Kind and gracious deeds and feelings for fellow beings take one nearer to the Lord. It is advisable for fellow human beings to do prayer regularly.One should unflinching faith in Him.He should ...

The yogi who has cleansed himself,has gained mastery over his mind and all his senses,who has become one with the atman in all creation,although he acts he remains unaffected. He who is established in yoga soon attains the Brahman.Anyone who successfully follows karma yoga becomes established in yoga.He who has become pure,he whose evil impulses have all been burnt away and become reduced to a burnt thread in which only the twists of the original material are visible,will act mechanically in everything he does.That of course does not mean that he pays no attention to what he is doing;it only meas that he has no egoistic feeling that he draws out will be as straight as that drawn by a machine.An unthinking person worked mechanically and the Lord's servant,too,does merely what he is asked to do.But he does not work for payment and,therefore,his work shines out,where as the hired laborer's work does not shie out as he works for money.No supervisor is required to ...

There is nothing in this world so purifying as knowledge.He who is performed by yoga finds it in himself in fullness of time." We see nothing in this world as holy as this knowledge(The purest yajna,therefore,is the yajna of knowledge).He who has become fit for moksha through the practice of yoga comes to this knowledge is realization of time by his own effort.That knowledge is realization of the self.As soon as this realization is attained,all the burden of this body and of karma well melt away.

"If we know some thing; then we practice it, we will realize quite another thing ,this is reality." Experience is the only source of knowledge.In the world,religion is the only science where there is no surety,because it is not taught as a science where there is no surety,because it is not taught as a science of experience.This should not be.There is always,however,a small group of men who teach religion from experience.They are called mystics,and these mystics in every religion speak the same tongue and teach the same truth.This is the real science of religion .As mathematics in every part of the world does not differ,so the mystics do not differ.They are all similarly constituted and similarly situated.Their experience is the same;and this becomes law.

"Renouncing with the mind all actions,the dweller in the body,who is master of himself,rests happily in his city of nine gates,neither doing nor getting anything done." The self-controlled man,that is ,the man established in the atman,mentally renounces all karma and lives to peace.To renounce all karma mentally means to make the mind indifferent to them,to withdraw it into an attitude of detachment towards work and feel that we are not doing what we are engaged in, that it is God who impels us to do it.Surely we do not feel,as we breathe,that we are breathing.We have mentally renounced that karma.It becomes necessary to breathe with a conscious effort of mind only when natural breathing is obstructed.At all other times,it goes on mechanically.The atman dwells,ever at rest,in this body with nine doors,doing nothing and causing nothing to be done.Though it may be working or acting to make others work,it will not be doing so it it has mentally renounc3ed kar...

This world is not for cowards.Do not try to fly.Look not for success or failure.Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.You have the right to work,but do not become so degenerate as to look for results.Work incessantly,but see something behind the work.Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage.Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame.Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal.