Pearls of Wise

======================================================================== Watch Video :  Serve India - Swami Chinmayananda ======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17/03/2020. Serve India - Swami Chinmayananda ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- H.H. Swami Chinmayananda (Gurudev) is a world renowned authority of the scriptures of India, especially Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads. He worked relentlessly for more than 40 years to bring about a spiritual revival in India and abroad. His unique style and logical approach is appealing to all young and old. Swamiji has made mysterious and elusive vedantic principles easily understandable for common people. He is the founder of Chinmaya Mission, through which the work that he initiated and was s

======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16/03/2020. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Introduction : Of the many qualities or virtues enriching human life, gratitude is foremost. In fact, it is indispensable. The first note of gratitude is naturally towards your parents who gave birth to you and brought you up fondly. We are living on earth, breathing air, taking in nutrients and everything that nature has to offer us, free of cost. Our gratitude to nature should lead us to preserve our environment, and bequeath the same to future generations. Gratitude implies that we deal with all natural resources tenderly, with a sublime, sensitive and spiritual heart. Our cultural tradition as well as scriptures ask us to do so. Any response to

======================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15/03/2020. #Why happiness and peace elude us despite material prosperity and defence arsenals ...... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #1. Introduction : The world is full of contradictions. We all want peace, yet most countries are conflict prone. Nations build up huge arsenals of weapons because they want to be prepared to defend themselves in case the need arises. Arms and ammunition are being produced on such a large scale that the manufacturing countries have to find buyers and so sell them to other nations. How can we find peace, when everywhere, there is an atmosphere of war? We all want prosperity, but our notions of prosperity are rather lopsided. There is undue emphasis on material goods.

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13/03/2020. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #The tangle of sense-experience in which man is caught is most vexing, and hard it is to free oneself from it. Man is deluded by the notion of the reality of the so-called external relations of things and thus he comes to grief. ##The Mahabharata says that the contact of beings in this universe is like the contact of logs of wood in a flowing river, temporary. Yet the attachment to sense-percepts is so strong that phantoms are mistaken for facts, the impure is mistaken for the pure, the painful for the pleasant, and the not-self for the Self. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

======================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12/03/2020. Mind Management Text of all Times : Srimad Bhagavad Gita - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The disastrous war, Mahabharata ensues where we see the two forces finally facing each other on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. Out of the four political methodologies prescribed by the scriptures, Sama, Dhana, Bheda, and Danda, the fourth one i.e., Danda is the last resort. This is typical of people who perform impulsive actions under the influence of their emotional mind rather than their rational mind. The inevitable consequence of war is total destruction. Overwhelmed by the onslaught of emotions, blinded by rage, Man commits acts of violence. A world free of hunger, violence and fear

======================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11/03/2020. Post-2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #In these days, neither the students nor the teachers are happy with the educational process, because it has been forgotten by the authorities concerned that education has to be physical, intellectual, emotional, moral, active and spiritual, all at once, in a way beautifully fitted to the conditions in which one is placed. ##The technique of education should take into consideration the average of the intelligence-quotient, health, social conditions, etc. of the students. ### It should also concentrate itself on methods for bringing about and effecting *(1) the development of personality, *(2) an adequate knowledge of the world,