Pearls of Wise

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, April  29, 2021. 08:01.AM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For many, the idea of Yoga is physical postures and breathing techniques, to attain fitness and flexibility. This is not the whole story, however. Hatha Yoga, which has been popularized world-wide over the last 50 years or so, is one element of the much larger understanding of Yoga which we find in the ancient texts, such as the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali or the Bhagavad Gita. Yoga has a vast range as seen in the practices of Tibetan Yoga, the Vedantic and Tantric traditions, and various spiritual disciplines, many under other names and forms, found in traditions around the world. Yoga means “union” and the underlying idea is to achieve union with the Divine, whether the Transcendent, the Universal or some individual form of the Divine Self. For the most part, Yoga has been focused on s

 CORD - Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development CORD is a bond of love and understanding encouraging a process of sharing which enriches both the giver and the receiver. In this process of giving and serving, the giver grows spiritually and the receiver is blessed with the power of transformation.  – Swami Tejomayananda (World wide Head of Chinmaya Mission) CORD (Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development) is the service wing of Chinmaya Mission and operates as a Trust and NGO. It has been active in the field of holistic rural development for over two decades. It facilitates integrated, participatory and sustainable rural development in villages of Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh through guidance, funding and monitoring. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday,  April  28,  2021.  08:43. AM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction :  To realize our ful

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, April  27,  2021.  07:27. AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two types of personalities are predominant in us: the good or daivi and the bad or asuri The recognition and development of good qualities will lead one to moksha and freedom from bondage and pain Negative qualities on the other hand lead one into bondage, resulting in sorrow and dependency The positive and the negative are present everywhere and in all time periods Even in the worst possible scenario, one could find something good If a tragedy like an earthquake happens, it reveals how there.are those who help total strangers even at personal risk. We also come across those who take advantage by looting and robbing Since both the good and bad tendencies exist in us, we are both potentially divine as well as devilish Environment, association and circumstances might exercise a majo

   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Monday,  April  26,  2021.  07:07. AM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Svetasvatara Upanishad compares the world to a river, SWAMI TEJOMAYANANDA explains in this commentary "We think of Him as a river that contains the waters of five streams that has five major turnings due to five causes, that has the five pranas as the waves, the mind — the basis of the fivefold perception — as the source, and has five whirlpools, the fivefold misery as the rapids, fifty aspects and five branches." —Svetasvatara Upanishad, shloka 5 The great river: the source of all rivers can be traced back to the oceanic waters and they again merge back into the ocean. Similarly, the world emerges from and merges back in the Brahmn or Truth, which is its very substratum. To enjoy a swim in the river, we should be aware of its depth and the flow of current, otherwise the

  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, April  25,  2021.  08:21.AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWAMI BHOOMANANDA TIRTHA says that by thinning down the thought process, the seeker can create conditions for Samadhi God is present everywhere. Then why are you missing Him? You might not be aware, but you are happiness personified! When is the time you experience yourself? On waking up, your experience is mixed with words, objects and inferences. The moment you wake up, you see the wall, the room and your own body, so whatever experience you have, it is never pure consciousness — it is a mixed state of consciousness because it is coupled with objects. But in deep sleep state, there is no mixed state. Only when you are disconnected, you get ananda or bliss because only you are there and nothing else. When it is you minus object inference, the result  is comfortable sleep, which is

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday,  ,  April  24,  2021.  07:21.AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- knowing that there are diversities in human nature and abilities, knowing that not all are ready for the same highest teachings, accordingly the teacher gives. Let the Supreme Being bless us to have the right and proper understanding of the teachings of Guru Bhagavan Swami Sivanandaji. There is a story in the Upanishads of the three da. Da is a letter in the Sanskrit alphabet. A human individual, a celestial and a demon all approached Brahma, the Creator, seeking knowledge of the Higher Self. Coming down from His deep meditation, He looks at each one of them and gives the same identical upadesa or spiritual instruction. And the upadesa is to look at their image and pronounce the word da. And each one understands the meaning according to his own nature and propensities, inclina

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #Friday, April  23,  2021.  08:05.  AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I propose to do now is to think loudly so that you may listen to my thoughts, and if any one of you feels that there is some meaning in what I am saying, and it is going to be of some benefit or help to you in your life, I shall really regard myself as thrice blessed. I speak my own thoughts and feelings because one cannot speak honestly what one cannot think and feel in oneself, and what is not one’s honest conviction cannot carry weight and create an impression in the minds of people. I am like you; there is nothing special in me, and there is, therefore, nothing particular that I can say. But I can cooperate with the ways of thinking of other people and help in bringing about a community of thoughts. This I think is really the intention of international friendship or inters

  --------------------------------------.-------------------------------------------- Wednesday, April  21, 2021. 07: 58. AM. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As life has been made physically comfortable and comparatively effortless by modern inventions, the ease-loving man is prone to disregard the place of religion in his life and exalt the values of materialistic civilization. But events have always disclosed the unreliability of the purely objective views and methods of physical science, the experience of man that he is not really happier, and the world is not in fact better, even after his arduous attempts at extracting out of external nature its latent resources in order to utilize them for his own purposes. Where is satisfaction, where is happiness, and where is peace then? Some wise scientists are fully conscious now of the limitations of science, and of its methods, in the investigation of phenomena in planes of subtler states