Pearls of Wise

Bliss is not added to your nature, it is merely revealed as your true and natural state, eternal and imperishable. ~ Sri Ramana in Maharshi's Gospel.

Every year we get a lot of messages on Onam celebration. The very word ONAM struck me when I was thinking of writing a useful message. ONAM is "O+ NAM" (poojyam + nam  or   zero / not  +  nam). Poojyam means 'respectable' and nam means 'we'. If we put it together we could understand this way. IF WE RESPECT AND CARE FOR OTHERS THEY WILL RESPECT AND LOVE US TOO. Mahabali was admired because he respected and served all his life. Let us take this lesson from history to earn victory in our life. Let this Onam give a new dimension in our life to add more humanity so we can together make a loving, caring and harmonious world. NOTE : 19/08/2015-1st day. Atham  to 28/08/2015- to 10th day Thiruvonam, and 12th day on Chathayam Celebration ends. Swami Udit Chaithanya

Enthusiasm is the very fuel in all great men. By inexhaustible ardour for whatever they undertake, they generate an extraordinary drive for action. In spiritual self-improvement, and in serving the nation in its cultural and spiritual aspects, the workers and the missionaries must discover in themselves the secret of invoking the trajectory force of true and flawless enthusiasm. Swami Chinmayananda.

The mind characteristically operates as an analytical tool, fragmenting reality into compartments and classifications, and treating and acting upon these parts as if they are independent of the Oneness of the Divine. The mind works in an “either-or” condition and does not easily embrace the approach of integration that holds both options together as aspects of the higher truth in an omnipresent, integral Reality. Even when it seeks for or imagines a unity, it is something built up from the parts rather than something that is in and of itself a unified whole. Sri Aurobindo describes the operation of mind thus: “For Mind is Maya, sat-asat: there is a field of embrace of the true and the false, the existent and the non-existent, and it is in that ambiguous field that Mind seems to reign; but even in its own reign it is in truth a diminished consciousness, it is not part of the original and supremely originating power of the Eternal. Even if Mind is able to reflect some image of ess...

Self-surrender is a direct, a valid mode of God-realisation. Self-surrender is a safe and sure means of God-realisation. Self-surrender is a easier and surer means of Self-realisation. Nothing can be achieved without surrender to the Lord. Surrender yourself and all your belongings at the feet of the Supreme. Live a dedicated life of godliness. Think that nothing is yours and everything belongs to God. This is surrender to God. Swami Sivananda

The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, “I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?” Neither money pays, nor name, nor fame, nor learning; it is character that can cleave through adamantine walls of difficulties . Bear this in mind. . . .  Ever yours in love,  Vivekananda  —CW, 7.487

Did you see how that Englishwoman stood on one foot on her horse, while it ran like lightning? How difficult a feat that must be! She must have practised a long time. The slightest carelessness and she would break her arms or legs; she might even be killed. One faces the same difficulty leading the life of a householder. A few succeed in it through the grace of God and as a result of their spiritual practice. But most people fail. Entering the world, they become more and more involved in it; they drown in worldliness and suffer the agonies of death. A few only, like Janaka, have succeeded, through the power of their austerity, in leading the spiritual life as householders. Therefore spiritual practice is extremely necessary; otherwise one cannot rightly live in the world. -The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna,