Pearls of Wise

======================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30/09/2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The faculty of thinking called the mind is a continuous flow of various thoughts desire, will, intention, imagination, and ideas. The body is the counter through which we transact with the world and the mind is the instrument of our experiences – good or bad, joyful or sorrowful. It is the mind alone that performs all actions. The mind dormant as in deep sleep or in coma is incapable of any conscious action or interaction. The mind employs the body as a tool to accomplish its tasks. The body can be likened to the hardware of the computer and the mind to its software. When the software is infected with viruses it causes problems and sometimes, even crashes...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30/09/2019. 1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Education is the process of the gradual and systematic summoning of the tendency in the human being to the realisation of perfection. As the concept of perfection is unclear in the initial stages, the approach to the mind of the public, in this direction, has to be initiated with immense patience and care. When we deal with persons, we are really concerned with minds, and hence all successful approach in life is psychological. We have, first of all, to place ourselves in a position where we can appreciate sympathetic thoughts and feelings of people. For this purpose, we may classify society into three categories: (1) the student, who includes th...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  29/09/2019. Post-1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worshipful homage to that supreme, eternal, universal Being who revealed Himself in a glorious personal form comprising total Divinity as the world teacher, Lord Krishna, and who revealed Himself in and through the Gita wisdom teachings that He imparted for all mankind, for all times, through His beloved devotee and disciple, the warrior prince Arjuna. He not only revealed His divine nature through His Bhagavad Gita teachings, He also revealed how man can realise Him fully, can experience Him, and, ultimately, how man can merge himself in Him to become one with Him. All this He taught within the compass of 700 brief verses contained in 1...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/09/2019. Post -1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The life of man is an indication of what is beyond him and what determines the course of his thoughts, feelings and actions. The wider life is invisible, and the visible is a shadow cast by the invisible which is the real. The shadow gives an idea of the substance, and one can pursue the path to the true substance by the perception of the shadow. Human existence, by the fact of its limitations, wants and various forms of restlessness, discontent and sorrow, points to a higher desired end, incomprehensible though the nature of this end be. As life on this earth is characterised by incessant change, and nothing here seems to have the character...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27/09/2019. THE GITA — I (New Discoveries, Vol. 6, pp. 205-7. Cf. Ida Ansell's notes of "The Gita I", Complete Works, I.) [Mr. Frank Rhodehamel's notes of a Bhagavad-Gitâ lecture delivered Saturday, May 26, 1900, in San Francisco, California] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *National Seminar On Hinduism : Chennai On Sep 26, 2019  As part of the 125th Anniversary Swami Vivekananda’s Chicago Addresses, a National Seminar on Hinduism for Youth was held at Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai on 21 September 2019. ------------------------------------------------...

====================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26/09/2019. Srimad Bhagavad Gita : POST-2. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Srimad Bhagavad Gita – an epitome of Spiritual Psychology” ‘Maha Bharatham’ authored by Sri Veda Vyasa, is undoubtedly the greatest text,  ever written on Human Psychology. It says, “Vyasochhishtam Jagat Sarvam”. The great sage Veda Vyasa, the greatest seer of all times, in his infinite wisdom, could see and foresee all minds of the past, present and future too. All that ever happened in the past and could ever happen in the future too, he could visualize Five thousand years back! It is quite unfortunate that we Indians failed to understand such a great visionary. No wonder, our society is gripped by the ...

======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ref : PM’s statement prior to his departure for USA : 20 Sep, 2019 : News Update : PM INDIA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------      I am visiting the United States of America from 21 to 27 September 2019. I will visit Houston and, thereafter, New York to attend the High Level Segment of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. In Houston, I will interact with CEOs of leading energy companies in the US with the aim to enhance India-US energy partnership. Energy has emerged as a new area of mutually beneficial cooperation and is fast becoming an important facet of our bilateral relationship. In Houston, I look forward to my meeting with and address to the Indi...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24/09/2019. Peace of mind 1. The Nature of Desire : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once a desire arises, we cannot forget it. There is complete insistence that things must happen the way we want. As long as we have such desires, it is impossible to gain peace. We cannot even sleep properly because our mind is so riddled with desires, let alone poised enough to gain that great and permanent peace. Another characteristic of desire is that once we have enjoyed something, we crave for it again and again. If we feel itchy and make the mistake of scratching, we will find that the itching increases. The nature of desire is just like having an itch. Once we start enjoying something, there will be more an...

======================================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The final verse of the Kena Upanishad confirms the goal that is attained by the seeker who carries out the programme defined and is successfully able to shift the standpoint away from the egoistic ignorance to the divine knowledge.  The concept of evil is tied to the ignorance, the thoughts and actions that are divided from the truth, that act from the standpoint of the fragmented egoistic perspective and that thereby are causes of pain and suffering. 4th part, Verse 9:  “He who knows this knowledge, smites evil away from him and in that vaster world and infinite heaven finds his foundation, yea, he finds his foundation.” Sri Aurobindo observes:  “The goal of the ascent is the world of the true and vast existence of which the Veda speaks as the Truth that is the final go...