Pearls of Wise

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 23/12/2019. #Chapter-3-Karmayogam, Slokam-35 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= "Shreyan swa-dharmo vigunah para-dharmat sva-anushthitat, swa-dharme nidhanam shreyah para-dharmo bhayavahah," -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- shreyan—better; swa-dharmah—personal duty; vigunah—tinged with faults; para-dharmat—than another’s prescribed duties; swa-anushthitat—perfectly done; swa-dharme—in one’s personal duties; nidhanam—death; shreyah—better; para-dharmat—duties prescribed for others; bhaya-avahah—fraught with fear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

======================================================================= ====================================================================== 22/12/2019. A leader is one who is able to lead the minds and intellects of the others around. If he thinks that he can lead by order and command, he is grossly mistaken. It will never work. Understand that everyone is directed by the mind, and the mind is directed by the intelligence. #A good leader must be able to touch the minds of his people, and also activate their intelligence. #And how will he do that? #Mind will respond to emotions. So have love, sympathy and concern. #Be considerate. #Whenever you say something to your assistants, keep the watchword, `consideration' in your heart. #Never dislike anybody. #Not all are equally efficient. Some will surely make mistakes. #But the world makes provision for all. So too your mind should make a provision for everybody. #Evaluate your people well, keeping in mind...

====================================================================== ======================================================================= 21/12/2019. Chapter 1 : Srimad Bhagavad Gita ======================================================================= 1.1 The Gita begins with a chapter on the Yoga of Arjuna’s despondency or Vishaad Yoga. Its backdrop is the Mahabharata war with both armies facing each other. Arjuna wants to survey the scene of war. He requests the Lord to position his chariot in the middle of the battlefield. Faced with his family on both sides, his dilemma begins. His emotions get the better of him and he is confused about his duties. #This is our problem… the problem of all humanity and Arjuna is our representative. 1.2 Literally the title of the chapter - Vishaad Yoga means the Yoga of sorrow. All sorrow would not qualify for this title, because per se, sorrow is not yoga. Only that sorrow which, yokes us to or propels us towards Bhagw...

======================================================================= ====================================================================== 20/12/2019. Post-2. ======================================================================= What is that central teaching? The central teaching is that, in fact, all life is yoga. Life is to be lived as the great sadhana, the great yoga. All actions constitute yoga. Everything that you think is yoga. Everything that you speak is yoga. Everything that you do is yoga. That is why everything that you think should be thought of as yoga. That is why everything that you utter should be regarded as yoga. That is why everything that you do must be done as yoga. There is nothing else in life except yoga and yoga alone. All of life is yoga. Life is the great sadhana. Life is the supreme yoga, every part of it. Life is to be lived as such. That is why it was given. Each and every one of our actions from morning till evening should have a God...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 19/12/2019. Grief over any matter is born of ignorance. There is a difference between concern and grief. A person weeps because of the loving relationship with or personal attachment to the departed or simply because of the social expectation to cry. If the deceased lived an unrighteous life, there could be concern about his fate. For just this reason, rituals for a better situation in the after-life of the departed soul are prescribed. Even if a good person dies, there can be cause for grief, because in the absence of their wise counsel we fear for ourselves. There could be various reasons to grieve for one who has passed away, but why mourn for the living? Those who are alive can cause anxiety in many ways; sometimes we cry out of love or attachment.  Many a time, people grieve over fear of events that have not taken place. ...

======================================================================= ======================================================================= 18/12/2019. POST-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 the child and the adolescent; (2) the man of the world or the active in society, including ...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 17/12/2019. POST-2. ======================================================================== The great law-giver Manu, after describing the various tenets of Dharma, finally asserts: "Of all these Dharmas, the Knowledge of the Self is the highest; it is verily the foremost of all sciences; for, by it, one attains immortality." The pursuit of Dharma, Artha and Kama has its meaning in the attainment of Moksha which is the greatest of all the Purusharthas (end of human life). Dharma is the ethical and moral value of life; Artha is its material value; and Kama is its vital value; but Moksha is the infinite value of existence which covers all the others and is itself far greater than all these. Others exist as aids or preparations for Moksha. Without Moksha, they have no value and convey no meaning. Their value is conditione...

======================================================================== ======================================================================== 16/12/2019 "Ahalya Moksham in Epic Ramayanam" - Swami Udit Chaithanya ======================================================================== After Sri Rama completed Vishwamitra Maharshi’s Yagam, Rishi takes Rama to Ahalya Devi’s Gautama Ashram. She is Gautama Maharshi’s wife. She now lies as a stone due to an earlier curse. To bring her back to life, by touching Sri Rama Swami’s feet, Vishwamitra brings Rama here . This story is known to all ( Curse to Ahalya ) but what actually is the message here ? Bringing back a person who is like a dead stone to Life . What is the meaning of lying like a stone ? We should not understand this in its grossified sense, instead, have to understand it subtlety. Ramatwam is when we make an effort to bring life back into a person. This is the great humanity ...