Pearls of Wise

========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, May 07, 2020. Bhagavatham ---------------------------------------- Kunthisthuthi… Kunthidevi offered a very devotional prayer to Lord Krishna by describing His various qualities and remembering all the merciful support He gave them. She sees Him as the ONE that lives in every one as the Chaithanyam. She said Krishna was kinder to her, more than His own mother Devaki who had suffered in Kamsa’s prison for a very long time and lost her children. But Kunthi and her sons were always protected by the Lord. Bheema from Duryodhana’s poison, all of them from “Arakkillam”, Panchali from “Vastrakshepam”, and now even Uthara’s baby in the womb from Aswathama’s Brahmastram. How indebted the Pandavas are to Lord Krishna! (Note – Let us ask ourselves, if we are given a choice, what will we select – all the worldly ...

===================================================== Nature, Trees give plenty to all organisms all animal kingdom, all human beings irrespective of religion, caste, creed, and so on, they don't ask anything in return, is it not? learn this --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everyone should share their wealth. It’s a noble gesture. The scriptures talk about it. By all means keep aside some for your use, but know that you are essentially a trustee of your wealth. It is like a well in the forest where all animals come to drink. It does not belong to that land alone. 1.The Giving Habit : Daan, loosely translated as charity or philanthropy, helps you overcome greed, selfishness and possessiveness. The spirit of daan needs to be encouraged right from childhood. Earlier, parents would bring home a toy or a few toffees and ask the older child to share them with younger ones. Today, they buy separate toys and chocolates for each chil...

==================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, May 04, 2020. Part-1. ----------------------------- 1. Whenever a physical action is undertaken, it is very clear and implied that there is an objective before it. In fact what is an action? An action is a process during which, you begin from a point and reach the end point called the outcome or objective. It is like a line which necessarily connects two given points. So an action is itself designed with a view to produce an outcome. If the action is pursued to completion, the outcome will necessarily follow. Sometimes there can be factors that intercept the process of action. Then you may think about those factors, which are likely to intercept and try to safeguard against them. ---------------------------------- 2. That is part of the action.  To that extent everything is okay.  Now, what...

=================================================== --------------------------------------------------------- 03/05/2020. ----------------------------------- The fabric of society is built with the building blocks of family units. Each jiva is born into a family and the majority, grow up in the same family, surrounded by their loved ones  parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. There are of course, a few who do not have this privilege. Generally we find that despite the deep love that family members share, living together poses problems that arise from a host of negativities like anger, possessiveness, greed, and jealousy. Court rooms are full of cases, the highest percentage of which are between members of the same family. This is not new. Socrates, born before Christianity came, said something to the effect that children were becoming disobedient and showing disrespect to their elders. In the puranas, Narada Muni went to Brahmaji to express concern ab...

================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02/05/2020. ------------------------------ 1. #Above all, we cannot start teaching students without our understanding the purpose of education. ##Many a Hindu, ( the semitic religions too practice this world over for ethnic purity for example Arab countries, it is true.  ) for example, has allowed himself or herself to be proselytize for different reasons. ###One such reason consists in the prospects of economic upliftment and raising of social status which the converters promise to these poor souls who have been unfortunately relegated to the unwanted section of Hindu society, by somehow depriving them of the facilities to improve themselves economically. ####The second reason is the baneful practice of untouchability and pollution by touch, which certain orthodox groups cultivated for a long time and which has not completely die...