Pearls of Wise

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Monday, November 28, 2022. 06:00.  A Good Leader Uses mind and intellect - Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha. ========================================================================= Humans are always led by their mind,  which in turn,  needs guidance from intelligence. Intelligence is the only agency to act on the mind,  eliminating undesirable traits and imbuing emotional strength,  stability and poise. A close integration of mind and intelligence is what makes a good leader,  who should excel in leading the mind and intelligence of his team.  In public administration,  corporate management,  manufacturing,  defence, education, sports, household or any other field, sterling leadership qualities are indispensable.   Dedication,  competence and welfare of people, which determine the ...

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Sunday, November 27, 2022. 06:00. Technology for Mind Management - Swami Mukundananda. In the physical realm of life, all our endeavours are directed towards experiencing happiness, fulfilment, and success. ======================================================================= In the physical realm of life, all our endeavors are directed towards experiencing happiness, fulfillment, and success. And yet, we haven’t been able to raise our lives to the sublime heights, where there is eternal joy and contentment. Our being is an intersection of the materialistic world around us and a subtle world within. The inner world manifests itself when we dream in our sleep. We see with closed eyes, travel with still legs, and plan with a resting intellect. This establishes that there is indeed a separate world that exists within us, which is unique ...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Saturday, November 26, 2022. 06:00. WHO IS A JIVANMUKTA? : Sri Swami Sivananda This article is a chapter from the book Yoga And Realisation. ======================================================================== A Jivanmukta is a liberated sage. He is released even while living. He lives in the world, but he is not of the world. He always revels in the eternal bliss of the Supreme Self. He has no identification with the body and senses. Hence he has no idea of enjoyment or enjoyer when he exhausts the residue of his Prarabdha. He has no idea of action or agent. He roams about happily without attachment and egoism, with a balanced mind and an equal vision. His state is indescribable. He is Brahman Himself. The sage, who has realised that there is no other reality in the universe than Brahman, that he is Brahman Himself and that everythi...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Friday, November 25, 2022. 06:00. YOGA AND LIFE - Sri Swami Brahmananda. This article is a chapter from the book “Pointers on Vedanta”. ========================================================================= There exists a common belief, certainly an erroneous one, among the majority that Yoga is for those, who live in caves and forests, in monasteries and nunneries, away from the busy world, in seclusion, minding their own business without the least concern about other fellow-beings, renouncing the normal pleasures of life and aiming at some post-mortem happiness, in some far-off unknown worlds not seen by any one so far. While these recluses give up all the happiness of this world, the happiness in the form of enjoyments afforded by rich and affluent family life with all the modern facilities, high status in society, name and fame an...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Thursday, November 24, 2022. 06:00. IS GOD RESPONSIBLE FOR EARTHLY ANOMALIES? :  ========================================================================= INTRODUCTION : Vedanta says that God is everything. God is all in all; you are God, I am God. People ask: Are you God, am I God? No, no; God cannot be divided, God cannot be cut, God cannot be rent asunder, God cannot be scissored. You are no part of God; if God is Infinite, then you must be the whole God, not a part of God. Now the question is, if God is all in all, why should He put Himself in a state of affliction in one body, in a state of affluence in another body? Why should He bring plague and poverty to India and political freedom to America? Why should God make somebody the possessor of four or five billions of rupees and another poor, in a famishing, hungering state? W...

 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= Wednesday, November 23, 2022. 06:00. Introduction to the Eternal Religion : Swami Venkatsananda This article is from the book “The Eternal Religion”. ======================================================================== History and to some extent science suffer from paranoia. They belittle all that comes within their grasp and deny that which is beyond. The ideas and the ideals of the East were contemptuously labelled primitive, pagan, heathen and foolishly unsound and superstitious till a few years ago. Many were the self-appointed redeemers of the lost soul of the East! Till a few great men whose soul was awake realised a marvellous truth. The sun rises in the East. For the light, people turn to the East. And “the three wise men came from the East”, too. The religions of the world had their origin in the East. Whilst the earthly power...

 ====================================================================== ======================================================================= Tuesday, November 22, 2022. 06:00  Wholeness of Perfection -  Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Sri Guru Purnima on July 24th, 1983) ====================================================================== Salutations and prostrations to Ananta Koti Brahmanda Nayaka Bhagavan Sriman Narayana and to the divine perfections that emanated from Him: Brahma the Creator, Vasishtha the great Master and his spiritual line, Shakti, Parashakti, and Bhagavan Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa who is especially remembered on this day, the holy Sri Guru Purnima, which is also known as Sri Vyasa Purnima. Here we are, the products, as it were, of this great creative activity of the immeasurable completeness and perfection of the Almighty, the Supreme Being. God is utter perfection, and everything that emanates from Him as His creation has also to be a perfection....

 ======================================================================== ========================================================================= Monday, November 21, 2022. 07:00. No Escape from the Result of Action : ========================================================================= The Atman is our own Supreme Self. Presently, we consider the body and mind to be ourselves. This is referred to as ahamkar. That ahamkar is not the Lord. The pure Self, free from all misunderstandings, is sakshad Brahman. Let us take the example of the space in a pot and the space that exists outside. In reality, it is all one space but the pot-space appears to be confined, limited. Similarly, the Atman, existing in this body, also appears to be confined. The Atman is the Lord of this body. He is also the Lord of the entire creation. The Atman does not create any wrong notions or misunderstandings. It does not create any relation with objects through action. The Atman is not the doer - neithe...

 ======================================================================= ========================================================================= Sunday, November 20, 2022. 06:00. Contemplate Ganapati’s form to connect with him : Swami Tejomayananda. ======================================================================== The name Ganapati immediately brings to mind the elephant-faced God, worshipped all over India irrespective of caste, creed, or religious beliefs. He is famous as the Vighnaharta, remover of obstacles, and is, therefore, worshipped before undertaking any task. Some devotees are content with just gazing at his divine form, chanting his name, or singing his glories. However, others are benefitted by contemplating his divine virtues, sports, or the symbolic meaning of his divine form. Let us see the auspicious form of Ganapati to be meditated upon and worshipped. Usually, an elephant has two tusks. They represent the vision of duality and also pairs of opposites. Ga...