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 ================================================================ =============================================================== Friday, April 01, 2022. 06:00. We can connect each of the story from Ramayanam to our present life.  ================================================================ 1. Ramayanam that starts with a curse given to a Hunter by Valmiki Maharshi. ... Maa Nishadha.... ....”Oh hunter No ! may you repent for life and suffer, find no rest for you have killed one from this pair of devoted and loving birds” Today, for us it would mean we have ourselves shot and killed nature which is the bird and at the end bringing destruction to ourselves and to the coming generations. This will be the end result from our destructive qualities of disrespecting nature and without being consciously aware destroying the delicate balance which sustains life.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Gove...

 ============================================================== ================================================================ Thursday, March 31, 2022. 06;00 "There are three main paths that have been described by the holy scriptures which lead to God. Karma, Jnana, and Bhakti. There is no other path to God." ===================================== The great scripture Shrimad Bhagavatam, contains a very significant dialogue between Lord Krishna and the highly revered jñani, Uddhav who was a dear friend of the Lord Himself. This event took place over 5000 years ago just before the dawn of this new age, Kali-yug. A jñani is a highly knowledgeable scholar who has mastered the Vedic scriptures. Uddhav questions, "O Lord! There are myriad paths propagated by various spiritualists. Which of those are true and which ones are to be shunned? Why did so many paths come into existence? When a person hears and reads about thousands of different paths, he is confused and cannot deci...

================================================================ =============================================================== Wednesday, March 30, 2022. 06:00. Nataraja, the dancing form of Lord Shiva, is a very beautiful symbol of the union of nature and the Divine. ================================================================ Nataraja holds fire in one hand, representing the fire element. A damaru in his other hand depicts the space element. Many forces in the universe are represented by a shape similar to that of a damaru, like a chromosome, or shapes of galaxies and so on. Time also is said to have a conical representation. ∞ is the symbol (shape of the damru) and represents infinity. Shiva’s hair is open and flying representing the air element. One foot on ground symbolizes prithvi (earth element), another in the air. One hand is the symbolic abhaya hasta offering protection and the other points to his feet symbolizing surrender. With one foot already in the air, he has alre...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Tuesday, March 29, 2022. 06:00. Win the Mind, Win the World : ============================================================= As we go about our day to day activities, often we are unaware that there is one force that prevails over our actions. That is our mind. We are in a constant flow of thoughts as they go through a myriad changes, without so much as a break for reflection. The mind rarely finds a way to be calm and settled in the daily chaos of survival and in that, it gets us to be in a constant state of flux and confusion too. Sometimes I feel the mind is akin to a river. Like a river at its source in the mountains, it can be clear and transparent, bearing an openness that allows us to see the depths much below the surface. But as the river embarks on its journey, meeting the varied landscapes of the earth, mingling with the mire and soil it encounte...

 ============================================================= ================================================================ Monday, March 28, 2022. 06:00. IS GOD RESPONSIBLE FOR EARTHLY ANOMALIES? ================================================================ 1.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? Why should He do that? How unreasonable is...

 ============================================================== Sri Swami Venkatesananda - (WITHOUT shirt or cover ) standing 6th from lt to rt) =============================================================== Sunday, March 27, 2022. 06:00. HATHA YOGA: AN ART AND A SCIENCE : This article is a chapter from the book “Yoga”. ================================================================ Sri Swami Venkatesananda with Guru Swami Sivananda Hatha yoga has been widely advertised as a perfectly scientific way to health, relaxation and peace of mind, and by many people it is considered as a system of mainly physical exercise. Hatha yoga certainly gives you a healthy body and a healthy mind, but its goal is different and much higher. The physical postures and the breathing exercises of hatha yoga calm the nerves and ease the tensions in our body and mind, and are vitally important, but we should not stop with them. We should go deeper and obtain the precious pearl we have within ourselves–se...

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Saturday, March 26, 2022. 06:00. MIND-CONQUEST BY SPIRITUAL CULTURE This article is a chapter from the book Conquest of Mind. =============================================================== The mind is like a wheel which revolves endlessly with tremendous velocity. It generates new thoughts with every revolution. This wheel is set in motion with the vibrations of psychic Prana or subtle Prana. The practice of Pranayama lessens the velocity of the mind, slows down the wheel gradually. Perfect control of Prana will bring the wheel to a standstill. Alcohol, meat, Rajasic foods, the cinema, novel-reading, obscene songs, obscene sights, obscene talks, evil company will make the wheel of mind revolve very rapidly; whereas fruits, Sattvic food, the company of Mahatmas, study religious books, solitude, Japa, Kirtan, concentration, meditation, enquiry of “Who am ...

============================================================== Sri Swami Chidananda ============================================================= Friday, March 25, 2022. 06:00. NOT A ROSY PATH : This article is a chapter from the book The Divine Destination. =============================================================== Gurudev says, “There is no royal road in spirituality. Adversity develops the power of endurance and will-force. Adversity develops fortitude and forbearance. All the prophets, saints, Bhaktas and Yogins of yore had to struggle hard against adverse circumstances. God puts His devotees under severe tests and rigorous trials.” Nothing that is worthwhile is to be achieved without undergoing a corresponding amount of pain and suffering. No enduring ideal can be attained without toil and sweat. The seed splits and perishes to put forth the plant. The flower lays its life to give place to the sweet fruit. It is in the furnace that gold emerges from the ore. Even so, the spir...

 =============================================================== ============================================================ Thursday, March 24, 2022. 06:00. The Cosmic Mystery -4 ============================================================== It is asked: How can Maya have a beginningless appearance if it stands eternally cancelled in Brahman? We see that the snake seen in a rope stands eternally cancelled, for a rope never becomes a snake nor is a snake ever transformed into a rope. Yet the perception of a snake in the rope becomes possible, as testified by common experience, and there is no beginning for the possibility of such an appearance. Suresvara describes Maya as Sarva-nyaya virodhini, the contradiction of every type of reasoning or logic. The absolute cannot become what it is not; if it does not there is no world. But there is one seen. It must not be, therefore, different from the Absolute. This, again, means that there is no world but only the Absolute. But we do not s...

================================================================================== ================================================================================ Wednesday, March 23, 2022. 06:00. The Cosmic Mystery -3. ================================================================================= It is necessary to dispel certain misconceptions regarding the nature of Maya, for it is held by many that the principle, instead of establishing the oneness of Brahman, creates a dichotomy in existence by its presence. As it was observed before, the term is used in different senses, to suggest the absoluteness of Brahman and the inscrutability of phenomena. Maya is not altogether non-existent (Sunya), for a void, cannot become an object of consciousness; but Maya has a capacity to appear in manifold forms. It does not also signify a self-contradictory assumption like that of a barren woman's son or a round square, for such fancied things as these cannot even be conceived. But the eff...