Pearls of Wise

=============================================================== #Inauguration of Children's camp at Bhagavatham Village . Children are not useless but their skills are used less . Camp is to discover their hidden talents and training for the presentation of their skills . Camp is organised by Sanatana Patasala by Rajeshji Nadapuram and trainer Anoop ji Vikyam. =============================================================== Monday, May 16, 2022. 06:00. Bhagavatham : Canto - 2. The story of Parikshith… :  POST - 1. =============================================================== In a very short time, Parikshith became a very good ruler and administrator. He was deeply loved and liked by his people. On the banks of holy Ganges he conducted three Aswamedha Yagam. He was strictly following the Dharma advocated by his ancestors. His sole focus was in the well-being of his people. He used to roam around in his kingdom to know the actual position of his people and the state of affairs in th...

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Sunday, May 15, 2022. 06:00. Parenting is more than duty : ================================================================ Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha answers questions on parenting and duty love my children, but there are times when I really feel that parenting is a huge burden.Finding a balance between home and work can be so exasperating How do I overcome this?While to some extent, desire and its consequent burden are part of household life, the fact remains that this plight robs away the very purpose and fruition of the householder. The question is: Do you like such a plight? If you do not, the straight answer is:.be free of undue desire and the burden it fetches. Learn to live in peaceful harmony with yourself.Desire of any nature always constricts the mind. Such constriction prevents the mind to express itself fully, healthily, and harmoniously Under...

 ============================================================== ============================================================== Saturday, May 14, 2022. 06:00. FROM RITUALS TO REALIZATION  : =========================================================== This article is a chapter from the book “Yoga”. Bhakti Yoga or Love of God is basic to all religions that encourage their adherents to use icons and rituals in their spiritual practices: it is one of the main features of the Indian approach to God. This was regarded by the ancient spiritual teachers as so vital that they wove it into the fabric of the Indian’s daily life. It is often inevitable that the common man clings to the icon and the ritual and forgets the spirit underlying their use. Worship of the God-in-the-idol degenerates into mercenary idolatry which has nothing to do with religion but which is just another trade. However, whenever this has happened in India, it has immediately been arrested by saintly religious reforme...

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Friday, May 13, 2022. 06:00. Historical figures on the Bhagavad Geeta : ============================================================== Mahatma Gandhi : The Geeta is the universal mother. She turns away nobody. Her door is wide open to anyone who knocks. A true votary of the Geeta does not know what disappointment is. He ever dwells in perennial joy and peace that passeth understanding. But that peace and joy come not to the sceptic or to him who is proud of his intellect or learning. It is reserved only for the humble in spirit who brings to her worship a fullness of faith and an undivided singleness of mind. There never was a man who worshipped her in that spirit and went back disappointed. I find a solace in the Bhagavad Geeta that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount. When disappointment stares me in the face and all alone I see not one ray of light, I ...

 ============================================================= Swami Tapovan Maharaj .============================================================= Thursday, May 12, 2022. 06:00. Religion and Spirituality : ============================================================== Swami Tapovan Maharaj was the Guru of Swami Chinmayananda, the architect of the Chinmaya Movement  Religion and spirituality are the same if we understand them correctly. Generally, we can say that religion is that which involves various rituals, dogmas, worship and pilgrimages. However, once we begin to inquire about ‘who is God’, ‘what is worship’ and ‘who am I’, spirituality truly begins. Normally people are satisfied doing various rituals, going to the temple, praying and so on. Very few inquire further. One need not be ritualistic in order to be spiritual. But rituals are not against spirituality. For instance, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa, a spiritual giant, used to worship Mother Kali Devi. Then the questi...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Wednesday, May 11, 2022. 06:00. The Magic of Willpower : ==============================================================  1.# How to Change the Course of Your Life : Human beings are the most advanced of all the species on earth. Possessing an intellect, we have the ability to ponder over, communicate, and comprehend issues. We also have the prowess to tackle the circumstances life throws at us. We can let harsh times overwhelm us or take what comes our way with a pinch of salt. Accepting it all, we can steer through life with our knowledge and experience. At such moments, we tend to question the true existence of destiny and ask, “Are we bound by a pre-existing template of fate that we can reshape at will?” When confronted with life’s striking lessons, our complex minds help question the challenges ahead. In such moments, we explore the freedom to al...

 ============================================================= ================================================================ Tuesday, May 10, 2022. 19:45' Chapter Ten Stories Story Of A Worm (FROM THE MAHABHARATAM) ============================================================== =============================================================== Yudhishthira said: 1. “Wishing to die and wishing to live, many persons surrender their lives in the great sacrifice (of battle). Tell me, O grandfather, what is the end that these attain to? 2–3. “To give up life in battle is fraught with sorrow for men. O you of great wisdom, you know that to give up life is difficult for men, whether they are rich or poor, or are in happiness or misery. In my opinion, you are gifted with omniscience. Do tell me the reason of this.” Bhishma said. 4. “In prosperity or adversity, in weal or woe, living creatures, O king, coming into this world, live according to a particular method. 5. “Listen to me as I expla...

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Monday, May 09, 2022. 06:00 Be Master of the Mind and Intellect! ==============================================================   The most important, holiest, and the greatest of all mantras in the Vedic religion is the Gayatri mantra, Brahma Gayatri mantra, into which a young boy is initiated at the time of being invested with the sacred thread. And the import of the mantra is a prayer for enlightening and illumining the intellect. The last line prays to the Most High exactly for this: "Graciously illumine our intellect." Man is body, mind and intellect. The outer physical part is the body. The inner part, the psychological part, is mind and intellect. If the intellect retains its independence—it is not caught, held and overcome by the mind—then the independent intellect is able to function as an observer, as a moderator, as a regulator, as a wise cou...

 =============================================================== =============================================================== Sunday, May 08, 2022. 21:30. (Spoken on Swamiji's Amrita Mahotsava on April 25th, 1997 evening.) ================================================================ In this spirit which I place before you, it is incumbent on the part of every one of us to live our life not only for our salvation, but for the similar fulfilment of everybody else, also. How are we going to do this? It is by intense discipline of consciousness, by tapasya. The principle of divine living is tapas. It is a continuous effort from morning to evening, diligently, to offer the sense organs, as the Bhagavadgita puts it, as a yajna, in an act of self-restraint. All sadhana, all spirituality and religion, is summed up in the one word ‘self-restraint' – which means to say, the restraint over the arrogance manifested by the lower indiscriminate self defying the call of the higher spir...

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Saturday, May 07, 2022.06:00. Sri Aurobindo and His Yoga ============================================================== 1. What is the basic principle underlying Sri Aurobindo's teaching? Sri Aurobindo's teaching states that there is a one Being and Consciousness involved here in Matter which is impelled to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection. Life and Mind are only the first two steps of this evolution. The next step of the evolution must be towards development of a greater spiritual and supramental Consciousness which will release the involved Divinity in things after which it will become possible for life to manifest perfection.   2. What are the main lines of practice of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga? In Sri Aurobindo's view, Man, at present, lives mostly in his surface mind, life, and body. There is an inner being within...

 =============================================================== ============================================================= Friday, May 06, 2022. 06:00 The role of Shivoham in making us celebrate Shivaratri in a deeper way. ================================================================ Since time immemorial, the major quest in the Sanatan Culture has been about one’s true identity. Who am I?, is the core question and the fundamental pursuit, of our great Seers who have pondered over it and with the help of their intense Tap/Sadhana, have tried to explore some divine truths regarding this enquiry of self. Unraveling the ultimate reality, shrouded in ignorance has been the bedrock of our Upanishads. Here the seekers have always been aware of their limitedness and so desperately urge their Gurus to assist in transcendence and bless them with true knowledge.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the pra...