Rudraksha bead Questions from pandit Arjun jee and other Members.

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Arjun jee,Om namoh Bhagvate Rudraay swaha".Sir what do

you think about the napalese Rudraksha bead mala

7,8,12,14/17,13,15,16/3,9,10,11.And if you think the

synergist combination is going to increase the effect

of Mukhis,How should the beads be okaced in the

mala?Thank you G chopra.

 

--- panditarjun2004 <panditarjun2004 wrote:

 

> dear shiv bhakt selvakumar

> om namo bhagawate rudraya

>

> all shiv bhakts in this group thank you for posting

> wonderful

> articles of wisdom. in fact dharmraja in his

> answers to the yaksha

> prashnas also says the same that the biggest maya in

> the world is

> that the humans pine for so many things as if they

> have no death

> even when death is lurking and inevitable for all.

>

> in praise of lord shiva and with best wishes and

> regards

> arjun

>

>

> ,

> Selvaratnam

> Selvakumar <selvauk wrote:

> >

> > Om Namah Sivaya

> >

> > Discourse by Sri Swami Vivekananda

> >

> >

> > Maya is sometime erroneously explained as

> illusion. The oldest

> idea of Maya in Vedic literature is the sense of

> delusion, meaning

> something like magic; but at that time the real

> theory had not been

> reached.

> >

> > And Maya of the Vedanta, in its last developed

> form, is neither

> Idealism nor Realism, nor it it a theory. It is as

> simple statement

> of facts - what we are and what we see around us.

> Maya is statement

> of fact of this universe, of how it is going on. But

> in one form or

> other we all are in Maya.

> >

> > We are philosophers in it, we are spiritual men

> in it, nay, we

> are devils in this Maya, and we are gods in this

> Maya. Stretch your

> ideas as far as you can make them higher and higher,

> call them

> infinite or by any other name you please, even these

> ideas are

> within this Maya. Whole of human knowledge is a

> generalization of

> this Maya trying to know as it appears to be.

> Everything that has

> form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind,

> is within Maya;

> for everything that is bound by the laws of time,

> space, and

> causation is within Maya. We come here weeping to

> fight our way, as

> well as we can, and to make path for ourselves

> through this infinite

> ocean of life; forward we go, having long ages

> behind us and an

> immense expanse beyond. So on we go, till death

> comes and takes us

> off the field - victorious or defeated, we do not

> know. And this is

> Maya. In our desire to solve the mysteries of

> the universe,,

> we cannot stop our questioning, we feel we must know

> and cannot

> believe

> > that no knowledge is to be gained. A few steps,

> and there aroused

> the wall of begin less and endless time which we

> cannot surmount. A

> few steps, and there appears a wall of boundless

> space which cannot

> be surmounted, and the whole is irrevocably bound in

> by the walls of

> cause and effect. We cannot go beyond them. Yet we

> struggle, and

> still have to struggle. And this is Maya.

> Time, the avenger of

> everything, comes, and nothing is left. He swallows

> up the saint and

> the sinner, the king and the peasant, the beautiful

> and the ugly;

> and leaves nothing. Everything is rushing towards

> that one goal,

> destruction. Everyday people are dying around us,

> and yet men think

> they will never die and this is Maya.

> Animals are living

> upon plants, men upon animals and, worst of all,

> upon one another,

> the strong upon the weak. This is going on

> everywhere. And this is

> Maya. Like moths hurling themselves against the

> flame, we are

> hurling ourselves again and again into sense

> pleasures,

> > hoping to find satisfaction there. We return

> again and again with

> freshened energy; thus we go on, till crippled and

> cheated we die.

> And this is Maya. Is there no way out? Is

> there no hope then?

> We find with all this, with this terrible fact

> before us, in the

> midst of sorrow and suffering, even in this world a

> still small

> voice that is ringing through all ages, through

> every country, and

> in every heart: "This My Maya is divine, made up of

> qualities, and

> very difficult to cross. Yet those that come unto

> Me, cross the

> river of life." This is the voice that is leading us

> forward. Man

> has heard it, and is hearing it all through the

> ages. This voice

> comes to men when everything seems to be lost and

> hope has fled,

> when man's dependence on his own strength has been

> crushed down, and

> everything seems to melt away between his fingers,

> and life is a

> hopeless ruin. Then he hears it. This is called

> religion. Not

> only the human soul, but all creatures from the

> lowest to the highest

> > have heard the voice and are rushing towards it;

> and in the

> struggle are either combining with each other or

> pushing each other

> out of the way. Thus come competition, joys,

> struggles, life,

> pleasure, and death, and the whole universe is

> nothing but the

> result of this mad struggle to reach the voice. This

> is the

> manifestation of nature. As soon as you know the

> voice and

> understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The

> same world which

> was the ghastly battle field of Maya is now changed

> into something

> good and beautiful. We no longer curse nature, nor

> say that the

> world is horrible and that it is all vain; we need

> no longer weep

> and wail. As soon as we understand the voice, we see

> the reason why

> this struggle should be here, this fight, this

> competition, this

> difficulty, this cruelty, these pleasures and joys;

> we see that they

> are in the nature of things, because without them

> there would be no

> going towards the voice, to attain which we are

> destined, whether we

> know it on not.

> > The sun is moving towards the goal, so is the

> earth in

> circling round the sun, so is the moon in circling

> round the earth.

> To that goal the planet is moving, and the air is

> blowing.

> Everything is struggling towards that voice, and

> cannot be hindered;

> the miseris also going towards the same destination,

> the greatest

> worker of good hears the same voice within, and he

> cannot resist it,

> he must go towards the voice; so with the most

> arrant idler. One

> stumbles more we call bad, him who stumbles less we

> call good. Good

> and bad are never two different things, they are one

> and the same;

> the difference is not one of kind, but of degree.

> Religion

> begins with a tremendous dissatisfaction with the

> present state of

> things, with our lives, and a hatred, an intense

> hatred, for

> thispatching up of life, and unbounded disgust for

> fraud and

> lies.There is a being beyond allthese manifestation

> of Maya, who is

> superior to and independent of Maya, and who is

> attracting us

> towards Himself, and

> > that we are all going towards Him. The idea that

> goal is far off,

> far beyond nature, attracting us all towards it, has

> to

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