THOUGHTS ON GRATITUDE

December 26, 2009

THOUGHTS ON

GRATITUDE

Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

Was having a nice talk with Ammaji the other day

and realized that the sense of gratitude is so missing in todayâ€™s

world because Abhinivesha Klesha is so deeply ingrained in modern beings!

Abhinivesha is the inborn affliction that makes us want to survive

at any cost.

In Sutra II:15 of the Yoga Darshana, Maharishi Patanjali tells us

â€œparinama tapa Samskara duhkahaih

gunavritti virodaacha duhkhameva sarvam vivekinahâ€ thereby allowing us to

understand that the process of evolutionary transformation has to go against

the intense currents of the manifest world produced by the whirlpools of the

Gunas. Such a process of going against the normal tendency is definitely going

to have much much more friction that the enjoyable flow along the currents that

so many make day-in-day-out.

The natural tendency of the Gunas and human life is survival at

any cost. If one develops the sense of gratitude, one places oneself at the

risk of non-survival as we have started to feel that we owe someone something.

This higher evolutionary feeling of gratitude that is so essential

for the higher spiritual awakening thus is a handicap for the dog-eat-dog

world!

This is why NO ONE with any sense of survival can ever develop

gratitude as it will be an Achilles heel for them in the rat race.

Gratitude precedes selfless service that precedes the competence

to enter the highest state. As long as we want to preserve our â€œLITTLE SELFâ€ we

cannot ever become the â€œREAL SELFâ€.

Give up survival and develop gratitude for that helps us to move

from the animal nature to the divine â€“that is the message of the all the Rishi

Scientists of India. Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani Chairman : Yoganjali Natyalayam and ICYER Hon General Secretary, Pondicherry Yogasana Association 25, 2nd Cross,Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry, South India-605 013 Tel: +91-413 - 2622902 / +91-413 -3203314/+91-413 -2241561 Mobile: 9842311433 Website: www.icyer.com www..orghttp://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=yognat2001 & p=r Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Bhavanani <yognat2001Anu Garg <anu675; Balaji R <balaji_bubly; Reena Joseph <d.reenajos; daya nidy <dayanidy; devender verma <devender123; padma prashanthini <diamonde14; dr Jonn Mumford <drjonnm;

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Vivek arasan <vivekandal2002; yennae vaenume <yaruneeeFri, December 25, 2009 10:42:05 PM thoughts on aparigraha stairye janma katampta sambhodah

While listening to Venkatâ€™s novelty presentation today at the Best Youth Award competitions 2009, I had a nice realization that I wanted to share with you.We always wonder why we cannot remember past life experiences- well it is because we are so possessive and selfish that we will misuse them. Give the human race anything and it is misused and

abused rather than used. TV, nuclear energy-name it and we have already done that!But once we embark on a sincere Sadhana, things chance because we change. That is why Patanjali tells us that we gain knowledge of all births if we perfect the Aparigraha, the Yama of non-coveted- ness. This is because the Universe then knows that we have lost that selfish - possessiveness and so happily grants us that knowledge (aparigraha stairye janma katampta sambhodah)!! Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani Chairman : Yoganjali Natyalayam

and ICYER Hon General Secretary, Pondicherry Yogasana Association 25, 2nd Cross,Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry, South India-605 013 Tel: +91-413 - 2622902 / +91-413 -3203314/+91- 413 -2241561 Mobile: 9842311433 Website: www.icyer.com www.. orghttp://youtube. com/profile_ videos?user= yognat2001 & p=r

January 1, 2010

That is an excellent thought- very well expressed too! We need to give up our Little Self in order to become the Real Self- Quite a statement Sir. Thats what we are struggling and juggling about- aren't we? But showing gratitude is not really that very difficult- is it??? Isn't it our prime duty to reveal gratitude to those who give it to us ? But thankYou Sir for stimulating me to think about this positive quality. Learn each day and thanks to Ammaji and You for giving these gems to us.

With gratitude

meena--- On Sat, 26/12/09, Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Bhavanani <yognat2001 wrote:

Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Bhavanani <yognat2001 THOUGHTS ON GRATITUDE Date: Saturday, 26 December, 2009, 8:37 AM

THOUGHTS ON GRATITUDE

Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

Was having a nice talk with Ammaji the other day and realized that the sense of gratitude is so missing in todayâ€™s world because Abhinivesha Klesha is so deeply ingrained in modern beings!

Abhinivesha is the inborn affliction that makes us want to survive at any cost.

In Sutra II:15 of the Yoga Darshana, Maharishi Patanjali tells us â€œparinama tapa Samskara duhkahaih gunavritti virodaacha duhkhameva sarvam vivekinahâ€ thereby allowing us to understand that the process of evolutionary transformation has to go against the intense currents of the manifest world produced by the whirlpools of the Gunas. Such a process of going against the normal tendency is definitely going to have much much more friction that the enjoyable flow along the currents that so many make day-in-day-out.

The natural tendency of the Gunas and human life is survival at any cost. If one develops the sense of gratitude, one places oneself at the risk of non-survival as we have started to feel that we owe someone something.

This higher evolutionary feeling of gratitude that is so essential for the higher spiritual awakening thus is a handicap for the dog-eat-dog world!

This is why NO ONE with any sense of survival can ever develop gratitude as it will be an Achilles heel for them in the rat race.

Gratitude precedes selfless service that precedes the competence to enter the highest state. As long as we want to preserve our â€œLITTLE SELFâ€ we cannot ever become the â€œREAL SELFâ€.

Give up survival and develop gratitude for that helps us to move from the animal nature to the divine â€“that is the message of the all the Rishi Scientists of India.

Yogacharya Dr.Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani

Chairman : Yoganjali Natyalayam and ICYER

Hon General Secretary, Pondicherry Yogasana Association

25, 2nd Cross,Iyyanar Nagar, Pondicherry, South India-605 013

Tel: +91-413 - 2622902 / +91-413 -3203314/+91- 413 -2241561

Mobile: 9842311433

Website: www.icyer.com

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<samyu; Manjupriya <sansug63 (AT) (DOT) co.in>; shobana67 ; shyamdevi14@ gmail.com; Jahanvi Singh <singhjahanvi@ .in>; siva4boy (AT) (DOT) co.in; Ghayathri <smooch_liptolip@ .co. in>; sripraba (AT) (DOT) co.in; sssivaraja (AT) gmail (DOT) com; swati priyadarshini <swati_darshini@ .co. in>; swati darshini <swatidarshini@ gmail.com>; Tamilarasan <tamil_arasan@ spanservices. com>; Thribuvan <thribv (AT) gmail (DOT) com>; velu1981 ; vimala dhanaraj <vim_asteya >; Vivek arasan <vivekandal2002@ >; yennae vaenume <yaruneee >Fri, December 25, 2009 10:42:05 PM thoughts on aparigraha stairye janma katampta sambhodah

While listening to Venkatâ€™s novelty presentation today at the Best Youth Award competitions 2009, I had a nice realization that I wanted to share with you.

We always wonder why we cannot remember past life experiences- well it is because we are so possessive and selfish that we will misuse them. Give the human race anything and it is misused and abused rather than used. TV, nuclear energy-name it and we have already done that!

But once we embark on a sincere Sadhana, things chance because we change. That is why Patanjali tells us that we gain knowledge of all births if we perfect the Aparigraha, the Yama of non-coveted- ness. This is because the Universe then knows that we have lost that selfish - possessiveness and so happily grants us that knowledge (aparigraha stairye janma katampta sambhodah)!!