Guest guest Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 prof laxmi narain (prof_narain) Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi, monthly magazine of the Kendram. THE URGE TO ACCUMULATE OBSTRACTS LIBERATION: The nature of the mind is always to accumulate. Mind is a gatherer, always wanting to gather something. With the gathering you may make a living. With this gathering, may be you can enhance the physical quality of life around you; but this gathering – it does not matter how much you gather – is incapable of liberating you, taking you closer to your Ultimate Nature. It does not matter what you accumulate; the constant need to accumulate shows that there is insufficiency. Grace cannot descend on you till you are empty and have got rid of your habit to accumulate, including the habit to acquire knowledge and wisdom. If one brings sufficient awareness, then through constant sadhana the vessel becomes totally empty. Awareness empties the vessel, sadhana cleans it. If you become empty enough for the Grace to descend, then Realisation is not far away; it is here to be experienced. – Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev Enlightenment is our ego's biggest disappointment. – Swami Yogananda LIVE LIKE A SHIP IN THE OCEAN: A ship in the ocean moves freely, performing its job of carrying goods and persons from place to place. It faces all oceanic turmoil calmly; ensuring that the water, which makes it move does not enter into it. We will also perform the best by keeping ourselves afloat in the maya of samsara, not allowing it to engulf and make us sink or jeopardize our performance. – N. K. Agarwal HAPPINESS: The reason why you are unhappy is because you are focusing on what you do not have rather than on what you have right now…You stupidly squander so much energy trying to rearrange the world…What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head…So if it is happiness that you seek you can stop wasting your energy trying to cure your baldness, or build up an attractive body or change your life style or personality. You could change every one of these things and still be unhappy. – Anthony De Mello SPIRITUAL ESSENTIALS: The first phase of the spiritual path is to subject yourself to a scrupulous and ongoing character assessment… When obstacles crop up on the spiritual path, a good practitioner does not lose faith but has the discernment to recognize difficulties for what they are – just obstacles, and nothing more. It is in the nature of things that when you recognize an obstacle as such, it ceases to be an obstacle. Taking an obstacle seriously, it gets empowered and solidified and becomes a real blockage. – Sogyal Rinpoche CONSCIOUS BREATHING: Conscious deep breathing is one of the most simple ways to calm and integrate the mind and body. The first step towards the breath to be your ally is to become aware of it. The next step is to make subtle shifts that will allow breath easier and deeper. As your breath becomes balanced, your mind becomes balanced.As your steady and deep breath becomes a way of life, your body and mind become robust and serene at the same time. It is likely that you will not always be aware of your breathing. Therefore, I suggest that you set aside times to practice and focus upon breath. I like to practice slow deep breathing when I am working on the computer, when driving on long stretches of open road, and as a way to begin meditation. – Robert Sgovio SEEING NOT LOOKING: When we look, we look at the surface.When we see we see in depth. That is the difference between looking and seeing.We live in an age of looking. We look with curious eye at other people's affairs.We look at what is not really our business…To see is to go beyond the surface of things. Seeing is also closely linked with seeking.The person who seeks God hopes to " dwell in the house of the Lord all days of her life. " , to " taste the sweetness of the Lord " and to " seek His face " (Bible)…There is also a difference between true seeking and false seeking. When our seeking is true, we see the Truth. Some people seek and never find. They seek in the wrong places, and put their trust in the wrong things and people…To set one's hope in what is passing and impermanent is to look things only at the surface. The more we chase the tangible, the more the intangible slips through our figures… If we begin to see, we seek and find. God who is invisible cannot be experienced by those who only look, but can be experienced by those who `see' Him in all His creation. – Janina Gomes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 Dear friends and devotees, Bhakti is eternal. The following message reveals the importance of the day and let us all celebrate by following the principles of the great reformer. With love and regards, Sastry --- On Mon, 1/12/09, D An <autograph35 wrote: D An <autograph35 quotes sastrybgy Monday, January 12, 2009, 9:10 AM sir, today is special day to Indians bcoz today is Bday of great reformer SWAMI VIVEKANANDA * By the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one. * GOD is the ever-active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed. * GOD is to be worshiped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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