tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88210080182132669382024-03-05T02:58:06.526-08:00Wisdom DawnsKeep Sharing your treasures...may enrich many a lives. :)Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-84921804308255636512012-01-08T06:13:00.000-08:002012-01-08T06:13:44.215-08:00Problem as an Ego Tonic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3VOrBMSb6RUl_6ajSQU9pBvOVAF7JvEmkgR2QawGBY1O9afORhYAcb0AgATp6__4hBm79GtDb40pVUFTsf_YzggzI2RQyvv0rNuHgC-PYEiXZwyHMez9GKhyo2FIinaf8VUAsv0f8itQt/s1600/problem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3VOrBMSb6RUl_6ajSQU9pBvOVAF7JvEmkgR2QawGBY1O9afORhYAcb0AgATp6__4hBm79GtDb40pVUFTsf_YzggzI2RQyvv0rNuHgC-PYEiXZwyHMez9GKhyo2FIinaf8VUAsv0f8itQt/s320/problem.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody>
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<tr> <td width="20"> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://www.osho.com/GeneralPicture/Spacer.gif" /> </td> <td width="80"> </td> <td> <div class="text">The ego does not feel good, at ease, with molehills; it wants mountains. Even if it is a misery, it should not be a molehill, it should be an Everest. Even if it is miserable, the ego doesn’t want to be ordinarily miserable; it wants to be extraordinarily miserable!<br />
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People go on and on, creating big problems out of nothing. I have talked to thousands of people about their problems and I have not come across a real problem yet! All problems are bogus — you create them because without problems you feel empty. There is nothing to do, nothing to fight with, nowhere to go. People go from one guru to another, from one master to another, from one psychoanalyst to another, from one encounter group to another, because if they don’t go, they feel empty, and they suddenly feel life to be meaningless. <b>You create problems so that you can feel that life is a great work, a growth, and you have to struggle hard.</b><br />
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The ego can exist only when it struggles, remember — when it fights. And if I tell you, ‘Kill three flies and you will become enlightened, you will not believe me. You will say, ‘Three flies? There doesn’t seem to be much to that. And I will become enlightened? That doesn’t seem to be likely. If I say you will have to kill seven hundred lions, of course that looks more like it! </div><div class="text"><br />
</div><div class="text"><b>The greater the problem, the greater the challenge...and with challenge your ego arises, soars high. You create problems. Problems don’t exist.</b><br />
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The priests and the psychoanalysts and the gurus — they are happy because their whole trade exists because of you. If you don’t create molehills out of nothing and you don’t make your molehills into mountains, what will be the point of gurus helping you? First you have to be in a shape to be helped.<br />
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The real masters have been saying something else. They have been saying, “Please look what you are doing, what nonsense you are doing. First you create a problem, then you go in search of a solution. Just watch why you are creating the problem, just exactly in the beginning, when you are creating the problem, is the solution — don’t create it!” But that won’t appeal to you because then you are suddenly thrown flat upon yourself. Nothing to do? No enlightenment? No satori? No samadhi? And you are deeply restless, empty, trying to stuff yourself with anything whatsoever.<br />
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You don’t have any problems; only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations. Have another look at your problems: the deeper you look, the smaller they will appear. Go on looking at them and by and by they will start disappearing. Go on gazing and suddenly you will find there is emptiness...a beautiful emptiness surrounds you. Nothing to do, nothing to be, because you are already that.<br />
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Enlightenment is not something to be achieved, it is just to be lived. When I say that I achieved enlightenment, I simply mean that I decided to live it. Enough is enough! And since then I have lived it. It is a decision that now you are not interested in creating problems, that’s all. It is a decision that now you are finished with all this nonsense of creating problems and finding solutions.<br />
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All this nonsense is a game you are playing with yourself: you yourself are hiding and you yourself are seeking, you are both the parties. And you know it! That’s why when I say it you smile, you laugh. I am not talking about anything ridiculous; you understand it. You are laughing at yourself. Just watch yourself laughing, just look at your own smile; you understand it! It has to be so because it is your own game: you are hiding and waiting for yourself to be able to seek and find yourself.<br />
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You can find yourself right now because it is <i>you</i> that is hiding. That’s why Zen masters go on hitting. Whenever somebody comes and says, “l would like to be a buddha,” the master gets very angry. Because he is asking nonsense, he <i>is</i> a buddha. If Buddha comes to me and asks how to be a buddha, what am I supposed to do? I will hit his head. “Whom do you think you are befooling? You are a buddha!”<br />
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Don’t make unnecessary trouble for yourself. And understanding will dawn on you if you watch how you make a problem bigger and bigger and bigger, how you spin it, and how you help the wheel to move faster and faster and faster. Then suddenly you are at the top of your misery and you are in need of the whole world’s sympathy.<br />
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The ego needs some problems. If you understand this, in the very understanding the mountains become molehills again, and then the molehills also disappear. Suddenly there is emptiness, pure emptiness all around. This is what enlightenment is all about — a deep understanding that there is no problem. Then, with no problem to solve, what will you do? Immediately you start living. You will eat, you will sleep, you will love, you will have a chit-chat, you will sing, you will dance. What else is there to do? You have become a god, you have started living!<br />
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If people can dance a little more, sing a little more, be a little more crazy, their energy will be flowing more, and their problems will by and by disappear. Hence I insist so much on dance. Dance to orgasm; let the whole energy become dance, and suddenly you will see that you don’t have any head. The stuck energy in the head is moving all around, creating beautiful patterns, pictures, movement. And when you dance there comes a moment when your body is no longer a rigid thing, it becomes flexible, flowing. When you dance there comes a moment when your boundary is no longer so clear; you melt and merge with the cosmos, the boundaries are mixing. Then you don’t create any problems.<br />
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Live, dance, eat, sleep, do things as totally as possible. And remember again and again: whenever you catch yourself creating any problem, slip out of it, immediately. </div></td></tr>
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<b>Osho on Relationships and Living Partners</b><br />
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Question: Would you talk to us about our living partners -- our Wives, husbands and lovers. When should we persevere with a partner, and when Should we abandon a relationship as hopeless -- or even Destructive?<br />
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Osho : Relationship is one of the mysteries. And because it exists between two persons, it depends on both. Whenever two persons meet, a new world is created. Just by their meeting, a new phenomenon comes into existence -- which was not before, which never existed before. And through that new phenomenon, both persons are changed and transformed. Unrelated, you are one thing; related, immediately you become something else. A new thing has happened. A woman when she becomes a lover is no longer the same woman.<br />
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A man when he becomes a father is no longer the same man. A child is born, but we miss one point completely; the moment the child is born, the mother is also born. This never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother never. And a mother is something absolutely new. Relationship is created by you, but then, in its turn, relationship creates you. Two persons meet, that means two worlds meet. It is not a simple thing but very complex, the most complex.<br />
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Each person is a world unto himself or herself, a complex mystery with a long past and an eternal future. In the beginning only peripheries meet. But if the relationship grows intimate, becomes closer, becomes deeper, then by and by centers start meeting. When centers meet, it is called love. When peripheries meet, it is acquaintance. You touch the person from the without, just from the boundary, then it is acquaintance. Many times you start calling your acquaintance your love. Then you are in a fallacy. Acquaintance is not love.<br />
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Love is very rare. To meet a person at his center is to pass through a revolution yourself, because if you want to meet a person at his center, you will have to allow that person to reach to your center also. You will have to become vulnerable, absolutely vulnerable, open. It is risky. To allow somebody to reach your center is risky, dangerous, because you never know what that person will do to you. And once all your secrets are known, once your hiddenness has become unhidden, once you are exposed completely, what that other person will do, you never know. The fear is there. That's why we never open.<br />
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Just acquaintance, and we think that love has happened. Peripheries meet, and we think we have met. You are not your periphery. Really, the periphery is the boundary where you end, just the fencing around you. It is not you! The periphery is the place where you end and the world begins. Even husbands and wives who may have lived together for many years may be just acquaintances. They may not have known each other. And the more you live with someone, the more you forget completely that the centers have remained unknown. So the first thing to be understood is: don't take acquaintance as love. You may be making love, you may be sexually related, but sex is also peripheral. Unless centers meet, sex is just a meeting of two bodies. And a meeting of two bodies is not your meeting. Sex also remains acquaintance --physical, bodily, but still acquaintance. You can allow somebody to enter to your center only when you are not afraid, when you are not fearful. So I say to you that there are two types of living. One: fear-oriented; one: love-oriented.<br />
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Fear-oriented living can never lead you into deep relationship. You remain afraid, and the other cannot be allowed, cannot be allowed to penetrate you to your very core. To an extent you allow the other and then the wall comes and everything stops. The love-oriented person is the religious person. The love-oriented person means one who is not afraid of the future, one who is not afraid of the result and the consequence, who lives here and now. Don't be bothered about the result. That is the fear-oriented mind. Don't think about what will happen out of it.<br />
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<b>Just be here, and act totally. Don't calculate. A fear-oriented man is always calculating, planning, arranging, safeguarding. His whole life is lost in this way.</b><br />
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I have heard about an old Zen monk. He was on his deathbed. The last day had come, and he declared that that evening he would be no more. So followers, disciples, friends started coming. He had many lovers. They all started coming. From far and wide people gathered. One of his old disciples, when he heard that the master was going to die, ran to the market.<br />
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Somebody asked: The master is dying in his hut, why are you going to the market?The old disciple said: I know that my master loves a particular type of cake, so Iam going to purchase the cake.<br />
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It was difficult to find the cake, because now it had gone out of fashion, but by the evening somehow he managed. He came running with the cake. And everybody was worried -- it was as if the master was waiting for someone. He would open his eyes and look, and close his eyes again.<br />
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And when this disciple came, he said: Okay, so you have come. Where is the cake? The disciple produced the cake -- and he was very happy that the master asked about the cake. Dying, the master took the cake in his hand, but his hand was not trembling. He was very old, but his hand was not trembling. So somebody asked: You are so old and just on the verge of dying. The last breath is soon to leave you, but your hand is not trembling.<br />
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The master said: I never tremble, because there is no fear. My body has become old, but I am still young, and I will remain young even when the body is gone. Then he took a bite, started munching the cake. And then somebody asked: What is your last message, Master? You will be leaving us soon. What do you want us to remember?<br />
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The master smiled and said: Ah, this cake is delicious. This is a man who lives in the here and now: This cake is delicious. Even death is irrelevant. The next moment is meaningless. THIS moment this cake is delicious. If you can be in this moment, this present moment, this presentness, the plenitude, then only can you love.<br />
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Love is a rare flowering. It happens only sometimes. Millions and millions of people live in the false attitude that they are lovers. They believe that they love, but that is their belief only. Love is a rare flowering. Sometimes it happens. It is rare because it can happen only when there is no fear, never before. That means love can happen only to a very deeply spiritual, religious person. Sex is possible for all. Acquaintance is possible for all. Not love. When you are not afraid, then there is nothing to hide, then you can be open, then you can withdraw all boundaries. And then you can invite the other to penetrate you to the very core.<br />
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And remember, if you allow somebody to penetrate you deeply, the other will allow you to penetrate into himself or herself, because when you allow somebody to penetrate you, trust is created. When you are not afraid, the other becomes fearless. In your love, fear is always there. The husband is afraid of the wife, the wife is afraid of the husband. Lovers are always afraid. Then it is not love. Then it is just an arrangement of two fearful persons depending on each other, fighting, exploiting, manipulating, controlling, dominating, possessing -- but it is not love.<br />
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If you can allow love to happen, there is no need for prayer, there is no need for meditation, there is no need for any church, any temple. You can completely forget God if you can love -- because through love, everything will have happened to you: meditation, prayer, God. EVERYTHING will have happened to you. That's what Jesus means when he says: Love is God. But love is difficult. Fear has to be dropped. And this is the strange thing, that you are so afraid and you have nothing to lose.<br />
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Kabir has said somewhere: I look into people. They are so much afraid, but I can't see why -- because they have nothing to lose. Says Kabir: They are like a person who is naked, but never goes to take a bath in the river because he is afraid -- where will he dry his clothes? This is the situation you are in -- naked, with no clothes, but always afraid about the clothes. What have you got to lose? Nothing. This body will be taken by death. Before it is taken by death, give it to love. Whatsoever you have will be taken away.<br />
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Before it is taken away, why not share it? That is the Only way of possessing it. If you can share and give, you are the master. It is going to be taken away. There is nothing which you can retain forever. Death will destroy everything. So, if you follow me rightly, the struggle is between death and love. If you can give, there will be no death. Before anything can be taken away from you, you will have already given it, you will have made it a gift. There can be no death. For a lover there is no death.<br />
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For a non-lover, every moment is a death, because every moment something is being snatched away from him. The body is disappearing, he is losing every moment. And then there will be death, and everything will be annihilated. What is the fear? Why are you so afraid? Even if everything is known about you and you are an open book, why fear? How can it harm you? Just false conceptions, just conditionings given by the society, that you have to hide, that you have to protect yourself, that you have to be constantly in a fighting mood, that everybody is an enemy, that everybody is against you.<br />
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Nobody is against you! Even if you feel somebody is against you, he too is not against you -- because everybody is concerned with himself, not with you. There is nothing to fear. This has to be realized before a real relationship can happen. There is nothing to fear. Meditate on it. And then allow the other to enter you, invite the other to enter you. Don't create any barrier anywhere, become a passage always open, no locks, no doors on you, no closed doors on you. Then love is possible.<br />
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When two centers meet, there is love. And love is an alchemical phenomenon -- just like hydrogen and oxygen meet and a new thing, water, is created. You can have hydrogen, you can have oxygen, but if you are thirsty, they will be useless. You can have as much oxygen as you want, as much hydrogen as you like, but the thirst will not go. When two centers meet a new thing is created. That new thing is love. And it is just like water, the thirst of many, many lives is satisfied. Suddenly you become content. That is the visible sign of love; you become content, as if you have achieved everything. There is nothing to achieve now; You have reached the goal.<br />
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There is no further goal, destiny is fulfilled. The seed has become a flower, has come to its total flowering. Deep contentment is the visible sign of love. Whenever a person is in love, he is in deep contentment. Love cannot be seen, but contentment, the deep satisfaction around him...his every breath, his every movement, his very being -- content. You may be surprised when I say to you that love makes you desireless, but desire is with discontent. You desire because you don't have. You desire because you think if you have something it will give you contentment.<br />
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Desire is out of discontent. When there is love and two centers have met and dissolved and merged, and a new alchemical quality is born, contentment is there. It is as if the whole existence has stopped -- no movement. Then the present moment is the only moment. And then you can say: Ah, this cake is delicious. Even death doesn't mean anything to a man who is in love. So I say to you, love will make you desireless. Be fearless, drop fears, be open. Allow some center to meet the center within you. you will be reborn through it, a new quality of being will be created.<br />
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This quality of being says: This is god. God is not an argument, it is a fulfillment, a feeling of fulfillment. You may have observed that whenever you are discontent, you want to deny God. Whenever you are dissatisfied, your whole being wants to say: There is no God. Atheism is not out of logic, it is out of discontent. You may rationalize it -- that's another thing. You may not say you are an atheist because you are discontent. You may say: There is no God and I have got proofs. But that is not the true thing.<br />
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If you are satisfied, suddenly your whole being says: THERE is god. Suddenly you feel it! The whole existence becomes divine. If love is there you will be really for the first time in the feeling that existence is divine and everything is a blessing. But much has to be done before this can happen. Much has to be destroyed before this can happen. You have to destroy all that creates barriers in you.<br />
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Make love a SADHANA, an inner discipline. Don't allow it just to be a frivolous thing. Don't allow it just to be an occupation of the mind. Don't allow it just to be a bodily satisfaction. Make it an inner search, and take the other as a help, as a friend. If you have heard anything about Tantra, you will know that Tantra says: If you can find a consort, a friend, a woman or a man, who is ready to move with you towards the inner center, who is ready to move with you to the highest peak of relationship, then this relationship will become meditative.<br />
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Then through this relationship you will achieve the ultimate relationship. Then the other becomes just a door. Let me explain it: if you love a person, by and by first the periphery of the person disappears, the form of the person disappears. You come more and more in contact with the formless, the inner. The form becomes, by and by, vague and disappears. And if you go deeper, then even this formless individual starts disappearing and melting. Then the beyond opens. Then that particular individual was just a door, an opening.<br />
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And through your lover, you find the divine. Because we cannot love, we need so many religious rituals. They are substitutes, and very poor substitutes. A Meera needs no temple to go to. The whole existence is her temple. She can dance before a tree and the tree becomes Krishna. She can sing before a bird and the bird becomes Krishna. She creates her Krishna around her everywhere. Her love is such that wherever she looks the door opens and the Krishna is revealed, the beloved is revealed.<br />
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But the first glimpse will always come through an individual. It is difficult to be in contact with the universal. It is so big, so vast, so beginningless, endless. From where to start? From where to move into it? The individual is the door. Fall in love. And don't make it a struggle. Make it a deep allowance for the other, just an invitation. And allow the other to penetrate you without any conditions. And suddenly the other disappears and God is there. If your lover or beloved cannot become divine, then nothing in this world can become divine. Then all your religious talk is just nonsense. This can happen with a child. This can happen with an animal, your dog.<br />
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If you can be in deep relationship with a dog, it can happen -- the dog becomes divine! So it is not a question of man and woman only. That is one of the deepest sources of the divine and it reaches you naturally, but it can happen from anywhere. The basic key is this: you should allow the other to penetrate you to your very deepest core, to the very ground of your being. But we go on deceiving ourselves. We think we love. And if you think that you love, then there is no possibility for love to happen -- because if this is love, then everything is closed.<br />
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Make fresh efforts. Try to find in the other the real being that is hidden. Don't take anybody for granted. Every individual is such a mystery that if you go on and on into him it is endless. But we get bored with the other -- because just the periphery, and always the periphery. I was reading a story: A man was very ill and he tried all types of "pathies," but nothing would help. Then he went to a hypnotist and the hypnotist gave him a mantra, to repeat continuously: I am not ill.<br />
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For at least fifteen minutes in the morning and fifteen minutes at night: I am not ill, I am healthy. And the whole day, whenever you remember, repeat it. Within a few days he started getting better. And within weeks he was absolutely okay. Then he told his wife: This has been a miracle! Should I go to this hypnotist for another miracle also? Because lately I am feeling no sexual appetite and the sexual relationship has almost stopped. There is no desire.<br />
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The wife was happy. She said: You go -- because she was feeling very frustrated. The man went to the hypnotist. He came back, his wife asked: What mantra, what suggestion now has he given? The man wouldn't tell her. But within weeks his sexual appetite started returning. He started feeling desire again. So the wife was very much puzzled.<br />
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She continuously persisted in asking, but the man would laugh and would not say anything. So one day she tried, when he was in the bathroom in the morning doing his meditation, that fifteen-minute mantra, she tried to hear what he was saying. And he was saying: She is not my wife. She is not my wife. She is not my wife.<br />
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We take persons for granted. Somebody is your wife -- relationship is finished. Somebody is your husband -- relationship is finished. Now there is no adventure, the other has become a thing, a commodity. The other is not now a mystery to be searched the other is no longer new.<br />
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Remember, everything goes dead with age. The periphery is always old, and the center is always new. The periphery cannot remain new, because every moment it is getting old, stale. The center is always fresh and young. Your soul is neither a child, nor a young man, nor an old man. Your soul is simply eternally fresh. It has no age. You can experiment with it: you may be young, you may be old, just close your eyes and find out. Try to feel how your center is -- old? young? You will feel that the center is neither.<br />
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It is always new, it never gets old. Why? Because the center doesn't belong to time. In the process of time, everything becomes old. A man is born -- the body has started becoming old already! When we say that a child is one week old, it means one week of oldness has penetrated into the child. The child has already passed seven days towards death, he has completed seven days of dying. He is moving towards death -- sooner or later he will be dead. Whatsoever comes in time becomes old. The moment it enters time, it is already becoming old.<br />
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Your body is old, your periphery is old. You cannot be eternally in love with it. But your center is always fresh, it is eternally young. Once you are in contact with it, love is an every-moment discovery. And then the honeymoon never ends. If it ends it was not a honeymoon at all -- it was just an acquaintance. And the last thing to remember is: in the relationship of love you always blame the other if something goes wrong. If something is not happening as it should, the other is responsible. This will destroy the whole possibility of future growth.<br />
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Remember: you are always responsible, and change yourself. Drop those qualities which create trouble. Make love a self-transformation. As they say in salesmen's courses: The customer is always right. I would like to say to you: In the world of relationship and love, you are always in the wrong, the other is always right. And this is how lovers always feel. If there is love, they always feel: Something is wrong with me if things are not happening as they should. And both feel the same way! Then things grow, then centers open, then boundaries merge.<br />
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But if you think that the other is wrong, you are closing yourself and the other. And the other also thinks that you are wrong. Thoughts are infectious. If you think the other is wrong even if you have not said it, even if you are smiling and showing that you don't think the other is wrong -- the other has got the point -- through your eyes, through your gestures, through your face. Even if you are an actor, a great actor, and you can just arrange your face, your gestures as you like, then too the unconscious is continuously sending signals: You are wrong.<br />
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And when you say that the other is wrong, the other starts feeling that you are wrong. Relationship is destroyed on this rock, and then people become closed. If you say somebody is wrong, somebody starts protecting, safeguarding. Then closure happens.<br />
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Remember always: in love, you are always wrong. And then the possibility will open and the other will also feel the same. We create the feeling in the other. When lovers are close, immediately thoughts go jumping from one to the other. Even if they are not saying anything, they are silent, they communicate. Language is for non-lovers, those who are not in love. For lovers, silence is enough language. Without saying anything, they go on speaking. If you take love as sadhana, then don't say the other is wrong.<br />
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Just try to find out: somewhere, something must be wrong in you, and drop that wrongness. It is going to be difficult because it is going to be against the ego. It is going to be difficult because it will hurt your pride. It is going to be difficult because this will not be dominating, possessing. You will not be more powerful through possessing the other. This will destroy your ego -- that's why it is going to be difficult.<br />
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But destruction of the ego is the point, the goal. From wherever you like to approach the inner world -- from love, from meditation, from yoga, from prayer -- whatsoever the path you choose, the goal is the same: the destruction of the ego, throwing the ego away. Through love it can be done very easily. And it is so natural! Love is the natural religion.</div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-43223602132833579532011-12-13T04:30:00.000-08:002011-12-13T04:30:54.608-08:00Handling Stubborn People....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRt4m8XlT9rCRzxVD7zgXKfljFly4_3JFGbAY5Ge7Cxz_5Xk3DNjwymU9mOAxkJ5EGOrbZ0vcbgjtgSLzz49VCLJU12MofoCLRzrHHNzX3Aah2tsfbdzKBw4KXZs9AExhg7JUU4xgf8CQ7/s1600/_MG_2939.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRt4m8XlT9rCRzxVD7zgXKfljFly4_3JFGbAY5Ge7Cxz_5Xk3DNjwymU9mOAxkJ5EGOrbZ0vcbgjtgSLzz49VCLJU12MofoCLRzrHHNzX3Aah2tsfbdzKBw4KXZs9AExhg7JUU4xgf8CQ7/s320/_MG_2939.JPG" width="262" /></a></div><br />
<b>Q: Guruji, how do you help someone release their anger if they’re stubborn and don’t want to try the spiritual path</b><br />
<b>Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: </b>You know, I would tell you, give everyone freedom. You cannot control somebody. This person is like that, what can you do with them? By our telling something to somebody, they don’t change and you should not control anybody. This is what my conclusion is, what? Don’t control anybody. Let them go the way they want. Gently guide them if they listen to you. If they don’t listen to you, well, it is their problem. What can you do?<br />
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Are you getting what I’m saying? You try to control them - your kids, spouse, and friends - without any intention; your trying to control them has no bad intention at all. But well, what can you do when they get so angry? You know, your anger is because of trying to control. The moment you stop trying to control somebody, your anger also vanishes, got it? Hmmm? You get irritable when somebody doesn’t listen, right? You tell them ten times still they don’t listen, and then what do you get? Irritated. Then your knowledge should come “Well this is the way that person is suppose to be. What can you do? Jai Guru Dev!” So immediately what happens? At least your brain gets relaxation, you don’t get irritated.<br />
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So, what did I say? Stop trying to control any situation, any person. You are at peace; our wanting to control is the problem. Do you get it? In any situation things will happen, this way or that way. Do your best and leave the rest. Finished. Got it?<br />
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Now, this should not be mistaken for lethargy, lack of leadership, lack of initiative, or orderliness. Are you getting what I’m saying? This is a very, very fine balance. A wise person understands to lead without control, got it? Gently lead without trying to control. And then don’t lose patience to tell not once, but ten times. You should not say it in the very first time “Oh, I said it anyway and that person didn’t listen.” No, you should have the patience to say it ten times and if they still don’t do it, then don’t get upset.<br />
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This is wisdom, having the patience to say ten times. How will you say it ten times if they don’t do it once, twice, thrice, and you say, “Well, they don’t do it, that’s how they are” then that indicates you are lethargic, you lack initiative, you lack commitment. I’m telling you something very, very, very fine, are you listening? When you have commitment, what do you do— you keep doing it... correct?<br />
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Suppose when you have to cut wood, you cut once, if the wood is soft, it breaks immediately. But if the wood is hard, what do you keep doing? Keep hitting. How many times? Until it breaks. So you keep hitting it. What we do is, we have in our mind the same benchmark for everybody. We think, “Oh see all this wood cuts once this hardwood should also cut once.” Then we get angry. No. Some are hard and some are soft. It all takes its own time to cut them. And if it doesn’t cut and it is not wood, then you call someone else.<br />
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You are at peace. This is my conclusion. What? Don’t control, let them go the way they have. But keep guiding them; if they don’t listen they are putting mud on their own head. You know, it takes four-five people to bathe an elephant. Sometimes, they make the elephant lie down and pour buckets and buckets of water, so much water is poured on the elephant. Have you seen an elephant taking a bath? No? Oh when you come to Bangalore ashram you have not one, but two elephants too. It takes two hours to scrub, they get like a spa bath! And every day they get scrubbed, and then good temperature water poured onto them. So, they stand up shiny, ten minutes you leave them and they take the mud and throw it all over. They have no sense that,‘Just now I had a bath and I’m throwing mud on myself again’. The moment they find mud and dust, they pick it up and throw it right onto their own head and look all dirty again. (laughter)What to do? Hmm.</div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-14119634116780392032011-12-11T07:41:00.000-08:002011-12-11T07:41:14.570-08:00Moksha.....Freedom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJEd6Th0zJWJRdW7BlI1hbZULSGcCRGaqf9ElCNpbG1u6nvxGBYetEEBRUql-CcmCUSOVhdQ6Ow6ZONpGe593hdAPbsXaX9vS-KyBpUwoYwizgcxzZkHDEEWxnquOuIvOdZ6icCn-IErT/s1600/300734_311641055517301_100000142284478_1476267_1905091944_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikJEd6Th0zJWJRdW7BlI1hbZULSGcCRGaqf9ElCNpbG1u6nvxGBYetEEBRUql-CcmCUSOVhdQ6Ow6ZONpGe593hdAPbsXaX9vS-KyBpUwoYwizgcxzZkHDEEWxnquOuIvOdZ6icCn-IErT/s1600/300734_311641055517301_100000142284478_1476267_1905091944_n.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><strong>Q: Dear Guruji, I want to know why do we have to get moksha?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Sri Sri Ravi Shankar</strong>: It is a natural tendency of every human being to be free. Freedom is not luxury, it is a necessity. Not just human being even animals want freedom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Babies want freedom. If you tie a scarf on the neck of a baby it just wants to remove it. You put a chain on a baby’s neck and the baby wants to pull it out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It is the adults who put jewelry around their neck but children want freedom, they don’t want any restriction that is why they throw their hands up and down; free!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Wanting freedom is innate to human beings as well as animals. Every life wants freedom and moksha is nothing but freedom. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You take a deep breath in and you can’t hold it there, you want breathe out. Only when you breathe out there is freedom. When you breathe out you want to take a breath in and that is freedom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Freedom is a natural desire in every human being but when the mind get so muddled up in unnecessary day to day things, it forgets that it wants freedom. It is as good as someone who wants to sleep but has forgotten how to sleep.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> So every life or human being craves for freedom. It is impossible to not want freedom. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Freedom is not running away from situations and circumstance. Sometimes the situation is stifling or unpleasant and we run away from it and think this is what is freedom, but that is not so. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Freedom means being unphased by circumstances, situations and the people around you; freedom from your own emotional garbage; freedom from the jungle of your thoughts that bother you; freedom from all the entanglement that you harbor in your head and freedom from fear and anxiety. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anything that stifles you makes you small and you want to be free from that. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Freedom (mukti) comes first and then bhakti. Only when you are free does love well up in you and bhakti comes.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> If you think you are bonded labor you cannot be grateful. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">If someone has brought you freedom you feel grateful, ‘oh I am so free. I feel happy!’ </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Only one who is happy and one who is centered can have gratitude or be in the space of love. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-58471351699314283712011-12-08T01:19:00.000-08:002011-12-08T01:19:59.967-08:00Wisdom Of Love ...:)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlb9yJVtuonfBIXGNrRS_Gq66eIJSgsH0jZbBIOttMCNaTMh8Vmh8e-0hlJ68M_twRzs_neKlgJ-zo6umy0mZeo7nTp0APKiA5Vs642IovdhOPhliyef8W5uVi7TruDt1dGch2YXtUOfgc/s1600/6453_213864850693_859430693_7825533_503799_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlb9yJVtuonfBIXGNrRS_Gq66eIJSgsH0jZbBIOttMCNaTMh8Vmh8e-0hlJ68M_twRzs_neKlgJ-zo6umy0mZeo7nTp0APKiA5Vs642IovdhOPhliyef8W5uVi7TruDt1dGch2YXtUOfgc/s320/6453_213864850693_859430693_7825533_503799_n.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;">"I chant the name of my beloved in every breath. The beloved is faultless - perfect. But being in love I have lost my reputation.When there is so much love, you take total responsibility for any misunderstanding. You may express dismay for a moment on the surface. But when you do not feel that in your heart, you arrive at a perfect understanding. You are in a state where all problems and differences slide away and only love shines through.<br />
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Usually we get stuck in our differences, because we have lost sight of ourselves. In the name of love we try to manipulate and control the other person. This is natural that when we love somebody, we want them to be perfect.<br />
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You can never see the pits in the ground from the top of a hill. From a plane the earth looks so smooth. So also from a state of elevated consciousness, you do not see the pitfalls in others. But if you come to the ground you always see the holes. And when you want to fill the holes, you have to see them. You cannot build a home being airborne. You cannot till the land without looking at the pits, filling them, removing the pebbles....<br />
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That is why when you love somebody you find all the faults in them. But finding faults destroys love. Instead of filling the pits we run away from them. When you love somebody and see their faults, stay with them and help them fill the pits. This is wisdom."<br />
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- Sri Sri</span></b></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-33701649562720782812011-12-02T03:04:00.000-08:002011-12-02T04:16:18.755-08:00The Male Ego...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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Osho speaks on Male Ego - Man's insensitivity towards Woman<br />
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<u><b>Question: </b></u>A woman friend of mine often uses the words "male ego" about Me, which I feel is not true about me. From the very beginning i have been open and vulnerable to Feminine energy, which is teaching me to become a disciple every Day. Moreover, I have felt that when she used this word there Was some kind of hatred towards men. Osho, can you explain what the "male ego" is, and what it means When a woman uses this expression about a man?<br />
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Osho: The ego is simply the ego, it is neither male nor female. But man has been very inhuman towards women for centuries, continuously. And the strange thing is that the man has been so cruel and inhuman towards women because he feels a deep inferiority complex in comparison to them. The greatest problem has been that the woman is capable of becoming a mother; she is capable of giving birth to life, and man is not. That was the beginning of the feeling of inferiority -- that nature depends on woman, not on man.<br />
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Moreover, he has found that she is in many ways stronger than him. Women are more patient, more tolerant than men. Men are very impatient and very intolerant. Women are less violent than men. Women don't commit murders; it is the man who commits murders, who wages crusades, who is always getting ready for war, who invents all kinds of deadly weapons -- atomic bombs, nuclear weapons. The woman is completely out of this whole game of death. Hence it was no coincidence that man started feeling somehow inferior.<br />
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And nobody wants to be inferior; the only way was to force the woman in artificial ways to become inferior. For example, not to allow her education, not to allow her economic freedom, not to allow her to move out of the house, but confine her to an imprisonment. It seems almost unbelievable what man has done to woman just to get rid of his inferiority. He has made the woman artificially inferior. It is not only a question for you. When your woman is telling you that you have a male ego, she is simply representing all women, and you are nothing but a representative of all men.<br />
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Your forefathers have done so much harm that there is no way to come to a balance. So when your woman says that this is male ego, try to understand -- perhaps she is right. Most probably she is right -- because the male has accepted himself as superior for so long that he does not feel that it is his ego. It is the woman who feels it. <b> </b><br />
Don't deny her feeling. Be grateful to her, and ask her where she feels the ego so that you can drop it. Take her help. You are simply denying it; you don't feel that you have any male ego. But it is simply a traditional heritage.<br />
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Every small boy has a male ego -- just a small boy, if he starts crying you immediately say, "Why are you crying like a girl? A girl is allowed to cry because she is subhuman. You are going to be a big male chauvinist; you are not supposed to cry or weep." And small boys start stopping their tears. It is very rare to find men who are as ready to cry and allow tears to flow as women are.<br />
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Remember, you both have the same size tear glands in your eyes, so nature does not make any difference. Listen to the woman. You have suppressed the woman and oppressed the woman so much, it is time that she should be listened to and things should be corrected. At least in your personal life do as much as you can to allow the woman as much freedom as possible -- the same freedom that you allow yourself. Help her to stand up so that she can blossom again.<br />
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We will have a more beautiful world if all women -- and women are half of the world -- are allowed to grow their talents, their genius. It is not a question at all... nobody is higher, nobody is lower. Women are women, men are men; they have differences, but differences don't make anybody higher or lower. Their differences create their attraction. <br />
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Just think of a world where there are only men. <br />
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<b>Life is rich because there are differences, different attitudes, different opinions. Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior. People are simply different. </b><br />
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<b> </b>Accept this, and help your woman to be free from ten thousand years of repression<b>.</b> Be a friend to her. Much harm has been done; she has been wounded so much that if you can do some healing with your love, you will be contributing to the whole world, to the whole world consciousness.<br />
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Don't feel bad if your woman says "this is male ego." It is there in a subtle form, unrecognizeable because it has been there for so long; you have forgotten that this is ego. Take her help so that you can recognize it and destroy it.<br />
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<b>Q: Guruji, sages have predicted our lives so accurately on palm leaves, Nadi Vidya. Is there really any role that I have in my life when everything already seems so predetermined? How does the path of sadhana change anything?</b><br />
<b>Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:</b> See life is a mixture of accepting what is and wanting to make what you feel like having. It’s a mixture of both. You have an intention in your mind and that’s how you move on. See, you had an intention to come here and you came. But if you look into the past you say it is all determined, it is all destiny. That’s why I say a simple formula just listen to it. Look at the past as destiny so you will not keep regretting the past and see the future as free will so that you don’t procrastinate or become lethargic and say whatever, ‘god willing it will happen’. So you don’t become lethargic and do nothing if you consider the future as destiny. You should not say let’s leave it to destiny, no! The future is freewill, past is destiny and live in the present. This is wise way of living. Not so wise way is seeing the past as freewill and keep regretting about it, ‘oh I shouldn’t have done that’. Even after you became a medical graduate you say, ‘oh I should have taken engineering, I made a big blunder’. So you keep blaming yourself and keep regretting the past when you think the past was freewill. And you think future is all destiny, you want to leave everything to destiny and you just do nothing about it and you’ll be miserable in the present moment. This is the unwise way of living, got it?<br />
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<b>Q: Dear Guruji, I understand from your knowledge that we have not one but several bodies. Can you please talk about subtle bodies and casual bodies? I’ve heard about them but I don’t know how or what they are.</b><br />
<b>Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:</b> Yes, physical body in the waking state. In the sleeping state physical body is at rest, the subtle is active; in the dreaming state and that is why you get dreams. In deep sleep both of these go to sleep but the casual body is still there awake, aware. And casual body becomes cleansed in deep meditation. And in enlightenment the casual body is completely free, yes. So when one dies what happens, physical body separates, the subtle body remains with all its impressions. The subtle body and casual body they both go like a balloon and remain and look for a right opportunity, a right womb to get into. So when the soul finds that the couple is having union and depends on the energy level and harmony between the couple and the energy level of the soul, at that moment it comes into that, so that type of parents. Sometimes the soul brings two people together. A soul chooses I want this lady and this man as my father and mother. So they bring those two people together and they will have terrible attraction, unbearable attraction. So the moment the child is born, you’ll find suddenly the attraction between those two people is gone totally, completely gone. This happens, and after the first child many people divorce. How many of you have seen this happening? This happens that intense feeling of separation comes and then you should know that the soul made this thing happen. It is so amazing; all these things are so interesting. On one hand it is amazing on another hand if you are not so much in the present moment you’ll go crazy, seeing how many subtle worlds we live in simultaneously.<br />
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Simultaneously how many things are happening in the universe, it’s very interesting! So you come into the physical body to cleanse the subtle body. There is no way you can cleanse the subtle body hanging in the space. So you come to human body so that you get rid of all those impressions. Once you have gotten rid of the subtle impressions in the subtle body then the casual body with the divine grace also becomes free, that is called Nirvana. No more craving or aversions, nothing, totally hallow and empty. Wanting nothing and totally satisfied. Anytime you feel that I am total, I am complete, death can come this moment I welcome it. If you say that, if you feel that rather than saying it then that completion is Nirvana. That has touched the casual body; the casual body gets relieved not by your effort but by just the Divine will and Divine grace. The universe decides that whether the casual body should be there or should be removed, should be dissolved. It’s amazing, you can work on the physical, and you can work on the subtle that’s all you can do. The rest you can only wait, but this itself is a great job, this itself is good enough.<br />
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<b>Q: Guruji, when we die the body and breath are left behind and our mind, memory, soul are still together with the impressions. Do the intellect and ego also still stay with us? Can we use our intellect to calm our mind then?</b><br />
<b>Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:</b> The impressions of the intellect and the cravings and aversions of the mind go with the subtle body. So when you die what happens is for sometime the soul is in confusion, it does not know. It has just come out of the body but it does not know what to do. It doesn’t want to get into the body because the body appears like very gray matter, very dark and completely unbearable. So it doesn’t want to get into it, it feels very bad and averse to its’ own body most of the time. Sometimes they go in. So the soul is out there and very peaceful, the soul is totally at peace. They see people crying, wailing. It tries to tell them, ‘hey I am okay, don’t worry’, but they cannot communicate. There is a tradition to keep the light burning at the bedside of the body. It’s in Christian tradition as well, right? It’s in the Hindu tradition as well. Why you keep a light burning near the head so that when the soul suddenly looks at that light and knows that it is light. Let it be reminded that it is light, if it is still craving for something. Just to remind the soul that the nature of the soul or spirit is light, a lamp is kept or a candle is kept burning near the body. It’s not for us, it’s for the soul because the soul can still see, and smell. It has lost the sense of touch but smell and light are still there; smell, sight and sound all three will be there. So the ancient tradition is just before cremation the son or daughter; son usually, takes the head of the person into his lap and in the ear he says, ‘you are light, you are soul, you are not the body. Drop all your attachment to this body’, he tells them. And then the body is given a bath and then taken to cremation. These words are all in Sanskrit, and people simply repeat it in Sanskrit without knowing it because the priests tell them to say these things. To tell the departed in his ear that, ‘the five elements will go back to five elements. You are not just these five elements you are light, you are soul, you are spirit, you’re free and you move on now.’ This is what you say in the ear of the corpse, in case the soul is still hanging around and it does. It does hang around because it doesn’t know what to do. So it takes nearly ten days for the soul to get use to this other plain where it has gone. And once it reaches that plain of ancestors, one day there is one year for us. Our one year is just one day and one night for them in that realm. So there are three levels or lokas there also; one is Vasuloka, second is Rudra, and then Aditya. Three lokas are there and so they remain in this for some time. And there are three different Devas, they take them to those places. Someone who is a pious and died in a very good life they are taken direct to these lokas and three angels called Pururava, Ardrahva, and Vishvadeva. Three different Devas come and take the soul according to the level. It’s interesting! So in a yearly ceremony that is done, the day you remember the ancestors. First you invite these angels to bring them to you, for you want to honor them. These angels, they are the custodians. So you tell them ‘Visvadeva you bring my father, my mother or my grandfather or grandmother for this ceremony. Bring them for I would like to honor them.’ Ancient people knew all these so well, they had access to those realms. Even today people do this, they do the ceremonies and they do all this. <br />
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<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">10 Ways to Raise your Vibration<br />
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1.Forgive yourself and others:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Life is too short to hold on to regrets, grudges, miscommunications, or disappointments. Free yourself by forgiving and letting go of any negative energy you’re holding on to about yourself or others. The process of forgiving yourself and others will result in your feeling light and free; it will raise your vibration. </span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show"> 2. Practice gratitude and appreciation:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Whatever you focus on grows. So, when you focus on every thing in your life you feel grateful for all and the wonderful people you appreciate, the universe hands you more to feel grateful about.</span><br />
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3. Live each day as though it were your last:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Then you will be living in a state of light, love and unconditional <br />
contribution. What would you say to the people you care about ..</span> <br />
4.Meditate or pray:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> You open up a direct link between yourself and the spiritual realm when you meditate or pray. You will come closer to your creator energy, raise your vibration experience, peace, clarity, joy and connection, as well as a perfectly balanced state between your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual realms. </span><br />
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5.Suspend judgment:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> One judges another to feel less guilty about one’s own misgivings. Judgment energy is dense, dark and heavy. On the other hand, unconditional acceptance is light, free and accepting. Let go of judging and criticising yourself and others. Everyone is on a different path and some appear to be farther ahead on their path than others. Neither path is better nor worse than another. Raise your consciousness to one of acceptance. </span><br />
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6. View every experience as a gift:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> If you look back at occurrences in your life, you can easily see how even the worst situations you experienced in your life ended up teaching you invaluable lessons and therefore resulted in putting you in perfect place for your continuing development. When you view every experience — the good, the bad, and the ugly — as a gift, life flows more like a gentle, inspiring breeze.</span><br />
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7. Stay consciously aware of all your thoughts and feelings:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> It is easy to fall into negative patterns of complaining and feeling like a victim of society and your life. When you catch yourself in the negative zone, don’t feel badly about it and beat yourself up. Simply choose to switch your consciousness to one of gratitude and positive thinking. </span><br />
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8. Treat your physical body as your temple :<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Your body is the only vehicle you’ve been given for this ride called life. The better you care for your body by eating a healthy, balanced diet, and by implementing a regular exercise routine, and by giving your body the rest it requires, the more you will experience increased energy, vitality, joy and freedom. </span><br />
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9. View the world through the eyes of a child:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> Children are enthralled by the process of observing and experiencing the wonder and beauty in every single thing. They can’t get enough. Look at every tree, sunset, cloud and human being as a child would and you'll be in a constant state of wonder, joy, surprise, acceptance and enlightenment. </span><br />
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10.Give love, love, love from your heart:<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> It’s all about love. Love is the highest vibration. Allow yourself to receive love unconditionally from others. Give love from your heart unconditionally to yourself and others and you will experience the highest state of consciousness possible.</span></span></span></span></h6></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-67413371294589855382011-11-02T08:01:00.000-07:002011-11-02T08:08:48.419-07:00The Path of Surrender<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">"On the path of will there are methods, on the path of surrender, surrender itself is the method. All methods are nonsurrendering, because a method means depending on yourself. On the path of surrender you are no more, so you cannot do anything. You have done the ultimate, the last; you have surrendered. You surrender only when every method has become futile, when you cannot reach by any method. You have tried your best. You have knocked on every door and no door opens, and you have passed through all the routes and no route reaches. You have done whatsoever you can do and now you feel helpless. In that total helplessness surrender happens.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">But what is surrender and how does it work? Methods are not difficult, you can train yourself. But for surrender you cannot train yourself. You cannot ask how to surrender; the very question is absurd. Can you ask how to love? Either there is love or there is not. Once a technique is given to you, you will cling to the technique. Love is being totally open, vulnerable. Love happens, surrender happens. Love and surrender are deeply one. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">How is it that you have not surrendered yet? What is your technique of nonsurrendering? If you have not fallen in love yet, then the real problem is not how to love. The real problem is to dig deep to find out how you have lived without love, what is your trick, what is your defense structure. That can be understood and should be understood.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">First thing: we live with the ego, in the ego, centered in the ego. I am, without knowing who I am. I go on announcing, ‘I am’. This ‘I-am-ness is false, because I do not know who I am. This false ‘I’ is the ego. This is the defense. This protects your from surrendering.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You cannot surrender, but you can become aware of this defense measure. If you have become aware of it, it dissolves. By and by, you are not strengthening it, and one day you come to feel, ‘I am not’. The moment you feel ‘I am not’, surrender happens. So try to find out whether you are. Really, is there a centre in you that you can call you call your ‘I’? Go deep down within yourself, go on trying to find out where is this ‘I’, where is the abode of this ego.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rinzai went to his master and he said, “Give me freedom!” The master said, “Bring yourself. I you are, I will make you free. But if you are not, then how can I make you free? You are already free. And freedom is freedom from ‘you’. So go on and find out where this ‘I’ is, where you are, then come to me. This is the meditation. Go and meditate.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So the disciple Rinzai goes and meditates for weeks, months, and then he comes. Then he says, “I am not the body. Only this much I have found out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So the master says, “This much you have become free. Go again. Try to find out.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Then he tries, meditates, and he finds that “I am not my mind, because I can observe my thoughts. So the observer is different from the observed – I am not my mind.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So his master says, “Now you are three-fourths liberated. Now go again and find out who you are.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So he was thinking, “I am not my body. I am not my mind.” He had read, studied, he was well informed, so he was thinking, “I am not my body, not my mind, so I must be my soul, my <i>atma.</i>” But he meditated, and then he found that there is no atma, no soul, because his atma is nothing but your mental information – just doctrines, words, philosophies.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So he came running one day and he said, “Now I am no more!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Then his master said, “Am I now to teach you the methods of freedom?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rinzai said, “I am free because I am no more. There is no one to be in bondage. I am just a wide emptiness, a nothingness.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Only nothingness can be free. If you are something, you will be in bondage. If you are you will be in bondage. Only a void, a vacant space, can be free. Then you cannot bind it. Rinzai came running and said, “I am no more. Nowhere I am to be found.” This is freedom. And for the first time he touched his master’s feet – for the first time!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Not actually, because he had touched them many times before also. But the master said, “For the first time you have touched my feet.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rinzai asked, “Why do you say for the first time? I have touched your feet many times.” The master said, “But you were there, so how could you touch my feet while you were already there? While you were there how can you touch my feet?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The ‘I’ can never touch anybody’s feet, it’s touching it’s own feet in a roundabout way. “You have touched my feet for the first time because you are no more. And this is also the last time”, the master said. “The first and the last.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Surrender happens when you are no more, so <b>you </b>can not surrender. That is why surrender cannot be a technique. You cannot surrender, you are the hindrance. So you and surrender cannot coexist. So find out where you are, who you are. This inquiry creates many, many surprising results. “Who am I?” is an inquiry to dissolve. There is not going to be an answer, that “You are this.” Only the question will dissolve. There will be no one to ask even “Who am I?” And then you know.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When the ‘I’ is not, the real ‘I’ opens. When the ego is not, you are for the first time encountering your being. That being is void. Then you can surrender; then you have surrendered. You <i>are</i> surrender now. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When you surrender you become a valley; when you are an ego you are like a peak. Ego means you are above everyone else, you are somebody. When one surrenders, one becomes like a valley. One becomes depth, not height. Then the whole existence begins to pour into him from everywhere. He is just a vacuum, just a depth, an abyss, bottomless. The whole existence begins to pour from everywhere. You can say God runs from everywhere to him, enters him from every pore, fills him totally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There are minor surrenders; there are major surrenders. Surrendering to a master is a minor surrender, but you begin to feel it because the master begins to flow into you immediately. If you surrender to a master, suddenly you feel his energy flowing into you. If you cannot feel energy flowing into you, then know well you have not surrendered even in a minor way. Even a look from the master into your eyes will change your total being, but it can change only if your eyes are just vacant, valleylike. If you can absorb the look of the master, immediately you will be different.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So these are the minor surrenders that happen before you surrender totally. . Once you have known that through surrender you receive something unknown, unbelievable, unexpected, then you are ready for a major surrender.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And these minor surrenders prepare you for the total surrender. The master helps you in minor surrenders so that you can gather courage for a major surrender, total surrender.."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> From the 'Book of Secrets'</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> Shared by Mrs Seema Kalia </o:p></span></div></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-4781292682466958542011-10-08T00:40:00.000-07:002011-10-08T00:40:29.865-07:00Finding the Right Partner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80fjMPwXV-NFRCvXJWtCIhVEREfmdscrwl5iT2KrRwY4E_XTx17XNHKn2yNdfwmyMCebC01d7w2m94nXF2qukD-iucm968-X29u0ID-Z11raiH1EKkVzwjU26mWnIKLVa5nb-g1JHss6r/s1600/osho36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg80fjMPwXV-NFRCvXJWtCIhVEREfmdscrwl5iT2KrRwY4E_XTx17XNHKn2yNdfwmyMCebC01d7w2m94nXF2qukD-iucm968-X29u0ID-Z11raiH1EKkVzwjU26mWnIKLVa5nb-g1JHss6r/s320/osho36.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}"> </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{"type":3}">"This is my observation: if you are unhappy you will find somebody who is unhappy. Unhappy people are attracted towards unhappy people. And it is good, it is natural. It is good that the unhappy people are not attracted towards happy people; otherwise they would destroy their happiness. It is perfectly okay.<br />
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Only happy people are attracted towards happy people.<br />
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The same attracts the same. Intelligent people are attracted towards intelligent people; stupid people are attracted towards stupid people.<br />
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You meet people of the same plane.<br />
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So the first thing to remember is: a relationship is bound to be bitter if it has grown out of unhappiness. First be happy, be joyful, be celebrating, and then you will find some other soul celebrating and there will be a meeting of two dancing souls and a great dance will arise out of it.<br />
The need to be loved is childish, immature. The need to love is mature.<br />
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Don’t ask for a relationship out of loneliness, no. Then you are moving in a wrong direction. Then the other will be used as a means and the other will use you as a means. And nobody wants to be used as a means! Every single individual is an end unto himself. It is immoral to use anybody as a means.<br />
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First learn how to be alone. Meditation is a way of being alone.<br />
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If you can be happy when you are alone, you have learned the secret of being happy. Now you can be happy together. If you are happy, then you have something to share, to give. And when you give you get; it is not the other way. Then a need arises to love somebody.<br />
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Ordinarily the need is to be loved by somebody. It is a wrong need. It is a childish need; you are not mature. It is a child’s attitude.<br />
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A child is born. Of course, the child cannot love the mother; he does not know what love is and he does not know who is the mother and who is the father. He is totally helpless. His being is still to be integrated; he is not one piece; he is not together yet. He is just a possibility. The mother has to love, the father has to love, the family has to shower love on the child. Now he learns one thing: that everybody has to love him. He never learns that he has to love. Now the child will grow, and if he remains stuck with this attitude that everybody has to love him, he will suffer his whole life. His body has grown, but his mind has remained immature.<br />
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A mature person is one who comes to know the other need: that now I have to love somebody.<br />
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The need to be loved is childish, immature. The need to love is mature.<br />
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And when you are ready to love somebody, a beautiful relationship will arise; otherwise not.<br />
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“Is it possible for two people in a relationship to be bad for each other?” Yes, that’s what is happening all over the world. To be good is very difficult. You are not good even to yourself. How can you be good to somebody else?<br />
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You don’t even love yourself! How can you love somebody else? Love yourself, be good to yourself.<br />
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Your so-called religious saints have been teaching you never to love yourself, never to be good to yourself. Be hard on yourself! They have been teaching you be soft towards others and hard towards yourself. This is absurd.<br />
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I teach you that the first and foremost thing is to be loving towards yourself. Don’t be hard; be soft. Care about yourself. Learn how to forgive yourself — again and again and again — seven times, seventy-seven times, seven hundred seventy-seven times. Learn how to forgive yourself. Don’t be hard; don’t be antagonistic towards yourself. Then you will flower.<br />
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In that flowering you will attract some other flower. It is natural. Stones attract stones; flowers attract flowers. Then there is a relationship which has grace, which has beauty, which has a benediction in it.<br />
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If you can find such a relationship, your relationship will grow into prayer; your love will become an ecstasy and through love you will know what the divine is."<br />
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OSHO</span></span></h6></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-759123973126660362011-09-30T06:42:00.000-07:002011-09-30T06:44:46.139-07:00Parable of the snake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_PYtVElVLMHmAVMgnyMe5EZLzngmHrnstW8JFmKZ-wdEGmjFiWIz87lXaepaBHCw1K4YY0PhPuaP5JnIRNYOpczxOmEROBt64FBFpNg9Ys8CB7_RjDgPa4qrgGDZtIqL0oXUbyIP9_ee8/s1600/snake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_PYtVElVLMHmAVMgnyMe5EZLzngmHrnstW8JFmKZ-wdEGmjFiWIz87lXaepaBHCw1K4YY0PhPuaP5JnIRNYOpczxOmEROBt64FBFpNg9Ys8CB7_RjDgPa4qrgGDZtIqL0oXUbyIP9_ee8/s320/snake.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
"Listen to a story. Some cowherd boys used to tend their cows in a meadow<br />
where a terrible poisonous snake lived. Everyone was on the alert for fear of it. One<br />
day a brahmachari was going along the meadow. The boys ran to him and said:<br />
'Revered sir, please don't go that way. A venomous snake lives over there.' 'What<br />
of it, my good children?' said the brahmachari. 'I am not afraid of the snake. I<br />
know some mantras.' So saying, he continued on his way along the meadow. But the<br />
cowherd boys, being afraid, did not accompany him. In the mean time the snake<br />
moved swiftly toward him with upraised hood. As soon as it came near, he recited a<br />
mantra, and the snake lay at his feet like an earthworm. The brahmachari said:<br />
'Look here. Why do you go about doing harm? Come, I will give you a holy word. By<br />
repeating it you will learn to love God. Ultimately you will realize Him and so get rid<br />
of your violent nature.' Saying this, he taught the snake a holy word and initiated<br />
him into spiritual life. The snake bowed before the teacher and said, 'Revered sir,<br />
how shall I practise spiritual discipline?' 'Repeat that sacred word', said the<br />
teacher, 'and do no harm to anybody'. As he was about to depart, the brahmachari<br />
said, 'I shall see you again.'<br />
<br />
"Some days passed and the cowherd boys noticed that the snake would not bite.<br />
They threw stones at it. Still it showed no anger; it behaved as if it were an<br />
earthworm. One day one of the boys came close to it, caught it by the tail, and,<br />
whirling it round and round, dashed it again and again on the ground and threw it<br />
away. The snake vomited blood and became unconscious. It was stunned. It could not<br />
move. So, thinking it dead, the boys went their way.<br />
<br />
"Late at night the snake regained consciousness. Slowly and with great difficulty<br />
it dragged itself into its hole; its bones were broken and it could scarcely move.<br />
Many days passed. The snake became a mere skeleton covered with a skin. Now and<br />
then, at night, it would come out in search of food. For fear of the boys it would not<br />
leave its hole during the day-time. Since receiving the sacred word from the<br />
teacher, it had given up doing harm to others. It maintained its life on dirt, leaves, or the fruit that dropped from<br />
the trees.<br />
<br />
"About a year later the brahmachari came that way again and asked after the<br />
snake. The cowherd boys told him that it was dead. But he couldn't believe them.<br />
He knew that the snake would not die before attaining the fruit of the holy word<br />
with which it had been initiated. He found his way to the place and, searching here<br />
and there, called it by the name he had given it. Hearing the teacher's voice, it<br />
came out of its hole and bowed before him with great reverence. 'How are you?'<br />
asked the brahmachari. 'I am well, sir', replied the snake. 'But', the teacher asked,<br />
'why are you so thin?' The snake replied: 'Revered sir, you ordered me not to harm<br />
any body. So I have been living only on leaves and fruit. Perhaps that has made me<br />
thinner.'<br />
<br />
"The snake had developed the quality of sattva; it could not be angry with anyone. It had totally forgotten that the cowherd boys had almost killed it. "The brahmachari said: 'It can't be mere want of food that has reduced you to this state. There must be some other reason. Think a little.' Then the snake remembered that the boys had dashed it against the ground. It said: 'Yes, revered sir, now I remember. The boys one day dashed me violently against the ground. They are ignorant, after all. They didn't realize what a great change had come over my mind. How could they know I wouldn't bite or harm anyone?' The brahmachari exclaimed: 'What a shame! You are such a fool! You don't know how to protect yourself. I asked you not to bite, but I didn't forbid you to hiss. Why didn't you scare them by hissing?'<br />
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"So you must hiss at wicked people. You must frighten them lest they should do you harm. But never inject your venom into them. One must not injure others.<br />
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"In this creation of God there is a variety of things: men, animals, trees, plants.<br />
Among the animals some are good, some bad. There are ferocious animals like the tiger. Some trees bear fruit sweet as nectar, and others bear fruit that is poisonous. Likewise, among human beings, there are the good and the wicked, the holy and the unholy. There are some who are devoted to God, and others who are attached to the world..<br />
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Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa..</div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-42485663464477872702011-09-29T06:10:00.000-07:002011-09-29T06:11:20.175-07:00It's all One Energy.....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkztAmTe529SkSbxrPgkjP9Ez3Y9875hkM7so7KLom5vW93V5d2_Wb9utRDQ8k_B8JVSqzuyGW622El-L4F3mEcNBVwN5rOaJ5g-QgUEAmpMRO5X3RJlwW4Qds2RAjr-xxJZ-JLZzzzon/s1600/229562_2040658257443_1273916595_32524542_3923611_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkztAmTe529SkSbxrPgkjP9Ez3Y9875hkM7so7KLom5vW93V5d2_Wb9utRDQ8k_B8JVSqzuyGW622El-L4F3mEcNBVwN5rOaJ5g-QgUEAmpMRO5X3RJlwW4Qds2RAjr-xxJZ-JLZzzzon/s320/229562_2040658257443_1273916595_32524542_3923611_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
When Lord Krishna sat in Samadhi that is when he recited the Gita. After the war, once Arjuna asks him that I have forgotten the beautiful knowledge that you gave me, at that time there was a lot of crowd and so much commotion on the war field and I didn’t listen to you properly. Please tell me again what you said. Then Krishna replied," No, I can’t tell you now, at that time I was in samadhi , so I made you sit and whatever came to me I told you at that time, now I cannot again tell you again".<br />
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So whatever Lord Krishna said was not a person saying this knowledge but the universe speaking. These messages came from the Shiva tattva, the atma tattva.<br />
He said, ’I am the sun, I am the rain, truth and untruth, everything is me.’ This is very deep knowledge.<br />
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If you see everything is made from one tattva, from atoms. What is your mother made of, father made of? Everyone’s body is made from the same thing, from food grains. Food grains are consumed and the body is developed, whoever eats, they all grow and the body is made from that. So everyone is made from one substance, one power and one energy. So, he is saying the whole world is made from that one consciousness, one energy, one substance.<br />
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Now if you see the fan, mike and light are all working with one current, with electricity, isn’t it? But it seems like the mike is different, the light is different and the fan is something else. They all look different but they are all made up of the same thing. In the same way, if the sun was not there then the earth cannot exist. If the earth was not there, how could there be plants or trees or human beings? So what is our source? First from the physical aspect our source is the earth; more subtle than that it is the sun. What is the source of the sun? The universal energy - and so Lord Krishna says that universal energy is ME.<br />
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That is the atma that is you and that is me and everything is made of this universal energy and this is what today’s scientist also say. Those who study quantum physics this is what they say - that the whole world is made up of one energy. Earlier it was said that there were different protons, electrons functioning and making things work but now they say it is all one energy, everything is a wave functions. What we consider physical things are not there in reality, it is all just energy and this is what Lord Krishna has said many years ago in the Bhagavad Gita.<br />
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‘Avajananti mam mudham manusim tanumasritam, Param bhavam ajananto mama bhuta- mahesvaram’, these people do not see my true nature as that one universal energy, consciousness and they are thinking I am a human being. I am in a human body but the consciousness inside me is that supreme consciousness. I am not a human being. I am a power.</div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-56570862573496138532011-09-28T10:02:00.000-07:002011-09-28T10:04:37.618-07:00Navratri...Another detailed perspective..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLJq9rG0xmjzKXE80eX99WhM2MoZRX_BHULEWQnM6jd9A72vEAOIBkfA5ANz1X39HnZGFz3B3-hfR4Kvlc0lu2deYmjTbOPQ7PiIMtwMcdSNubyfrfx2p3ltcCfTeW2lUZc5UQwQx9BdnP/s1600/14732_251358732344_694062344_4204562_1317520_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLJq9rG0xmjzKXE80eX99WhM2MoZRX_BHULEWQnM6jd9A72vEAOIBkfA5ANz1X39HnZGFz3B3-hfR4Kvlc0lu2deYmjTbOPQ7PiIMtwMcdSNubyfrfx2p3ltcCfTeW2lUZc5UQwQx9BdnP/s320/14732_251358732344_694062344_4204562_1317520_n.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">A Talk by H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Art of Living International Centre, Bangalore (Navaratri 2004)</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Nava’</i> means nine. It also means new or fresh. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Ratri’</i> – ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ra</i>’ means giving solace or rest. ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tri</i>’ means three. These are the three types of botherations or problems that can haunt a person: the physical, mental and the spiritual problems that come to you. That which gives you relief from these difficulties is ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ratri.’ ‘Ratri’</i> literally means night. Night is called ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ratri’</i>, because it relieves you from misery and brings you comfort. It takes you in it arms and puts you to sleep. Birds and animals do not worry at night they go to sleep happily. Night relaxes everybody; whether one is unhappy or miserable, everybody goes to sleep. It gives relief from any type of misery: physical, mental or emotional. ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Navaratri</i>’ means the new night or the nine nights that give you rest from all these three aspects of your lives.<br />
</div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">An infant is in its mother’s womb for nine months. It is in the rest period. Similarly, these nine days are an opportunity to get back to your Self and take your mind off all the mundane things that bother you. This is the time for self referral and self inquiry, “Who am I?”, “What is the world all about?” Then you become creative. You become victorious. When negative forces haunt you, you are disturbed, unpleasant, unhappy, uncreative, unproductive and grumbling. Craving, aversion, uncertainty and fear are negative forces. Get relief from all this, go to the source of energy within you. That is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakti</i>.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">And, what are the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">asuras’ </i>(demons)?</div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Madhu</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kaitaba’</i> – ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Madhu’</i> is craving and ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kaitaba</i>’ is aversion. The second signifies hatred towards anybody. These are the first <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rakshasas</i> (demons).<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Raktabijasur</i>’ is that which is in your genes. ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bija</i>’ means seed. Sometimes your behaviour is not under your control. It is in your genes. This can be changed. With <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pranayama</i> and meditation, certain genetic changes happen inside you. That is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Raktabijasur</i>. Sometimes people have to take medication to behave properly. The medication is for killing the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Raktabijasur.</i> For example, when there is a lack of lithium in the blood it causes restlessness and valium is prescribed. The body and mind are not two separate things. They are interlinked. Sometimes the body affects the mind. When '<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Raktabijasur' </i>is transformed, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>'<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakt</i>i" (energy) is awakenend and negatitivty disappears. When this happens, all physical ailments disappear.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Mahishasur’</i> –<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Mahi </i>means dullness; like a buffalo. ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mahisha’</i> is symbolic of heaviness and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jadatwa</i> (inertia).The Divine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakti</i> brings energy, and inertia is lifted off.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Shumbh - Nishumbh’</i> is doubt of everything. Doubt of the self is ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shumbh’</i>. Some people doubt themselves: “Am I right? Am I really devoted? Do I have my intelligence? Can I do this?” Doubt of others is ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nishumbh.</i>’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nishumbh</i> is to doubt everybody else around you. You think that a person is not good, he / she wants to pull your leg. That is when you always think others are after you. That is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nishumbh</i>. Nobody is interested in pulling your leg. Everybody is busy in their own running race. But you sit and imagine, everybody is trying to pull your leg, they are thinking about you. Who is thinking about you? You know, these days people are so busy. Nobody has the time to intentionally insult anybody. Even to insult anybody you need time. You need time to think. People’s minds are clogged and preoccupied. Where do they have time to insult you? If they insult you, it has happened by chance…. it’s a by product, because they are so occupied. They are doing something and their action has insulted you. Do not think they are after you or trying to insult you. So do not sit and worry. You need clarity of mind. People don't have this. When you thus doubt everyone around you it means '<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nishumbh'</i> has taken over you.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Chanda – Munda’</i>. ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chanda’</i> means the one who has only a head. Someone with this tendency will say the very opposite of what you say. They are determined to oppose, irrespective of anything. That is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chanda </i>- to say no, to be negative. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Munda’</i> is one who does not have a head at all. Some people whatever you say it goes above them. They cannot take in anything. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chanda</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Munda</i> - they are a big botheration.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chanda</i> is one who always goes against you; one who cannot agree with you at all. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chanda</i> has taken control over such a kind of person. There is a story. There was once a married man who found out after marriage that whatever he would ask his wife to do, she would do the opposite. One day he would want raw food and on that day she would make him an elaborate cooked meal. She would do the opposite of anything he told her to do. He said “I want to sleep”. She would say, “I want to play music.” So he was frustrated. He tried to adjust. He applied all the course points: ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Accept people as they are. Present moment is inevitable. Do not see intention behind other people’s mistakes.’</i> But how long could he remind himself. Nothing seemed to work and he got more tense.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So he went to see a wise man - a swami and asked him, “I have a big problem. What should I do?” The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">swami</i> whispered a mantra in his ears and told him to come back in three months. After three months when he came back, his face was all bright. The Swamiji said, “You look very happy.” He replied, “Yes Swamiji, your mantra worked excellently.” There were other disciples there who were curious to know what the mantra was. The Swami said it was very easy and that he would tell everybody. He repeated out loud the instructions that he had earlier given to the man. He said whatever you want her to do, you tell her to do the opposite. If you want to sleep, you tell her to play music. If you want to eat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dosa</i>, tell her that you want <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">idlis</i>. Do not speak your plain heart to her.<br />
</div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I know there are some people here. When they want to go they will say they do not want to go. They want to sleep and they say they do not feel like sleeping. If someone says they do not feel like leaving that means they are leaving now. So, “I am fasting” means “I am going to eat well!” So you should know the minds of these people and say the opposite of what you want. That is the way to deal with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chandas.</i> As for the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mundas,</i> just know that they will not listen to anything. Nothing goes through.<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Dhumralochana’</i> – ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dhumra</i>’ means smoke and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Lochana’</i> means eyes; it means one who does not perceive things in the right way. They are neither blind nor do they have clear vision. These are more dangerous. People who think they know that which they do not know. People who think they have great logic but in fact do not have any. It’s like saying: ‘If the door is half open then it is half closed; (hence) that means if the door is fully open, then it can also be fully closed.’ This type of argument is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Kutarka</i> (illogical arguments). That is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dhumralochana</i>. Those under the influence of this do not see anything clearly. For them everything is hazy. That is another lack of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shakti.</i><br />
<i> </i> </div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">So when you are full of enthusiasm and energy all these six <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rakshasas </i>will disappear. At high <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prana</i> level, you will not find any one of these. From time to time they come to you and you have to get over them. This can happen to everybody.<br />
</div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Durga Shakti’</i> is not limited to some time and space. It’s happening in every atom in creation, in every mind, every consciousness and in everybody’s life. All these <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chanda</i> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Munda </i>also come not only to one person. You have all acted like that sometimes; as children you have been like that. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chandi</i> means stubbornness - just being stubborn without any reason, without any logic, without any cause. All these are different modes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prana</i> and they are finally all part of one divinity. They are not an entity somewhere they are all a play and display of one consciousness. That is beautiful is it not?<br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Some of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">devas </i>(gods) asked, why should the Goddess <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Durga </i>appear? It would be sufficient for her to say, “Hmmm…” and all the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rakshasas </i>would disappear. Why did she have to fight them? But we know why she fights… to make it more playful, more colorful and to make the world more interesting. So, she comes and just plays with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trishula</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">chakra </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gada </i>and through these weapons even these ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">asuras</i>’ become purified, they attain her.<br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It’s one light, one consciousness which plays in two roles to get back to the Self. That is why it is said that there are no two separate <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shaktis </i>(energies)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>but only one. It is there as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">deva </i>(god<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">) </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">asura </i>(demon<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">) </i>that come in different forms and become one in all. This is ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Advait Gyan’ </i>(knowledge of nonduality)<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i><br />
</div><div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It is not that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Durga</i> attacks at some particular time. It is happening everyday. Everyday creation (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shrishti</i>) happens and destruction (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Samhar</i>) happens. Everyday a new tree is born. The sun was born, and now has set. Again the sun is going to rise. It’s all a cyclic phenomenon. That’s what makes this world diverse and so interesting.<br />
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You know the biggest contribution of India to the world is that: everything is cyclic; it is not linear. Usually people think that things are born and that’s it; it is all linear: there is a beginning and there is an end. Here everything is cyclic and spherical. Truth is spherical. Time is spherical. </div></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-60701152063179287602011-09-26T06:01:00.000-07:002011-09-26T06:04:41.861-07:00Sama, Dana, Bheda and Danda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">A wise person is said to have four techniques, both inwardly and outwardly —</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sama, Dana, Bheda and Danda. To deal with people and be wise, the first thing you use is Sama which means in a peaceful and understanding way. When that doesn’t work out, then you try Dana which means allowing it to happen and forgiving. When people don’t recognise your generosity in allowing them space, then the third principle called Bheda comes in, it means to intentionally create a gap or misunderstanding. If a person still doesn’t realise that they have made a mistake then it is time to use the stick, Danda, the final approach.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The same four methods apply to your inner life, your Being. Sama — maintain the equanimity. Take both the good and the bad with equanimity. Dana means giving up that which disturbs you, that which cannot put you in the royal seat of equanimity. It means to surrender the mind which is the cause of your sorrows, problems and misery. Dana includes forgiving too. When your mind wanders around, allow it to go. Follow it and bring it back. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Now comes Bheda- differentiate, separate the imperishable from the perishable. This very body is so hollow and empty. When you are watching the body, pleasant sensations arise, unpleasant sensations arise. As you watch, they all disappear. Energy is oozing out of every pore of your body. If you watch, it flows in an even manner. It creates balance. And you realise you are not this body or these sensations. You have been always reacting to the sensations. An emotion used to give rise to some sensation; the sensation, in turn, used to create an impression, another emotion. So these circles of craving and aversion with sensation and emotion, made your life, both subtle body and gross body, and that took you from life to life. Another thing that you can do is to disassociate yourself from the sensation. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Then comes Danda — Danda means support. Determination and commitment are the Danda. Your spiritual discipline is Danda. Mind is like a vine (creeper), it needs a support. Listening to spiritual discourses, satsangs, practice, Guru’s presence are all the support, the Danda.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b>It is Chetna and Chitta that is coming out of every pore of the body. The wick is the body and you are the glow. When you shift from the wick to the glow, your mind becomes stable – Sri Sri</b></div></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-37543971590870108602011-09-26T03:44:00.000-07:002011-09-26T03:44:39.875-07:00Navratri<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIZu2tuhzD5BrVBjWseF8IKOyAtJyzCXSIV2pHyz3rJ7TOG9u12z5T6qmfr_PnHJwmVbodw9dT9InmokCBsOB6xd5K3pYu6azzRnTAG9sdGwhuku06v8FYsJi-bFULpU-fhRSQaKRGtOB/s1600/18446_268718733165_247389158165_3245317_3499328_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfIZu2tuhzD5BrVBjWseF8IKOyAtJyzCXSIV2pHyz3rJ7TOG9u12z5T6qmfr_PnHJwmVbodw9dT9InmokCBsOB6xd5K3pYu6azzRnTAG9sdGwhuku06v8FYsJi-bFULpU-fhRSQaKRGtOB/s1600/18446_268718733165_247389158165_3245317_3499328_n.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
Navaratri means nine nights and the new night. Creation happens in darkness,in the womb of the mother and underneath the soil.Nine months in the womb are like nine long nights where the spirit takes human form. Night provides rejuvenation and rest. People come home from work at night and celebrate,rejoice,and pray. At night, the entire creation goes to sleep,including the Ashram night watchman <br />
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These nine nights of Navaratri are precious; they are enriched with subtle energy. Sixty-four impulses of the Divine Mother govern the subtle creation and are responsible for restoring all earthly and spiritual benefits. These impulses are contained within one's awakened consciousness.The nine nights of Navaratri are celebrated to rekindle those divine impulses and to renew the inner depth of our lives. <br />
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Cleanse your body and cleanse your soul.<br />
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Cleanse your body with water;<br />
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Cleanse your soul with Knowledge, pranayam, Sudarshan Kriya, and meditation.<br />
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As we take nine months in our mother's womb, before we are born, we take these nine days to go back to our source. These nine days are to be spent in meditation, satsangs, silence and knowledge. During this period, the first three days are of the Kaali, the Adhishthata (the Authority) of Tamo Guna, the next three days are of Mahalakshmi, the Adhishthata of Rajo Guna and the last three days are of Saraswati, the Adhishthata of Satva Guna.<br />
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And when we move from Tamo through to Satva, the Victory happens; victory over our own devilish tendencies, like RaagDvesh (cravings-aversions), Raktabijakshur (inherent 'tendencies in our DNA.: which can be changed ,only through satsang) and Dhumralochan (the laziness of Mahishasur, the "bull; one who's eyes are clouded with small-mindedness)<br />
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Upavaas (what is normally understood as Fasting) actually means 'sitting close'; close to the Guru. And when you are close to the Guru, the Self, you are in so much bliss, that you forget to eat or drink! You don't feel Hungry or thirsty. And now that has become a false notion about' Upavaas'. We relate it to fasting. It is good, to fast once in a while, for a day or two. However, it is not worth eating fried foods in the name of Upavaas (Saboodana wada, fried potato, etc). Eat fruits.<br />
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The main thing is to listen to the body. Give it a break from the daily grind of digesting three meals, etc. When you attend to the body and it is rested, the mind also becomes peaceful. You do not have to fast to please GOD. Do it to purify your body and mind. Observing silence is also good. Everyone need not observe silence, avoid useless talks. Ardha Maun (partial-silence) is fine. Keep silence with a smile and Upavaas happens. At the end of the nine- day Aradhana, let there be newness in us.<br />
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Nav also means new. These are nine new nights. Krishna used to do a lot of Devi Pujas during Navaratri. He said; "I take a dip in my own Prakruti (nature), and come out to create new". So, take a dip in your own nature and come out fresh and new. The more we go deep within ourselves, the more this Creation rejoices in celebration. These Yagnas have all the aspects of life so beautifully covered within them. It comprises of dance, music, food, celebration and everything. Not a single aspect of life has been left out. So, be within yourself during these nine days. Do not let any complaints happen.<br />
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Complaints drag you out; keep you rooted in the mud outside. Drop it all with a smile and go within. The diverse aspects of the Holy" Spirit are invoked during, these nine days. And like the nine months of formation spent in the womb, spend these nine days within and form a new spirit. <br />
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Then all the bad karmas and impressions are washed away. Navaratri purifies the individual consciousness and then the universal consciousness, the creation.<br />
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar</div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-6299947773410834462011-09-23T21:42:00.001-07:002011-09-23T21:56:32.083-07:00Let go...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"> </span></span></h6><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoLvyebrD5YMKbcXT2PAFOyIqmfaZL0LsYgt0SxlINsIkWsxO3LaqN86WYLwWJSB0r4QT4lBmEl__q52rqBvjkldq2MxbrJVwmPH3kj7Zhrf0QsPmdXuOfNiNKPW6OLNBstaMYjenkjM5C/s1600/325835_10150291118916542_124628376541_8233308_173789412_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoLvyebrD5YMKbcXT2PAFOyIqmfaZL0LsYgt0SxlINsIkWsxO3LaqN86WYLwWJSB0r4QT4lBmEl__q52rqBvjkldq2MxbrJVwmPH3kj7Zhrf0QsPmdXuOfNiNKPW6OLNBstaMYjenkjM5C/s320/325835_10150291118916542_124628376541_8233308_173789412_o.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"> </span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">Once we have begun to accept life's flow, and to avoid pointless efforts, we are letting go of our need to exert control -- a much overvalued commodity, although one very much in tune with the temper of the times. We could choose instead to have acceptance. This is not so much to do with fatalism; rather it is a matter of working happily with, rather than stubbornly against, the grain of nature.</span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}">To "let go" does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.<br />
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To "let go" is not to cut myself off, it’s the realization I can’t control another.<br />
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To "let go" is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.<br />
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To "let go" is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands.<br />
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To "let go" is not to try to change or blame another, it is to make the most of myself.</span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />
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To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about.<br />
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To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive.<br />
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To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.<br />
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To "let go" is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,<br />
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but to allow others to affect their own destinies.<br />
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To "let go" is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality.<br />
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To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept.<br />
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to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.<br />
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To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires,<br />
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To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live<br />
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To "let go" is to fear less and love more.</span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4e7d5fbf0c1fa0650765730"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Louise L. Hay ....</span></div></span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></span></span></h6></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-57674932417276919332011-09-20T06:33:00.000-07:002011-09-20T06:46:17.773-07:00Nirvana....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="photo_left"></span><br />
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<b>Dear Guruji, please enlighten us on what is Nirvana and better still give it to us right now!</b><br />
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<b>Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:</b> You know our senses always look outward and the mind through the senses always captures the world around us and then whatever the senses capture is stored inside. You look at scenery and the scenery gets imprinted in your mind. You taste coffee and the coffee’s taste and flavor, fragrance, everything get imprinted in your consciousness. You taste apple pie or chocolate and that gets imprinted in your mind. Similarly with sound and touch; you touch a certain part of the body and that creates a sensation and the mind starts craving for those sensations. So these impressions in the mind are like a screen between you and the world outside.<br />
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Now the more the impression the more it is stifling for the life force or life energy, the prana. Just imagine you go and sit and watch a movie in the morning, afternoon, evening; do it for three days and see what happens. Your brain loses balance, you go haywire. So many impressions, three movies a day and for three days, that’s it, you are ready to get into mental hospital. Then on the fourth day if you are asked to watch a movie you will say oh no, please I want to shut my eyes. The ability for senses to enjoy is limited but the hunger of the mind could be unlimited, you know. Bulimia is one such solid example, you stomach says please no but your heart says no I want more, so you stuff in more when there is no place and then you throw-out and then again eat. So it is an imbalance between the capacity/ability to enjoy and the desire to enjoy.<br />
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Nirvana is bringing the balance and having no desire. You know desire means a lack, desire indicate lack. If it is all there then why would you desire. You desire a car because it is not there right now with you. You desire something that which you don’t have. When your consciousness is fulfilled, it says I want nothing, I am satisfies, I am fulfilled that is Nirvana. Even hankering for enlightenment is an obstruction for enlightenment.<br />
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That is the story of Lord Buddha. Lord Buddha was in search of knowledge. He did everything that everybody said. Someone said you do this japa, he did that, someone else said you fast and he did that, he fasted and fasted because at that time there was another enlightened person called Mahavir who had attained enlightenment and who never ate food so the whole Jain tradition started with control on food where they ate every other day or didn’t eat because the propounder, the prophet of the Jain philosophy Mahavir ate very little food. In several days he ate just once because he was in bliss he didn’t need it.<br />
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So Buddha tried to copy this by also fasting in the hope that by fasting he may get enlightened but then he became so weak that he could not even walk. He barely pulled himself and sat under a tree and almost collapsed when someone came and brought him a bowl milk pudding and he drank that and broke all the vows of fasting and had a good sleep that night. The morning when he woke up there was nothing left, the last star was going down the horizon, the dawn was coming up and something happened within him. Suddenly he realized that’s it, there is nothing to look for now. He had been looking for joy here and there but now there is nothing to look for anywhere and he just sat that moment, that freedom dawned on him. That freedom is called Nirvana, freedom from everything.<br />
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See in life from childhood we keep hanging on to something or another, as a child you are hanging on to little toffees and toys and then you grow a little older it is toys and friends and then you grow a little older and you are hanging on to friends and a little older then children, grandchildren. Something or another kept occupying your mind, you got lost in outer relationships. My son, my daughter-in-law, my grand children, my this, my that and it took your whole life, your whole day, your whole time or you started caring for this or that, you are worried for the world so something or another occupied your mind so your mind could never reflect on who I am; what I am; what do I want; what is life.<br />
It never had time, even all the religious prayers we did were for the welfare of something, to get something. You sat and prayed oh let my son be okay, my daughter be okay, let my life be comfortable, let me have money, let me have fame, let me have something or thanking god for giving you this or that. Our prayers are all geared for getting something or thanking for what we have already got. That means we are still latching on to objects, people and relationships.<br />
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Nirvana is that freedom, when mind is free it says I want nothing I have everything. I have everything this is all mine, anyway I have no need for anything. That state is called Nirvana and the same is called Samadhi, you know Nirvana or Moksha in Sanskrit. Moksha means freedom, liberation, mind free from all the hang-ups.<br />
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Suppose you are taken from here and put on Mars, another planet where you know nobody and you have nobody, how would you feel? Just imagine, you are taken and thrown in a distant planet. There is nobody around, what happens? You go blank, there is nothing! All our emotions are linked with people, objects, and concepts. When you get freedom from impressions of people, impressions of different events, emotions, objects and when your mind is free from all concepts and even the concept of Nirvana. Last obstruction is hankering for Nirvana, I want to be free, I want to be free. This wanting to be free can also be bondage. That state of nothingness that is Nirvana.<br />
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In simple terms it is said freedom from sorrow. Sorrow is because of the sense of mine. Someone loses their purse or their cell phone, you don’t get affected but when you lose your own cell phone or your purse, you get affected. What is the difference? There is a story, a father gave his home in the valley to his son and asked him to take care of the home and the father left for a long pilgrimage, trekking in the mountains. After a month or so when he came back he saw his house in the Kashmir valley burned down. The house was not there, it was burned down into ashes and the father became miserable and started crying, oh my god everything is gone, everything! By the time his son returned from the field he saw the father beating his chest and yelling, crying and howling. He said dad what happened?<br />
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What happened, see my life saving, everything is gone, everything is finished, my home is burned down and the son said, dad I already sold the house and I got double the money. A very good offer came so I immediately sold it. Someone came from another town and they were willing to pay double the money and they wanted the home so I sold the home dad.<br />
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Suddenly the tears immediately changed and a smile came on the father’s face. The situation was the same, it was his house. First he felt it was my house burned down now it was somebody else’s house and then he said anyways it is an old house, it burned down maybe it was purposefully burned down, now they can build a nice new bungalow. He started talking the other way around. It is mine, because of that I get more pain.<br />
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Me is lost in mine, Nirvana is getting back to me from mine. Instead of mine, mine, you go back to me, who am I; and when Buddha went to find who am I? He found nothing. He said I could not find an atma, I could not find a soul. It is all nothing, there is no self, no soul, there is nothing but the one who is experiencing this nothing is me. I experience nothing, I experience Moksha. Who should the nirvana happen to, it’s me. It is not the ego me but the ‘me’ as a consciousness which is ease-ness which is everywhere. So the ‘me’ is not an individual person but ‘me’ is a field of consciousness. This is exactly what Vedanta says. Atma is not an entity it is a field. The being without impression is mukti, liberation.<br />
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To say it very simply, from mine to the ‘me’ that is lost in mine and because of that it is miserable. The seer is lost in the scenery. Everything is scenery including our body is scenery and the mind derives from the scenery to the seer. First it gets onto the body and becomes aware of the body, then behind the body there is the mind, behind the mind is the intellect and then the ego; pass one layer after another and go deep. It is like peeling of an onion, you know like onion has many sheets, Nirvana is like peeling the onion, not this, not that, going deep inside to the center core. What do you find in the center core of an onion, nothing!<br />
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Now what is the use of finding this, the mind asks. Freedom from sorrow, freedom from misery, FREEDOM!<br />
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Lord Buddha said only four things, the first things he said is, there is sorrow, don’t deny it. Life is miserable; married people are miserable, unmarried people are miserable. People with children are miserable and people without children are miserable. Life is sorrow, people who have fame are miserable and people who are hankering for fame are miserable. People who have power and position are miserable and those who do not have are also miserable. People who have money are more miserable than those who do not have. There is misery everywhere. You have friends and you are miserable or you don’t have friends and you are miserable. When you don’t have any friends at least you are miserable in a different manner, your miserable because you don’t have something but when you have friends and you consider your friends as the cause of your misery, this is even worse. So there is misery and there is a cause for misery. No one is miserable for no reason; there is a reason to be miserable. If you are sad you cannot be sad for no reason, your sadness is connected to something, so there is a cause for misery; the second principle of Lord Buddha. The third principle he said is, there is a way and it is possible to eliminate misery. It is possible because it is not your nature, like you cannot eliminate sweetness from sugar right because sweetness is the nature of sugar. You cannot eliminate heat from fire because nature of fire is heat. If it is your nature there is no way you can eliminate it but it is possible to eliminate misery and there is a method for it, a way for it. So what is it, the cause of misery is the seer got stuck in the scenery. You know if you see innocent villagers they go to a movie and if the hero is crying they cry; innocent people, they don’t realize it is only in the movie that the villain is getting victorious. People get so angry and they throw tomatoes and stones on the screen, at least in the past they used to do that. Even in the plays, people got so engrossed in it that they would throw things on the screen. The seer got engrossed in the scenery; this is the cause of misery and it is possible for the seer to retrieve back. However miserable you are you cannot be miserable for 24 hours. You take some rest, you sleep and your mind gets back from the scenery. However beautiful or ugly, pleasurable or painful the seer cannot be with the scenery all the time. In sleep you retrieve and the mind comes back to the seer but consciously when the mind leaves the scenery and gets back to the seer and sees that this is all temporary, everything is changing, everything!<br />
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Including our own body everything is impermanent and when this becomes very clear that everything is impermanent, all relationships are impermanent, people are impermanent, our body is impermanent, our feelings are impermanent, suddenly the consciousness or the mind which was logging onto things becoming miserable turns back onto oneself. Me, I am… that return from mine to ‘me’, from the scenery to the seer is the method. From the scenery get back to the seer and reposing in the seer is Nirvana. You are reposing, content, and you find that the seer is all bliss, all love, all that we have been seeking outside in many things are all what the seer is.<br />
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It is said that Buddha didn’t utter a word for seven days after he had total contentment, the experience of Nirvana, he didn’t say a word. He just moved several steps up and down and it is said that the angels came and prayed to him to speak; if you don’t speak what will happen, you should speak. Then Buddha said people who know they know it and people who don’t know they don’t know it, by speaking it is not going to help. Then the angels persuaded him that there are some people who are on the border line and if you speak to them they will immediately catch it and it will help them. You should speak, it is then said that Buddha started speaking. Brahma the creator came and told him you should speak. You know there are a lot of stories to that effect.<br />
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The main idea is freedom from misery that is Nirvana; totally free from desires; Freedom from misery, freedom from pleasures and hankering for pleasure. You see it is the hankering for pleasure which causes misery and not knowing this is all ephemeral, everything is dissolving, disappearing, everything is changing causes sorrow. However nice something is, however ugly something is both will disappear into thin air. Knowing this you get back to the self.</div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-13234582100169007042011-09-18T10:37:00.000-07:002011-09-18T10:37:33.395-07:00The Secret of Misery: Expecting Returns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5_pq3YVWUrtsAR0uX446eL41-bFTqznl8R1U7cpfQJ_WtFbeG3achcfNoWtJb7Xlu82-hYGEoc9ZEHwRf6J3o_eQiq1a9Xq5XkbHS6NS-wbgfqjPcIeGY6nKPPPomgFMefjmnz0rEbh6/s1600/vvk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie5_pq3YVWUrtsAR0uX446eL41-bFTqznl8R1U7cpfQJ_WtFbeG3achcfNoWtJb7Xlu82-hYGEoc9ZEHwRf6J3o_eQiq1a9Xq5XkbHS6NS-wbgfqjPcIeGY6nKPPPomgFMefjmnz0rEbh6/s1600/vvk.jpg" /></a></div><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: Garamond;">Excerpts from the lecture delivered by Swami Vivekananda at Harvard</span></strong></div><div class="MsoNormal">If we examine our own lives, we find that the greatest cause of sorrow is this: we take up something, and put our whole energy on it–perhaps it is a failure and yet we cannot give it up. We know that it is hurting us, that any further clinging to it is simply bringing misery on us; still, we cannot tear ourselves away from it. The bee came to sip the honey, but its feet stuck to the honey-pot and it could not get away. Again and again, we are finding ourselves in that state. That is the whole secret of existence. Why are we here? We came here to sip the honey, and we find our hands and feet sticking to it. We are caught, though we came to catch. We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Had it not been for this, life would have been all sunshine. Never mind! With all its failures and successes, with all its joys and sorrows, it can be one succession of sunshine, if only we are not caught.</div><div class="MsoNormal">That is the one cause of misery: We are attached, we are being caught. Therefore says the Gita: Work constantly; work, but be not attached; be not caught. Reserve unto yourself the power of detaching yourself from everything, however beloved, however much the soul might yearn for it, however great the pangs of misery you feel if you were going to leave it; still, reserve the power of leaving it whenever you want. The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery, floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Attachment is the source of all our pleasures now. We are attached to our friends, to our relatives; we are attached to our intellectual and spiritual works; we are attached to external objects, so that we get pleasure from them. What, again, brings misery but this very attachment? We have to detach ourselves to earn joy. If only we had power to detach ourselves at will, there would not be any misery. That man alone will be able to get the best of nature, who, having the power of attaching himself to a thing with all his energy, has also the power to detach himself when he should do so. The difficulty is that there must be as much power of attachment as that of detachment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">There are men who are never attracted by anything. They can never love, they are hard-hearted and apathetic; they escape most of the miseries of life. But the wall never feels misery, the wall never loves, is never hurt; but it is the wall, after all. Surely it is better to be attached and caught, than to be a wall. Therefore the man who never loves who is hard and stony, escaping most of the miseries of life, escapes also its joys. We do not want that. That soul has not been awakened that never feels weakness, never feels misery. That is a callous state. We do not want that.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">At the same time, we not only want this mighty power of love, this mighty power of attachment, the power of throwing our whole soul upon a single object, losing ourselves and letting ourselves be annihilated, as it were, for other souls–which is the power of the gods–but we want to be higher even than the gods. The perfect man can put his whole soul upon that one point of love, yet he is unattached. How comes this? There is another secret to learn.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The beggar is never happy. The beggar only gets a dole with pity and scorn behind it, at least with the thought behind that the beggar is a low object. He never really enjoys what he gets.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We are all beggars. Whatever we do, we want a return. We are all traders. We are traders in life, we are traders in virtue, we are traders in religion. And alas! We are also traders in love.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We get caught. How? Not by what we give, but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love; not from the fact that we love, but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.</div></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-24669366138601710522011-09-14T07:58:00.000-07:002011-09-14T07:58:17.140-07:00Choosing One's Destiny<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkYsJ-j7lYhBalegUbcmTzpOJU_wqq9-9h0IGNWiJD63lWxt9jN6iZ0Li-SluZtg7WpflVildakhrMrzctsjHhtgXmot80ppzpmE94zeMzRH1_V6r-ek32ivP9VC_nkqO5QpG9BT25Ws6i/s1600/choice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkYsJ-j7lYhBalegUbcmTzpOJU_wqq9-9h0IGNWiJD63lWxt9jN6iZ0Li-SluZtg7WpflVildakhrMrzctsjHhtgXmot80ppzpmE94zeMzRH1_V6r-ek32ivP9VC_nkqO5QpG9BT25Ws6i/s1600/choice.jpg" /></a></div><br />
"I am willing to give up everything", said the prince to the master. "Please accept me as your disciple."<br />
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"How does a man choose his path?" asked the master.<br />
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"Through sacrifice," answered the prince. "A path which demands sacrifice, is a true path."<br />
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The master bumped into some shelves. A precious vase fell, and the prince threw himself down in order to grab hold of it. He fell badly and broke his arm, but managed to save the vase.<br />
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"What is the greater sacrifice: to watch the vase smash, or break one's arm in order to save it?" asked the master.<br />
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"I do not know," said the prince.<br />
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"Then how can you guide your choice for sacrifice? The true path is chosen by our ability to love it, not to suffer for it."<br />
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Paulo Coelho </div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-91972320820667057072011-09-13T09:45:00.000-07:002011-09-13T09:45:59.678-07:00Problems - Solutions....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwdVXWQHkH4iQnu8ihJcnK_G0RJFnJdEh5gPwdr1IUwCgqWsI3JONVV1oklXaNCWAoLxFhGQ37n-VP7uihReJUl1_noYc845oykxT9_IF6Y1MfiSKVu2Ltdicu9JGAV_rgagAMIirR_pO/s1600/45839_1587089838516_1273916595_31653670_3387486_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMwdVXWQHkH4iQnu8ihJcnK_G0RJFnJdEh5gPwdr1IUwCgqWsI3JONVV1oklXaNCWAoLxFhGQ37n-VP7uihReJUl1_noYc845oykxT9_IF6Y1MfiSKVu2Ltdicu9JGAV_rgagAMIirR_pO/s320/45839_1587089838516_1273916595_31653670_3387486_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br />
"I have seen that swamis, sadhus and people in ancient times would not like to listen to any conflict anywhere. If someone came and complained to them they would just plug their ears and say, “You deal with it.”<br />
See, if you are part of the solution, your energy is high. But if you are talking about problems and problems, your energy comes down.<br />
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In the world there is always a play of positive and negative; some problems come, some challenges come and solutions also come behind it. The ancient people would simply focus on keeping their energy high. If your energy is high then when people come to you their problems will get solved.<br />
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Usually what happens when you talk to people? You get stooped into their level of problems. They talk to you about their problems and what happens? You get carried away into the problems. So just try this: one day let everybody come and complain 100 things to you, you simply keep your energy high, your sight inward, your mind inward as though nothing has happened. You will suddenly feel there is a freedom within you.<br />
You try this: at home your mother-in-law will complain, your husband will complain, anybody can complain about anything, let the world go topsy-turvy, but hold onto the idea - I am going to keep my energy high. You just take one such step and see, because problems and challenges come so that you can turn your mind inward.<br />
Instead of turning our minds inward when problems come, what do we do? We chase the problem and when we chase the problem we get totally drawn in that direction, dragged in that direction and then our energy goes down and we collapse. Isn’t this what happens?<br />
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Many times, in the name of compassion and sympathy you get drowned. Your compassion does not really help at all in solving the problem. It may be very shocking because in compassion the problem multiplies, and it doesn’t get solved.<br />
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<strong>Any problem comes so that a person can turn inward and look inside, get into a state of dispassion and calmness. Instead you give reasons and try to pacify the person. Pacifying a person in a problem is the worst thing. You should not pacify them. Let everybody bear their own cross. Bear your karma. If you are miserable it is your karma, if you are happy it is your karma. So you change your karma. This attitude makes a person more independent.</strong><br />
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<strong>You show compassion and then they want more attention. You feel more compassion and give more attention and then neither compassion is there nor can you give any more attention. Only tension remains. It breeds tension in you, ‘That poor person is so upset and I have to make them happy’. Making someone happy is a big burden. Don’t try to do that at all. This is a new policy; don’t try to make anybody happy, you can’t.</strong><br />
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There is a Sanskrit proverb that says<strong> ‘Kashtasya sukasya nakopi data’. Nobody gives happiness or misery. </strong>It is created by one’s own self, one’s own mind. When someone says ‘problem’, just turn and run in the other direction. Say deal with it, you deal with your own problem. Then you see independence comes, interdependence comes in people and that is how you make yourself self- sufficient.<br />
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I am talking about this to sadhaks, to all of you who are already on the path. But don’t use this when someone in the street is crying and they want a lift and you say, ‘Guruji said let them deal with it, I am out.’ If you have space in your car you should go attend to them. That compassion is needed there, but not in relationships. When you are relating with people, random acts of compassion are essential. To someone whom you do not know, be compassionate.<br />
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<strong>Be passionate about dispassion.</strong><br />
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<strong>Just see your own mind keeps getting bogged down by that person’s feeling, that person’s tension and this lady’s misery and this person’s unhappiness - what can you do and where have you gone? What has happened to you? You are completely shattered. That is why they say cut all these cobwebs around you, all these strings around you, only one string to the Divine, only one string.</strong><br />
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Even there, don’t say, ‘Guruji didn’t look at me, maybe God is angry with me’, this and that, no! Everything is prasad, if I am kicked out, it is a Prasad. If I am scolded, it is Prasad. Everything is prasad, This attitude is the best attitude. So: no attention, no tension. Good!<br />
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<strong>Q: Guruji, if we do that people will think we are so insensitive.</strong><br />
<strong>Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:</strong> Let them say what they want. That is what you are trying to do, please them. ‘No I am not insensitive, I am sensitive.’<br />
As I said, you do your job, whatever you should do you do, but don’t sit and listen to their problems, and don’t get carried away by it, got it!"<br />
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Sri Sri </div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-35177766498325314062011-09-11T06:37:00.001-07:002011-09-11T06:47:26.921-07:00The Art of Communicating...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Q. Sometimes the inability to plan in advance and the resulting chaos is passed on as divine chaos. How to tackle such chaotic people?</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Sri Sri :</b> The person who has created chaos wants a cover and in the cover, he will always say to save his face and position. He will bring up many justifications. So, you understand that position - may be you’d be doing the same thing when you are in that position. Don’t depend on what people say. Most of our problems begin when we lock on to their words and not their feeling or where they stand. A mother says to the child, get lost and she doesn’t really mean it but the words that come are very powerful and if the children take on the words, then, the child gets into trauma unnecessarily.</div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #4c1130;">I would say you should see beyond words.</div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><b>Your communication should be more than verbal – it should transcend the verbal communication. Even if someone says all nasty things to you, can you just be grounded and keep your mind at calm. Then, you have achieved something. You are able to connect to people beyond their words.</b></div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #4c1130;">Don’t expect that they should also connect. It’s always one way. I tell you communication is always one-sided. You have the skill, you can communicate and you can receive it in that sense. You do not worry about what their reactions are, what they blabber.</div><div style="color: #4c1130;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #4c1130;">They usually say all these blame games are blabbering and you get caught up in this blame game. Someone blames, you get caught up in this blame game. You stand up and say - I have the master key and I know which button to press and how people will react and how things would change. <b>You should have this confidence – the soul, the spirit in you is the master key. It can turn around the situation, the way you want it.</b> You should have that faith. It may not happen five times but sixth time it will happen. It all depends on your conviction and persistence. And don’t bother about what they say.</div></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-64732840260664794752011-09-09T06:59:00.000-07:002011-09-09T22:42:30.088-07:00कबीर के दोहे ( Kabir Ke Dohe)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij7JZo_CAw5ePfVRcXLBRh9N_kOLlkYHC1tduzuzzhL3yDoo7p8uFQzk3IXRgAxtR6g-N33pYaUzJnwJx6ByerJt-aWPIFS-EkcwwSI9cpr0NKH34OuzU1O2MpTLGxQ_7vg-eFnlmFZ0ld/s1600/kabir.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij7JZo_CAw5ePfVRcXLBRh9N_kOLlkYHC1tduzuzzhL3yDoo7p8uFQzk3IXRgAxtR6g-N33pYaUzJnwJx6ByerJt-aWPIFS-EkcwwSI9cpr0NKH34OuzU1O2MpTLGxQ_7vg-eFnlmFZ0ld/s1600/kabir.jpg" /></a></div>चाह मिटी, चिंता मिटी मनवा बेपरवाह । <br />
जिसको कुछ नहीं चाहिए वह शहनशाह॥<br />
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(Translation by Mrs Kiran Singh -- <span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><br />
When desires drop, one's worries are erased,and the mind stops wandering, <br />
The one who is free of all desires is an Emperor among Kings.. )</span> <br />
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माटी कहे कुम्हार से, तु क्या रौंदे मोय । <br />
एक दिन ऐसा आएगा, मैं रौंदूगी तोय ॥ <br />
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(Translation by Mrs Kiran Singh -- <span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text"><br />
</span><span class="commentBody" data-jsid="text">The clay(earth) mocks the Potter- What, will you shape me?<br />
You have come from me , and there will come a day when you will return to me..)</span><br />
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माला फेरत जुग भया, फिरा न मन का फेर । <br />
कर का मन का डार दे, मन का मनका फेर ॥ <br />
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तिनका कबहुँ ना निंदये, जो पाँव तले होय । <br />
कबहुँ उड़ आँखो पड़े, पीर घानेरी होय ॥ <br />
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गुरु गोविंद दोनों खड़े, काके लागूं पाँय । <br />
बलिहारी गुरु आपनो, गोविंद दियो मिलाय ॥ <br />
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सुख मे सुमिरन ना किया, दु:ख में करते याद । <br />
कह कबीर ता दास की, कौन सुने फरियाद ॥ <br />
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साईं इतना दीजिये, जा मे कुटुम समाय । <br />
मैं भी भूखा न रहूँ, साधु ना भूखा जाय ॥ <br />
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धीरे-धीरे रे मना, धीरे सब कुछ होय । <br />
माली सींचे सौ घड़ा, ॠतु आए फल होय ॥ <br />
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कबीरा ते नर अँध है, गुरु को कहते और । <br />
हरि रूठे गुरु ठौर है, गुरु रूठे नहीं ठौर ॥ <br />
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माया मरी न मन मरा, मर-मर गए शरीर । <br />
आशा तृष्णा न मरी, कह गए दास कबीर ॥ <br />
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रात गंवाई सोय के, दिवस गंवाया खाय । <br />
हीरा जन्म अमोल था, कोड़ी बदले जाय ॥ <br />
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दुःख में सुमिरन सब करे सुख में करै न कोय।<br />
जो सुख में सुमिरन करे दुःख काहे को होय ॥<br />
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बडा हुआ तो क्या हुआ जैसे पेड़ खजूर।<br />
पंथी को छाया नही फल लागे अति दूर ॥<br />
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साधु ऐसा चाहिए जैसा सूप सुभाय।<br />
सार-सार को गहि रहै थोथा देई उडाय॥<br />
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साँई इतना दीजिए जामें कुटुंब समाय ।<br />
मैं भी भूखा ना रहूँ साधु न भुखा जाय॥<br />
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जो तोको काँटा बुवै ताहि बोव तू फूल।<br />
तोहि फूल को फूल है वाको है तिरसुल॥<br />
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उठा बगुला प्रेम का तिनका चढ़ा अकास।<br />
तिनका तिनके से मिला तिन का तिन के पास॥<br />
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सात समंदर की मसि करौं लेखनि सब बनराइ।<br />
धरती सब कागद करौं हरि गुण लिखा न जाइ॥<br />
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साधू गाँठ न बाँधई उदर समाता लेय।<br />
आगे पाछे हरी खड़े जब माँगे तब देय॥ </div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-76469402936273262172011-09-07T05:54:00.000-07:002011-09-07T05:59:38.909-07:00In the Master's Voice...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;"></span></b><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The hymns that Pujya Guru Dev Sri Sri Ravishankar ji sings after the Long Kriya written by</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><br />
<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tulsi Das ji in Sri Ram charit Manas (Bal kand/first canto)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>बंन्देउ गुरुपद परम परागा, सुरुचि सुवास सरस अनुरागा</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>अमीय मुरीमय चूरन चारू, समन सकल भव रज परिवारू || १ ||</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>सुकृति शम्भुतन बिमल विभूति, मंजुल मंगल मोद प्रसुती</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>जनमन मंजू मुकुर मल हरनि, किये तिलक गुण गन बस करनी || २ ||</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bandeu Gurupad Param Paraga, Suruchi Suwas saras anuraga |</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ameeya murimaya churan charu, Saman Sakal bhav raj pariwaru || 1 ||</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sukruti Shambhutana vimal vibhuti, Manjul mangal mod prasuti |</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Janamana manju mukur mal harni, kiye tilak gun gan bas karni || 2 ||</b></span></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>मैं गुरु महाराज जी की चरण कमलों की धुल का वंदन करता हूँ जोकि सुख, सुगंध तथा अनुराग रूपी रस से पूर्ण है | वह अमरु मूल (संजीवनी जड़ी) का सुन्दर चूर्ण है, जो संपूर्ण रोगों के परिवार को नाश करने वाला है | वह रज पुन्यवान पुरुष शिवजी के शरीर पर सुशोभित निर्मल विभूति है और सुन्दर कल्याण और आनंद की जननी है | भक्त के मनरूपी सुन्दर दर्पण के मेल को दूर करने वाली है और इसके तिकल करने से गुणों के समूह को वश में करने वाली है |</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I prostrate to the dust of my Master's feet. That beautiful dust is filled with fragrance and juice of love. It is the life rejuvenating medicine which destroy the whole family of all the diseases. It is present as ornament of the body of shiva and it is mother of all joy and bliss. It clears the dirt from the mind of devotee which is like a mirror and if worne as tilak (on the forehead) one gains all the glorious virtues.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSe3ntA1WQTiHbf4fstBoRIbTKgfVMjxTMi3-UU4S_eaIGwdXEL9DuATez2wAVxloJFGvFUjiCWuzw1GdguIHHurHjTyqh59WbNSwA87vSgUbM8LfkBkIs13KkEPwP98iTje9er_m1UGxq/s1600/g+feet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSe3ntA1WQTiHbf4fstBoRIbTKgfVMjxTMi3-UU4S_eaIGwdXEL9DuATez2wAVxloJFGvFUjiCWuzw1GdguIHHurHjTyqh59WbNSwA87vSgUbM8LfkBkIs13KkEPwP98iTje9er_m1UGxq/s320/g+feet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In the holy feet of Master..... :) </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</div></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-2692292416724212802011-09-06T22:22:00.000-07:002011-09-06T22:25:46.933-07:00Bang on the door......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Be grateful for whatever God has offered you today. And you will see that He goes on offering plenty. Never a lack. But if you go on seeing the lack, then that continues. Your attention on lack allows lack to continue in life.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">The more you possess, the more you feel lack. But when you open your eyes and see that you are part of everything, a sense of belonging dawns. And in that belonging there is contentment.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">You belong to this whole universe. You are like the cherry on the top of a cake. You complete this existence. You being here on this planet, at this time, brings the time into a fullness. You are here to crown this universe, to crown this existence. This very moment that you are observing in this universe is so precious.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">When this awareness dawns in you, where is sorrow? Where is the problem? Where are you caught up? Where have you lost yourself? Some small happenings here or there, a few words from this person or that person? Your prestige or respect is tarnished? You feel you are lost?</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">What is this foolishness in you? Wake up and see this whole creation. Open your eyes and you will see the Divine in every particle of creation. You are here now today. You crown this creation. </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">In front of such infinite joy, all other joys here and there are nothing. Other joys are like dust in the ecstasy of your Being. </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Spirituality is like a banana and religion is like the banana skin. People today have thrown away the fruit and are left holding tightly to the skin.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Jesus said, "Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Two thousand years ago the human mind was simple, natural, closer to the source. One needed only to knock on the door and grace would flow.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Today the mind has become more complex, more confused. Today the door to our innermost chamber is so tightly closed that we have to bang it down. Bang on your inner door. See that there is no lack of love in you, there is no lack of anything whatsoever inside you. </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">You can experience God in the depth of your heart. Do not delay a moment. Bang on the door. All the wealth is within you.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQ06b8qa_Q5WAFycSUKSizn9NfmgsxGDab6nZt8hogAp986JyleLkW3frfD7Ln-PknRewPqbWCVbplqBu99Ih_I-D4vDu2VpV9H_VQV3uOQpYrs3HxQNwkDCN-EqqhzIZis7x3g7nGvFZ/s1600/223069_2263575707096_1179596094_2766739_4335617_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQ06b8qa_Q5WAFycSUKSizn9NfmgsxGDab6nZt8hogAp986JyleLkW3frfD7Ln-PknRewPqbWCVbplqBu99Ih_I-D4vDu2VpV9H_VQV3uOQpYrs3HxQNwkDCN-EqqhzIZis7x3g7nGvFZ/s320/223069_2263575707096_1179596094_2766739_4335617_n.jpg" width="278" /></a></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar</span></b></div></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8821008018213266938.post-7169242930955443142011-09-05T22:56:00.000-07:002011-09-06T22:30:12.103-07:00Ramayana ... A description by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjnUi58SW4lhKo6g8lcjIal2cVxEzZliUsDVRYTC8X0Ibx4-RjTrSkM626pCdIz52_ESaWuaL3gEDnh47ya-2Tw3GZPpLwG7xbzlHSo7vVZwk_wt15-RBAYnlKK5K_0gNa9OuAi15TpG5Y/s1600/ramayan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjnUi58SW4lhKo6g8lcjIal2cVxEzZliUsDVRYTC8X0Ibx4-RjTrSkM626pCdIz52_ESaWuaL3gEDnh47ya-2Tw3GZPpLwG7xbzlHSo7vVZwk_wt15-RBAYnlKK5K_0gNa9OuAi15TpG5Y/s1600/ramayan.jpg" /></a></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">"Ra means radiance, Ma means myself. Rama means ‘the light inside me’. Rama was born to Dasharath and Kousalya. Dasharath means ‘Ten Chariots’. The ten chariots symbolize the five organs of perception (the five senses) and five organs of knowledge and action (For instance: reproduction, legs, hands and so on). Kousalya means ‘skill’. Ayodhya means ‘a society in which there is no violence’. If you skillfully observe what goes on inside the body, light dawns inside you. That is meditation. You need some skill to relax the tension. Then you start expanding.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">You know you are here now, yet you are not. With this realization, there is a certain lightness that comes spontaneously. Rama is when the inner light shines through. Sita the mind/intellect was robbed by the ego, Ravana. Ravana had ten heads. Ravana (ego) was one who wouldn’t listen to others. He was too much in the head. Hanuman means breath. With the help of Hanuman (the breath), Sita (the mind) was able to go back to Rama (the source).</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Ramayana happened around 7,500 years ago. It had an impact on Germany and many other countries in Europe and Far East. Thousands of cities are named after Rama. Cities like Rambaugh in Germany, Rome in Italy have their roots in the word Ram. Indonesia, Bali and Japan were all influenced by Ramayana. Though Ramayana is history, it is also an eternal phenomenon happening all the time."</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ji</span></b></div></div>Wisdom Dawnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02624494102948374093noreply@blogger.com0