Source: Internet and Whatsapp
Spatika
1) The pronunciation of each and every word in the Mantra has to be very clear and accurate. The chanting has to be done for 40 days, after which you can wear it all the time you want. Until then, you need to chant and keep it back into the temple of your house. To make it a mantrika spatika, otherwise it's a abhimantrika spatika
2) To test the stone, rub two sphatika stones with each other and it will produce a spark. Sphatika stone will be crystal clear when it is more pure.
3) Sphatik (Crystal Stone / Quartz) is a white shiny and transparent stone also called Quartz . According to Astrology , Sphatik (Crystal) is related to Venus. ... Using a rosary made from Sphatik crystal gives concentration, cools the body, and calms the mind. Wearing a crystal mala ensures a sound and undisturbed sleep.
4) This rhinestone rosary removes poverty. This is a very good for overall health of the native and his family. It gives mental peace, freedom from headaches, blood-related issues, and fevers. It is very good to appease Goddess Lakshmi.
5) While going to attend rituals of a new born baby or the rituals after cremation, it should not be worn as it is said to having a power of generating great inner energy inside a person and this may be proved inappropriate in such cases.
6) Rudrakha & Sphatik mala is holy& very powerful combination Sphatik Rudraksha Mala is perfectly balanced in nature because Sphatik (Crystal Quartz) is a feminine, ethereal cold element while Rudraksha is considered as a masculine earthly element.
*****************************
Everyday read -
The human birth is glorified, as one can attain the greatest goal moksa. Self knowledge is the only means for moksa. Vedantic enquiry is the only means for self knowledge.
1. What is bondage?
Mistaking body, mind and sense complex as I is samsara. It is also known as adhyasa, ahankara, jiva bhava or self mis-conception.
2. How did this bondage happen?
Self ignorance is anadhi or beginning less.
3. How did this bondage persist with me for such a long time?
Self ignorance is intellectual samsara. It leads to emotional samsara of kama, kroda, raga, dvesha, etc. It leads to activities to perform action. It produces punya and papa. This causes another birth.
4. How can I remove this bondage?
One should turn from material life to spiritual life. One should start with karma yoga including upasana, bakthi and moral values.
Once the mind is prepared , he should do self enquiry under a Guru. One should go to jnana yoga.
5. What is the meaning of anatma or non self?
Anantma is mistaking the gross body, subtle body and causal body as I.
6. What is Self or Paramatma?
I am the non variable consciousness principle different from body, mind and sense complex. I am the five featured consciousness. The nearest example is deep sleep state.
This should be understood with sruti pramanam and yukthi pramanam.
7. How can I segregate atma and anatma?
I am the experiencer different from the experienced body and mind. I am different from the five kosas
JIVA ISVARA AIKYA VICHARA: VIVEKACHOODAMANI - VERSES 61 TO 82:
This is the most important enquiry.
Created individual and created God are one and the same according to Vedas.
This is revealed in all Upanisads through maha vakyam.
Central theme of the teaching is Tat Tvam Asi.
Tatparya is understood through six lingas.
1) Jiva does transaction through body.
2) Isvara does transaction through maya.
3) Behind the changing Jiva and changing Isvara, changeless consciousness is there.
4) Differences are mithya.
5) Advaita Brahman is the truth behind mithya.
6) I am the non-doer, non-experiencer. Nitya mukta Brahma Asmi.
While watching the movie, it is like being aware of the screen.
JNANA PHALAM: VERSES 83 TO 101:
Benefit of self knowledge is jivan mukthi and videha mukthi.... Actually, to say in one word "Nitya Muktha"
1) Jivan Mukta - Even while living he is liberated. He has gained knowledge through sravanam and mananam. He has internalised the teaching by nididhyasanam. His intellectual samsara and emotional samsara are gone. There is reduction in FIR(frequency, intensity, recovery period)
His body will continue until prarabda.
2) Videha Mukta - Once the body dies, he becomes a videha mukta.
His sancita karma is burnt.
His agami karma is avoided.
His prarabdha karma is exhausted.
His karma balance at the time of death is Zero or Nil.
He has no more re-birth.
His karana sarira merges with maya or Isvara.
His suksma sarira merges with total suksma sariram or Hiranyagarba.
His sthula sarira merges with total sthula sarira or Virat.
Seeming individual consciousness merges into seeming total consciousness.
It is like pot space becoming total space, when the pot is broken. Jnani remains as Isvara or Brahman.
From ajnani’s stand point Jnani is a jivan mukta and videha mukta. But from Jnani’s stand point he is nithya mukta.
****************************
*Unveiling The Self*
The perceiver (Self) has an impact on the perceived and vice-versa. Read on...
Here in India, trees are considered very sacred. The idols that are kept in the temples are not that important. The idols came much later.
There is a proverb in Sanskrit that says - It is by the effort of the worshipper that the stone turns into Divinity not on its own. By your consciousness, faith or your intention to invoke the prana in it, the stone can also respond to you or represent the Infinity to you.
And what is the difference between Ganesha and Durga? Specific mantras have specific impact. These are the Devatas.
If there are obstacles coming up, think of Ganesha. Wherever you put your attention that strength comes, and the elephant is the strongest animal. When you think of an elephant, you feel like an elephant.
In your consciousness, there is an exchange happening between the viewer and what is being viewed. The subject-object relationship gets established. The perceiver has an impact on the perceived and vice-versa.
This theory in physics is called Quantum Mechanics.
You are looking at an object and as you are looking, the object changes. You have an impact on the Devas(the inherent power) and likewise the Devas have an impact on you.
*****************************
Daily read - 10
It cannot be an object of desire. When the desires cease, then love can be felt, experienced. Don’t make love an object of desire. Desire means what? Not now, not this; something in the future. Desire simply means, ‘not now, not this-that and then’. Desire causes such feverishness, love is such a cooling impact. Sa na kamayamana - don't make love an object of desire, the goal of your desire. When the desires calm down, you realise that love is right here-Now. That is why Buddha said that desires are the cause of sorrow and misery. Love is the goal of all desires and when you cannot have, when you cannot experience or achieve that love, then hatred and anger come . The desire for love brings all other imperfections, for e.g. frustration. Whether fulfilled or unfulfilled, desire brings frustration. This is the nature of desire. Love cannot be achieved by just desiring it because it is the cessation of desire. It is the source or goal of all desires - sa na kamayamana.
Then what is that cessation? How does one stop that?
Nirodha loka veda vyapara nyasah_
It is taking a break from all activities, whether worldly or spiritual, whether religious or material-being centred in both activities. Nirodhastu-there is a feverishness to do something, to achieve something. You say, “I don't want anything material,” but then it could switch over to wanting to achieve some heaven, some spiritual merit, or bliss or some state of consciousness. See, you are still holding on to the desire and the action, but it has shifted from the material to the more ethereal, non-material. Our mind is so tricky.
Loka veda vyapara nyasah - you cannot leave activity just like that. So what can you do? If you are 100% in an activity, then you become free from the activity. You are able to rest from that activity. This is what we don't do. Being 100% in an activity centres you. Desire is not being involved 100% in action. Suppose you want to drive and go to Los Angeles-you just drive and go, but if you just sit and keep thinking about it, it creates the feverishness. This is desire. Desire is chewing on to something and not swallowing it - not really acting on it. Those activities which you have to do, do them and rest. Those which you don't need to do, leave them and rest.
Nyasah - being centred, letting go. However important an activity is, are you able to let go of it in a moment? Then you will see that it does not bother your mind, it does not bother you and it increases your efficiency. It is your attachment to an activity that makes that activity suffer, whether it is spiritual or material. Your obsession to act, your inability to retire and repose in the Self brings you frustration. Do anything with 100% and you will be able to drop it effortlessly. This ability to let go comes to you. Often you let go of things when you are frustrated. When you can drop and quit in a moment, without getting frustrated, then Yoga happens - you have retired back to the Self. You are holding onto things, onto activities and that holding on creates frustration. This is what desire does.
Desire is trying to hold on to air in a fist. How much air can you hold in the fist? The more you tighten your grip, the lesser air you can hold. Love is like the vast sky and the sky cannot be held in the fist. You have to open your palm. That is nirodha - when you open your palm, the entire sky is in there and if you hold a mirror in your hand, you can have the sun, the moon - everything. A small palm can hold the sun, but not the fist - nirodha rupatvat.
Nirodhastu loka veda vyapara nyasah - being centred, being 100% in activity and rest. This is the way to be in divine love.
*********************
Daily read - 9
Neither Yes Nor No
Question - Gurudev how do we maintain balance between Avidya and Vidya? How do we know we have it already?
Gurudev - Do you know how to ride a bicycle? How do you maintain the balance? When you go too much to the left, do you then not go to the right? How do you balance a bicycle or a motorbike? In the same way, just do it. Whenever you are out of balance, something pinches you inside. Just listen to that. Don't justify that pinch. If you are caught up with your family, doing "I, me and mine" something pinches you, "Oh I have not done something bigger". And if you are completely ignoring the home on the other hand, even then something pinches you. Listen to that inner voice.
Question - Gurudev you have said that once you are in knowledge, you can never go back into asuryaloka. If my parents have not stepped into this knowledge, are they doomed?
Gurudev - When you are walking the path of knowledge, a portion of your merit also goes to your parents and a portion goes to your children too. Many of you might have noticed here that after your getting into the path, your parents have started seeing things differently. How many of you have this experience? There is a change in the attitude of your parents. This happens. That's why children bring liberation to the parents. Many times they say that if there are no kids, there is no liberation because if you have missed out on something, vibrations from your children can complement you. In India, if someone says, "you are lucky", many times the person says, "I haven't done anything, these are the merits of my parents. They did something and I am enjoying their merit." When you take the benefit of your parent's good deeds, you also contribute to your parent's well being.
**********************
Daily read - 8
The core teaching of the Advaita sage Ramesh Balsekar is “Consciousness is all there is.” There are two main aspects of this teaching: (1) everything that happens is God’s Will, and (2) no one is the doer of their actions, neither oneself nor others.
Rameshji elaborated these concepts of non-doership by saying that all of our actions and decisions are based on two factors—our genes and our conditioning—neither of which we have any control over. Therefore, any action or decision is truly not ‘my’ action or ‘my’ decision. In other words, although ‘free will’ is the mechanism of functioning in daily living, it is truly not ‘my’ free will, but rather God’s Will operating through me. With this understanding, one accepts that all one can do is to do one’s best in any given situation without attachment to the outcome. The outcome of any situation is God’s Will.
When this understanding becomes one’s experience in daily living, there is no room for hatred, malice, jealousy, envy, blame, or condemnation (because no one is the doer of ‘their’ actions), nor is there room for pride, arrogance, guilt, or shame (because I am not the doer of ‘my’ actions). When this teaching is accepted and experienced in daily living, the thinking mind that continuously reverts into the dead past or projects into an imaginary future is annihilated.
********************
Daily read - 7
D.: What should one think of when meditating?
M.: What is meditation? It is expulsion of thoughts. You are perturbed by thoughts which rush one after another. Hold on to one thought so that others are expelled. Continuous practice gives the necessary strength of mind to engage in meditation.
Meditation differs according to the degree of advancement of the seeker. If one is fit for it one might directly hold the thinker; and the thinker will automatically sink into his source, namely Pure Consciousness.
If one cannot directly hold the thinker one must meditate on God; and in due course the same individual will have become sufficiently pure to hold the thinker and sink into absolute Being. One of the ladies was not satisfied with this answer and asked for further elucidation.
Sri Bhagavan then pointed out that to see wrong in another is one’s own wrong. The discrimination between right and wrong is the origin of the sin. One’s own sin is reflected outside and the individual in ignorance superimposes it on another. The best course for one is to reach the state in which such discrimination does not arise. Do you see wrong or right in your sleep? Did you not exist in sleep? Be asleep even in the wakeful state. Abide as the Self and remain uncontaminated by what goes on around.
Moreover, however much you might advise them, your hearers may not rectify themselves. Be in the right yourself and remain silent. Your silence will have more effect than your words or deeds. That is the development of will-power. Then the world becomes the Kingdom of Heaven, which is within you.
*************************
Daily Read - 6
Namdev story
“Vitthal [the name of Lord Krishna at Pandarpur temple ] found His devotee Namdev had not realized the Supreme Truth and wanted to teach him. The Saints of Maharashtra had gone on a pilgrimage in a group and had returned to Pandarpur. Gora Kumbhar was one among them and invited them all to his residence and offered a feast. At the feast, Saint Jnaneshwar, in collusion with Gora, told Gora publicly, “You are a potter, daily engaged in making pots and testing them to see which are properly baked and which are not. These pots before you ( i.e., the Saints) are the pots of Brahma. See which of these are sound and which are not.” Thereupon, Gora said, ‘Yes Swami, I shall do so,’ and took up the stick with which he used to tap his pots to test their soundness; and holding it aloft in his hand, he went to each of his guest and tapped each on the head as he usually did to his pots. Each guest humbly submitted to such tapping.
“But, when Gora approached Namdev, the latter indignantly called out : ‘You potter, what do you mean by coming to tap me with that stick ?’ Gora thereupon told Jnaneshwar, ‘Swami, all the other pots have been properly baked. This one, ( i.e., Namdev) is not yet properly baked’. All the assembled guests burst into laughter. Namdev felt greatly humiliated and ran up to the temple to Vitthal with whom he was on the most intimate terms -- playing with him, eating with him, sleeping with him and so on. Namdev complained to Vitthal of the humiliation he had been subjected to -- one who is the closest friend and companion of God Himself. Vitthal (who of course knew all this) pretended to sympathise with him, asked for all the details of the happenings at Gora’s house. After hearing everything, Vitthal said, ‘Why should you not have kept quiet and submitted to the tapping as all others did ? That is why all this trouble has come.’ Thereupon Namdev cried all the more and said, ‘You also want to join the others and humiliate me. Why should I have submitted like the others ? Am I not your closest friend, your child ?’ Vitthal said, ‘You have not properly understood the Truth. And, you won’t understand if I tell you. But, go to the Saint who is in a ruined temple in the forest.
He will be able to give you Enlightenment.’
“Namdev accordingly went there and found an old, unassuming man sleeping in a corner of the temple with his feet on a Shiva Linga [ idol, ‘Linga’, is the symbol for Lord Shiva ].
Namdev could hardly believe this was the man from whom he – the companion of God Vitthal – was to gain Enlightenment. However, as there was none else there, Namdev went near the old man and clapped his hands. The old man woke up with a start and seeing Namdev, said, ‘Oh, you are Namdev whom Vitthal has sent here. Come, come !’ Namdev was dumb-founded and began to think, ‘This must be a great man’. Still, he thought it was revolting that any man, however great, should be resting his feet on a Shiva Linga. He asked the old man, ‘You seem to be a great personage. But, is it proper for you to have your feet on a Shiva Linga ?’ The old man replied, ‘Oh, are my feet on a Shiva Linga?
Where is it? Please remove my feet elsewhere.’ Namdev removed the feet and put them in
various places. Wherever they were put, there was a Shiva Linga. Finally, he took them on his lap and he himself became a Shiva Linga. Then, he realized the Truth. The Saint said,
‘Now, you can go back.’ ”
“ It is to be noted that only when he surrendered himself, and touched the feet of his Guru, Enlightenment came.”
After his final Enlightenment, Namdev returned to his house and for some days did not go to Vitthal’s temple, though it had been his habit to visit Vitthal at the temple every day, and spend most of his time with Him. So, after a few days, Vitthal himself went to Namdev’s house and like a guileless soul enquired how it was that Namdev has forgotten him and never visited him. Namdev replied, ‘No more of your fooling me, Oh, Lord! I know now. Where is the place you are not ?’
Then, Vitthal said, ‘So, you now understand the Truth. That is why you had to be sent for this final lesson from a Sage !’
*************************
Daily Read - 5
श्रुति, स्मृति, पुराणानाम् आलयं करुणालयम् ।
नमामि भगवत्पादम् शंकरं लोकशंकरम् ।।
(I salute the sacred feet of Sri Adi Shankaracharya, for he is the abode of Srutis, Smritis, Puranas and of compassion. He who ever accomplishes the good of the world.)
*******************************
Daily read - 4
And I was now given the dedicatory verse praising the five faces of Lord Siva, the Pancha Mukhas as described in the Mahanyasa, the prelude to the Rudraabhisheka.
The gist of the verses was: "may all these five faces of Lord Siva, i.e.
Sadyojata, the bright and watery westward Face,
Vama Deva the golden like northward face,
Aghora - the rainy cloud like southward face,
Tatpurusha, the eastward face glittering like the rising Sun and
Isaana, the brilliant upward face, grant all your wishes!"
I had always some dissatisfaction that the Sage did not give any personal teaching or message to me during my visits.
And there were three cinematic scenarios.
The message, was the Gayatri should not be ignored.
In the second scenario, I saw the Sage reading some religious book. The message was that one's worship of Deity and the Nama Parayana were to be performed daily without fail.
And in the third scenario, I saw the Sage seated in meditation in the Padmasana, and he had his 'anjali' full of jasmine flowers, which He now put on His head in abhisheka and the message was that every individual is Brahman himself and must realise that truth.
The Sage of Kanchi thus taught: 'My life is my message' and is making a clarion call to humanity to realise its divinity giving up the demoniac characteristics of Kama, Krodha, Lobha, Moha, Mada and Matsarya-the Arishdvargas which prevent man from realising the Reality that is Himself.
****************************
Daily read - 3
Effect of Svadhyaya and Satsanga....
Read on... A flashback from two years ago..
A child in the womb is getting all its nourishment without any effort. But all its sense organs are not used, it is not yet caught up with the illusions of the world.
If we attain that in our lives in this world, then we'll be connected to the divine line where there's nothing to do, nothing to think but to simply stay.
Because our earth as per scriptures is also in a location called hiranyagarbha where auto supply of everything is available including bliss, for that we need to enter the state of a child in the womb...
And the only nada it listens to is the nada - heartbeat of its mother.
That's why the attempt in yoga and every discipline is to listen to the unheard.. Known as anahata - your heart chakra
The eight limbs of ashtanga yoga are:
Four Bahiranga (external to the self)
1) yam (what one should not do),
2) niyam(what one shd do)
3) asana (postures for aligning the body)
4) pranayama (connecting with breath)
Four Antaranga (internalising within self)
5) pratyahara (withdrawing from the five senses)
6) dharana - concentration
7) dhyana - meditation
8) samadhi the Bliss state - samyama
And what is surprising is exactly the reverse happens in a child... It starts from samadhi state in the womb to asana, niyam and yam on emerging
Emerging from samadhi, into dhyana, into dharana, pratyahara - that is indulging in the senses... Antaranga until here
And once in bahiranga, first activity upon birth is pranayama - breathing, and then all sheshtais.. Asanas, then aping the parents - niyama
And last of all - yama - what one should not do...
So then on we live our whole lives hoping for the reversal to happen and On a lighter note, few others just waste their lives waiting for the Yama to end the yama
****************************
Daily Read - 2
QUESTION : Often one gets shaken by happenings around and then lose the ground that has been gained. One's equilibrium gets upset every now and then.
GURUDEV : Equipoise is a state of mental equilibrium that comes when one has unshakeable intellectual foundations and the mental capacity to soar to the highest pinnacles of greater visions.
When a person raises himself into greater ambits of spiritual vision, his mind will no longer entertain any agitations at the ordinary level of likes and dislikes.
None of the happenings at the level of the mind and intellect can be of any serious consequence to a person who is trying to detach from the dualistic experiences and who has learnt the art of drawing inspiration from something beyond.
#SwamiChinmayananda
************************
Daily read - 1
In Search of Bliss
Prarabdha karma cannot be changed. Sanchita karma can be changed with spiritual practices. Satsang burns the seed of all negative karma. When you praise a person, you take on their good karma. When you blame a person, you take on their bad karma. Know this and surrender both good and bad karma to the Divine and be free. Attachments cause a feverish breath and this feverish breath takes away peace of mind. Then you are in pieces and fall prey to misery. Before you get scattered too much gather yourself and rid your breath of feverishness through surrender and sadhana. Unfortunately, most people do not notice this until it is too late.
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, surrender is the lifejacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team. Without fighting attachments, observe the feverish breath and go to the cool place of silence within. Your first step in this direction is directing your attachment to knowledge, to the Divine. Your non-
attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the Divine is your beauty.
There are three things - the Self, the senses and the objects or the world. There are three words - sukha
(pleasure), dukha (sorrow) and sakha (companion). These have one thing in common - " kha", meaning
"senses".
The Self experience the world through the sense. When the senses are with the Self, it is pleasure (sukha), because the Self is the source of all joy or pleasure. When the senses are in mud - away from the Self, lost in an object - that is misery (dukha).
The nature of the Self is joy. In any pleasant experience, you close your eyes - whether you are smelling a nice flower or you are tasting or touching something. So Dukha is that which takes you sway from the Self. Sorrow simply means that instead of focusing on the Self, you are caught up in an object, which goes on changing. All sense objects are just a diving - board to take you back to the Self.
" Sakha" means companion. " He is the senses." Sakha is one who has become your senses - who is your senses. If you are my senses, it means, I get acknowledge through you, you are my sixth sense. As I trust my mind, so I trust you. A friend could just be an object of the senses, but a sakha has become the very senses. The
sakha is the companion, who is there in the experiences of both - dukha and sukha. It means, one who leads you back to the Self. If you are stuck in an object, the wisdom that pulls you back to the Self is sakha.
****************************
Pls read this Brilliant analysis!!
THE BHISHMA WAY or THE JATAYU WAY
No two people respond to the same situation in a similar way.
Here are examples of two legendary personalities who were faced with a very similar situation, but their responses were diagonally apart.
This is a comparative study between Bhishma and Jatayu.
Both of them were confronted with character defining assault on womanhood.
One chose to die protecting the victim while the other chose to be a mute spectator of the crime.
1) *POWERFUL or POWERLESS*
Bhishma was a powerful warrior and if he wanted, he could have stopped the disrobing of Draupadi - the Queen but he chose to be a silent witness of this act whereas Jatayu was old and invalid and knew that in all probability, Ravana would kill him but still, he chose to try his best to protect Sita - the Queen.
Bhisma was powerful yet acted powerless whereas Jatayu was powerless yet acted powerful.
"Real power is not about physical strength but about the deep desire to help."
2) ALIVE or DEAD
Bhishma lived on but died everyday to his conscience whereas Jatayu died once but lived eternally true to his conscience.
"Our only constant companion is our conscience - better to be true to it."
3) FAME or INFAMY
Bhishma's name and fame went down in history because of this one act of not stopping the disrobing of Draupadi but Jatayu's name and fame went high in history because of his act of trying to save Sita.
" We are all going to be mere names in history, sooner or later. Will we be equated with the bad or the good - is our choice."
4) CULTURE or VULTURE
Bhishma was supposed to be a highly cultured human but acted highly insensitive and stooped low in values like a vulture whereas Jatayu was supposed to be a lowly uncultured vulture but acted highly sensitive and soared the skies in values like an evolved human. Who would you call as a human - Bhishma or Jatayu?
"One doesn't become a human being by being born as a human - one becomes a human being by being a human."
5) SPOKEN or UNSPOKEN WORDS
Draupadi begged and pleaded protection from Bhishma because she knew if someone could protect her it was only him but still Bhishma didn't protect her whereas Sita didn't even ask Jatayu for protection - she just wanted him to inform Rama about her kidnapping by Ravana because she knew Jatayu was not powerful but still Jatayu tried to protect Sita.
Bhishma being a human couldn't even understand the spoken words of Draupadi what to speak of understanding her unspoken words whereas Jatayu even though was a mere bird, understood not only the spoken words of Sita but also her unspoken words.
"The language of heart is more powerful than the language of words."
6) CLARITY or CONFUSION
Bhishma was confused regarding his Royal duty that he forgot that he had a higher duty - a moral duty whereas Jatayu was so clear about his moral duty that no other duty was a consideration for him.
"When caught up in dilemmas, best is to follow the higher principles - to follow our heart because it always knows the truth."
7) GOOD or BAD EXAMPLE
Bhishma set a very bad precedent for generations to come whereas Jatayu set the most ideal precedent for generations to come.
"If we can't be a great example atleast let us not be a bad one."
RELATIVE or STRANGER
Another interesting point is that Bhishma was an elderly relative of Draupadi but acted as a total stranger in this episode whereas Jatayu was not at all related to Sita, he was a stranger but acted more than a dearest relative.
"True relationships is based on heartly connections not just bodily connections."
9) THE SAINTLY or THE WICKED
Both, Bhishma and Jatayu had a few moments to decide what to do. Life, sometimes puts in situations where in a few moments we need to take crucial decisions.
What we decide very much depends on the kind of inner integrity we have cultivated by the association we keep.
Bhishma's intelligence was clouded and it failed the test of life because he associated with the wicked minded, selfish Kauravas whereas Jatayu's intelligence was crystal clear and it passed the test of life because he associated with the saintly, selfless Lakshman and the All-pure Lord Rama.
"After all, who we are solely depends on whom we associate with."
10) EMBRACE or NEGLECT
The Supreme Lord as Sri Krishna was not at all happy with this attitude of Bhishma so much so that when He came as a peace messenger to Hastinapur, He didn't even bother to look at Bhishma, what to speak of respecting him whereas The Supreme Lord as Ramachandra was so happy with the attitude of Jatayu that he embraced him and personally did his final rites - a honour that even Dasharath - His father didn't receive.
"The scriptures explain that the ultimate test of any activity is, if the Supreme Lord is pleased with us." It is very clear, Bhishma displeased God whereas Jatayu pleased Him.
This recount is not meant to criticize Bhishma - he is undoubtedly a great warrior and an amazing personality who sacrificed his personal desires for Hastinapur, but we do vehemently criticize his inaction. The end here is to learn from the choices made so that we are conscious history follows us.
When we see some injustice, some problem, we have only two options - either close your eyes to it or do something about it - follow "the Bhishma way" or "the Jatayu way" and whichever way we choose remember there will be consequences of our choices - "the Bhishma result" or "the Jatayu result".
**************************
Interesting Question asked - Why should the Prakriti (kinetic - matter principle) trigger the Purusha (potential - consciousness principle) to manifest??
Answer - Prakriti is all about manifestation and kinetic... Actually everything is non existent... You're a mere wave asking y a wave is formed?? You're not formed... You're the ocean - that has lost track of your identity with the ocean...
So this imaginary manifestation is Prakriti.... Very deep to contemplate......
The moment you drop your thought of being the wave, you become the ocean...
There are no separate theories - it's all in the mind and its vrittis... Drop the mind to become the divine... To realise you're the divine...
Analogy drawn -
You're nothing when compared to the universe and it's celestial structures... But within your home, you're the head of the house...
So, in a broader concept, you're nothing!! You're insignificant...
Insignificant means 0? If so, 0 is a subset of whole numbers. So that Insignificance means that we are part of the Universe.
When u exclude that insignificant “0”, its natural that we are part of the set Natural Numbers!
When all numbers including zero is deleted from the set, it becomes a Null set.
When u think u r insignificant you make the life of everyone incuding yourself “Whole” .
When u think u r significant, life is “Natural” for u and everyone alike.
When u delete all numbers (chitta vritti - thoughts and its modifications), u attain Nirvana!
See how “Significant” is “insignificance”!
This thinking trail is purely spiritual. Reasoning Advaitham, Dhvaitham and Nirvanam! Thanks for stirring my thoughts on Whole, Natural and Null sets!
Null is ok as long as not becoming “Nut”
***********************
As your soul becomes more and more aware, magical coincidences start happening. Things that happen in your life seem related to thoughts that occur in your mind. Ultimately you realise that you're the creator of your own reality. You're the Brahma.
*******************************
How are the mantras to be chanted so that we may master them and derive the full benefit from them? But first let us consider the faulty ways of chanting.
Giti sighri sirahkampi tatha likhitapathakah
Anarthajno lpakanthasca sadete pathakadhamah
"Giti" means one who chants a mantra as he likes setting it to tune, as it were, like a raga. The Vedas must be recited only in accordance with the tones appropriate to them. “Sighri" is one who hurries through a hymn. To derive the full benefit from the mantra the right matras must be maintained in the chanting. "Sirahkampi" denotes one who keeps shaking his head as the chants.
There must be a certain poise about the man who chants the Vedas. The nadi vibrations must be such as are naturally produced in the course of the intonation. There must be no other vibrations. If the head is shaken as in a music recital the nadi vibrations will be affected. The "likhitapathaka" is one who chants, reading from the written text. As I have said so often the Vedas must be taught and learned without the help of any written text. The "anarthanjna" is one who does not know the meaning (here one who does not know the meaning of what he chants). All those belonging to these six categories are described as "pathakadhamah" belonging to the lowest types among those who chant the Vedas.
**************************
Every thought, every reverberation you create on the level of the mind changes the chemistry in your body. #SadhguruQuotes
****************************
Aayanam
1) chaturaayanam - 4 gates
2) urdhvaayanam - 5th gate - turiya
3) anuthara aayanam - true liberation - turiya atheeta
************************
Spotlight - one can pray for spotlight but to enjoy the same, one can
1) open eyes - jump, dance and celebrate it
2) open eyes - just sit with a big smile and enjoy it
3) close one's eyes, realise it is there and dwell on it - so mind is fully focused on it with closed eyes.
4) close eyes - continue praying for it, not realising you've already got it - totally unaware, ignorant of it, crying for it...
Ocean - wave theory - You can choose to be the temporary wave or the mighty ocean
Geometry - Point-Straight line theory - You can choose to be the point on the straight line and at the same time, consider yourself extending infinitely on either side
*************************
Source: Internet and a few attempted by the self...
