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be always hopefull like the sunflowerThathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-5224495076502638822012-04-29T13:58:00.000+05:302013-03-17T19:35:21.689+05:30mantras for daily chanting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tasmayi Shri Guruvae Namah
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Hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom hariom<br />
pls dearest frnd chant this most divine mantra for all around success in life chant te following mantra 21 times before going for any job blessu blessu blessu om om om<br />
" yatra yogesvarah krishno yatra partho dhanur-dharah tatra shree vijaya o bhutirdhruva nitir matir mama "<br />
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chant this most holy mantra from Sreemad bhagvad gita daily 21 times<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">yatra yogeshvarah krishno yatra partho dhanur-dharah tatra shree vijaya o bhutirdhruva nitir matir mama</span><br />
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Wherever there is Bhagvan Krishna the lord of Yoga ,the master of all mystics, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, goodness opulence, victory, glory extraordinary power, and unfailing righteousness will surely be there : such is my conviction<br />
u will blessed with all the prosperity & success in ur life by bhagvan<br />
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Shantaakaaram Bhujagshayanam Padmanabh suresham
Vishwaadhaaram gagansadresham Megha varnam shubhaangam
Lakshamikaantam kamalanayanam Yogi bhridyanagamyam
Vande Vishnum Bhava Bhaya haram Sarva Lokaikanatham
Yam Brahmaa Varunendra Rudra Marutha Sthunvanti divayi hi
Sthwayi vedayi hi sang kramopnishadayai gaayanti yam Samagaaha
Dhyaanaavastitha tad gatena manasa Pashyanteeyam yoginaha
Yasyantham na viduha surasurgana devaaye tasmayi Namaha.<br />
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O' thou who reposes in peace rests on the great coiled serpent ,the sacred lotus springs from thy navel o' lord thou art the universe & heavens & the lord of the devas, who sustains the universe, who is boundless & infinite like sky, blue as cloud whos colour is & who has beautiful & auspicious body, who is the lover goddess lakshmi ,who has lotus like eyes & who is attainable by yogis by meditation
Salutions to that Vishnu who removes the fear of worldy existense & whois the lord of all the devas
thou are blessing, who brahmaa the creater & Rudra the destroyer & the gods of water rain & wind praise with songs divine
whom the chanters of samaveda praise formly observing the rules of scriptures ,whom the yogis engrossed in meditation see clearly in the mind's eye who's limits are unknown to even gods & demons, bow to that lord vishnu<br />
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Chant every morning when wake up inthe good morning<br />
pls do the chanting the nine holy names of nine immortals<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;">"ashwathama bali vyasa hanuman jammbvan kripaha parushurama vibhishana markandeya "</span><br />
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Mantra for treatment by touch<br />
its very simple & very divine & holy
first see ur hands & say the following mantra & then rub ur hands ur palms with each other then<br />
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Ayam Me Hasto Bhagwan
Ayam Me Bhagavattara<br />
Ayam Me Vishwa Bheshajo
Ayam Shivaabhimarshanah<br />
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Meaning:
Both my hands are divine. They can bring prosperity.
They can give a soothing effect.
Moreover, they are more powerful than being simply divine.
All medicines for the diseases of the world lie on my hands.
Touch of hands is capable for well being and healing.<br />
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& then chant the holy mantra for eyesight blessu
chant the following holy mantra while rubbing the palms with each other gently<br />
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Om mam netrajyoti jagra jagra
omshanti<br />
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please gently very softly place ur soft palms (very softly & gently) very slightly on ur eyes on closed eyelids omshanti softly<br />
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& chant this five holy names after food<br />
Devi Sukanya Maharishi Chyavan( the holy Rishi couple) , Indra ( lord of heavens), Ashwini kumaras( the twin divine physicians)
Devi Sukanya Maharishi Chyavan , Indra & Ashwini kumaras
i remember these five holy names may i be blessed with good eyesight & good health always om om om
omshanti omshanti<br />
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ur eyesight will be fine & great blessu blessu blessu om om om
& eat seven almonds with sugar candy & milk everyday u will be blessed with beautifull & great eyesight blessu always good health & long life om om om<br />
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Health Protection Mantra<br />
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ॐ हंसं हंसः<br />
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Om hansam hansaha<br />
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A very divine Mantra for gaining good health,chant every morning 1 mala means 108 times with sincere devotion faithfully
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A Mantra useful in controlling mind emotions& becoming glorious & intelligent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Take some milk in a cup. While gazing at the milk, repeat the following mantra twenty-one times and thereafter drink the milk. This is an excellent aid to Brahmacharya. This Mantra is worth remembering by heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Om namo bhagwate mahabale parakramaay manobhilashitam manah stambh kuru kuru swaha |</span></div>
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Divine Mantras<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a beeja mantra KHAM </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">do this 50 mala or aleast one mala 108 times before a glass of water daily , if u can put a tulsi leaves in that water its is best and drink that water</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this will cure all bp & heart & liver related problems hariomshanti</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 0.21in;">Dharmaraaja mantra for cuing all </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">diseases </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'BRH Devanagari'; font-size: small; line-height: 18px;">ॐ क्रौं ह्रीं आं वैवस्वताय धर्मराजाय भक्तानुग्रहक्रते नमः ।</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">aum kraum hrim aam vaivasvataya dharmarajaya bhakta anugrahakrte namah</span></span>
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chant above mantra daily 108 times in the morning<br />
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Achyutaaye Govindaaye Anantaaye Naam Bheshjaam,<br />
Nashyanti Sarv Rogaani Satyam Satyam Vadamyaham."<br />
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Meaning:We invoke the Lord by chanting His Names -<br />
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1. Achyutaaye - The Lord Who never declines.
2. Govindaaye - The Lord by Whose Grace the senses operate in the body
3. Anantaaye - The Lord Who is Limitless and All Powerful
take a breath inhale normaly & chant this holy mantra while holding the breath for atmost 1 min & after chanting exale the breath normaly
By chanting the Lord's Names, ALL diseases of the body, mind, intellect are destroyed - of this, there is no doubt.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Mantra To Elleviate Sudden Trouble</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Chanting this mantra 108 times everyday, elleviates one from miseries and sudden trouble.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">ॐ रां रां रां रां रां रां रां रां मम् कष्टं स्वाहा</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">" Aum raan raan raan raan raan raan raan raan mam kashtam svaahaa "</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Note:- in above mantra raan is for 8 times</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">buddhi vivek vigyaan nidhaana ||</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Do one mala means 108 times chanting daily of above mantra to get true results of court-cases. Keep your court related files in North-East direction not locked in cupboard or lockers Almirah. in ur room or ur house , which u prefer as safer,Keep the file in lotus feet of your beloved Ishta or Sri Hanumanji's idol or image or photo </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">& then do this Stuti</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Kavan so kaaj katheena jag mahi</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Jo nahi hoi tat tum Pahi</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">with atmost devotion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'BRH Devanagari';"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">om namah bhagyalakshmi cha vidmahe|</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">ashtalakshmi cha dheemahi | tanno lakshmi prachodayaat |</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'BRH Devanagari'; font-size: small;">निरोगी व श्री सम्पन्न होने के लिये </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'BRH Devanagari'; font-size: small;"><br />ॐ हुं विष्णवे नमः ।</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">tobecome prosperous & healthy do one mala of aboye holy mantra</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">‘tam’ (टं)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">is a beej mantra, representing chandradeva, the presiding deity of the Moon. The japa of this mantra is just enough to do away with the sudden impediment inflicting your life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Write ‘tam’(टं) on a piece of ‘Bhojpatra' and insert it into an amulet. Then put this amulet on your right hand. This will remove all sorts of obstacles out of your way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Just wear an amulet having in it the mantra, ‘tam’(टं)written eleven times on a piece of paper.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">keep this withu, This will also remove all sorts of obstacles out of your way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'BRH Devanagari'; line-height: 18px;"><br />ॐ घं काली कालीकायै नमः |</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Om gham kaalee kaaleekaayai namah </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">|</span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Mantra for Marriage only for females</b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"><br />जय जय गिरिवर राज किशोरी, जय महेश मुख चंद्र चकोरी</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">jai jai girivar raaj kishori , jai mahesh mukh chandra chakori</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Om Namo Bhagvate Vaasudevaaya</span><br />
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chant this holy mantra 108 times before going to journeys<br />
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Mantra of mother shakti for protection<br />
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Om Hreem Om<br />
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chant108 times means one mala daily<br />
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for all around protection and safety<br />
always chant the most holy mantra<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Narsimha Maha Mantra</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> for protection from all dangers & fears</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">" Om Ugrram Veeram Maha Vishnum Jvaalantam Sarvatho mukham</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">when any danger or fear for lifecomes then,don't worry , chant this most powerfull mantra</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">all troubles dangers & fears will be gone forever</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><i>Om Trayambakam Yajaamahe Sugandhim Pushtivardhnam</i></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><i> Urvvarukamiva Bandhanaan Mrityormuksheeya Maamrataat Om</i></span>
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महा मृत्युंजय मंत्र<br />
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Om Haum Joom Saha | Om Bhoorbhuvaha Svaha | Om Trayambakam Yajaamahe Sugandhim Pushtivardhnam Urvvarukamiva Bandhanaan Mrityormuksheeya Maamrataat Om | Svaha Bhuvaha Bhooh Om | Saha joom haum om |<br />
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Thathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-85194658535252207522012-04-09T16:33:00.000+05:302012-05-04T16:34:17.005+05:30Swami Vivekananda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Swami Vivekananda स्वामी विवेकानन्द (January 12, 1863–July 4, 1902)<br />
Swami Vivekananda’s inspiring personality is well known all around the World.</div>
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In his own motherland Vivekananda is regarded as the patriot saint of modern India and an inspirer of her dormant national consciousness. To the Hindus he preached the ideal of a strength-giving and man-making religion. Service to man as the visible manifestation of the Godhead was the special form of worship he advocated for the Indians, devoted as they were to the rituals and myths of their ancient faith. Many political leaders of India have publicly acknowledged their indebtedness to Swami Vivekananda.</div>
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The Swami’s mission was both national and international. A lover of mankind, he strove to promote peace and human brotherhood on the spiritual foundation of the Vedantic Oneness of existence. A mystic of the highest order, Vivekananda had a direct and intuitive experience of Reality. He derived his ideas from that unfailing source of wisdom and often presented them in the soul-stirring language of poetry.</div>
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The natural tendency of Vivekananda’s mind, like that of his Master, Ramakrishna, was to soar above the world and forget itself in contemplation of the Absolute. But another part of his personality bled at the sight of human suffering in East and West alike. It might appear that his mind seldom found a point of rest in its oscillation between contemplation of God and service to man. Be that as it may, he chose, in obedience to a higher call, service to man as his mission on earth; and this choice has endeared him to people in the West, Americans in particular.</div>
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In the course of a short life of thirty-nine years (1863-1902), of which only ten were devoted to public activities — and those, too, in the midst of acute physical suffering — he left for posterity his four classics: Jnana-Yoga, Bhakti-Yoga, Karma-Yoga, and Raja-Yoga, all of which are outstanding treatises on Hindu philosophy. In addition, he delivered innumerable lectures, wrote inspired letters in his own hand to his many friends and disciples, composed numerous poems, and acted as spiritual guide to the many seekers who came to him for instruction. He also organized the Ramakrishna Order of monks, which is the most outstanding religious organization of modern India. It is devoted to the propagation of the Hindu spiritual culture not only in the Swami’s native land, but also in America and in other parts of the world.</div>
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Swami Vivekananda once spoke of himself as a ‘condensed India.’ His life and teachings are of inestimable value to the West for an understanding of the mind of Asia. William James, the Harvard philosopher, called the Swami the ‘paragon of Vedantists.’ Max Müller and Paul Deussen, the famous Orientalists of the nineteenth century, held him in genuine respect and affection. ‘His words,’ writes Romain Rolland, ‘are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years’ distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!’</div>
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“I fervently hope that the bell that tolled this morning in honour of this convention may be the death-knell of all fanaticism, of all persecutions with the sword or with the pen, and of all uncharitable feelings between persons wending their way to the same goal.”</div>
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Swami Vivekananda<br />
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Narendranath Dutta was the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and the founder of Ramakrishna Mission. He is considered a key figure in the introduction of Hindu philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga in Europe and America and is also credited with raising interfaith awareness, bringing Hinduism to the status of a world religion during the end of the 19th century.Vivekananda is considered to be a major force in the revival of Hinduism in modern India. He is perhaps best known for his inspiring speech beginning with “Sisters and Brothers of America”, through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions at Chicago in 1893. Swami Vivekananda was born in an aristocratic Bengali family of Calcutta in 1863. Swami’s parents influenced his thinking—the father by his rational mind and the mother by her religious temperament. From his childhood, he showed inclination towards spirituality and God realization. While searching for a man who could directly demonstrate the reality of God, he came to Ramakrishna and became his disciple. As a guru, Ramakrishna taught him Advaita Vedanta (non-dualism) and that all religions are true, and service to man was the most effective worship of God. After the death of his Guru, Vivekananda became a wandering monk, touring the Indian subcontinent and getting first-hand knowledge of India’s condition. He later sailed to Chicago and represented India as a delegate in the 1893 Parliament of World Religions. An eloquent speaker, Vivekananda was invited to several forums in the United States and spoke at universities and clubs. He conducted hundreds of public and private lectures and classes, disseminating Vedanta and Yoga in America, England and a few other countries in Europe. He also established the Vedanta societies in America and England. Later he sailed back to India and in 1897 founded the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, a philanthropic and spiritual organization.</div>
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For the first time in history, as has been said elsewhere, Hinduism itself forms here the subject of generalisation of a Hindu mind of the highest order. For ages to come the Hindu man who would verify, the Hindu mother who would teach her children, what was the faith of their ancestors will turn to the pages of these books for assurance and light. Long after the English language has disappeared from India, the gift that has here been made, through that language, to the world, will remain and bear its fruit in East and West alike. What Hinduism had needed, was the organising and consolidating of its own idea. What the world had needed was a faith that had no fear of truth. Both these are found here. Nor could any greater proof have been given of the eternal vigour of the Sanâtana Dharma, of the fact that India is as great in the present as ever in the past, than this rise of the individual who, at the critical moment, gathers up and voices the communal consciousness.</div>
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That India should have found her own need satisfied only in carrying to the humanity outside her borders the bread of life is what might have been foreseen. Nor did it happen on this occasion for the first time. It was once before in sending out to the sister lands the message of a nation-making faith that India learnt as a whole to understand the greatness of her own thought — a self-unification that gave birth to modern Hinduism itself. Never may we allow it to be forgotten that on Indian soil first was heard the command from a Teacher to His disciples: “Go ye out into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature!” It is the same thought, the same impulse of love, taking to itself a new shape, that is uttered by the lips of the Swami Vivekananda, when to a great gathering in the West he says: “If one religion true, then all the others also must be true. Thus the Hindu faith is yours as much as mine.” And again, in amplification of the same idea: “We Hindus do not merely tolerate, we unite ourselves with every religion, praying in the mosque of the Mohammedan, worshipping before the fire of the Zoroastrian, and kneeling to the cross of the Christian. We know that all religions alike, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, are but so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realise the Infinite. So we gather all these flowers, and, binding them together with the cord of love, make them into a wonderful bouquet of worship.” To the heart of this speaker, none was foreign or alien. For him, there existed only Humanity and Truth.</div>
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Of the Swami’s address before the Parliament of Religions, it may be said that when he began to speak it was of “the religious ideas of the Hindus”, but when he ended, Hinduism had been created. The moment was ripe with this potentiality. The vast audience that faced him represented exclusively the occidental mind, but included some development of all that in this was most distinctive. Every nation in Europe has poured in its human contribution upon America, and notably upon Chicago, where the Parliament was held. Much of the best, as well as some of the worst, of modern effort and struggle, is at all times to be met with, within the frontiers of that Western Civic Queen, whose feet are upon the shores of Lake Michigan, as she sits and broods, with the light of the North in her eyes. There is very little in the modern consciousness, very little inherited from the past of Europe, that does not hold some outpost in the city of Chicago. And while the teeming life and eager interests of that centre may seem to some of us for the present largely a chaos, yet they are undoubtedly making for the revealing of some noble and slow-wrought ideal of human unity, when the days of their ripening shall be fully accomplished.</div>
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Such was the psychological area, such the sea of mind, young, tumultuous, overflowing with its own energy and self-assurance, yet inquisitive and alert withal, which confronted Vivekananda when he rose to speak. Behind him, on the contrary, lay an ocean, calm with long ages of spiritual development. Behind him lay a world that dated itself from the Vedas, and remembered itself in the Upanishads, a world to which Buddhism was almost modern; a world that was filled with religious systems of faiths and creeds; a quiet land, steeped in the sunlight of the tropics, the dust of whose roads had been trodden by the feet of the saints for ages upon ages. Behind him, in short, lay India, with her thousands of years of national development, in which she had sounded many things, proved many things, and realised almost all, save only her own perfect unanimity, from end to end of her great expanse of time and space, as to certain fundamental and essential truths, held by all her people in common.</div>
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These, then, were the two mind-floods, two immense rivers of thought, as it were, Eastern and modern, of which the yellow-clad wanderer on the platform of the Parliament of Religions formed for a moment the point of confluence. The formulation of the common bases of Hinduism was the inevitable result of the shock of their contact, in a personality, so impersonal. For it was no experience of his own that rose to the lips of the Swami Vivekananda there. He did not even take advantage of the occasion to tell the story of his Master. Instead of either of these, it was the religious consciousness of India that spoke through him, the message of his whole people, as determined by their whole past. And as he spoke, in the youth and noonday of the West, a nation, sleeping in the shadows of the darkened half of earth, on the far side of the Pacific, waited in spirit for the words that would be borne on the dawn that was travelling towards them, to reveal to them the secret of their own greatness and strength.</div>
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Others stood beside the Swami Vivekananda, on the same platform as he, as apostles of particular creeds and churches. But it was his glory that he came to preach a religion to which each of these was, in his own words, “only a travelling, a coming up, of different men, and women, through various conditions and circumstances to the same goal”. He stood there, as he declared, to tell of One who had said of them all, not that one or another was true, in this or that respect, or for this or that reason, but that “All these are threaded upon Me, as pearls upon a string. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power, raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.” To the Hindu, says Vivekananda, “Man is not travelling from error to truth, but climbing up from truth to truth, from truth that is lower to truth that is higher.” This, and the teaching of Mukti — the doctrine that “man is to become divine by realising the divine,” that religion is perfected in us only when it has led us to “Him who is the one life in a universe of death, Him who is the constant basis of an ever-changing world, that One who is the only soul, of which all souls are but delusive manifestations” — may be taken as the two great outstanding truths which, authenticated by the longest and most complex experience in human history, India proclaimed through him to the modern world of the West.</div>
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For India herself, the short address forms, as has been said, a brief Charter of Enfranchisement. Hinduism in its wholeness the speaker bases on the Vedas, but he spiritualises our conception of the word, even while he utters it. To him, all that is true is Veda. “By the Vedas,” he says, “no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times.” Incidentally, he discloses his conception of the Sanatana Dharma. “From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the lowest ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists, and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu’s religion.” To his mind, there could be no sect, no school, no sincere religious experience of the Indian people — however like an aberration it might seem to the individual — that might rightly be excluded from the embrace of Hinduism. And of this Indian Mother-Church, according to him, the distinctive doctrine is that of the Ishta Devatâ, the right of each soul to choose its own path, and to seek God in its own way. No army, then, carries the banner of so wide an Empire as that of Hinduism, thus defined. For as her spiritual goal is the finding of God, even so is her spiritual rule the perfect freedom of every soul to be itself.</div>
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Yet would not this inclusion of all, this freedom of each, be the glory of Hinduism that it is, were it not for her supreme call, of sweetest promise: “Hear, ye children of immortal bliss! Even ye that dwell in higher spheres! For I have found that Ancient One who is beyond all darkness, all delusion. And knowing Him, ye also shall be saved from death.” Here is the word for the sake of which all the rest exists and has existed. Here is the crowning realisation, into which all others are resolvable. When, in his lecture on “The Work Before Us,” the Swami adjures all to aid him in the building of a temple wherein every worshipper in the land can worship, a temple whose shrine shall contain only the word Om, there are some of us who catch in the utterance the glimpse of a still greater temple — India herself, the Motherland, as she already exists — and see the paths, not of the Indian churches alone, but of all Humanity, converging there, at the foot of that sacred place wherein is set the symbol that is no symbol, the name that is beyond all sound. It is to this, and not away from it, that all the paths of all the worships and all the religious systems lead. India is at one with the most puritan faiths of the world in her declaration that progress is from seen to unseen, from the many to the One, from the low to the high, from the form to the formless, and never in the reverse direction. She differs only in having a word of sympathy and promise for every sincere conviction, wherever and whatever it may be, as constituting a step in the great ascent.</div>
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The Swami Vivekananda would have been less than he was, had anything in this Evangel of Hinduism been his own. Like the Krishna of the Gitâ, like Buddha, like Shankarâchârya, like every great teacher that Indian thought has known, his sentences are laden with quotations from the Vedas and Upanishads. He stands merely as the Revealer, the Interpreter to India of the treasures that she herself possesses in herself. The truths he preaches would have been as true, had he never been born. Nay more, they would have been equally authentic. The difference would have lain in their difficulty of access, in their want of modern clearness and incisiveness of statement, and in their loss of mutual coherence and unity. Had he not lived, texts that today will carry the bread of life to thousands might have remained the obscure disputes of scholars. He taught with authority, and not as one of the Pandits. For he himself had plunged to the depths of the realisation which he preached, and he came back like Ramanuja only to tell its secrets to the pariah, the outcast, and the foreigner.</div>
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And yet this statement that his teaching holds nothing new is not absolutely true. It must never be forgotten that it was the Swami Vivekananda who, while proclaiming the sovereignty of the Advaita Philosophy, as including that experience in which all is one, without a second, also added to Hinduism the doctrine that Dvaita, Vishishtâdvaita, and Advaita are but three phases or stages in a single development, of which the last-named constitutes the goal. This is part and parcel of the still greater and more simple doctrine that the many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the mind at different times and in different attitudes; or as Sri Ramakrishna expressed the same thing, “God is both with form and without form. And He is that which includes both form and formlessness.”</div>
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It is this which adds its crowning significance to our Master’s life, for here he becomes the meeting-point, not only of East and West, but also of past and future. If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realisation. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.</div>
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This is the realisation which makes Vivekananda the great preacher of Karma, not as divorced from, but as expressing Jnâna and Bhakti. To him, the workshop, the study, the farmyard, and the field are as true and fit scenes for the meeting of God with man as the cell of the monk or the door of the temple. To him, there is no difference between service of man and worship of God, between manliness and faith, between true righteousness and spirituality. All his words, from one point of view, read as a commentary upon this central conviction. “Art, science, and religion”, he said once, “are but three different ways of expressing a single truth. But in order to understand this we must have the theory of Advaita.”</div>
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The formative influence that went to the determining of his vision may perhaps be regarded as threefold. There was, first, his literary education, in Sanskrit and English. The contrast between the two worlds thus opened to him carried with it a strong impression of that particular experience which formed the theme of the Indian sacred books. It was evident that this, if true at all, had not been stumbled upon by Indian sages, as by some others, in a kind of accident. Rather was it the subject-matter of a science, the object of a logical analysis that shrank from no sacrifice which the pursuit of truth demanded.</div>
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In his Master, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, living and teaching in the temple-garden at Dakshineshwar, the Swami Vivekananda — “Naren” as he then was — found that verification of the ancient texts which his heart and his reason had demanded. Here was the reality which the books only brokenly described. Here was one to whom Samâdhi was a constant mode of knowledge. Every hour saw the swing of the mind from the many to the One. Every moment heard the utterance of wisdom gathered superconsciously. Everyone about him caught the vision of the divine. Upon the disciple came the desire for supreme knowledge “as if it had been a fever”. Yet he who was thus the living embodiment of the books was so unconsciously, for he had read none of them! In his Guru, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Vivekananda found the key to life.</div>
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Even now, however, the preparation for his own task was not complete. He had yet to wander throughout the length and breadth of India, from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, mixing with saints and scholars and simple souls alike, learning from all, teaching to all, and living with all, seeing India as she was and is, and so grasping in its comprehensiveness that vast whole, of which his Master’s life and personality had been a brief and intense epitome.</div>
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These, then — the Shâstras, the Guru, and the Motherland — are the three notes that mingle themselves to form the music of the works of Vivekananda. These are the treasure which it is his to offer. These furnish him with the ingredients whereof he compounds the world’s heal-all of his spiritual bounty. These are the three lights burning within that single lamp which India by his hand lighted and set up, for the guidance of her own children and of the world in the few years of work between September 19, 1893 and July 4, 1902. And some of us there are, who, for the sake of that lighting, and of this record that he has left behind him, bless the land that bore him and the hands of those who sent him forth, and believe that not even yet has it been given to us to understand the vastness and significance of the message that he spoke</div>
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Swami Vivekananda<br />
The valiant monk who proclaimed in America the greatness of Hinduism and of Indian culture at a time when the West regarded India as a land of barbarians. He dedicated his life to the country and yearned for the progress of the poor, the helpless and the downtrodden. He was the great thinker and mighty man of action whose ringing words galvanized the slumbering Indians. For ages to come he will be a source of inspiration. Some examples are here: </div>
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“Brothers and sisters, the long night is at last drawing to a close. Miseries and sorrows are disappearing. Ours is a sacred country. She is gradually waking up, thanks to the fresh breeze all around. Her might no one can overcome.”</div>
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“Are you prepared for all sacrifices for the sake of our motherland? If you are, then you can rid the land of poverty and ignorance. Do you know that millions of our countrymen are starving and miserable? Do you feel for them? Do you so much as shed a tear for them?”</div>
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“Have you the courage to face any hurdles, however formidable? Have you the determination to pursue your goal, even if those near and dear to you oppose you? You can be free men only if you have confidence in yourselves. You should develop a strong physique. You should shape your mind through study and mediation. Only then will victory be yours.”</div>
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“I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of the dust of this land seems sacred to me.”</div>
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Real name Narendra Nath Dutta. His father was Vishwantha Datta and mother Bhuvaneshwari Devi. Narendra was born on 12th January 1863 in Calcutta. As a child he was very lively and naughty. When Narendra stepped into boyhood, his naughtiness grew. Once a landlord threatened the children saying, “There is a demon in the tree and he swallows children.” Narendra was not impressed by this threat. He settled down on a branch. The other boys took to their heels. Narendra waited for several hours, but the demon did not appear. So, he declared that the landlord’s story was a spoof.<br />
Narendra’s father was a lawyer. So every day his house used to be crowded with his clients belonging to different castes. The clients had breakfast and lunch there. It was the custom to provide the guests with hukkas (long pipes) for smoke after food. There was a different pipe for clients of each caste. Narendra wondered what would happen if he smoked the pipe meant for people of a different caste. Finally he experimented and nothing strange happened. He concluded that caste had no meaning.<br />
He was quick and alert in his studies as well. After a single reading he could remember any lesson. His memory was amazing. Concentration was the key to his success. By 1880, Narendra passed his Matriculation and Entrance Examination. He joined a college. Day by day, his thirst for knowledge increased. He would borrow books from the library which are not related to the prescribed courses and read them to satisfy his thirst. He was particularly fascinated by the secrets of God’s creation. Apart from history and science, he was well read in Western philosophy.<br />
As he advanced in his studies, his thinking faculty developed. Doubts and uncertainties overtook him. He gave up blind beliefs but could not realize the truth. He placed his doubts before eminent scholars and sought their guidance. These scholars excelled in debate. But their logic did not convince Narendra. Their line of thinking was stale. It did not convince him, for none of them had direct experience of God.<br />
Sri Ramakrishna was a priest in a temple of Goddess Kali. He was not a scholar. But he was a great devotee. It was being said of him that he had realized God. Scholars who went to him became his disciples. Once, Narendra went with his friends to Dakshineswar to see him. Sri Ramakrishna sat surrounded by his disciples; he was immersed in discussions about God. Narendra sat in a corner with his friends. Narendra’s attractive figure and shining eyes filled him with wonder.<br />
“Can you sing?” he asked Narendra.<br />
Narendra sang a couple of Bengali songs in a melodious voice. He patted Narendra on the back and said, “My child, why are you so late? I have grown weary, waiting for all these days. I wanted to share my experiences with the right person.” And he broke down. Sri Ramakrishna’s behavior puzzled Narendra. He thought the elderly man was mad. “Will you come again? Promise me you will”, pleaded Ramakrishna. Eager to escape from him, Narendra said, “Yes, but , have you seen God?” “Of course I have. I have seen him just as I’m looking at you. I have even talked to him. I can show him to you. But who is yearning to see God?” replied Ramakrishna. Narendra said to himself, “Till today no one had told me he had seen God. This man looks mentally deranged; possibly he is even mad. However, it is not proper to judge without investigating.” A month passed. Narendra went alone to Dakshineswar. Ramakrishna was resting on a cot in his room. He was pleased to see Narendra; It did not take a long time for Sri Ramakrishna to realize the greatness of Narendra. Moreover, he was guided by the will of Goddess Kali. But young Narendra would not accept Ramakrishna as his guru without a test. Ramakrishna used to say that, in order to realize God, one should give up the desire for money. One day Narendra hid a rupee under his pillow. Sri RamaKrishna, who had gone out, came into the room and stretched himself on the cot. At once he jumped up as if bitten by a scorpion. When he shook the mattress, the rupee coin fell down. Later he came to know that it was the doing of Narendra.</div>
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Narendra was Ramakrishna’s favorite disciple. But he would not accept as gospel truth all that Narendra said. Narendra was highly critical of people who worshipped idols. He rejected the theory of “Advaita” (monism). He had no faith in mystic experiences. Advaitic assertions such as “I am Brahman”, “I am Shiva” did not impress Narendra. But Sri Ramakrishna would always bring him back to the right path by saying, “There are many roads to reach a destination. No one has the right to say that the path the other man takes is not the right one. It is improper to pass judgement on anything that one does not understand.” One day Sri Ramakrishna took Narendra to a secluded place. He said, “I have attained some powers after a long period of meditation. They will give whatever a man wants. I have given up all desire, and so I have no use for these powers. Shall I bestow these powers on you?”<br />
“But will they help me to realize the self?” – asked Narendra.<br />
“No,” said Sri Ramakrishna.<br />
“Then I do not want them. More than anything, I want to realize God.” Narendra’s reply filled Ramakrishna with joy. The Master had tested Narendra, and Narendra had passed the test. Gradually Narendra turned towards renunciation, giving up all worldly desires. The parents came to know of this. He was then studying for his BA degree examination. In 1884, Narendra passed the BA degree examination. A friend of his hosted a party. As Narendra was singing at the party, the news of his father’s death came like a bolt from the blue. Poverty hit the family immediately after the father’s death. The moneylenders began to harass the family. Some of them even went to a court of law. Narendra wandered far and wide looking for a job. His clothes were tattered and torn; and it was difficult even to get one meal a day. Many a day he fasted so that his mother and his brothers and sisters might have something to eat. He would tell them that he had eaten with a friend. Sometimes he would faint with hunger and fall down in the street. But in spite of such overwhelming misfortune he never lost faith in God. Sri Ramakrishna would console him saying, “You are here to serve mankind and do mother Kali’s work. You should be brave.” One day he said to himself: “God gives whatever my Guru seeks. So it is best to seek my Guru’s help.” He went straight to his Guru and said, “On my behalf kindly pray before the Goddess to rid me of this poverty. She will give you whatever you wish for, won’t she?” The Guru said, “My child, you have no faith in Her, why then will she listen to my prayer? You approach Her yourself. Then she will fulfil you need.” So in the dead of night Narendra stood before the idol of Goddess Kali. He lost himself in deep meditation. He begged the Goddess, “O Mother, bestow on me the spirit of renunciation. Let me see you, that is all I beg of you.” When he came out, the Guru asked, “Did you submit your prayer to Her? And what did She say?” Narendra said in dismay, “O! Forgot about it completely.” “Then go back and ask Her,” said the Guru. Again he forgot to speak about his poverty in his prayer to the Goddess. Again the Guru sent him. Back came Narendra and the same thing happened. The Guru’s joy knew no bounds. “My child, you should not crave for only food and clothes. They are not the ultimate goals of man. Have faith in God. He will look after the welfare of your family,” said the Guru.<br />
Later Narendra took up the profession of teaching. For some time he taught in the Vidyasagar School. Now the family had at least enough food. While he worked as a teacher he continued his study of law. His Guru’s health broke down. Sri Rama krishna developed a tumor in the throat. Narendra gave up both his job and his studies and devoted all his time to nursing his Master. Once, while Narendra was in meditation he shouted, “Where is my body?” Others had to touch his body and convince him of its existence. When Sri Ramakrishna heard this episode, he was happy that at last his desire to find a worthy disciple had been fulfilled.</div>
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The disciples nursed the Guru to the best of their ability. But the thought that the Guru would not recover from the illness agonized them. His end was drawing near. On the last day he called Narendra to his bedside and touched him. He invested Narendra with all his spiritual powers. He said, “Naren, now you are all-powerful. All these are my children. It is your duty to take care of them.” These words filled Narendra’s heart with grief. He went out of the room weeping like a child. After the passing away of Sri Rama Krishna, the young disciples went to live in a rented house in Baranagar. Although old, the house was far away from the noise and bustle of the city; and it was on the banks of the river Ganga. It was very close to the tomb of Sri Ramakrishna. So, the Mutt (monastery) was opened there. The young monks had two goals-salvation and the service of fellow men. Some young men left their homes and became monks and joined the Mutt. Narendra became a monk and headed the institution. The young sannyasis were unmindful of lack of food and clothing. But even when they fasted they did not neglect their studies and meditation. Narendra taught his brethren Sanskrit and Philosophy. To visitors he expounded the teachings of the Master. As a sannyasi, one cannot be tied to a particular place. Even the Mutt is a kind of a prison. Attachment to a particular place is also wrong.<br />
It was the great good fortune of India that Narendra took to sannyasa and became ‘ Vivekananda’. India became his home and its inhabitants his brothers. The sacred task of wiping the tears of his unfortunate brothers was dear to his heart. He had to travel all over the country. His assets were – a saffron robe, ‘Kamandalu’ (an ascetic’s waterpot) and ‘danda’ (staff). On his way he visited many holy places. He lodged at huts and choultries and slept on the bare ground. He satisfied his hunger by begging for food. He was in the company of sadhus, spending the time in religious discussions and holy rituals. He traveled on foot or by any vehicle whose driver was hospitable. Varanasi was the first city that Vivekanda visited. During his stay there, he met many scholars and exchanged ideas with them. In philosophical disputations he triumphed over them. In Ayodhya, his imagination pulsated with the memory of Sri Rama and Sita. In Agra the Taj Mahal filled him with wonder. On his way to Brindavan, he smoked a hukka borrowed from a passer-by that was a fisherman; he drank water in a pariah’s house; begged for alms and accepted food from a cobbler. As he stepped into Brindavan (where Lord Krishna is believed to have lived); he was in ecstasy.</div>
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At Alwar, some Muslims became his disciples. While Swamiji used to eat in their houses, he became acquainted with Maharaja Mangal Singh. Initially the Prince had no faith in the Swami. There was a heated debate between the two. “Swamiji, I have no faith in idol worship,” said the Maharaja. The Swamiji replied, “An idol is only a symbol. It is not something to sneer at. Every devotee has his own way of realizing God. It depends on the individual’s devotion.” The Prince was not satisfied with Swamiji’s explanation. There was a portrait of the Maharaja on the wall. The Swamiji asked the Diwan (chief minister) by his side, “Whose picture is that?” “The Maharaja’s,” replied the Diwan. Vivekananda said, “Spit on it.” The Diwan was taken aback. “Why are you unhappy?” asked the Swamiji. The Diwan thought this man was certainly mad. Swamiji explained: “After all, the photograph is just a shadow of your Maharaja. It is devoid of flesh and blood.” “But then it reminds us of the Maharaja, does it not?” said the Diwan. Wisdom then dawned on the Maharaja. He apologized to the Swamiji. Later the Swamiji went to Mount Abu, passing through jaipur and Ajmer. He spent some time in tapas (prayer and meditation) in a cave. While Swamiji was travelling by train, in Rajasthan an interesting incident took place. He was resting in a second class compartment. Two Englishmen were profusely hurling abuses at him. They were under the impression that the Swamiji did not know English. When the train reached the station. Swamiji asked an official, in English, for a glass of water. The Englishmen were surprised; they asked Swamiji why he was silent though he could understand them. Swamiji snapped back, “This is not the first time I have met fools.” The Englishmen were enraged, but Swamiji’s formidable physique silenced them. During his travel, Swamiji could travel by train only if somebody bought him his ticket. Otherwise, he had to travel on foot. He had to starve most of the time for he had no money. Once it happened that a merchant travelling with him was helping himself to varieties of eatables. Swamiji was hungry and tired. But he did not beg for food. The merchant spoke to him tauntingly and said, “You are an idler. You wear the saffron clothes only because you do not want to work. Who will ever feed you? Who cares if you die?” Just then, a sweetmeat seller offered Swamiji some eatables and said, “I saw you in my dream this morning. ” The haughty merchant was put to shame when he saw all this.</div>
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In Mysore, Swamiji got to know Diwan Swashadri Iyer and also the Maharaja of Mysore. The Swamiji’s discourse in Sanskrit at a gathering of scholars deeply impressed the Maharaja. One day he questioned the Swamiji as to his future plans. “India is the land of many religions and schools of philosophy. The Western world has progressed in science. Human welfare is possible only by a reconciliation of the two. Therefore, I want to go to America in order to propagate Vedanta,” said Swamiji. The Maharaja said, “Then I shall bear all the expenses of the visit.” Swamiji thanked the Maharaja for his offer and promised him that he would make use of it when he needed it. Swamiji next visited Ramanad. Bhaskara Setupati was the ruler of Ramanad at that time. He discussed with Swamiji the problems that the country was facing. The prince treated him with great respect. “You should attend the Conference of World Religions in America. I shall bear all your travel expenses,” said the ruler. Assuring the prince that he would give serious thought to his suggestion, Swamiji went to Rameshwaram and from there he finally reached Kanyakumari. He swam to a rock and sat on it. Surrounded there by the sea, he reflected on the state of affairs in India. The thought of the poverty of the masses in this country made him miserable. He decided that unless casteism was rooted out, there could be no salvation for his countrymen. He concluded that his first task was to go Western countries and expose the spiritual values of India. He would then return to awaken his own slumbering land.</div>
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It was in Madras that the little lamp that appeared in Bengali Narendra became the blazing light of all India as Vivekananda. It was there that pressure mounted on him to go to America. The fame he won in Madras traveled to Hyderabad. Thousands gathered at the meeting addressed by him there. It was the first ever-public meeting addressed by Swamiji. After he returned to Madras from Hyderabad, he started making preparations for his tour abroad. Contributions towards his travel expenses poured in from all parts of the country. But he kept with him only as much money as he needed for the journey. He returned the rest of the money to the donors.<br />
Swamiji reached the city of Chicago in the middle of July. On his way he touched at the ports of Colombo, Singapore, Hongkong and Tokyo. He chose a hotel for his stay. He made inquiry about the opening of the Conference of World Religions. It was still three months away. How was he to stay so long in a strange place? The money he had was fast disappearing. Meanwhile, an international fair was going on. Swamiji was wandering in the premises of the fair. Just then he spotted a Maharaja from India. He approached the Maharaja. But the Maharaja turned away with wry face. Since Chicago was a big city and very expensive, Swamiji moved to the city of Boston. On the way he met a lady. She was from Boston. She was amazed at Swamiji’s strange attire, his magnificent physique, and his bright eyes. She decided that he was no ordinary man. She begged Swamiji to be her guest. He agreed. Occasionally he addressed meetings at small clubs. The subject of his talk was Indian Culture and the Hindu Dharma. Gradually many scholars became his friends. One of them was John Henry. He was greatly impressed by Swamiji’s scholarship. The delegates to the Conference of World Religions had to submit their letters of introduction to the organizers. But Swamiji had lost his letter of introduction. Wright himself wrote the letter of introduction, in which he called Swamiji “A scholar who surpasses all of us.” Swamiji went back to Chicago. When he reached the city he found that he had lost the addresses of some people. The people of the city were mostly Germans and could not understand English. As a consequence, Swamiji could not stir out. Finding no way out, Swamiji curled himself in an empty box, which was lying in the railway station. The next morning he wandered about in the streets. Unable to bear his hunger, he begged for alms at some houses. He could not get anything. On the contrary he was insulted and humiliated. He was sitting on the footsteps of a playground. A lady came out of a house facing the playground and asked him, “Are you a delegate to the conference of World Religions?” The Swamiji replied, ‘Yes’. The lady said, “Please come to my house. You can bathe and have food. Then I shall take you to the Conference.” Her name was Mrs. George Hails. The conference started on 11th September 1893. Thousands of delegates belonging to deferent countries of the world had gathered at the conference. Vivekananda was the youngest of them all. When it was his turn to speak, his throat went dry. Besides, he did not have, like the other delegates, a prepared speech. He requested the President to let him be the last speaker, His turn did come as the last speaker. He prayed fervently to Sri Ramakrishna and Mother Sarada Devi, and stood up to speak. When he began his address in his pleasing voice with the words “Brothers and Sisters of America,” there was a thunderous applause. When it subsided at last he continued his short speech. He said that people born in different religions finally reach the same God, as river born in different places finally reaches the sea. He emphatically declared that no religion is superior and none is inferior. The delegates, every one of them, praised his speech. Newspapers carried his photographs and his speech. In later days people flocked chiefly to listen to his speech. He became the darling of the crowds. Whenever he rose to speak there was deafening applause. Even as the conference was in session, many institutions and associations extended invitations to Swami Vivekananda. Within a short time he became famous. Wherever he went, he dwelt at length on the greatness of Indian Culture. He spoke with spontaneous ease on every topic, be it History, Sociology, Philosophy or Literature. </div>
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“He speaks without a scrap of paper in his hand. We see in him some of the qualities of Jesus himself. A strange attire, a radiant personality, a rare elegance, the skill to epitomize Hinduism superbly – with these gifts he has won the hearts of our people. He is mesmeric. He is unsurpassed in conversation. His mastery of English is exceptional. A man like him appears only once in age. We are fortunate that we can see him and hear him, “- thus the newspapers went into raptures. Till then Americans had the impression that Indians were superstitious and ignorant. Thanks to Swamiji’s persistent efforts, India was elevated to an honored position not only in America, but in the entire comity of progressive nations. Wherever Swamiji went, people flocked to listen to him and waited patiently. After the speech they would invite him to their houses and treat him as an honored guest. They would entertain him lavishly. At such times, Swamiji was constantly and painfully reminded of the poverty and squalor of India. The opulence around him would become unbearable. He spent many a sleepless and tearful night.<br />
Meanwhile, he received pressing invitations from England. A rousing reception awaited him in London when he arrived there. The newspapers were all praise for the Hindu Yogi’s oratory and outlook. Many became his disciples. Among them was Margaret Nivedita. She came to India and settled here. Swami Vivekananda returned to India after his foreign tour lasting four years.<br />
By the time he arrived in India, Swamiji’s fame had spread far and wide. When he landed in Colombo on 15th January 1897, he was accorded a welcome that befitted an Emperor. When he reached Madras there was an unprecedented crowd at the railway station. He was carried in procession in a coach drawn by an admiring crowd. Innumerable addresses and garlands were presented to him. Thereafter, wherever Swamiji went, he disseminated the message of his master. To those who came to him for guidance he taught the importance of spiritual development. To his fellow monks he explained the importance of dedicated service. He repeatedly told them that it was mere selfishness to look for personal salvation. He used to say, “I do not want salvation, as long as there is a single sorrow-stricken man in India.” He had realized that social service was possible only through the concerted efforts on an organized mission. That is why he started Sri Ramakrishna Mission in 1897 and formulated its ideology and goal. During the next two years he bought a site at Belur on the banks of the Ganga, constructed the buildings and established the Ramakrishna Mutt.<br />
Swamiji’s health was constantly eroded owing to tireless work. He visited many hill resorts in the Himalayas. But even there his missionary work continued. He visited many cities in North India in response to public demand. He visited America again at the invitation of his American disciples. He participated in the Conference of Religions in Paris and returned home. In spite of the entreaties of his disciples he would not rest. He became more inward looking. The body grew weak, but the mind and the soul remained alert and active. On 4th July 1902 he breathed a deep sigh and went to sleep. Within a short while he attained eternal bliss. His disciples and fellow-teachers felt orphaned and cried like children.</div>
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Although Swamiji is no longer with us, his words live. His message has continued to inspire millions of his countrymen. His voice can comfort the suffering and sanctify their lives. Listen again: “You rejoice that you belong to the race of the great sages. But until those who belong to the upper classes help to uplift the downtrodden, and until exploitation ends, India will only be a grave. May Mother India step forth anew from the humble dwelling of the peasant! May she appear in the hut of the fisherman! May she step forth from the cottages of the cobbler and the sweeper! May she become manifest in godowns and factories! May the song of New Spiritual India echo and reverberate amidst mountains and in forests and valleys! “</div>
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UNIVERSAL TEACHINGS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA</div>
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<em>Swami Vivekananda’s Quotes</em></div>
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SEE GOD IN ALL</div>
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This is the gist of all worship – to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Siva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Siva, and if he sees Siva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Siva in him, without thinking of his cast, creed, or race, or anything, with him Siva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples. </div>
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GOD IS WITHIN YOU </div>
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It is impossible to find God outside of ourselves. Our own souls contribute all of the divinity that is outside of us. We are the greatest temple. The objectification is only a faint imitation of what we see within ourselves.</div>
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PERSEVERE IN YOUR SEARCH FOR GOD</div>
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To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul, “at my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.</div>
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TRUST COMPLETELY IN GOD</div>
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Stand up for God; let the world go.</div>
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LOVE OF GOD IS ESSENTIAL</div>
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Giving up all other thoughts, with the whole mind day and night worship God. Thus being worshipped day and night, He reveals himself and makes His worshippers feel His presence</div>
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The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.</div>
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“I am the thread that runs through all these pearls,” and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.</div>
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“I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher.” That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.</div>
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“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you.” This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails–our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.</div>
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“Comfort” is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being “comfortable.”</div>
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“Face the brutes.” That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.</div>
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“I do not want to get material life. I do not want sense-life but something higher.” That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.</div>
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“Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything else shall be added unto you.” This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else.</div>
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“The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.”</div>
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A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.</div>
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A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.</div>
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Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others’ “fads” through the greed of getting supporters. Your Atman is the support of the universe—whose support do you stand in need of?</div>
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Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others “fads” thought the greed of getting supporters.</div>
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After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains–one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.</div>
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All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.</div>
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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.</div>
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All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you.</div>
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All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and human beings is thus bridged. Thus we find how, by knowing God, we find the kingdom of heaven within us.</div>
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All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.</div>
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All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.<br />
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.</div>
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Always discriminate–your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.<br />
Always discriminate—your body, your house, the people around, and the world are all unreal like a dream. Always think that this body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.<br />
Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.</div>
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Anything that is secret and mysterious in these systems of yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.</div>
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Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.</div>
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Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or any Religious Instution.</div>
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As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe.<br />
As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?</div>
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As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate.</div>
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As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.</div>
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Superstions and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.</div>
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Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.</div>
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Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”</div>
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Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual life, fight as long as there is any life in you. Even though you know you are going to be killed, fight till you “are killed.” Don’t die of fright. Die fighting. Don’t go down till you are knocked down.</div>
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Be not afraid, for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work.</div>
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Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is His business.<br />
Be strong! … You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. “None but the brave deserves the fair.” None but the bravest deserves salvation.<br />
Be strong! Don’t talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave.<br />
Bless people when the revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the Atman, think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers.</div>
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Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. Hold fast to the real Self. Think only pure thoughts, and you will accomplish more than a regiment of mere preachers. Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.<br />
Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world and make us long to escape, to have freedom.</div>
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Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.<br />
Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.<br />
Brave, bold men and women, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.</div>
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Brave, bold people, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.</div>
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By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands now, we make ourselves stronger; and improving our strength in this manner step by step, we may reach a state in which it shall be our privilege to do the most coveted and honored duties in life and in society.</div>
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By the Vedas no books are meant. They mean the accumulated treasury of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times. Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery, and would exist if all humanity forgot it, so is it with the laws that govern the spiritual world</div>
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Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject. Apply this to religion and morality, and you will find that the conquest of evil comes by the change in the subjective alone. That is how the Advaitic system gets its whole force, on the subjective side of man.</div>
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Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.<br />
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?</div>
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Come out into the universe of Light. Everything in the universe is yours, stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you every felt you wanted to do that, you have felt God.</div>
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Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.</div>
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Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.<br />
Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery. The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the person who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.</div>
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Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.<br />
Discriminate within yourself between the real and the unreal. Have you not read the Vedanta? Even when you sleep, keep the sword of discrimination at the head of your bed, so that covetousness cannot approach you even in dream. Practicing such strength, renunciation will gradually come, and then you will see the portals of heaven are wide open to you.</div>
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Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.</div>
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Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest.</div>
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Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.</div>
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Do not look back upon what has been done. Go ahead!<br />
Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.</div>
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Don’t look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.</div>
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Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.</div>
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Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.</div>
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Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.</div>
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Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back.<br />
Every step I take in light is mine forever.</div>
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Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.</div>
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Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.</div>
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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.</div>
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Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in this world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.</div>
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Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.<br />
First get rid of the delusion “I am the body,” then only will we want real knowledge.</div>
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First, believe in the world—that there is meaning behind everything.<br />
Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.</div>
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Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.<br />
Go on saying, “I am free.” Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, “I am bound.” Dehypnotize the whole thing.<br />
God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.</div>
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God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?</div>
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God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?</div>
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God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.</div>
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God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.</div>
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Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.<br />
Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.</div>
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Have you got the will to surmount mountain-high obstructions? If the whole world stands against you sword in hand, would you still dare to do what you think is right?</div>
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He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong.</div>
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Him I call a Mahatma (“great soul”) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (“wicked soul”). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.</div>
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Hold to the idea, “I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,” and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.</div>
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However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.<br />
I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!</div>
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I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.<br />
I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!</div>
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I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath, and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping.</div>
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I have been asked many times, “Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes?” I become serious sometimes–when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.</div>
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I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.</div>
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If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!<br />
If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man’s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature.</div>
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If one who lives in the Lord becomes miserable, what is the use of living in Him? What is the use of such a God? Throw Him overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want Him.</div>
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If superstition enters, the brain is gone.</div>
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If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.</div>
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If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food—then only will the mind be strong.</div>
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If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word “fearlessness.”</div>
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If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.</div>
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If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature.<br />
If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood.</div>
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If you want to be a Yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and, at the same time, wants to realize the Atman is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile mistaking it for a log of wood.</div>
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If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.</div>
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Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong.<br />
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone’s door. In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything. We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy. Science and religion will meet and shake hands. Poetry and philosophy will become friends.What! Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time–and you have no time!</div>
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In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.</div>
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In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, butkeep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.<br />
In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.</div>
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In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite.</div>
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Is there any sexor distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!</div>
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It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion—the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing, but to get the higher.</div>
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It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion–the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher.</div>
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It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.</div>
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It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one’s own good.<br />
It is only work that is done as a free-will offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.</div>
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It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.</div>
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It is the cheerful mind that is persevering. It is the strong mind that hews its way through a thousand difficulties.</div>
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It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.</div>
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Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it—is the true test of the sannyasin.</div>
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Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. If we can bring ourselves down by our karma, surely it is in our power to raise ourselves by our own karma.</div>
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Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.</div>
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Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free.<br />
Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Do not repent, do not brood over past deeds. Be âzâd (“free”).</div>
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Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.</div>
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Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.</div>
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Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich.</div>
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Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions, who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich. I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor.</div>
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Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.</div>
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Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction.</div>
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Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy the world without being in any way affected by it.</div>
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Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure.</div>
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Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails—our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares.</div>
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Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.</div>
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Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.</div>
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Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.</div>
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Look here–we shall die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Only then will meanness vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigor in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.</div>
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Look here—we shall die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigor in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.</div>
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Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.</div>
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Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon.<br />
Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it—and then you will be safe.</div>
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May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls–and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.</div>
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Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.</div>
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Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate, you will keep your growth.<br />
Mind you, this is life’s experience: if you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish.</div>
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My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.</div>
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My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.</div>
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Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.</div>
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Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies; but the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality.</div>
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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.<br />
No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.</div>
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No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common weakness of humanity and should never be counted in estimating a person’s character.</div>
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No one should be judged by their defects. The virtues a person has are his especially; his errors are the common weaknesses of humanity and should never be counted in estimating his character.</div>
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Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as meditation can. The mind goes on jumping even in deepest sleep. Just those few moments in meditation your brain has almost stopped. … You forget the body. … You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.</div>
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Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn’t that the highest purity?</div>
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Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn’t that the highest purity?</div>
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One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth.</div>
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Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.</div>
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Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom—physical, mental, and spiritual—and help others to do so.</div>
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Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.</div>
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Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work.<br />
Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already.You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity.</div>
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Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward.</div>
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Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are …but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom.<br />
Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are …[but] unless you realize the Self (atman), there is no freedom.</div>
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Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success and, above all, love.</div>
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Put God behind everything—human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.</div>
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Put God behind everything—people, animals, food, work. Make this a habit.</div>
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Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are—infinite spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.</div>
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Realize yourself. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are—infinite spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will vanish.</div>
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Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.</div>
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Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.</div>
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? “He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream—the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother.</div>
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Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.</div>
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Renunciation is the very basis of our true life. Every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.</div>
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Say “So’ham, So’ham” whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly—that what we see never existed, that there is only “I”. Flash–the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.</div>
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Self-realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation—renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.</div>
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So long as millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.</div>
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So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!</div>
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So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.<br />
Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted, cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.<br />
Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn’t it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?</div>
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Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.</div>
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Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe.</div>
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Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.</div>
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Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.</div>
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Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourselves. Therefore, make your own future.</div>
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Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.</div>
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Stand upon the Self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.</div>
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Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say—my God, my love! Through the pangs of death, say—my God, my love! Through all the evils under the sun, say my God, my love!</div>
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Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say–my God, my love! Through the pangs of death, say–my God, my love! Through all the evils under the sun, say–my God, my love! Thou art here, I see Thee. Thou art with me, I feel Thee. I am Thine, take me. I am not of the world’s but Thine, leave not then me.</div>
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Strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery; weakness is death.<br />
Strength is the sign of vigor, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, and the sign of everything that is good. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, strength in the hand.</div>
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Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.<br />
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life—think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking machines.</div>
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life–think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced. Others are mere talking machines.</div>
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Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.</div>
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Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.</div>
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That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore a careless and unsteady mind gets no clue to the Atman. But one who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating, ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.</div>
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That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.</div>
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The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful.</div>
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The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.</div>
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The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart.<br />
The correct meaning of the statement “The Vedas are beginningless and eternal” is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.</div>
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The correct meaning of the statement “The Vedas are beginningless and eternal” is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.</div>
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The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.</div>
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The disciple must have great power of endurance. Life seems comfortable; and you find the mind behaves well when everything is going well with you. But if something goes wrong, your mind loses its balance. That is not good. Bear all evil and misery without one murmur of hurt, without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance; and that you must acquire.</div>
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The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.</div>
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The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God.</div>
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The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.</div>
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The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.</div>
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The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.</div>
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The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine–and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced.</div>
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The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! If you do not exist, how can God exist, or anybody else?<br />
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves! If you do not exist, how can God or anybody else exist?<br />
The greatest sin is to think that you are weak. No one is greater: realize that you are Brahman. Nothing has power except what you give it.</div>
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The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.</div>
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The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.</div>
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The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.</div>
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The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.</div>
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The important thing is how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter—as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. The more you think of yourself as spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free from matter, body and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.</div>
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The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter—as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being.</div>
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The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter–as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being. The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.</div>
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom.</div>
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The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. He is there. He is the soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom</div>
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The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are, the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.</div>
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The less the thought of the body, the better it is for us. For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable.</div>
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The less the thought of the body, the better it is. For it is the body that drags us down. It is attachment, identification which makes us miserable. That is the secret: to think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings–scenes on a canvas–of which I am the witness.</div>
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The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.</div>
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The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.</div>
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The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.</div>
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The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.</div>
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The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is the fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment.</div>
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The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment.</div>
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The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.</div>
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The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe.<br />
The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.</div>
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The nature of the brute is to remain where he is, of a human being to seek good and to avoid evil, and of God to neither seek nor avoid but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be Gods, let us make our hearts like an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture. We can then enjoy it without being in any way affected by it.<br />
The nature of the brutes is to remain where they are, of human beings to seek good and avoid evil, and of God to neither seek nor avoid but just to be blissful eternally. Let us be like God.</div>
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The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.</div>
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The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist, and this religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways.</div>
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The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.</div>
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The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say “me” and “mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments.</div>
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The power of purity—it is a definite power.</div>
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The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.</div>
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The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book—the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book—the book outside.</div>
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The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.<br />
The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe—the body—is the soul.<br />
The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.</div>
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The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.</div>
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The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.</div>
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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.</div>
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The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.</div>
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The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo, the effect must come, face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to the Lord. Give all, both good and bad. Do not keep the good and give only the bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.</div>
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.</div>
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The whole universe is one in the Atman. That Atman when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Atman when it appears behind this little universe, the body, is the soul. This very soul, therefore, is the Atman in us.</div>
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The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it passes through the forms of time, space, causation, is called by different names, buddhi, fine matter, gross matter, all mental and physical forms. Everything in the universe is that One, appearing in various forms. When a little part of it comes, as it were, into this network of time, space and causation, it takes forms. Take off the network, and it is all one.</div>
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The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence.</div>
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The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.<br />
The wind of divine grace is always blowing. You just need to spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it. Think day and night, “I am of the essence of that Supreme Being-Consciousness-Bliss. What fear and anxiety have I?”<br />
The wind of divine grace is blowing on for ever and ever. Do you spread your sail. Whenever you do anything, do it with your whole heart concentrated on it.</div>
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The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.</div>
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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>
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There cannot be friendship without equality.</div>
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There is hope for all. None can die; none can be degraded forever. Life is but a playground, however gross the play may be. However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Atman is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.</div>
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There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself…. Burst your own cocoon and come out aw the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.</div>
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There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion–I am God–cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.</div>
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There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion—I am God—cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.</div>
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There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton’s Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game.</div>
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There is only one sin. That is weakness…. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.<br />
There is only one sin—and that sin is weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton’s Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is the soul who never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.</div>
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There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.</div>
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They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.</div>
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They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe. The more we concentrate our lives in limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.</div>
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Think always, “I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How I can do anything evil? Can I ever be fooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth?” Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.</div>
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Think always: “I am ever-pure, ever-knowing, and ever-free. How can I do anything evil? Can I ever be befooled like ordinary people with the insignificant charms of lust and wealth?” Strengthen the mind with such thoughts. This will surely bring real good.</div>
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Think day and night, “I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss–what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself.”<br />
This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.</div>
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This I have seen in life—those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step; those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.</div>
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This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.<br />
This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.</div>
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This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells—that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one’s spiritual Self (atman).<br />
This is the secret of spiritual life: to think that I am the Atman and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but as a series of paintings—scenes on a canvas—of which I am the witness.</div>
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This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger.</div>
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This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our own true nature, and He is always in us and with us. Let us live in Him and stand in Him. It is the only joyful state of existence. Life on the plane of the Spirit is the only life, and let us all try to attain to this realization.</div>
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This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Reality is God, and He is our own true nature, and He is always in us and with us. Let us live in Him and stand in Him. It is the only joyful state of existence.</div>
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This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves.</div>
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This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Reality. We must go to the Reality. Renunciation will take us to It.</div>
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Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they human beings? The worthy are those who, even when agitated by the sharp interaction of pleasure and pain, are discriminating and, knowing them to be of an evanescent nature, become passionately devoted to the Atman. This is all the difference between human beings and animals.</div>
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Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling they will lead a miserable life…. But those who do their duty putting their shoulder to the wheel will see the light, and higher and higher duties will fall to their share.<br />
Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.</div>
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Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means “gathering towards,” checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.</div>
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Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth—Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God.</div>
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To believe blindly is to degenerate the human soul. Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly.</div>
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.</div>
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To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation—renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter.</div>
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To succeed you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will drink the ocean,” says the persevering soul, “at my will mountains will crumble.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.</div>
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To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. “I will rink the ocean,” says the persevering soul, “at my will mountains will crumble up.” Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.</div>
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To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry. If I am proof against all hatred, I never feel hatred.</div>
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To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.</div>
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Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. “Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,” say the Vedas. “Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,” says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?<br />
Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. How can great spirituality come without renunciation? Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio.</div>
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True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.</div>
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Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.</div>
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Truth, purity and unselfishness—wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.</div>
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Truth, purity, and unselfishness—wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.</div>
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Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.</div>
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Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature.</div>
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Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.</div>
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Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.<br />
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.</div>
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We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?<br />
We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.<br />
We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds.<br />
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. And this comes into every detail of our life.</div>
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We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.</div>
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We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.<br />
We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.<br />
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.<br />
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.</div>
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We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?<br />
We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.<br />
We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best.</div>
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We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.</div>
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We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.</div>
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We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.</div>
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We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.</div>
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What about this marvelous experience of standing alone, discarding all help, breasting the storms of life, of working without any sense of recompense, without any sense of putrid duty, and of working a whole life, joyful, free — not goaded on to work like slaves by false human love or ambition?Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round.</div>
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What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.</div>
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What I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.<br />
What is material and what is not material? When the world is the end and God the means to attain that end, then that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.</div>
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What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun.<br />
What is the use of talking of one’s mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.</div>
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What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure; [all for this body] that I injure others and make mistakes.<br />
What is the world that is to be given up? It is here. I am carrying it all with me. My own body. It is all for this body that I put my hand voluntarily upon my fellow human beings, just to keep it nice and give it a little pleasure. It is all for the body that I injure others and make mistakes.</div>
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What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love–selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt. Awake, awake, great souls! The world is burning in misery. Can you sleep?Work unto death–I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes–wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better, to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!</div>
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What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love—selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt. Aware, awake, great souls! The world is burning in misery. Can you sleep?</div>
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What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?</div>
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What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?</div>
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Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.<br />
When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates.</div>
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When we can attach the mind to—or detach it from—the sense at our will, we shall really possess character. Then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom; before that, we are mere machines.<br />
When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.</div>
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When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning.</div>
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When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were, only we shall understand the whole thing.</div>
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Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.</div>
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Where God is, there is no other. Where the world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness. That is what I have understood from Christianity and the life of Jesus. Isn’t that also Buddhism? Isn’t that Hinduism? Isn’t that Islam? Isn’t that the teaching of all the great sages and teachers?</div>
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Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness.</div>
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Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.</div>
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Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be your God—think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly. The Lord will show you the way.</div>
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Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.</div>
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Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us.</div>
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Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.</div>
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Women will work out their destinies—much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.</div>
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Work a little harder at meditation and it comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system.</div>
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Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.</div>
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Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.</div>
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Work unto death—I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes—wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better, to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!<br />
Worship of society and popular opinions is idolatry. The soul has no sex, no country, no place, no time.</div>
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.<br />
You must avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.</div>
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You, as body, mind, or soul, are a dream, but what you really are, is Being, Consciousness, Bliss. You are the God of this universe. You are creating the whole universe and drawing it in.</div>
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Your Atman is the support of the universe—whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings.</div>
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<br /></div>Thathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-7372147666034049042012-01-10T23:26:00.000+05:302012-01-10T23:26:54.126+05:30omshanti omshanti omshantiTasmayi Shri Guruvae Namah<br />
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omshanti omshanti omshanti<br />
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Om Shanti Shanti Shanti<br />
May peace radiate there in the whole sky as well as in the vast ethereal space everywhere.<br />
May peace reign all over this earth, in water and in all herbs, trees and creepers.<br />
May peace flow over the whole universe.<br />
May peace be in the Supreme Being Brahman.<br />
And may there always exist in all peace and peace alone.<br />
Om peace, peace and peace to us and all beings!<br />
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The Shanti Mantras or "Peace Mantras" are Hindu prayers for Peace (Shanti) from the Vedas. Generally they are recited at the beginning and end of religious rituals and discourses.<br />
Shanti Mantras are found in Upanishads, where they are invoked in the beginning of some topics of Upanishads. They are supposed to calm the mind of the reciter and environment around him/her. Reciting them is also believed to be removing any obstacles for the task being started.<br />
Shanti Mantras always end with three utterances of word "Shanti" which means "Peace". The Reason for uttering three times is for calming and removing obstacles in three realms which are:<br />
"Physical" or Adhi-Bhautika,<br />
"Divine" or Adhi-Daivika and<br />
"Internal" or Adhyaatmika<br />
According to the scriptures of Hinduism sources of obstacles and troubles are in these three realms.<br />
Physical or Adhi-Bhautika realm can be source of troubles/obstacles coming from external world, such as from wild animals, people, natural calamities etc.<br />
Divine or Adhi-Daivika realm can be source of troubles/obstacles coming from extra-sensory world of spirits, ghosts, deities, demigods/angels etc.<br />
Internal or Adhyaatmika realm is source of troubles/obstacles arising out of ones own body and mind, such as pain, diseases, laziness, absent-mindedness etc.<br />
These are called "Tapa-Traya" or three classes of troubles. When Shanti mantras are recited, obstacles from these realms are believed to be pacified.<br />
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ॐ द्यौ: शान्तिरन्तरिक्षँ शान्ति:<br />
पृथिवी शान्तिराप: शान्तिरोषधय: शान्ति: ।<br />
वनस्पतय: शान्तिर्विश्वे देवा: शान्तिर्ब्रह्म शान्ति:<br />
सर्वँ शान्ति: शान्तिरेव शान्ति: सा मा शान्तिरेधि ॥<br />
ॐ शान्ति: शान्ति: शान्ति: ॥<br />
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Om dyauh santirantariksam santi<br />
prithivi santiraph santirosadhayah santi<br />
vanaspatayah santirvisvedevah santirbrahma santih<br />
sarvam santih santireva santih<br />
sama santiredhi<br />
om santih, santih, santihThathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-64761093715404198912011-11-30T02:23:00.004+05:302015-04-23T15:05:22.891+05:30Ayurveda from Ashram<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Om hansam hansaha<br />
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A very divine Mantra for gaining good health,chant every morning 1 mala means 108 times with sincere devotion faithfully<br />
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Indian gooseberry, called amla in Hindi<br />
Use 30-35 gm Amla mixed with water in between the food for 21 days , by doing so weakness of Mind & Heart will be removed.<br />
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About amla <br />
The Indian Gooseberry is popualrly known as "Amla". Its scientific name is "Emblica Officinalis". Amla is also known as Amalaki in Sanskrit, Adiphala, Dhatri, Amali, Amalakamu, Usirikai, Anola, Amlika, Nellikai, Nillika, Nellikya, Emblic, etc are some of the few other names used for Amla.<br />
Amla is rich in vitamin C, minerals and fiber. <br />
Amla is a herb which is widely used in Ayurvedic medicines to cure many diseases and ailments.<br />
According to Ayurveda, aamla balances all three doshas. While aamla is unusual in that it contains five out of the six tastes recognized by Ayurved, it is most important to recognize the effects of the "virya", or potency, and "vipaka", or post-digestive effect. Considered in this light, aamla is particularly helpful in reducing pitta due to its cooling energy. and balances both Pitta and vata by virtue of its sweet taste. Thekapha is balanced primarily due to its drying action. It may be used as a rasayana (rejuvenative) to promote longevity, and traditionally to enhance digestion (dipanapachana), treat constipation (anuloma), reduce fever (jvaraghna), purify the blood (raktaprasadana), reduce cough (kasahara), alleviate asthma (svasahara), strengthen the heart (hrdaya), benefit the eyes (chakshushya), stimulate hair growth (romasanjana), enliven the body (jivaniya), and enhance intellect (medhya)<br />
In Ayurvedic polyherbal formulations, Indian gooseberry is a common constituent, and most notably is the primary ingredient in an ancient herbal rasayana called Chyawanprash. This formula, which contains 43 herbal ingredients as well as clarified butter, sesame oil, sugar cane juice, and honey, was first mentioned in the Charaka Samhita as a premier rejuvenative compound.[<br />
amalika (अम्लिका) in Sanskrit<br />
aamla (आँवला) in Hindi<br />
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<i>Remedy for heart Problems<br />
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Dalchini commonly known as Cinnamon is the inner bark of a tropical evergreen tree. Cinnamon has a warm, sweet and amiable aroma that is delicate yet intense. The taste is also aromatic, warm and sweet with hints of clove and citrus. Ground bark is immediately aromatic, whereas the quills have a tendency to hide their aromatic properties until broken or cooked in a liquid.<br />
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Health Tips: It has haemostatic properties. It is especially effective in uterine bleeding.Its beleived that cinnamon helps reduce the blood sugar levels and increase the natural production of insulin. It also helps to lower the blood cholesterol levels. It helps in reducing the LDL (known as the bad cholesterol) but not reducing levels of HDL, the good cholesterol.<br />
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Popular Name(s): Cinnamomum zeylanicum ,Tvak, Dasini chekka , Dalchini, Daruchini Karuva, Vazhana, Tamalapatra.<br />
Parts Used: Bark<br />
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Note Take extreme care while looking for Cinnamon ,there is another thing called Cassisia which look similar to it but this not used in medicines<br />
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Habitat: Commonly found in India, indonesia and Sri lanka<br />
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<i>Remove Weakness In Summer Season by Mango Juice</i><br />
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& Eating oranges & drinking Orange juice are very good for removing weakness & fatigue<br />
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Note ( Mango juce must be home made ,not packed because they have chemicals like presavatives etc)<br />
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<i> (Remove Weakness & fatigue by Tulsi seeds</i>)<br />
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कमजोरी दूर करने के लिए तुलसी बीज प्रयोग<br />
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H. Holiness Param Pujya Santshri Asaram Bapu ji Satsanga<br />
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<b>Chant this most powerfull holy divine Mantra if no medicine works for a disease</b> <br />
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Listen this mantra with atmost devotion<br />
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The Holy & divine Mantra by Bhagvan Sushruta the God (Acharya) Dhanvantri of Ayurveda & natural medicines<br />
from the ocean of kindness Ayurveda<br />
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"Achyutaaye Govindaaye Anantaaye Naam Bheshjaam,<br />
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Nashyanti Sarv Rogaani Satyam Satyam Vadamyaham."<br />
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Meaning:We invoke the Lord by chanting His Names -<br />
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1. Achyutaaye - The Lord Who never declines.<br />
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2. Govindaaye - The Lord by Whose Grace the senses operate in the body<br />
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3. Anantaaye - The Lord Who is Limitless and All Powerful<br />
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take a breath inhale normaly & chant this holy mantra while holding the breath for atmost 1 min & after chanting exale the breath normaly<br />
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By chanting the Lord's Names, ALL diseases of the body, mind, intellect are destroyed - of this, there is no doubt.<br />
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Thathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-31250766720158384822011-11-30T01:53:00.000+05:302011-11-30T06:07:45.193+05:30Yogic Mudras for Healthy LivingTasmayi Shri Guruvae Namah<br />
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. In Yoga, we have developed a number of Mudras to avoid various diseases and to mitigate their effects. These Mudras are made by manipulating the fingers of our hands. They have wonderful effect on body and mind.<br />
It is believed in ayurveda that human body is controlled by five elements, viz. air fire, air, water, earth and sky. These elements are present in fixed proportions and even the slightest imbalance of any of these lead to various types of diseases. Mudras, specific hand postures, help normalize these five elements and hence the prana in the human body. Namaste, the normal gesture in India to greet somebody, is also a kind of mudra.<br />
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The word Mudra literally means seal. It has a number of different connotations in yoga, but these are most commonly associated with hand gestures. There is tremendous flow of energy in our hands and each finger of the hand is packed with nerve endings, energy and a meaning of its own. When these fingers are brought together in specific ways, they produce subtle effects and have the potency to heal. Mudras can help balance the flow of energy through the nadis that nourish our internal organs.Each finger represents one of the five elements and its related emotion and problems. The thumb represents the element fire, the stomach and worry. The index finger represents the element air, the lungs and the large intestine and the emotions that are depression, sadness and grief. The middle finger is the element sky, the heart, small intestine, circulatory and respiratory systems and the emotions are impatience and hastiness. The ring finger is the element earth and is connected to the liver, gall bladder, and nervous system and corresponds to anger.<br />
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The little finger corresponds to water, the kidneys and fear. If you are overwhelmed by an emotion, just squeeze the corresponding finger a few times and you will feel better.<br />
Practice of some Mudras done on a regular basis can even cure insomnia, arthritis and memory loss. As an example, Vayu Mudra is specifically aimed at eliminating flatulence. It is believed that it works immediately. But as soon as the problem is overcome, the practice should be discontinued. Bend the index finger of each hand till its tip touches the ball of the thumb. Then press the thumb lightly onto the index finger. The other three fingers should be extended and relaxed. This mudra can be done soon after eating as it eliminates gastric problems.<br />
Mudra for life energy or Pran Mudra increases the life force, improves the eyesight, blood circulation and immune function. For this mudra, bend the little and ring fingers so that they touch the tip of the thumb. Gyan Mudra helps improving the power of mind. It is very simple, just touch the thumb with the tip of index finger. Akash mudra increases the person’s intuition, cures calcium deficiency, tooth and ear problems. To do this mudra, touch the middle finger with the thumb.<br />
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Gyan Mudra, Vayu mudra and Prana Mudra can be done everyday, but other mudras should be done only when one is suffering from a certain problem. These should be done for a maximum of fifteen minutes three times a day. Mudras can be done in any position. One can be seated, standing, lying down and even walking.<br />
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“Apan Vayu Mudra”, which mitigates heart disease, and is highly effective even in case of heart attack. This Mudra can be made in this manner – fold the index finger of your hand, and press it to the base of the thumb. Next, touch the finger tips of the middle finger and the ring finger together with the tip of the thumb, and keep the little finger straight. Mudra has to be made by both the hands. Its effect is magical in case of heart attack; it works like a Sorbitrate tablet, and serves better than even a powerful injection. It will not cause damage to the heart, and one can safely do<br />
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Our body is made up of five elements – namely, Fire, Air, Space, Earth and Water. In logic parlance, they are Agni, Vayu, Akash, Prithvi and Jal. The five fingers of our hands represent these five elements. The thumb indicates fire, index finger denotes air, middle finger denotes space, the ring finger denotes earth, and the little finger denotes water. Yoga believes that as long as these five elements are balanced, they create harmony and health. Any imbalance in these five elements leads to disease. For example-increase of fire element in body will increase heat in body, increase in air element leads various pains in body, increase of space will lead to many ear problems, increase in cholesteorol, etc-while increase in water element creates as cites (i.e. fills our body parts with water and bloats them). Similarly, any decrease in these elements will lead to other kind of diseases. By using these five fingers in many possible ways, we can restore the balance between these five elements and can thus keep ourselves disease free.<br />
When we do Apan Vayu Mudra, we have done four things. By folding the index finger, we have reduced air element which immediately relieves pain in the heart. By touching the finger tips of thumb, middle finger and ring fingers, we have increased fire element (heat), space and earth elements. By increasing heat in the body, the impurities in the blood are being removed, by increasing space element, we supply more oxygen to heart arteries, and by increasing earth element, we have increased the muscle power of the heart. That is, by a very simple manipulation of our fingers, we have simultaneously made a four-pronged mechanism to save from the rigours of a heart attack. The patient can easily be transported to a hospital, without causing any damage to heart. Doing Apan Vayu Mudra in case of heart attack is like a very effective emergency treatment. Apan Vayu Mudra is useful in a large number of other cases, as under:<br />
Benefits of Apan vayu mudra :<br />
If done regularly for 45 minutes daily in three stretches of 15 minutes each in morning, afternoon and evening, it is capable of solving many problems of heart disease. When air element increases in the body, it causes constriction of heart arteries; they become hard and narrow. Doing this Mudra will relieve arteriosclerosis’ of the heart, and thus strengthens the heart muscles and remove blockages in arteries.<br />
It relieves angina immediately;<br />
It normalizes blood pressure and thus saves us from both high as well as low blood pressure, as it stimulates the circulatory system.<br />
In case of palpitations or weak pulse, this Mudra will normalize the pulse rate immediately.<br />
It also reduces nervousness, as it quietens / calms the nervous system.<br />
It helps in relieving acidity, gas formation, eructation, belching, and strengthens the digestive system. It solves all diseases of the intestines, colic, colitis, etc;<br />
It is highly effective in respiratory diseases like asthma. This Mudra, by cleansing the blood circulatory system, helps the lungs also in their functioning. People who suffer from difficult breathing while climbing stairs or walking fast should do this Mudra for about 10 minutes before climbing stairs; they will feel much better.<br />
Similarly, people suffering from osteoarthritis and pain in knees can do this Mudra for 10 minutes before climbing upstairs; they will feel relieved of pain.<br />
It is also highly effective in curing migraine. Migraine or headache is primarily due to weak digestion or excited nerves. As already mentioned, this Mudra quietens the nervous system and strengthens digestive system; thus, leaving no cause for migraine.<br />
By soothing the nervous system, it induces sleep and cures insomnia.<br />
The Mudra relieves toothache also; and cures hiccough.<br />
In Indian culture, a sudden blinking of left eye in males and right eye in females is considered inauspicious. Apan Vayu Mudra will stop unwanted blinking of eyes.<br />
According to Ayurveda, any imbalance in the three “doshas” – Vata, Pitta and Kafa causes diseases. Apan Vayu Mudra restores balance in these three ‘doshas’. Apan Vayu Mudra stimulates and strengthens the blood circulatory system – digestive system, respiratory system, excretory system and the nervous system.<br />
It removes all negative emotions from the mind, and all negative pressure of the body.<br />
It is helpful in arthritis also<br />
It is also helpful in polio cases. Apan Vayu Mudra is thus a very helpful mudra in our daily lives and also in emergencies like heart attack. It should be practiced for 45 minutes a day – in 3 phases of 15 minutes each. If practiced regularly over a long period of time, it is capable of curing all heart ailments.<br />
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<b>Note one must do all this under the guidence of a Yogic Teacher or Guru</b>Thathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-79384273406216213242011-11-19T15:10:00.003+05:302011-11-19T15:27:26.185+05:30Sleep The divine Gift of GodTasmayi Shri Guruvae Namah<br />
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Sleeping is the essential part for our life, it recharges mind body & Soul,Its is a divine gift of God (Bhagvaan)<br />
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Sleep is the like a mother to us she gives peace calmness coolness love comfort nourishess our health & provide what ever necessary for life and growth. Om<br />
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This is the divine Mantra of Mother Goddess Nidraa Devi<br />
Goddess of Sleep , sweet Mother Nidraa Devi<br />
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Please always use this divine powerfull mantra & see its magical results <br />
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Mantra for Sound Sleep<br />
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शुद्धे शुद्धे महायोगिनी महानिद्रे स्वाहा<br />
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shuddhe shuddhe mahaayogini mahaanidre swaahaa<br />
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SHUDDHE SHUDDHE MAHAYOGINI MAHANIDRE SWAAHAA<br />
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Listen this Mantra with atmost devotion<br />
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Mantras are taken in a very specfic way , they are always heard from the right ear from the Guru, listening this way any mantra from the right ear gives most effective & desired results <br />
So Please put one finger in the Left ear & listen this Mantra with ur right ear<br />
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शुद्धे शुद्धे महायोगिनी महानिद्रे स्वाहा<br />
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shuddhe shuddhe mahaayogini mahaanidre swaahaa<br />
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The japa of this mantra before going to bed ends the harrowing streak of your sleepless nights and ushers a propitious era of sound and refreshing sleep into your life.<br />
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Chant this mantra every night when u want to sleep<br />
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Hariom Shanti<br />
All this Divine Knowledge is from my Great Guru Dev Param PujyaSant Shri AsaranJi BapuJiThathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-75528738799959095082011-11-18T15:05:00.003+05:302011-11-19T15:31:45.177+05:30Some daily routines for a Spiritual personTasmayi Shri Guruvae Namah<br />
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For Healthy Living should get up before sunrise. After getting up they should pray to the Lord, and then gaze at their palms chanting the following:<br />
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कराग्रे वसते लक्ष्मीः करमध्यै सरस्वती। करमूले तु गोविन्दः प्रभाते करदर्शनम्।।<br />
ब्रह्मार्पणं ब्रह्म हविब्रह्माग्नौ ब्रह्मणा हुतम्। ब्रह्मैव तेन गन्तव्यं ब्रह्मकर्मसमाधिना।।<br />
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Karagre vasate laksmih karamadhye sarasvati l<br />
Karamule tu govindah prabhate karadarsanam ll<br />
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Meaning: ‘Ma Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth and prosperity, lives at the tip of my palms, the middle part of my palm is home to Ma Sarasvati, the Goddess of learning, and at the bottom thereof dwells Lord Krishna. Therefore one should always look at their palms in the morning.’<br />
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Early Morning Water Therapy<br />
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Get up before sunrise every day, rinse your mouth, and before cleaning your teeth, drink 1 ¼ litres (about four large glasses) of water kept overnight. (children may to do by consuming just one-two glasses of water as per their capacity). Do not eat or drink anything for around 45 minutes afterwards. You can wash your face and clean your teeth after drinking the water. Drink water only after a gap of two hours after any meal or breakfast while undergoing this therapy.<br />
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Early morning water-therapy helps remove diseases of the hearts, liver, stomach, intestine, and several other ailments like head-ache, stones, obesity, diseases due to disorders of Vata, pitta and kapha. It makes the mind efficient and sharpens the intellect. It improves and luster and agility of the body.<br />
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Ways to Boost Your Memory<br />
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There are several ways through which children can improve their memory. Some of the best methods are as follow;<br />
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(1) Bharamari Pranayama :<br />
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Method: Bring both hands toward the sides of the head keeping the fingers near the ears. Take a deep breath and close both the ears with the index fingers so that no should can be heard from outside. Then close the lips and make a humming sound through the nose like that of the bee. Remove the fingers after exhaling completely.<br />
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Benefits: Scientist have discovered that making such a humming sound while doing Bhramari Pranayama causes vibrations in a section of the brain. These vibrations activate the brain transmitters to help form beneficial intra-body chemicals-Acetylcholine (excitatory) and Dopamine (inhibitory), which boost the flow of the intra-cerebral electric current developing the memory power. This pranayama eradicates diseases of the brain. As such one should perform 8-10 such Pranayamas everyday in the morning.<br />
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(2) Saraswatya Mantra Diksha: Initiation into Saraswatya Mantra by a competent Satguru, regular japa and performing an anushthana of this mantra boosts children’s memory in a miraculous way.<br />
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(3) Libation to the Sun: Take some water in a copper vessel and stand at a clean place facing the Sun a little after sunrise. But never & Don't look on to sun directly Pour the water slowly in a continuous stream by holding by vessel high above the head with both hands. If you look at the edge of the vessel from where the water is flowing, you will see the reflection of the Sun as a small dot. By concentrating on that dot you can see a ring of seven colours surrounding it. Sun is the lord of intellectual prowess. Therefore, offering libation to Sun at sunrise sharpens the intellect.<br />
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(4) The practice of chewing five-seven tulsi leaves ( Holy Basil) after sunrise with a glass of water also helps boost children’s memory. Milk should not be taken immediately but at least one hour after eating tulsi leaves.<br />
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(5) Instead of studying till late at night, one should get up early in the morning and read after meditating for five minutes. This helps in memorizing whatever one reads.<br />
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Pranayama<br />
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The meaning of pranayama is prana+ayama. Prana means the life force and ayama is its control. So Pranayama means controlling the breathing process (the life force).<br />
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In allopathy, ‘virus’ is considered to be the main cause of illness, in naturopathy, it is ‘antigens’ and in Ayurveda it is ‘ama rasa’ (the undigested chyle that remains in the body when the food is not properly digested). Similarly, in ‘Prana Therapy’, the chief cause of disease is considered to be a weak prana. A weak prana weakens the organs of the body and they fail to function properly. Blood circulation in the body depends on this prana; therefore, its weakening in turn slows down the process of blood circulation. With the blood supply becoming low, the body cells gradually become weak and die; and when the heart doesn’t get enough blood supply, toxic elements build up inside the body producing different diseases.<br />
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Even in practical life one can see that a person with a strong life force is less prone to diseases as compared to one with a weak life force. By practicing pranayama, the yogis of India used to live healthy life over thousands of years, a fact mentioned in several scriptures of Sanatana Dharma. In yoga therapy, medicines are thought to be an external treatment, whereas pranayama is considered an internal treatment, and so is termed as the basic medicine.<br />
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The Jabalyopanishad says that pranayama is the destroyer of all afflictions.<br />
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The life force is present in different amounts in different parts of the body. A disease is cured by moving the life force from where it is high in the body to where it is low. Pranayama has a very important role in awakening the dormant powers in the body and in developing the life force.<br />
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v Benefits of Pranayama:<br />
(1) Deep inhalation during pranayama opens the closed pores of the lungs and increases resistance to diseases. It also helps purify the blood, the veins and the mind.<br />
(2) A regular practice of 10 pranayama during each of the three sandhyas for forty days increases cheerfulness, improves the health and also sharpens the memory.<br />
(3) The practice of pranayama destroys sins. As hard work destroys poverty, so also pranayama destroys sins<br />
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HE CHIEF PARTS OF PRANAYAMA<br />
(1) Rechaka : Exhalation<br />
(2) Puraka : Inhalation<br />
(3) Kumbhaka : Holding the breath. To hold the breath inside is called antarakumbhaka and to hold it outside is called bahirkumbhaka.<br />
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Some useful pranayamas <br />
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(1) Anuloma Viloma Pranayama: Sit in Padmasana, Siddhasana or Sukhasana. First of all, exhale completely through both the nostrils. Then close the right nostril with the right thumb, and with ease, take a deep breath through the left nostril. Hold the breath inside for as long as you can. Close the left nostril with the middle finger and slowly exhale through the right nostril. Exhale completely, and then hold the breath outside for as long as you can comfortably do so by closing both the nostrils. Then inhale through the right nostril and after holding it in for some time exhale slowly through the left. Hold the breath outside for some time after exhaling completely. That completes one Pranayama.<br />
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§ In Pranayama, the time proportion for inhalation, retention, exhalation and staying without breath should be in the ratio of 1:4:2:2, i.e. if you take 5 seconds to inhale, then hold it in for 20 seconds, exhale over a period of 10 seconds, and stay with your lungs empty for 10 seconds. This is the ideal ration, which can gradually be attained through regular practice.<br />
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Swastya Mantra (Health Protection Mantra)<br />
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ॐ हंसं हंसः<br />
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Om hansam hansaha<br />
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A very divine Mantra for gaining good health,chant every morning 1 mala means 108 times with sincere devotion faithfully<br />
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MANTRA before meals<br />
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Brahmarpanam brahma havibrahmagnau brahmana hutam l<br />
Brahmaiva tena gantavyam brahmakarmasamadhina ll<br />
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‘The act of offering oblations is Brahman, the oblation is Brahman, it is offered by Brahman in the fire that is Brahman; thus he whose mind is fixed on acts dedicated to Brahman must verily attain to Brahman.’ (The Gita 4.24)<br />
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Means food we eat should be had with a cheerful mind by Satvic & Pure Vegetarian food, Green vegetables should form a part of one’s regular diet.<br />
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from ashram ebooks Baal SanskaarThathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-2142924970398959742011-11-17T01:43:00.001+05:302015-04-23T15:17:32.835+05:30How to become a Yogi ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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गुरूर्ब्रह्मा गुरूर्विष्णुः गुरूर्देवो महेश्वरः।<br />
गुरूर्साक्षात परब्रह्म तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः।।<br />
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Gururbrahma guruvishnuh gururdevo mahesvarah l<br />
Gurursaksat parabrahma tasmai shriguruve namah ll<br />
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Meaning: ‘Guru is Lord Brahma (the Creator), Lord Vishnu (the Protector) and Lord Shiva (the Destroyer). He is the eternal Brahman in flesh and blood. I bow down to that great Guru.’<br />
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ध्यानमूलं गुरोर्मूर्तिः पूजामलं गुरोः पदम्।<br />
मंत्रमूलं गुरोर्वाक्यं मोक्षमूलं गुरोः कृपा।।<br />
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Dhyanamulam gurormurtih pujamulam gurohpadam l<br />
Mantramulam gurorvakyam moksamulam guroh krpa ll<br />
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Meaning: ‘Guru’s body is the root of meditation. The feet of the Guru are the root of worship. The teaching of the Guru is the roots of all mantras. The Grace of the Guru is the root of Salvation.’<br />
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अखण्डमण्डलाकारं व्याप्तं येन चराचरम्।<br />
तत्पदं दर्शितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः।।<br />
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Akhandmandalakaram vyaptam yena caracaram l<br />
Tatpadam darsitam yena tasmai sri gurave namah ll<br />
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Meaning: ‘Prostrations to the Guru, Who shows the truth contained in the word ‘That’ (in the Supreme statement ‘That Thou Art’), who pervades the whole universe of moving and unmoving creation in the form of the Undivided Infinite.’<br />
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त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव त्वमेव बन्धुश्च सखा त्वमेव।<br />
त्वमेव विद्या द्रविणं त्वमेव त्वमेव सर्वं मम देव देव।।<br />
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tvameva mata ca pita tvameva; tvameva bandhusca sakha tvameva l<br />
tvameva vidya dravinam tvameva; tvameva sarvam mama deva deva ll<br />
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Meaning: ‘You are my mother; You alone are my father. You are my kinsman; You alone are my friend. You are knowledge; You alone are wealth. O Satguru! O God of gods! You alone are my all in all.’<br />
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ब्रह्मानन्दं परमसुखदं केवलं ज्ञानमूर्तिं<br />
द्वन्द्वातीतं गगनसदृशं तत्त्वमस्यादिलक्ष्यम्।<br />
एकं नित्यं विमलमचलं सर्वधीसाक्षिभूतं<br />
भावातीतं त्रिगुणरहितं सदगुरूं तं नमामि।।<br />
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Brahmanandam paramsukhadam kevalam jnanamurtim<br />
Dvandvatitam gaganasdrsam tattvamasyadilaksyam l<br />
Ekam nityam vimalamacalam sarvadhisaksibhutam<br />
Bhavatitam trigunarahitam sadgurum tam namani ll<br />
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Meaning: ‘I offer my humble obeisances to Sri Satgurudeva Who personified the Bliss of Brahman; Who is the Giver of Supreme Happiness; Who is knowledge consciousness personified; Who is beyond the pairs of opposites (happiness and sorrow, heat and cold, etc.); Who is Subtle and All-pervading like the sky; Who is the One’ meant by the Supreme statements such as ‘तत्त्वमसि’ Tattvamasi (THOU ART THAT), ETC. Who is one and eternal, pure and constant; Who is a witness to all intellects. Who is above all mental conditions and beyond the three gunas (sattva, rajas and tamas).’<br />
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SHARIRA MADYAM KHALU DHARMA SADHANAM<br />
our Human Body is the medium to attain Dharma<br />
so Yoga is the Science of making human body able to reach final goal of Sanatana Dharma The Self Realization or Atma Sakshatkar.<br />
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THE FIVE SHEATHS<br />
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An individual’s personality consists of Panch Kosh or five sheaths. These five sheaths are:<br />
1. Annamaye Kosh or food sheath<br />
2. Pranamaye Kosh or vital-air sheath<br />
3. Manomayh Kosh or mental sheath<br />
4. Viganamayh Kosh or intellectual sheath<br />
5. Anandamaya Kosh or bliss sheath<br />
1. Annamaye Kosh or food sheath<br />
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As the name itself suggests, the first level to take into consideration is the physical body that subsists on gross food and drink. That includes the body and its physiological processes, as viewed from a Western perspective. From the Indian perspective, the human anatomy is viewed via the ayurvedic tridoshas. These describe both the overall body type of the individual as well as its current condition.<br />
The physical body is called the food sheath. As the name implies, the physical structure arises out of food, exists in food, after death goes back to become food for other living organisms. This sheath consists of the five organs of perception and five organs of action.<br />
2. Pranamaye Kosh or vital-air sheath<br />
The human being is an intricate network of energy, creativity and intelligence. Hence the need for a proper flow of energy to maintain good health. The Pranic or Energy Sheath, contains all the prana vayus (breaths of energy) in the system, the energy channels or nadis and the chakras or energy centers. Hence it is also called the “vital sheath” or “vital body”. Prana, the vital breath which man lives by, is the bridge between the gross and subtle bodies as well as between the other koshas. Amending one’s breathing patterns through pranayama, helps enhance the flow of energy in the right direction.<br />
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The vital-air sheath represents the internal physiological functions of the body. This sheath consists of five faculties:<br />
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(1) Prana or perception,<br />
(2) Apana or excretion,<br />
(3) Samana or digestion,<br />
(4) Vyana or circulation, and<br />
(5) Udana or thinking. This sheat controls and regulates the food sheath. With age, all five faculties become weaker.<br />
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3. Manomayh Kosh or mental sheath<br />
The third is the Mental or, here understood as the psycho-emotional sheath. It is the abode of all the dominant emotional and thought patterns that comprise one’s personality. Our feelings, stimuli and responses to situations, thoughts and actions spring from this sheath. The strength or weakness of this sheath decides whether a person is emotional or unemotional, easily or uneasily moved, gross or sensitive.<br />
Mental sheath controls and regulates the food sheath and the vital-air sheath. The mind is always in the state of flux. It is the source of emotions and feelings.<br />
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4. Viganamayh Kosh or intellectual sheath<br />
Then comes the fourth sheath, again the Mental, but here referred to as the Intellectual sheath. Whereas at the third level, the mind functions as a stimulus/response mechanism, in the fourth sheath, one is able to understand and discern. Further, personal understanding permits us to look beyond personal roles and perceive the larger picture. This is the level of cognition, conditioning or de-conditioning of one’s core beliefs, the most deeply rooted of which is the ‘I’ concept. In Sanskrit this is referred to as the ‘aham’, from which springs the word ‘ahamkara’. Little wonder then that this is the seat of the ego.<br />
The mental sheath is controlled by the intellectual sheath, which is the seat of judgment, decision, and directed thinking.<br />
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5. Anandamaya Kosh or bliss sheath<br />
The fifth level is least easily understood, but for reasons of explanation to the lay public is referred to as the sheath of bliss. Here the minds is said to rest in its intrinsic, natural state of bliss and ease. This is of vital understanding in relation healing since it refers to one’s health as essential nature, devoid of ‘chitta-vrittis’ or confusions and distraction<br />
The bliss sheath is the innermost or subtlest of the five sheaths, which regulates the intellectual sheath. It consists of Vasanas (innate tendencies or undogested desires) before they become manifest into thoughts and actions.<br />
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How the Five Koshas are affected<br />
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1. Annamaya Kosha<br />
The physical body has been bestowed with, besides other things, the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems to cope with stress situations. Roughly translated into Western terminology this refers to the glandular system in our bodies. In any emergency situation, the sympathetic system is automatically activated, ensuring a quick and spontaneous flow of essential fluids to cope with the situation. When the stress response is engaged normally and healthily, the body adapts to stress situations with a steadily elevated blood pressure.<br />
Subsequently, it is the duty of the parasympathetic system to pull the sympathetic back to its original state. Unfortunately, down the years, and particularly in modern days, the frequency and intensity of stress situations have grown so much that the organs involved are subject to abnormal pressures. The parasympathetic system, after a while, can no longer bring its sympathetic counterpart back to normal and hence a failure in the endocrine and other vital systems of the body, leading to such psychosomatic syndromes as asthma, chronic constipation, blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc eventually resulting, in heart disease even.<br />
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2. Pranamaya Kosha<br />
The spasmodic dilations and contractions in the organs, veins and arteries of the physical body are a direct reflex response to cope with changing situations. This is what is happening in the energy body as well. In stress situations, the breath becomes short and rapid and, subsequently, the flow of energy is restricted. Over time, the breath becomes stifled, one starts to suffer from palpitation and shortness of the breath. Without being really aware of what’s happening, there is a rapid contraction and expansion in the entire energetic sheath. While, this may be helpful in emergencies, imagine what it will do to the system in the long run. Result, psychosomatic diseases like asthma.<br />
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3. Manomaya Kosha<br />
Actually, it happens both ways and here there’s no telling which came first, the chicken or the egg. Emotional upsets and disturbances send out stimuli to the other sheaths. Subsequently, dilations and contractions in the Annamaya and Pranamaya Koshas happen. But, in actual fact they start at the mental level. Over time it becomes a chronic syndrome. Love, hate, resentment, ambition, competition and hostility are only some of the characterizations.<br />
While in genuine situations, these emotions may be considered healthy response and create the necessary backups and reinforcements for survival, what happens when they become chronic and repetitive are translated into states of anguish, anxiety and depression. Subsequently, they perpetuate the physical stress response and man falls into the vicious cycle of coping with habitual stress. Extricating oneself from this is a trying and, sometimes, impossible process.<br />
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4. Vijnanamaya Kosha<br />
This is best illustrated in the Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2, verses 62 and 63:<br />
Man first contemplates on an object of desire. That develops in the mind attachment to it. From this attachment springs desire. Failure to satisfy desire leads to frustration. From frustration comes anger, leading to delusion. Continuous delusion results in loss of memory, resulting in destruction in the intellect. When the intellect is destroyed, everything is lost.<br />
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5. Anandamaya Kosha<br />
The above situation is precisely what prevents man from reaching his natural state of bliss. A constant state of being opposed to bliss is frustration, anger, disappointment and their attendant psycho-physiological strains, resulting in afflictions of the mind-body syndrome.<br />
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What is Kundalini ?<br />
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KUNDALINI INTRODUCTION<br />
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The almighty Shiva has combined and brought together all the forces that exist in and as Universe into a single lump called human body. But human being is not aware of it, for in common condition the triangular mouth of Sushumna naadi lies clogged at the middle of groin region. Beginning from here, it traverses the spinal cord and rises upward to reach the skull. But because of the clogging of its triangular mouth, it’s powers remain undeveloped, and breathing (Prana shakti) keeps on flowing in the body through Ida (the moon) and Pingla (the Sun) naadis. These Ida and Pingla naadis also rise from the triangular basal region. In this triangular groin region itself lies asleep a smaller naadi in spiral fashion with extreme charge and divine power. It is also called Sushma or Sarpini (serpent). Taking three and a half twists and with its tail in the mouth, this naadi lies asleep in conch shape. This is where the Divine * Super Natural Energy called Kundalini Shakti or Serpent power resides.<br />
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ELEMENT OF KUNDALINI<br />
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Muladhar Padma (the basal lotus). In the stalk of this basal, lotus lies Kundalini taking three and a half spirals. However, when it awakens, it rises and wakes up all the six Chakras (rings) in the way to annihilate in Sahastrar ultimately.<br />
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The seven major chakras</div>
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1 Muladhara: Chakra</div>
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2 Svadhisthana: Chakra<br />
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3 Manipuras Chakra</div>
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4 Anahata Chakra<br />
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5 Vishuddha: Chakra</div>
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6 Ajna: Chakra<br />
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7 Sahasrara: Chakra<br />
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AWAKENING OF KUNDALINI POWER<br />
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If some how this naadi (Kundalini) stretches out opening its spirals, and its mouth (or head) enters Sushumna naadi, the process is called as the awakening of Kundalini power.<br />
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METHOD FOR AWAKENING OF KUNDALINI<br />
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Asana – (Yoga Postures / positions) A stable and comfortable posture which helps attain mental equilibrium.<br />
Pranayama – (Yoga Breathing) Extension and control of breath.<br />
Pratyahara – (Withdrawal of Senses) A mental preparation to increase the power of mind.<br />
Dharana – (Concentration on Object) Concentration of mind on one object and its field.<br />
Dhyan – (Meditation) With drawing mind from all external objects and Focusing it on one point and meditating on it.<br />
Samadhi – (Salvation) State of Super bliss, joy and merging individual consciousness in to universal consciousness. Union between Jivatman and Paramatman. Union of Shiva and Shakti in Sahasrar Chakra (the top of the head). Realizing the Bramhan (pure consciousness) or Realization of God is the ultimate achievement of Human Birth.<br />
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Muladhar Chakra (the basal wheel) is known as the sleeping place of Kundalini. Ganapati (Ganesha) is the Lord of naadi. Hence in the basal wheel, Lord Ganapati is prayed at the trunk. Here a mantra – Gan Ganpataye NAMAH is recited<br />
TIME : Time Brahma Muhrata from 3 to 5 in the early morning is the best time to awaken Kundalini through exercise of Yoga.<br />
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It is done as follows:<br />
Having performed your routine morning bath etc tasks in the morning<br />
Enter your Pooja Room or select a Permenant place for worship & meditation.facing North East Eshan Kon or East<br />
Light a lamp before a beautiful picture of Shri Guru dev or your Ishta Devi or Devata your fav deity or image of AUM .<br />
Burning Dhoop or Camphor is very good or Cowdung with Ghee as it produces fresh Oxygen in the Atmosphere ward away all negative energies making the Place itself full of Positive energy.<br />
Then Perform Pranayama at least for three times for internal purification Aantarik Shuddhi<br />
Now sit in Padmasana on a nonconductive aasan(a Pieice of woolen cloth) in front of the image. Rest both the hands on the knees and stretch straight your spine.<br />
Chant the pavitra omkar mantra “AUM ” atleast seven times .<br />
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while doing Dhyaan Yoga u have to chant mantra <br />
like Om Shanti Om or Om Shri Ram<br />
or any other mantra u like but Om or AUM is not be chanted alone by females<br />
Om or AUM must be chanted with some other names of God or Goddess<br />
like Om Shri Sitaram ,Om Shri Ram ...etc<br />
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there are some tasks that shouldbe done before starting Dhyaan Yoga<br />
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Perform Pranayama at least for three times for internal purification Aantarik Shuddhi<br />
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Pranayama: Breathing Techniques and Procedure<br />
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Prana breathed in through left nostril represents energy of the moon, which symbolizes peace, and has a cooling effect. Hence for purification of Nadis, beginning of this Pranayama has to be made by the left nostril. Close the right side nostril with the right hand thumb. Inhale slowly through the left nostril till the lungs are filled.wait for some time Then close the left nostril with the second and third fingers. Open the right nostril and exhale through it.then wait for some time this is . Repeat this exercise slowly starting with right one.Thus like this one pranayam cyle is over.om<br />
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Pranayama<br />
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The meaning of pranayama is prana+ayama. Prana means the life force and ayama is its control. So Pranayama means controlling the breathing process (the life force).<br />
In allopathy, ‘virus’ is considered to be the main cause of illness, in naturopathy, it is ‘antigens’ and in Ayurveda it is ‘ama rasa’ (the undigested chyle that remains in the body when the food is not properly digested). Similarly, in ‘Prana Therapy’, the chief cause of disease is considered to be a weak prana. A weak prana weakens the organs of the body and they fail to function properly. Blood circulation in the body depends on this prana; therefore, its weakening in turn slows down the process of blood circulation. With the blood supply becoming low, the body cells gradually become weak and die; and when the heart doesn’t get enough blood supply, toxic elements build up inside the body producing different diseases.<br />
Even in practical life one can see that a person with a strong life force is less prone to diseases as compared to one with a weak life force. By practicing pranayama, the yogis of India used to live healthy life over thousands of years, a fact mentioned in several scriptures of Sanatana Dharma. In yoga therapy, medicines are thought to be an external treatment, whereas pranayama is considered an internal treatment, and so is termed as the basic medicine.<br />
The Jabalyopanishad says that pranayama is the destroyer of all afflictions.<br />
The life force is present in different amounts in different parts of the body. A disease is cured by moving the life force from where it is high in the body to where it is low. Pranayama has a very important role in awakening the dormant powers in the body and in developing the life force.<br />
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v Benefits of Pranayama:<br />
(1) Deep inhalation during pranayama opens the closed pores of the lungs and increases resistance to diseases. It also helps purify the blood, the veins and the mind.<br />
(2) A regular practice of 10 pranayama during each of the three sandhyas for forty days increases cheerfulness, improves the health and also sharpens the memory.<br />
(3) The practice of pranayama destroys sins. As hard work destroys poverty, so also pranayama destroys sins.<br />
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v THE CHIEF PARTS OF PRANAYAMA<br />
(1) Rechaka : Exhalation<br />
(2) Puraka : Inhalation<br />
(3) Kumbhaka : Holding the breath. To hold the breath inside is called antarakumbhaka and to hold it outside is called bahirkumbhaka.<br />
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v Some useful pranayamas for students<br />
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(1) Anuloma Viloma Pranayama: Sit in Padmasana, Siddhasana or Sukhasana. First of all, exhale completely through both the nostrils. Then close the right nostril with the right thumb, and with ease, take a deep breath through the left nostril. Hold the breath inside for as long as you can. Close the left nostril with the middle finger and slowly exhale through the right nostril. Exhale completely, and then hold the breath outside for as long as you can comfortably do so by closing both the nostrils. Then inhale through the right nostril and after holding it in for some time exhale slowly through the left. Hold the breath outside for some time after exhaling completely. That completes one Pranayama.<br />
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§ In Pranayama, the time proportion for inhalation, retention, exhalation and staying without breath should be in the ratio of 1:4:2:2, i.e. if you take 5 seconds to inhale, then hold it in for 20 seconds, exhale over a period of 10 seconds, and stay with your lungs empty for 10 seconds. This is the ideal ration, which can gradually be attained through regular practice.<br />
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if ur find it difficult then Please only do deep breathing a few times<br />
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Now sit in Padmasana or any comfortable position on a nonconductive aasan(a Pieice of woolen cloth) this is important<br />
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One important thing about doing Sadhana (Spiritual karma )<br />
While doing any spiritual sadhana may itbe Dhyaana yoga meditation or chanting mantra, stotra ,stuti & reading any spiritual scriptures , the spiritual person must sit or stand in an comfortable position on a nonconductive aasan (a Pieice of woolen cloth) or kusha etc,like the great Rishis do,this is very important because when a spiritual person as he or she chants the mantra or stotra or does dhyaan yoga , A Spiritual energy is created in hisorher body so in the absence of any non conductive Aasan the energy is earthed and the person looses the valuable Spiritual energy.Therefore Always sit on a nonconductive Aasan like a Woolen Cloth while doing ur spiritual practices.<br />
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,now sit in front of the image.<br />
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Rest both the hands on the knees and stretch straight your spine.<br />
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First Chant the pavitra omkar mantra "AUM " atleast only for seven times .<br />
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Dhyaan Yoga METHOD FOR AWAKENING OF KUNDALINI<br />
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Now concentrate on holy Sacred Image <br />
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for aleast 6 minutes without blinking eyes, sat first only 6 min then extend upto 24 minutes gradually.<br />
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Closing your eyes imagine that you are looking the Sree Guru dev ‘s image or The AUM between your eyebrows. . After practising for a few days, you will begin to feel different kinds of peace Shanti & power Shakti in yourself.<br />
In Dhyan yoga one can feel unknown powers working inside one self.<br />
. If one practises dhyan yoga in the presence of a Guru (Spiritual Teacher) the results will be better.<br />
Then the Final Process<br />
Chanting Guru Mantra ( A secret Mantra given by Sadh Guru Only) at Mantra Diksha awakes the Kunadalini Shakti and Provides all siddhis as the Yogi advances in the Sadhana and finaly leads to Self Realization “The Final Goal of the Yogi “<br />
Guru also means big so the Guru Mantra is the Biggest of All mantras in the whole world<br />
In Guru Gita Lord Shiva says to Goddess Paravati<br />
To the person who has the Guru Mantra on his tongue, all acts become<br />
fruitful but not for others. By the power of initiation disciples attains<br />
success in all actions.<br />
Sri Guru Gita 2.133<br />
Chanting Guru Mantra is considered as the Bhakti of the Fifth Kind by Vedas.<br />
Mantra Jaap Mam Drada Vishvasa<br />
Pancham bhakti Veda Prakassa<br />
Sri Ram Charitra Manas<br />
Ebooks from Ashram<br />
Dhyaan yoga with Mantra Anushthaan Sadhana is the best way to awake kundalini<br />
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Importance of Meditation, Tratak, Japa, Mauna, Sandhya and Mantra<br />
Significance of Meditation<br />
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नास्ति ध्यानसमं तीर्थम्। Meditation is the greatest pilgrimage.<br />
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नास्ति ध्यानसमं दानम्। Meditation is the greatest Jat.<br />
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नास्ति ध्यानसमं यज्ञम्। Meditation is the greatest (yajna).<br />
नास्ति ध्यानसमं तपम्। Meditation is the greatest penance.<br />
तस्मात् ध्यानं समाचरेत्। Therefor you must meditate daily without fail.<br />
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Get up before sunrise, complete the early morning routine and take your bath. Then sit in padmasana on a warn woolen or jute mat. Keep the picture of the Lord or the Guru in front of you. Light a lamp, and burn a dhoop or agarbatti. Then place both hands on the knees in jnana mudra. Do trataka for some time by concentrating on the Lord’s or the Guru’s picture. Then close the eyes and visualize the picture in the ajna chaktra. Take a deep breath and hold it in for some time, then exhale slowly while deeply chanting ‘हरि ॐ” While inhaling, feel that you are inhaling virtues, devotion, healthfulness, delight and happiness. And while exhaling practice auto-suggestion: ‘I am exhaling greed, worries, diseases, fear and the like.’ Do this seven times. Sit with a calm mind for five-seven minutes after the meditation.<br />
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Benefits: This makes the mind peaceful and calm, increases concentration and memory power, sharpens the intellect, keeps the body healthy, eradicates all affliction, one experiences supreme peace and can even establish contact with God.<br />
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Tratak<br />
Trataka helps improve concentration very much. Trataka means to keep looking at one object without distraction. Trataka is extremely useful in improving children’s memory. The method of doing trataka is as follows:<br />
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Paste a piece of white paper on a cardboard about one square foot in size. Mark a circle in its centre equal to the size of a rupee coin. Leave a small dot the size of a sesame seed in the centre of this circle. And colour the rest of the circle in black. Colour the dot in the centre yellow, and then place the cardboard on the wall so that the circle is in a straight line with your eyes. Sit before the cardboard at the same place and same time every day. The cardboard should be three feet away from your eyes. The eyes should be fixed on the yellow centre of the circle without blinking.<br />
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Sit for 5 to 15 minutes to start with. Initially you might feel a burning sensation in the eyes. But do not worry. With practice, you can gradually sit for half an hour at a stretch, which helps tremendously in improving concentration. Then you will be able to memorise whatever you read. Alternatively, you can also use the Moon, picture of the Lord or Guruji, Swastik, “ॐ” or the flame of a lamp as the object for trataka. Trataka on the picture of your tutelary deity or Guru is especially beneficial.<br />
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The importance of Japa<br />
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The meaning and Significance of ‘ॐ”<br />
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‘ॐ ‘ is composed of three syllables: A+U+M + the half syllable (…). The first syllable ‘A’ represents the material or cognitive world; ‘U’ stands for the subtle world and ‘M’ for the causal world. The half syllable (…) stands for the Supreme Consciousness That provides support to the three worlds without Itself being affected by them.<br />
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‘ॐ ‘ bestows spiritual power. The chanting of ‘ॐ ‘ drives the life force upwards. When chanted seven time, it helps eliminate disease causing germs from the body as well as sadness and dejection from the mind. That is why the scriptures praise ‘ॐ ‘ and the rishis have placed ‘ॐ ‘ at the beginning of every mantra, whether it is to worship Lord Shiva …..Om namah sivaya, Lord Ganapati ………om ganesaya namah. Lord Rama …………om ramaya namah and Lord Krishna ………om namo bhagavate vasudevaya or even for Goddess Gayatri ………om bhurbhuvah svah tatsavitruvarenyam bhargodevasya dhimahi dhiyo yo nah pracodayat. This “om” is placed at the beginning of every mantra.<br />
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Patanjalai Maharaj has said: …………”‘ॐ ‘” (the pranava) is the audio expression of the Supreme Soul, His natural sound.<br />
In the Gita, Lord Sri Krishna says: यज्ञानाम् जपयज्ञो अस्मि। ‘In all kinds of yajnas, I am the japayajna.’<br />
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The ‘Sri Ramacharitamanasa’ also says:<br />
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‘The Lord’s name is the only redeeming factor in this Kaliyuga. Those who do japa of the Lord’s name transcend the ocean of sansara.’<br />
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What does ‘Japa’ mean? Ja=Liberation from janmas (repeated births), Pa=Destruction of papas (sins).<br />
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That which destroys all our sins and frees us from the cycle of birth and death is called japa. Japa is the art of making contact with the Almighty Lord. Supreme peace is experienced in the gap between two thoughts. The longer the gap, the greater of peace. Japa is an extremely useful tool to attain that state. That is why it is said : अधिकम् जपं अधिकं फलम्। ’More the japa more the fruits.’<br />
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Tilaka Increases Intellectual and Spiritual Power<i></i></b><br />
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On the forehead between the eyebrows is the centre of discrimination and power. Yogis call this centre ‘ajna chakra’ i.e. the centre of dominion. It is also called the ‘shivanetra’ or the ‘centre of auspicious thoughts’. A tilaka of sandalwood paste or vermillion on this spot helps promote the power of discrimination-(right thinking) or the ajanashakti. Therefore, in Hindu religion, a tilaka is applied on the forehead before the performance of some auspicious rite. Millions of people have seen His Holiness Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu applying a tilaka of sandalwood paste to His forehead before delivering satsang. Women predominantly live in the world of emotions and implicit faith. Hence, in order to enhance their judgement, the rishis instituted this tradition of applying tilaka for women. Most women’s minds remain in svadhisthana and maniupura centre. These centres are associated with fear, emotions and imagination. The rishis have instructed that women should constantly keep a tilaka applied on their foreheads so that they are not carried away by these emotions and imaginations, and their shivanetra, the centre of thoughts or judgement, is developed. There have been several great women like Gargi, Shandili and Anasuya, to name just a few, in the Hindu religion. A woman represents a great source of power-the ‘Mother-Power’- which gives birth to brave heroes, great men, great thinkers and even saints who have the ability to lead people to God-realization. This Mother-Power is today being prohibited from applying tilaka to their foreheads by some schools in India. How long with the Indian continue to tolerate such oppression? How long will the Indians go on falling prey to such conspiracies after all?<br />
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KUNDALINI AWAKENING</div>
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SHARIRA MADYAM KHALU DHARMA SADHANAM</div>
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Meaning : Through this body all the religious duties can be performed.Without protecting the body,a human being can neither protect himself, nor his soul. How then he will protect his religion. Along with making the body strong, healthy and full of characters, one must strive to become spiritually strong too.</div>
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The purpose of the science is to perform everything with ease to save time, which could then be utilized in the upliftment of the self. Awakening of Kundalini has the same purpose.To awaken the Kundalini, control of the mind is the first and foremost part. It is said in Yoga Vashishtha about Kundalini that: RASAV VAI SAM ; that is jocularity sentiments etc. develops in many arts and in turn make the life full of pleasures.</div>
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Devibhagvat says : Bhu i.e. will power, Bhuvah action power and Swah knowledge power are the symbols of Tama, Raja and Satva births respectively, which are governed by Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. Through the worship of these three deities, kundalini is awakened and all the luxuries are gained.</div>
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When Kundalini awakens, its effect begins to appear on the whole body, making the performer much more powerful. Rigaveda says about this power thus : I can convert anything in to anything. Renowned world over as serpent power, it is known in India as Kundalini, when one knows about it and awakens it, nothing remains impossible for him. As per the saying YAT PINDE TAT BRAHMANDE, whatever is in the universe is in the body, one can perform many sorts of miracles by awakening his Kundalini. And with the help of it one can achieve ASHTA SIDDHIS (eight perfection’s) viz :</div>
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Anima : making the body extremely light.</div>
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Mahima : Increasing body or improving the personality.</div>
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Laghima : Lightening the body and fighting the disease.</div>
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Garima : Glorious personality.</div>
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Ishitwa : Attracting and alluring everybody.</div>
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Vashitva : Enchanting every body.</div>
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Prapti : Getting the ungettable things.</div>
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Prakamya : To get honour.</div>
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All these Siddhis (Perfections) can be achieved spontaneously with the awakening of Kundalini. After that all the excellence which have been described in Patanjali Yoga viz Panchatt Gyana (knowledge of the higher self), knowledge of the previous birth, knowledge of distant thing, knowledge of all the Lokas (worlds), knowledge of the stars and planets. Quenching of thirst and hunger, wandering in the sky, feeling of non-violence, sighting of the beloved one, knowledge of the gems on the earth etc. are also achieved spontaneously.</div>
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With the awakening of Kundalini via mantra yoga, cracking or opening of all the six rings is done. This in turn, leads to achievement of Siddhis (perfection). The awakened Kundalini reaches Brahmarandhra in the skull via sushumna naadi. Annihilating there with Shiva power.</div>
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It causes the nectar to flow out from the streams of the moon. This causes the body of the performer to glow.</div>
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But to achieve all of above mentioned, it is necessary that one should first get a Gurumantra from a SadhGuru and recite it in order to open his six wheels or rings and achieve perfection.</div>
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With awakening of Kundalini a human being gets complete control on his mind and body. He feels himself free from the entire curbs. He no longer remains a doer or the consumer, but becomes an onlooker. This state is called as Nishreyasa, that is a state even superior than the state of Salvation.</div>
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Kundalini is also called as the serpent power, because it has a snakelike winding motion. It moves in circular fashion in the body of the performer, with increasing speed. It is a fiery but latent-electric power. Its speed is more than the speed of the light. It is said to have a speed of 3,45,000 miles per second while the speed of lights is only 1,85,000 miles per second. With awakening of Kundalini humans have knowledge like</div>
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Vekhari Shabdochcharana.</div>
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Appearance of supernatural thoughts.</div>
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Arrival of Madhyamavaka on the tongue.</div>
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Pashyanti- sounds become visible to the human eyes.</div>
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Notable sage of the middle ages Santa Gyaneshwara, describes Kundalini in following words: Sit in Vajrasana and do Jallundhar bandha. Pull the abdomen to your back. Now you experience an Uddiyana bandha below the navel and around the privater egion . This posture stops the Apan Vaya to rise up in the abdomen, which then mixes the parts of the earth and the water elements together. At the same time the warmth of Vajrasana, causes Kundalini to awaken. When Kundalini awakens, it spreads its mouth upward with a great jerk. It appears that is has been hungry for many days and now upon awakening is eager to devour anything it meets. But it does not move from its place and devours whatever parts of the earth and the water that the body has.</div>
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Kundalini yoga is a divine pure spiritual science which relies upon a blessing called shaktipat that leads to enlightenment under the guidance of a Yogi spiritual master “Sadh Guru”.</div>
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Kundalini is a concentrated form of prana or life force, lying dormant in chakras in the body. It is conceptualized as a coiled up serpent (literally, ‘kundalini’ in Sanskrit is ‘That which is coiled.’ Sanskrit kund, “to burn”; kunda, “to coil or to spiral”). The serpent is considered to be Shakti or Mahamaya, coiled up three and a half times, with its mouth engulfing the base of the Sushumna nadi.</div>
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The first of these is as the universal energy or para-kundalini. The second of these is as the energizing function of the body-mind complex or prana-kundalini. The third of these is as consciousness or shakti-kundalini which simultaneously subsumes and intermediates between these two. Ultimately these three forms are the same but understanding these three different forms will help to understand the different manifestations of kundalini .</div>
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The path of Kundalini is said to proceed from the Muladhara Chakra at the lower end of the spinal column up to the Sahasara Chakra at the top of the head. According to Yogis, awakening of kundalini brings with it pure peace, pure knowledge and pure supernatural Bliss.</div>
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Etymologically, “Mauna” consists of Ma+U+Na. Ma=Mana (the Mind), U=Utkanthita (intense desire) and Na=Nakara (negation). Thus, to negate the worldly desire of the mind and merge it with the true nature of God is what is really meant by Mauna.<br />
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Mauna is a great tool to practice restraint on speech. A man uses a lot of energy in his speech; just as much as he does when he uses his other sense organs.<br />
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By restraining his speech man can develop his power. Mauna helps a lot in the development of man’s hidden powers. It is necessary to practice Mauna to conserve the energy within. There is a saying that there are nine virtues in keeping silent. These nine virtues are as follow:<br />
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(1) You won’t speak ill of anybody. (2) You will be saved from telling lies. (3) You won’t make enemies. (4) You will not end up in a situation where you have to apologies to someone. (5) You won’t have to repent for your words. (6) You won’t waste time. (7) You won’t be bound by any task. (8) Your knowledge will remain a secret and your ignorance, hidden. (9) Your peace of mind will not be disturbed.<br />
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<a href="http://omshivam.wordpress.com/vedic-astrology-jyothish-light-of-knowledge/maha-kumbha/spiritual-hindu/raja-yoga/" target="_blank">Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda</a><br />
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mainly from Ashram ebook Baal Sanskar<br />
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ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते<br />
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पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते।<br />
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ॐ That is Absolute, and this too is Absolute. This Absolute emanates from the Absolute. On taking the Absolute from the Absolute, what remains is the Absolute.<br />
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Thathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-22936230712234589102011-09-21T03:13:00.000+05:302011-09-21T03:13:18.439+05:30The Glory of Chaturmasa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Tasmayi Shri Guruvae Namah</div><br />
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Significance Of Chaturmasa<br />
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Chaturmasa is an excellent period imbued with all virtues. One should earnestly devote oneself to garnering religious merit during this period. If one doesn’t take up the practise of yoga with faith and earnestness in Chaturmasa, one has virtually let go of a pot of nectar. One with a wiser sense should try always to keep his mind under control, for mind control is a pre-requisite for attainment of Supreme Knowledge.<br />
Acts like misappropriation and adultery are always forbidden but should be particularly eschewed in Chaturmasa.<br />
Compassion to living beings is particularly recommended in Chaturmasa and the giving of food, water and cows etc. reading of scriptures and fire sacrifices afford immense religious merit. Giving food bestows the highest religious merit. It can be given at any time of the day; it can be given even to one’s enemies.<br />
It is a rare virtue to have the inclination to abide by dharma, to serve the saints, have darshana and satsanga of saints, to worship Lord Vishnu and practise almsgiving in Chaturmasa.<br />
If one, for the sake of the Lord’s pleasure, voluntarily forswears sense-enjoyments dear to one’s heart in Chaturmasa, one gets those sense-enjoyments in unlimited quantity. One doing so with full faith gets immense religious merit.<br />
One not using metal utensils and taking food on Palasha leaves in Chaturmasa attains to Brahma Bhava (God-consciousness). One should particularly refrain from taking food in copper utensils during Chaturmasa. Wearing black and blue is harmful in Chaturmasa. One, who refrains from shaving in Chaturmasa, saves himself from the three - fold afflictions (tritapa). Sleeping on the ground, observing brahmacharya, eating on leaves, fasting, Mauna (silence), japa, meditation and charities in Chaturmasa are especially beneficial.<br />
Slandering others should be particularly avoided in Chaturmasa. Even listening to slander regarding anybody is sinful.<br />
Paraninda mahapapam parninda mahabhhayam |<br />
Paraninda mahadukham na tasyaa: patakam Param ||<br />
‘Slander is a huge sin; it is great fear; it is highly distressing; there is no sin more heinous than slander.’ <br />
(Skanda Purana, Brahma Khanda,<br />
Chaturmasa Mahatmya 4.25)<br />
Observing brahmacharya is the greatest among the pious vows. Brahmacharya is the essence of all penance and bestows the highest merit. Therefore, take recourse to brahmacharya in all manners. Brahmacharya leads to the highest in austerity. There is no greater means of dharma than brahmacharya. The vow of brahmacharya is particularly more rewarding in Chaturmasa.<br />
If one remains steadfast and takes moderate quantities of food only once in a day throughout Chaturmasa, he gets absolved of all sins and goes to Lord Vishnu’s abode. One eating only a single cereal throughout Chaturmasa is saved from diseases. One taking only one meal in a day in Chaturmasa attains religious merit of performing twelve fire sacrifices. One living on milk or fruit alone gets thousands of his sins destroyed.<br />
Complete fasting on one out of fifteen days destroys all ailments of the body and converts all the food taken in past fourteen days into ojas. That is why fasting on Ekadashi is so highly celebrated. One living a married life can do with fasting only on the Ekadashi falling in the bright fortnight but one should fast on both Ekadashis in Chaturmasa.<br />
Lord Vishnu sleeps in yoganidra during Chaturmasa; therefore, no marriages or other ceremonies or sacrifices with desire of future reward should be performed in Chaturmasa. This four month period is for austerities.<br />
To read in Hindi www.ashram.org/Publications/ArticleView/tabid/417/smid/991/ArticleID/599/reftab/414/Default.aspx Go to this link.Thathwamasihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897414650228182729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2064754805958091218.post-55815356007664264352011-03-17T23:29:00.003+05:302015-04-23T15:20:36.190+05:30Namo nama Shri Guru padukabhyam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jagajjanisthe ma layalayabhyam,<br />
Aganya punyodhaya bhavithabhyam,<br />
Thrayee sirojatha nivedithabhyam,<br />
Namo nama Shri Guru padukabhyam. 1<br />
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Vipathamasthamo vikarthanabhyam,<br />
Visishta sampathiha vivardhanabhyam,<br />
Nama janasesha visesham dhabhyam,<br />
Namo nama Shri Guru padukabhyam. 2<br />
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Samastha dustharka kalanka banga,<br />
Panodhana prouda jalashayabhyam,<br />
Nirasrayabhyam nikhilasrayabhyam,<br />
Namo nama Shri Guru padukabhyam. 3<br />
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Thaprayadhithya kararthithanam,<br />
Chayamayeebhyam aathiseethalbhyam,<br />
Aapanna samrakshana deekshithabhyam,<br />
Namo nama Shri Guru padukabhyam. 4<br />
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Yatho giro aaprapya diya samastha,<br />
Hriya nivrutha samameva nithya,<br />
Thabhyamajesachyutha bhavithabhyam,<br />
Namo nama Shri Guru padukabhyam. 5<br />
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Ye paduka panchakamadarena ,<br />
Padanthi nithyam prayatha prabhathe,<br />
Thesham gruhe nithya nivasa sheela,<br />
Sri desikendrasya kadaksha Lakshmi. 6<br />
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[These five verses was sung by the Bhagawat Pada when he went first to meet his Guru Sree Govinda Bhagawat Pada on the banks of Narmada. He has also written another stotra called Guru Paduka stotram.]<br />
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