THE NEED FOR A GURU
Only the man who has already been to Badrinath will be able to tell you the road leading to it.
In the case of the spiritual path, it is still more difficult to find your way.
The mind will mislead you very often.
The Guru will be able to remove pitfalls and obstacles, and lead you along the right path.
He will tell you: “This road leads you to Moksha; this one leads to bondage.”
Without this guidance, you might want to go to Badrinath, but find yourself in Delhi!
Man can learn only from a man, and hence God teaches through a human body.
In your Guru, you have your human ideal of perfection.
He is the pattern from which you wish to mould yourself.
Your mind will readily be convinced that such a great soul is fit to be worshipped and revered.
Guru is the Moksha-Dvara(gateway to Liberation).
He is the gateway to the transcendental Truth-Consciousness.
But, it is the aspirant that has to enter through it.
The Guru is a help, but the actual task of pract
THE SATGURU
He gives you the rope of knowledge and saves you when you are drowning in this ocean of Samsara.
Do not consider him to be only a man.
If you take him as a man, you are a beast.
Worship your Guru and bow to him with reverence.
Guru is God.
A word from him is a word from God.
He need not teach anything.
Even his presence or company is elevating, inspiring and stirring.
The very company itself is self-illumination.
Living in his company is spiritual education.
Read ‘Sri Granth Sahib’.
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On the subject of "Sadhana" - Swami Sivananda
"Act now. Live now. Know now. Realize now. Be happy now.
Every death is a reminder. Every bell that rings says, "The end is near". Every day robs off from you one part of your precious life. Therefore, you should be very earnest in plunging yourself in constant Sadhana.
Never fall a victim to fruitless regret. Today is the best day. Today is the day of your new birth. Start Sadhana now. With folded palms, bid good-bye to past mistakes and faul
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right and wrong
'right' and 'wrong' are relative terms.
they vary according to time, special circumstances, varna - caste, and asrama - stage of life.
morality is a changing and relative term.
the passionate man who molests his wife frequently, to gratify his own passion, is more immoral than man who visits the house of a woman of ill-fame once in six months.
the man who dwells constantly on immoral thoughts, is the most immoral man of all.
do you clearly note the subtle difference?
to kill an enemy
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LIFE : A PHENOMENON OF EDUCATION
Life is education and education is life.
Life on earth is a school for wisdom.
Life is a ceaseless striving for perfection, freedom and independence.
Life is an aspiration.
Life means adaptability.
Adapt, adjust, and accommodate.
Life is a great sacrifice.
Pain enriches life.
Life is but an endless series of experiments and awakenings.
Life is based essentially on experience.
Life is a worship of the immanent Spirit.
Life is an eternal search for the All.
Start t
LIFE : A MYSTERY AND AN ADVENTURE
Life is a great mystery.
Life is a voyage in the infinite ocean of Time where every object is perpetually changing.
Life is a blend of contradictions.
Life is a terrible warfare with the mind and the senses.
Life and society cannot exist without struggling or fighting.
Life is a tremendous battle with Ignorance.
Life is an upward struggle, a medium through which we evolve.
Before I go into my system I want to look at some other peoples formations to see what they think. Here are four different alignments I've come across:
1: Mars
2: Mercury
3: Jupiter
4: Venus
5: Saturn
6: Sun
7: Moon
1: Saturn/Moon
2: Pluto
3: Sun/Mars
4: Venus
5: Jupiter/Mercury
6: Neptune
7: Uranus
1: Saturn
2: Jupiter
3: Mars/Sun
4: Venus
5: Mercury
6: Moon
7: No planet
1: Saturn
2: Jupiter
3: Mars
4: Venus
5: Mercury
6: Sun
7: Moon
I did come across some who did not correspond the planets with the chakras directly b
MANTRAS FOR SURRENDER
“Sri Krishna Saranam Mama, Sri Krishna Saranam Mama,”
“Hari Saranam,”
“I am Thine, All is Thine, Thy will be done. My Lord”
, are the formulas for effecting self-surrender.
Surrender comes out of intense love and unshakable faith in God.
Intense Bhakti can only be attained by the Grace of God.
This is Prapatti Yoga or the Yoga of Self-surrender.
For the last year and a half,I did a series of exercises to awaken myself.With help of Suba,for whom I am eternally thankful,it seems that I awakened Kundalini.
I am aware of internal transformations, and external happenings.
Every tiny changes,events,allows me to notice it!!
Like bird chirping,wind playing with slightly opened window,neighbor taking to girlfriend,my mom slightly appealed by too much smoking,feelings about beautiful girl in supermarket,with shy smile , etc...
In the past,I seldom w
YOGA OF SELF-SURRENDER
If the mind says :
“I am Thine, My Lord”,
if the ego says “I must become the High Court Judge”;
if the intellect says : “I am a great devotee”;
and if the Chitta says :
“I must attain Siddhis,” this will not constitute perfect, unreserved surrender.
This is only cheating the Lord, the inner Ruler and witness.
After surrendering to the Lord, you should not grumble, when any trouble comes.
You should not complain to the Lord : “O Lord, You have no eyes. You have no compassion
YOGA OF SELF-SURRENDER
Surrender must be complete.
You cannot any part of yours.
Give the power of attorney to God.
Let Him do whatever He wants.
You will have no worry or anxiety.
You will be peaceful.
Surrender contains intense love and faith.
The entire being, mind, intellect, Chitta and egoism, must be surrender to the Lord.
Desire and egoism are two great obstacles to self-surrender.
YOGA OF SELF-SURRENDER
Self-surrender is a direct, a valid mode of God-realisation.
Self-surrender is a safe and sure means of God-realisation.
Self-surrender is a easier and surer means of Self-realisation.
Nothing can be achieved without surrender to the Lord.
Surrender yourself and all your belongings at the feet of the Supreme.
Live a dedicated life of godliness.
Think that nothing is yours and everything belongs to God.
This is surrender to God.
I have four or five things which, as a Hindu, I wish to tell you.
Where elders are respectfully honoured, there prosperity prevails; and where elders - father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, uncles and aunts - are treated with contempt, with harshness, with scant respect, there is no prosperity.
These things are not known.
So when people are miserable, when people are unhappy, when people lack prosperity, it is not known why it comes about that way.
It is brought about by oneself by a
KINDS OF BHAV IN BHAKTI
Sri Hanuman was a Dasya Bhakta.
He had Dasya-Bhav.
He served Lord Rama whole heartedly.
He pleased his master in all possible ways.
He found joy and bliss in service of his master.
In Sakhya-Bhav God is a friend of the devotee.
Arjuna had this Bhav towards Lord Krishna.
The devotee moves with Lord on equal terms.
They used to sit, eat, talk and walk together as intimate friend.
CHARACTERISTICS OF A JIVANMUKTA
He who is free from anger, lust, greed, egoism and jealousy is indeed a Sage.
He who calls nothing in this world as his own, he who speaks wisely, he who is not elated by success or gain, and he who is not depressed by failure or loss is a sage.
He who is free from covetousness, who does not grieve over what is no more, who has overcome desire is a Sage or Brahma Jnani(Knower of Brahman).
WISE GUIDANCE FOR SURE SUCCESS
A man who digs a well should not dig a foot here, a foot there, a few feet in another place and then a fourth.
If he does this, he will not find water even after digging in fifty places.
Once a spot is chosen, he must dig on and on in the same place and so he will reach the water.
Even so in Yoga, one teacher, one path, one method, one master, one idea and one-pointed faith and devotion – all the above make up the secret of success in spiritual path.
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