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"MAYA"

Maya(illusory power of Brahman) tempts the ignorant Jeeva.

She puts a little coating of sensual pleasure over tense pain-giving objects, a little sugar-coating over the ever bitter quinine pills.

Develop dispassion, discrimination and attain freedom and eternal bliss.

Total, unreserved self-surrender to the Lord alone will enable you to cross this maya, and attain his lotus-feet.

At an age where one is expected to work in a dedicated manner, we often end up compromising with our health. While many people would agree that a good fitness regime helps keep such risks at bay, it may just not be good enough. Choosing and following a good and healthy diet can help you there. Even with a stressful lifestyle, one can minimize the risks by choosing the right food to eat.
But is choosing the right food enough?
No. Along with the right type of food, we must also learn how to eat it

Last week I participated the wonderful seminar "Bhagavad Gita" with James Swartz in Bad Meinberg. James gave a talk on Karma Yoga during the Satsang. You can watch the Video here: http://mein.yoga-vidya.de/video/yoga-vidya-satsang-vom-14-m-rz-2015

James Swartz in the Cologne Yoga Vidya Center: 23.-25.10.2015, Self Inquiry - Viveka Chudamani

Application and Information:

http://www.yoga-vidya.de/center/koeln/workshops/

NATURAL PROCESS TO DEAL WITH TUBERCULOSIS

Tuberculosis is admitted a communicable disease, which may get expand or spread from one person to another. Well, not all tuberculosis is spreadable, but the chest tuberculosis admitted a critical one; as it takes life of the persons if left untreated. Tuberculosis hits through the bacteria called Mycobacterium Instant loss in weight, appetite loss, night sweat; weak immune function, persistent fever, weak bones, feeling unhealthy & motionless to perform

SELF KNOWLEDGE

The raft of knowledge of the Self will take you safely over the stormy waves of this great ocean of Samsara. You will not be effected by even the worst kind of adversities and sorrows. Therefore, struggle hard to attain this knowledge. Disseminate this wisdom of the Rishis and bear witness to it in daily life. Who am I? What is Samsara? What is Brahman? What is bondage? What is freedom? What is Maya? What is Avidya? Do Vichar(right enquiry)

Peace

Peace, God, Atma, immortality, Emancipation are synonymous terms.
Righteousness and peace kiss each other.
Peace and unity walk together with clasped hands.
Desirelessness moves hand in hand with peace.
There can be no peace without the love of God.
Realize peace in your own heart, through association with sages, and by meditation.
You can find this peace, only in the stillness, only within your own self.
You certainly cannot find it in objects.

THE SHIP CELESTIAL

Struggle hard to attain Self-realisation.
Struggle ceaselessly.
Fight like a hero; look not back, but ever go forward.
Diligently perform spiritual Sadhana. With a tranquil heart, meditate.
Give up vain talk.
Within the lotus of thy heart Brahman Dwells.
By the pure in heart is He known.
Easily mayst thou cross the sea of darkness and attain Illumination

Intellect gives the knowledge of external objects.

Intellect is struggle.

Intellect guesses, believes.

Intellect is finite.

Intellect is a product of Prakriti (Mother Nature).

Intuition is the eye of wisdom.

Intuition is infallible.

Intuition is a flash and illumination.

In intuition time becomes Eternity.

Therefore, develop intuition.

To practise non-violence, truth and celibacy is divine life.
To be kind, generous, humble, and tolerant is divine life.
To practise virtues and be righteous is divine life.
To serve the poor in selfish, dedicated way is divine life.
To serve the sick with all-is-God attitude is divine life.
To be merciful, courageous and devotional is divine life.
To sing the name of God and pray is divine life.

O DEVIS!

O Devis do not waste your lives in fashion and passion.
Open your eyes.
Walk in the path of righteousness.
Preserve your Pativrata Dharma (The rules of life of a chaste woman devoted to her husband).
See Divinity in your husbands.
Study Gita, Upanishads, Ramayana, etc. train your children in the spiritual path.
Sow the spiritual seed when they are young.

Nothing is hidden from him: the Truth stands before him in all its Splendour and Radiance, all the mysteries of the universe are revealed to him and all the secret working of Nature are an open book.

He who has no ego and who has surrender himself to God is the master of every power and force that there is;
for, all power and forces are under God, the Lord.
The egoless man quickly attains Supreme Freedom and Perfection.

Where this egoism in not present, it is all blessedness, all goodness, all glory; and there one can find God.
One who has no egoism has all wisdom.
To the one devoid of ego, the whole world is haven of rest, a realm of peace and a kingdom abounding in all-happiness.

For him there is no more distress: he is purified, exalted and illumined; he sees no sin anywhere, and no evil can come near him.

GLORY OF THE LORD’S NAME

The Name can bring you face to face with God. The Name is the bestower of eternal bliss, perennial joy and everlasting peace. The glory and the greatness of the Lord’s Name cannot be adequately described in words. The Name is filled with countless powers and potencies. The Name is the elixir, ambrosia and divine nectar. The Name is more precious than the wealth of the whole world. The Name is your sole prop, support, refuge, solace, centre, ideal and goal.

In Kali-Yuga(Iron age), as the mind of man are naturally prone to greater distraction, meditation, worship and performance of sacrifice are not possible.
Therefore, loud chanting of the Lord’s Name or Kirtan has been recommended as the principle spiritual practice for God-realisation.
God is the one Doctor for all sickness.
Rely on Him alone.
The names of God are the most potent, unfailing tonic, sure panaceas, well-tried elixirs, sovereign specifies for all.

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

A good deed is never lost.
It purifies the heart and leads to the divine light and the dawn of divine grace.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
He who plants kindness reaps love.
Goodness is love in action.
It is noble to be good.
Goodness is the greatest virtue.
Every good deed is a grain of seed for immortality or eternal life.

Can anybody explain why drinking water, even in small sips, would be contraindicated during an ashtanga asana practice?

Om Shanti - Ravidas

Even a little good thinking and a little doing good are highly beneficial.

It will lead to Eternal Bliss.

Then why not try a little good thinking and good doing even from now.

Goodness makes life a blessing. Goodness will bring sure success and prosperity.

To be good is human.

To be good is divine.

BE GOOD DO GOOD

Swami Sivananda

Good is the conquest over evil.
It is not the absence of evil.
Little self-denial, honest service, little words of cheer, encouragement, sympathy and kindness, little acts of kindness, little virtuous deeds, little silent victorious over temptations,– these will have a long way to the attainment of Eternal Bliss, perennial joy, everlasting peace and immortality.