Swami Sivananda
Charity is a sister-virtue of generosity. It is a fulfillment of magnanimity and nobility.
Gift should be given with faith; it should never be given without faith.
It should be given in plenty, with modesty, with sympathy.
Charity is universal love.
The deeds of charity you have done will stay forever with you.
Give cheerfully, quickly and without hesitation. Contd…
SHARE WITH ALL
Swami Sivananda
Share with others what you have – physically, mental, moral and spiritual. Do not hoard wealth. Do not covet the wealth of others. In sharing there is joy and peace. Sharing generates cosmic love and destroys greed. Sharing removes selfishness and creates selflessness. Sharing purifies the heart. Sharing develops oneness. Share everything with all.
Swami Sivananda
Preserve the vital force (veerya) very, very carefully. Veerya is God in motion or manifestation-Vibhuti. Veerya is all power. Veerya is all money. Veerya is the essence of life, thought and intelligence. Observe celibacy according to your age and circumstances. Restrict the indulgence to once a month. Decrease it gradually to once in a year. Finally take a vow of abstinence for whole life.
Swami Sivananda
Study systematically the Gita, Ramayana, Bhagavata, Vishnu-Sahasranama, Lalita-Sahasranama, Aditya Hridaya, Upanishads or Yoga Vasishtha, the Bible, Zend Avesta, the Koran, the Tripitakas, the Granth Sahib, etc., from half an hour to one hour daily and have Suddha Vichara (Pure Thought).
Sunday 15 February 2015
COMPLETE SURRENDER
Swami Sivananda
“I have come my Lord, to be yours and yours own. Take me and do whatever you like with me.
To do is my business not to wish for fruits thereof, that is yours.
I shall contented to be wafted like a dry leaf in the gale of Thy will.
I am Thine, all is Thine, my Lord, Thy will be done.”
Swami Sivananda
It is Cat-Yoga. The kitten cries aloud and the mother cat runs at once to catch it by the mouth.
So also Lord Krishna runs immediately as He did in the case of Draupadi and Gajendra to rescue the devotees and sends His Grace down (descent of Divine Grace).
Even so, you only must remove the two poisonous fangs of the mind - 'I-ness' and 'mine-ness'. Then you can allow the mind to go wherever it likes. Then you will always have the feeling of the presence of God. You must also renounce the attachment to renunciation, which is very deep rooted. You must renounce the idea 'I have renounced everything; I am a great renunciate'. This attachment of aspirants is a greater evil than that of the householders: 'I am a landlord; I am a Brahmana, etc' Contd…
Vedanta does not want you to renounce the world. It wants you to change your mental attitude, and give up this false, illusory 'I-ness' and 'mine-ness'. The snake charmer removes only the two poisonous fangs of the cobra. The snake remains the same. It hisses, raises its hood, and shows its fangs. In fact, it does everything as before. The snake charmer has changed his mental attitude towards the snake. He has a feeling now that it has no poisonous fangs. Contd…
Swami Sivananda
He who has merely withdrawn himself from worldly possessions, cannot be regarded as having renounced the world altogether. But he who is living in actual contact with the world, finds out its faults. He who is freed from every passion, and whose soul depends on nothing, may be said to have truly renounced the world. Read the story of raja Sikhidhwaja and queen Chudala in the Yoga Vasishta. Contd…
Swami Sivananda
What is to be renounced is the bheda buddhi (divisive intellect), which says, 'I am superior to that man, I am the body.' and the kartrtva abhimana, which thinks, 'I am the doer'. There is no use in your renouncing your home, wife, and children. You must destroy moha(attachment) for the body, children, money, house, property. Then you will get that state of immortality from which you will never return. Contd…
WHAT TO RENOUNCE
Swami Sivananda
Mere outward giving up of things is nothing. It is not real renunciation. Real tyaga or sanyas (renunciation) consists in absolute renunciation of all vasanas (tendencies), and the destruction of the heart-knot of ignorance, the chit-jada-granthi (confusion between the conscious subject and inert object). Contd…
Swami Sivananda
The circle of darkness and degeneracy has reached its climax. Come now, arise victorious, and step up towards the zenith of perfection that awaits you. Live with a definite purpose - do not roam about aimlessly. Walk with a definite aim. Climb the hill of knowledge steadily, and reach the summit of the temple of Brahman, the grand abode of the life immortal. Contd…
Swami Sivananda
You came alone, naked, and weeping. You will go alone, naked, and weeping. Then why are you proud of your false wealth and false knowledge? Become humble, meek. You will conquer the world with humility. Become pure in thought, word and deed. This is the secret of spiritual life. Contd…
An aspirant should always watch whether the sight of an unpleasant object or any unpleasant sound causes irritation or agitation in his mind. He should try to eradicate this irritation - he should have perfect control of temper. A weak aspirant, though strong in concentration, is overcome by idleness, and a strong aspirant, if weak in concentration, is overcome by tossing of the mind. Concentration and energy should therefore be well balanced. Contd…
Swami Sivananda
Doubt or uncertainty is a great obstacle in the path of self-realisation. It must be removed by study of religious books, satsanga (holy company), vicara (enquiry), and reasoning. Again and again it will raise its head to mislead the aspirant. It should be killed beyond resurrection, by certainty of conviction, and by firm unshakable faith, based on reasoning. Contd…
Swami SivanandaThe spiritual path may in the beginning appear to be very hard, thorny, precipitous, and slippery. Renunciation of objects gives pain at the outset. If you struggle hard to tread the path, if you once make a strong determination and firm resolve, then it becomes very easy. You get interest and a new joy. Your heart expands. You have a broad outlook on life. You have a new wide vision. You feel the help from the invisible hands of the indweller of your heart. Contd…
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For this asan, you have to be in posture of padmasan. Seated in this position,taking your hands backwards catch the wrist of your left hand with your right hand.Then straighten your back and raise your shoulders. Inhale slowly.Then
bend your body forward from the waist keeping your backbone straight and exhale.Now slowly touch the ground with your forehead raising your locked hands high up . Try to stay in this posture for a while. Inhale and Exhale slowly.Now
Now, return to your original positi
Everything goes, everything returns,
eternally rolls the wheel of existence.
Everything dies, everything blossoms
forth again; eternally runs on the
year of existence. Everything breaks,
everything is integrated anew,
eternally builds itself the same
house of existence. All things
separate, all things again greet,
one another, eternally true to itself
remains the ring of existence.
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
