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NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE

By Swami Sivananda

By the command of the Indestructible Being, minutes, hours, days and nights, stand apart. By the command of the Immortal Brahman, months, years, seasons and solstices stand apart. He who knows this Indestructible Being is a liberated sage or Jivanmukta.

Time rolls on. New becomes old and old becomes new again. Today is the most auspicious New Year's Day. God has given you another chance this year to enable you to strive for your salvation. Today man is. Tomorro
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Nirguna is not nothingness. It is the fullness of everything that is good. Nirguna is
plenitude. In it you find all auspiciousness, all goodness, all beauty, all joy, all health, all
sweetness, all purity, all peace, everything developed to perfection. From a distance this fullness
becomes inconceivable and so the sages called it Nirguna. Once they reach there, they get
merged in that inexpressible experience. It is not nothingness, but it is everythingness, and
beyond this too, for it is inexpressi

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Introspect

Watch your mind and thoughts. Introspect and practise self-analysis. Avoid evil company.
Understand the way of Maya. Be on the alert. Be very humble and simple, remember God at every
moment.
Remove arrogance, self-conceit and laziness. Develop humility to a maximum degree. Be
sincere. Serve all with love. Respect your elders and parents. Lead a simple, laborious life.
Cheer up your spirit. Have Perfect trust in God. Keep the mind fully occupied. Practise daily
meditation. Develop virtuous qualities.

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Search, Understand, Realise

Hold fast the lamp of Dharma. Entertain thoughts of Divine Love. Preserve equanimity in
success and failure. Restrain the senses. Calm the mind. Fix it on God. Soar high in the realm of
bliss. Behold unity. You will have cosmic vision.
Give up all sorts of fears, anger, care, worries and anxieties. Do not be disheartened by
failures. Pain is the best thing in the world. It is an eye-opener. Never forget this.
Dear friend, can economical sufficiency and a few more comforts with electric lights, fans
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Enquire “Who Am I?”

Develop patience, tolerance, mercy and love. Practise Vichara. Enquire, “Who am I?”
Serve others With Atma Bhava.
Have firm faith in Srutis and Sastras. Regulate your conduct when you deal with others.
Prostrate before everybody mentally. Possess a keen longing for liberation and intense Vairagya.
Be sincere and earnest. Develop your will-power. Conserve all leaking energy. Draw up a daily
routine and stick to it tenaciously. Grow. Expand. Get success in life. Realise God.
From "Light, Power and Wisd

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As is the mind’s focus , so the state of mind.
As is the perception,so are the circumstances.
As are the karmas, so is the habitual direction of the mind/person
What this mind serves, so it becomes.
So are the karmas.
One reaps what one sows
Our mere wishes cannot change this.

As are the karma, so does he receive.
What one plants, so does one eats.
As are the praises (of GOD), this also one eats
(his perception changes accordingly),
What one keeps in awareness regularly, so is the path he follow.

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Doesn’t it seem that just about anything we do or eat these days allegedly cause cancer? Excessive exposure to sunlight increases the risk of skin cancer. Asbestos workers, smoking, radiation, charcoal steaks, too much fat in our diet, saccharin, and many other chemicals found in herbicides and pesticides those things that increase our risk of developing CANCER. They all increase oxidative stress as cause of cancer. Every day we are expelling free radicals when excessive free radicals are allow

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Can medicine gives us health????

The medicine cannot give you health; it can only destroy your diseases. Once the diseases are not there, health happens; you become available. If diseases are there, health cannot happen.
That is why medical science, Eastern or Western, has not yet been able to define what health is. They can define each disease exactly -- they know thousands and thousands of diseases and they have defined them all -- but they cannot define what health is. At the most they can say that when there is no disease yo
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Start Quest Of Self

Work with a heart within and God overhead. Have a profound faith in the will of
Providence. Meditate on the divine attributes of the Lord viz., mercy, cosmic love, beauty of
beauties and All-pervasiveness. You will get success in life and God-realisation.
Keep open the portals of your heart by removing selfishness, greed, lust, so that the
Almighty Lord may come and dwell therein. Give up all useless discussions and proceed
straightaway in the quest of the Self or God. You will possess immense inner

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Emotional Joy And Emotional Sorrow ...???

We commonly become emotional, either in times of sorrow e.g. at being separated from a loved one, at experiencing failure in an external event, on hearing a negative news, etc. or in times of joy e.g. when our child or spouse or even pet performs a warm act, while watching a movie, etc. While we have always believed that it is absolutely normal or natural to become emotional and some of us even believe that it is good to let go of our emotions and crying once in a while makes us lighter and stro

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Every day, in the morning, we all need to recharge our spiritual battery, the energy of which has been used the previous day. This is extremely important, otherwise the light of our consciousness becomes dim, thoughts become unfocused and decisions are filled with un-clarity and doubt. This energy is available inside and outside. Inside us we have a spiritual centre, at the center of our consciousness, pure spiritual energy. This is what we are. However access to this energy is now blocked by ou

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God Is The Inner Ruler

God is the inner Ruler. He goads the body, mind and senses to work. Become an instrument
in the hands of the Lord. Do not expect thanks or appreciation for your work. Do actions as your
duty and offer them and their fruits to the Lord. You will be freed from the bonds of Karma. Your
heart will be purified soon.
Repeat the Mantra, “I am Thine, All is Thine, My Lord. Thy will be done.” Throw all burden
on Him and be at ease. Do not keep any desire for you. Destroy egoism completely, by
unconditional, u

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The Supreme Light descended into this mortal world of gloom and darkness, two thousand years ago.

The Law governing the Lord’s descent upon earth is the same at all times, everywhere. When unrighteousness grows and righteousness is waning, when the forces undivine seem to be stronger than the divine forces, when the Word of God or commandments of His Messengers are forgotten or disobeyed, when religious fanaticism follows the letter of the scriptures killing the spirit, it is then that the Lord

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Root Yourself In God

Understand clearly the aim of your life. Chalk out the line of work that is congenial to your
aim. Work hard to realise the ideal. Have your ideal before you and try every second to live up to it.
Develop a strong desire to remove carelessness and forgetfulness. Have confidence in your
own powers and faculties.
Keep up your mental poise amidst the changes of the world without consideration of
success or failure, gain or loss, pleasure or pain. Have the mind always rooted in God amidst
activities. Use

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Worship God In The Poor

Cultivate right understanding and right thinking. Develop cosmic love. Eradicate
selfishness. Practise Yama and Niyama. Develop virtuous qualities. Have faith in the existence of
God. Pray to the Almighty daily. The Divine Grace will descend upon you.
Kill unholy desires through holy desires. Do not become lazy. Be ever up and doing. Break
the evil of ignorance. Know thyself and be free.
Worship God in the poor and sick. Serve every one with intense love. Give your hands to
work and mind to God. You

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Eternal Happiness Is In God Only

Nitya Sukha (eternal happiness) and Paramasanti (Supreme Peace) can be had only in God.
Therefore pray to the Almighty Lord: “O My Lord! By entertaining various useless
thoughts, by vain and wild imaginations by entertaining myriads of Sankalpas my heart and mind
are afflicted with severe sores. Enough! protect me. O Lord, do protect me. Turn my mind towards
Thy lotus feet. Make it rest in Thee for ever. This is my fervent prayer. This is all I want. Thou
knowest my heart.” He. will guide you in all

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Divine Protection for Baby Jesus

Angels warned them not to reveal Jesus’s whereabouts to Herod and so the wise men went their way without meeting Herod once again. Herod, thus, frustrated in his nefarious ambition, ordered that all children in Bethlehem below the age two should be mercilessly killed. The King’s officers readily carried out his orders; and thousands of little babes were quickly despatched to the Lotus-Feet of the Lord, in Heaven.

But Joseph and Mary, along with Lord Jesus, had been forewarned by angels of the co

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Rely On God Alone

Lead a life of intense activity. Do not depend upon anybody. Rely on God alone. Give up
idle talking. Remember God at every moment. Utter in every breath the name of the Lord. Centre
your thoughts upon His lotus feet. Have strong faith in Him. Endeavour to make your faith a matter
of adoration and love. You will enjoy Supreme joy.
Think rightly and clearly. Become a man of measured words. Do selfless service. Surrender
the fruits of action unto the Lord. Pray to God for His mercy, Divine Light, puri

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Raise The Rod Of Viveka

Collect all the rays of your mind. Turn the mind towards God. Persevere seriously in the
pursuit of knowledge of God. Struggle hard. You will succeed.
Give up all sorts of fears, cares, worries and anxieties. Rest in the ocean of silence. Destroy
all sorts of fears by the rod of Viveka and the sword of Vairagya.
Pray to the Almighty Lord for help and guidance. Thirst for His grace. Place your trust in
Him. Do not be moved by difficulties. Difficulties strengthen your will and augment your power of
en

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Become Pure, Evil Will Perish

When you do Japa and meditation, if evil thoughts enter your mind, do not use your
will-force in driving them. You will lose your energy only. You will tax your will only. You will
fatigue yourself. The greater the efforts you make, the more the evil thoughts will return with
redoubled force. They will return more quickly also. The thoughts will become more powerful. Be
indifferent. Keep quiet. They will pass off soon. Or substitute good counter thoughts or think of the
picture of thy Ishtam and the

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