Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 3, 2010 at 1:21pm
* No one can ruin your day without YOUR permission.
* Most people will be about as happy, as they decide to be
* Others can stop you temporarily, but only you can do it permanently.
* Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.
* Success stops when you do.
* When your ship comes in.... make sure you are willing to unload it.
* You will never have it all together.
* Life is a journey...not a destination. Enjoy the trip!
* The biggest lie on the planet When I get what I
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Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 1, 2010 at 10:33am
Anything that is done in accordance with the dictates of the mind is a trap. So even the so-called Yogic or spiritual practices undertaken through the incentive of the mind can at best be a golden trap, a prison. The intelligence within has to realise this. It is capable of this, though it cannot get out of it. ‘I’ cannot liberate itself, but it can see the defect in all these practices, the danger in this trap. If you are doing Karma-yoga it is glorified social service—which is very good as far
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Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 1, 2010 at 10:32am
Worshipful homage to the supreme, eternal, infinite Cosmic Spirit Divine. Worshipful homage to the supreme Cosmic Power of the Divine which is both a transcendental divine force and the first manifestation of the Unmanifest. Therefore, it is different from the Unmanifest, but at the same time integrally one with the Unmanifest. Because the supreme, ultimate, transcendental Reality is one alone and non-dual, ekameva’ dvitiyam, there cannot be any question of manifestation being apart from It, bec
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Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 1, 2010 at 10:32am
The New Year is approaching, time passes. The passage which is known as temporal is also the process of the evolution of the universe. There is a progressive march of the constituent elements of things in the passage of the time process. When a particular specialised occasion arises in this progression of the time process, we call that particular event or occasion by a designation as a 'New Year Day', a 'birthday', a 'holiday', an 'occasion of celebration' and some such nomenclature. There are p
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Posted by Sukadev Bretz on January 1, 2010 at 10:30am
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. Tomorrow he is not. Therefore avail yours
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Music is a system of harmonious, melodious and rhythmic sounds capable of producinginner peace and an inexpressible thrill of joy. Music is one of the sciences which deal with Nada(Sabda) which is the first vibration of Brahman represented by the Pranava - Om. All the SaptaSvaras - Sa, Ri, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni - which evolved themselves later into the various vocalsounds first originated out of this fundamental Om, symbolic of Brahman. Music is one of thefine arts or Lalita Kalas. Yes. It has got
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Posted by Yoga Vidya on December 31, 2009 at 3:01pm
Blessed self,
Om Namo Narayanaya.Om namo Bhagavate |Vasudevaya.
Om NMO bHgavate Sivanandaya. Loving New Year Greetings!
Enjoy the beauty and forms of the Divine in many forms of nature! May this New Year bring you beautiful presence and Peace of the Divine! May Hia Grace be ever upon you is my prayer!!!
With respects & regards,
Yours,in the service of Gurudev,
SwamiYogaswarupananda
(We received this New Year's Message via Email. Swami Yogaswarupananda is a Yoga Master in Sivananda Ashram Rish
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There is no definite period of time in this matter. In main, two factors decide this issue,viz., the nature of the individual Karma and the last impression before death. It may vary fromhundreds of years to a few months even. Those that work out some of their Karmas in otherplanes in subtler regions take a considerable time before entering a fresh body. The interval isvery long, for a year of the earth period passes off as a single day on the celestial plane. There isan instance cited where, see
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It is wrong to regard that politics has got some of those very people had fashioned thoseprecedence over religion. In personal life, the majority of mankind does believe in God; and inIndia, there is undercurrent of religion throughout the land. Politics is only a surface activitythrust upon most people due to socio-economic forces.When one gets knocks and blows, when he gets disgusted with the sensual objects onaccount of their impermanency, when he gets experience and discrimination and dispas
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” How can we condemn and deprecate womankind? I think that there is nothing unholy in this universe.Too much study and a little practice bring bewilderment. To induce Vairagya in thepassionate people, I place such a negative mental picture of women. Really, women aremanifestations of Sakti. Yes, all is holy. All is sacred. All is beautiful. This can be realized andfelt only by people advanced in the spiritual line. Beginners can merely repeat these formulaslike a parrot. Their experience, Drisht
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When there is a true spirit of Tyaga in any, there can never be any idea of the oldimpressions of the world or of past relations with mundane existence. Even if the personembraces Sannyas without the indispensable Vairagya, he need not necessarily feel for the lossthat he sustains, though the latent Vasanas, Vrittis and Samskaras still lie embedded in his mentalconsciousness. A true Sannyasi enjoys the utmost bliss when he cuts asunder all connectionswith the world.From "May I answer that" by Sw
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On one Sabbath Day at Nazareth, Lord Jesus claimed for Himself the fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah: “The spirit of the Lord is upon Me because he has anointed Me to preach, to heal and to set at liberty.” This greatly enraged the congregation at the synagogue. Though the Lord had been recognised as the Son of God, as a Prophet, and as the Light of the World, by others, to the people of Nazareth, Jesus was but the son of a carpenter! These unfortunate people drove Jesus out of Nazareth. Said
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A full-fledged Yogi can never have the idea either to test himself or his powers. If suchbe the case, he should in no way be considered full-fledged or well-baked. It is only the raw, theill-expanded and half-baked Sadhaks or Yogins that will have the inclination to test their ownselves, i.e., their progress, by virtue of the powers they might have acquired.Yogic powers cannot but manifest in proportion to the amount of progress one makes inYoga as per the injunctions laid down in the Yoga Sastr
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By now the first disciples had gathered around Lord Jesus. The Pharisees on one occasion found Jesus’s disciples plucking corn on Sabbath Day and eating it. When this was brought to the notice of the Lord, He said: “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath; so that the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.” This greatly displeased the Pharisees who waited for another opportunity.While Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on a Sabbath Day the Pharisees brought to him a sick man, wi
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Isvara is not ordaining things all the time; else He wouldbe too busy. This means determinism which leaves very little scope for individual effort.The notion that Isvara ordains things only sometimes and not always and that He wouldbe too busy if He ordains things all the time is a puerile one. Isvara can look to everything at onestroke of His Being. There is no such thing as His ‘being too busy’, for He is not like man, usinghis senses for the purpose of acting. Isvara does not act with a chang
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Jesus, after the period of His seclusion and austerities, came back to his native village, eager to impart His wisdom to his fellow-men. John the Baptist had already declared to the people that the Kingdom of God was at hand and called upon people to repent with a contrite heart and effect a change of heart in themselves in order to be able to enter the Kingdom of God. Jesus, too, began with a repetition of this Message. But, whereas John had painted God as a stern Judge, Lord Jesus spoke of Him
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Pleasure and pain in life are respectively the rewards of the good and the bad actions ofan individual. If a man suffers, it is a reminder to him to ennoble his life and make his futurehappy through the performance of good deeds, self-discipline and right effort.When a person, convicted to a term of imprisonment by the court of law for havingcommitted an offence, escapes from the prison, the law demands that he should be rearrestedand given added punishment, because he had not only committed an
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After the baptism, Lord Jesus resorted to seclusion in the wilderness and practised extreme austerities and fasted. At the end of 40 days of such fasting He was hungry. Austerities and meditation had, no doubt, earned for Him divine powers to work miracles. And, the Lord did perform miracles to save people and to heal them. “Why not use those powers now, convert stones into bread, and appease your hunger,” tempted Satan, the Evil One. But, Lord Jesus resolutely refused to yield to this temptatio
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Christmas is named after Christ. This is the birthday of Lord Jesus, the Saviour Christ, the Yogi of the East. He was born in a stable at Bethlehem, of Mary and Joseph, the obscure village carpenter. Mary and Joseph made the stable a home for Christ, the King, the Prince of Peace. The birth of Jesus is celebrated all over the world as the sacred Christmas.Lord Jesus was an embodiment of mercy, love and humility. He was an apostle of non-violence and peace. His body was crucified, but his voice h
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By Satsang, by repeating the Lord’s Name, doing Kirtan, hearing Kathas, reading theRamayana, Bhagavata and the lives of Bhaktas - Bhakta Vijayam and Bhakta Lilamrita - VishnuSahasranama, Narada Bhakti Sutras and Sandilya Sutras. You must develop Vairagya. This isimportant. Live amidst Bhaktas. Live in Ayodhya. Respect Rama Nama. You will developRama Bhakti. Live in Brindavan. Study Bhagavata. Do Japa of the Dvadasakshara Mantra,“Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya”. You will develop Krishna Bhakti.From
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