I was surprised to see the photograph of Sathya Sai Baba today, with an exclusive message for me. Its not the first time it has happened, every time when I visit my Manager's cabin for a morning chat, Something in his office catches my attention, and the see Bhagavan there, with an exclusive message for me.
It was hard hitting today. For the past few weeks, I have been trying to ponder over Ishopanishad. I don't remember how I got interested into it, but have been trying to read it for some time now. The first glimpse of it was from the website www.hinduwebsite.com
During my weekly visit to Dinabhandhu temple in cmh road, bangalore, I found this book Ishavasyoupanishad by Swami Chinmayananda. Later as I was waiting for someone, I had entered Mother's Ashram, and saw the book Isha Upanishad by Sri Aurobindo, just waiting there for me to be picked up. There was only one copy of it. Surprisingly I was searching the web many times to check on if there are any commentaries by Sri Aurobindo on Isha Upanishad. I found some, but they looked to me like mere translation. This book is a treasure, it has all his manuscripts (some of them were his scratch pad of ideas, which were never published), which was his thoughts and pondering on the true meaning of these upanishads.
I can't stop myself from believing that there was a divine will behind all these. The last two weeks were very busy at work, but still could manage good time to read and ponder over it. The day before yesterday evening, I was asking myself this question continuously " How do I see god in everything ? Yes my intellect is able to understand the concept but how do i put it to practise ? How can enjoy the great lord in the plurality of the various form ?"
Sri Aurobindo states that Isha upanishad is about Karma Yoga. To start on the path of Karma yoga, the first step is to experience Isha, The God, in all the things around us. Everthing around us, including us, is the manifestation of Lord in various forms / levels of consciousness.
I think Sathya Sai Baba gave me the answer. The photo was printed with the message "Serve man until you see god in all men."
Monday, March 26, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
"What you think is,what you are !!!", an age old saying is a profound statement, not definitely a passing comment. All of us would realise this in some point in our life. The happy and sorrow moments occurring in our life are all coming from within. In one of his talks Yogananda Paramahamsa mentions the following example, "A women is standing by the window and watching, a kind man passing by thinks she is waiting for her kid, a sensuous man passing by thinks she may be waiting for her lover." Hence its our thinking or consciousness which determines what we are.
Modern day Scientist / Doctors in the never ending experimentation of trying to understand brain, have concluded that, Buddhist monks who mediate more than 10,000 hours have a lot of calm cells in their brain, and hence say that meditation and consciously changing our way of thinking can bring a lot of benefits to our body and mind, such as reduced stress, good appetite etc...
In Aurobindo's word, we all live in mind consciousness, this puts a great veil betweent the profound truths and us. The upanishads and vedas are an attempt to lift the veil. The vedic peace invoking prayer is the first attempt to open up ourselves from mind conscious behaviour to divine conscious behaviour, the prayer goes as
"Om. That is full; this is full. This fullness has been projected from that fullness. When this fullness merges in that fullness, all that remains is fullness. Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!"
Source :"The Upanishads - A new Translation" by Swamy Nikilananda
Pondicherry Mother states that it was the aim of the divine behind Aurobindo's arrival to earth to help the fellow human beings realize the truth / divine consciousness
"from Volume 12 On Education, p.116 (24 July 1951)
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this consciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered around him to realise it. "
Modern day Scientist / Doctors in the never ending experimentation of trying to understand brain, have concluded that, Buddhist monks who mediate more than 10,000 hours have a lot of calm cells in their brain, and hence say that meditation and consciously changing our way of thinking can bring a lot of benefits to our body and mind, such as reduced stress, good appetite etc...
In Aurobindo's word, we all live in mind consciousness, this puts a great veil betweent the profound truths and us. The upanishads and vedas are an attempt to lift the veil. The vedic peace invoking prayer is the first attempt to open up ourselves from mind conscious behaviour to divine conscious behaviour, the prayer goes as
"Om. That is full; this is full. This fullness has been projected from that fullness. When this fullness merges in that fullness, all that remains is fullness. Om. Peace! Peace! Peace!"
Source :"The Upanishads - A new Translation" by Swamy Nikilananda
Pondicherry Mother states that it was the aim of the divine behind Aurobindo's arrival to earth to help the fellow human beings realize the truth / divine consciousness
"from Volume 12 On Education, p.116 (24 July 1951)
Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his time to establish in himself this consciousness he called supramental, and to help those gathered around him to realise it. "
Monday, March 05, 2007
Win Your Little Victories
If through an effort of inner consciousness and knowledge, youcan truly overcome in yourself a desire, that is to say, dissolve andabolish it, and if through inner goodwill, through consciousnesslight, knowledge, you are able to dissolve the desire, you will be,first of all in yourself personally, a hundred times happier than ifyou had satisfied this desire, and then it will have a marvellouseffect. It will have a repurcussion in the world of which you haveno idea. It will spread forth. For the vibrations you have createdwill continue to spread. These things grow larger like the snow-ball.The victory you win in your character, however small it be, isone which can be gained in the whole world... If you really want to do something good, the best thing you cando is to win your small victories in all sincerity, one after another,and thus you will do for the world the maximum you are able to.
The Mother : The Sunlit Path p.64
If through an effort of inner consciousness and knowledge, youcan truly overcome in yourself a desire, that is to say, dissolve andabolish it, and if through inner goodwill, through consciousnesslight, knowledge, you are able to dissolve the desire, you will be,first of all in yourself personally, a hundred times happier than ifyou had satisfied this desire, and then it will have a marvellouseffect. It will have a repurcussion in the world of which you haveno idea. It will spread forth. For the vibrations you have createdwill continue to spread. These things grow larger like the snow-ball.The victory you win in your character, however small it be, isone which can be gained in the whole world... If you really want to do something good, the best thing you cando is to win your small victories in all sincerity, one after another,and thus you will do for the world the maximum you are able to.
The Mother : The Sunlit Path p.64
"There are two ways of doing Yoga, one by knowledge and one's own efforts, the other by reliance on the Mother. In the last way one has to offer one's mind and heart and all to the Mother for her Force to work on it, call her in all difficulties, have faith and bhakti. At first it takes time, often a long time, for the consciousness to be prepared in this way - and during that time many difficulties can come up, but if one perseveres a time comes when all is ready, the Mother's Force opens the consciousness fully to the Divine, then all that must develop develops within, spiritual experience comes and with it the knowledge and union with the Divine."
Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950)Letter from November 13, 1934in "On Himself", SABCL, volume 26, page 455
The Mother is synomous term to believers, those who belive in Pondicherry Mother, its her, for others it can be Mother Nature and for people deep in Hindu method of worship its Shakthi. Infact this is the Shakthi upasana, strictly adhered by greats like Mahakavi Barathiyar and others.
The Mother is synomous term to believers, those who belive in Pondicherry Mother, its her, for others it can be Mother Nature and for people deep in Hindu method of worship its Shakthi. Infact this is the Shakthi upasana, strictly adhered by greats like Mahakavi Barathiyar and others.
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