Mahabharatham : ( 08/06/2013. )

  =============================================================== Friday,  15  Sep 2023. 05:30. Chapter 8: In Harmony with the Whole Universe - 4. ================================================================ But there is a higher prakriti, beyond the phenomenal, transient, changing forms of the lower prakriti. Apareyam itas tv anyam prakrtim viddhi me param: “By My own force of an all-including comprehensiveness and of My integrated Being of universal character, I sustain the lower prakriti as the whole universe.” Everything has come from these forces. Etad yonini bhutani sarvanity upadharaya: “Whatever you see in this world anywhere, in all directions, are modifications, combinations, permutations of these eight things mentioned, or particularly speaking, only five things—earth, water, fire, air and ether. There is nothing but this.” Aham krtsnasya jagatah prabhavah pralayas tatha: God is the Creator, the Preserver and the Destroyer of all things. This is a great sub...

============================================================ Friday,  25  Jul 2023. 05:30. Chapter 8: In Harmony with the Whole Universe - 3. ============================================================= So, what is our level? It is taken for granted that we have become perfectly human beings, and conceding that we have undergone the training that is required of us in the first six chapters, what is our understanding of the world? It is a simple answer: we see a world outside ourselves, and we are obliged to ask for a Creator of this world. Every scripture speaks of creation. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” says the Bible. The Vedas, Upanishads, and other scriptures tell us that creation is the miraculous performance of God the Creator. Now, our mind is made in such a manner that it can accept truth only in a certain way and not in certain other ways. Our minds are conditioned to certain ways of thinking and understanding, and t...

========================================================================= Thursday,  20  Jul 2023. 05:30. Chapter 8: In Harmony with the Whole Universe - 2. ========================================================================= The Teacher tells us, at the commencement of the seventh chapter, that the integration of the personality is not the goal of life. It is the goal as far as our empirical life is concerned; it is a great purpose and a great achievement indeed, but it is an achievement for the purpose of another higher achievement, so that there are layers and layers of ascent from the lower to the higher. The various dissipated energies are collected by way of focusing and concentration in the process of the integration of personality. It is true that by this process we become wholesome individuals, perfectly sane, bright with understanding and reason, humane and very healthy in every sense of the term. Yes, but for what purpose is this achievement of humaneness, tota...

========================================================================= Monday,  21 May, 2023. 05:30. Chapter 8: In Harmony with the Whole Universe - 1. ========================================================================= Chinmaya Mission : By exercising once a week, you cannot improve your body. If you eat once a week, it is not nourishment enough. It must be regularly done, every day, at a specific time. Never give it up even for a day, whether you are traveling or are sick. When concentration is developed, all sādhanā is almost at an end. You must continue your practice until you achieve the realization of the flameless Light of Consciousness. ======================================================================== Chapter 7: The Art of Meditation.-6. Recap : Gradual, honest desire to move away from distractive atmospheres and to concentrate the mind on the higher Being is mumukshutva, and is itself a potent aid. And finally, surrender of self to God. The surrender of the...

======================================================================== Tuesday, April 18, 2023. 06:00. Chapter 7: The Art of Meditation.-5. ========================================================================= What is called psychoanalysis is nothing but the simple process of bringing the subconscious and unconscious to the conscious level. We are not aware of what we are inside us. Therefore many a time we have moods; we have whims and fancies; we think differently on different days. Suddenly some thought comes, and we do not know why this thought has come. We say, “Well, I thought differently. Yesterday's thought was different; now I give up that idea.” Why did we give up that idea? We do not know what we are inside. Something that has been working and trying to get matured has suddenly come up to the conscious level. A deliberate process of bringing out the inner residue of the subconscious to the conscious level is to be attempted, and this is done by concentration. This ...

Swami Chinmayananda  Want to be successful? Here are top 3 tips from Shri Krishna’s Bhagavad Gita that will set you on the path to success!  ======================================================================== Sunday, March 26, 2023. 06:00. Chapter 7: The Art of Meditation.-4. ======================================================================== For the purpose of the achievement of this great success in yoga, one has to carefully regulate one's daily activity. Various types of advice are given to us—we are to be socially free and free from family engagements, we should not have harassment of any kind outside, and emotionally we should be calm. We should not have tension in the nerves, not even in the muscles; all tension should cease. When we are seated in an atmosphere of distraction, we are automatically in a state of tension, and therefore we are asked to move away from human society and be in a secluded place for some time, at least, until we are masters of our own...

========================================================================= Tuesday, January 31, 2023. 06:00. Chapter 7: The Art of Meditation.-3. ========================================================================= So, there is a social self. Social self means the particular person or object with which the consciousness of a person has become identified for a peculiar reason, which varies from person to person. When consciousness identifies itself with any object, that object becomes the self, because consciousness is the self. What we call ‘self' is nothing but self-consciousness. But if we are able to transfer our consciousness so intensely and vehemently in respect of a person or an object outside, that person or object becomes the self, and then becomes a centre of attraction and love. That is the so-called artificial self that is created by the identification of consciousness externally with the secondary self, or the gaunatman. There is the bodily self, called the vichata...