MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION.83
Radhe krishna,
Good morning and have a blessed day,
LORD DATTATREYA AND HIS 24 GURUS
Swami Sivananda
1. I learnt patience and doing good to others from the earth. 2. From water, I learnt the quality of purity. 3. I learnt from air to be without attachment though I move with many people in this world. 4. From fire I learnt to glow with the splendour of Self-knowledge and austerity. 5. I learnt from the sky that the Self is all-pervading and yet it has no contact with any object. 6. I learnt from the moon that the Self is always perfect and changeless and it is only the limiting adjuncts that cast shadows over it. 7. Just as a sun reflected in various pots of water appears as so many different reflections, so also Brahman appears different because of the bodies caused by the reflection through the mind. This is the lesson I have learnt from the sun.
There is no such thing as knowing Brahman, because the knower of Brahman cannot separate himself from it. The Absolute transcends every function, becoming and process. It is beyond thought, emotion, will, feeling, sensation, ascertainment, name, form and action.
- Swami Krishnananda
Radhe krishna,
Good morning and have a blessed day,
LORD DATTATREYA AND HIS 24 GURUS
Swami Sivananda
1. I learnt patience and doing good to others from the earth. 2. From water, I learnt the quality of purity. 3. I learnt from air to be without attachment though I move with many people in this world. 4. From fire I learnt to glow with the splendour of Self-knowledge and austerity. 5. I learnt from the sky that the Self is all-pervading and yet it has no contact with any object. 6. I learnt from the moon that the Self is always perfect and changeless and it is only the limiting adjuncts that cast shadows over it. 7. Just as a sun reflected in various pots of water appears as so many different reflections, so also Brahman appears different because of the bodies caused by the reflection through the mind. This is the lesson I have learnt from the sun.
Admonitions are not lacking. Saints, sages,
siddhas, mahapurushas
, scriptures,
srutis,
smritis, puranas
all sound this call. They all give this caution; they all warn us: Before you know it,
time will fly away. ì
Dinamapi rajani sayam pratah sisiravasantau punarayatah; kalah kridati
gacchatyayus tadapi na munchatyasavayuh
(Day and night, morning and evening, autumn and
spring, come and go again and again. While time plays, our life ebbs away. Yet, alas, the wind of
manís vain desires does not cease but continues to blow unsatiated).î Every day this
sloka
must be
sounding again and again in your heart.
Swami Chidananda.
There is no such thing as knowing Brahman, because the knower of Brahman cannot separate himself from it. The Absolute transcends every function, becoming and process. It is beyond thought, emotion, will, feeling, sensation, ascertainment, name, form and action.
- Swami Krishnananda
Chant the Maha Mantra
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
BE HAPPY.
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
BE HAPPY.
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