MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1106

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1106

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

PRACTICE OF YOGA

Swami Sivananda

The Yogi gets immense inner spiritual strength through practice of concentration and meditation. Enlightenment dawns in the Yogi whose mind is perfectly serene, who has calmed his passionate nature, who has destroyed all sorts of attachments and who has attained equipoise of mind and inner harmony. The self-controlled Yogi tries to keep poise under all conditions and amidst the pairs of the opposites. Yoga includes iron determination, fiery resolve, faith, earnestness, powerful concentration, well-balanced mind, and purity. Those who have not disciplined the mind and the senses, who have not practised regular meditation, who have not developed the faculty of discrimination, who have not eradicated lust, egoism, anger, greed, etc., cannot be called Yogins.

“I would like to bow down from a pretty distance to such deceiving knowledge and prefer
one thousand times to be called the ignorant and cling fast to my soul-uplifting culture and heritage
which guarantees me purity, manliness, divinity, character, integrity, unselfishness and love for
mankind.”
Be careful, brethren, that scientific knowledge devoid of religion and spirituality will
quicken only the world-doom since it provides in the hand of the all-devouring brutal instinct of the
degenerated man another addition of deadly power for self-destruction.
Power verily corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Therefore neglect not the foremost duty of building up character, nobility, godliness and
love for the search of your true nature
Swami Chidananda.

The universe is struggling to become aware of its own existence as a total whole. The cosmos is endeavouring to regain its integrality in an all-inclusive Self awareness.

- Swami Krishnananda 

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1105

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1105

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

DEVOTION

Swami Sivananda

Purity of mind cannot be obtained without devotion to the Lord. Intense love for the Lord is real devotion. Divine love is the result of the conquest of the lower self. The whole being of man should be surrendered to the Lord without reservation. Then alone his whole life will undergo wonderful transformation. Desire and egoism are the two chief obstacles that stand in the way of self-surrender. Kill them ruthlessly. Eka Bhakti is unswerving, single-minded devotion to the Lord, which is a fundamental requisite on the path of Sadhana. Whatever else a man may do or may not do, he attains salvation by Japa or silent repetition of the Mantra or the Lord's Name constantly. In some, inner purification by Japa is achieved in ten years, in others in several births. Devotion to the Lord and Japa should be inseparable. When Japa is done without intense feeling of the awareness of the Lord, the result is very slight.

We do meditation in the morning and evening but during our activities and dealings with others during the day, we show petty-mindedness and selfishness. That obstructs our Sadhana and nullifies the benefits of our meditation.

- Swami Chidananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1104

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1104

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

SELFLESS SERVICE Swami Sivananda To live truth is Karma Yoga. It is easy to speak truth but very difficult to abide by truth, or the principle of truth. The fruit of good action is both happiness and knowledge. Merit and demerit will not touch that Karma Yogi who works without attachment and egoism. But a Karma Yogi never does anything to cause demerit. Be balanced in pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, heat and cold, censure and praise. This is the Yoga of Equanimity or doctrine of poise in action. Self-surrender to the Lord brings His grace. That is how the Karma Yogi, who offers all his thoughts, desires and actions to the Lord, gets purity of mind and attains Knowledge of Atma. He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is quite pure, who has conquered the lower self, who has subdued his senses, who meditates on the Atma, realizes himself as the Self in all beings. Devotion is the sap of life. Build it through Japa, Kirtan, meditation, study of scriptures and association with pious and the devout. - Swami Sivananda Here are some of the methods of thinning out the Vasanas (desires). (1) Self-denial: Curtail all unnecessary wants, activities and mixing. Too much of contacts with friends and promiscuous mixing stimulate the old habits, previous Samskaras (latent impressions). Hence worldly contacts should be reduced as far as possible. Exert a little pure will. Deny then and there and say, “No, I don’t want it, since it is not going to help my spiritual well-being. Seek the counsel from the pure intellect and it will give you sure protection at the required moment. Slowly you will develop an attitude of looking at sense-objects as poison and delusive, a clever entrapment of Maya and then you will naturally deny them for your spiritual welfare. Swami Chidananda. Chant the Maha Mantra Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare BE HAPPY. https://sekhar789.blogspot.com/2017/03/swami-chidananda-performs-sivapuja-at.html

ESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1103

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1103

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

SELFLESS SERVICE

Swami Sivananda

The Karma Yogi should combine Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga to attain quick progress. Just as the seed can be rendered barren by being scorched, so the aspirant burns the fruit-bearing tendency of Karmas through the abandonment of the desire for fruit, and attachment otherwise. Just as a seed burnt in the fire cannot germinate, so also the Karmas or actions burnt by the fire of wisdom cannot produce future birth. When there is no agency-mentality, when there is no desire for fruits, action is no action at all in the ordinary sense.

 

ERADICATE DESIRES AND REST IN YOUR DESIRELESS
BLISSFUL SELF
The spiritual Sadhaka daily comes nearer and nearer to God. Day by day, his spiritual
struggle brings for him more and more freedom from earthly bondage, from Maya. Every desire
annihilated adds new strength to the enhancement of this freedom. It is a fresh addition to the store
of inner happiness.
Swami Chidananda.

The art of the affirmation of Brahman consists in constantly thinking of Brahman, speaking about Brahman, discoursing to one another on Brahman and depending on Brahman alone for everything that one values in life.

- Swami Krishnananda 

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1102

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1102

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

SELFLESS SERVICE

Swami Sivananda

Let your tongue utter His Name. Let your hands work for Him. Let your feet move for Him. Let the Lord be your sole refuge. Live for Him. Work for Him. Serve Him in all forms. Think of the Lord only. Meditate on Him alone. See Him everywhere. Worship Him in your heart. Consecrate your life, all actions, feelings and thoughts to the Lord. You will rest in Him. You will attain union with Him. You will attain immortality, supreme peace and eternal bliss. Right Karma helps man to get purification of the heart. Jnana or right Knowledge bestows Moksha or final emancipation. Karma Yoga is a means to an end.

God is focusing upon you with all His love and grace, with this one view that He wants to make out of you the finest of human individuals on earth in this period.

- Swami Chidananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1101

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1101

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

SELFLESS SERVICE

Swami Sivananda

Every selfless action causes purification of the heart. When selfishness and egoism are destroyed, when desire and attachment are renounced, actions cannot bind a man, because he has no idea of agency. Only a man of self-discipline and renunciation can do Karma Yoga. Know the technique and the secret of Karma Yoga. You can break the bonds of Karma. All actions will be transmuted into Yoga when done with the right feeling or light mental attitude. A Karma Yogi consecrates all his works and their fruits as offerings unto the Lord (Isvaraarpana) and then obtains His grace. Offer all your actions to the Lord

Satsang removes the darkness of the heart, elevates the mind and fills it with purity.

- Swami Sivananda

They have also shown the path that leads to this grand experience. We, as true descendants
of our ancient Rishis and worthy sons of Bharatavarsha, should never lose sight of the great purpose
of life which can be nothing else than God-realisation. Let no one be deceived by becoming a
travesty of alien culture in the name of the so-called material prosperity.
The goodness of a tree is known ultimately by its fruits either sweet or bitter. The past two
great world-wars bear the testimony of the destructive horror of the so-called advanced civilisation
under the most modern scientific knowledge
swami Chidananda.

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1100

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1100

Radhe krishna, Have a blessed day,

PRELIMINARIES OF SADHNA Swami Sivananda The greedy, lustful and egoistic man who is a follower of the philosophy of flesh, who worships the body as the Atma cannot be a successful Sadhaka. He whose intellect is obscured by the delusion caused by the pairs of the opposites (Raga and Dwesha) will have to struggle hard to progress in the path. He who meditates constantly without allowing the mind to wander in the grooves of sensual objects, who is ever alert and intent on attaining his objective, who is devoted to God and Guru, is sure to reach the goal. He who is full of faith, who constantly serves his Guru and hears his teachings, who has subdued the senses, surely attains the eternal knowledge and the supreme peace of the Brahman. They never proclaimed anything as a conclusion of mere intellectual activity and labour of the thinking faculty but they did so on the basis of the profound authority of direct intuitional realisation of the Absolute. So whatever these ancient sages and Rishis have proclaimed in the Upanishads, it is from their direct experience in the core of their inmost spiritual being. They did not care to adduce any argument in their support or to induce acceptance. They just stated boldly what they KNEW AS TRUTH. And what is it that they have declared? It is “O children of Immortality! Ye are not the perishable physical body Nor the ever-changing mind, nor the reasoning intellect. But ye are the master of all these, The supreme conscious-Being, the unattached witnessing Spirit or Atman beyond the reach of the mind and the intellect, Different and distinct from body, mind and intellect. Realise this fact and live in the awareness of your true Spirit.” Swami Chidananda Only that which does not change can know that there is change. - Swami Krishnananda Chant the Maha Mantra Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare BE HAPPY. https://sekhar789.blogspot.com/2017/03/asserting-selfchidananda-talk25.html

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1099

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1099

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

PRELIMINARIES OF SADHANA

Swami Sivananda

Sadhana is the means. Progress is the result, Self-realization is the goal. Unless you cultivate divine virtues you cannot practise any kind of Yoga. He who abandons all desires, who is without longing, and who is without the sense of 'mine-ness' and 'I-ness' attains eternal peace. Sadhana begins with self-analysis. Then commences cultivation of virtues, self-restraint and eradication of vices. An inner urge to grow in spirituality, to progress on the path of virtue, to rise above evil tendencies, is sustaining strength of Sadhana.

If you are intensely aware of the Supreme Reality, shining within you as peace profound, then you are eternally a dweller of Satchidananda-Brahma-Puri.

- Swami Chidananda 

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1098

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1098

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

PROCESS OF PURIFICATION Swami Sivananda Cultivate and develop Sattwa. This is the foundation of Yoga. This is the first preparatory discipline. Sattwa is the only sure means for the attainment of the Knowledge of the Self. It lays the foundation of Knowledge. Introspect. Look within. Watch the thoughts. Be vigilant. Stand as a door-keeper. Allow Sattwic thoughts only to pass through the door of the mind. Check Rajas. Check Tamas. Convert Tamas into Rajas by performing action vigorously. And then convert Rajas into Sattwa. Purity or Sattwa increases gradually by Japa, meditation and self-restraint. Sattwic diet, Japa, meditation, study of sacred books, living in seclusion, Satsang, Sankirtan, self-analysis, Pranayama are essential to Sadhaks. The more you get purified and the mort there is the increase of Sattwa, the further you will progress towards divine light, peace and harmony. To attain to the exalted state of spirituality, you should, in the first instance, fully realize the glory of life in the Spirit or the Soul. - Swami Sivananda THE UNBROKEN LINK This holy land (Bharatavarsha) of ours with its lofty culture has been uniquely blessed and privileged by a continuous and unbroken stream of spiritual teachers, saints, devotees and savants to guide and uphold the arduous march of its men, ever reminding them of the true goal of life and preventing mankind from slipping into erroneous tracks at each critical moment. Look at our ancient history and you will find not a single generation which has been deprived of God-sent men who would ever hold high the banner of truth along with their clarion-call to humanity to remain ever vigilant and never forget the real purpose of life. Swami Chidananda. Chant the Maha Mantra Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare BE HAPPY. https://sekhar789.blogspot.com/2017/03/science-of-mind-talk-by-sri-swami.html

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1097

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1097

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ANALYSIS OF GUNAS

Swami Sivananda

When Sattwa predominates there is unruffled peace in the mind, there is inner harmony and there is peaceful serenity. There is clarity or clear vision. The understanding is not clouded. There is penetrative insight. The door or threshold of intuition is wide open. The senses do not run towards external objects. When the mind is Sattwic, there is calmness in the mind. Divine Light can descend only when the mind is serene and cheerful. When Sattwa is in the ascendancy in a man, he is endowed with the faculty of discrimination. Sublime, divine thoughts roll in his mind. He has pure understanding. His mind turns away from sensual pleasures and moves inwards towards the Atma or the Self.

This is Divinity being manifest through the human nature upon this earth plane. That is your
grand privilege. That is your grand good fortune—to act like God, live like God and be a God on
earth, be a source of solace. Will you not exercise this supreme privilege, this supreme good fortune
and shine with Divinity? What greater grace can there be, what greater good fortune, greater honour
and privilege can there be than to live in this earth plane like a God on earth?
That indeed should be grasped, and, while on earth, we should live here as the Gods that we
are, as the parts of Divinity that we are. That indeed would be a life that is worth living. That life
would have been well lived, and we would have put God’s great gift to its highest use and made
ourselves forever blessed. This then is the task! This then is the great life
Swami Chidananda 

The more does one become fit for the practice of Advaita Vedanta, the less is the consciousness of the body and world around. Advaita and bodyconsciousness do not go together.

- Swami Krishnananda 

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1096

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1096

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ANALYSIS OF GUNAS

Swami Sivananda

When Tamas increases, darkness, a desire to do nothing, forgetfulness of one's duties, callousness, hatred, wicked tendencies and confusion arise. Imfatuation or Moha is a product of Tamas. Just as a dark cloud enshrouds the sun, so also Tamas or darkness envelops knowledge or the light of the Atma. Tamas is an enemy of any kind of progress. A Sattwic man controls the senses, does selfless service and practises Japa, Pranayama, Asanas, meditation, self-analysis and enquiry of "Who am I? 

It is only through selfless activities, unattached work and loving service that one can acquire the precious gems of purity, patience and humility.

- Swami Chidananda 

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1095

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1095

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ANALYSIS OF GUNAS

Swami Sivananda

When Tamas increases, darkness, a desire to do nothing, forgetfulness of one's duties, callousness, hatred, wicked tendencies and confusion arise. Imfatuation or Moha is a product of Tamas. Just as a dark cloud enshrouds the sun, so also Tamas or darkness envelops knowledge or the light of the Atma. Tamas is an enemy of any kind of progress. A Sattwic man controls the senses, does selfless service and practises Japa, Pranayama, Asanas, meditation, self-analysis and enquiry of "Who am I? 

It is only through selfless activities, unattached work and loving service that one can acquire the precious gems of purity, patience and humility.

- Swami Chidananda 

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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