MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1165

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1165

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day.

REORIENTATION OF EDUCATION

Swami Sivananda

It is necessary to teach the spiritual aspect of religion side by side with modern science and technology in schools, colleges and in universities. Students are the builders of the nation of tomorrow. The life of a student is a preparation for shouldering great responsibilities in future. Let the voice of the schools and collages be sympathy, service, discipline, real culture and fellowship. The cultural regeneration of the individuals, particularly the younger generation, is the betterment of the whole nation.

God lives in you — radiant, resplendent, dazzling with the effulgence of a million suns. It is the central truth of your existence now and here.

- 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 1164

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1164

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

REORIENTATION OF EDUCATION

Swami Sivananda

Reorientation of our educational system is the most pressing need of the country. India's educational ideals are in a ferment today. Our schools and colleges have become shops of profit and loss Our graduates run after money, power, comforts, honours and titles. The mind of the youth is corrupted by much undesirable literature. O Students! Study sacred books and ennobling literature. Education is incomplete without training the student in sacrifice, service, self-restraint.

Your desire is never satiated even though you possess the wealth of the whole world. Life is short. Time is fleeting. Desire is rampant. Slay desire, the enemy of peace.

- Swami Sivananda

THE DEVOTEE BECOMES INVULNERABLE
It is a common fallacy to suppose that people, who follow the path of devotion, who
cultivate devotion, who take recourse to prayer, surrender and the Name of the Lord become
effeminate, weak and they are not strong like the Vedantins. The Vedantins are always strong; they
bring the picture of a lion, the king of the forest, which fears nothing and is full of strength. Even so,
the lion of Vedanta is supposed to roar like a lion.
The real devotee is also equal to the Vedantin. He fears nothing in this world. His strength is
infinite, because his strength is not the strength of an individual personality. The source of his
strength is infinity, in which he has established himself. The source of strength for a Vedantin and
the source of strength for a devotee are the same. The Vedantin relies upon Atman, but the devotee
relies on the Lord. The Saguna Brahman (Brahman with attributes) and the Nirguna Brahman
(Brahman without attributes) are one. Therefore, if a devotee feels within him a sort of fear or
weakness, then it means that his practice of Bhakti is not correct. There is something lacking in him.
Some error is there. If he is a real devotee, he should be perfectly fearless. He should say, “I have got
the Name of the Lord on my lips. Nothing equals the Name of the Lord in the whole world. To me
no fear from the world can come.” So a real devotee fears nothing. Maya cannot do anything to him.

He who has got the Name of the Lord ever upon his lips, defies the guiles of Maya.

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 1163

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1163

Radhe krishna,

Have a blesed day,

IMPORTANCE OF EARLY EDUCATION

Swami Sivananda

The diet of the child should be wholesome. It should be nourishing. It should not overburden or disorder the digestive system. If the health of the child is neglected, there is the poorest chance of developing a high quality of intelligence and character, let alone physique. Give the child a good measure of freedom. Provide the child with the material which will best enable it to feel and experience its nascent aptitudes and faculties. Kindness affection, and love are far more effective in training children than threats and punishment.

FOLLOW THEIR FOOT-PRINTS
To all those who were instruments in bringing about suffering to the saints, their attitude
was one of forgiveness and returning good for evil. They tried to do good to the man who did them
the greatest harm. To endure everything, to be always firm and unshakeable in their faith in the Lord
and a spirit of continuous forgiveness-this is the nature of saints, and these characteristics are found
in saints all over the world. All people who have risen to spiritual heights and have become
worship
ful by mankind—they have always manifested these wonderful qualities. To the saints,
God is not a distant entity. To them God is an ever present living reality. Just as we are present to
each other, to them, too, God is ever present. They turn to Him at every moment of their life.
Whenever they were in need of help, solace, strength, guidance or light, they immediately turned to
God even as a child turns to its parents. God was ever present before them and thus their lives were
transformed by this ever present awareness of a superior being whom they felt to be their very own.
They melted all the differences between themselves and God. They felt themselves to be very
intimate with God. They felt God to be their own.
We also express this intimacy with God everyday through our prayers and hymns but we do
not feel it intensely enough. In troubles, we trust our money or other external aids of the world
rather than the indweller. We lack the sense of God’s presence.
On the contrary, the saints, even while living in the external world, are always in close
contact with the Lord. Therefore they are God-men. They live a life in God and they always
consider God to be the only real treasure, the greatest wealth, the only object worth having in life.
They never have any other desire. Their desirelessness found ultimate rest in God alone and filled
their heart with perfect contentment.
Swami Chidananda.

Spiritual meditation is itself a joy. It is not a work. It is not an ordinary performance. It is the soul trying to return to itself

- Swami Krishnananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1162

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1162

Radhe krishna,

have a blessed day,

IMPORTANCE OF EARLY EDUCATION

Swami Sivananda

A child learns its first notions of the universe from its plays and toys, and its mother. Education should bring out all the bright activities of the child. The child should be trained to rouse its keen fresh perception to observe accurately, to record correctly, to infer justly and to express cogently. Let the child, from its very school days, get into the habit of grouping, classifying and deducing things for itself. The physical training of the child is a matter of great importance. A strong, pure, healthy body is necessary for the full expression of the developing soul within.

Divine perfection lies dormant within you in the seed form. It has to be fully activated, developed and made manifest.

- 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 1161

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1161

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

IMPORTANCE OF EARLY EDUCATION

Swami Sivananda

The child's education begins from the day it sees the light of the day. It can even be paid that it begins from the date of conception. Whatever habit of thought, action and feeling is formed in a man's early days, it lasts throughout life. A child's moral future is sown in the same early days as its emotional future. If a child has received wholesome impression in its early days, it is likely to be influenced by good in its early youth and manhood. If the earliest growth of a child makes a good start, that is the most important step towards the consummation of the excellence of which its nature is capable. The surroundings of a child are efficient education and best instruction.

As you grow older, you should turn more and more to Japa, Kirtan and Dhyana. Pranayama etc. need not be given up. They might be practised mildly to keep up good health.

- Swami Sivananda

The symbology of Christ being carried to the Calvary brings us this great lesson that man
has to silently bear pains and sufferings and through this endurance and suffering only he comes out
as gold purified of all dross.
In this process of silently enduring all the vicissitudes and painful experiences of life, they
never lost faith. Rather, the more they endured the more were they tried by God and the greater, the
stronger, the firmer their faith became. This was the second great trait in them. “O God! Thou may
send me the worst suffering, but I will not lose faith in Thee, O Lord.” That was the wondrous spirit
they had. They never lost faith in the Lord.
Thirdly they not only forgave them who did them harm, but wished all the good for them.
Have such endurance and be humble, O aspirant!
Whatever happens to you, never lose faith and you are sure to be rewarded with eternal life
and infinite bliss.
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 1160

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1160

Radhe krishna

Have a blessed day,

EDUCATION AND ITS AIMS

Swami Sivananda

Education has the task of developing natural capacities, faculties and talents. Education admirably expresses the character of mental development. Education must enable the whole being of man to grow in proper proportions to his true shape and full capacity. Heart, head and hand, all three, must be trained by artistic, scientific and practical education. Education should enable the student to fit himself to hit environments and to help him equip himself for the battle of life and the attainment of Self-realization.

One was that they accepted all trials and tribulations as the blessings of God and bore them.
Endurance, fortitude, forbearance—these were always and will ever be the characteristic of saints.
O man, endure.
The symbology of Christ being carried to the Calvary brings us this great lesson that man
has to silently bear pains and sufferings and through this endurance and suffering only he comes out
as gold purified of all dross.
In this process of silently enduring all the vicissitudes and painful experiences of life, they
never lost faith. Rather, the more they endured the more were they tried by God and the greater, the
stronger, the firmer their faith became. This was the second great trait in them. “O God! Thou may
send me the worst suffering, but I will not lose faith in Thee, O Lord.” That was the wondrous spirit
they had. They never lost faith in the Lord.
Thirdly they not only forgave them who did them harm, but wished all the good for them.
Have such endurance and be humble, O aspirant!
Whatever happens to you, never lose faith and you are sure to be rewarded with eternal life
and infinite bliss.
Swami Chidananda.

Who seeks to know what truth do things enshrine Would know that Self is dearest all things hold.

- 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 1159

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1159

Radhe krishna,

have a blessed day,

EDUCATION AND ITS AIMS

Swami Sivananda

Education is the training in the art of living. This is a process of drawing out all that is latent in the student. Education refines and elevates the mind. It polishes, good disposition and corrects bad demeanour. The aim of education is to draw the physical, mental and spiritual powers of the student. ln India, education has been regarded as a discipline and a preparation for a life dedicated to Self-realization. The function of education is to help evolution, and that evolution is a movement towards perfection. 

In spiritual life, to hear something and the receiving of it is only the lesser part but the doing of it is the essence of the entire process.

- 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 1158

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1158

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

WORDS OF WISDOM

Swami Sivananda

Think rightly, talk sweetly, act righteously, bear cheerfully, and act bravely. Follow the way of sympathy, co-operation and love. Understand the truth of the Law of the Lord. Be like a rose, and waft the fragrance of cosmic love everywhere. My message to humanity is of courage, hope effort, cheerfulness, perseverance, nobility of aspiration, spiritual awareness, restraint, illumination and Self-realization. God is the basis of right ideas, right thinking, right action, right application and wisdom. Through thought of God all defects of mind will vanish, all doubts will be cleared and all Karmic bonds will break.

Sit less, serve more. Hate less, love more. Take less, give more. Talk less, think more. Preach less, practise more. Worry less, laugh more. Rest less, work more. Sleep less, meditate more.

- Swami Sivananda

Secondly that universal quality which characterises 999 out of 1,000 of all mankind is
egoism. People are proud. Everyone has his own ego. Man feels “I am something,” and he does not
like to be disregarded. He wants others to recognise him as something, and he wants to assert
himself and this principle of ego, this feeling of one’s own superiority, is found to be totally absent
in all saints. They were humble. They were meek in spirit. They were lowly in spirit.
“Blessed are the lowly in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.” The “lowly” not from
the point of money. He may have everything, but in spite of that he feels that he is a speck of dust at
the feet of the Lord. “Lord is everything. I am nothing. Thou art everything my Lord.” This is the
attitude of all holy people, and this total absence of egoism, and the resultant humility—this is also a
universal characteristic of all saints.
Even as egoism is the universal characteristic of the ordinary man in his unregenerate days,
the man who is in the grip of delusion, Maya, even so, the universal characteristic of all saints has
been perfect humility. Blessed are the meek. And the spirit of the same verse is re-echoed by one of
the greatest saints India has produced. He was Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabbu. He says, “Trinadapi
Suneechena—one should consider oneself lower than a blade of grass.”
The man of egoism (Ahankara) has not yet learnt this great secret, this truth that Ahankara is
the great bar to true refinement and progress of man. He will argue that if a man does not feel
himself to be something, he will attain nothing and so too much of humility simply spoils one’s life.
But the saints knew better. They knew what was the worth of achievement in this world and
what was the truly worthwhile achievement. And they knew that the ego was the greatest obstacle
for the attainment of all good things which are of lasting worth, and therefore they were humble,
forbearing and forgiving. The lives of saints were full of trials and tribulations. They were
persecuted. They had to bear too much hardship. The Lord put them in the furnace of hardship and
tribulation, suffering and persecution.
Just as gold is put in the furnace to be purified of all dross and to shine as purified metal,
even so, saints are put to much tribulation and suffering, and through all these they manifested three
important qualities.
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 1157

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1157

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

WORDS OF WISDOM

Swami Sivananda

Do not keep changing your aim. Ba steady. Be steadfast. Stick to one thing. Waver not. You can hardly expect a good harvest if you constantly change your plan as to what you wish to cultivate. Every act of ours and every thought, are evidences of the existence of some supreme aim in life. There is some aim to be fulfilled. Ask nothing, and you will not be disappointed. Have an open heart and clear conscience. Be abstemious. Learn to see the One in the many. Know that what must happen will happen. Therefore do not worry. Give up anxiety. Attachment with selfish considerations is the bane of life.

BE SIMPLE AND GUILELESS, HUMBLE AND ENDURING
All saints and holy men have illumined like the bright full-moon, the dark night of
ignorance of the earth-bound souls by their own brilliant example.
They have been men of very simple nature, devoid of all crookedness and cunningness.
Simplicity and guilelessness are the characteristics of all men of God.
“Unless ye become like little children, ye cannot enter the Kingdom of heaven.” This is the
mystic declaration of Jesus Christ.
All truly great saints knew not how to disbelieve any man. They trusted all beings. This was
one of the most salient traits in their character. They were guileless. They did not have the so-called
shrewdness and cleverness which the worldly man has, which he thinks essential for him to get
along. But to get along where? It is a different question altogether. Whether it is getting along in the
right direction up to heaven or getting along as quickly as possible to perdition or his own ruin, that
is the question. But the so-called shrewdness which the deluded man thinks very necessary for him
to get along, the saints were lacking, and they were not the losers for it. They became worshipful.
They were immortalised because they were guileless. Their nature was pure and simple, crystal
clear, and this is the nature of children. Saints were like children. Childlike simplicity, childlike
guilelessness, childlike innocence and crystal-like purity of heart have ever been the common
right direction up to heaven or getting along as quickly as possible to perdition or his own ruin, that
is the question. But the so-called shrewdness which the deluded man thinks very necessary for him
to get along, the saints were lacking, and they were not the losers for it. They became worshipful.
They were immortalised because they were guileless. Their nature was pure and simple, crystal
clear, and this is the nature of children. Saints were like children. Childlike simplicity, childlike
guilelessness, childlike innocence and crystal-like purity of heart have ever been the common
attributes of all the saints.
Swami Chidananda.
attributes of all the saints.
Swami Chidananda.

I can deeply feel affection for you without any kind of outward demonstration of it, and that is enough. That is called dhyana, or meditation.

- Swami Krishnananda

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1156

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1156

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

WORDS OF WISDOM

Swami Sivananda

Do nothing that you will regret if you die tonight. Do today what you plan to do tomorrow and do now what you have planned to do today. Think neither of the past, nor of the future. Live ever in the present with a cheerful heart. Forget the past and its failures. Try to rectify errors. Memory of past misfortunes is a hindrance to furthering the great work on hand. The past is unreal and is like a dream. The future is uncertain. It is in the hands of the Lord. Therefore, do not bother about the past and the future. Do not worry about tomorrow. If you take care of today, tomorrow will take care of itself.

Be like a rare fragrant flower in this garden of God which you call the world. Add beauty to it by your being in it.

- 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 1155

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1155

R adhe krishna,                                                           

Have a blessed day,

WORDS OF WISDOM

Swami Sivananda

Truth is one. The goal of human life is the realization and experience of this Truth. O foolish man, you have no true perception of things. You have become a creature of circumstances. Wake up from your long slumber of ignorance Pray, meditate and attain Godrealization. Be wakeful. Be thoughtful. Be vigilant. Be diligent. Be positive. Be frank. There is no certainty as to how long your breath will flow. It may stop at any time. Take refuge in the Lord. Chant His name and sing His glories. He is your sole Refuge. Live each day as if it were your last. Squeeze the most out of every minute, to the last of your advantage towards spiritual progress.

Remain in the world without getting tainted by it, just like the lotus in the water.

- Swami Sivananda

An aspirant must, therefore be wise. He should not contradict his Sadhana during the active
life. He should know where the pot is leaking; otherwise it will be useless to go on filling the pot
An aspirant should also be careful, watchful, alert and penetrative. The story of the “Three
Skulls” is worth remembering.
Once a Rakshasa (demon) came to a king’s court with three skulls and frightened the king to
eat him up unless he could correctly point out which was the best skull out of the three. The king
asked three days’ time and the demon agreed. Then the king asked his court Pundits as to which of
them was the best. None could say anything since all the three resembled outwardly all alike.
One intelligent Pundit came and passed a rod through one ear of the first skull, and the rod
went straight through the other ear.
Then he made the rod pass through the second skull. In this case, the rod, inserted through
one ear, came out of the mouth.
Then the rod was made to pass through the third skull. When inserted through one ear, the
rod went right into the chest.
The court-pundit remarked that the third skull was the best.
The first skull represents that type of people who hear wisdom through one ear and, without
assimilating it, leave it through the other ear and forget about it. The second skull represents those
people who, after receiving wisdom, are anxious to teach it to others, but do not practise the wisdom
themselves. That is the second class of people.
The third skull represents the best type of aspirants, who after hearing wisdom, keep it in
their hearts, and try to practise it in their everyday life. So, I would request you all to be like the third
skull, cherishing and practising whatever you may learn from your association with the wise, the
saints and the sages. May God bless you all!
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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