MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1164
Radhe krishna,
Have a blessed day,
NATURE OF PURITY
Swami SivanandaPurity is freedom from sin or defilement. Purity is chastity in thought, word and deed. Purity is freedom from lustful, sensual thoughts. It is moral cleanliness. Purity is of two kinds, internal purity and external purity. Freedom from likes and dislikes or the pairs of the opposites, purity of intention, purity of motive, and purity of mind, constitute internal purity. Purity of body through bath, etc., purity of clothes, purity of surroundings like the house and its neighbourhood, constitute external purity. Purity is the main limb of virtue. Purity lives and derives its life solely from God or the Supreme Being, who is Eternally Pure.
HINTS ON PRACTICAL SADHANA
What Is Divine Living
What is Yoga-Vedanta? What is divine living? Yoga-Vedanta is the concern of divine life.
Divine life is a life based upon Yoga and pervaded by the spirit of Vedanta. This is divine life, and it
is made up of selflessness, service, Sadhana and self-realisation. So Yoga and Vedanta form the
very fabric of divine life, or the stuff out of which divine life is made. Naturally, therefore, the more
we know about it, the more we are reminded about its important aspects, the better equipped we will
be in order to live the divine life, because the most important thing about divine life is in the living
of it, not so much in the knowing of it. But the importance of knowing lies in the plain fact that if
you have to live it, you must know something of it, so that with this knowledge you will be able to
live it more effectively. So knowledge also is necessary, but the most important thing is the living of
it. In the living of a life of Yoga, a life of practical Vedanta, we come across several hurdles, and we
are faced many times with situations which we have to manage with intelligence, with knowledge.
Therefore, discussion of these matters and thorough knowledge about the intricacies, the inner
subtleties of these things, will put us in a very good position so that we may be able to deal with
these situations which crop up before us in our life of Yoga and Vedanta during the course of our
What Is Divine Living
What is Yoga-Vedanta? What is divine living? Yoga-Vedanta is the concern of divine life.
Divine life is a life based upon Yoga and pervaded by the spirit of Vedanta. This is divine life, and it
is made up of selflessness, service, Sadhana and self-realisation. So Yoga and Vedanta form the
very fabric of divine life, or the stuff out of which divine life is made. Naturally, therefore, the more
we know about it, the more we are reminded about its important aspects, the better equipped we will
be in order to live the divine life, because the most important thing about divine life is in the living
of it, not so much in the knowing of it. But the importance of knowing lies in the plain fact that if
you have to live it, you must know something of it, so that with this knowledge you will be able to
live it more effectively. So knowledge also is necessary, but the most important thing is the living of
it. In the living of a life of Yoga, a life of practical Vedanta, we come across several hurdles, and we
are faced many times with situations which we have to manage with intelligence, with knowledge.
Therefore, discussion of these matters and thorough knowledge about the intricacies, the inner
subtleties of these things, will put us in a very good position so that we may be able to deal with
these situations which crop up before us in our life of Yoga and Vedanta during the course of our
leading the divine life.
Swami Chidananda Meditation is an absorption of your consciousness in the context of the object of meditation. Rather, you have become it. This becoming is called samadhi in yoga terminology.
- 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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