MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1172
aRadhe krishna,
Have a blessed dat,
VIOLATION OF ETHICAL CODE
Swami SivanandaInability to control the craving for sense-enjoyment results in breach of the virtue of non-stealing. The real cause of theft is too many desires and cravings and undisciplined senses. When the senses are powerful and the uncontrolled mind wants things, then the pilfering nature enters the mind. Desire and craving blind the ethical sense and blunt the conscience. To abstain from any kind of theft, you must curb your desires, discipline the senses and control the mind.
It is extremely difficult to have a calm and pure mind. But you must have such a mind, if you want to have progress in meditation, if you desire to do Nishkamya Karma Yoga. This is one of the most important qualifications for the aspirant.
- Swami Sivananda
The Dharmakshetra
What are the things we have to understand? Plainly we have to understand facts about Yoga
and Vedanta because these are the ways through which we have to lead our divine life and approach
Divinity and attain bliss. But then what do we mean by Yoga and Vedanta and all such internal
sciences? Where are they? Are they only in the books or are they in particular places like the
Himalayas or Uttarkashi or Mecca or anywhere? Supposing they are there, the next question arises
whether they are only there and nowhere else, or the more important, is it necessary for us to find
their location elsewhere also? They are in the books in one aspect and in some aspect they are in
places like Rishikesh or Mecca. There is a meaning in going to such sacred places, because the
people who lived there have lived their life practically, and they have left the stamp of their life in
the very ether of those places. The whole atmosphere is pervaded by the spirit of Yoga and Vedanta,
and therefore, when you live there, it evokes in you the similar spirit. But the most important place
where all divine life, all Yoga and Vedanta, is to be practised, is the Dharmakshetra which
constitutes of the mind and the heart of man. Divine life has to be lived in the mind and in the heart.
Yoga has to be achieved here (in the heart). Vedanta has to be achieved here, and if it is not here, it
will not be found anywhere else. Vedanta and Yoga have to come from the heart and mind. How are
you to demonstrate your Jnana, Bhakti, selfless service, Yoga? You have to manifest them through
the thoughts that you think, through the words that you utter, and through the actions that you do.
All the scriptures of the world will be of no avail unless you begin to manifest them through your
personal being. Sadhana, Vedanta, Yoga, the whole thing has to be lived here. The most important
locality for all Yoga, Vedanta and divine life is within the man, and therefore one must understand
oneself. One must first of all understand this mysterious Dharmakshetra where all these things have
to be worked out. Then only one will be able to set about in a proper way on the path of Yoga,
Vedanta and divine life.
Swami Chidananda
What are the things we have to understand? Plainly we have to understand facts about Yoga
and Vedanta because these are the ways through which we have to lead our divine life and approach
Divinity and attain bliss. But then what do we mean by Yoga and Vedanta and all such internal
sciences? Where are they? Are they only in the books or are they in particular places like the
Himalayas or Uttarkashi or Mecca or anywhere? Supposing they are there, the next question arises
whether they are only there and nowhere else, or the more important, is it necessary for us to find
their location elsewhere also? They are in the books in one aspect and in some aspect they are in
places like Rishikesh or Mecca. There is a meaning in going to such sacred places, because the
people who lived there have lived their life practically, and they have left the stamp of their life in
the very ether of those places. The whole atmosphere is pervaded by the spirit of Yoga and Vedanta,
and therefore, when you live there, it evokes in you the similar spirit. But the most important place
where all divine life, all Yoga and Vedanta, is to be practised, is the Dharmakshetra which
constitutes of the mind and the heart of man. Divine life has to be lived in the mind and in the heart.
Yoga has to be achieved here (in the heart). Vedanta has to be achieved here, and if it is not here, it
will not be found anywhere else. Vedanta and Yoga have to come from the heart and mind. How are
you to demonstrate your Jnana, Bhakti, selfless service, Yoga? You have to manifest them through
the thoughts that you think, through the words that you utter, and through the actions that you do.
All the scriptures of the world will be of no avail unless you begin to manifest them through your
personal being. Sadhana, Vedanta, Yoga, the whole thing has to be lived here. The most important
locality for all Yoga, Vedanta and divine life is within the man, and therefore one must understand
oneself. One must first of all understand this mysterious Dharmakshetra where all these things have
to be worked out. Then only one will be able to set about in a proper way on the path of Yoga,
Vedanta and divine 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.
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