MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1144

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION1144

Radhe krishna,

Have A blessed day,

COVETOUSNESS

Swami Sivananda

Covetousness is greed or avariciousness. Inordinate desire of wealth is covetousness. All virtue, all honesty and peace run away from a man of covetousness. A covetous man is always poor and discontented. A covetous man is a fool. He is a miserable wretch. He lives in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, and discontentment. He never enjoys life. A covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy, but merely to possess them. He starves himself in the midst of plenty. His sons squander his money quickly. Covetousness is the first vice in corrupt nature which moves and the last which dies. A covetous man acquires money by unjust or unlawful means. He leads a miserable life. His lot is pitiable and lamentable.

You are pure and bodiless. You have no mind. You are Brahman, the supreme Truth. Assert this. Realise this O Ram!

- Swami Sivananda

For those who are constantly forced to be in worldly atmosphere and who do not get
time—if you ask them, they say they have already a properly setup programme and that they cannot
spare even half an hour out of it for spiritual Sadhana—only they should shift the entire emphasis of
their Sadhana from physical, like sitting upon one Asana, sitting in one place and doing Kirtan,
going into the meditation room etc. If these are not possible, one need not worry. What should he
do? Let his Japa, his meditation, his Kirtan, all be mental. Sri Swamiji Maharaj has prescribed “You
need not necessarily have a separate meditation room or fix some time for meditation. Close your
eyes for a minute or two once in every two hours and think of God and His various Divine qualities,
during work, repeating mentally Hari Om, or any other Mantra according to your taste.” This does
not mean that a meditation room and so on are all useless. Meditation room you can have. If you
cannot have it, then do not give up your Sadhana. The mental repetition can be carried on
throughout your hours of work. It can go on unceasingly
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 1143

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1143

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

PROCRASTINATION

Swami Sivananda

The foolish man says: "I will rise early from day-after-tomorrow. I will pray and meditate tomorrow. I will carry out my intentions tomorrow." But the wise man rises early today, starts prayer and meditation today, carries out his intentions today, and attains strength, peace, and success today. What you can do this morning never postpone till the evening. Never put off till tomorrow that which you can do today. Tomorrow is a period found in the fool's calendar alone. Be wise today. Delay not till tomorrow. 'By and by' is a dangerous thing. You can strive to reach the house of 'Never' by the avenue of 'By and by.',

Sadhana For Manonasa
Desires never perish by fulfilling them. If on the other hand you withdraw the fuel, the fire
will be automatically put out. The more you study and get at the root of the hidden lurking desires
the better you will be in a position to root them out. The desires that come on the surface of the mind
have their roots in the subconscious, and in as much as the roots are hidden, you will have to daily
do the digging of the mind and going to the root of these desires. Therefore, Gurudev has
prescribed: Set apart a time when there is no external distraction, and then go to a place where there
is no external distraction and sit there and feel that you are the witness of the mind. Just allow the
mind to wander for a while and see how it behaves, and try to delve within. All our time we are
engaged in drawing the mind outward. Make the mind inward and try to see within yourself what is
going on. It requires regular practice or else we will be thinking we are looking into the mind, but, in
the processes, we would be going with the mind. You should delve inward, introspect. You must do
a twofold process. One is diverting the mind-rays inward, and when you go inward, focus keenly on
a certain part of your mind and analyse it, dissect it. If you cannot see a place which is in darkness,
you throw the powerful search-light upon it. Similarly throw the mind inward and begin to see the
things inside. Supposing a thing is far away, you are not able to see it. You squint through a
telescope. Similarly you should analyse the part which is not visible, more minutely you should
analyse it in detail, separately, like looking through a microscope. Then you will come to know
more of your mind:—what kind of Vrittis they are, whether they are Sattvic Vrittis or Rajasic Vrittis
or Tamasic Vrittis. You begin to analyse intelligently. Here, we require a little bit of Viveka. We
have to be careful of two things. One thing is we should not go inward with partiality. If you are
studying the mind, be impartial, because this introspection is done with the purpose of ejecting out
all that is undesirable and supplying all that is required. Therefore, you should humbly go about this
work. If after studying the mind you are full of self-satisfaction, if you are satisfied with whatever is
there in the mind, such introspection and self-analysis will serve no purpose. Therefore, you should
go with a critical attitude. Just as you find out the defects of other persons, with the same critical
mind, you should find out your own defects. Otherwise, the benefit of introspection and
self-analysis will be lost.
Swami Chidananda

The things that we want to do in this world are the confrontations before us, and our wisdom will be judged by the manner in which we deal with these situations.

- 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 1142

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1142

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessedday,

PROCRASTINATION

Swami Sivananda

Procrastination is putting off things to be done till a future time, through indolence or lack of resolution. It is dilatoriness. It is postponing or delaying. It is culpable delay. Procrastination is the thief of time. It is the destroyer of initiative. It closes the door to advancement. That "tomorrow" will never come. Tomorrow is too late for anything. He who sees his salvation in tomorrow shall continually fail to attain it. That lazy tomorrow will be like today

You are eternally related to God. It is the relationship that which was, will continue, that is even now. Even when the body is given up, that relationship continues.

- 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 1141

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1141

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

INCONSTANCY

Swami Sivananda

His mind ever vacillates, oscillates and fluctuates, on account of passion. Inconstancy makes you imperfect, fills you with faults and makes you ran through sins. The man of inconstancy has no peace of mind. He is never at ease. His life is unequal. Today he loves you, tomorrow he detests you. This morning he is joyful and laughs; this evening he weeps and is sorrowful. Cultivate resolution, firmness and steadiness, and conquer inconstancy, the cause for unhappiness and misfortune. Be firm, be steady, be resolute: you will attain success in all your undertakings. You will have neither anxiety nor disappointment.

Turn within. Tear the veil of ignorance. This ignorance or veil makes you forget your essential divine nature.

- Swami Sivananda

For this auto-suggestion, there are two obstacles. Firstly, the impurities of mind and the
vices of the social environment stand as obstacles. Two methods are prescribed for overcoming
them. One is thinking of the opposite—Pratipaksha Bhavana. This is a method in which by
constantly denying the presence of that which you wish to remove and asserting the presence of that
which you wish to gain, i.e., asserting the opposite of your present vice, you grow into the nature of
the virtues and the vice disappears. The other is the law that positive always overcomes the
negative. Therefore, a set of positive assertions are constantly prescribed to be made. This
overcomes the negative state of Dehadhyasa, that is your identification with the Indriyas, your
identification with the body and the mind, and then the identification with the Atman is reasserted.
Again there is one great weight which holds down the mind from soaring into Atmic realms, that is
the heavy one of Upadhis. They have got very powerful effect on mind. You are pure Atman, not
the names and forms. Your essential nature is Satchidananda. But this Upadhi of body makes you
think you are a person of limited strength. The first is the body Upadhi. This Upadhi has got other
Upadhis. The moment you put on Western dress, your thoughts immediately plunge into Western
channels, you begin to think in English, your whole line of thought becomes materialistic. The
moment you put on a very fashionable and rich kind of dress, at once the egoism is puffed up. All
these Upadhis limit the mind and hold it down. The power of Upadhis has also to be considered and
in order to counteract them, Sattvic Upadhis are purposely prescribed. Man is asked to take
Sannyasa. He is asked to wear ochre-coloured cloth. That gives a powerful colouring to the mind.
He is asked to be in a room where the whole atmosphere is charged with spirituality. He is asked to
do Japa, Kirtan and meditation. The mental Upadhis also are to be made Sattvic. He should do it
through auto-suggestion, through Pratipaksha Bhavana, through always trying to be positive in his
ways of thinking and through voluntarily taking over Divine Upadhis. The colouring of the mind
should be made divine.
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 1140

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1140

Radhe Krishna,

Have A blessed day,

I

INCONSTANCY

Swami Sivananda

Inconstancy is fickle-mindedness. The mind is subject to frequent change. Inconstancy is instability of affection or temper. It is the quality or state of not being uniform. A man of inconstancy is unstable. He is vacillating. He has a character or constitution which renders change natural or preferable. He is inconstant in friendship or love like an inconstant flame. He changes his views and opinions. He is not firm in resolution. He is unsettled in his thought, speech and action. Clocks will go as they are set, but irregular man is never constant, never certain. Contd…

For this Vedanta has given the right cue. Vedanta lays all the emphasis upon mental culture.
It says ‘Begin your Sadhana from the mental plane’ and psychology is the science that has hold
upon the mental plane. Vedanta is a complete Divine Psychology. We have forgotten our real
nature. What is the remedy for this? To remember it and to reassert it. This is one point of
Sadhana—auto-suggestion is the mainstay, the pillar of Vedanta. It says ‘Remember your lost
heritage, your real nature, and reassert again and again.’ For this method your hands are not
required, your feet are not required; your whole body you can let throughout the day be engaged in
any activity which the economic structure of India has forced on you. At the same time you can
unbrokenly carry on the divine current of the Atmic assertion. This auto-suggestion will become
more a latent aptitude than a Bhava. When it is established into a permanent Bhava then that Bhava
will translate itself into practice. As you think, so you become.
Swami Chidananda.

The world is quite different from what it looks like. It is a totally different thing, other than what it appears to be before our eyes. The camouflage has to be lifted.

- 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 1139

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1139

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ARROGANCE

Swami Sivananda

Pride is too self-satisfied to care for praising others. Vanity intensely craves admiration and applause. Superciliousness, as if by the uplifted eye-brow, as its etymology suggests silently manifests mingled haughtiness and disdain. Insolence is open and rude expression of contempt and hostility, generally from an inferior to superior, as from a servant to a master or mistress. Assumption quickly takes for granted superiority and privilege which others would be slow to concede.

My beloved children! Your body lives in time, your mind functions in time but you live in eternity. You live in God here and now and always.

- 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 CONTEMPLATION1138

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1138

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ARROGANCE

Swami Sivananda

An arrogant man is abject and base. His head is swollen, like the swelling of dropsy. Haughtiness thinks highly of itself and poorly of others. Arrogance claims much for itself and concedes little to others. Pride is an absorbing sense of one's own greatness. Haughtiness feels one's own superiority to others. Disdain sees contemptuously the inferiority of others to oneself. Presumption claims place of privilege above one's right. Pride deems nothing too high. In the presence of superiors, overweening pride manifests itself in presumption or insolence.

Stand up O man! Weakness is a sin. Strength is a spiritual virtue. Have strong will-power. Wake up.

- Swami Sivananda

This is based upon the assumption that the mind of man has evolved greatly. If that is so,
why this moroseness? Why this despair? Why should man be lacking in Sadhana more than he was
before? Either there must be something wrong with man or there must be something wrong in the
methods that he employs. But we have started with the statement that everything is all right with
man. Man has evolved. Man has progressed. He is much farther on the path than he was before.
Then the error should be in the method. Let us see where this error lies. Why, in spite of this
evolution, this progress, man still cries that he is still in darkness, that he is unable to do Sadhana?
Man says, “My physique is not capable of doing severe Sadhana. I have hardly any time! The social
economy has changed. Now life is based upon money. The whole atmosphere has become
commercialised. I have now to work from morning till night to eke out my livelihood. I have hardly
any time.” This is true. The whole outward picture has change, and this despair on the threshold of
hope is because man has not changed in keeping with the outward change. His methods of Sadhana
are antiquated. He has evolved, the emphasis has changed from the physical to the mental plane, but
he has not made a similar change in his methods of approach. He tries once again to go along
physical lines. He does Japa. He tries to see that the same Tapascharya Sadhana is once again
introduced here. But he has now to have a reorientation of his Sadhana. He should shift the
emphasis of Sadhana from the physical to the mental. By shifting the emphasis it does not mean that
the former method has either become obsolete or useless. It means that the new method is more
strong; it is more wise, it is more useful, just as one who has outgrown the lower forms naturally
goes into the University Class. We have to admit that we have limitations of time, limitations of
energy, and in the face of these new set of conditions, we have to see that our Sadhana meets the
limitations of these new conditions so that with all these modern changes and environments, our
Sadhana current is carried on constantly amidst this change.
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 1137

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1137

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ARROGANCE

Swami Sivananda

Arrogance is undue assumption of importance. It is unreasonable or excessive assumption or assertion such as of superiority. It is overbearing pride. An arrogant man is unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, status, learning, etc. He shows pride in spirit or conduct. He is unwarrantably assuming, overbearing and haughty. It is that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree. It is pride with contempt for others.

SADHANA FOR MODERN MAN
I wish to give you a few ideas which I think will be of great practical benefit to all those who
have seriously made God-realisation the main end and aim of life. Sadhana is the purpose for which
we have come to this plane. This is called the Sadhana-Bhumi and it is this earth-plane alone upon
which Sadhana for Self-realisation can be done. Not so in the other planes: the lower ones in hell are
for working out one’s bad Karmas, wrong actions, paying the penalty for sins, and the higher
planes, the heavens, are for enjoying the happy fruits of merits. But from either of these, man has to
come back once again to where he was before he went there. But on the earth-plane he can so live
that he may pass on to an abode, an abode of eternal existence from which he need not once again
return to this plane of pains, suffering, birth and death. Having come to this plane and having also
known that the central purpose is to go above phenomena into eternity, man is faced with serious
problems. On every side he sees that he is severely limited and his efforts at perfection are thwarted
by these limitations. In the present age, the one vehicle for Sadhana which is very important—the
human body—has degenerated most frightfully. The span of life is short and the physique is very
weak. But strange and contradictory as this may seem, there arises the statement that in spite of this
degeneracy on the physical plane, man has evolved enormously. Mentally he has evolved a great
deal. We are at present on the threshold of a glorious dawn. We have passed through the darkest
period of spiritual life. We are now about to enter into a period which will be full of spiritual
illumination and quick progress. If this were so, it must indicate a certain change from a lower to the
higher, a certain change from the lesser to the greater. If this were so, man has really evolved
mentally, and this assumption that he has evolved, we cannot deny because we see that in Puranic
times more stress was laid upon the external and the outward than the internal: might was measured
in terms of lifting mountains and drinking oceans. But now we see that the emphasis has been

shifted. The emphasis is laid upon Vedanta. That is the modern method.

Swami Chidananda

Your heart should well up and want to reach God. And when you want it, it has to come. No other qualification is necessary for you.

- 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 CONTEMPLATION1136

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1136'

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

COURTESY

Swami Sivananda

Be pleasant and courteous in your behaviour towards your inferiors and all persons. Small kindness, small courtesies, small consideration, habitually practised in your social intercourse, give a great charm to your character. Courtesy charms at first sight and leads on to great intimacy and friendship. A man of courtesy is a man of fine and polished manners. All people love him. Show not scant courtesy at any time to any person. Be liberal in your courtesy. Urbanity, civility, complaisance, condescension, affability, elegance, courteousness, good breeding are synonymous with courtesy.

You are a radiant spark of the Universal Spirit. Neither have you birth nor death, and neither have you a beginning nor end. You are Satchidananda Atman transcending time and space, beyond name and form. Realise this truth in this very 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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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1135

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION1135

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

COURTESY

Swami Sivananda

Be courteous even in common speech. You will be loved by all. Courtesy is the sister of charity which keeps love alive and quenches the fire of hatred. Show courtesy to all. Let it be artless, continuous and uniform. Have courtesy in your heart. Show courtesy in your outward behaviour. Return a salute joyfully. Salute the person who salutes you with a better salutation. Always salute first to all. Courtesy sweetens and ennobles life. It makes smooth the road of life, like grace and beauty. It opens the door and allows the stranger into the house. It enlivens the hearts of guests and visitors.

Have faith in God. Sing His Name. meditate. Enter into illumination and the ecstasy of bliss.

- Swami Sivananda

And ultimately I conclude by recalling to you the two great instructions given by Sri
Krishna—Vairagya and Abhyasa; for when all these things have been said and done, the underlying
secret of overcoming this Vikshepa of the mind is Vairagya only. Why are you not able to control
the mind through meditation? Because it runs after things. What things? It runs after the things to
which it is attached. Raga is at the root of Vikshepa. Raga comes through Avichara. You imagine
that the objects of the world will give you happiness. This is Avichara. You should do Vichara,
discrimination; you should find out the defects of worldly pleasures and develop Vairagya towards
all kinds of earthly pleasures. So there should be Vichara, there should be Vairagya, and combined
with these, if you practise the things already mentioned, you will be able to progress on the path of
Yoga and Vedanta, on the path of divine living.
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 1134

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1134

 Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

CLEANLINESS

Swami Sivananda

Cleanliness is next to godliness. Cleanliness makes you smart and active. If you are clean you will be healthy. Take a bath in cold water daily. Clean your teeth well. Put on a clean dress. Wash your clothes daily. Be clean in thought, word and action also. Keep your room very clean. Remove all rubbish, dust and wastepaper. Sweep it daily. Many diseases will disappear. If you are clean, your teachers will like you. All will like you. You will have a charming personality. Everybody hates a dirty man. Keep your note-books clean. If you write your answers neatly, the examiners will be pleased with you. They will give you credit marks also.

You must look forward to the beginning of each day, so that you can enrich it by filling it with a great deal of spirituality.

- 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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