MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1233
Radhe krishna,
Have a blessed day,
ATTITUDE TO ADVERSITY
Swami SivanandaThe storms of adversity rouse the faculties and talents of an individual and generate prudence, skill, fortitude, courage, patience and perseverance. Adversity makes one think, invent and discover. Great persons and saints have been tried, smelted, polished and glorified through the furnace of adversity. Bereavement, disaster, distress, hardship, ill-luck, misfortune, disappointment and failure constitute adversity. Do not put on a sad countenance when you are in adverse circumstances. Smile. Laugh. Rejoice. Draw power and strength from within. Sing the Lord's name. Chant Om Om Om. There is a magazine of power and knowledge and bliss within your own soul. Feel this. Realize this.
Paroksha Gyana is indirect knowledge of Brahaman obtained through the study of the Upanishads.
- Swami Sivananda
Moderation In Everything
You must sleep only a little. You must talk only a little. You should not be a patient of
lingual diarrhoea. Move a little. This means that you should move a little, and not waste your energy
and time by moving about always. The instinctive life of eating, drinking, talking etc., should be
kept to the minimum. The other portion, wherein Gurudev says, “Do Japa a little. Do Asana a little.
Do Kirtan a little,”—means not that they should not be done too much, but here it is the other way
round. Here, Gurudev says that everyone of these items is essential, and all these items should find a
place in your daily programme. Asana, Pranayama, Japa, Kirtana, Meditation, Vichara, all these
things must find a place in your daily life. They are indispensable items which should find a place in
your daily routine, and the more you increase them, the better. And those things of your animal
nature, that life which is purely physical, sensual and bodily, such as, eating, drinking etc.—you
should keep within the rational minimum. All gross things that merely pertain to the body should be
kept to the minimum, and all these higher aspects of Sadhana should be given proper place in your
daily programme. Therefore, this is the broad general outline of divine life or spiritual living for
you. All these, Japa, meditation, Kirtan, etc., form the positive side; living a life of restraint and not
fulfilling the undue desires of the mind and senses, understanding that to fulfil such demands is to
become greater and greater slaves of the mind and its promptings, and always being based upon
self-restraint and inwardness and making the best use of your quiet hours in introspection and
You must sleep only a little. You must talk only a little. You should not be a patient of
lingual diarrhoea. Move a little. This means that you should move a little, and not waste your energy
and time by moving about always. The instinctive life of eating, drinking, talking etc., should be
kept to the minimum. The other portion, wherein Gurudev says, “Do Japa a little. Do Asana a little.
Do Kirtan a little,”—means not that they should not be done too much, but here it is the other way
round. Here, Gurudev says that everyone of these items is essential, and all these items should find a
place in your daily programme. Asana, Pranayama, Japa, Kirtana, Meditation, Vichara, all these
things must find a place in your daily life. They are indispensable items which should find a place in
your daily routine, and the more you increase them, the better. And those things of your animal
nature, that life which is purely physical, sensual and bodily, such as, eating, drinking etc.—you
should keep within the rational minimum. All gross things that merely pertain to the body should be
kept to the minimum, and all these higher aspects of Sadhana should be given proper place in your
daily programme. Therefore, this is the broad general outline of divine life or spiritual living for
you. All these, Japa, meditation, Kirtan, etc., form the positive side; living a life of restraint and not
fulfilling the undue desires of the mind and senses, understanding that to fulfil such demands is to
become greater and greater slaves of the mind and its promptings, and always being based upon
self-restraint and inwardness and making the best use of your quiet hours in introspection and
analysis, so that your Kriya Yoga may be fulfilled. This sums up the essential aspects of divine life.
Swami Chidananda
Chant the Maha Mantra
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
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