MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1189

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION

Radhe krishnav

,Have a blessed day,

THE DIVIDING a

Swami Sivananda

Mind is the dividing wall between soul and body. Mind is the commander-in-chief. The senses are the soldiers. Egoism, greed, jealousy, vanity, etc., are the attendants of mind. Man says: "My mind was elsewhere; I did not see. My mind was elsewhere; I did not hear. " Man sees with his mind and hears with his mind. Steadying or fixing the mind on one particular point is an exercise in Yoga.

There is subtle spiritual mind existing in seed-form behind our gross mind. Through

contemplation, prayer and Japa this mind develops and with its unfoldment a new vision opens.

Swami Chidananda.

The universe marches upward in an ascending spiral movement to find itself in itself, to know itself as itself, which is called the Self-realisation of the cosmos. We may call it God-realisation.

- Swami Krishnananda

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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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MESSAGE FOR CPNTEMPLATION 1188

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION  1188'

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

MIND AND PRANA

Swami Sivananda

Prana is the connecting link between body and mind. If you can control mind, you can control Prana also. Through control of breath you control mind. Cosmic mind is the universal mind of the Lord. It is superconscious mind. Conscious mind operates through the brain in the waking state. Subconscious mind is Chitta. All impressions are imbedded in the subconscious mind. Mind can attend only to one thing at a time. Practice of the control of breath helps in attaining mental equipoise.

n this world only that part of our life is gainful when we are engaged in Japa, in meditation, in worship, in the service of the Guru, in the service of the poor and the suffering, in acts of kindness, compassion and goodness.

- Swami Chidananda

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Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1187

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1187

Radhe krishna.

Have a blessed day

AS YOU THINK, SO YOU BECOME

Swami Sivananda

Mind assumes the form of any object it intensely thinks of. If it thinks of an apple, it assumes the form of an apple. If it thinks of the form of Jesus, it assumes the form of Jesus. As you think, so you become. This is an immutable, psychological law. In waking state, mind has its abode in brain. In dream state, it has its abode in throat. In deep sleep, it rests in heart.

The life of an aspirant is made up of tests and trials. During the practice of Yoga, you will meet resistance from within. The inward struggle in the spiritual path is inevitable. All true seekers have had to go through a period of struggle.

- Swami Sivananda

There is subtle spiritual mind existing in seed-form behind our gross mind. Through

contemplation, prayer and Japa this mind develops and with its unfoldment a new vision opens.

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 1186

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1186

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

MODIFICATIONS OF MIND

Swami Sivananda

The ever-restless mind becomes quiescent when all desires perish. Mind is purified by the practice of selfless-service, repetition of the divine name, austerity, right conduct, and practice of self-restraint and meditation. The mind filled with purity is called pure mind. When it is filled with desires and inertia it becomes impure. Relaxation of mind, repetition of the Lord's name, prayer, meditation, cheerfulness, pure food, study of religious books, are necessary for keeping up mental health.

Lead an ideal life of peace. Peace is a divine attribute. It is a quality of the soul. It fills the
pure heart. Peace comes from constant Prayer and Nama-smaran. Feel, I am nothing, I have
nothing, I can do nothing, without the grace of God. Thou art everything. I am Thine, All is Thine.

Trust in God. You shall be filled with the Divine.

Swami Chidananda

Yoga does not mean only practice. It is the energy of the whole cosmos wanting to befriend you, come to you, take care of you, possess you, unite itself with you, inundate you and "be" you. That is the Great Yoga.

- Swami Krishnananda

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Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1185

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1185

Radhe Krishna,

Have a blessed day,

MODIFICATIONS OF MIND

Swami Sivananda

Mind is soul-force. It is through mind that God manifests as the universe. Mind is made up of subtle matter. Mind is a subtle force. Prana (life-principle) vibrates in mind, and mind generates thoughts. Mind is a bundle of impressions, thoughts, desires and cravings. The seed of mind is egoism. Mind does the five functions of the five senses of perception or knowledge. There are three Gunas or qualities, viz., purity, passion or activity, and inertia, in mind. Lust, anger, greed, jealousy, pride, delusion, egoism, likes and dislikes, are waves in mind.

Without the annihilation of desires, death of the mind cannot be effected and without the death of the mind, there is no immortality.

- Swami Chidananda

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Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEEMPLATION 1184

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1184Radhe krishna.

Have a blessed day.

EDUCATING CHILDREN

Swami Sivananda

Children should be properly moulded by teachers and parents. They are like malleable metal or like plastic clay. They are highly suggestible. They will do what we tell them to do. They are very imitative. Therefore, they will copy our actions. They are eager. They are brave. They fear not even adverse criticism. If we set before them the path of good life, if we can inspire them with the principles of good physical and mental health and high ideals, they will turn out to be good citizens and ideal individuals. Every good, conscientious teacher or parent should promote healthy outlook upon life and the sense of well-being in the children, for whom he is responsible. He himself should be an ideal man. He himself must be full of life, light and joy. He must be endowed with spiritual attributes and a high standard of health, vim, vigour and vitality. An unhappy, worried and sickly teacher or parent who is full of private griefs and woes, cannot guide the children and lift them up to high standard of life. He himself needs teaching and education first..

He who has faith, who is tranquil and self-controlled, and who meditates on Atman, attains immortality and eternal bliss.

- Swami Sivananda

Live and act worshipfulness. Dedicate all the movements of life unto the Supreme. Fill life
with selfless activity, bounded by the terminals of mystic contemplation and inner reflection in the
morning and night. Even while you act thus stand inwardly as a silent witness of thine own actions.
Dedicate all activity to the Supreme by offering them up mentally to the Divine frequently during
the day. This is practical Vedanta. It is not action that binds but the association of our inner
consciousness with the actions of our mind and body. Practice of Self-Awareness strikes at it and
snaps this error of association. No more do actions bind. Activity continues yet you abide in the
Self. Such abidance in the Self is the very secret essence of the Quest and the Path. All spiritual
Sadhanas are directed towards gaining this Self-Abidance. What have you to do with this body and
its movements? How can activities ever touch or affect thy inner Reality, the hidden Splendour?
Neither body, senses or mind but Immortal Atman thou art. May the Divine Light guide thy hands

and feet at each moment, at each step every day. May supreme Blessedness be thin

Swami Chidananda

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Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1183

MESSAGE FOCONTEMPLATION 1183

RADHEY KRISHNA

Have a blessed day

NEED FOR SELF-CONTROL

Swami Sivananda

You must practise moderation and self-control in all things. Excess of any kind should be avoided. You must stick to the happy, golden mean. Occasional rest is necessary. Avoid all mental conflicts. Do not interfere in the affairs of others. Have perfect tolerance and broad adaptability. Let individuals grow in their own ways. Every man has his own way, his own predilection, his own natural capacity, temperament and outlook. No two men are alike. Endeavour to remove any undesirable and unsocial trait.

Spiritual practice is not comprised by an isolated set of activities distinct from life or
plucked apart from its normal context. Yoga, Vedanta, Divine Life and Sadhana verily imply the
direction of one’s life towards the Divine Ideal. Yoga is not a part of life but your life spiritualised.
The essence of this spiritualisation consists in turning away inwardly from desire for passing names
and forms and integrating and centralising all one’s desire-potential and love-potential upon the
Eternal Reality which is the very life of our life, our true Source-Sustenance and Goal Ultimate. It is
the Father-mother GOD of the dualist devotee and worshipper of God. To live for attaining the
exalted Experience of your oneness with Him, to remember Him always by an unbroken current of
loving recollection, to be aware of His abiding Presence at all times by knowing Him to be the
spiritual Essence hidden behind all Names and Forms and to feel your self to be His child or His

servant or an essential part of His very Being—this is Yoga—this is Vedanta.

Swami Chidananda

The whole world is in a state of meditation. The whole universe is a body of meditation because the universe is the will of God which is the thought, the original sankalpa of the Supreme Being.

- Swami Krishnananda

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Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

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