MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1224

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1224

RAdhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ALERTNESS

Swami Sivananda

Be on the alert. Have an alert attitude. Be on the lookout. Be ever ready. Be circumspect. Be watchful. Be vigilant. You will always attain success in all undertakings and spiritual practices. 'Prompt' expresses readiness for appointment or demand at the required moment. The good General is ready for emergencies, alert to perceive opportunity or peril, prompt to seize the occasion. Let a pastor live in a state of alertness towards all resources of oratorical knowledge. Let a magistrate alertly perform his part. Drowsy, dull, heavy, inactive, sluggish, stupid are the opposites of 'alert.

Knowledge, knower and the thing to be known together consiitute the seed of this world. This triad is the driving force of all activities of man.

- Swami Sivananda

Samskaras Strengthen By Repetition
Therefore one truth comes out of this. If a desire comes and if you fulfil it, then that
Samskara which caused that desire gets more strengthened. Therefore, a great truth has to be kept in
mind by the aspirants; that by fulfilling a desire, the desire never ends. You can never put an end to
desires by fulfilling them. Just as the hungry flames will not subside by any amount of ghee poured
on it, similarly the desire gets strengthened by fulfilment. Gurudev has beautifully expressed it. He
says, “Non-cooperate with the mind.” Do not fulfil desires, when they arise in the mind. It is the
nature of the mind to desire. Mind and desire are synonymous terms. Therefore, when desires come,
do not fulfil them. That is the only way of attaining mastery over the mind. This is the key to success
in mind-control, mind-mastery. Do not fulfil desires when they arise. Countless desires may arise;
be silent. Do not say, ‘Come along, I will fulfil it.’ It is only when you make the mistake of saying,
“I am the mind,” “I am desiring,” you commit a blunder. Just as a dog which is troublesome outside
is kept in a room, similarly, you should lock the mind inside. Only when the mind is purified, it
becomes your guide. Till then non-cooperate with it. Then the mind will cease to be the mover of
man, but man will become the mover of the mind. You should be the independent mover of the
mind. Then you become Manojit or Indriyajit. That is what an aspirant has to become a conqueror

of the mind and senses. Therefore, understand this law.

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 1223

NESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1223

 Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ALERTNESS

Swami Sivananda

Alertness is watchfulness. It is briskness. It is sprightliness. Alertness is an attitude of vigilance. It is an important qualification of a student in the path of spirituality. An alert man is lively. He is prompt and ever prepared. He is wide awake. A man of alertness is keenly watchful. He is ready to act at a short notice. He is nimble like the squirrel. A captain of a ship is ever alert. A fisherman is ever alert. A surgeon in the operation theatre is ever alert. The sentry is ever alert,

Upper And Lower Mind
We have seen how the whole of the living of the divine life and all the processes of Yoga and
practical Vedanta, take place primarily within the mind. Outwardly these processes that take place
inside have their expression; they manifest themselves in the form of certain behaviour of the
person and his reactions to external influences in the form of certain actions that he indulges in, but
primarily they take place in the inner Kurukshetra, the mind. An eternal tussle is going on in the
mind between the lower, instinctive urges and the higher, spiritual aspirations, between that part of
the mind which is drawing the senses outward, which is filled with Rajas and Tamas, and the Sattvic
portion of the mind, the Vivekayukta Buddhi, Vicharayukta Manas, the mind where discrimination
has begun to manifest, where the selective power of the human intelligence has begun to function. It
begins to select which is proper, which is improper, which ought to be done, which ought not to be
done, which is conducive to one’s progress, which is detrimental to one’s progress. When this
discriminative mind begins to operate, man begins to think of the why and wherefore of things. This
discrimination arises due to Satsang, or due to hard experiences, knocks and blows of life, or due to
flowering of Purva Samskaras, or due to any of the innumerable factors that go to awaken the
discriminative mind. The instinctive mind, filled with desires for objects, tries to pull the man
down, whereas the higher mind pulls him up. Ultimately it is the spiritual part of man that
establishes its own supremacy over the lower instinctive, sensual part of his being, and fully
establishes him in Atmic consciousness, which is the ultimate stage of Yoga. In this process, we
have found how the mind works, how it tries again and again to catch the individual in its vicious
circle of experience, Samskara, Vasana, Kalpana, Ahankara, Iccha, Kamana and Cheshta. When
you do Cheshta, you again repeat the experience, and a Samskara is formed; from Samskara,
Vasana originates. Vasana becomes a Vritti, which taking the help of imagination becomes an
Iccha. Iccha takes the help of egoism and becomes a Kamana, and Kamana intensified becomes
Trishna or strong desire, and Cheshta or actual fulfilment of the desire follows Trishna and

enjoyment again strengthens the Samskara, and thus the whole process is repeated again and again.

Swami Chidananda

Consciousness is the most positive of facts, the datum of all experience. It transcends all limits of space, time and causality.

- 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 1222

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1222

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADAPTABILITY

Swami Sivananda

A man of adaptability can live in any environment. He can bear heat and cold. He can live in a hut. He can live in a poor condition happily. He develops balance of mind. Adaptability brings eventually the knowledge of the Self. Develop adaptability. Accommodate yourself with others. Then only can you win the hearts of all. Then only will you attain success in your life. If you want to adapt yourself with all you must be humble and loving. Arrogance, conceit and rudeness stand in the way of developing adaptability. Be gentle and soft. Be humble and simple. Obey elders. Give up obstinacy. You will soon develop adaptability.

No matter how many obstacles there may be, no matter how unfavourable the environment may be; take time every morning and evening to go inward in silence and to draw nearer to God in prayer.

- 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 1221

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1221

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day.

ADAPTABILITY

Swami Sivananda

A man of adaptability can pull on with anybody in any part of the world. People unconsciously love a man of adaptability. Adaptability gives immense strength and profound joy. Adaptability develops will. A man of adaptability has to make some sacrifice. He should sacrifice his egoism. That egoistic, proud man finds it very difficult to adapt himself. He is always in trouble. He always fails in his attempts. Egoism and pride are two important and insurmountable obstacles in the way of developing adaptability. Adaptability kills selfishness. It develops the feeling of oneness or unity of life.

Gyana is knowledge obtained through study of scriptures. This is indirect knowledge (Paroksha). Vijnana is direct knowledge (Aparoksha) or personal experience (Anubhava) through Selfrealisation.

- Swami Sivananda

Study The Mind
In this way, the more we understand the machinery, the more we will be able to deal with it,
with all its subtle tricks and under-currents, and we will be able to make use of the mind as an
effective instrument of Sadhana instead of its being a constant obstacle inside ourselves. All the
most ideal conditions may be given to a Sadhaka. He may have ideal surroundings, ideal company,
all books, yet if he does not do this important task of trying to understand the mysterious nature of
the workings of the mind and try to lessen his Vasanas and strengthen his will-power, he cannot
make use of anything. He cannot make use of his Guru. He cannot make use of his Ekantata,
because they have to be made use of only through the mind and if the mind is not controlled,
cultivated, he cannot make use of these. But once that is done he can make use of all that God has
given. Even a sentence from a scripture is enough to raise a flood of spiritual consciousness within
him. Therefore, understand the mind, study the mind and know this machinery well, and know also
how to manage it. This is an important part of Yoga, an important part of Vedanta, an important part
of Sadhana, or divine life. In the beginning of one’s practice, all these are important. When one has
practised all these, God-realisation is easy. They say that God-realisation is so easy that it can be
attained within the time taken to squeeze a flower, once you are completely rid of all impurities,
when you have become an Uttama Adhikari. For that you have to patiently work, and the more we
devote our time with humility, sincerity and earnestness to a study of our own being and this
machinery which is inside, the mind, and the more attention we give, having a knowledge of this
Yogic instrument, the more we will be able to succeed in the path of Yoga and Vedanta and living a
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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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1220

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1220

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADAPTABILITY

Swami Sivananda

When one student does not know how to adapt himself with his fellow students who are living in the same room, friction comes and their friendship is at stake. Adaptability makes friendship last for a long time. Students fight for little things. One student says: "I gave so and so tea for several days. I took him to the cinema on many days. I asked him to lend me Boswell�s Life of Johnson for reading. He has bluntly refused. What sort of friend is he! I do not like him at all." Thus the friendship is broken now. A simple thing upsets the mind. Adaptability is a strong catgut-ligature that links people in bonds of unbroken love and friendship.

Sadhana For Mind-Control
In the beginning of the Sadhana, more and more desires will have to be controlled at the
physical level. But as we go on acquiring mastery over ourselves, even when a Vritti comes, it is
liquidated. This is done by Vichara and Viveka. These, Vichara and Viveka, are helps to the
Sadhaka. As soon as a Vritti comes, it is put back, and ultimately all these have to be completely
destroyed by repeating the Lord’s Name, by meditation, by prayer, by practising Purascharana. All
these are powerful, positive methods, because the Vrittis and Samskaras are countless and
deep-rooted, but they are destroyed in toto by the practice of Yoga, with sincerity. All Vasanas, etc.,
which form obstacles on the path of the Sadhaka are completely liquidated through Japa, Kirtan,
prayer, Satsang, Svadhyaya. Ultimately the work is done by these combined methods but in the
meanwhile we have to deal with the mind by Viveka and Vichara, so that the mind is never allowed

to take the form of a desire.

Swami Chidananda

It is only the jnani that can serve and help the world in the best possible way, for he knows that all is the one Self, the Great Being of Brahman. Without knowing this, how can one be truly good and virtuous?

- 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 1219

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1219

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADAPTABILITY

Swami Sivananda

If the clerk understands well the ways, habits and temperament of his superior and accordingly adjusts himself nicely to suit his superior's ways, he ensures his position in the firm. You will have to use kind words. You should have an amiable disposition. A little lubricant to soften the other person's heart is all that is needed. Speak gently and sweetly. Do not retort. Give up blunt contradictions. Remember the maxim: "Obedience is greater than service." The superior wants a little respect. Do not be lacking in giving due respect to others. It costs you nothing. Then others will have a soft corner for you in their hearts. 

The sure and unfailing way of overcoming the negative qualities of the mind is just to concentrate your attention upon developing positive qualities. As they develop, the negative things just vanish.

- 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 1218

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION1218

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADAPTABILITY

Swami Sivananda

The wife does not know how to adapt herself with her husband. She displeases her husband and makes room for quarrels in the house and gets a divorce. So also with the husband. The clerk does not know how to adapt himself with his boss or superior. He quarrels with him and gets an immediate sack. The businessman does not know how to adapt himself with the customers and therefore loses his customers and business. The world runs on adaptability. He who knows the art or science of adaptability gets on quite well in this world and is always happy under all conditions of life. It does not need much wisdom and ingenuity for developing adaptability.

Prarabdha is a bundle of past actions which has given rice to the present birth. Sanchita ii the storehouse of accumulated actions. Kriyamana or Agamya are actions that are done in the present life.

- Swami Sivananda

Remove Identification With Desires
These are the commonsense methods which a man who wants to live a life of Yoga and
practical Vedanta should have as his equipment. As I told you, we cannot run away from our senses
and mind.
We have, therefore, to understand the working of the mind, and therefore, when a Vritti
arises, do not think about it, let it sink back. Do not imagine. It is imagination that strengthens it. Do
not identify yourself with the desire, and if the worse comes to the worst, if the desire is strong, be
stubborn, do not give expression to it. Gurudev has always said, “Try always to nip the desire in the
bud. When a desire comes in the form of a ripple, try to liquidate it then and there itself. But if due to
lack of your vigilance it takes the form of a desire, see that it is not fulfilled. Do not make Cheshta
outwardly. If a desire comes, ‘I could go and gossip,’ say, ‘No,’ “I will not allow the body to move.”
If the body does not move, the mind is helpless, and ultimately the reverse process will happen. The

desire will sink back into the mind and there will be calmness.

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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