MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 789
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Thu, 16 Mar 2017, 08:20
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Radhe krishna,
Good morning & have a blessed day,
YOGI’S FOOD
Swami Sivananda
You can give up food for some days but you cannot give up water for
some days. You can even give up water for some days but you cannot
give up air even for a short time Yogis suspend their breath, get
themselves buried for some months and yet there is life in them. Their
life is kept up by some mysterious vital fluid, the nectar that
dribbles from the Sahasrara or the thousand petalled lotus on the
crown of the head.
The Self appears to be finite on account of ignorance. But when the
ignorance is dispelled that one Atma (Kevala) shines by its own light,
like the sun when the clouds are dispelled.
- Swami Sivananda
Live in such a way that
you may emerge out of it a shining, radiantly divine, perfect and
liberated soul. In this task, may the Almighty Supreme Being be your
constant help. In this task, may
Gurudev’s love and his grace be with you and let the 31st of December, see you a
transformed being, see you a being that is radiant, illumined, full of
beauty, full of joy, full of
purity, full of sublimity, a transformed being. Let us make that the
goal, the target; and let us
strive to achieve it through the twelve months that are going to
unfold before us within the next
few days. It is such things that make life worth living. Otherwise,
what is there? Eating,
drinking, sleeping, urinating, defecating? Living in a cage full of
dirt, slime and phlegm? And
what is there in this body? It is but food for the worms. What is
there in this body which has to
be cleaned every day, with discharges through the ears, through the
eyes, with nasty, filthy stench
accumulating in the mouth? What is there in this body, made out of
gross food, polluted food,
poisoned food, artificial dead things, devitalized white flour and
white sugar? What is there in
this body, the very residence in which is itself an imprisonment, a
bondage, a punishment? Yet
the one redeeming feature of this residence in this nasty cage of
flesh and bones is that if you are
wide awake, if you are wise, if you are determined, you can make this
tenancy in this filthy,
perishable body subject to disease, decay and dissolution a great saga
of liberation, an adventure
unto perfection. Otherwise, there is nothing to recommend it.
Therefore, make it worthwhile, your residing in this body-prison. Live
in such a way that
you may emerge out of it a shining, radiantly divine, perfect and
liberated soul.
That is what
imparts meaning to life. That is what makes life wonderful, makes life
worth living every
moment of it. Yes, if this task is absent in life, life is a dreary
waste, life is a cipher, a nothing, a
burden, a meaningless nonsense. Therefore, make it meaningful. Make it
valuable by bringing
into it this task, this great adventure, this great quest and live meaningfully.
swami chidananda
Chant the Maha Mantra
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
BE HAPPY
Good morning & have a blessed day,
YOGI’S FOOD
Swami Sivananda
You can give up food for some days but you cannot give up water for
some days. You can even give up water for some days but you cannot
give up air even for a short time Yogis suspend their breath, get
themselves buried for some months and yet there is life in them. Their
life is kept up by some mysterious vital fluid, the nectar that
dribbles from the Sahasrara or the thousand petalled lotus on the
crown of the head.
The Self appears to be finite on account of ignorance. But when the
ignorance is dispelled that one Atma (Kevala) shines by its own light,
like the sun when the clouds are dispelled.
- Swami Sivananda
Live in such a way that
you may emerge out of it a shining, radiantly divine, perfect and
liberated soul. In this task, may the Almighty Supreme Being be your
constant help. In this task, may
Gurudev’s love and his grace be with you and let the 31st of December, see you a
transformed being, see you a being that is radiant, illumined, full of
beauty, full of joy, full of
purity, full of sublimity, a transformed being. Let us make that the
goal, the target; and let us
strive to achieve it through the twelve months that are going to
unfold before us within the next
few days. It is such things that make life worth living. Otherwise,
what is there? Eating,
drinking, sleeping, urinating, defecating? Living in a cage full of
dirt, slime and phlegm? And
what is there in this body? It is but food for the worms. What is
there in this body which has to
be cleaned every day, with discharges through the ears, through the
eyes, with nasty, filthy stench
accumulating in the mouth? What is there in this body, made out of
gross food, polluted food,
poisoned food, artificial dead things, devitalized white flour and
white sugar? What is there in
this body, the very residence in which is itself an imprisonment, a
bondage, a punishment? Yet
the one redeeming feature of this residence in this nasty cage of
flesh and bones is that if you are
wide awake, if you are wise, if you are determined, you can make this
tenancy in this filthy,
perishable body subject to disease, decay and dissolution a great saga
of liberation, an adventure
unto perfection. Otherwise, there is nothing to recommend it.
Therefore, make it worthwhile, your residing in this body-prison. Live
in such a way that
you may emerge out of it a shining, radiantly divine, perfect and
liberated soul.
That is what
imparts meaning to life. That is what makes life wonderful, makes life
worth living every
moment of it. Yes, if this task is absent in life, life is a dreary
waste, life is a cipher, a nothing, a
burden, a meaningless nonsense. Therefore, make it meaningful. Make it
valuable by bringing
into it this task, this great adventure, this great quest and live meaningfully.
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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