MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1212

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1212

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ADVICE TO STUDENTS - STUDY WELL

Swami Sivananda

Do not cram a subject. When you study, understand the sense well. Study intelligently. Then it is easy to remember what you have studied. Be very attentive when you study. Be very hopeful always. Read everything thoroughly. Study your old lessons again and again. If you do not do so you will forget them. Try to reproduce what you have learnt in writing. Pray to the Lord daily and ask for His blessings. Possess an exemplary moral character. There can be no real, lasting success without good character. Character is power. Without it life is a failure.

Without knowing your source and origin and your ultimate destination, life cannot be meaningfully lived.

- 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 1211

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1211

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,'

BECOME A HERO

Swami Sivananda

Do not be timid. Be bold. Be cheerful. Be courageous. Walk like a lion. Talk boldly. Remove shyness. Be ever active. Take care of your health. Be strong, healthy and fiery. Whenever you make up your mind to do certain work, do it with all your heart and soul. Finish it anyhow. Do not leave it half done. When you take a book for, study, study it thoroughly. Service and sacrifice must be your motto. Remember those great persons who have sacrificed their lives for the sake of the nation and humanity. Be a hero and let your heroism be remembered long. Lead an exemplary life.

He who is a Brahmanishtha (established in Brahman) and Brahmasrotri (who has knowledge of the scriptures) is the right person to instruct you for the attainment of Self-realization.

- Swami Sivananda

Summing Up Of Sadhanas
Therefore remember these. Non-cooperate with the mind. Do not fulfil desires when they
arise. “Nip the Vritti in the bud,” as Gurudev says. Daily have self-introspection and self-analysis,
and in doing that be unsparing to yourself. Do not justify what you discover in the mind and give a
reason for it, but rather, try to devise suitable methods for overcoming what you find inside.
Therefore Kriya Yoga, Practical Sadhana, is necessary for eradicating the defects that you find
through self-introspection and self-restraint, and back the whole thing up by positive Sadhana like
meditation, Japa, Asana, Pranayama, etc. Gurudev’s song of “Eat a little, Drink a little” gives the

basis, or the negative restraint, and also the positive aspect of your Sadhana.

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 1210

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1210

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day.

REAL GREATNESS

Swami Sivananda

Live honestly. Work conscientiously. Act nobly. Try to possess a large heart. A really great man is one who possesses a large heart, great wisdom and good character. Worldly position is nothing in the eyes of God. A poor man may become a great man, if he so desires and if he tries to attain that greatness. Many persons born poor have become great in various walks of life through self-effort. They became great through continuous exertion. Their glorious deeds are imperishable and their names immortal..

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 yourdaily 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.

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 yourdaily programme. Therefore, this is the broad general outline of divine life or spiritual living for.

SWAMI CHIDANANDA 

Yoga is a universal science. It is not a religion of a particular creed, cult or nationality. It is a science of living. Therefore, the way in which we have to rightly live in this world is yoga.

- 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 1209

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1209

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

SELF-EXAMINATION

Swami Sivananda

Self-examination is a scrutiny or enquiry into one's own state, conduct, motives, mental and moral condition and thoughts, especially with regard to one's religious feelings and duties. Self-examination consists of self-introspection and self-analysis. Self-examination will lead you to the knowledge of your own nature. It will improve your heart and correct your mistakes, defects, weaknesses and faults. It will bestow wisdom on you. When you are alone, watch your thoughts. Examine your heart. Find out your defects and foibles. Before retiring to bed, take stock of your thoughts, words and acts of the day. Find out: "What evil quality have I mastered today? What temptations have I resisted? Which virtue have I developed today? Which sense have I controlled?" You will then evolve quickly.

You must have the determination that no matter how much the mind pulls in the wrong direction, you will not succumb. - Swami Chidananda Chant  the Maha Mantra. Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare BE HAPPY. https://sekhar789.blogspot.com/2017/12/swami-chidananda-singing.html

 

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1208

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1208'

Radhe krishna,

Have A blessed day,

SELF-SACRIFICE

Swami Sivananda

Self-sacrifice is the act of yielding up one's interests, or whatever one has for others. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Self-sacrifice is the highest rule of grace. Self-sacrifice is self-abnegation. It is the sacrifice, surrender or subordination of one's own self or one's personal happiness, or comfort, for the sake of duty or to advance the interests of others. Self-sacrifice kills egoism and leads to the descent of divine grace and divine light. A selfless worker annihilates his ego through self-sacrifice.

Where there is no wavering and wandering of the mind, there is serenity. In serenity there is neither attachment nor fear. In a serene mind, the Light of God descends.

- 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 yourdaily programme. Therefore, this is the broad general outline of divine life or spiritual living for

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 1207

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1207

Radhe krishna,

Have A blessed day,

TOLERATION

Swami Sivananda

Never condemn rashly but judge righteously. Be charitable and kind to one another. Be tolerant. Religious tolerance is necessary. It will establish religious harmony in the country and among nations. There are diversities of opinion even among the best of men. This should not breed hatred, No two minds are absolutely alike in nature. Intolerance is a crime. Have a wide vision. Have a broad outlook. Give space in your heart for everybody, for every religionist. Be broad as the sky in your attitude. Toleration in religion is absolutely the first fruit of all the struggles and labours.

Selection Of Food
The quality of food that you take, its quantity, and the time you take food, all are important.
A little immoderate food or improper time of taking food may affect your system and render
meditation difficult. You may not take costly food like Badam, but at least take moderate quantity,
take Sattvic food. The whole body should be restrained. You should live a life of moderation. When
Gurudev sings his song of “Eat a little, drink a little,” we have to understand it in its proper sense.
There are two parts of this song. “Eat a little, drink a little, talk a little, sleep a little.” When he say  

Everything in the universe is an offering to God. It is a sacrifice that the universe is performing in the very process of evolution.

- 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 1206

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1206

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

TOLERATION

Swami Sivananda

Toleration is enduring of offensive persons or opinions. Toleration is freedom from bigotry. It is a spirit of charitable leniency. Toleration is a disposition to tolerate or not to judge or deal harshly or rigorously in cases of differences of opinion, conduct or the like. You have not the monopoly of wisdom. Do not criticise destructively. Your neighbour's way and opinion may not be yours. It may, nevertheless, be good according to him.

Live all your life as a continuous offering at the feet of the ever present Divine Being.

- 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 1205

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION1205

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

OBEDIENCE

Swami Sivananda

From obedience springs all other virtues. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions. Obedience is the mother of success, and is wedded to safety. Let your child's first lesson be obedience. Wicked men obey from fear; good men obey from love. Command is anxiety. Obedience is ease. Goodness is a river that flows from the lotus feet of the Lord by the path of obedience. If the heart is not satisfied, obedience is not truly performed by the body.

Learn to live. Learn to discriminate. Learn to give. Learn to look within. Learn to introspect. If you wish to understand others, introspect and look within your own heart.

- Swami Sivananda

Broad Principles In Yoga
What are those broad principles? Truthfulness, compassion, purity—these are the broad
things which have to cover our entire life down to the minutest details. A Sadhaka cannot afford to
forget this detailed living of divine life, and his whole life, at least in the beginning, should be
characterised by restraint. He should restrain his tongue. Do not think that you can eat anything and
meditate well. If a Sadhaka thinks that he can eat anything and meditate, he is deceiving himself.
Yoga is not a toy, which you can easily take and play with. It is an iron-fort lodging well-equipped
soldiers. Yoga is not an easy thing, though saints say that Yoga is easy in order to make it attractive

to all. Therefore, every action should be done with proper examination.

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 1204

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1204

Radhe krishna,

Have A blessed day.

OBEDIENCE

Swami Sivananda

Obedience is willingness to obey commands. Obedience is submission to or compliance with a command, prohibition, ethics, known law, or rule of duty. It is the performance of what is required, or enjoined, or the abstaining from what is prohibited. Obedience is submission to authority as obedience to a person or to a law, spiritual and secular. To obey is better than to sacrifice. He who obeys only can command and rule. The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed elders in the past, and the person who obeys dutifully is worthy of being a commander someday. 

Ignore Not Small Errors
Non-cooperate with the mind. Hunt out your defects through self-investigation, and
overcome them through practical Sadhana. And together with this, we have to take two more
important steps, i.e., in living the divine life, we have to give importance to each detail. Do not be
too fastidious, do not worry about small details, but the fundamentals have to be kept. Stick to the
fundamentals. Each Sadhaka should bear in mind that divine life is to be lived in small things. If you
are divine in small details, you can be divine in big things. You cannot afford to be undivine in small
things and expect to be divine in big things. If your Yoga becomes practical, if your Vedanta
becomes practical in little things, then the great achievement will come as a matter of course. Here
we find a serious danger. Sadhakas think that the details do not matter much. They think that it does
not matter if they use a single harsh word. The Sadhaka thinks “There is no harm in uttering a harsh
word, I am quite calm inwardly. God wants only the heart,” but such a heart cannot come unless
every word of yours is full of love, compassion. The heart is made up of only the sum total of all
little actions and little words. It is not possible to have a wonderful heart inside, and indulge in every
type of actions and words. Every action goes to form one’s character even as every drop goes to
form the ocean. Day-to-day movements of men constitute the very essence of divine living, the very
essence of Yoga and Vedanta. One should not commit the mistake of running away with the idea
that by merely having a great idealism only can perfect goodness manifest in all his actions, words
and thoughts. Unless one is careful in his day-to-day life and moulds his life in accordance with his
idealism, idealism cannot bear fruit. If one is careful in his day-to-day life, and sees that the broad
principles of divine living which go to make up the foundation of spiritual life are observed, then the

edifice will come by itself.

Swami Chidananda

Religion is a way of conducting yourself in your day-to-day existence. The manner in which you speak to me is your religion. The attitude that you have towards me in your heart is your religion.

- 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 1203

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1203

Radhe Krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESS - ASPIRATION Swami Sivananda Aspiration is burning desire for some attainment. To aspire is to desire eagerly or to aim at high things. God is the one true aim of all right human aspirations. Aspiration is earnest longing or sincere wish for that which is above one's present state of attainment, especially for what is noble, pure and spiritual. To aspire is to rise and reach upward. To aspire is to have an earnest dsomething esire, wish or longing for noble that is not yet attained, and is usually accompanied by endeavour. A real devotee fears nothing. Maya cannot do anything to him as he has got the Name of the Lord ever upon his lips. - Swami Chidananda Chant  the Maha Mantra. Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare BE HAPPY. https://sekhar789.blogspot.com/2017/10/swami-chidananda-sings-ave-maria-at.html

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1202

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1202

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

GOOD HABITS Swami Sivananda Cultivate good habits. Goodness is a habit. Goodness of nature is an inclination. Without goodness, man is a brute or a vermin. He is a mischievous, wretched, despicable being on this holy earth. Even a little good thinking and a little doing good are highly beneficial. It will lead to eternal bliss. Then why not try a little good thinking and good doing, even from now? Goodness makes life a blessing. Goodness will bring sure success and prosperity. To be good is to be human. To be good is divine. A good deed is never lost. It purifies the heart and leads to the dawn of divine light and divine grace. He who shows courtesy reaps friendship. He who plants kindness reaps love. Goodness is love in action. It is noble to be good. Goodness is the greatest virtue. Every good deed is a grain of the seed of immortality or eternal life.. A teacher who is versed in the scriptures and who has knowledge of the scriptures only, but who has no direct Self-realisation, will not be able to help you in the attainment of Self-realisation. - Swami Sivananda Cleansing The Mind If as a result of your introspection you find in your mind certain things which are not desirable, you should find out the means of removing those defects. As I said, first of all, you must be impartial and should not try to justify what you find inside. Self-justification, self-approbation is not what is meant by introspection. You should go with a critical, fault-finding spirit, and once you find out your defects, be practical. Have some practical device to remove the defects. You should find out how to make the best capital out of what you have discovered in your moments of self-introspection and Sadhana. This is the practical aspect of Kriya Yoga. Thorough purification can only come if there is thorough, impartial introspection and practical steps are taken by you to remove the defects. This introspection should be done daily. Daily you should throw out some rubbish. Then only Kriya Yoga will become effective. I would say that Kriya Yoga the most important. This is like the foundation. Without foundation you cannot put up the building. So self-introspection, self-analysis, eradication of vices, development of virtues and being established in Sadachara come under Kriya Yoga. Swami Chidananda Chant  the Maha Mantra. Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare BE HAPPY. https://sekhar789.blogspot.com/2017/09/tribute-to-swami-chidananda-sarswati.html