MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1233

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1233

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ATTITUDE TO ADVERSITY

Swami Sivananda

The 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

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

BE HAPPY.

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MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1232

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1232

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

ATTITUDE TO ADVERSITY

Swami Sivananda

Adversity is affliction, or misfortune, or calamity. It is an event or series of events which oppose success or desires. It is a state of unhappiness. Adversity is a blessing in disguise. It strengthens the will-power and the power of endurance and turns the mind more and more towards God. It is a virtue that makes the idle industrious. It draws out the faculties of the wise. It puts a man to the necessity of trying his skill. It has the effect of eliciting talents, capacities which in prosperous circumstances would have remained dormant. A smooth ocean never made one a dexterous captain of a ship,

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
these things he means ‘moderation’. These things should not be done too much. These are not said

in the sense that they are essential. It means that you must not overdo them.

Swami Chidananda 

Motive or intention behind an act decides whether it is going to fetter the agent or leave him free. The larger the motive behind an act, the greater is the freedom of the agent concerned and the higher also is the value of the act.

- 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 1231

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1231

Radhe krishna,

Have A blessed day,

ATTENTION

Swami Sivananda

It was attention that led Newton to the discovery of gravitation, Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry. Attention is a form of psychical energy which necessarily enters into the determination of the character of every field of consciousness. A man hears with attention. Then we say: "He has an attentive ear." He sees with attention. Then we say: "He has an attentive eye." In contemplation one has application of the mind. When a man is attentive to the words of a speaker and to the manner and the matter of his speech at the same time, he has the most comprehensive capacity to grasp.

Sadhana is a process of purifying and transforming your normal human nature into godly divine nature.

- Swami Chidanand

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 1230

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1230

Radhe krishna,

Have A blessed day,

ATTENTION

Swami Sivananda

Attention is steady application of the mind. It is the direction of the mental powers to a specific object with vigour and concentration. Attention strengthens the will. It is at the base of the will. Attention develops concentration. Attention leads to sure success. It is for want of attention that man meets with failures. The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object is the sure mark of a superior genius. All learning, science and skill depend upon attention. Attention opens new worlds, heals diseases.

Aparoksha Gyana is direct knowledge obtained through Self-realisation. This is intuitional wisdom or Visesha Gyana.

- 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 1229

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLAYION 1229

Radhe Krishhna,

Have a blessed day.

APPLICATION

Swami Sivananda

Do not depend much upon the future. Do not regret the past. Live in the living, solid present. This moment is yours. The next second is in the womb of the future. You know not what it may bring forth. Act, act, act now. Strive, strive, strive now. Exert, exert, exert now. Apply all your vigour, strength and energy. You are bound to succeed. You will surmount easily all sorts of temptations and obstacles. Failure is unknown to a man of intense application. Without intense application you cannot enter into deep meditation and union with God. O Ram! Cultivate application and attain success, plenty, peace, prosperity and immortality now and here. Sloth, inertia, idleness, carelessness, recklessness, procrastination are the opposites of application,

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

The love that you feel in respect of an object is in fact the love that you feel towards that which is called perfection and completeness. - Swami Krishnananda 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/2018/11/swami-chidananda-sings-rama.html

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1228

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1228

Radhe krishna,

Hace a blessed day,

APPLICATION

Swami Sivananda

A man of application like a captain in a ship. He is healthy. His mind is sprightly and cheerful. His thoughts are clear. His room is in order. He is methodical in his work. He has resolution and determination. He never repents nor regrets. He is free from want, since he is always engaged. He rises to power and eminence. He attains fame. He is honoured and respected. Whatever you resolve to do, do it now, do it quickly. Tarry not a second. Defer not till the evening what you can accomplish in the morning.

Always rejoice in the Lord′s will and feel happy. Nothing happens without a reason. Accept everything as ultimately for the good. This philosophy of life will bring you peace.

- 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 1227

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION1227

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

APPLICATION

Swami Sivananda

Application comes from the root 'applicatio,' a binding on, or joining to,—from 'applicatus' to join or fasten to. It is the art of fixing the mind. There is intensity of thought in application. It is close study. Application is the fixing of the attention closely on that upon which one is engaged; it also means the habit or capability of so fixing it. A man of application rises up early and goes to bed at the proper time. He never wastes even a single minute. He is ever watchful, vigilant and diligent. He is ever active. He never loses opportunities. He is like the surgeon in the operation theatre. 

The three pains are the Adhyatmik the internal pain arising through disease; Adhibhautik, caused by external agents such as stiDg by a scorpion, etc; Ahdidaivka, caused by supernatural agents such as thunder, etc

- Swami Sivananda

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
ittle 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

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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