PRACTICAL STEPS TO INNER PEACE - 1.1. Sri Swami Chidananda

-


 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Friday, June, 04, 2021. 9:13.AM.
1. PEACE IS EVER-PRESENT -1.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Radiant Immortal Atman! Beloved brethren in the divine and my very dear fellow citizens of Bharatavarsha! 

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This disciple and servant of beloved and worshipful Guru Maharaj Swami Sivanandaji is very happy to be amidst you all and have this golden opportunity of serving you by this three days’ sharing.

Peace is essentially an inner state of mind.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Whatever is being shared is not so much only for knowing but also for practising. If you want to gain acertain tangible outcome from anything, you have to work for it. Then only results start coming. Science students have theory classes in chemistry, physics etc. But they also have to go into the laboratory where the theories are actually proved. It is practice that ultimately leads to results. And continuous practice makes the results a permanent gain. Otherwise they can come, and they can also go.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 A journey is a continuous activity until the destination is reached. Even if you are very enthusiastic to reach a certain place, you start by taking steps. But if you stop in the middle, your gains will be limited to that particular point. In this connection, I would quote for you two sayings: one very, very ancient and the other ultra-modern. The ultra-modern saying is given to us by Guru Maharaj Swami Sivanandaji. I say he is ultra-modern because he lived to see the first Russian sputnik go into orbit. He was here when the negative outcome of scientific technology resulted in snuffing out 25,000 lives in the mid-forties, the result of nuclear fission. He knew what such atomic energy was. He knew what a test-tube baby was. Gurudev’s saying is, “What you know is to be put into practice". The immediate starting should not be postponed. The more you postpone a beneficial process, the more you deprive yourself of its fullest gains. When your action is going to bring about some good to you, you must set about doing it immediately. You must have a concern about your own highest good. 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Just as our ancients said, “You must be conscious of your own good and you must work out your own good”. Why? Because, if you are in a good condition,M you will be able to be of maximum benefit to humanity. That is the highest utilisation of life.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now, willy-nilly man has come to realise, that it is not enough to be good only to fellow human beings and to other creatures for the sake of compassion. Compassion is the great passion of the human heart,and it is necessary to be kind and protective to all forms of life. They have now discovered that the entire fabric of life is one single, homogeneous, interconnected phenomenon. It is a delicate structure, where everything else affects everything else. And so, we cannot isolate ourselves as human society and ride roughshod over other forms of life; even moss and other legions that grow in water and moist places, they are part of a delicate ecological system within which everything supports everything. They have found that all life is One, all life is totally interdependent.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You cannot harm one aspect of this life and get away with it. It will ultimately have a repercussion in some totally unexpected way, even upon your own life. We are all totally interdependent. Therefore, our beneficial attitude and activity towards all living beings has become a must. They call it Para Upakara.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To be continued ...


============================================================================================

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

PRACTICAL RELIGION : BREATHING AND MEDITATION - 2.

-
Image
Opinion               25/12/2017.                    1077                 All Members,          Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Everyone's idea of practical religion is according to his theory of practicality and the standpoint he starts from. There is work. There is the system of worship. There is knowledge.           VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE PRESENT DAY STUDENTS : - This article was recorded by Ida Ansell in shorthand. As, however, Swamiji's speed was too great for her in her early days, dots are put in the articles to indicate the omissions, while the words within square brackets are added by way of linking up the disconnected parts. (Delivered in San Francisco, April 5, 1900) Sub : PRACTICAL RELIGION : BREATHING AND MEDITATION - 2. Swami Vivekananda We are always talking [about] practical religion. But it must be practical in our sense. Especially [so] in the Western countries. The Protestants' ideal is good works. They do not ca
Read more

The Realisation of the Absolute :3-5-1

-
Image
Chapter 3: The Need for Integral Knowledge -5 5. THE REALISATION OF ONENESS IN THE SPIRIT -1 One must go beyond all that causes duality, even the intellect, and take resort in the transcendent silence. "One should not play too much upon words, for it is mere weariness of speech." "The Brahmana should, knowing Him, renounce learning, and stand childlike and The intellect is the seat of egoism, and the highest learning is only apara vidya, not above the phenomena of nature. The intellect has no light of its own, independent of the Self, any more than the moon has any light other than that of the sun. Consciousness gets diffused through the distractive intellect and creates the perception of multiplicity. "Dismissing all other words, He alone is to be meditated upon and known, the bridge to Immortality." Further, it is erroneous on the part of an individual to take seriously the many forms of perception. These forms float in Truth even a
Read more

HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS: 3 - Sri Swami Sivananda.

-
Image
=========================================================== Thursday, 14 Sep 2023. 05:30.  3.Durga Puja or Navaratri Post-3. ============================================================= 3.Durga Puja or Navaratri SALUTATIONS to the Divine Mother, Durga, who exists in all beings in the form of intelligence, mercy, beauty, who is the consort of Lord Shiva, who creates, sustains and destroys the universe. This festival is observed twice a year, once in the month of Chaitra and then in Aswayuja. It lasts for nine days in honour of the nine manifestations of Durga. During Navaratri (the word literally means “nine nights”) devotees of Durga observe a fast. Brahmins are fed and prayers are offered for the protection of health and property. The beginning of summer and the beginning of winter are two very important junctions of climatic and solar influence. These two periods are taken as sacred opportunities for the worship of the Divine Mother. They are indicated respectively by the Rama-Navar
Read more