Ideal Life for Women - 6. Swami Sivananda.

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CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS AND STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN LOSS OF CHARACTER! Elections in Bharatiya states are near, Here is chance to eliminate such demonic political parties from this Holy Earth!! : MEMBERS READ CAREFULLY, HERE THE TATTVAM/ESSENCE IS VERY STRONG, KEEP THIS TATTVAM IN YOUR MIND, IN THE NEXT EDITION YOU WILL FIND MORE OF THIS KIND"

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"And Beware of  Islam and Christianity, both are corrupted, keep away, from the net of : 'Trapping young girls and adult women for Religious Conversion', are frequent incidents in media reports" 

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All Members,

Respected family members of this great holy Nation.

REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC.

 IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION

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1.#Opinion : Wednesday, July 06, 2022. 07:30. 2783.

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SANT MUKTABAI :

While Muktabai was hailed as the incarnation of Goddess Adi Shakti or Sarasvati, the primordial power of the Supreme Reality, her three brothers, the maha yogis Nivritti, Jnanadev and Sopandev, were the incarnations of Bhagavan Sadashiva, Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma.

The family underwent great humiliation from society.Vithalpant was criticised and rejected by the people of the village, who did not accept the idea of a sannyasi re-entering grihastashrama life. Thus, he became an outcast and went to live with Rukminibai on the banks of the river Indrayani, on the outskirts of Alandi. They led a life of prayer, contemplation and devotion in accordance with the scriptures, and thus was the ground prepared for the incarnation of the Almighty in the form of four children. Nivritti, Jnanadev, Sopandev and Muktabai were born in 1190, 1193, 1196 and 1199, respectively.

When the children went to the village of Sidhbet for bhiksha (alms), they were stoned and abused. This was endured with patience, for the children were firm in their pursuit of brahmavidya.

Vithalpant approached the pandits (brahmin scholars) in Alandi for the performance of the sacred thread ceremony, so that his children would be accepted by society. His request was refused by the pandits; instead they sentenced Vithalpant and Rukminibai to death. Even after this, the children were not spared from social torture.

Jnanadev became so disgusted with the abuse by society that he decided to give up his body through samadhi. He locked himself inside the family hut, and started to prepare himself. Nivritti and Sopandev pleaded with him not to leave them, but to no avail. Then Muktabai returned from the river and very lovingly, with a maturity and insight far beyond her young years, she began pleading with Jnanadev to open the door, and to give up his drastic plan. Muktabai's outpourings, which later became known as "Tatiche Abhang" were deeply inspiring in their effect.

"Oh my beloved brother, please open the door. How can you be angry with your own Self? The whole world is our Self. When one hand is trying to scratch the other hand and in that process blood seeps out, would one cut off the hand that is scratching? If one bites one's tongue with one's own teeth, would anybody try to destroy the teeth?

"O my beloved brother, do I need to tell you the qualities of a yogi who is ever in a tranquil state of mind and who calmly bears the insults and injuries inflicted upon him by the world? Even if the world is burning with the wrath of fire and jealousy, it is our duty to pour water over this fire and try to extinguish it. The world is holding a weapon of cruel words, but we have to accept this as a means for improving ourselves. What is this world and its beings? It is like the warp of a cloth woven with the brahmic thread; that is, our own part, as we are Brahman Itself.

"O my beloved brother, do I need to tell you who a saint is? He is a saint who is full of affection and kindness and compassion for others, and who is the very embodiment of forgiveness. He is not touched by greed; he has absolutely crushed his feeling of ego-sense. He only can be called a true virakta (unattached to worldly things) whose every word is the flow of jnana-ganga (stream of knowledge). How can he be tainted by the superimposed sounds in the air? Please open the door.

"O brother, is it so very easy to become a saint? One has to eat and digest grams made of iron balls, then only can one become established in the brahmic state. One has to bear all sorts of injuries and insults. The mind naturally tends to run to hundreds of different places; it has to be brought under control through persuasion and by force. Please open the door.

"O brother, for one who has attained that state of purity of mind, God-realisation is very near. Do I have to tell you this? You, who are Jnanadev, the Lord of Knowledge, your heart is like the flow of the pure Ganges. You have no difficulties in crossing over this ocean of samsara, but if you are displeased with the world, then who is to uplift the people and take them ashore? The whole world will plunge into darkness. I plead with you! O my brother! Your own Self, your little sister and child is calling you! Please open the door."

Jnanadev heard this from inside. His heart melted with every word that Muktabai spoke. His anger subsided completely, and he rushed out and took Muktabai in his arms, for she had reminded him of his mission.

On one occasion, Muktabai wished to cook sweet buns for her brothers. So she set off to the village to get a clay plate from the potter to roast them. A prominent leader of the village, Visoba, who was very cruel to the children, scolded her and ordered the village potters to refuse her request. As she returned home, she was weeping with sadness. Jnanadev asked her to prepare the dough. He then bent down, touching the floor with his hands and heated his back red-hot, asking Muktabai to roast the buns on it. She did so and happily gave them to her brothers. With shock and amazement, secretly watching this miracle through a window, Visoba Chaati, realised the power of these extraordinary children. He rushed inside the hut and picked up the crumbs of the buns, as their prasad. Seeing this, Muktabai exclaimed, "O khechara (mule) turn back!" These words completely transformed his heart. He fell at their feet, crying and begging their forgiveness. When he asked them to accept him as their disciple, Nivritti requested Muktabai to initiate him. After that Visoba left the village in order to spend the rest of his life in deep contemplation and sadhana. He achieved Self-realisation and became the guru of Saint Namdev.

The tests continued for the children. They were asked to go to Paithan, which is the seat of great Vedic scholars and pandits, for a letter of appraisal that would enable them to be accepted by society. But here too, they were mocked at by the pandits for being the children of a sannyasi. On this occasion, Jnanadev performed another extraordinary miracle and proved the oneness of all beings, by placing his hands on a buffalo and causing a flow of Vedic chants to emerge from its mouth. Realising the greatness of the children, the pandits repented and became their followers. The suffering of the children was thus brought to an end, and they were accepted by all as great saints. Everywhere people followed them and listened with great awe to their discourses and their singing of bhajans.

When they reached Newasa, Nivritti asked twelve-year old Jnanadev to expound the Srimad Bhagavad Gita in Marathi to the crowds of devotees who used to gather around them each day. It was here that the Jnaneshwari and Amritanubhava were composed by Jnanadev. Since then, wherever they went, people flocked to them and became their disciples. They were responsible for giving salvation to Changdev, who was a great yogi, aged 1400 years, but suffered from pride in his extraordinary achievements. His ego was obstructing his advancement. Hearing of the glory of the four yogi-children, Changdev was perplexed and wanted to test them. Hence, he sent them a note, but not knowing how to address them, he sent a blank paper. When the paper reached the children, Muktabai laughed at his ego-filled foolishness. Nivritti asked Jnaneshwar to write on this paper, and Jnaneshwar wrote 65 verses, the quintessence of Vedanta. This paper was returned to Changdev, who could not understand the verses. Therefore, he decided to meet the children and directly show them his power. He made this trip sitting upon a tiger, with a serpent in his hand as a whip, and was followed by thousands of his disciples. When the children saw him coming, they patted the wall upon which they were sitting; it became their vehicle. It rose up into the air, flying to meet Changdev, who was amazed to see this "inanimate wall" coming towards him. He realised the greatness of the children and prostrated at their feet and humbly approached them, wishing to be accepted as their disciple. Jnaneshwar told him the real meaning of surrendering the egoistic head to God, the Almighty, because that is the main obstruction in the path towards realisation. Muktabai then initiated him and removed from his mind all doubts and ignorance.

Likewise, Muktabai was responsible for removing the covering in the mind of Saint Namdev. When they met Namdev in Pandharpur, Nivritti, Jnaneshwar and Sopandev, in humility, prostrated before him. Namdev was filled with pride, because everyone in Pandharpur regarded him as a great saint. Muktabai, with great compassion for this sincere devotee, wished to remove this short-sightedness by giving him the cosmic vision. Thus, she did not fall at his feet, as her brothers did, but requested Gora Kumbhar (the potter saint) to test the pots. Gora Kumbhar understood and with his testing rod, began hitting the heads of Nivritti, Jnanadev, Sopandev and other saints who were present. All of them remained calm and quiet, upon which Gora Kumbhar proclaimed them fully baked. When he hit Namdev on the head, Namdev began shouting at him, thus Gora Kumbhar proclaimed him half-baked. Namdev was furious at this insult and ran to Lord Vittala in the temple. The Lord told him that they were right because he was seeing God only in Lord Vittala, rather than as the all-pervading Creative Presence. He was asked to go to Visoba Khechar, and through his practical teaching Namdev became fully enlightened.

When his earthly mission was fulfilled, Jnaneshwar took sanjeevani samadhi (samadhi while alive) at Alandi, at the age of twenty two years. Three months later, Sopandev took sanjeevani samadhi at Saswad. Muktabai, absorbed in thoughts of the Supreme, determined that her work too was complete. On the banks of the Tapi river, amidst a great storm, Muktabai closed her eyes, and as a flash of lightning streaked across the sky and disappeared. Thus, she became liberated from earthly bonds. One month later, Nivritti, the eldest brother and their guru, took sanjeevani samadhi at Traimbakeshwar.

Muktabai, who was graced with an intuitive knowledge of the Self at a very early age, gave the essence of Advaita Vedanta as follows: "What is this universe? It is Brahman, when Maya is uprooted."

The deeply moving words of her Tatiche Abhanga continue to live with us, an expression of the great compassion and philosophical truth that motivated Muktabai's life.

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NEXT- ANDAL

To be continued ....

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##Note : 

Beware -

1. You are following a wrong path even in your studies and educational career; and neither your parents, your government, your society nor your friends are good enough or intelligent enough to tell you what your problems are going to be when you become an adult!

2.  "Here comes the need for a new type of education. You may call it Sanatana Dharmam."

3. THIS IS WHAT NOT HAPPENING  IN THE MUSLIM WORLD,

THEIR POISONOUS MADRASA EDUCATION, IS FUNDING HATRED, VIOLENCE, MENTAL DISTURBANCE, CREATING TROUBLES AMONG THEMSELVES AND OTHER COUNTRIES!!

4. Christianity violates all discipline, by by religious conversions and Church, cum evangelists, using the money, spreading lies, cheat the public all over the world, 

5. Nature can suddenly burst a bomb on the head of all humanity, which she has been keeping secretly tucked under the arm to burst any time. The whole Earth can shake, and the matter ends there in one second!!

6. THE BREAKING INDIA FORCES CONGRESS AND COMMUNISTS ALONG WITH ALL REGIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES  USE DEMONIC POLITICS; VOTE BANK POLITICS WITH MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS ASSOCIATED WITH ABOVE SAID POLITICAL COMBINATIONS TO DESTROY THIS HOLY NATION.

7. TO STOP THESE EVIL MOB IN THE PRESENT DAY, ONLY WAY TO IT BE RIGHTEOUS, TRUE TO ONE NATION AND ONE PEOPLE PRINCIPLE. 

8. TODAY IN KERALA AS WELL AS OTHER PARTS OF THIS HOLY NATION, WHERE GREAT BRAHMA RISHIS, MAHARISHIS TOOK BIRTH AND GAVE US GREAT TEXTS, FOLLOWED BY GREAT ACHARYAS :  SRI SWAMI ADI SANKARACHARYA AND MANY MORE BORN AND SUCCEEDED IN ESTABLISHING A STRONG SANATANA DHARMA THROUGH OUT BHARATHAM; BUT THE PRESENT POLITICAL SYSTEM NOT PREPARED TO FOLLOW THEIR TEXTS AND SERVE THIS NATION, NEED TO CHANGE THIS TENDENCY BY RENAISSANCE. 

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### Role of parents and teachers in a child's life :

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1.School, teachers and parents play vital role in holistic and the teacher is the second. Both have an immense contribution and responsibility in shaping child’s personality.

2.Role of parents : Parents are the child’s first role model. Children behave, react and imitate same as their parents. Parents play important role in encouraging and motivating their kids to learn. Good parental support helps child to be positive, healthy and good life long learner. Children acquire skills at the parent and teacher is a real secret of child’s happy learn very early stage of their life if the parents are responsive and development of the child. Parents are the first mentor of the child understanding.

3.Teacher-Parent Relationship :Trust and mutual understanding between. Support and Cooperativeness from parents towards teacher helps a lot to connect, understand and work towards child. Remarkable positive change is seen in a child if the parents and teacher understand and work hand in hand. A good parent teacher relationship leads child to be positive towards attending school.

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##### National Code Of Conduct For The Citizens Of Holy Bharatham : Swami Sivananda.

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1. Patriotism: Our Motherland should be our first and highest consideration. Welfare of the nation is our own welfare. Therefore, let us willingly be ready to offer up even our own life for our country. Let us inculcate in our children and members of our family love for our country, the spirit of patriotism and service to our country and our fellow citizens.

2. Duty: Our first and foremost duty is to God and to Righteousness. Leading a righteous life is the best and most valuable service of our Nation.

3. Character: Character is the greatest wealth. A pure, incorruptible citizen is the greatest asset of our Nation. This is vital and indispensable. Therefore, good character is to be given top priority value; upon this depends our nation’s welfare and its future stability.

4. Health: Health is the basis of success. Health is wealth. Next to character, it is the greatest national asset. As citizens, building up character and safeguarding health, should be our primary duty to the Nation.

5. Virtue: Let us join hand and eradicate the evils of gambling, liquor-drinking, drug-taking, tobacco-smoking and betel-chewing. Let us eradicate the evils of bribery, corruption, selfishness, immorality, dishonesty and misconduct. Disloyalty to our Nation is crime and unpardonable sin.

6. Public Property: O Citizen! We are custodian of public property. Let us not spoil, misuse, steal or destroy National property. Let us preserve it with love and care. Let us keep our country neat and clean. This is your sacred duty.

7. One Family: All our citizen are brethren. Let us feel this fraternity. Let us all love each other and one another and be united because, we are one family.

8. Religion: We must have equal reverence for all religions, creeds and faiths. Let us love as our own brother the followers of our faiths. Let us treat others as we wish to be treated by them.

9. Non-violence: At all cost avoid every type of violence and hatred for, this is a blot on the fair name of the Nation. It is soul-killing and cause great harm to our country’s welfare and development. It is totally opposed to our Nation’s ideal.

10. Economy: Let us adopt simple living and high thinking. Let us not be extravagant. Let us avoid waste. Let us practise frugality. Let us share what we have with our less fortunate fellow citizens. This is National virtue that our India needs today.

11. Law: Let us respect the rule of law and uphold social justice. In this lies the guarantee of our welfare and orderly progress towards better India.

12. Ahimsa: Non-injury is our highest virtue (Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah). Compassion is a divine quality. Protection of animals is our sacred duty. This is India’s special teaching. Let us be compassionate towards all creatures. Thus be a true Indian. Try to become an embodiment of kindness compassion and goodness in your every day life.

13. Ecology: Man and Nature are inseparable. Man and his natural environment are inter-related and mutually interdependent. Everything in Nature contributes to our protection and nourishment. Let us, therefore, protect our natural environment. Helping in maintaining the ecological balance is our duty. It is indispensable for our safe living and highest welfare. Polluting of public places and polluting of air and water of the country is a national crime. We must make amends of our past lapses.

14. Unity: The more united the people of a country, the greater is their ability to withstand all obstacles and dangers. United we stand, divided we fall. This is particularly true about today’s India. Therefore, let us live in close harmony and loving goodwill with all our countrymen. Love of our country means love of our countrymen. This is the most invaluable service a Citizen of India, can offer to our Motherland.

15. Education: The process of education should incorporate within it the imparting of the basic knowledge of India’s great culture, its lofty ideals and noble values and principles of living. Our education has to be oriented for enriching and enhancing the quality of life of our youth and students.

##THUS, SHINE AS A TRUE CITIZEN AND SERVE YOUR COUNTRY BEST, BY THE VERY MANNER OF YOUR LIFE AND CONDUCT. 

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JAI HIND

JAI BHARATHAM

VANDHE MADHARAM

BHARAT MATHA KI JAI.  

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