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The Essence of Dharma-10.

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04/11/2017 Spoken on February 11th, 1973) 10. We generally have a give-and-take attitude. When you perform an action, put a question to yourself: “What will it bring to me? Why should I do it?” This is a question which always comes up in one’s mind whenever one is asked to do anything. The action must produce a result, which means to say we are always accustomed to perform actions with an ulterior end or motive, and never in the spirit of karma yoga. Karma yoga is action which is an end in itself because it is spirit manifesting itself. The spirit is an end, and not a means. Now I am slowly coming to the point as to why spirituality is connected with universality. If the universe is the determining factor of every conduct and action of an individual, the individual being a part of the universe, and it being clear at the same time that the fact of the individual’s bearing a relevance to cosmic existence also implies the universal determining action, then the nature of the uni
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1.#Opinion : Sunday 22, September 2024, 05:30. 3677./2 #The Yoga System - 1 :Swami Krishnananda.//

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===================================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Sunday 22, September 2024, 05:30. 3677/ Yoga &  Meditation 2.#Yoga System: 1.  Chapter 1: Psychological Presuppositions - 1. Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== It is necessary, at the outset, to clear certain misconceptions in regard to yoga, prevalent especially among some sections in the West. Yoga is not magic or a feat of any kind, physical or mental. Yoga is based on a sound philosophy and deep psychology. It is an educational process by which the human mind is trained to become more and more natural and weaned from the unnatural conditions of life. Yoga has particular concern with psychology, and, as a study of the 'self', it transcends both general and abnormal psychology, and leads one to the supernormal level of life. In yoga we study ourselves, while in our colleges we are told to study objects. Not
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HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS: 10 - Sri Swami Sivananda.

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=================================================================================== Saturday, 21  September 2024, 05:30.  In the Regeneration and Divinisation of Human Beings HINDU FASTS & FESTIVALS: 13.Vasanta Panchami 14.Sri Appayya Jayanthi Post-10. =============================================================================== 13.Vasanta Panchami: This is an important bathing day. All Hindus observe it. It is also known as Magh Sukla Panchami as it falls in the month of Magh (January-February). This is the festival that marks the first day of spring. Vasanta means the spring season, which is very congenial for doing vigorous Yoga Sadhana. Men, women and girls wear yellow cloth. The yellow colour is a sign of auspiciousness and spirituality. It represents the ripening of the spring crops. Even the food is coloured yellow by using saffron. All the folk get together and sing songs connected with spring. All get up in the early morning, take bath and worship the sun, Mother Ganga,
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1.#Opinion : Friday 26, Jul 2024. 05:30. 3614/ 1. #Yoga: Its Meaning and Application in Our Lives -3. Swami Krishnananda.//

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===================================================================================== 1.#Opinion : Friday 26, Jul 2024. 05:30. 3614/ 1. #Yoga: Its Meaning and Application in Our Lives -3.  Swami Krishnananda. Article Yoga &  Meditation (Spoken to Officials of the Government of India) 2.Yoga and the Need for a Guru: 1.  Swami Krishnananda ==================================================================================== 4.Attunement: With the equipment of this inner enlightenment, the aspirant may seek to tread the path of Yoga in any vocation of life. Every act then becomes a necessary expression of the impulse to see and serve the Virat in all beings. All actions turn into an adoration of God with love that inundates the heart of the devotee. Every category of the universe, every item of experience, every mode of consciousness becomes a divine worship and a sport of the Infinite. The beauty here is that one attunes oneself to the Infinite at every stage of life, even at the most
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