Monday, July 28, 2008

HUMAN VIRTUES

1. Man should primarily develop truth and love. Then he will not resort to violence. Whatever spiritual practices like penance, yajna, yoga you may undertake, suffuse all of them with love.
2. Parents should occupy a place of prime importance in your life. Howsoever old they may be and howsoever difficult may be your condition, you should try to make your parents happy as far as it is possible for you. YOu should feed them if you have to resort to begging. Bear all hardships to look after them. Fulfil all their desires. This will result in the fulfillment of your own desires. Everything in this world is reaction, reflection and resound. None can escape from these. If you cause hardship to your parents today, your children will do the same to you tomorrow. You will get back the result of your actions without much delay. You may love anyone you like, but do not forget you parents.
3. Gambling is not good at all. Similarly, drinking of liquor is also not good. Addiction to drinking leads to loss of control over oneself. Under the influence of liquor, one may speak anything. One will have to repent when one comes back to one's normal state. Likewise, lust and anger are demonic qualities. Never allow them to come near you. If a fit of anger, you may speak anything without considering its consequences. But after a few minutes, when you come back to normal state, you will feel sorry, therefore first and foremost kill the anger.
4. Love everyone. If you cannot love others, just keep quiet. But do not abuse them. In fact, no body has any right to criticise others. It is the same love that is present in everyone. Can love criticise love? No, love never criticises. It always gives the experience of love to everyone. Even birds and animas love their offspring. Should man not love his fellow human beings ? When he is endowed with so many good qualities, man should love his fellowmen. Only then can he become receipient of God's love.
5. Develop truth and love. When you have both truth and love, then you can have peace. When you have peace, you can lead you entire life happily. You will not have hatred for anyone. You have hatred only when you lack love and truth. You should unite love and truth in your life. When you have love, you will love everybody, you will make everybody happy. Therefore, treasure love and truth in your heart and never forget them; not even in your dream.
6. MONEY COMES AND GOES; MORALITY COMES AND GROWS. Develop morality. Where there is no morality, there can be no humanness. Respect your elders, show gratidue to your parents. Whatever anybody says about you, let him say. Think that he is not criticising you but himself. Whatever he may speak, it will go into thin air. What is the use of reacting to that spech which goes into thin air. Only love reaches the heart. You can experience love only when your thoughts are truthful; your thoughts should be permeated with truth. Hence, lead your life with love and end your life with love. Whatever you do to others, in fact, you do to yourself. Be it good or bad, help or harm, everything is the result of your own thoughts.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

DIVINITY AND LOVE FOR GOD

1. In every action in daily life, manifest your love. Divinity will emerge from that love. This is the easiest path to God realisation. But, why are people not taking it ? This is because they are obsessed with misconceptions relating to the means of experiencing God. they regard God as some remote entity attainable only by ardous spiritual practices. God is everywhere. There is no need to search for God. All that we see are the manifestation of the Divine. All the human beings we see are the forms of the Divine. Correct your defective vision and you will experience God in all things.
2. When you attain the proximity of God and become recipient of HIS love, you become GOD yourself. This is true research. Hence, you need not undertake any other practice to attain divinity. You should develop only the feelings of love in you. This will transform you into a divine being.
3. You should have faith that everything you see in this world is an aspect of divinity. There is nothing else other than this. Only ONE exists in this world and there is no second. We are unable to understand this truth and suffer due to many misconceptions. We are prepared to believe what others write in their books, but no one is prepared to have faith in his own self. People have all types of confidence except self-confidence. If only we have self-confidence, we can achieve everything; there is nothing in this world that we can not accomplish.
4. We must always have good thoughts. Then only can mind have equanimity. It is just a question of the discipline of the mind, difficult in the beginning, but, once mastered, capable of conquering all troubles and worries. An unruffled mind is very necessary for every asprirant who is marching forward; it is one of his beneficial qualities. Such a mind gives real strength and happiness. Strive to gain it, though you may fail even in seven attempts. You are sure to succeed in the eighth, if you refuse to be despirited.
5. It is essential to keep our body sacred. In order to keep it sacred, we should chant the Divine Name. We should perform meditation to make our mind sacred. Do chanting with meditation and meditation with chanting the divine name. Love should be undercurrent of both chanting and meditation. We hold a cymbal in one hand and another in the other hand. Sound is produced only when both are brought together. In the same way, chating and meditation when in unison, we can enter into the state of "non-dual state of Supreme Conciousness" which is our true state.