Mira Prabhu's Blog, page 49
June 26, 2016
Blogging is not for pussies.
“Blog from your heart and soul. Be courageous. Write about what you want, no matter how controversial. Don’t be afraid to stir the pot and stand by your heartfelt opinions, even if they are unpopular ones. Tell the haters to take a hike. You are going to have them. They don’t matter.”
Fortunately for me, I cannot do anything but write from my heart – knowing full well there will be many who disagree. Even more fortunately, and cross my fingers!, I have not been plagued by more than a couple of haters – and once I learned that ignoring trolls is the best way to shut them up, the cyberspace sun began to shine again, even more brilliantly. If you are one dedicated to expressing your personal truth, there’s a price to pay – but its a price worth paying. Thank you, Lucky Otter, for this wonderful post!
Don’t be a pussy.
Anyone who blogs about a sensitive topic, especially one that focuses on mental health issues (religion and politics would be up there too), is bound to run into haters and detractors at some point. If you blog about a controversial topic, such as narcissism and narcissistic abuse (which is my #1 topic), religion, politics, or the ethical ramifications of breeding pit bulls, by default you make yourself vulnerable to online narcissists, trolls, bullies, and psychopaths. You are going to attract people who do not wish you well. It’s a built-in hazard of the trade.
Even if your blog isn’t particularly controversial or doesn’t focus on a sensitive issue, you are going to have haters and maybe even bullies. OM (Opinionated Man) is a perfect example of this (he insists he has a LOT of haters), and his blog is one of the most popular on WordPress…
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June 23, 2016
Giving to others is really giving to oneself ~ Sri Ramana
“All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood who will not give to others?” from Bhagavan in the classic “Who Am I?” Please read on – and thank you, Harsh Luthar, for sharing this powerful wisdom with all of us.
Bhagavan says, “Giving to others is really giving to oneself.” Bhagavan continues, “If one knows this truth, would one ever remain without giving?” (See Chapter XIII “Gems from Bhagavan.” Bhagavan here states the fundamental truth of reality at every level.
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June 22, 2016
Aids To Self Enquiry: By Alan Jacobs
““Those who leave the path of Self Enquiry, the way of liberation, and wander off along the myriad forest tracks, will encounter only confusion”. Bhagavan Ramana.” Thank you Alan Jacobs and Harsh Luthar!
“Those who leave the path of Self Enquiry, the way of liberation, and wander off along the myriad forest tracks, will encounter only confusion”. Bhagavan Ramana.
Self Enquiry is the Direct Path and Bhagavan’s great contribution for the modern age for all.
Self Enquiry is the backbone of the main weapon in Bhagavan’s teaching for eliminating the vasanas, tendencies and vrittis, the thought forms which act as a veil and occlude your Real Self.
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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate.*
“Writing is an Art, not a Craft.” Read on…Christine Plouvier makes some excellent points here…
IRISH FIREBRANDS: A Novel ~ Christine Plouvier, Indie Author
Those who practice the other Fine Arts all have long traditions as independent artists who are free to produce, promote and sell their own works. Authors, on the other hand, despite their being Artists, have traditionally been shackled to the pursuit of approval from others, in order to publish their works of Art.
The practice of seeking agents and contracts from publishers grants control over artistic output and income that other artists would not tolerate. But it is authors who provide publishers with their means of making a living, by hiring them to be the middlemen between the producer and the consumer (hiring an agent merely adds another middleman), an approach that dates back to when few could afford to own and operate a printing press.
Personally affordable computer technology has nullified that anachronistic hegemony, but even in the age of the Indie Author-Publisher, too many writing Artists are willing to concede to the demands of retailers who insist on…
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June 21, 2016
Paradox Of The Mind: By Alan Jacobs
“As Sri Bhagavan has made plain, through earnest persistent Self Enquiry and Surrender we come to realise as he says “The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world” [4], and is in fact the Self!” Read on…great post, thank you Alan Jacobs and Harsh Luthar.
“Oh Mind, do not waste your life in roaming outside, pursuing wonders and wallowing in enjoyments. To know the Self through grace and to abide in this way firmly in the Heart is alone worthwhile.” [1]
This relevant quotation leads us to consider that what we term ‘mind’ can be conceived as a great paradox. From one standpoint it is a benevolent friend but from another it is a malicious enemy.
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June 19, 2016
Monday Funnies…
The effect of social media on beasts and birds…ha ha ha…thanks Chris Graham!
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
June 18, 2016
LIFE IS A DREAM: By Alan Jacobs
“To know that the world is a dreamlike illusion. Know that all of the following are a dreamlike illusion. The world, the body, the universe, all dimensions, time and all events, motions and actions”. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi. Read on….thanks Alan Jacobs and Harsh Luthar!
Bhagavan’s smile
“To know that the world is a dreamlike illusion. Know that all of the following are a dreamlike illusion. The world, the body, the universe, all dimensions, time and all events, motions and actions”. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
215. “The world appears distinctly only in wakefulness and dream with concepts filled. In concept-free, all empty sleep, one sees no world; so then conceptual is… the world’s whole substance.”
Taken from Step Two of The Seven Steps to Awakening. All of the Ramana quotes in The Seven Steps to Awakening are taken from K. Swaminathan’s English translation of The Garland of Guru’s Sayings.
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Karma, Reincarnation, and Suffering: By Alan Jacobs
“According to sages, the highest teachings of the world religions are contained in the idea that we are all “One” and that we come from the same divine source to which many names can be given. Sri Ramana used to say that, “God is the actual form of love”. So why then so much suffering in the world? From the standpoint of our own teaching, that of the great Sage, Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, we must first understand that this plane of existence must be seen as a field of Karma in which the plan for human evolution is embedded.” Read on – terrific post – thank you Alan Jacobs and Harsh Luthar!
There is a great deal of misery and anxiety occupying peoples’ minds these days about the suffering currently undergone on the Planet through terrorism, local armed conflicts, starvation, disease and economic depression. Many atheists and agnostics base their skepticism about the existence of God on the observation that a benign and benevolent God of Love could not possibly exist, or else he would not permit so much world suffering.
According to sages, the highest teachings of the world religions are contained in the idea that we are all “One” and that we come from the same divine source to which many names can be given. Sri Ramana used to say that, “God is the actual form of love”. So why then so much suffering in the world? From the standpoint of our own teaching, that of the great Sage, Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, we must first understand that this plane…
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June 16, 2016
Who Is Rama? The Doctrine Of Neti, Neti
“Bhagavan taught that the Reality cannot be directly pointed out. Only that which is unreal can be pointed out and denied. We must leave aside all that is unreal. What is left then is the Real alone which cannot be denied. Silence rules there. ” Thank for, Harsh Luthar.
In order to explain the Advaitic doctrine of “Neti Neti”, Sri Ramana used to tell the story of Sita and Rama.
Prince Rama was exiled for 14 years from the kingdom to a forest by his loving father. The full story is too complex to be told here.
When Prince Rama, obeying his father, left the kingdom of Ayodhya, his wife Sita came with him to endure the hardships of poverty and penance side by side with her husband. Rama’s younger brother Lakshman insisted on coming as well to keep them company and to protect them in the forest.
When the three reached the forest, they took off their royal clothes and sent them back via the Chariot that had brought them to the edge of the forest. They put on clothes of forest dwellers and Rishis who lived in the forest.
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June 15, 2016
Silence Is Most Powerful
Silence and grace…the hallmarks of the Satguru, the exalted being who can lead us all the way from darkness to light…as I read this beautiful post, I thought of Gautama Buddha too who was known for doing the same thing that Ramana does here…brilliant! Thanks, Harsh Luthar.
Silence and Grace are frequent topics that occur in devotee conversations with Bhagavan Sri Ramana. “Silence is most powerful” says Bhagavan in Day By Day, 9-3-46.
Bhagavan used to say that the highest spiritual teaching and transmission is given only in silence. True Silence comes when there is complete surrender to God without any reservation. There is no room for mental noise then and all is peace.
Here is an actual event narrated by T.K. Iyer where he witnessed the the power of Bhagavan’s silence.
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