Kindle Notes & Highlights
In our ancient scriptures, the learned seers, the rishis, the saints, have given us a formula for being an effective student, a sincere seeker. The formula is Shravan, Manan, Nidhidhyas. Shravan means listening, receiving open-heartedly; Manan means pondering over it, contemplating on how it applies to your life; and Nidhidhyas is experiencing the wealth of that knowledge in your life.
See how it applies to you, and if you find something that can enhance the quality of your life, that can free you from some negativity or give your life a positive direction, commit yourself to practising it. Very soon your life takes that desirable turn and that precious experience becomes a part of your life.
You would have started by being an amoeba or bacteria somewhere. Maybe in Sheela Yoni, the stone stage, you would have spent thousands of years being a rock, a stone or a sand particle at a very early stage of evolution. You would have gone through millions of lifetimes, would have changed thousands of physical forms, slowly evolving from being an insect to a bird to a mammal to be in the human form now. Even in the human stage, you would have travelled through dozens of lifetimes for your intelligence to be matured enough for you to be interested in Brahma Gyan, the ultimate knowledge of
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Moment by moment by moment, time is passing and events are taking place, situations are getting created in the space domain. This topic of time and space has been explored vastly by both modern science and ancient spirituality,
In every event of your life, if you observe, there are two sections: 1.Your outer world 2.Your inner world The outer world is made up of three aspects: people, things and situations. And the inner world comprises seven sections: (1) body, (2) breath, (3) mind, (4) intellect, (5) memory, (6) ego and (7) the experiencer of life, you, the soul, the spirit, the being, the jiva, the jivatma.
When you are happy, cheerful, enthusiastic, people get influenced by your pleasant and positive vibe, whereas when you are unhappy, disturbed or upset, most people want to stay away from you.
Gurudev says, ‘A violence-free society, disease-free body, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, trauma-free memory, and a sorrow-free soul is the birthright of every individual.’
The time to be happy is now . . . The place to be happy is here . . . And the way to be happy is to make someone happy . . . And have a little heaven right here!
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These proverbs are very good examples of vitark: God is watching you. As you sow, so shall you reap. Honesty is the best policy. Work is worship. Serving humans is serving the Divine.
Aham Brahma Asmi – अहम् ब्रह्मास्मि
As the Buddha says, ‘Holding on to anger is like holding a red-hot coal in your hand, waiting to throw it at someone, but while you are waiting, who is getting burnt?’
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The incoming breath energizes the body, provides vital force and supports the soul so that it continues to live in the physical form; the outgoing breath removes impurities from the body and empties your individual consciousness. The secret is, the more empty, the more free the mind is, the more happy it is and more available it is to do anything that you want to do with it.
Sadhana creates the required stillness, emptiness and focus in your inner world, where subtler insights can occur; it creates a fertile platform for higher truth to dawn.
About Sadhana, the learned ones have proclaimed that it is the dhan, the wealth that will be carried forward with the soul, even after the body is dropped. All other types of wealth instantaneously fall away as soon as the breath breaks and the body dies. Just a few minutes of sadhana every day can transform the quality of the rest of the day. Hence it is called satvik sukh, initial committed efforts, resulting in an explosive expansion of the consciousness.
When you acknowledge, appreciate and celebrate all the abundance that has been showered on you, your sense of gratitude makes it grow even further. When your focus is on lack, lack grows; when your focus is on abundance, abundance grows.
‘whatever will be asked for, shall be given’.
‘Tathastu’, let thy will be done, so be it (‘तुम जो चाहो, सो हो’).
The intensity of your prayer vastly determines how quickly tathastu (so be it) happens. The spiritual masters proclaimed: जो इच्छा करे मन माही, प्रभु प्रताप कछु दुर्लभ नाहि।
Time to be happy is Now!
Right here, right now - isnt thats all what we have!!
