Y O G A Sep 12, 2009 2:12 am 533 Views Yoga as many know is a step by step process which instantly offer anyone with Best health; Continuous peace; sharp intellect; an ideal daily life !! Yoga is not only Yoga asanas ( Postures , it is a Physical part of Yoga only. Yoga works upon the emotional,psychological and Intellectual planes of a person. One may have good health but what about peace of mind? Are there any food which gives peace? or any drink that gives peace ? no, they offer only temporary manipulation of the mind. They have side effects causing illness and psychological impact !! Yoga can be taken up as a therapy also with one who knows about it ! Yoga offers wonderful Memory, Power of concentration,and grasping power to the students and anyone who practices it ! Students and teachers also can benefit from it immensely. It is said that in future man may take up Yoga for world wide research like science to find answers to many of the Individual, social, national, international issues YOGA FOR STUDENTS IS AN IDEAL AND ASSET LIFELONG ! YOGA IS THE FRIEND THAT OFFERS PEACE WHEN IN DISTRESS AND GRIEF! YOGA IS THE PHYSICIAN WHO BESTOWS EXCELLENT HEALTH TO THOSE WITH DISEASES! YOGA IS THE TEACHER WHO SHARPENS YOUR INTELLECT WITH PRESENCE OF MIND ! Y = YOUR O = ONLY G = GUARDIAN A = ANGEL 1 comment

Who is a failure ?! Sep 4, 2009 9:58 am 582 Views Reading Room - Talks of Swami Dayananda Pearls of Wisdom : Self-Judgement Suppose I say, I am a failure, it is a judgement. A lot of people have this problem. Everybody has a judgement somewhere in a corner. I am a failure, I am worthless, I am useless, I am ugly. Even Miss Universe has this problem. You may wonder, how? She is declared by a panel of judges, to be the most beautiful woman. She is crowned also. All the newspapers and T.V. write and talk about Miss Universe. It means the whole world has accepted her as the most beautiful woman. One cannot be more beautiful than that. Humanity has accepted her. Only gods have to declare whether she is beautiful or not. And she has to decide whether she is beautiful or not. We need not bother about gods. In the eyes of gods, everything must be beautiful. Therefore only she has to accept herself that she is beautiful. Hereafter this woman need not prove herself to anybody. So from the next day she can come out in a simple dress. She need not have any make-up. But I tell you, now she has more responsibility. Being a Miss Universe, she spends more time with her cosmetics that she did before. Because after all she is Miss Universe. How can she come out like that? She is not convinced that she is the most beautiful! Everybody has a self-judgement. That is called ahankara. It is always small. Until you gain Self-knowledge, there is self-judgement. So what is a judgement? A judgement is based on some data and that means it is not knowledge, really. That is why it is called a judgement. All the judges when they judge, purely go by evidence. They have to be as objective as possible, keeping their subjective feeling etc., aside. That is called a judgement. Knowledge is different. A judgement may be other than what the fact is. If the judgement and fact happen to be identical, it is your luck. But knowledge has to take place. Till then it is a judgement. Therefore if you make a judgement about yourself, instead of realising you are ananda, you are amrta, which is the fact about the Self, you are always going to judge yourself smaller than what you really are. If I am less than infinite, what am I? Finite. And what is the distance between infinite and finite? Infinite. That is the problem. In the absence of knowledge of what you confront or deal with, you have to judge. You cannot avoid judgement. That is the reason why we are always seeking, because there is a judgement which we cannot live happily with. So we seek. That is the original beggarly problem of the human being. We want to prove ourselves better than what we think we are all the time. The judgement is invariably based firstly upon our body and mind and then upon the body-related and society-related things. Therefore in a society where cows are wealth, you must have, a few cows. Then you are rich. In a society, where power means something, you must have power. Then you are big. When you say "I am a failure", on what basis you are saying that? "Oh, I started a business and I lost even the capital and a friend too." So, that particular undertaking was a failure. Then you took up a job. There also you could not do well. That was again a problem. When it happens twice, thrice, your wife and others also start saying that you are a failure and that they knew you would fail even before you started. So people around are not very helpful. They confirm your own opinion. Now on this basis you say, "I am a failure." This is exactly what is called lumping - putting a lot of things together. We are lumpers really speaking! To say "I am a failure", you should be of a failure all the way, that is, if you wish to lift your leg or hand, you should fail to do it. Then you are a failure. If you eat, you should fail to digest the food. Then you are a failure. But you do carry out hundreds of tasks everyday where you are successful. Only one or two are the tasks you failed in. Even that business which you call failure, is also not a total failure, really speaking. May be you did it for two years during which period, you took money out of it, you lived out of it. Then why not call it an experience, which in fact it is? There is no failure in life. There are only varieties of experiences. We learn from experiences, not from failure. We become sad by failure, wiser by experience. Memory is meant to serve us, to enable us to remember, not to become a basis to make judgement. If you do not remember what happened, how are you going to judge? "I am a failure" is purely based on memory. Memory is meant not to make judgements about you. Memory is just to help you remember that you already had your lunch; otherwise you will be eating another lunch! It is purely for that purpose. Memory is also a karana, a means. But we make a karta, an agent out of it. There, too, you take a part of it, just blow it out of proportion and then place yourself under that judgement completely and conclude, "I am a failure". Nobody is a failure. This self-judgement is purely due to non-recognition of the fact that life is a variety of experiences. You learn from them. Nobody every fails. 6 Comments

Last ?........Not Lost !! Aug 26, 2009 9:49 am 591 Views A last ball six A last ball wicket A last minute goal Can win a game So always try till the last moment An SMS got few days back. 1 comment

Relax !! Aug 4, 2009 11:00 am 344 Views "Great people don't relax in chair, but they relax in work !"-a SMS message got few days back. 0 Comments

Nandan Nilekani -Head -Identification Authority of India (UIAI)-Brahmin personalities -6 Jul 23, 2009 1:51 am 439 Views Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani( a Brahmin ) took over as head of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIA which has been tasked to create a national database of identity details of citizens. Nilekani said the first set of database will be ready in 12 to 18 months time as announced by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in his budget speech. "We will be issuing the first set of identification numbers in 12 to 18 months," he told reporters in New Delhi. Nilekani said Ram Sevak Sharma( Brahmin caste ), a 1978 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer, will take over as Secretary and CEO of the organisation. Nilekani, who was appointed as head of UIAI on July 13, said it will take few weeks for them to "get the team together" "We will use biometrics....but we still have not decided what that set will be," he said. "It will take us few weeks to stabilise and figure out the team size. It will take us few weeks to get our thoughts together," he added. - THANKS: THE INDIAN EXPRESS ( 23rd July 09) 1 comment

Past thoughts haunts you ? Jul 2, 2009 10:47 pm 483 Views PAST THOUGHTS HAUNTS YOU ? -2 [Part -1 posted earlier] As a limited individual, I invoke the lord's help, the Lords grace by an act of prayer. Being based on one's will prayer is an action. Itis an act invoking grace as well as a simple autosuggestion. As I sit in meditation relaxed, I offer a prayer to the Lord whom I invoke in any given form in any given name. I pray: O Lord, may I have the maturity to accept gracefully what I cannot change, May I have the will and effort to change what I can and may I have the wisdom to know the difference between what I can and cannot change. I cannot change my childhood, my parentage my entire past, what has happended in my life I cannot change. What has happend has happened, I cannot do anything about it .On the basis of what has happend I have nothing to regret. I have no reason to be sad depressed or angry. i drop my anguish for what has happened. I accept gracefully whatever has happend in my life. There are a lot of things that I can cnange that I can repair . I seek the strength of will and the ability to make proper adequate efforts to change . I do not waste my time trying to change what I cannot change nor do I want to waste my time putting up with unhealthy situation that I can change. The difference between the two ... what I can and cannot change .... is not easy to distingusih. It takes wisdom for which I again invoke your grace. O lord, may I enjoy ,have, the maturity to accept gracefully what I cannot change, the will and effort to change what I can and the wisdom to know the difference. I am just awake, alive to what happens at this moment. I lay down my will ,my choice. I am just awake to the moment. Moment to moment , my being aware of the moment does not fluctuate. My being aware of the moment is an abiding lasting ever present fact. My being aware is not in fits and starts.Its a presence which is always present. what I am aware of at this moment is unique.The object changes even these words are never the same. At this moment, a given word, a sentence a sound or an objecct changes. My being aware of what happens at this moment is not by choice . I am aware because I am an awareful presence . Free from memory, Iam an awareful presence. Om om om Swami dayananda [Reproduced from his book -non commercial reproduction allowed by the publisher] 0 Comments

Who is your teacher ? Jul 2, 2009 10:34 pm 424 Views Experience is the only Teacher - Vivekananda 0 Comments

What is the use ? ! Jun 27, 2009 2:39 am 426 Views No fruit have men of all their studied lore, Save they the 'Purely Wise One's' feet adore. Verse 2 - Thirukaral ( Tamil language- South India) Explanation : What Profit have those derived from learning, who worship not the good feet of Him who is possessed of pure knowledge ? Translation by Rev. Dr. G. U. Pope, Rev W. H. Drew,Rev. John Lazarus and Mr F. W. Ellis 0 Comments

World's first ?? !! Jun 20, 2009 9:12 am 428 Views A, as its first of letters, every speech maintains; The "Primal Deity" is first through all the world's domains. (Verse no.1)-Tirukural ( Tamil) Explanation : As all letters have the letter A for their first, so the world has the eternal God for its first. Translation by Rev. Dr. G. U. Pope, Rev W. H. Drew,Rev. John Lazarus and Mr F. W. Ellis Conciousness according to Vedantha is the omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omnicient one. This can be called as GOD. This is in all of us . - Shishyan 0 Comments

Coming soon ... !! Jun 20, 2009 4:04 am 414 Views Continuing from the previous post about the HOUSE HOLDER LIFE (GRIHASTHA ASHRAMA),I have proposed to bring in REAL LIFE CASE STUDIES and my intrepretation on each topic. I would select verses from THIRUKURAL ( Tamil language text on right conduct) and would quote the appropriate case studies based on the verses. The verses are of just 2 lines and are not difficult to understand. Some of the posts may be controversial, some one may like or may not like, someone may think that some of them are not practical, some one may praise,someone may follow with admiration. All these people are welcome to this blog. Jawahar, TN, INDIA 0 Comments

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