The message of the Gita is acceptance. Whatever happens, is happening for the good and this encourages acceptance and trust in life’s flow. The Gita also emphasizes the importance of living in the present moment. It says the past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. Continue reading
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Three steps to being good
We start our day with good morning, and end with good night. What is the meaning of this four-letter word?
As a noun, it can refer to our behavior that is morally right or acceptable. It can be something that will help somebody/something: advantage. Continue reading
The earth laughs in flowers
How do flower colors influence us? There are different interpretations for colors.
White flowers are associated with weddings and funerals. In China the white blossom of the orange tree is the traditional wedding flower. The orange blossom flower is also used in the wedding bouquet and crown in Italy and Spain. The orange blossom flower is singled out because the orange tree bears flowers and fruits at the same time. Continue reading
Be in the moment and laugh
Examine yourself if you are serious and unsmiling. Why are you like that? Observe a child playing a game and shouting, or just laughing. You can do the same. Stop trying to understand everything around you. Look at the magic, a spider’s web with dew drops in it. Sunlight going through them, and you can see a rainbow. Continue reading
998 – Our quest for mysticism
Mysticism is the belief that one can experience a direct connection with God, or a unifying principle in life. It can also refer to any altered state of consciousness or ecstasy that has a spiritual or religious meaning. In Hinduism one seeks the union with a higher being and this can be described as a mystical dimension. Continue reading
995 – Search and seek
How do we understand the word search?
Finding a needle in a haystack. Its meaning is when something is difficult to find. Often there are many things to look and sift through. A wild goose chase. Its meaning when the search is a complete waste of time. Seeking something that does not exist. Continue reading
994 – The Moon mantra
‘Om Chandraya Namaha’ is the moon mantra. It calls us back into perspective when life becomes confusing and enables us to see things more clearly. May the glow of this mantra lead us to the truth that always lies within us. Continue reading
989 – Seek the prana of words
How careful we must be to use words? There are words and words. It is like a bag of jelly beans and you can choose a word yourself. Words can comfort or hurt. Be careful in your choice. Continue reading
908 – Memories and Senses
Just as a strong wind sweeps a boat off its chartered course on the water, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can lead the intellect astray. – Bhagavad Gita 2.67
We are very involved with our senses and are committed to them. We are ruled by them, if one is on the path of meditation, then it can be very distracting and we can succumb to temptation. Continue reading
902 – Sivananda Yoga
Sivananda Yoga is the best way to understand and express bhakti. The first step in Sivananda yoga is to serve. The second step is to love. Service and love are concepts of bhakti. When service and love become predominant in life, the mind is drawn to contemplation and remembrance of God. The devotee begins to see God and experience God’s glory within her/himself. That is why the definition of bhakti is serve and love. – Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
901 – My Selfie, Self-image, my Self-Schemas
How do we perceive ourselves? We have forgotten that we went through 84,000 births to be a human. So why do we think that we are not perfect. I know one must be humble but one must not feel rejected. I came across jokes on dating sites in the New Yorker magazine. Now New Yorker magazine is read by cerebral persons and it is an amazing magazine. I love its articles, stories, jokes and poems. If one is published in this magazine, then one is recognized. Coming back to my original thought, I found the jokes funny but humiliating. They had a mean barb in it. They could lead to further undermining of one’s self esteem. Continue reading
897 – Examine your heart
There is a light that shines beyond all things on earth, beyond us all, beyond the heavens, beyond the highest, the very highest heavens. This is the light that shines in your heart. – Chandogya Upanishad
Happiness = None of desires fulfilled – None of desires harbored. Continue reading
882 – Change is the law of the universe
Whatever is happening is also for good.
Whatever will happen, shall also be good.
What have you lost that you cry for?
What did you bring that you have lost?
What did you create that was destroyed?
What you have taken, has been from here.
What you gave has been given here.
What belongs to you today,
Belonged to someone yesterday.
And will be someone else’s tomorrow. – Bhagavad Gita
844 – My True Heart
Feel more sense more, let your heart function. The intelligence of the heart creates poetry in your life, gives dance to your steps, makes your life a joy… a festivity, a laughter… It makes you capable of love, of sharing. That is true life. – Osho
841 – Chapter 8, Verse 12 Bhagavad Gita
Sarva-dvarani sanyamya mano hridi nirudhya cha
Murdhnyadhayatmanah pranam asthito yoga-dharanam.
All the gates of the body restrained, the mind confined within the heart, one’s life force fixed in the head, established in concentration by Yoga. Continue reading