I have taken Rainer Maria Rilke’s quote as my title. What does it bring to your mind, dear ones?
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. – Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. – Plutarch
Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. – Heraclitus
How does one become aware? It is a word used by all of us, constantly. But are we aware? How does one practice awareness? Here one concentrates on a symbol. What happens now is that one’s mind after a while starts becoming distracted and inattentive. One feels uncomfortable sitting. There is a mosquito buzzing near one’s ears. The mind behaves like a prancing monkey. Continue reading
Our param guru, Swami Sivananda, said that when one performed one’s yoga sadhana one must involve all of one’s faculties. This means practicing with one’s mind and body. This can be accomplished by awareness, visualization and detachment. Continue reading
My dear ones, we are in a time frame which is heralding good tidings. Let us look back and see how our past year was spent. How would we like to change it? Have we been conscientious in our quest? What can we do? There are so many things which can be accomplished. We have to seek and the only then will we know the truth. The truth can be cruel but what is worse is when we become indifferent to each other. Our Antennae are out there, but they are only there for our friends. Continue reading
’No’ is a two-letter word and yet it is a powerful word. ‘No’ can be looked at in many ways. Let us start with how does one feel when one says ‘No’? Is it a good feeling or a bad feeling? How would you view it? Continue reading
Silence exists within oneself. We can be in a forest and have a clamour of thoughts within us. The first ashram of the Bihar School of Yoga was near a railway track in Munger. The track has goods trains running on it, and they had steam engines. It was noisy and every hour the quiet would be pierced with a shrieking engine whistle. Continue reading
We all suffer from guilt. It is part of our personality. If we were free of guilt we would not be motivated to accomplish anything. We survive through guilt and evolve through it. However there is a stage in life when one can be free of guilt, and there will not be any hindrance to one’s mental and emotional growth. Continue reading
Explanantion of the shloka Brahmanandam paramasukhadam. Shankaracharyas critique of other schools of thought. Knowledge as the solution to remove ignorance. 3 types of ignorance: 1. not knowing as the root. 2. Misconception. Adhyāsa. Superimposition. 3. Doubt. Ancient vedantic position. Five fundamentals of Vedānta: 1. The witness 2. Nature of ignorance 3. Difference between doing something and knowing something 4. Absolute and relative perspective 5. Method of Vedānta.
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