~Sathya Sai Baba~ Gem

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Drop the delusion that you have become old or diseased,or that you have become weak and debilitated. Some people begin to count the years and grieve over advancing age and shudder like cowards afraid of death.But remember, elation is heaven, despondency is hell. Have always some work to do, and do it well that you will get joy.
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If things go ill or well

If things go ill or well
If joy rebounding spreads the face,
Or sea of sorrow swells
A play  we each have part,
Each one to weep or laugh as may;
Each one his dress to don
Its scenes, alternative shine and rain.
Thou dream, O blessed dream!
Spread far and near thy veil of haze,
Tone down the lines so sharp,
Make smooth what roughness seems.
No magic but in thee!
Thy touch make desert bloom to life.
Harsh thunder, sweetest song,
Fell death, the sweet release.

 ~Swami Vivekananda~

(Written to Miss Christine Greenstidel from Paris, 14th August 1900.)

Mahavatar Babaji Smriti Divas

Today on 25 th of July is Mahavatar Babaji Smriti Divas.I Deepika Bow 🙏at your feet of omniscient eternity moi Babaji moi Gurudeva !As the initiator of several masters of Yoga, Babaji has infused his realization and cosmic knowledge into many of the great spiritual traditions.He is also known to conduct personally special ceremonies involving mantras into the earth sphere for the purpose of quickening planetary evolution.If you say his name right now with love you will feel a blessing in your heart!Om Kriya Babaji Namah Om 🙏

“Lahiri,you have come!”

“Lahiri, you have come!”
Told by Lahiri Mahasaya in Autobiography of a Yogi.
“My first meeting with Babaji took place in my thirty-third year,” Lahiri Mahasaya had said. “In the autumn of 1861 I was stationed in Danapur as a government accountant in the Military Engineering Department. One morning the office manager summoned me.‘Lahiri,’ he said, ‘a telegram has just come from our main office. You are to be transferred to Ranikhet, where an army post is now being established.’
“With one servant, I set out on the 500-mile trip. Traveling by horse and buggy, we arrived in thirty days at the Himalayan site of Ranikhet.“My office duties were not onerous; I was able to spend many hours roaming in the magnificent hills. A rumor reached me that great saints blessed the region with their presence; I felt a strong desire to see them. During a ramble one early afternoon,I was astounded to hear a distant voice calling my name.I continued my vigorous upward climb on Drongiri Mountain.A slight uneasiness beset me at the thought that I might not be able to retrace my steps before darkness had descended over the jungle.“I finally reached a small clearing whose sides were dotted with caves.On one of the rocky ledges stood a smiling young man, extending his hand in welcome.I noticed with astonishment that, except for his copper-colored hair, he bore a remarkable resemblance to myself.‘Lahiri,you have come!’ The saint addressed me affectionately in Hindi.‘Rest here in this cave.It was I who called you.“I entered a neat little grotto which contained several woolen blankets and afew kamandulus(begging bowls).‘Lahiri, do you remember that seat?’The yogi pointed to a folded blanket in one corner.
“No, sir.’Somewhat dazed at the strangeness of my adventure,I added,‘I must leave now, before nightfall.I have business in the morning at my office."The mysterious saint replied in English, ‘The office was brought for you,and not you for the office “I was dumbfounded that this forest ascetic should not only speak English but also paraphrase the words of Christ.‘I see my telegram took effect.’The yogi’s remark was incomprehensible to me,I inquired his meaning.‘I refer to the telegram that summoned you to these isolated parts. It was I who silently suggested to the mind of your superior officer that you be transferred to Ranikhet.When one feels his unity with mankind, all minds become transmitting stations through which he can work at will.’He added gently, ‘Lahiri, surely this cave seems familiar to you?’As I maintained a bewildered silence, the saint approached and struck me gently on the forehead. At his magnetic touch, a wondrous current swept through my brain,releasing the sweet seed memories of my previous life.‘I remember!’ My voice was half-choked with joyous sobs. ‘You are my guru Babaji, who has belonged to me always! Scenes of the past arise vividly in my mind,here in this cave I spent many years of my last incarnation!’As ineffable recollections overwhelmed me, I tearfully embraced my master’s feet. ‘For more than three decades I have waited for you here—waited for you to return to me!’ Babaji’s voice rang with celestial love. ‘You slipped away and vanished into the tumultuous waves of the life beyond death.The magic wand of your karma touched you, and you were gone! Though you lost sight of me, never did I lose sight of you! I pursued you over the luminescent astral sea where the glorious angels sail. Through gloom, storm,upheaval and light I followed you, like a mother bird guarding her young. As you lived out your human term of womb-life,and emerged a babe,my eye was ever on you. When you covered your tiny form in the lotus posture under the Nadia sands in your childhood,I was invisibly present! Patiently, month after month,year after year,I have watched over you, waiting for this perfect day.Now you are with me! Lo, here is your cave, loved of yore! I have kept it ever clean and ready for you.Here is your hallowed asana-blanket,where you daily sat to fill your expanding heart with God! Behold there your bowl, from which you often drank the nectar prepared by me! See how I have kept the brass cup brightly polished, that you might drink again therefrom! My own, do you now understand?’‘My guru, what can I say?’I murmured brokenly.‘Where has one ever heard of such deathless love?’I gazed long and ecstatically on my eternal treasure, my guru in life and death.

Why, After Death, the Ordinary Man Forgets His Former Life

Unnatural death, and death in a state of bodily attachment, are not only painful, they also obscure memory. Of course, unless one is spiritually advanced, it is not always desirable to remember one's former life. The after-death oblivion of one's previous identity allows him to forget his past consciousness of failure, pain, and attachments, and to begin life anew. The only disadvantage is that if he has not learned from past wrong actions, he may repeat those experiences, ignoring the warning of their consequences-just as the inveterate alcoholic continues to drink the infernal liquid, even with the conscious knowledge of probable death from liver damage.

Though the pure consciousness of the soul maintains a continuity of remembrance from one life to another, the body identified consciousness does not. The fact is, memory after death cannot survive under the following conditions;
(a) if there is attachment to the body;
(b) if there is attachment for past possessions, family, or friends;
(c) if there is a strong entanglement in bad karma, and if one has not risen above the effects of both good and bad actions.

If, as in (a) and (b), the newborn soul remembered and was attached to its previous body, possessions, family, or friends, imagine the agony and frustration the soul would feel in a new incarnation! It would not like to begin a different life amidst a new environment, a new family, and new friends. The soul is a brother to all-to all mankind. Imagine how narrow it would become if it loved only one small circle of human beings. It would not expand, and it wouldn't let those other souls expand, to reach the ultimate goal of unity. We must realize this oneness of our soul with all souls in the unity of the one Spirit, and it is impossible to do so unless the soul expands its sphere of family and friends to include all.

In the case of (c) above, the soul would be extremely discouraged, remembering past bad karma, struggles, and suffering, and wouldn't have the will to make new effort to progress. It would forget its transcendent nature. At the conclusion of each lifetime, death washes away all dark impressions, memories of failures and sins, and prejudiced conceptions, so that the soul can begin afresh to express itself in newer ways and make newer efforts to rise above and free itself from matter.

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
(Self-Realization Magazine Fall 1982)

Sadhguru On the subject of disability~ Quotes

On the subject of disability, Sadhguru reminds us that life comes in many forms, and society need not brand anyone as standard or substandard.
Life has come in so many forms, but societies have labels as to what is normal and what is not normal. But actually, if we look at any individual who has all four limbs intact, compared to the next person, are they not disabled in someaspect of life? 
Most people who are labeled as normal are breaking their brains every day. They call it stress, anxiety and so many things, but they are literally breaking the brain in some way.

So let us not brand ourselves or anyone else one way or the other, because life has come in so many ways. You have to respect that and do your best about it because it is a miracle, in the sense – today morning, the dosa or idli that you had was made with the soil that we walk upon, and that food became flesh and bone. In such a phenomenally complex process, which we have taken for granted unfortunately, certain things sometimes do not work the way we think they should. 

So never call yourself disabled. You are one way, I am another way. No person can claim he has a perfect body or a perfect mind. I am disabled in one way, you are disabled in another way. In some way, every one of us is disabled if we compare ourselves to someone else. 

Your bones break, that is painful and unfortunate. But most people who are labeled as normal are breaking their brains every day. They call it stress, anxiety and so many things, but they are literally breaking the brain in some way. 

No person can claim he has a perfect body or a perfect mind. In some way, every one of us is disabled if we compare ourselves to someone else.

The physical form is a mechanical process. Sometimes things will go wrong with it. It may come normally and later go wrong, or in the very womb, something can go wrong during manufacturing. This has nothing to do with that person. It has something to do with a variety of things because it is such a complex process that something can go off sometimes. 

But that should not determine how you live. How we live physically may be determined by many things. But nobody can decide how we live within ourselves except us. Nobody else can decide how I live within myself. In that sense, no one is disabled. 

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~Sadguru gurudeva ~ on Nandi deva

"Sadguru gurudeva on Nandi deva"

He is in waiting. The Nandi is a symbolism of eternal waiting, because waiting is considered the greatest virtue in this culture. One who knows how to simply sit and wait is naturally meditative. He is not expecting Shiva to come out tomorrow; he will wait forever. That quality is the essence of receptivity. The Nandi is Shiva’s closest accomplice because he is the essence of receptivity. Before you go into the temple, you must have the quality of the Nandi, to simply sit. You are not trying to go to heaven, you are not trying to get this or that – you go inside and simply sit. So, just by sitting here, he is telling you, “When you go into the temple, don’t do your fanciful things. Don’t ask for this or that. Just go and sit like me.”
The quality of the Nandi is that he just sits,alert.This is very important: he is alert. He is not sleepy, he is not sitting in a passive way; he is sitting, very active, no expectation, no anticipation, no looking forward to anything; full of alertness, full of life, but just sitting and that is meditation. Just waiting. Not for anything in particular. If you just wait without doing your own thing, then the existence will do its thing. Meditation essentially means the individual person is not doing his own thing; he is just there. So, once you are simply there, you become aware of the larger dimension of the existence, which is always in action. You become aware that you are a part of it.Even now, you are a part of it. But becoming aware that “I’m a part of it” is meditativeness. So, the Nandi is the symbolism of that. He just sits. Sitting here, he reminds everybody, “You must sit like me.”

(Picture courtsey Google)

Written Source As per Sadhguru's Isha teaching