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Chapter-7. Gurudom-3.2. 3. A Caution To Ladies-2 O Devis! Wake up now! Open your eyes. You are all educated now. Use your reason. Do not be carried away by mere lectures and music. Beware of posing Gurus. Never make a householder as your Guru. Never get Diksha from him. You will weep in the end and reap a bad harvest if you do so. That man whom you select as your Guru should be of an exemplary and spotless character. He should be absolutely selfless and be free from lust and greed. He should be free from all sorts of worldly taints. He should have knowledge of the Vedas and scriptures. He must have inner spiritual strength and Self-realisation to elevate you and lead you in the spiritual path. Husbands should not allow their wives to take anyone as their Guru without proper scrutiny or thorough examination and understanding of the person whom they want to take as Guru. If they really feel so much for taking a Guru, they should select one after careful study and enquiry and af

Opinion       30/04/2016.        507.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : Religion and Social Values-1-8. Swami Krishnananda        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER!  Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World-8. 8. This very difficult-to-understand situation of our own mental operations is perhaps the background of very bitter analyses which were ruthlessly conducted by psychoanalysis about the nature of man in this world. Medical examination is not always a pleasant thing to undergo. Very unpleasant it is, for various reasons. And even to find time to go deep into our own mental makeup is not a happy thing.

Chapter-7. Gurudom  -3. 3. A Caution To Ladies-1 Ladies are very easily duped by the so-called Gurus and Acharyas. Ladies are very simple-minded and credulous. They are very easily attracted by sweet music and melody. They fall easy victims to melodious sounds. These Gurus try to hoodwink naive womenfolk. They easily influence them and trap them without any difficulty. They make them their tools or instruments. They exploit them and fill their stomachs and move about in silken clothes and pump shoes. Householders have not got the least sanction from scriptures to make lady disciples. Those who make lady-disciples for the sake of earning a decent livelihood are worms that revel in filth. There is no Prayaschitta for these hypocrites. They are thrown mercilessly into the Raurava and Maha Raurava hells. Swami Sivananda      To be continued...

Chapter-7. Gurudom  -2. 2.Yogic Charlatans And Posing Gurus A young man with a little training in harmonium and a little power of speech ascends the platform, poses for an Acharya or a Guru in a couple of years, publishes a few rubbish pamphlets and songs and establishes a sect of his own. India still abounds in profound stupidity and any man can have his own following in a short time. Another young man with some training in Asanas, Bandhas and Pranayama shuts himself up in an underground cell with some eatables that are secretly kept to last for forty days. He eats some roots that destroy hunger and thirst for some days. God only knows what he is doing in the cell! He sleeps in the cell. He then comes out with pretended Samadhi. This is a little practice of Titiksha only. His Samskaras and Vasanas are not at all destroyed. He is the same worldly man. He knocks about hither and thither to collect money and make disciples. He poses for a Yogi Guru. Ignorant, worldly people are

Chapter-7. Gurudom  - 1. 1. A Deadly Canker Jatilo Mundi Lunchita-Kesah     Kashayambara-Bahukrita-Veshah; Pasyannapi Cha Na Pasyati Mudho     Udara-Nimittam Bahukrita-Veshah For the sake of this belly, what sort of disguise man puts on? One grows Jata on the head, another shaves his head, another puts an orange-coloured robe. Ignorant, he sees not though he sees (Sri Sankaracharya). India, the sacred land of Advaita Philosophy, the land which produced Sri Sankara, Dattatreya, Vamadeva and Jada Bharata who preached oneness of life and unity of consciousness, is full of sectarians now. What a great pity it is! What a lamentable state you see now! You can even count the grains of sand on a seashore, but it is extremely difficult to count the number of sects that are prevailing now in India. Every day, some kind of ‘ism’ is cropping up like mushroom to swell up the discord that is already present here. Hopeless discord and disharmony reign supreme everywhere. Fighting is

Medal winners & Teachers - Chinmaya Vidyalaya. Opinion       26/04/2016.        501.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : Religion and Social Values-1-7. Swami Krishnananda        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER!  Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World-7. 7. The inward suspicion with regard to one’s own capabilities in the understanding of the nature of this world, and the powers that one can wield in this world, go hand in hand with the suspicion that we develop with everyone else in the world. We cannot trust anybody wholly, because we cannot trust ourselves wholly. This is because the trust, or th

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-6 5. Next three Gurus 22. The mind of an ARROW MAKER was once wholly engrossed in sharpening and straightening an arrow. While he was thus engaged, a king passed before his shop with his whole retinue. After some time, a man came to the artisan and asked him whether the king passed by his shop. The artisan replied that he did not notice anything. The fact is that the artisan’s mind was solely absorbed in his work and he did not know what was passing before his shop. I have learnt from the artisan the quality of intense concentration of mind. 23. The SPIDER pours out of its mouth long threads and weaves them into cobwebs. It gets itself entangled in the net of its own making. Even so, man makes a net of his own ideas and gets entangled in it. The wise man should therefore abandon all worldly thoughts and think of Brahman only. This is the lesson I have learnt from the spider. 24. The Bhringi or the BEETLE catches hold of a

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-6.4 4. Next two Gurus 20. The parents of a MAIDEN had gone in search of a proper bridegroom for her. The girl was alone in the house. During the absence of the parents, a party of people came to the house to see her on a similar object in reference to an offer of marriage. She received the party herself. She went inside to husk the paddy. While she was husking, the glass bangles on both hands made tremendous jingling noise. The wise girl reflected thus: “The party will detect, by the noise of the bangles, that I am husking the paddy myself, and that my family is too poor to engage others to get the work done. Let me break all my bangles except two on each hand”. Accordingly, she broke all the bangles except two on each hand. Even these two bangles created much noise. She broke one more bangle of each hand. There was no further noise though she continued husking. I have learnt from the girl’s experience the following: Living

Opinion       24/04/2016.        496.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : Religion and Social Values-1-6. Swami Krishnananda        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER!  Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World-6. 6. It is not a sermon that we have received from our Gurus or Masters. We have come to a conclusion definitely, by our own selves, for reasons we alone know  : - It is necessary to exist in this world. A hypothesis is already taken for granted.  And this necessity to exist is—very, very unfortunately for us—involved in a network of complicated adjustments that we are required to make every moment

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-6.3 3. Next five Gurus 15. The DEER is enticed and trapped by the hunter through its love of music. Even so, a man is attracted by the music of women of loose character and brought to destruction. One should never listen to lewd songs. This is the lesson I learnt from the deer. 16. Just as a FISH that is covetous of food falls an easy victim to the bait, so also, the man who is greedy of food, who allows his sense of taste to overpower him, loses his independence and easily gets ruined. The greed for food must therefore be destroyed. It is the lesson that I have learnt from the fish. 17. There was a DANCING GIRL named Pingala in the town of Videha. She was tired of looking for customers one night. She became hopeless. Then she was contented with what she had, and then had sound sleep. I have learnt from that fallen woman the lesson that the abandonment of hope leads to contentment. 18. A RAVEN picked up a piece of fle

Opinion       23/04/2016.        491.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : Religion and Social Values-1-5. Swami Krishnananda        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER!  Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World-5. 5. There is a very peculiar attitude that we develop towards our own selves which can be very safely defined by a single word : - duplicity. We do not maintain a true relationship with our own selves. At the very outset, we manage to be untrue to our own selves in order that we may live in an untrue relationship with people. It is sometimes felt that in order to justify one falsehood, another fals

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-6.2 2. Next seven Gurus 8. I once saw a pair of PIGEONS with their young birds. A fowler spread a net and caught the young birds. The mother pigeon was very much attached to her children. She did not care to live, so she fell into the net and was caught. The male pigeon was attached to the female pigeon, so he also fell into the net and was caught. From this I learnt that attachment is the cause of bondage. 9. The PYTHON does not move about for its food. It remains contented with whatever it gets and lies in one place. From this I learnt to be unmindful of food and to be contented with whatever I get to eat (Ajagara Vritti). 10. Just as the OCEAN remains unmoved even though hundreds of rivers fall into it, so also the wise man should remain unmoved among all sorts of temptations, difficulties and troubles. This is the lesson I learnt from the ocean. 11. Just as the MOTH, being enamoured of the brilliance of the fire

Opinion       22/04/2016.        485.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : Religion and Social Values-1-4. Swami Krishnananda        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER!  Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World-4. 4. Go down deep into your own mind and think for yourself. Who has peace in this world? That tentative comfort that you may be enjoying in life—either due to your placement in society, your financial status or your physical condition—is, again, a matter of apprehension. Who can be always healthy? Who can be always wealthy?  And who can be always secure in this world? Hence, who can always ha

Opinion       21/04/2016.        480.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : Religion and Social Values-1-3. Swami Krishnananda        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER!  Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World-3. 3. While anxiety about the future may be permitted if nothing unpleasant is going to be expected in the future, it becomes intolerable when we always expect something which may be to the detriment of our well-being. This anxiety, this apprehension, arises from our own selves. It does not come from outside; it does not drop from the trees. There is a wholesale maladjustment of ourselves right from

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-6.1 Dattatreya then mentioned the names of his twenty-four Gurus and spoke of the wisdom that he had learnt from each:- “The names of my twenty-four teachers are: 1. Earth, 2. Water, 3. Air, 4. Fire, 5. Sky, 6. Moon, 7. Sun, 8. Pigeon, 9. Python, 10. Ocean, 11. Moth, 12. Bee, 13. Honey-gatherer, 14. Elephant, 15. Deer, 16. Fish, 17. Dancing-girl Pingala, 18. Raven, 19. Child, 20. Maiden, 21. Serpent, 22. An arrow-maker, 23. Spider and 24. Beetle.” 1. First seven Gurus: 1. I learnt patience and doing good to others from the EARTH, for it endures every injury man commits on its surface, and yet it does him good by producing crops, trees, etc. 2. From WATER I have learnt the quality of purity. Just as the pure water cleanses others, so also the sage, who is pure and free from selfishness, lust, egoism, anger, greed, etc., purifies all those who come in contact with him. 3. The AIR is always moving through various objec

Opinion       20/04/2016.        475.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : Religion and Social Values-1-2. Swami Krishnananda        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER!  Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World-2. 2. The normalcy of the physical body, which we call health, is also a state where we are buoyant with a new type of freedom. The greatest freedom is health, in which condition of freedom from every shackle we feel buoyant and often forget our own selves. The healthier we are, the less we think of ourselves. When an illness of any kind enters our body, we become conscious that we are. We begin to be

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-5. He did not succeed in getting rid of the people by this method. He adopted another plan. He created a beautiful girl and a bottle of wine out of his Yogic power. He came out of the waters holding the girl in one hand and the bottle of wine in the other. The people thought that Dattatreya had fallen from his Yoga and so they left him and went away. Dattatreya threw away all his personal possessions, even the scanty clothing he had, and became an Avadhuta. He went out preaching and teaching the truths of Vedanta. Dattatreya taught his Gita named Avadhuta Gita to Lord Subrahmanya or Kartikeya. This is a most valuable book which contains the truths and secrets of Vedanta and the direct experiences of Self-realisation. Once, while Dattatreya was roaming in a forest happily, he met king Yadu, who on seeing Dattatreya so happy, asked him the secrets of his happiness and also the name of his Guru. Dattatreya said that the Atma

Opinion       19/04/2016.        470.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : Religion and Social Values-1-1. Swami Krishnananda        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER!  Chapter 1: The Circumstances in Which We Have to Live in the World-1. 1. During this period of Sadhana Week, it is obviously your intention to gather a new strength into your own selves and return home as a rejuvenated personality, and not as a person who has attended a festival, a mela or a rejoicing—after which, generally, your energies are depleted. You go as a weakened person after a dramatic performance or a presentation which stimulates your vitals, stirs up your emo

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-4 Narada went to Brahma-Loka, Vaikuntha and Kailasa and informed Sarasvati, Lakshmi and Parvati that their husbands had been turned into children through the power of Pativrata Dharma of Anasuya when they asked her Nirvana Bhiksha, and that they would not return unless the Devis asked for Bhartri Bhiksha (Bhiksha of husband) from Atri. Sarasvati, Lakshmi and Parvati assumed the forms of ordinary women, appeared before Atri, and asked for Pati Bhiksha: “O Rishi, kindly give us back our husbands.” Atri Rishi duly honoured the three ladies and with folded hands prayed to them that his wish and the wish of Anasuya should be fulfilled. Then the Tri-Murtis appeared in their true form before Atri and said: “This child will be a great sage according to your word and will be equal to us according to the wish of Anasuya. The child will bear the name of Dattatreya.” Then they disappeared. Dattatreya attained manhood. As he had the

Opinion       17/04/2016.        465.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : SUCCESS IN LIFE :20-5.     A Young Person's Guide  Consisting of the Teachings of  SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER! 20. SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDAJI MAHARAJ A BIOGRAPHY : 5. 5. In addition to his regular tours in India, since 1959 Swamiji has undertaken many world tours. He has covered almost all the countries in both hemispheres visiting Divine Life Society Branches and offering spiritual advice to all the devotees and seekers within the fold of Gurudev’s Mission. In August, 1963, he was elected to succeed Sri Gurudev as Pr

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-3 The Tri-Murtis came to know through Jnana-Drishti of the action of Narada, and the Tapas and the wish of Anasuya. They agreed. The Tri-Murtis put on the garb of Sannyasins, appeared before Anasuya, and asked her to give them Nirvana Bhiksha. Anasuya was in a great dilemma. She could not say ‘No’ to the Bhikshus. She had to maintain her Pativrata Dharma also. She meditated on the form of her husband, took refuge in his feet, and sprinkled over the three Sannyasins a few drops of water which were used for washing the feet of her husband. The Tri-Murtis were converted into three children on account of the glory of the Charanamrita water. At the same time, there was accumulation of milk in the breasts of Anasuya. She thought that these children were her own children and fed them with the milk in a nude state and put them to the cradle. She was eagerly expecting the arrival of her husband who had gone for taking his bath.

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-2 Once, Narada took a small ball of iron—the size of a gram grain—to Sarasvati and said to her: “O Sarasvati Devi! Please fry this iron-ball. I will eat this iron-ball-gram during my travel.” Sarasvati laughed and said: “O Rishi Narada! How can this iron-ball be fried? How can this be eaten?” Narada afterwards went to Mahalakshmi and Parvati, and requested them to fry the iron-ball. They also laughed at Narada Rishi. Then Narada said: “O Devis! See, I will get it fried by Anasuya, wife of Atri Maharshi, a great Pativrata who lives in the earth-plane.” Then Narada came to Anasuya and requested her to fry the iron-ball-gram. Anasuya put the iron-ball in the frying pan, meditated on the form of her husband, and put a few drops of water which were used in washing the feet of her husband, on the iron-ball. The iron-ball was at once fried. Narada went to Sarasvati, Lakshmi and Parvati, ate before them the fried iron-ball gra

Chapter-6. Lord Dattatreya And His Twenty-Four Gurus-1 Adau Brahma Madhye Vishur-Ante Devah Sadasivah; Murtitraya-Svarupaya Dattatreya Namostu-Te. Salutations to Lord Dattatreya who is of the form of the Tri-Murtis, who is Brahma at the beginning, Vishnu at the middle and Sadasiva at the end. Brahmajnanamayi Mudra Vastre Chakasabhutale; Prajnanaghanabodhaya Dattatreya Namostu-Te. Salutations, again and again, to the Lord of Girnar Hills whose Mudra is Brahma-Jnana, whose garments are the sky and the earth, who is verily an embodiment of dense Consciousness-Knowledge (Sri Sankaracharya). Anasuya is generally quoted as the model of chastity and she was the wife of Atri Maharshi, a great sage and one of the Sapta Rishis. She was well established in Pativrata Dharma. She served her husband with intense devotion. She did severe Tapas for a very long time in order to beget sons equal to Brahma, Vishnu and Siva. Swami Sivananda      To be continued...

Opinion       14/04/2016.        460.           All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.           *REQUEST ALL  STUDENTS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS MUST READ THIS TOPIC         **IT IS URGENT IMPORTANCE IN THE PRESENT SITUATION  OF THE NATION        Sub : SUCCESS IN LIFE :20-4.     A Young Person's Guide  Consisting of the Teachings of  SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA        Ref :  CHILDREN IN BHARATHAM, ARE MISGUIDED BY INDISCIPLINE  AND RUBBISH STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS  AND  STUDENT POLITICAL WINGS, ENDING IN  LOSS  OF  CHARACTER! 20. SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDAJI MAHARAJ A BIOGRAPHY :4. 4. On arrival, he was asked to serve in the dispensary. Soon he became known as the man with the healing hand. His growing reputation attracted a rush of patients to the Sivananda Charitable Dispensary. Patients from the neighbourhood, suffering from the worst kinds of diseases, came to seek his help. It did not matter whether they were rich or poor. To him

Chapter -5. Sri Dakshinamurti-2 During the absence of Devi, when Lord Siva was alone, the sons of Brahma Deva—who are sages Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanatkumara—came to have Darshan of Lord Siva and prostrated before Him. They entreated the Lord to teach them the way to remove Avidya and attain Salvation. They expressed that in spite of the vast study of scriptures, they had no internal peace, and they were in need of learning the inner secrets by knowing which they could attain Salvation. Lord Siva, hearing this appeal made by the sages, assumed the form of Dakshinamurti, and remaining as the Guru Supreme, began to teach them the inner secrets by keeping Mauna and showing the Chinmudra by His Hand. The sages began to meditate on the lines shown by the Lord and attained the state of inexpressible and illimitable joy. Thus Lord Siva came to be known as Dakshinamurti. May the blessings of Lord Dakshinamurti be upon us all. May you all dive deep and enjoy the ev