CHAMPIONS OF LIFE......What they said - 1

PRACTICAL HINTS-1

Fix the mind on ONE

1) Those who fixing their minds on Me(supreme lord) worship Me(supreme lord) with perpetual devotion, endowed with supreme faith, to my mind they are  considered by Me to be most perfect(yoga).......Bhagvad Gita. chapt 12:2

2) Shake off your sleep, and seek the grace of the Lord with steadfast devotion. Make the mind one pointed like the mariner's compass. In whatever direction the ship may sail, the compass always points to the north, thus keeping the ship on its course. Even so with the human mind. If it is fixed on God , there will be nothing to fear. If by Chance one is thrown into a bad environment, even then his faith and devotion will remain unshaken. The moment he hears any talk about God, he will become mad with divine love-just as the flint, lying under water for a hundred years, when taken out and struck, emits .sparks...........Swami Brahmananda.as said in kanakhal, Rishikesh,India

3)In studying the wisdom of the sages it is imperative to have one definite aim-that of become a true man. The ancients said that he who could will could always accomplish, and that determination was half the battle. Once we have a definite aim, we become as bowmen with arrows trained on the target, or as travelers already moving toward their destination. In formulation our aims, let us be courageous rather than timid, and seek the truth even as the hungry man seeks food, the thirsty water, allowing nothing to hinder us as we press the goal, Chu said;" Unless the aim be single , it cannot succeed" .Then let him who venture in the quest for true wisdom be single minded, with concentration of setting hen or of a cat watching her prey.........Kaibara Ekken

4)If a man's faith is unsteady, if he does not know the true Law, if his peace of mind is troubled , his knowledge will never be perfect, Wise people, meditative, steady, attain to Nirvana, the highest happiness......Gautama Buddha.

5) So go ahead , my children, and never lose sight of your Ideal!, Go onward and never stop until you have reached the Goal. Reaching a particular stage, don't run away with the idea that you have come to your journey;s end . Work is only the first stage of the journey, Bear in mind that doing things Unattached is exceedingly difficult; that therefore the path of love is better suited to this age and that work, Even if unattached , is not the end of your life, but only a means to the end. So March on, and never halt till you have come up to the great Ideal of your life- Seeing of God............Saint Ramakrishna Paramahansa.