Tuesday, February 26, 2013

100 jewels of life


100 Jewels of life
Compilation (Flower of Life book)..


गुरुब्रह्म  गुरूविष्णु : गुरूदेवो महेश्वर :
गुरुवे परम  ब्रह्मा तस्मै श्री गुरुवे नमः || 

अज्ञानतिमिरान्धस्य ज्ञानांजन शलाकया 
चक्षुरुन्मीलितं येन  तस्मै श्री गुरुवे नमः || 

एकं नित्यं विमलाचालम सर्वधीसाक्षिभूतं 
भावातीतं त्रिगुण रहितम सद्गुरुम ताम नमामि || 


नमस्ते परमं ब्रह्म नमस्ते परमात्मने । 
निर्गुणाय नमस्तुभ्यं सद्रूपाया नमो नमः || 

सत्संगत्वे निस्संगत्वं निसंगत्वे निर्मोहात्वं । 
निर्मोहत्वे निश्चलत्वं निश्चाल्त्वे जीवनमुक्ति ॥  

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1. No matter to what depths of vice and misery you have sunk, no matter how profligate you have grown, she has not turned you out of her heart. Perhaps she loves you all the more because you are wayward. She would draw you back by the bands of a love that never dies - that's a mother's love.

2. God is to be praised by every one through prayers; As such there is no barrier between God and Man.


3. You may be professing religion, but I would not give much for your religion unless it gets into your life and teaches you, how to live? I would not give a snap of my finger for a religion that does not begin at home and regulate you conducts towards your parent.


4. The God knowing man becomes free from cruel hands of death and also from the circle of re-rebirth as he knows what he worships other do not know what they worship.


5. Happy life means to reach the height of perfection by developing total personality; one may be useful to the nation and can serve the purpose of God.


6. This world might have given birth to a great men, but not great humanity, what it is? It is an idea consisting Forgiveness, sympathy and understanding.


7. There are only three kinds of persons , those who serve God 1) having found him 2) other who are occupied in seeking him 3) Not having found him while reminder live without seeking him and without having found him.


8. Love is ever green, love enters everywhere, as it is union of heart and also a communion of souls, Love is no love that alters when alteration is found.


9. The education is not mere schooling or preparation for examination it is a process of developing the total personality of a child for its mental, physical and social growth, so that a useful citizen may render a greater service to Nation.


10. When words come out with sweetness and joy at heart, neither disturbs the nervous system nor to any other whosoever listenth it.


11. All of us are being descendants of one God, are worthy to praise and also worthy to worship God, irrespective of any division of society in caste and religion.


12. If you want to have peaceful life than you better understand the fear of Lord (guru), fear of elders (parents) and stand by it, out of lord’s Mouth comes knowledge and understanding.


13. A man is educated only if he has Mobility (act), Ability (wisdom), Nobility (Assimilation of ideas-direction)


14. One should never waste power of the voice by Doldrums.


15. To achieve goodness you have to Forgive Men, their trespasses so that heavenly Father will also forgive you.


16. The integration of Family could only be possible when the family members are in habit to run their family by creation a Good and healthy environment.


17. No one ever cares the Importance of speech; unknowingly they decrease one’s immortal strength within the body, as well as the power of nervous system and often reach nearer to the death.


18. If anybody wishes to have Salvation and blessings he must adopt the likewise nature (to bear sufferings) and worship God in spirit and in truth.


19. Each individual an ant, bee or wasp seems to be born with its behavior which is intrinsic that act is governed by environment.


20. The other worldly powers can affect you outer portion of the body and not the inward, but the hatred , jealousy and suspicion can destroy inward as well as outward.


21. It is only the word that controls the body with in and the outer universe too.


22. A man having no biophysical need, can only have The Right of priesthood.


23. What is this “I”, this I does not have hands and feel, But this “I “has content, Sat sang, Beauty. The union of three is what I call “I”, union of soul and spirit.


24. One must be a Man of thoughts not a“thoughtless man”.


25. There is nothing that love cannot face, there is no limit of its faith, its hope and its endurance, Love will never come to an end.


26. It is only pleasant words that give life, peace and satisfaction.


27. To lead happy and harmonious life in this physical and material world one should try to be away from venom of hatredness.


28.  Sat sang means one should have the communion with truth and truth makes him free.


29. To build a life we need 1) sex 2) property and 3) Religion, by first we create another life, by second we protect it and by third we prosper.


30. All human beings are having one life, one breathing power, called Pran-The self consciousness, self blessed, imperishable and immortal.


31. Young Man and young woman! How do you treat your parents tell that, I will tell you how you are going to get on in life.


32. Loss of stamina and health, full of anxiety and worry is because of keeping oneself indulged in satisfying the vain desires.


33. How to speak? 1) limited, let you finish your job 2) proud less 3) Righteous 4) devoid of Meanness 5) Right speech and pre-edited 6) Proficient 7) Fluent and to the point 8) Pleasant and sweet.


34. A misdirected mind is like a Man talks about food but never eat- stay satisfied, for he will raise dust by himself and complain, I can’t see, this blindness lead to spend money and energy to waste, not on true bread.


35. According to me the word – understands; comprises of two words, under-stand, means beneath .One should stand under Righteous man for knowledge, which leads to happy life.


36. One should earn daily lively hood according to ability.


37. Young man, if your parents are still living treat them kindly, all you can to make their dwindling years sweet and happy?.


38. A man or woman who dishonors Father and mother is ever prosperous?.


39. Sympathy; sym- same, pathy- means treatment, give such a treatment to a man as you want to be treated by others.


40. The integration of a Man is to be measured by their conduct not by their profession.


41. To have " a Way of peace" one has to know the use of Righteousness in his speech.


42. Love keeps no scores of wrong and does not gloat over the sins of others but delight in the Truth.


43. When wisdom enters into our heart knowledge is pleasant to your soul.


44. Truth never dies and it remains always as it is.


45. To perform a right speech it becomes necessary to have the Righteousness in thoughts.


46. The good deeds are Possible only by freaking his self (outsell) to serve others.


47. Any man who seeks honor and Esteem of the world and doesn't treat your parents in Right way - sure to be disappointed.


48. To perform a Right speech it becomes necessary to have the righteousness in the thoughts.


50. NO one Ever cares the importance of Speech unknowingly they decrease one's Immortal.


51. Don't Allow " Proudness" in the way of Peace.


52. Love trains our mind with a thought to give should be the pleasure and to take should be the SHAME.


53. The one who always praises himself will become rotten apple and injure his companion.


54. Love cultivates good habit for development of total personality of a man by adding beauty- Life, strength, character and perfection to his life.



55 . A) When inner man is released the person will have immediately  blessing from The God , while releasing  the inner man, Obstacles /difficulties come in the way. are not of other but to his self.


     B) And he will realize that his outward man and his inner man are not having any harmony, for both of them have tendered to go in different directions.



56.The discretion shall preserve you but the understanding shall keep you so get wisdom yet understanding forget it not ,neither decline the world of elders, nor of meritorious mouth.


57. All different races act in one and the same manner to satisfy their biological urges and put their performances to an end by doing the act in the same manner .Thus all beings are effected by their  former act and behavior.


58. The education which is bookish or biblical knowledge that may help in earning of daily lively hood and satisfies all Bio-physical needs but not develop the higher consciousnesses,is waste of time. 


59. How many young ladies have married against their parents wishes and made their own life better? I never knew one case that didn't turn out to badly invariably bring ruins upon themselves, unless they re-part.


60. Who ever has found and understood this self that has entered and patched together hiding place, he indeed is the creator, he is the maker of everything, he is the world and he is the world itself.


61. The contended life brings happiness.


62.  We are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do, and load to lift, shun not to struggle, face it It is God's gift!.

63. But if there is no righteousness  in his thoughts he doesn't not seek after God, for his throat is an open Grave yard.


64 . Let your bearing toward one another arise at your life in Guru. He made himself nothing, assuming the nature of a slave.


65. Be strong!, say not the days are evil-Who's to blame?,
and fold the hands and acquiesce- O shame!
Stand up, speak out, and bravely, In God's name!


66. There is No mediator in between God and Man nor has been ever created by God.


67. One may speak tongues of Man or language of angels - If he is without Love - he is sound Gong.


68. There is never a Bad man who had an ability for Good service  without  Love.


69. If you are able to pre edit your thoughts before talking,you will get respect from every where and never face  any type of disrespect.




70. There must be an idea and zeal in the mind to form an ideal family by achieving perfection.


71. To serve humanity one requires a rich heart and also Richness of Love, without rich heart - "THE MONEY IS AN UGLY BEGGAR".


72. "Righteousness makes a man perfect to rule over the world".


73. They who seek God and it might be, Touch and find him though indeed . He is not far from each one of us. For in him, we live and move in HIM we exist, spirit is neither made nor created , or begotten but proceeding.


74. The performance of those who possess virtue raises up to the God's as the highest .




75. knowledge is no sure of merit but only a probability of such. It is an accident and not a property of any particular man.




76. Lust destroys true freedom and individualism , brotherhood peace and Love. It promises many things but provides caricature of them. Above all it has no hope.




77. The idea of caste (superiority or inferiority) is nothing but an attempt to divide societies by shrewd and intelligent mind to their dominion over the weak and illiterates  only for their selfish ends.




78. They who know Truth in truth and untruth in untruth arrive at truth and follow true desires.




79. You  also have Love in you, it is hidden in the Flick of the Heart and lets set it free to come out.


80. Always remember this,The speech should be Proficient with the time, situation and the condition while speaking.


81. One son can offer his prayer at common place at other one is not allowed to do so on the same dais? Is he not the son of that same father? what is the dispensation of God (creator of all).


82. The Man is born free but every where he finds himself in chain, The chain of vain desires?


83. Maha purushas come in this world to enlighten nations, so that people know the The True path, to achieve their goals. Bring us out of darkness, destruction and also from disintegrated society.


84. If one's body is pure and clean, one is next to God, it not only protects body from various types of diseases but keep man good and healthy  and sound.


85. If one is after lust and does not give importance to love in his life is below nature and his life will be disintegrated and full of misery.


86.The flowers live by the tears that fall, From the sad face of the skies,
And life would have no Joys at all, were there no watery eyes,
Love thy sorrow, grief shall bring, its own excuse in after years, The rainbow!
see how fair a thing, God hath built up from tears.

87. For satisfaction of one's own mind ; follows unlimited vain desires, he follows so many blunders and does evil in his life, that put his life to death.


88.To keep our society strong , we should follow the correct and right path, Value the mahapurushas word, traditions and principles.

89. The Seeing of Eternal light during the meditation is not within the control of Man neither within the reach of one's knowledge, nor can be acquired by shouting whole of the life, But by the Grace of God and clear heart with Total surrender.

90. Be perfect, Be good comfort, Be of one mind, love in peace,
And God of love and peace shall be with you, Greet one another with love,
All the saints salute you. (Nand das ji saheb)


91. "All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousand of times. To make them truly ours we must think them over again and again , honestly until they take root in our experiences".

92. Be strong! it matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, How hard the battle goes, the day how long, Faint not, fight on!

93 .The disturbances in the families or in the society  is only because of lust that may be of any kind, it is true that it may give you the material aspect of life but not the Peaceful life.

94. Unreasonable  fears and worries not only harm us physically but also lower our efficiency and ability to deal with the life's problem. They only diminish our self confidence, Unhealthy fear and worries disturb our sleep, interfere with our digestion and confuse our intellect. unhealthy fear either can prevent us from ever starting to solve our problems or else bring our efforts to dead -  stop.

95. When fear and worry overtake us, we must first think calmly about the real causes of such fears and worries. If we must find solutions for them, and it one is unable to find any solution, then the only course left to us is to pray. The Almighty prayer for relief and guidance. Faith in God will certainly carry us through a Prayer, this is a strongest weapon for solving these problems and thought for solutions will  be then certainly flash in mind.

96. Cycle runs on its cyclic way,Turning day into night and night into day,The man who understands  the function of its  Well 
can ... easily surpass   ,  The boundary of its spell.

97.The spirit is spread over all like the sky, it is not born, nor does it die, God himself is over all, having no shape. the he is like  sky and the same appear in all beings.

98. The spirit has Omnipresence - Spirit is God- god is Spirit which is given various names in different states. They are Vaiswanar (all illuminating) or light of  consciousness, Tejas (all sustaining life ), Pragya- As subjective warmth of life in all living organism and Turya (as the self in all the hearts.

99. Try to see God through the service of HUMANITY.


100.  Friendship is a chain of Gold, shaped in Gods full perfection mould,
 Each link a smile, a laugh, a tear,  A grip of and a word of fear,
Steadfast as the years roll, Binding soul to soul, No matter how far heavy load,
 A sweet journey of friendship road.

ॐ तत्सत 




Monday, February 25, 2013

Tana kOpame tana satruvu....


Being born to Telugu family, some or other time one would have gone through the poems of Vemana, but due to north India schooling, hardly ever read about him. 

Other day , some lines caught the ear to this beautiful poem, after coming back when I asked my mother she at once recited  the entire poem, and told the general meaning ,that one;s own anger is the enemy. Thankful to my gurus , who shown mercy and reveal some thing special understanding about this poem .

On  careful analysis of this poem we can found  lots of hidden meaning in it , and I had goose bumps when one by one it started revealing, as if the Yogi himself talking to me, though am not proficient  Telugu. but meaning is not that difficult to understand, and apply it in our lives.

Poem by yogi Vemana  in telugu



తన కోపమె తన శత్రువు,
తన శాంతమె తనకు రక్ష, దయ చుట్టంబౌ
తన సంతోషమె స్వర్గము,
తన దుఃఖమె నరక మండ్రు తథ్యము సుమతీ

Tana kOpame tana satruvu
Tana sAntame tanaku raksha, daya cuttambou
Tana santOSame swargamu
Tana dukhame narakamandru, taTyamu sumati

తన కోపమె = one’s anger
తన శత్రువు,= is one’s enemy
తన శాంతమె = one’s peace
తనకు రక్ష, = is one’s protection
దయ = Compassion
చుట్టంబౌ= will be a relative
తన సంతోషమె = one’s happiness
స్వర్గము,= is heaven
తన దుఃఖమె = one’s sorrow
నరకమండ్రు = is hell, they say
తథ్యము = this is a fact
సుమతీ = Oh! The one with good mind!

One's anger is one's enemy and one's peace is one's protection, compassion is dependable relation, and one's happiness is heaven and one's sorrow is hell is a fact.

To my understanding:
Yogi says, listen people you don't need hundreds of enemies outside; be prepared for death, your anger is enough, it will destroy you completely and  ensure you to reach hell; is a fact.
only one thing that can protect from this every changing world is Peace of mind (non turbulent), still mind, this state of mind only appears when we push out anger. 
than he explain it further do you think your Blood relatives will come and save you if you been on attack !, forget it..it is only one thing that can protect on this earth from the death is Compassion.
Make compassion as your friend, he will not deceive you like blood relatives do, swing their reactions according to our financial/ other status, compassion is evergreen friend.
And what your are seeking for heaven ( Hindus believe after death they go to swargamu or heaven) , here only the heaven and that is Happiness, and sorrow (Dukahamu) is the hell, nothing you wait for . Right here right now, live life like living in heaven , if once  we  are able to depart permanently to anger, the peace of mind will appear, which is non turbulent, still , soothing, energetic, powerful and in-whole it is Blissful, enjoy the life being compassionate, that could only be possible if you realized the God in this body, that person become ocean of mercy, filled with compassion (daya). Become blessed soul.
These wonderful poems are taught as part of curriculum in Telugu language, in schools. How beautiful it would be if teachers able to explain the kids at that age and  ask them to apply the formula in their lives, and children obey it and implement it right from that age, would certainly build a strong character. Students should not study just for the sake of passing exams..

कोटिश नमन 


Saturday, February 9, 2013

5 points BY"FATHER ANTHONY DE MELLO"


While surfing Father De mello points spoke to me of my deviation , about unlearning and understanding made me to post here, wonderful words to understand, especially the opening line as soon as you look @ world through an ideology you are finished, we cannot say this is like this, we are saying than we are finished.That cannot be reality, The reality is real and as it is, dont give a name to it.


5 points  BY"FATHER ANTHONY DE MELLO"


1) As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. 


2)To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower." "Whom, then, shall I follow?" "No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth." 


3) Once upon a time there were two monks who had lived together for 40 years and never had a squabble. Not even once. One day, one monk said to the other: "Don't you think it's about time we had a squabble, even if it's just once?" "Sure," replied the other monk. "Let's get started right away. About what shall we squabble?" "About this piece of bread perhaps?" the first monk offered. "Ok, let's have a squabble over this bread. How are we going to go about this?" Asked the other again. "This bread is mine, and mine alone," said the first monk. "Oh yeah? Well you can keep it," said the second monk.

4) There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. 

5)                                     
 LISTEN AND UNLEARN 

Some of us get woken up by the harsh realities of life. We suffer so much that we  wake up. But people keep bumping again and again into life. They still go on sleepwalking. They never wake up. Tragically, it never occurs to them that there may be another way. It never occurs to them that there may be a better way. Still, if you haven’t been bumped sufficiently by life, and you haven’t suffered enough, then there is another way: to listen. I don’t mean you have to agree with what I’m saying. That wouldn't be listening. Believe me, it really doesn't matter whether you agree with what I’m saying or you don’t. Because agreement and disagreement have to do with words and concepts and theories. They don’t have anything to do with truth. Truth is never expressed in words. Truth is sighted suddenly, as a result of a certain attitude. So you could be disagreeing with me and still sight the truth. But there has to be an attitude of openness, of willingness to discover something new. That’s important, not your agreeing with me or disagreeing with me. After all, most of what I’m giving you is really theories. No theory adequately covers reality. So I can speak to you, not of the truth, but of obstacles to the truth. Those I can describe. I cannot describe the truth. No one can. All I can do is give you a description of your falsehoods, so that you can drop them. All I can do for you is challenge your beliefs and the belief system that makes you unhappy. All I can do for you is help you to unlearn.

 That’s what learning is all about where spirituality is concerned: unlearning, unlearning almost everything you've been taught. A willingness to unlearn, to 
listen. 

Are you listening, as most people do, in order to confirm what you already think? 

Observe your reactions as I talk. Frequently you’ll be startled or shocked or scandalized or irritated or annoyed or frustrated. Or you’ll be saying, “Great!” But are you listening for what will confirm what you already think? Or are you 
listening in order to discover something new? That is important. It is difficult for sleeping people. Jesus proclaimed the good news yet he was rejected. Not because it was good, but because it was new. We hate the new. We hate it! And the sooner we face up to that fact, the better. We don’t want new things, particularly when they’re disturbing, particularly when they involve change. Most particularly if it involves saying, “I was wrong.” I remember meeting an eighty-seven-year-old Jesuit in Spain; he’d been my professor and 
rector in India thirty or forty years ago. And he attended a workshop like this. “I should have heard you speak sixty years ago,” he said. “You know something. I've been wrong all my life.” God, to listen to that! It’s like looking at one of the wonders of the world. 

That, ladies and gentlemen, is faith! An openness to the truth, no matter what the consequences, no matter where it leads you and when you don’t even know where it’s  going to lead you. That’s faith. Not belief, but faith. Your beliefs give you a lot of  security, but faith is insecurity. You don’t know. You’re ready to follow and you’re open,  you’re wide open! You’re ready to listen. And, mind you, being open does not mean being gullible, it doesn't mean swallowing whatever the speaker is saying. Oh no. You've  got to challenge everything I’m saying. But challenge it from an attitude of openness, not  from an attitude of stubbornness. And challenge it all. Recall those lovely words of  Buddha when he said, “Monks and scholars must not accept my words out of respect, but  must analyze them the way a goldsmith analyzes gold—by cutting, scraping, rubbing,  melting.” 

When you do that, you’re listening. You've taken another major step toward 
awakening. The first step, as I said, was a readiness to admit that you don’t want to wake up, that you don’t want to be happy. There are all kinds of resistances to that within you. 

The second step is a readiness to understand, to listen, to challenge your whole belief system. Not just your religious beliefs, your political beliefs, your social beliefs, your  psychological beliefs, but all of them. A readiness to reappraise them all, in the Buddha’s  metaphor. And I’ll give you plenty of opportunity to do that here.