Bhagavadgeeta : ( 26/11/2012. )

======================================================================== Wednesday, March 29, 2023. 07:30. The Moksha Gita : Swami Sivananda Chapter 6: The Nature of the Mind - 3. ========================================================================= 5. The enemy of the Atma is the fluctuating mind only. The mind through its power of fluctuation generates countless Vasanas and Sankalpas. Destroy this fluctuating power of the mind through constant Brahma-Vichara. The Atma or the immortal Self is enveloped by the veil of mentation. The vibration of the mind generates fresh Vasanas and Sankalpas by its forward urge to expand itself info the world of nature. Every thought sends forth such currents of creative influence of the strength proportionate to the intensity of the original affirmation, and these creative urges touch the mental being of the other bodies of the universe in various degrees in accordance with their power of receptivity based on their own categories in the stages of ...

Swami Sivananda ========================================================================= Saturday, March 25, 2023. 09:30. The Moksha Gita : Swami Sivananda Chapter 6: The Nature of the Mind - 2. ========================================================================= 4. "Just as a silk-worm is caught in its own cocoon, so also man is caught in this vast net of Samsara by his own Sankalpas and Vasanas." The conception that the prison of life of the individual is self-built is brought out by the example of the self-imprisoning of the silkworm with its cocoon which it itself winds around its body. Further escape from the jail becomes difficult. The Jiva winds round itself the cocoon of love for separation from the Eternal Truth through the positive act of being untrue to itself. It is a self-deception, a self-blasphemy, a self-slaughter that is done by allowing oneself to fall into lower Yonis or degraded conditions of existence. It is real suicide, because it is killing the c...

========================================================================= Tuesday, March 21, 2023. 06:30. The Moksha Gita : Swami Sivananda Chapter 6: The Nature of the Mind - 1. ========================================================================= 1. The Guru said: The Mind has the power of creating or undoing the whole universe in the twinkling of an eye. Slay this mind through Vichara (enquiry), destruction of Vasanas and control of its fluctuation. The power of the mind is indescribable and unimaginable. The greatest Siddhis and Riddhis are all the effects of the working of the highly purified mind. Terrific powers and psychic abilities are the expressions of the mind when it nears the All-powerful Consciousness which is the very existence of Power itself. There are beautiful stories in the Yogavasishtha which illustrate the existence of the dreadful powers of the mind. Mind is a crude form of the Chit aspect of the Reality. The Chit-Shakti of Brahman alone appears as the mind....

========================================================================= Friday, March 17, 2023. 06:30. The Moksha Gita : Swami Sivananda Chapter 5: The Nature of the Universe -3. ========================================================================= 5, 6. Children regard a wooden elephant, as an elephant, but the grown-up persons treat it as wood. Even so the wise behold only Brahman everywhere but the ignorant perceive the non-self only. A wooden elephant is the imitation of the form of an elephant, though the essence of the form is only wood. Children in their credulity, with undeveloped consciousness see the form merely and not the essence or the substance which has taken a form. In fact, forms have no sane basis to be regarded as realities, for it is only the mode of the arrangement of the substance and the way of the individual's vision of it that certifies the existence of a particular form. A given number of straight lines which have no relation at all in truth with any...

========================================================================= Monday, March 13, 2023. 07:00. The Moksha Gita : Swami Sivananda Chapter 5: The Nature of the Universe -2. ========================================================================= 2. "Just as a snake is superimposed on the rope, silver on the mother-of-pearl, a thief on the post, city in the clouds, mirage in the desert, blueness in the sky, so also this world is superimposed on Brahman." A rope is mistaken to be a snake. This is taken as an illustration to prove the similar superimposition of the world on Brahman. When a person mistakes a rope to be a snake, he remembers a snake which he has previously seen and the form of the snake and the rope being similar, there is an intelligible occasion for mistaking one thing for the other. The memory of a thing seen in the past becomes the cause of the mistaken notion. But the critic asks, what object that is similar to the world has the individual previously...

Chinmaya Mission : The Chinmaya Devi Group organized a one-day Value Camp and Cultural Meet for Women in Madurai on March 6th, 2023, in celebration of International Women's Day. The event was attended by over 400 women and featured a talk on "The Glory of Women" by Isaikavi Ramananji, a panel discussion on "The Shakthi reflected in Women's Success," and various competitions, including vocal, art and craft, and "Just a Minute" games. The event concluded with a prize distribution function, where the winners were awarded prizes by Smt. Latha Abiroopan and Sri. Saravanababu. The program received significant coverage in local news dailies, including Dinamalar, Dinamani, and The Hindu. Under the guidance of Swami Sivayogananda, the Chinmaya Devi Group planned, organized, and executed the event with great zeal and devotion, providing an opportunity for women to come together, celebrate their strengths, and share their experiences. The one-day event contri...

========================================================================= Monday, March 06, 2023. 07:00. The Moksha Gita : Swami Sivananda Chapter 4: The Nature of Avidya - 3. ======================================================================== 5. When one gets knowledge of the Self, this Avidya vanishes. It is the destruction of Avidya that is the Brahmic-seat. Avidya no more appears when one acquires the wisdom of the Truth. It exists only until the melting away of egoism. When love for life is broken, when the will to live, the Abhinivesha or the clinging to personal endurance is frustrated by Vicharana and contemplation, when the powers of the mind are turned inward and utilised in building the counter-construction of the imagination of the reverse order, the vexation of existence in limited bodies comes to an end. The realization of the Self is the destruction of Avidya. The two acts are simultaneous. The act of realization is not a positive achieving but a negative destroying...