YOUR PRESENCE

                                               THE POWER OF NOW

    IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS

       YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE STATE OF PRESENCE AS THE KEY. I THINK I UNERSTAND IT INTELLECTUALLY, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE EVER TRULY EXPERIENCED IT. I WONDER- IS IT WHAT I THINK IT IS , OR IS IT SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT?

         IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS! YOU CAN'T THINK ABOUT PRESENCE, AND THE MIND CAN'T UNDERSTAND IT. UNDERSTANDING PRESENCE IS BEING PRESENT. 

         TRY A LITTLE EXPERIMENT. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND SAY TO YOURSELF. "I WONDER WHAT MY NEXT THOUGHT IS GOING TO BE", THEN BECOMED VERY ALERT AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT THOUGHT IS GOING TO BE. THEN BECOME VERY ALERT AND WAIT FOR THE NEXT THOUGHT. BE LIKE A CAT WATCHING A MOUSE HOLE. WHAT THOUGHT IS GOING TO COME OUT OF THE MOUSE HOLE? TRY IT NOW.

      WELL?

      I HAD TO WAIT FOR QUITE A LONG TIME BEFORE A THOUGHT CAME IN.

     EXACTLY. AS LONG AS YOU ARE IN A STATE OF INTENSE PRESENCE, YOU ARE FREE OF THOUGHT. YOU ARE STILL, YET HIGHLY ALERT. THE INSTANT YOUR CONSCIOUS ATTENTION SINKS BELOW A CERTAIN LEVEL, THOUGHT RUSHES IN. THE MENTAL NOISE RETURNS, THE STILLNESS IS LOST, YOU ARE BACK IN TIME.

     TO TEST THEIR DEGREE OF PRESENCE, SOME ZEN MASTERS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO CREEP UP ON THEIR STUDENTS FROM BEHIND AND SUDDENLY HIT THEM WITH A STICK. QUITE A SHOCK! IF THE STUDENT HAD BEEN FULLY PRESENT AND IN A STATE OF ALERTNESS, IF HE HAD KEPT HIS LOIN GIRDED AND HIS LAMP BURNING, WHICH IS ONE OF THE ANALOGIES THAT JESUS USES FOR PRESENCE, HE WOULD HAVE NOTICED THE MASTER COMING UP FROM BEHIND AND STOPPED HIM OR STEPPED ASIDE. BUT IF HE WERE HIT, THAT WOULD MEAN AND WAS IMMERSED IN THOUGTH, WHICH IS TO SAY ABSENT, UNCONSCIOUS.

        TO STAY PRESENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE, IT HELPS TO BE DEEPLY ROOTED WITHIN YOURSELF, OTHERWISE, THE MIND, WHICH HAS INCREDIBLE MOMENTUM, WILL DRAG YOU ALONG LIKE A WILD RIVER.

         WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY "ROOTED WITHIN YOURSELF"?

        IT MEANS TO INHABIT YOUR BODY FULLY. TO ALWAYS HAVE SOME OF YOUR ATTENTION IN THE INNER ENERGY FIELD OF YOUR BODY FROM WITHIN, SO TO SPEAK. BODY AWARENESS KEEPS YOU PRESENT. IT ANCHOURS YOU IN THE NOW.

 

  

INSPIRING QUOTES

                                          QUOTES TO MOTIVATE OURS....

 

           

       * THE LAND WHERE HUMANITY HAS ATTAINED ITS HIGHEST TOWARDS GENTLENESS, TOWARDS GENEROSITY, TOWARDS PURITUY, TOWARDS CALMNESS- IT IS INDIA.

     * WE ONLY KNOW THE UNIVERSE FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF BEINGS WITH FIVE SENSES. SUPPOSE WE OBTAIN ANOTHER SENSE, THE WHOLE UNIVERSE MUST CHANGE FOR US.

    * KRISHNA PREACHED IN THE MIDST OF THE BATTLEFIELD.

    * THE MOTHER AND THE FATHER ARE THE CAUSES OF THIS BODY, SO A MAN MUST UNDERGO A THOUSAND TROUBLES IN ORDER

TO DO GOOD TO THEM.

    * PUT THE GOOD BEFORE THEM, SEE HOW EAGERLY THEY TAKE IT, SEE HOW THE DIVINE THAT NEVER DIES, THAT IS ALWAYS LIVING IN THE HUMAN.

    * WHERE THE WHOLE WORLD IS AWAKE, THE SAGE SLEEPS.

    * THE WILL IS NOT FREE- IT IS A PHENOMENON BOUND BY CAUSE AND EFFECT BUT THERE IS SOMETHING BEHIND THE WILL WHICH FREE.

   * A TREMENDOUS STREAM IS FLOWING TOWARD THE OCEAS, CARRYING US ALL ALONG WITH IT, AND THOUGH LIKE STRAWS AND SCRAPS OF PAPER WE MAY AT TIMES FLOAT AIMLESSLY ABOUT, IN THE LONG RUN WE ARE SURE TO JOIN THE OCEAN OF LIFE AND BLISS. 

  * OF ONE HUNDRED PERSONS WHO TAKE UP THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, EIGHTY TURN OUT TO BE CHARLATANS, FIFTEEN INSANE, AND ONLY FIVE, MAYBE, GET A GLIMPSE OF THE REAL TRUTH. THEREFORE BEWARE.

  * HAVE FAITH IN MAN, WHETHER HE APPEARS TO YOU TO BE A VERY LEARNED ONE OR A MOST IGNORANT ONE.

  *  THIS ATTACHMENT OF LOVE TO GOD IS INDEED ONE THAT DOES NOT BLIND THE SOUL BUT EFFECTIVELY BREAKS ALL ITS BONDAGES.

  * GOD IS PRESENT IN EVERY JIVA, THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BESIDES THAT. WHO SERVES JIVA SERVES GOD INDEED.

  * THE MORE WE GROW IN LOVE, VIRTUE AND HOLINESS, THE MORE WE SEE LOVE, VIRTUE AND HOLINESS OUTSIDE.

  * THE OLDER I GROW, THE MORE EVERYTHING SEEMS TO ME TO LIE IN MANLINESS. THIS IS MY NEW GOSPEL.

  * THE HELP WHICH TENDS TO MAKE US SPIRITUALLY STRONG IS THE HIGHEST HELP, NEXT TO IT COMES INTELLECTUAL HELP AND AFTER THAT COMES PHYSICAL HELP.

  * IF THE STUDENT THINKS HE IS THE SPIRIT, HE WILL BE A BETTER STUDENT. IF THE LAWYER THINKS HE IS THE SPIRIT, HE WILL BE A BETTER LAWYER, AND SO ON.

  * BUT WHERE THE IGNORANT ARE ASLEEP THERE THE SAGE KEEPS AWAKE.

  * NEVER FORGET THE GLORY OF HUMAN NATURE! WE ARE THE GREATEST GOD.. CHRISTS AND BUDHAS ARE BUT WAVES IN THE BOUNDLESS OCEAN WHICH I AM.

  * IF FAITH IN OURSELVES HAD BEEN MORE EXTENSIVELY TAUGHT AND PRACTICED, I AM SURE A VERY LARGE PORTION OF THE EVILS AND MISSERIES THAT WE HAVE WOULD HAVE VANISHED.

  * NOW IS WANTED INTENSE KARMA-YOGA WITH UNBOUNDED COURAGE AND INDOMITABLE STRENGTH IN THE HEART. THEN ONLY WILL THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY BE ROUSED.

 

  

WIFI UNIVERSE

                                                  THE WIFI UNIVERSE!

      1. WHATEVER WE SEE, OR FEEL, OR DO, WHATEVER ACTION THERE IS ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE, WHILE BEING THE EFFEFCT OF PAST WORK ON THE ONE HAND, BECOMES, ON THE OTHER, A CAUSE IN ITS TURN, AND PRODUCES ITS OWN EFFECT.

     2. THE INFINITE DIVINITY IS UNMANIFESTED, IT WILL HAVETO BE MANIFESTED. THIS IS SPRIRITUALITY, THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL.

    3. THE PERSONALITY O THE MAN IS TWO THIRDS, AND HIS INTELLECT, HIS WORDS, ARE BUT ONE-THIRD. IT IS THE REAL MAN, THE PERSONALITY OF THE MAN, THEAT RUNS THROUGH US.

    4. ARISE, AWAKE AND DO NOT STOP UNTIL THE GOAL IS REACHED.

    5. THEREFORE, BEWARE OF EVERYTHING THAT TAKES AWAY YOUR FREEDOM. KNOW THAT IT IS DANGEROUS AND AVOID IT BY ALL THE MEANS IN YOUR POWER.

    6. MAN IS MISERABLE THIS MOMENT, HAPPY THE NEXT.

    7. THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS ONLY THE SELF WITH VARIATIONS, ONE TUNE MADE BEARABLE BY VARIATIONS. SOMETIMES THERE ARE DISCORDS, BUT THEY ONLY MAKE THE SUBSEQUENT HARMONY MORE PERFECT.

    8. DO NOT CRITICISE OTHERS, FOR ALL DOCTRINES AND ALL DOGMAS ARE GOOD, BUT SHOW THEM BY YOUR LIVES THAT RELIGION IS NO MATTER OF BOOKS AND BELIEFS, BUT OF SPIRITUAL REALISATION.

   9. EACH SOUL IS POTENTIALLY DIVINE. THE GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THIS DIVINITY WHITHIN BY CONTROLLING NATURE, EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL.

  10. THERE IS NO DISEASE NOR MISERY FOR THEE, BUT THOU ART LIKE THE INFINITE SKY, CLOUDS OF VARIOUS COLOURS COME OVER IT, PLAY FOR A MOMENT, THEN VANISH. BUT THE SKY IS EVER THE SAME ETERNAL BLUE.

   11. THE WHOLE LIFE IS A SUCCESSION FO DREAMS, MY AMBITION IS TO BE A CONSCIOUS DREAMER, THATS ALL.

   12. WE ARE ALLOWED TO WORSHIP HIM. WHOLE IN THAT REVERENT ATTITUDE TO THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, AND THEN WILL COME PERFECT NON ATTACHMENT.

   13. YOU CAN NOT BELIEVE IN GOD UNTIL YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

   14. THE MIND IS IN ITS OWN NATURE WHEN IT IS CALM. THE MOMENT YOU CAN CALM IT, THAT (VERY) MOMENT YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH.

   15. ARJUNA ASKS: WHO IS A PERSON OF ESTABLISHED WILL?

   16. STAND UP AND BE STRONG! NO FEAR. NO SUPERSTITION. FACE THE TRUTH AS IT IS!

   17. THERE IS ONLY ONE SIN. THAT IS WEAKNESS.

   18. WE MUST BE BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL, LONG FACES DO NOT MAKE RELIGION.

   19. YOUR BODY IS OF NO MORE VALUE THAN THAT OF JOHN.

   20. THE BUDDHISTS OR THE JAINS DO NOT DEPEND UPON GOD, BUT THE WHOLE FORCE OF THEIR RELIGION IS DIRECTED TO THE GREAT CENTRAL TRUTH IN EVERY RELIGION, TO EVOLVE OF GOD OUT OF MAN. THEY HAVE NOT SEEN THE FATHER, BUT THEY HAVE SEEN THE SON. AND HE THAT HATH SEEN THE SON HATH SEEN THE FATHER ALSO.

   

  

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

                                                             TRUTHS

       1. ALL THE WEAK AND UNDEVELOPED MINDS IN EVERY RELIGION OR COUNTRY HAVE ONLY ONE WAY OF LOVING THEIR OWN IDEAL, I.E. BY HATING EVERY OTHER IDEAL.

      2. THE WORLD IS READY TO GIVE UP ITS SECRETS IF WE ONLY KNOW HOW TO KNOCK, HOW TO GIVE IT THE NECESSARY BLOW. THE STRENGTH AND FORCE OF THE BLOW COME THROUGH CONCENTRATION. THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND. THE MORE CONCENTRATED IT IS, THE MORE POWER IS BROUGHT TO.

     3. THE END AND AIM OF ALL SCIENCE IS TO FIND THE UNITY, THE ONE OF WHICH MANIFOLD IS BEING MANUFACTURED, THAT ONE EXISTING AS MANY.

     4. YOU MUST EXERCISE YOUR OWN REASON AND JUDGMENT, YOU MUST PRACTICE, AND SEE WHETHER THESE THING HAPPEN OR NOT. JUST AS YOU WOULD TAKE UP ANY OTHER SCIENCE, EXACTLY IN THE SAME MANNER YOU SHOULD TAKE UP THIS SCIENCE FOR STUDY. THERE IS NEITHER MISTERY NOR DANGER IN IT. SO FAR AS IT IS TRUE, IT OUGHT TO BE PREACHED IN THE PUBLIC STREETS, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. ANY ATTEMPT TO MYSTIFY THESE THINGS IS PRODUCTIVE OF GREAT DANGER.

    5. EVERYTHING IS INFECTIOUS IN THIS WORLD, GOOD OR BAD.

    6. THE CAUSE BEING KNOW, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE EFFECTS IS SURE TO FOLLOW.

    7. OUR KNOWLEDGE IS WITHIN THE NETWORK OF MAYA (UNREALITY), AND BEYOND THAT IS FREEDOM. WITHIN THE NETWORK THERE IS SLAVERY, IT IS ALL UNDER LAW, BEYOND THAT THERE IS NO LAW. SO FAR AS THE UNIVERSE IS CONCERNED, EXISTENCE IS RULED BY LAW, AND BEYOND THAT IS FREEDOM.

    8. BODY IS THE NAME OF A SERIES OF CHANGES. AS IN A RIVER THE MASSES OF WATER ARE CHANGING BEFORE YOU EVERY MOMENT, AND NEW MASSES ARE COMING, YET TAKING SIMILAR FORM, SO IS IT WITH THIS BODY. YET THE BODY MUST BE KEPT STRONG AND HEALTHY. IT IS THE BEST INSTRUMENT WE HAVE.

    9. STRENGTH IS GOODNESS, WEAKNESS IS SIN.

   10. THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN GOD SHOULD PRAY NOT FOR MONEY, NOT FOR HEALTH, NOT FOR HEAVEN, PRAY FOR KNOWLEDGE AND LIGHT, EVERY OTHER PRAYER IS SELFISH.

   11. ALL UNHAPPINESS IS CAUSED BY OUR NOT HAVING MASTERY OVER THE BODY... WE ARE ALL PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE... TAKE THE SYSTEM OF WORK, FOR INSTANCE. WE ARE TRYING TO DO GOOD BY... COMFORTING THE POOR. WE DO NOT GET TO THE CAUSE WHICH CREATED THE MISERY. IT IS LIKE TAKING A BUCKET TO EMPTY OUT THE TIME. THE YOGI SEES THAT THIS IS NONSENSE. HE SAYS THAT THE WAY OUT OF MISERY IS TO KNOW THE CAUSE OF MISERY FIRST.

  12.FRIENDSHIP, MERCY, GLADNESS, AND INDIFFERENCE, BEING THOUGHT OF IN REGARD TO SUBJECTS, HAPPY, UNHAPPY, GOOD, AND EVIL RESPECTIVELY, PACIFY THE CHITTA. WE MUST HAVE THESE FOUR SORTS OF IDEAS. WE MUST HAVE FRIENDSHIP FOR ALL, WE MUST BE MERCIFUL TOWARDS THOSE THAT ARE IN MISERY, WHEN PEOPLE ARE HAPPY, WE OUGHT TO BE HAPPY, AND TO THE WICKED WE MUST BE INDIFFERENT.

  13. ARISE, AWAKE, STOP NOT TILL THE GOAL IS REACHED.

  14. INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PURIFICATION, CONTENTMENT, MORTIFICATION, STUDY, AND WORSHIP OF GOD ARE THE NIYAMAS.

  15. WHEN THIS SUSHUMNA CURRENT UPENS, AND BEGINS TO RISE, WE GET BEYOND THE SENSES, OUR MINDS BECOME SUPERSENSUOUS, SUPERCONSCIOUS- WE GET BEYOND EVEN THE INTELLECT.

  16. STAND ALONE! SEE THE GLORY OF YOUR OWN SOUL, AND SEE THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO WORK.

  17. TAKE UP ONE IDEA. MAKE THAT ONE IDEA YOUR LIFE- THINK OF IT, DREAM OF IT, LIVE ON THAT IDEA. LET THE BRAIN, MUSCLES, NERVES, EVERY PART OF YOUR BODY, BE FULL OF THAT IDEA, AND JUST LEAVE EVERY OTHER IDEA ALONE. THIS IS THE WAY TO SUCCESS.

   18. AWAKE, AWAKE, GREAT ONES! THE WORLD IS BURNING WITH MISERY. CAN YOU SLEEP?. 

   19. MISERY IS CAUSED BY IGNORANCE AND NOTHING ELSE.

   20. REASON CAN GO ONLY TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, BEYOND THAT IT CANNOT REACH. THE CIRCLE WITHIN WHICH IT RUNS IS VERY VERY LIMITED INDEED. YET AT THE SAME TIME, WE FIND FACTS RUSH INTO THIS CIRCLE. LIKE THE COMING OF COMETS CERTAIN THINGS COME INTO THIS CIRCLE, IT IS CERTAIN THEY COME FROM OUTSIDE THE LIMIT, ALTHOUGH OUR REASON CANNOT GO BEYOND.

 

   

THE BEGGAR AND THE STRANGER

                                                     THE REAL WEALTH

   

            A BEGGAR HAD BEEN SITTING BY THE SIDE OF A ROAD FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS. ONE DAY A STRANGER WALKED BY. "SPARE SOME CHANGE"?, MUMBLED THE BEGGAR, MECHANICALLY HOLDING OUT HIS OLD BASEBALL CAP. "I HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE YOU,", SAID THE STRANGER. THEN HE ASKED, " WHAT'S THAT YOU ARE SITTING ON "? NOTHING, REPLIED THE BEGGAR, "JUST AS OLD BOX", I HAVE BEEN SITTING ON IT FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER," EVER LOOKED INSIDE? ASKED THE STRANGER, " NO " SAID THE BEGGAR, WHAT"S THE POINT? THERE'S NOTHING IN THERE, " HAVE A LOOK INSIDE", INSISTED THE STRANGER. THE BEGGAR MANAGED TO PRY OPEN THE LID. WITH ASTONISHMENT, DISBELIEF, AND ELATION, HE SAW THA THE BOX WAS FILLEW WITH GOLD.

            I AM THAT STRANGER WHO HAS NOTHING TO GIVE YOU AND WHO IT TELLING YOU TO LOOK INSIDE. NOT INSIDE ANY BOX, AS IN THE PARABLE, BUT SOMEWHERE EVEN CLOSER: INSIDE YOURSELF.

           BUT I AM NOT A BEGGAR, " I CAN HEAR YOU SAY.

           THOSE WHO HAVE NOT FOUND THEIR TRUE WEALTH, WHICH IS THE RADIANT JOY OF BEING AND THE DEEP, UNSHAKABLE PEACE THAT COMES WITH IT, ARE BEGGARS, EVEN ID THEY HAVE GREAT MATERIAL WEALTH. THEY ARE LOOKING OUTSIDE FOR SCRAPS OF PLEASURE OF FULFILLMENT, FOR VALIDATION, SECURITY, OR LOVE, WHILE THEY HAVE A TREASURE WITHIN THAT NOT ONLY INCLUDED ALL THOSE THINGS BUT IS INFINITELY GREATER THAN ANYTHING THE WORLD CAN OFFER. 

          THE WORD ENLIGHTENMENT CONJUIRES UP THE IDEA OF SOME SUPERHUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND THE EGO LIKES TO KEEP IT THAT WAY, BUT IT IS SIMPLY YOUR NATURE STATE OF FELT ONENESS WITH BEING. IT IS A STATE OF CONNECTENESS WITH SOMETHING IMMEASURABLE AND INDESTRUCTIBLE, SOMETHING THAT, ALMOST PARADOXICALLY, IS ESSENTIALLY YOU AND YET IS MUCH GREATER THAN YOU. IT IS FINDING YOUR TRUE NATURE BEYOND NAME AND FORM.  THE INABILITY TO FEEL THIS CONNECTEDNESS GIVES RISE TO THE ILLUSION OF SEPARATION, FROM YOURSELF AND FROM THE WORLD AROUND YOU. YOU THEN PERCIEVE YOURSELF, CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY, AS AN ISOLATED FRAGMENT. FEAR ARISES, AND CONFLICT WITHIN AND WITHOUT BECOMES THE NORM.

           I LOVE THE BUDDHA'S SIMPLE SIMPLE DEFINITION OF ENLIGHTENMENT AS "THE END OF SUFFERING", THERE IS NOTHING SUPERHUMAN IN THAT, IS THERE? OF COURSE, AS A DEFINITION, IT IS INCOMPLETE. IT ONLY TELLS YOU WHAT ENLIGHTENMENT IS NOT: NO SUFFERING. BUT WHAT'S LEFT WHEN THEREIS NO MORE SUFFERING? THE BUDDHA IS SILENT ON THAT, AND HIS SILENCE IMPLIES THAT YOU'LL HAVE TO FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF. HE USES A NEGATIVE DEFINITION SO THAT THE MIND CANNOT MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN OR INTO A  SUPERHUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENT, A GOAL THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO ATTAIN. DESPITE THIS PRECAUTION, THE MAJORITY OF BUDDHISTS STILL BELIEVE THAT ENLIGHTENMENT IS FOR THE BUDDHA, NOT FOR THEM, AT LEAST NOT IN THIS LIFETIME.

EXPLAIN TO AVOID ARGUMENTS

                                                  EXPLANATIONS POWER

        IS IT NOT QUITE EVIDENT THAT THE SPEAKER WHO ARGUES WITH HIS AUDIENCE IS MERELY AROUSING THEIR STUBBORNNESS, PUTTING THEM ON THE DEFENSIVE, MAKING IT WELL NIGH IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS? IS IT WISE TO START BY SAYING, " I AM GOING TO PROVE SO AND SO ?" AREN'T YOURS HEARERS LIABLE TO ACCEPT THAT AS A CHALLENGE AND REMARK SILENTLY, "LETS SEE YOU DO IT".

         IS IT NOT MUCH MORE ADVANTAGEOUS TO BEGIN BY STRESSING SOMETHING THAT YOU AND ALL OF YOUR HEARERS BELIEVE, AND THEN TO RAISE SOME PERTINENT QUESTION THAT EVERYONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANSWERED? THEN TAKE YOUR AUDIENCE WITH YOU IN AN EARNEST SEARCH FOR THE ANSWER. WHILE ON THAT SEARCH, PRESENT THE FACTS AS YOU SEE THEM SO CLEALY THAT THEY WILL UNCONSCIOUSLY BE LED TO ACCEPT YOUR CONCLUSIONS AS THEIR OWN. THEY WILL HAVE MUCH MORE FAITH IN SOME TRUTH THAT THEY BELIEVE THEY HAVE DISCOVERED FOR THEMSELVES. THE BEST ARGUMENT IS THAT WHICH SEEMS MERELY AN EXPLANATION.

         IN EVERY CONSTROVERSY, NO MATTER HOW WIDE AND BITTER THE DIFFERENCES, THERE IS ALWAYS SOME COMMAN GROUND OF AGREEMENT ON WHICH THE SPEAKER CAN INVITE EVERYONE TO ASSEMBLE FOR THE SEARCH AFTER FACTS THAT HE IS GOING TO CONDUCT. TO ILLUSTRATE, EVEN IF THE HEAD OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY WERE ADDRESSING A CONVENTION OF THE BANKERS ASSOCIATION, HE COULD FIND SOME MUTUAL BELIEFS, SOME ANALOGOUS DESIRES TO SHARE WITH HIS HEARERS. COULDN'T HE? LET US SEE:

       POVERTY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ONE OF THE CRUEL PROBLEMS OF HUMAN SOCIETY. WE HAVE ALWAYS FELT IT OUR DUTY TO ALLEVIATE, WHENEVER AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE, THE SUFFERINGS OF THE POOR. WE AE A GENEROUS NATION. NO OTHER PEOPLE IN ALL HISTORY HAVE POURED OUT THEIR WEALTH SO PRODIGALLY, SO UNSELFISHLY TO HELP THE UNFORTUNATE, NOW, WITH THIS SAME MENTAL GENEROSITY AND SPIRITUAL UNSELFISHNESS THAT HAS CHARACTERIZED OUR GIVINGS IN THE PAST, LET US EXAMINE TOGETHER THE FACTS OF OUR INDUSTRIAL LIFE AND SEE IF WE CAN FIND SOME MEANS, OUR INDUSTRIAL LIFE AND JUST AND ACCEPTANCE TO ALL, THAT WILL TEND TO PREVENT AS WELL AS TO MITIGATE THE EVILS OF POVERTY.

         WHO COULD OBJECT TO THAT? COULD FATHER COUGHLIN, OR NORMAN THOMAS, OR J. PIERPONT MORGAN? HARDLY.

          DO WE SEEM TO BE CONTRADICTING HERE THE GOSPEL OF FORCE AND ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM? HARDLY, HERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING, BUT THE TIME FOR FORCE IS SELDOM IN THE BEGINNING OF A TALK. TACT IS MORE LIKELY TO BE NEEDED THEN.

THE POINTS YOU HAVE TO KNOW

                                                      KNOW THE FACT

  

           1. WHAT A MAN "LEARNS" IS REALLY WHAT HE DISCOVERS, BY TALKING THE COVER OFF HIS OWN SOUL, WHICH IS A MINE OF INFINITE KNOWLEDGE.

           2. MOST OF US MAKE OUR MINDS LIKE SPOILT CHILDREN, ALLOWING THEM TO DO WHATEVER THEY WAN. THEREFORE IT IS NECESSARY THAT KRIYA-YOGA SHOULD BE CONSTANTLY PRACTISED, IN ORDER TO GAIN CONTROL OF THE MIND, AND BRING IT INTO SUBJECTION. THE OBSTRUCTIONS TO YOGA ARISE FROM LACK OF CONTROL, AND CAUSE US PAIN. THEY CAN ONLY BE REMOVED BY DENYING THE MIND, AND HOLDING IT IN CHECK, THROUGH THE MEANS OF KRIYA-YOGA.

         3. INDIA IS AT ONE WITH THE MOST PURITAN FAITHS OF THE WORLD IN HER DECLARATION THAT PROGRESS IS FROM SEEN TO UNSEEN FROM THE MANY TO THE ONE, FROM THE LOW TO THE HIGH FROM THE FORM TO THE FORMLESS, AND NEVER IN THE REVERSE DIRECTION. SHE DIFFERS ONLY IN HAVING A WORD OF SYMPATHY.

       4. EVEN AS THE LION NOT TREMBLING AT NOISES, EVEN AS THE WIND, NOT CAUGHT IN A NET, EVEN AS THE LOTUS-LEAF, UNTOUCHED BY THE WATER-SO DO THOU WANDER ALONE LIKE THE RHINOCEROS!

      5. ANYTHING THAT IS SECRET AND MYSTERIOUS IN THESE SYSTEMS OF YOGA SHOULD BE AT ONCE REJECTED. THE BEST GUIDE IN LIFE IS STRENGTH. IN RELIGION, AS IN ALL OTHER MATTERS, DISCARD EVERYTHING THAT WEAKNESS YOU, HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

     6. WHEN YOU STEP BEYOND THOUGHT AND INTELLECT AND ALL REASONING, THEN YOU HAVE MADE THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS GOD, AND THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF LIFE.

    7. THAT WHICH THE IGNORANT DO WITH DESIRE FOR RESULTS AND GAIN, LET THE WISE DO WITHOUT ANY DESIRE FOR RESULTS AND GAIN.

    8. IF HE DOES NOT DESIRE ANY HAPPINESS, IF HE IS FREE OF ALL (ATTACHMENT) OF ALL FEAR, OF ALL ANGER.

   9. AS THE TORTOISE CAN DRAW IN HIS LEGS, AND IF YOU STRIKE HIM, NOT ONE FOOT COMES OUT.

   10. THEN YOU WILL BECOME A MAN OF FIRM WILL.

   11. FREEDOM IS THE FIRST CONDITION OF GROWTH. WHAT YOU DO NOT MAKE FREE, WILL NEVER GROW.

  12. THE ORGANS ARE THE HORSES, THE MIND IS THE REIN, THE INTELLECT IS THE CHARIOTEER, THE SOUL IS THE RIDER, AND THE BODY IS THE CHARIOT. THE MASTER OF THE HOUSEHOLD THE KING, THE SELF OF MAN, IS SITTING IN THIS CHARIOT.

  13. RITUALS ARE THE KINDERGARTEN OF RELIGION. THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR THE WORLD AS IT IS NOW, ONLY WE SHALL HAVE TO GIVE PEOPLE NEWER AND FRESH RITUALS. A PARTY OF THINKERS MUST UNDERTAKE TO DO THIS. OLD RITUALS MUST BE REJECTED AND NEW ONES SUBSTITUED.

  14. THERE IS NOTHING, HOLIER IN THE WORLD THAN TO KEEP GOOD COMPANY. BECAUSE THAN TO KEEP GOOD IMPRESSIONS WILL THEN TEND TO COME TO THE SURFACE.

  15. THIS HUMAN BODY IS THE GREATEST BODY IN THE INIVERSE, AND A HUMAN BEING THE GREATEST BEING. MAN IS HIGHER THAN ALL ANIMALS, THAN ALL ANGELS, NONE IS GREATER THAN MAN. EVEN THE DEVAS (GODS) WILL HAVE TO COME DOWN AGAIN AND ATTAIN TO SALVATION THROUGH A HUMAN BODY. MAN ALONE ATTAINS TO PERFECTION, NOT EVEN THE DEVAS.

LIFE CHANGING POINTS

                                             HOW TO IMPROVE OUR LIFE

       1. AS ALL THE RIVERS OF THE WORLD CONSTANLY POUR THEIR WATERS INTO THE OCEAN, BUT THE OCEAN'S GRAND, MAJESTIC NATURE REMAINS INDISTURBED AND UNCHANGED.

      2. GOD IS TO BE WORSHIPPED AS THE ONE BELOVED, DEARER THAN EVERYTHING IN THIS AND NEXT LIFE.

     3. AS DIFFERENT STREAMS HAVING DIFFERENT SOURCES ALL MINGLE THEIR WATERS IN THE SEA, SO DIFFERENT TENDENCIES, VARIOUS THOUGH THEY APPEAR, CROOKED OR STRAIGHT ALL LEAD TO GOD.

    4. BE NOT AFRAID, FOR ALL GREAT POWER THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY HAS BEEN WITH THE PEOPLE. FROM OUT OF THEIR RANKS HAVE COME ALL THE GREATEST GENIUS OF THE WORLD, AND HISTORY CAN ONLY REPEAT ITSELF. BE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING. YOU WILL DO MARVELOUS WORK.

   5. NEVER THINK THERE IS ANYTHING IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE SOUL. IT IS THE GREATEST HERESY TO THINK SO. IF THERE IS SIN, THIS IS THE ONLY SIN, TO SAY THAT YOU ARE WEAK, OR OTHERS ARE WEAK.

  6. ANYTHING THAT BRINGS SPIRITUAL, MENTAL, OR PHYSICAL WEAKNESS, TOUCH IT NOT WITH THE TOES OF YOUR FEET.

  7. WHEN AND IDEA EXCLUSIVE OCCUPIES THE MIND, IT IS TRANFORMED INTO AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL OR MENTAL STATE.

  8. ABOVE ALL, BEWARE OF COMPROMISES. I DO NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE TO GET INTO ANTAGONISM WITH ANYBODY, BUT YOU HAVE TO HOLD ON TO YOUR OWN PRINCIPLES IN WEAL OR WOE AND NEVER ADJUST THEM TO OTHERS, FADS, THOUGHT THE GREED OF GETTING SUPPORTERS. YOUR ATMAN IS THE SUPPORT OF THE UNIVERSE-WHOSE SUPPORT DO YOU STAND IN NEED OFF?

  9. RELIGION IS BEING AND BECOMING. RELIGION IS THE MANIFESTATION OF THE DIVINITY ALREADY IN MAN.

  10. EACH SOUL IS POTENTIALLY DIVINE. THE GOAL IS TO MANIFEST THIS DIVINITY WITHIN BY CONTOLLING NATURE, EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL. DO THIS EITHER BY WORK, OR WORKSHIP, OR PSYCHIC COTROL, OR PHILOSOPHY-BY ONE, OR MORE OR ALL OF THESE- AND BE FREE. THIS IS THE WHOLE OF RELIGION. DOCTRINES, OR DOGMAS, OR RITUALS, OR BOOKS, OR TEMPLES, OR FORMS, ARE BUT SECONDARY DETAILS.

   11. WHAT RIGHT HAS A MAN TO SAY HE HAS A SOUL IF HE DOES NOT FEEL IT, OR THAT THERE IS A GOD IF HE DOES NOT SEE HIM? IF THERE IS A GOD WE MUST SEE HIM, IF THERE IS A SOUL WE MUST PERCIEVE IT, OTHERWISE IT IS BETTER NOT TO BELIEVE. IT IS BETTER TO BE AN OUTSPOKEN ATHEIST THAN A HYPOCRITE.

  12. WHOSOEVER, THEREFORE ASKS ANY ONE TO BELIEVE BLINDLY, OR DRAGS PEOPLE BEHIND HIM BY THE CONTROLLING POWER OF HIS SUPERIOR WILL, DOES AN INJURY TO HUMANITY, THOUGH THE MAY NOT INTEND IT.

  13. IT IS BETTER NOT TO LOVE, IF LOVING ONLY MEANS HATING OTHERS. THAT IS NO LOVE. THAT IS HELL! IF LOVING YOUR OWN PEOPLE MEANS HATING EVERYBODY ELSE, IT IS THE QUINTESSENCE OF SELFISHNESS AND BRUTALITY, AND THE EFFECT IS THAT IT WILL MAKE YOU BRUTES. THEREFORE, BETTER DIE WORKING OUT YOUR OWN NATURAL RELIGION THAN FOLLOWING ANOTHER'S NATURAL RELIGION, HOWEVER GREAT IT MAY APPEAR TO YOU.

BODY TO MIND

                           BODY'S REACTION WHEN MINDS WORK

WHAT ABOUT EMOTIONS? I GET CAUGHT IN MY EMOTIONS MORE THAN I DO IN MY MIND.

          MIND, IN THE WAY I USE THE WORD, IS NOT JUST THOUGHT. IT INCLUDES YOUR EMOTIONS AS WELL AS ALL UNCONSCIOUS MENTAL-EMOTIONAL REACTIVE PATTERNS. EMOTION ARISES AT THE PLACE WHERE MIND AND BODY MEET. IT IS THE BODY'S REACTION TO YOUR MIND-OR YOU MIGHT SAY, A REFLECTION OF YOUR MIND IN THE BODY. FOR EXAMPLE, AN ATTACK THOUGHT OR A HOSTILE THOUGHT WILL CREATEA BUIL-UP OF ENERGY, IN THE BODY THAT WE CALL ANGER. THE BODY IS GETTING READY TO FIGHT. THE THOUGHT THAT YOU ARE BEING THREATENED, PHYSICALLY OR PSYCHOLOGICALLY, CAUSES THE BODY TO CONTRACT, AND THIS IS THE PHYSICAL SIDE OF WHAT WE CALL FEAR. RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT STRONG EMOTIONS EVEN CAUSE CHANGES IN THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE BODY. THESE BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES REPRESENT IN THE PHYSICAL OR MATERIAL ASPECT OF THE EMOTIONS. OF COURSE, YOU ARE NOT USUALLY CONSCIOUS OF ALL YOUR THOUGHT PATTERNS, AND IT IS OFTEN ONLY THROUGH WATCHING YOUR EMOTIONS THAT YOU CAN BRING THEM INTO AWARENESS.

        THE MORE YOU ARE IDENTIFIED WITH YOUR THINKING, YOUR LIKES AND DISLIKES, JUEGEMENTS AND INTERPRETATIONS, WHICH IS TO SAY THE LESSPRESENT YOU ARE AS THE WATCHING CONSCIOUSNESS, THE STRONGER THE EMOTIONAL ENERGY CHARGE WILL BE, WHETHER YOU ARE AWARE OF IT OR NOT. IF YOU CANNOT FEEL YOUR EMOTIONS, IF YOU ARE CUT OFF FROM THEM, YOU WILL EVENTUALLY EXPERIENCE THEM OR PURELY PHYSICAL LEVEL, AS A PHYSICAL PROBLEM OR SYMPTOM. A GREAT DEAL HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THIS IN RECENT YEARS, SO WE DON'T NEED TO GO INTO IT HERE. A STRONG UNCONSCIOUS EMOTIONAL PATTERN MAY EVEN MANIFEST AS AN EXTERNAL EVENT THAT APPEAR TO JUST HAPPEN TO YOU. FOR EXAMPLE, I HAVE OBSERVED THAT PEOPLE WHO CARRY A LOT OF ANGER INSIDE WITHOUT BEING AWARE IF IT AND WITHOUT EXPRESSING IT ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE ATTACKED, VERBALLY OR EVEN PHYSICALLY, BY OTHER ANGRY PEOPLE AND OFTEN FOR NO APPARENT REASON. THEY HAVE A STRONG EMANATION OF ANGER THAT CERTAIN PEOPLE PICK UP SUBLIMINALLY AND THAT TRIGGERS THEIR OWN LATENT ANGER.

          IF YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY FEELING YOUR EMOTIONS, START BY FOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE INNER ENERGY FIELD OF YOUR BODY. FEEL THE BODY FROM WITHIN. THIS WILL ALSO PUT YOU IN TOUCH WITH YOUR EMOTIONS. WE WILL EXPLORE THIS IN MORE DETAIL LATER.

WHAT IS EGO

                                                             EGO'S SEARCH

      ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE EMOTIONAL PAIN IS AN INTRINSIC PART OF THE EGOIC MIND IS A DEEP-SEATED SENSE OF LACK OR INCPMPLETENESS, OF NOT BEING WHOLE. IN SOME PEOPLE, THIS IS CONSCIOUS, IN OTHERS INCONSCIOUS. IF IT IS CONSCIOUS. IT MANIFESTS AS THE UNSETTLING AND CONSTANT FEELING OF NOT BEING WORTHY OR GOOD ENOUGH. IF IT IS UNCONSCIOUS, IT WILL ONLY BE FELT INDIRCTLY AS AS INTENSE CRAVING, WANTING AND NEEDING. IN EITHER CASE, PEOPLE WILL OFTEN ENTER INT A COMPULSIVE PURSUIT OF EGO-GRATICATION AND THINGS TO IDENTIFY WITH IN ORDER TO FILL  THIS HOLE THEY FEEL WITHIN. SO THEY STIVE AFTER POSSESIONS, MONEY, SUCCESS, POWER, REGOGNITION, OR A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, BASICALLY SO THAT THEY FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES, FEEL MORE COMPLETE, BUT EVEN WHEN THEY ATTAIN ALL THESE THINGS, THEY SOON FIND THAT THE HOLES IS STILL THERE, THAT IT IS BOTTOMLESS. THEN THEY ARE REALLY IN TROUBLE, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT DELUDE THEMSELVES ANYMORE. WELL, THEY CAN AND DO, BUT IT GETS MORE DIFFICULT.

     AS LONG AS THE EGOIC MIND IS RUNNING YOUR LIFE, YOU CANNOT TRULY BE AT EASE, YOU CANNOT BE AT PEACE OR FULFILLED EXCEPT FOR BRIEF INTERVALS WHEN YOU OBTAINED WHAT YOU WANTED, WHEN A CRAVING HAS JUST BEEN FULFILLED. SINCE THE EGO IS A DERIVED SENSE OF SELF, IT NEEDS TO IDENTIFY WITH EXTERENAL THINGS. IT NEEDS TO BE BOTH DEFENDED AND FED CONSTANSLY. THE MOST COMMON EGO IDENTIFICATION HAVE TO DO WITH POSSSESIONS, THE WORK YOU DO, SOCIAL STATUS AND RECOGNISATION, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, SPECIAL ABILITIES, RELATIONSHIPS, PERSONAL AND FAMILY HISTORY, BELIEF SYSTEMS, AND OFTEN ALSO POLITICAL, NATIONALISTIC, RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, AND OTHER COLLECTIVE IDENFICATIONS. NONE OF THESE IS YOU.

       DO YOU FIND THIS FRIGHTENING? OR IS IT A RELIEF TO KNOW THIS? ALL OF THESE THINGS YOU WILL HAVE TO RELINQUISH SOONER OR LATER. PERHAPS YOU FIND IT AS YET HARD TO BELIEVE, AND I AM CERTAINLY NOT ASKING YOU TO BELIEVE THAT YOUR IDENTIFY CANNOT BE FOUND IN ANY OF THOSE THINGS. YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH OF IT FOR YOURSELF. YOU WILL KNOW IT AT THE LATEST WHEN YOU FEEL DEATH APPROACHING. DEATH IS A STRIPPING AWAY OF ALL THAT IS NOT YOU. THE SECRET OF LIFE IS TO "DIE BEFORE YOU DIE"-AND FIND THAT THERE IS NO DEATH.

LIFE CHANGING POINTS

                                                     MORNING MELODIES....

    1. IF YOU WANT TO BE RELIGIOUS, ENTER NOT THE GATE OF ANY ORGANISED RELIGIONS. THEY DO A HUNDRED TIMES MORE EVIL THAN GOOD, BECAUSE THEY STOP THE GROWTH OF EACH ONE'S INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT.

   2. IT IS A VERY HARD THING TO UNDERSTAND, BUT YOU WILL COME TO LEARN IN TIME THAT NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE HAS POWER OVER YOU UNTIL YOU ALLOW IT TO EXERCISE SUCH A POWER.

   3. BELIEVE NOT BECAUSE SOME OLD MANUSCRIPTS ARE PRODUCED, BELIEVE NOT BECAUSE IT IS YOUR NATIONAL BELIEF, BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN MADE TO BELIEVE IT FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD, BUT REASON IT ALL OUT, AND AFTER YOU HAVE ANALYSED IT, THEN , IF YOU FIND THAT IT WILL DO GOOD TO ONE AND ALL, BELIEVE IT, LIVE UP TO IT, AND HELP OTHERS TO LIVE UP TO IT.

 4. HE DOES NOT NEED ANYTHING. HE DOES NOT WANT ANYTHING.

 5. TO THOSE WHO ARE FULL OF TARMAS, IGNORANT AND DULL- THOSE WHOSE MINDS NEVER GET FIXED ON ANY IDEA, WHO ONLY CRAVE FOR SOMETHING TO AMUSE THEM RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY ARE SIMPLY OBJECTS OF ENTERTAINMENT, THESE ARE THE UNPERSVERING. THEY HEAR A TALK, THINK IT VERY NICE AND THEN GO HOME AND FORGET ALL ABOUT IT. TO SUCCEED, YOU MUST HAVE TREMENDOUS PERSEVERANCE, TREMENDOUS WILL. I WILL DRINK THE OCEAN, SAYS THE PERSEVERING SOUL, AT MY WILL MOUNTAINS WILL CRUMBLE UP. HAVE THAT SORT OF ENERGY THAT SORT OF WILL, WORK HARD, AND YOU WILL REACH THE GOAL.

 6. THE HIGHEST MANIFESTATION OF STRENGTH IS TO KEEP OURSELVES CALM AND ON OUR OWN FEET.

 7. A PERFECT LIFE IS A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS. LIFE ITSELF IS A STATE OF CONTINUOUS STRUGGLE BETWEEN OURSELVES AND EVERYTHING OUTSIDE. EVERY MOMENT WE ARE FIGHTING ACTUALLY WITH ETERNAL NATURE, AND IF WE ARE DEFEATED, OUR LIFE HAS TO GO.

 8. IN ENJOYMENT IS THE FEAR OF DESEASE, IN HIGH BIRTH, THE FEAR OF LOSING CASTE, IN THE FEAR OF LOSING IT, IN STREGTH THE FEAR AGE IN KNOWLEDGE THE FEAROF DEFEAT, IN VIRTUE THE FEAR OF SCANDAL IN THE BODY THE FEAR OF DEATH. IN THIS LIFE ALL IS FRAUGHT WITH FEAR. REUNCIATION ALONE IS FEARLESS.

 9. LEAVE UPON IT DIFFERENT PICTURES, AND THE RESULT OF THESE COMBINED IMPRESSIONS IS WHAT IS CALLED MAN'S CHARACTER. IF YOU TAKE THE CHARACTER OF ANY MAN IT REALLY IS BUT THE AGGREGATE OF TENDENCIES, THE SUM- TOTAL OF THE BENT OF HIS MIND, YOU WILL FIND THAT MISERY AND HAPPINESS ARE EQUAL FACTORS IN THE FORMATION.

 10. ALL THIS BRINGING OF THE MIND INTO A HIGHER STATE OF VIBRATION IS INCLUDED IN ONE WORDS IN YOGA- SAMADHI.

 11. THE SELFLESS AND UNATTACHED MAN MAY LIVE IN THE VERY HEART OF A CROWDED AND SINFYL CITY, HE WILL NOT BE TOUCHED BY SIN.

 12. THE HINDUS BELIEVES THAT EVERY SOUL IS A CIRCLE WHOSE CIRCUMFERENCE IS NOWHERE, BUT WHOSE CENTRE IS LOCATED IN THE BODY, AND THAT DEATH MEANS THE CHANGE OF THIS CENTRE FROM BODY TO BODY.

 13. IT IS ONLY THE CONTEMPLATIVE, WITNESS LIKE STUDY OF OBJECTS THAT BRINGS TO US REAL ENJOYMENT AND HAPPINESS. THE ANIMAL HAS ITS HAPPINESS IN THE SENSES, THA MAN IN HIS INTELECT, AND THE GOD IN SPIRITUAL CONTEMPLATION. IT IS ONLY TO THE SOUL THAT HAS ATTAINED TO THIS CONTEMPLATIVE STATE THAT THE WORLD REALLY BECOMES BEAUTIFUL. TO HIM WHO DESIRES NOTHING, AND DOES NOT MIX HIMSELF UP WITH THEM, THE MANIFOLD CHANGES OF NATURE ARE ONE PANORAMA OF BEAUTY AND SUBLIMITY.

       14. THE YOGI TEACHES THAT THE MIND ITSELF HAS A HIGHER STATE OF EXISTENCE, BEYONG REASON, A SUPERCONSCIOUS STATE, AND WHEN THE MIND GETS TO THAT HIGHER STATE, THEN THIS KNOWLEDGE, BEYOND REASONING, COMES TO MAN. METAPHYSICAL AND TRANSCENDENTAL KNOWLEDGE COMES TO THAT MA.

      15. HOLD THE IDEAL A THOUSAND TIMES, AND IF YOU FAIL A THOUSAND TIMES, MAKE THE ATTEMPT ONCE MORE. THERE IS INFINITE LIFE BEFORE THE SOUL. TAKE YOUR TIME AND YOU WILL ACHIEVE YOUR END.

     16. MERCY SHALL NOT BE FOR MEN ALONE, BUT SHALL GO BEYOND, AND EMBRACE THE WHOLE WORLD.

     17. MOST OF OUR DIFFICULTIES IN OUR DAILY LIVES COME FROM BEING UNABLE TO HOLD OUR MINDS IN THIS WAY. FOR INSTANCE, IF A MAN DOES EVIL TO US, INSTANTLY WE WANT TO REACT EVIL, AND EVERY REACTION OF EVIL SHOWS THAT WE ARE NOT ABLE TO HOLD THE CHITTA DOWN, IT COMES OUT IN WAVES TOWARDS THE OBJECT AND WE LOSE OUR POWER.

     

 

MIND AND YOU

                                  FREEING YOURSELF FROM YOUR MIND

     WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY WATCHING THE THINKER?

    WHEN SOMEONE GOES TO THE DOCTOR AND SAYS, I HEAR VOICE IN MY HEAD, HE OR SHE WILL MOST LIKELY BE SENT TO A PSYCHIATRIST. THE FACT IS THAT, IN A VERY SIMILAR WAY, VIRTUALLY EVERONE HEARS A VOICE, OR SEVERAL VOICES, IN THEIR HEAD ALL THE TIME. THE INVOLUNTARY THOUGHT PROCESSES THAT YOU DON'T REALIZE YOU HAVE THE POWER TO STOP. CONTINUOUS MONOLOGUES OR DIALOGUES.

       YOU HAVE PROBABLY COME ACROSS " MAD" PEOPLE IN THE STREET INCESANTLY TALKING OR MUTTERING TO THEMSELVES. WELL THAT'S NOT MUCH DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU AND ALL OTHER "NORMAL" PEOPLE DO, EXCEPT YOU DON'T DO IT OUT LOUD. THE VOICE COMMENTS, SPECULATES, JUDGES, COMPARES, COMPLAINS, LIKES, DISLIKES, AND SO ON. THE VOICE ISN'T NECESSARILY RELEVANT TO THE SITUATION YOU FIND YOURSELF IN AT THE TIME, IT MAY BE REVIVING THE RECENT OR DISTANT PASTOR REHEARSING OR IMAGINING POSSIBLE FUTURE SITUATIONS. HERE IT OFTEN IMAGINES THINGS GOING WRONG AND NEGATIVE OUTCOMES. THIS IS CALLED WORRY. SOMETINES THIS SOUNDTRACK IS ACCOMPANIED BY VISUAL IMAGES OR "MENTAL MOVIES"

CONSCIOUS DEATH

                                                   MEANING OF DEATH

   

    APART FROM DREAMLESS SLEEP, WHICH I MENTIONED ALREADY, THERE IS ONE OTHER INVOLUNTARY PORTAL. IT OPENS UP BRIEFLY AT THE TIME OF PHYSICAL DEATH. EVEN IF YOU HAVE MISSED ALL THE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR SPIRITUAL REALIZATION DURING YOUR LIFETIME, ONE LAST PORTAL WILL OPEN UP FOR YOU IMMEDIATLY AFTER THE BODY HAS DIED.

     THERE ARE COUNTLESS ACCOUNTS BY PEOPLE WHO HAD A VISUAL IMPRESION OF THIS PORTAL AS RADIANT LIGHT AND THEN RETURNED FROM WHAT IS COMMONLY KNOWN AS A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE. MANY OF THEM ALSO SPOKE OF A SENSE OF BLISSFUL SERENITY AND DEEP PEACE. IN THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, IT IS DESCRIBE AS " THE LUMINOUS SPLENDOR OF THE COLORLESS LIGHT OF EMPTINESS". WHICH IT SAYS IT " YOUR OWN TRUE SELF". THIS PORTAL OPENS UP ONLY VERY BRIEFLY, AND UNLESS YOU HAVE ALREADY ENCOURATERED THE DIMENSION OF THE UNMANIFESTED IN YOUR LIFETIME, YOU WILL LIKELY MISS IT. MOST PEOPLE CARRY TOO MUCH RESIDUAL RESISTANCE, TOO MUCH FEAR, TOO MUCH ATTACHMENT TO SENSORY EXPERIENCE, TOO MUCH FEAR, TOO MUCH ATTACHMENT TO SENSORY EXPERIENCE, TOO MUCH IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MANIFESTED WORLD. SO THEY SEE THE PORTAL, TURN AWAY IN FEAR, AND THEN LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS. MOST OF WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT IS INVOLUNTARY AND AUTOMATIC. EVENTUALLY, THERE WILL BE ANOTHER ROUND OF BIRTH AND DEATH. THEIR PRESENCE WASN'T STRONG ENOUGH YET FOR CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY.

MOTIVATIONAL POINTS

                                                    GOOD THOUGHTS

   

    1. THE WHOLE LIFE IS A SUCCESSION OF DREAMS, MY AMBITION IS TO BE A CONSCIOUS DREAMER, THATS ALL.

    2. WE ARE ALLOWED TO WORKSHIP HIM. STAND IN THAT REVERENT ATTITUDE TO THE WHOLE UNIVERSE, AND THEN WILL COME PERFECT NON ATTACHMENT.

   3. YOU CAN NOT BELIEVE IN GOD UNTIL YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

   4. GIVE UP THE IDEA THAT BY RULING OVER OTHERS YOU CAN DO ANY GOOD TO THEM. BUT YOU CAN DO JUST AS MUCH AS YOU CAN IN THE CASE OF THE PLANT. YOU CAN SUPPLY THE GROWING SEED WITH THE MATERIALS FOR THE MAKING UP OF ITS BODY, BRINGING TO IT THE EARTH, THE WATER, THE AIR, THAT IT WANTS. IT WILL TAKE ALL THAT IT WANTS BY ITS OWN NATURE, IT WILL ASSIMILATE AND GROW BY ITS OWN NATURE.

  5. SHRI RAMAKRISHNA USE TO SAY, "AS LONG AS I LIVE, SO LONG DO I LEARN, THAT MAN OR THAT SOCIETY WHICH HAS NOTHING TO LEARN IS ALREADY IN THE JAWS OF DEATH".

  6. BE STRONG! YOU TALK OF GHOSTS AND DEVILS. WE ARE THE LIVING DEVILS. THE SIGN OF LIFE IS STRENGTH AND GROWTH. THE SIGN OF DEATH IS WEAKNESS. WHATEVER IS WEAK, AVOID! IT IS DEATH. IF IT IS STRENGTH, GO DOWN INTO HELL AND GET HOLD OF IT! THERE IS SALVATION ONLY FOR THE BRAVE. NONE BUT THE BRAVE DESERVES THE FAIR." NONE BUT THE BRAVEST DESERVES SALVATION.

 7. WHERE CAN WE GO TO FIND GOD IF WE CANNOT SEE HIM IN OUR OWN HEARTS AND IN EVERY LIVING BEING.

 8. THERE IS NO LIMITS TO THE POWER OF THE HUMAN MIND. THE MORE CONCENTRATED IT IS THE MORE POWER IS BROUGHT TO BEAR ON ONE POINT.

 9. THE CHEERFUL MIND PERSEVERES AND THE STRONG MIND HEWS ITS WAY THROUGH A THOUSAN DIFFICULTIES.

 10. YOU MUST WORKSHIP THE SELF IN KRISHNA NOT KRISHNA  AS KRISHNA.

  11. ALL KNOWLEDGE THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER RECEIVED COMES FROM THE MIND, THE INFINITE LIBERARY OF THE UNIVERSE IS IN OUR OWN MIND.

  12. GIVE A MENTAL ASSENT TO THE CUSTOMS OF THEIR FOREFATHERS.

  13. OH IF ONLY YOU KNEW YOURSELVES! YOU ARE SOULS, YOU ARE GODS. IF EVER I FEEL LIKE BLASPHEMING IT, IS WHEN I CALL YOU MAN.

  14. IF YOU CANNOT ATTAIN SALVATION IN THIS LIFE, WHAT PROOF IS THERE THAT YOU CAN ATTAIN IT IN THE LIFE OR LIVES TO COME?

  15. VIRTUE IS THE ONLY FRIEND WHICH FOLLOWS US EVEN BEYOND THE GRAVE. EVERYTHING ELSE ENDS WITH DEATH.

  16. AS SOON AS I BEGIN TO FEEL THAT I AM SEPARATE FROM THIS UNIVERSE, THEN FIRST COMES FEAR, AND THEN COMES MISERY.

  17. YOGA IS THE SCIENCE WHICH TEACHES US HOW TO GET THESE PERCEPTIONS (DIRECT EXPERIENCES OF GOD)

  18. FOR IT IS THE BODY THAT DRAGS US DOWN. IT IS ATTACHMENT, IDENTIFICATION, WHICH MAKES US MISERABLE. THAT IS THE SECRET. TO THINK THAT I AM THE SPIRIT AND NOT THE BODY, AND THAT THE WHOLE OF THIS UNIVERSE WITH ALL ITS RELATIONS, WITH ALL ITS GOOD AND ALL ITS EVIL, IS BUT A SERIES OF PAINTINGS - SCENES ON A CANVAS- OF WHICH I AM THE WITNESS.

  19. BE CONTENTED WITH THE THINGS OF THE PRESENT. THE COWS AND THE GODS ARE, AND SO ARE ALL ANIMALS, AND THAT IS WHAT MAKES THEM ANIMALS. SO IF MAN RESTS CONTENT WITH THE PRESENT AND GIVES UP ALL SEARCH INTO THE BEYOND, MANKING WILL HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE ANIMALS PLANE AGAIN.

  20. OUR KARMA DETERMINES WHAT WE DESERVE AND WE CAN ASSIMILATE. 

THE END OF YOUR DRAMA

                                                               YOUR  DRAMA

  

       IN THAT STATE OF ACCEPTANCE AND INNER PEACE, THOUGH YOU MAY NOT CALL IT BAD, CAN ANYTHING STILL COME INTO YOUR LIFE THAT WOULD BE CALLED " BAD " FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF ORDINARY CONCIOUSNESS?

    MOST OF THE SO-CALLED BAD THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN PEOPLE'S LIVES ARE DUE TO UNCONCIOUSNESS. THEY ARE SELF-CREATED, OR RATHER EGO-CREATED. I SOMETIMES REFER TO THOSE THINGS AS "DRAMA". WHEN YOU ARE FULLY CONSIOUS, DRAMA DOES NOT COME INTO YOUR LIFE ANYMORE. LET ME REMIND YOU BRIEFLY HOW THE EGO OPERATES AND HOW IT CREATES DRAMA. 

    EGO IS THE UNOBSERVED MIND THAT RUNS YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU ARE NOT PRESENT AS THE WITNESSING CONSCIOUSNESS, THE WATCHER. THE EGO PERCEIVES ITSELF AS A SEPARATE FRAGMENT IN A HOSTILE UNIVERSE, WITH NO REAL INNER CONNECTION TO ANY OTHER BEING, SURROUNDED BY OTHER EGOS WHICH IT EITHER SEES AS A POTENTIAL THREAT OR WHICH IT WILL ATTEMPT TO USE FOR ITS OWN ENDS. THE BASIC EGO PATTERNS ARE DEGIGNED TO COMBAT ITS OWNDEEPSEATED FEAR SENSE OF LACK. THEY ARE RESISTENCE, CONTROL, POWER, GREED, DEFENSE, ATTACK. SOME OF THE EGO'S STRAEGIES ARE EXTREMLY CLEVER, YET THEY NEVER TRULY SOLVE OF ITS PROBLEMS, SIMPLY BECAUSE THE EGO ITSELF IS THE PROBLEM.

       WHEN EGOS COMES TOGETHER, WHETHER IN PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF ICREN ORGANIZATIONS OF INSTITUTIONS, "BAD" THINGS HAPPEN SOONER OF LATER, DRAMA OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER, IN THE FORM OF CONFLICT, PROBLEMS, POWER, STRUGGLES, EMOTIONAL OR PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, AND SO ON. THIS INCLUDED COLLECTIVE EVILS SUCH AS WAR, GENOCIDE, AND EXPLOTATION-ALL DUE TO MASSED UNCONSIOUS RESISTENCE, WHICH CREATES RESTRICTIONS AND BLOCKAGES IN THE FLOW OF ENERGY THROUGH THE BODY. WHEN YOU RECONNECT WITH BEING AND ARE NO LONGER RUN BY YOUR MIND, YOU CEASE TO CREATE THOSE THINGS. YOU DO NOT CREATE OR PARTICIPATE IN DRAMA ANYMORE.

       WHEN YOU LIVE IN COMPLETE ACCEPTANCE OF WHAT IS, THAT IS THE END OF ALL DRAMA IN YOUR LIFE. NOBODY CAN EVEN HAVE AN ARGUMENT WITH YOU. NO MATTER HOW HARD HE OR SHE TRIES. YOU CANNOT HAVE AN ARGUMENT WITH A FULLY CONSCIOUS PERSON. AN ARGUMENT IMPLIES IDENTIFICATION WITH YOUR MIND AND A MENTAL POSITION, AS WELL AS RESISTENCE AND REACTION TO OTHER PERSON'S POSITION. THE RESULT IS THAT THE POLAR OPPOSITE BECOME MUTUALLY ENERGIZED. THESE ARE THE MACHANICS OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS. YOU CAN STILL MAKE YOUR POIN CLEARLY AND FIRMLY, BUT THERE WILL BE NO REATIVE FORCE BEHIND IT, NO DEFENSE OR ATTACK. SO IT WON'T TURN INTO DRAMA. WHEN YOU ARE FULLY CONSCIOUS, YOU CEASE TO BE IN CONFLICT. NO ONE WHO IS AT ONE WITH HIMSELF CAN EVEN CONCEIVE TO CONFLICT, STATE A COURSE IN MIRACLES. THIS REFERS NOT ONLY TO CONFLICT WITH OTHER PEOPLE BUT MORE FUNDAMENTALLY TO CONFLICT WITHIN YOU, WHICH CEASE WHEN THERE IS NO LONGER ANY CLASH BETWEEN THE DEMANDS AND EXPECTATIONS OF YOUR MIND AND WHAT IS.

 

THE POINTS TO BECOME WINNER

                                                   SUCCESS OF THE LIFE

    1. WHERE NONE SEES ANOTHER, WHERE IT IS ALL ONE, THERE IS NONE TO BE MESERABLE, NONE TO BE UNHAPPY.

   2. KNOWING THAT MOTHER AND FATHER ARE THE VISIBLE REPRESENTATIVES OF GOD, THE HOUSEHOLDER, ALWAYS AND BY ALL MEANS, MUST PEOPLE THEM. IF THE MOTHER IS PLEASED, AND THE FATHER, GOD IS PLEASED WITH THE MAN. THAT CHILD IS REALLY A GOOD CHILD WHO NEVER SPEAKS HARSH WORDS TO HIS PARENTS.

  3. THE ONLY WAY TO RISE BY DOING THE DUTY NEXT TO US, AND THUS GATHERING STRENGTH TO ON UNTIL WE REACH THE HIGHEST STATE.

 4. THOUGH THIS BODY HAS ITS BEGINNING AND END, THE DWELLER IN THE BODY IS INFINITE AND WITHOUT END.

 5. EVEN IF YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE, DO NOT DISTURB THE CHILDLIKE FAITH OF THE IGNORANT. ON THE OTHER HAND, GO DOWN TO THEIR LEVEL AND GRADUALLY BRING THEM UP. THAT IS A VERY POWERFUL IDEA, AND IT HAS BECOME THE IDEAL IN INDIA. THIS IS WHY YOU CAN SEE GREAT PHILOSOPHER GOING INTO A TEMPLE AND WORSHIPPING IMAGES. IT IS NOT HYPOCRISY.

 6. THEN THE GODS BECOME NO GODS, DEATH BECOMES NO DEATH, LIFE BECOMES NO LIFE.

 7. WHO CAN WORK WITHOUT ANY ATTACHMENT? THIS IS REAL QUESTION.

 8. SUCH A MAN IS THE SAME WHETHER HIS WORK SUCCEEDS OF FAILS.

 9. WORK FOR WORK'S SAKE. WORSHIP FOR WORSHIP'S SAKE. DO GOOD BECAUSE IT IS GOOD TO DO GOOD. ASK NO MORE.

 10. YOU CANNOT BELIEVE IN GOD UNTIL YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF.

 11. STRENGTH IS LIFE, WEAKNESS IS DEATH.

 12. NEITHER SEEK NOR AVOID, TAKE WHAT COMES.

 13. ALL WEAKNESS, ALL BONDAGE IS IMAGINATION.

 14. KNOWING THIS, STAND UP AND FIGHT.

 15. NOR FREEDO,. NOR GODS, NOR WORK, NOR ANYTHING.

 16. THIS IS THE SAGE WHO ALWAYS WORKS FOR WORK'S SAKE WITHOUT CARING FOR THE RESULTS.

 17. THE POWERS OF THE MIND ARE LIKE RAYS OF LIGHT DISSIPATED , WHEN THEY ARE CONCENTRATED, THEY ILLUMINE.

 18. HE WHO KNOWS THAT HE IS FREE IS FREE, HE WHO KNOWS THAT HE IS BOUND IS BOUND. WHAT IS THE END AND AIM OF LIFE? NONE, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I AM THE INFINITE.

 19. WHEN BY ANALYZING HIS OWN MIND, MAN COMES FACE TO FACE, AS IT WERE, WITH SOMETHING WHICH IS, BY ITS OWN NATURE, ETERNALLY PURE AND PERFECT, HE WILL NO MORE BE MISERABLE, NO MORE UNHAPPY.

 20. STAND UP, BE BOLD, BE STRONG! KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF YOUR OWN DESTINY. ALL THE STRENGTH AND SUCCOUR YOU WANT IS WITHIN YOURSELF.

 21. THE ROSE CALLED BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SWEET.

 22. REALISATION IS REAL RELIGION, ALL THE REST IS ONLY PREPARATION-HEARING LECTURES, OR READING BOOKS, OR REASONING IS MERELY PREPARING THE GROUND, IT IS NOT RELIGION.

 23. THE EASIEST WAY TO MAKE OURSELVES HAPPY IS TO SEE THAT OTHERS ARE HAPPY.

 24. WE ARE NOT THE VEDANTISTS, PAURANICS, OR TANTRICS. WE ARE THE DON'T TOUCHISTS OUR RELIGION IS DON'T TOUCH ME, I AM HOLY.

 25. TAKE UP ANYTHING THAT YOU SEE OR FEEL, A BOOK FOR INSTANCE, FIRST CONCENTRATE THE MIND ON IT, THEN ON THE KNOWLEDGE THAT IS IN THE FORM OF A BOOK, AND THEN ON THE EGO THAT SEES THE BOOK, AND SO ON. BY THAT PRACTICE ALL THE ORGANS WILL BE CONQUERED.