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Message For the Day…” How to Attain Spiritual Wisdom … ” ?

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The Kaivalya Upanishad declares: “Not by means of works, not by means of human power, not by means of wealth, but by renunciation alone can immortality be attained.” The ‘works’ referred to are rituals like sacrifices, vows, charities, donations, pilgrimages, etc. Through such activities, one cannot achieve liberation; that is to say, one cannot get rid of the veil of ignorance. ‘Human power’ means acquisition of positions of authority, of skill and intelligence which can manipulate people and things, of fame and supremacy, of personal charm, of health and happiness, or of a large family with many children – these cannot confer liberation. The works mentioned above and the acquisition referred to can succeed only when one has ‘wealth’. But the Upanishad announces that spiritual wisdom is not related to riches. So liberation cannot be earned by means of wealth. Renunciation alone can confer immortality.

Sathya Sai Baba

Few Brainteasers for this WEEKEND !!!

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Challenging Brainteasers To Keep Your Mind in Tune

Brainteasers are a great way to sharpen your mental acuity! Many times, due to the way our brains function, we see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear, but these brainteasers will challenge you to think outside of the box and test how far your imagination can stretch.

Enjoy these challenging brain puzzles, and write down your answers as you go. Don’t peak at the answers until you have answered all of the puzzles for a real challenge!
1. Johnny’s mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child’s name?
2. A clerk at a butcher shop stands five feet ten inches tall and wears size 13 sneakers. What does he weigh?
3. Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?
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4. How much dirt is there is a hole that measures two feet by three feet by four feet?
5. Mary was born on December 28th, yet her birthday always falls in the summer. How is this possible.
6. In British Columbia you cannot take a picture of a man with a wooden leg. Why not?
7. If you were running a race and passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?
8. Which is correct to say: “The yolk of the egg is white” or “The yolk of the egg are white”?
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9. A farmer has five haystacks in one field and four in another. How many haystacks would he have if he combined them all in one field?
10. A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raining fire. The second is full of assassins with loaded guns. The third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?
11. What is black when you buy it, red when you used it, and grey when you throw it away?
12. Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday or Sunday?
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ANSWERS
1. Johnny.
2. Meat.
3. Mount Everest. It just wasn’t discovered yet.
4. There is no dirt in a hole.
5. Mary lives in the southern hemisphere.
6. You can’t take a picture with a wooden leg. You need a camera to take a picture.
7. You would be in second place. You passed the person in second, not in first place.
8. Neither. Egg yolks are yellow.
9. One. If he would combine all the haystacks, they would become one big stack.
10. The third room. The lions that have not eaten for three years would be dead.
11. Charcoal used in barbequing.
12. Sure you can name three consecutive days: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
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Message For the Day…” Significance of Yaga as Thankfulness to God …”

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Yaga (ritualistic sacrificial prayers) is prescribed by the Karma Kanda (the parts that expound on actions or Karma as a spiritual path) of the Vedas. It is for sanctifying time and fulfilling the goal of human birth. The practice of renunciation and dedication through the rite of the yaga promotes worldly happiness as well as spiritual progress. It fosters charity and social cohesion. The ritual sacrifices pleases the deities presiding over the forces of Nature and so brings down rain, which helps growing crops, and increases food for man and beast. Activity that is divorced from spiritual goals, and devoid of reverence and humility, leads to conceit and authoritarianism. It makes one arrogant and cruel; but the sages of India laid down that all activity has to be done as a yaga, as offerings for the glory of God, in an atmosphere of thankfulness and awe, of humility and holiness. The goal of all activity was idealised as the happiness and peace of all living beings.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” How to Get Yourself Freed From the Fog of Ignorance …” ?

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To discriminate between good and bad, one must resort to scriptures. The Vedas emerged from the Divine Himself and were ‘heard’ by sages attuned to the voice of the Divine, who in turn, taught them to their disciples. This process of imparting the Vedas and the wisdom enshrined in them has continued through many generations of Gurus and disciples until now. The Upanishads, the Brahma Sutra and the Bhagavad Gita contain the very essence of the Vedas. Hence these are designated as ‘three fundamental texts (Prasthana traya)’ of the science of spirituality. Acquisition of higher knowledge alone can fulfil the main purpose of human life; it makes one aware that one is not the inert non-sentient body but an embodiment of being-awareness-bliss. When this truth dawns and is experienced, you are freed from the fog of ignorance and are liberated, in this very life.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” Self Confidence and Divine Grace are the Two Mirrors You Need…”

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The conflict between persons who accept God and deny Him, those who declare that God is to be found in this or that place and those who affirm that He can be found nowhere, is never ending; it has been continuing throughout the ages. Remember that it is unnecessary to awaken a person already awake and it is easy to awaken a person who is asleep. You cannot awaken, however much you try, a person not wanting to awaken! Those who do not know, can be taught by means of simple illustrations what they do not know. But those afflicted with half-knowledge and proud of that acquisition are beyond any further education. Your two eyes give a picture of a vast expanse of space, but they cannot see your whole body! For that, you need two mirrors – one in front of you and one behind. So too, to know your reality, you need the mirrors of Self-confidence (Atma-vishwas) and Divine Grace.

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” Practice What You Learn From Spiritual Teachings…”

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Mere reading of spiritual texts is not enough. You may master all the commentaries and you may be able to argue and discuss with great scholars about these texts; but without attempting to practise what they teach, it is a waste of time. I never approve of book-learning; practice is what I evaluate. When you come out of the examination hall you know whether you will pass or not, is it not? For you can yourself judge whether you have answered well or not. So too in sadhana (spiritual effort) or in conduct or in practice, each of you can judge and ascertain the success or failure that is in store. The moon is reflected in a pot, provided it has water; so too the Lord can be clearly seen in your heart, provided you have the water of Love (Prema). When you don’t see the Lord reflected in your heart, do not say that there is no Lord; it only means that there is no Love within you.

Sathya Sai Baba

Something to Bring a Smile on Your Face …For a Cheerful Start Of the Day !!!

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You can always pick up a newspaper and read sad facts. But there also some very happy facts in this world, so for a great start to your day, we’d like to introduce you to 15 happy, funny and adorable facts that’ll plaster a great big smile on your face!
Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.

 

Sea otters hold hands when they sleep to keep from drifting apart.
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Although each adult and independent juvenile forages alone, sea otters tend to rest together in single-sex groups called rafts. A raft typically contains 10 to 100 animals, with male rafts are larger than female ones. The largest raft ever seen contained over 2000 sea otters. To keep from drifting out to sea when resting and eating, sea otters may wrap themselves in kelp or hold hands.

 

Cows Have Best Friends…

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n a famous study, cattle were penned on their own, with their best friend or with another cow they did not know for 30 minutes and their heart rates were measured at 15-second intervals.  The research showed cows were very social animals and often formed close bonds with friends in their herd.
When heifers have their preferred partner with them, their heart rate stress levels are reduced compared with if they were with a random individual.
Blind people smile even though they’ve never seen anyone else smile….
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Being blind doesn’t mean you don’t make all the facial expressions other people make, which goes to show that we are born with these abilities, and do not learn them from others by imitation.
Norway knighted a penguin.
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The penguin, named Nils Olav, was made an honorary member of the King’s Guard back in 1972, after it was decided he was the new mascot for the guards.
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அகத்தியர் அருளிய முருகன் மந்திரம்…

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ஓம் முருகா,குரு முருகா,அருள் முருகா,ஆனந்த முருகா
சிவசக்தி பாலகனே ஷண்முகனே சடாக்ஷ்ரனே
என் வாக்கிலும் நினைவிலும் நின்று காக்க
ஓம் ஐம் ஹ்ரீம் வேல் காக்க சுவஹா
முருகனின் ஆறெழுத்து மந்திரப் பிரயோகம்:-
சகல ஜன வசீகரமாம் சஹாரத்தாலே
தனமுதல் அழைத்து வரும் ரஹாரத்தாலே
பகைபிணி நோய் தீர்த்து வைக்கும் ஹகாரத்தாலே
பகைத்தவரைக் கொல்ல வைக்கும் ணகாரத்தாலே
சகலமுமே மோஹிக்கும் பகாரத்தாலே
சகலரையும் ஸ்தம்பிக்கும் வகாரத்தாலே
அகங்குளிர ஓதிய ஆறெழுத்தின் பெருமை
ஆரறிவார் மகிதலத்தில் சொன்னேன் கேளே….
                                                                       
                                                                                          – அகத்தியர்
 
 
மேற்கண்ட மந்திரம் அகஸ்தியர் அருளியது எந்த காரியத்திற்காக கிளம்பும் முன் இதை ஜெபித்து திருநீறு அணிந்து செல்ல காரிய வெற்றி உண்டாகும்.
 
ஷண்முக சடாட்சரம் ,ஆறெழுத்து மந்திரம் எனப்படும் சரஹணபவ மந்திரத்தின் பிரயோகம்:-
 
1. சரஹணபவ – என தொடர்ந்து ஜெபித்து வர சர்வ வசீகரம் உண்டாகும்.
 
2. ரஹணபவச – என தொடர்ந்து ஜெபித்து வர செல்வம், செல்வாக்குடன் கூடிய வளவாழ்வு உண்டாகும்.
 
3. ஹணபவசர – என தொடர்ந்து ஜெபித்து வர பகை,பிணி நோய்கள் தீரும்.
 
4. ணபவசரஹ – என தொடர்ந்து ஜெபித்து வர எதிர்ப்புகள், எதிரிகளால் வரும் துன்பங்கள் நீங்கும்.
 
5. பவசரஹண – என தொடர்ந்து ஜெபித்து வர உலகத்து உயிர்கள் யாவும் மனிதர்கள் முதல் ஜீவ ஜந்துக்கள் வரை நம்மை விரும்பும்.
 
6. வசரஹணப – என தொடர்ந்து ஜெபித்து வர எதிரிகளின் சதி,அவர்களால் வரும் தீமைகள் யாவும் செயலற்றுப்போகும்.
 
அவரவருக்கு தேவை என்னவோ அதற்குண்டான மந்திரத்தை தேர்ந்தெடுத்து ஜெபிக்கலாம்.ஜெபம் ஆரம்பம் செய்யும் நாள் வளர்பிறை காலத்தில் விசாகம் அல்லது கார்த்திகை நட்சத்திரத்தன்றோ , செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை அன்றோ இருந்தால் சிறப்பு.
 
90 நாட்கள் குறைந்தது 108 அதிகபட்சம் எவ்வளவு வேண்டுமானாலும் ஜெபிக்கலாம்.முதல் நாளும் ,ஜெபம் முடிக்கும் நாளும் வெற்றிலை,பாக்கு,திணை மாவு,பழங்கள் வைத்து வழிபடவும்.மற்றைய நாட்களில் இயன்றதைப் படைக்கலாம்.
 
ஒரு செம்புத் தட்டில் விபூதி பரப்பி அதில் ஆறுக்கோணசக்கரம் வரைந்து அதில் முதல் கோணத்திலிருந்து (அதாவது மேலே முதலாவது கோணம் ) நாம் ஜெபிக்கும் மந்திரத்தை வரிசையாக ஆறுகோணத்திலும் எழுதி ஆறுக்கோண நடுவில் ”றீங்” என்று எழுதி ஜெபம் செய்து அந்த விபூதியை அணிந்து வர விரைவான சிறந்த பலன் உண்டாகும்.
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Message For the Day…” Have Implicit Faith in God and Communicate with HIM…”

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Enter upon that task of Sadhana from now on; that is the lesson you must learn here. Otherwise yatra (pilgrimage) leads only to the accumulation of patra (objects and souvenirs). Devotion is something sweet, soothing, refreshing and restoring. It must confer patience and fortitude. The devotee will not be perturbed if another is blessed with more grace. The devotee is humble and bides one’s time, knowing that there is a higher power that knows more and that it is just and impartial. In the light of that knowledge, the devotees will communicate their troubles and problems only to their Lord; they will not humiliate themselves by talking about them to all and sundry, for what can a man, who is as helpless as another, do to relieve them? It is only those who have that implicit faith in God, who will deign to communicate only with the Lord and none else, who deserve Amrita (nectar of immortality).

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For the Day…” Close Your External Eyes and Open Your Inner Eyes…”

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People suffer because they have all kinds of unreasonable desires and they pine to fulfil them and they fail. They attach too much value to the objective world. It is only when attachment increases that you suffer pain and grief. If you look upon Nature and all created objects with the insight derived from the Inner Vision, then attachment will slide away, though effort will remain; you will also see everything much clearer and with a glow suffused with Divinity and splendour. Close your external eyes and open your inner eyes – What a grand picture of essential unity you get? Attachment to Nature has limits, but the attachment you develop to the Lord when your inner eye opens, has no limit. Enjoy that reality, not this false picture.

Sathya Sai Baba

When suffering comes in waves, one behind the other, do not be like cowards throwing the blame on some outside power or develop dislike for the Lord. Be glad the shore is near and bear them bravely. – Baba