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Message For The Day….Pure Heart and Pure Mind only Pleases HIM ….

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God does not want the flower or fruit that you can buy in the street. Instead, bring to Him the fragrant flower of a pure heart and the fruit of your mind, mellowed from spiritual practices (Sadhana). That pleases Him the most, not the items that are readily available in the market for purchase. Those items that you buy do not elevate your mind – however, your spiritual practices will do it for you! To get a taste for that kind of effort, you must keep the company of the good and great, and take delight in noble thoughts. By whatever means that is available to you, increase your stock of bliss and improve your discrimination. Try to store as many of these as possible, so that you draw up from the reservoir of your storage, whenever the need arises.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….With Pure Devotion Lead Your Life in Peace and Bliss…

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The chief source of bliss is dedication to God. Nothing else can give that genuine and everlasting joy. Become conscious of your kinship with the Lord – it is not mere folklore or a fairy tale or a faked theory. This kinship has existed from the beginning of Time and will persist till the very end of Time. Every individual is born in the path of righteousness (Dharma Marga), journeys through the path of action (Karma Marga), rushes through the path of sages (Sadhu Marga) to reach the Supreme Reality (Brahma Marga). The path of action and the path of the Sages are illumined by the Jnanendriyas (organs of perception). Keep the Jnanendriyas and the Karmendriyas(sense organs) uncontaminated and pure. The cow eats grass and drinks gruel and gives sweet, sustaining milk. So too, let the experiences you gather through the organs, help in the production of sweetness and kindness. With pure devotion, lead your lives in peace and bliss.

 Sathya Sai Baba

 

Faith Sees Invisible and Receives The Impossible !!!

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A ‘devotee’ wrote a letter to the editor of an Indian newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to the Temple . “I’ve gone for 30 years now, he wrote, and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 mantras. 
But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single one of them. So, I think I’m wasting my time and the Gurus are wasting theirs by giving services at all.” 

This started a real controversy in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:“I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals.

But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this… They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work.
If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to the Temple for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!

A physician gives me medicines. I do not know what is in it I definitely do not know ‘how’ it is curing my illness. I have faith in the physician. My faith and the power of the medicine of the physician makes me well. I do not know ‘how’ but I know it ‘does’.”
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible and
receives the impossible!

Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual  nourishment!!!!

source::::unknown…. input from a friend of mine…
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” It is Time to Repent For Turning Uttarakhand into Honeymoon spot “…..

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Sheela Bhatt  from  New Delhi for rediff.com

 

 

In a twist to people’s understanding of Uttarakhand’s monsoon mayhem, Dwarka peeth Shankaracharya Swami Shree Swaroopananda Saraswati has blamed the sex-food-fun oriented consumerism propagated by tour operators in the land otherwise known as “dev bhoomi” for the plight of thousands of pilgrims.

In a telephonic interview from his ashram near Haridwar, the Shankaracharya told rediff.com, “Uttarakhand is the land of gods and goddesses. Here Lord Shiva holds Ganga in his jata (hair). It is the highest tapsaya (penance) possible. Shiva bore the force of the Ganga all alone so that she can flow seamlessly. How can you have honeymoon tourism in Uttarakhand instead of pilgrimage to cleanse the soul and attain nirvana?”

Asserting that these mountains were not for the newly-married to enjoy their honeymoon, the religious leader suggested that the disaster was also brought upon due to the dams that have been built on rivers of Uttarakhand.

Dwarka peeth Shankaracharya Swami Shree Swaroopananda Saraswati

He said, “I want government to find out the sphatik statue of Shankaracharya’s samadhi near Kedarnath temple. It is part of our heritage. I am deeply pained to see so many deaths. I want the government to act now and stop promoting dubious tourism. There should be complete ban on building of dams as well.”

Hailing the Kedarnath temple as a national monument, he said: “The rest of India should help Uttarakhand maintain its environment. The lack of development will create shortage of electricity, but the rest of India should supply electricity in this divinely natural region. We must protect our ancient rivers at all cost. Seventy percent of the water from Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers will deplete if we build dams recklessly.”

The Shankaracharya also said that the government should clean the temple complex as soon as possible.

“The government must cleanse the Kedarnath temple with panchamrut (A mixture of milk, curd, clarified butter, honey and sugar). It is time to repent for our wrong deeds.”

Some Images of Nature”s Fury …. For How long Nature will also tolerate our atrocities against Nature ?  one day it will burst like this one …

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Road torn up by river during Ganga Fury exactly above the final confluence of the Ganga at Devprayag

 

 

 

 

 

 

A pilgrim is helped by a villager as she tries to cross on a pathway damaged by landslide in Rudraprayag in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand

 

 

 

 

source:::::rediff.com

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Message For The Day….”Egoism is Darkness …Surrender Is Light …”

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Arjuna’s dejection was a case of finely disguised egoism. He was a hero until he came to the battlefield and became a coward. It was all about ‘I and Mine’; “I will go to hell, I would rather beg, I will not fight my uncle, my Guru, my cousin, etc.” ‘I and mine’ are two poison fangs; they have to be removed to make you harmless. Krishna counselled Arjuna: “You are not killing, so don’t be conceited, they are deathless; the death sentence on their bodies has already been pronounced and you are merely executing God’s will!” Krishna made Arjuna aware of himself and removed his delusions. Arjuna realized that he was but an instrument in the hands of the Lord. You too must learn from that lesson, for otherwise, there will be no end to your misery. Always pray Thamaso maa jyothirgamaya – Lead me from darkness to light. Egoism is darkness (thamas); Surrender (Sharanagathi) is light.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Humility In Behaviour and Practice counts a Lot ….

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The gods once imagined that they were able to get victory over the demons because of their own prowess. When they were celebrating the victory, a deity appeared before them and cast a blade of grass on the ground. It asked Agni (God of fire) to burn it; but he could not. It challenged Vayu (God of Air) to lift it, but he could not. It provoked Varuna (God of Water) to wet it, but, in spite of his best efforts, he could not. Then when their pride had been pricked, the deity taught them the Brahma Vidya (science of Brahman), which reveals the inner source of all strength. This is no ordinary story; Agni is the presiding deity of vaak (speech) and so it tells us that speech has to be humble, that it derives its power only from the basic Universal Principle. Vaayu is prana (the vital air). Humility in behaviour and practice are all that count, especially in Sadhana.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Trust Begets Trust…Love Begets Love…

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Cutivate Love (Prema) towards all, it will destroy envy, anger and hatred. God and Desire (Rama & Kama) cannot co-exist in the same heart. Trust begets trust, love begets love. If you talk to another with much love, they cannot develop any hatred towards you. Love makes the whole world kin. It is the greatest instrument of concord. The farmer plants the seedling and watches over it with great care. He removes the weeds, he destroys the pests, waters it as and when necessary and spreads manure and awaits the day when he can reap the harvest and fill his granary. So too, you must carefully nourish love and pluck out the weeds of hatred and envy within you. Wear the glasses of love and everyone will appear loveable and good. You will get what you search for, you will see what your eyes crave for. Develop a holy vision, you will then see holiness everywhere.
– Divine Discourse, Sep 1, 1958.

 

Sathya Sai Baba

Message For The Day….Light The Lamp of The Name of the Lord on your tongue….

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All the five senses subserve the same Purusha. It is one family, under one Master. The senses need not necessarily be inimical; they can be trained to cooperate in the sadhana. Why? Even intellect can become an enemy, if it promotes conceit and competitive exhibitionism. The easiest way to illumine your inner consciousness and your behaviour, is to light the lamp of the Name of the Lord on your tongue. Take the Lord’s Name; His light will drive out darkness from both inside and outside. Keep the lamp shining, bright and clear, for ever. You will soon reach remarkable heights and enjoy happiness, the like of which you cannot get by sticking to the senses.
– Divine Discourse, Aug 17, 1964.  

 

Sathya Sai Baba

“கடவுள் எப்படி இருப்பார் ?”

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( பசும்பொன் தேவர் – 1959-ல் பொள்ளாச்சி சிறீ குடலுருவி மாரியம்மன் கோவிலில் பேசியது.)

நட்ச்சத்திரம் இருக்கிறது என்பது எல்லோருக்கும் தெரியும், ஆனால் பகலிலே பார்க்கிற ஓருவருக்கு நட்ச்சத்திரம் தெரியாது.

சூரியன் இருக்கிறது என்பது எல்லோருக்கும் தெரியும், இரவிலே பார்த்தால் சூரியன் தோன்றாது.

இரவிலே சூரியனை பார்த்து தவறாக சூரியன் என்பதே இல்லை என சொல்வது எவ்வளவு அவசர புத்தியோ… அவ்வளவு அவசர புத்திதான் தனக்கு நேரில்

 
தெரியாதது அத்தனையும் இல்லை என வாதிக்க முன்வருவது.எல்லாம் எல்லாருக்கும் தெரிகிற நிலைமையில் அமைந்தது அல்ல உலகம்.

உதாரணாமாக உங்களுடைய சரீரத்தையே… நீங்கள் பார்த்துக் கொள்வீர்களானால்

சரீரத்தில் இருக்கின்ற கால்,கை முதலியவை எல்லாம் நீங்கள் பார்க்க முடியும், அதே நேரத்தில் கண்களை நீங்களே பார்க்க வேண்டும் என விரும்பினால்

 
பார்க்க முடியுமா..?முடியாது !அதற்காக ஒருவன் அவசரப்பட்டு …

என் கையை பார்த்தேன் இதோ இருக்கிறது,

ஆகையால் எனக்கு ‘கை’ உண்டு.என் காலை பார்த்தேன் இதோ இருக்கிறது,

ஆகையால் எனக்கு ‘கால்’ உண்டு.நான் என் கண்ணை பார்க்க நினைக்கிறேன் அது தெரியவில்லை, ஆகையால் எனக்கு கண்ணில்லை என்று பேசலாமா..? அது தவறு !

கண்ணாடியில் பார்த்தால் கண்களின் பிம்பம் தெரியும்…! அதைப்போல் விக்ரஹங்கள் கடவுளின் பிம்பமாக இருக்கிறது.

இதோ இங்கு ரோஜாப்பூ மாலை இருக்கிறது..

இது என்ன பூ எனக்கேட்டால்

அதன் பெயரை சொல்லலாம்..! 

நிறத்தை கேட்டால் நிறத்தையும் சொல்லலாம் 

இது எந்த இடத்தில் கிடைக்கும் என்வும் சொல்லிவிடலாம்..ஆனால்..அதன் வாசம் எப்படியிருக்கும் எனக்கேட்டால் “முகர்ந்து” பார் என்றுதான் சொல்லமுடியும்!

கடவுள் எப்படியிருப்பார் என்று கேட்டால்..உணர்ந்துப்பார் என்றுதான் சொல்லமுடியும்!

 

 source::::input from a friend of mine.

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