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Satyameva Jayate is our motto. It is ok philosophically but in practical life the opposite seems to be true. Take right from the stories of Ramayana, Mahabharata and even in day-to-day stories, films and serials, the untruth runs an extra mile or two. When it is tired of running further, I think, the truth takes over. I understand if the truth is to win at first, the filmwallas and others will become paupers. Of course, life is a trial. Should it be only trial always? Or truth only succeeds in heaven? I thought let us think in a different way. Hence.
 
# 138. ஒன்றிய உணர்வு.

உயர் சக்தி வேறு நீ வேறு அன்று என்று உணரும் வரை பிரார்த்தனை செய்வது நியாயமே. ஆனால் ஆத்மசரணாகதி அடைந்து உன் முழுச் சுமையையும் கடவுளிடம் ஒப்படைத்தால், உன் முதுகில் உள்ள சுமை முழுவதையும் இறக்கிவிட்டு , நீ அவருக்குள் இருக்கிறாய் , நீ அவரோடு ஒன்றாக இருக்கிறாய் என்ற உணர்வை ஏற்படுத்துவார்.
 
Normally one who does nothing makes no faults.
It is not the job that is entrusted to him/her is difficult but
it is the discipline that makes him/her execute becomes hard.
Similarly, it is wise to think that unsuccessful or successful is
not the terminating point.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur
 
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Our first stop is a visit to Dr. Radhakrishnan, one of the greatest living philosophers. He speaks on Hinduism:
"The Hindu attitude to religion is interesting. While fixed intellectual beliefs mark off one religion from another, Hinduism sets itself no such limits. Intellect is subordinated to intuition, dogma to experience, outer expression to inward realisation."
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To avoid all evil, to do good,
to purify the mind- that is the
teaching of the Buddhas.​
Dhammapada, v.183
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2. The Cause of Suffering
The root of suffering can be defined as an attachment to or craving for wrong things. These desires in the material world can never give us everlasting happiness because by nature they are temporary or transitory.
 
The Sanskrit root of the word dharma is dhri, to hold. Who holds us God. What holds us -Truth. Dharma prevails. If not always, ultimately it must, for in dharma is the very breath of God.


Sri Chinmoy
 
The Sanskrit word for philosophy is Darshan, meaning to see, to vision. Sri Ramakrishna's significant remark runs: "In the past, people used to have visions (darshan); now people study Darshan (philosophy)!"

Equally significant is the message of the Old Testament: Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

Sri Chinmoy
 
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar:

Not in entire forgetfulness,

And not in utter nakedness,

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God who is our home:


Here the poet carries us into the mystery of the soul's eternal journey and reminds us of the perennial Source.​

Sri Chinmoy
 
[h=1]Life[/h]
What is life? It is the soul's only opportunity to manifest and fulfil the Divine here on earth. When life begins its journey, Infinity shakes hands with it. When the journey is half done, Eternity shakes hands with it. When life's journey is complete, Immortality shakes hands with it. Life lives the life of perfection when it lives in spirituality. When life lives in spirituality, the breath of God, it stands far above the commands of morality and the demands of duty.

God says to the human life, "Arise, awake, aspire! Yours is the goal." The human life says to God: "Wait, I am resting. I am sleeping. I am dreaming." Suddenly life feels ashamed of its conduct. Crying, it says, "Father, I am coming." Throbbing, it says, "Father, I am come." Smiling, it says, "Father, I have come."

Life, the problem, can be solved by the soul, the solution; but for that, one has first to be awakened from within.

Sri Chinmoy
 
# 139. "நான்", "எனது"!

உன் சரணாகதி முழுமையாகவும், முற்றுமாகவும் இருக்குமானால், நீ எதனையும் கேட்க வேண்டியதில்லை.
"நான்" , "எனது" என்ற எண்ணங்களையும் தவிர்க்கப் பார். எதையும் உனது என்று எண்ணாதே.
எல்லாமே இறைவனுடையது.
 
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The inborn talents and skills that we have are the Gifts of God.
Normally fortune knocks only once in the life of a person. If one leads a
Great life, it is because of his Noble and Great Thoughts,
followed by his Greet Deeds.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

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Real Atheism is when a person does not have faith in himself.
You may believe in hundreds of thousands of gods and goddesses,but if you do not have faith in yourself,you are an Atheist.
You may even forget all the gods and goddesses.If you have faith in yourself,that will save you.That is the message of the Upanishads.

Swami Vivekananda
 
Visalakshi Ramani said:
So it the presence of Faith and
NOT where it is placed ...
that makes all the difference
between Atheism and Theism!!!
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I know and I could not stop laughing when I read this cos I was thinking Wow!! So I now know who are the hard core Theist in forum!!!No wonder the God exists thread is so so active!!!LOL
 
Dear Sir!
Everything we have is a gift of God- not just our talents and skills.
Our appearance, our life span, our voice, our eyes and our health are all gifts of god!!! :hail:

nannilam_balasubramanian said:
The inborn talents and skills that we have are the Gifts of God.
Normally fortune knocks only once in the life of a person. If one leads a
Great life, it is because of his Noble and Great Thoughts,
followed by his Greet Deeds.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

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# 140. நான்கு நிலைகள்.

உண்மையில் உணர்வுக்கு ஒரு நிலை மட்டுமே உண்டு.

நனவு, கனவு, தூக்கம் ஆகியவை உண்மையாக முடியாது.

உள்ளது எப்போதும் இருக்கும்.

நனவு முதலிய மூன்று நிலைகளை நாம் உண்மை என்று கொள்ளக் காரணம்

நீண்ட நாளைய பழக்கமே.

வெறும் விழிப்பு உணர்வு மட்டும் உள்ள நிலையை

நான்காவது துரீயம் என்கின்றோம்.
 
The spiritual, the infinite is near and real and the gods are real and the worlds beyond not so much beyond as immanent in our own existence. That which to the Western mind is myth and imagination is here an actuality and a strand of the life of our inner being, what is there beautiful poetic idea and philosophic speculation is here a thing constantly realised and present to the experience.

Sri Aurobindo
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The poets of the Veda had another mentality than ours, their use of their images is of a peculiar kind and an antique cast of vision gives a strange outline to their substance. The physical and the psychical worlds were to their eyes a manifestation and a twofold and diverse and yet connected and similar figure of cosmic godheads, the inner and outer life of man a divine commerce with the gods, and behind was the one spirit or being of which the gods were names and personalities and powers.
Sri Aurobindo
 
Fear of darkness is fear of the unknown.

Fear of Light is fear of the known.

Fear of the unknown is stupidity.

Fear of the known is absurdity.

What we need is the soul-will. Soul-will is God-Freedom.

Uru nastanve tan

Uru ksayaya naskridhi

Uru no yandhi jivase

The Rig Vedas fiery utterance means: “Freedom for our body. Freedom for our home. Freedom for our life.
Sri Chinmoy
 
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