Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna

There are no contradictions in Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings. He did not make one rule for all. He used to see the inner tendency of a person and then advise him accordingly. His instructions were given differently to different people because of their varied temperaments and abilities to apply his principles in life. To those, who were young, energetic, intense with fiery enthusiasm, and in whom he saw the potential for becoming monks, his inspiring words were: “Now overlook all desires for name and fame and plunge headlong into spiritual disciplines. Never rest content until the realization of God has become an accomplished fact”. He would enkindle the smouldering fire in their hearts, saying: “Is it possible to realize God without renunciation? Renunciation of lust and greed is the most essential prerequisite for entering into spiritual life. What is there in the world except anguish, misery and trouble? Tell me, who is happy in the world? If you seek God and renounce everything for Him, God will lift you up and your consciousness will be filled with unending bliss”.

To those, who were encumbered with life’s heavy responsibilities, who were caught in the net of Samsara (the world) and had become old, his advice was: “I have cooked the food and placed it on the plate. Your task is simply to sit and eat. You will not have to do anything. You are merely to lift it up to your mouth and enjoy. I have taken the responsibility. You will not have to do any spiritual disciplines. I have already done them for you. It will be enough, if you give me the power of attorney and be at ease”. He knew that conditions were not favourable for them to do spiritual practice, and if asked, it would not be in their power to follow his instructions. Therefore, he would advise them to rely on him and take refuge in the Lord.

Swami Saradananda
(Swami Chetanananda “Ramakrishna: As We Saw Him”, Swami Saradananda, “Sri Ramakrishna Taught Us”)

PEARL OF THE DAY

PEARL OF THE DAY

Not only the experience of the higher but also the transformation of the lower nature is necessary. Pleasure, sadness, despair and sorrow are the ordinary play of the vital, impediments to progress — one has to go beyond them and bring down the vast unity and equality from above into the vital and in all the being.

-SRI AUROBINDO

Chitta Chor

'CHITTA CHOR'

A Brahmin (Priest), whose profession was singing the glories of the Lord, was reciting Srimad Bhagavatam in the house of a Big Landlord.

A thief broke into the house where the recital was going on and hid himself in the deep corner. Perforce, he had to listen to Srimad Bhagavatam (Beautiful stories & Miracles of Lord Krishna).

The singer was now describing the ornaments worn by little Krishna. He described the various ornaments Mother Yasodha decorated on little Krishna before sending Him out with the cows.
The thief was excited and thought that he should meet that lad and rob all the ornaments at one stroke instead of struggling every
day with petty stealing. He waited till the entire chapter of Srimad was recited and left the place.

The thief wanted to know where this boy was. He, therefore, followed the Brahmin and waylaid him. The Brahmin was frightened and feared that he would lose even the small amount he had received as dakshina and told the thief, “I do not have anything with me”.

The thief replied that he was not keen to have any of his possessions but wanted some information about that lad he claimed to have the best ornaments and who used to go out for grazing the cows. He beseeched him to take him to that place where the lad was grazing those cows.

The Brahmin was in a fix now. He said, “In the town of Brindavana, on the banks of Yamuna river, in a green meadow, two boys come every morning. One is dark like the clouds with a flute, and the other fair, clad in white silk. The dark one will have all the ornaments I had described.”

The thief believed the Brahmin and set out for Brindavana immediately. He located the beautiful place, climbed up a tree and waited for the boys to arrive.

The sun rose. Faint melody of the flute wafted along the morning breeze. The enchanting music could then be heard closer and the thief spotted two boys coming.

He got down from the tree and went near them. The moment he saw the most beautiful appearance of the little Krishna, he forgot himself, folded his hands and shed tears of joy. The tears were from his heart and it was chilling.

He wondered which wretched mother had sent these radiant boys, chiseled to perfection, loaded with ornaments to the riverbank.
He could not take his eyes off from the divinity.

The transformation started.
He approached the boys shouting, “Stop,” and held Krishna’s hand.
The moment he touched Lord Krishna, all his previous karmas were wiped out like a ball of cotton getting burnt in fire and with all humility he inquired lovingly, “Who are you?”

Krishna looked at him, innocently and said, "I am frightened by your looks. Please leave my hands”.
The thief, now full of remorse, said to Krishna, “It is my evil mind which is reflected in my face.
If you are frightened, I shall go away.
Please don't say, I must leave you".

The Natkhat (Divinely naughty) Krishna reminded the thief the purpose of his coming there and mocked him, "Here, take these ornaments”.
Confused, the thief replied, “Will not your mother scold you if you gift away all your ornaments to me?”

Krishna with a smile said, “Do not worry about that. I have plenty of them. I am a bigger thief than you.

But there is a difference between you and me – however much I steal, the owners do not complain. I am lovingly called “Chitta Chor”.

Though you are not aware of it, you have a previous ornament in your possession, the “Chitta (Heart)”. I shall steal it now and take the same with Me”.  So saying both the boys vanished.

To his surprise, the thief found a bag full of ornaments on his shoulder.
He brought it to the Brahmin’s house and told him what had all happened.

The Brahmin was now frightened and took the thief inside and opened the bag.

To his utter amazement he saw all the ornaments described by him as being worn by Krishna in the Bhagavatam, in the thief’s bag.

Shedding tears of joy, the Brahmin asked the thief to take him to the place where he saw the dark boy. The thief obliged and both of them waited in the same place where the thief accosted the boy the previous day.

Suddenly the thief exclaimed, “Look, here they come!” 

However, the Brahmin could not see any one.

Stricken with disappointment, he said, “Lord, when You decided to give darshan to a thief, why not me?

Lord Krishna, out of abundant compassion, replied,

“You are reading Srimad Bhagavatam just as another story, whereas the thief actually believed what you told him about me.

I manifest only for those who have full faith in me.. 😊

Jai Shri Krishna

Matter and Occultism

🍄  (Extract from a talk of Sri Aurobindo with a French scientist-disciple)

8 May 1926

In the West the highest minds are turned not towards spiritual truth but towards material science. The scope of science is very narrow, it touches only the most exterior part of the physical plane.

And even there, what does science know really? It studies the functioning of the laws, builds theories ever renewed and each time held up as the last word of truth! We had recently the atomic theory, now comes the electronic.

There are, for instance, two statements of modern science that would stir up deeper ranges for an occultist:

1. Atoms are whirling systems like the solar system.

2. The atoms of all the elements are made out of the same constituents. Different arrangement is the only cause of different properties.

If these statements were considered under their true aspect, they could lead science to new discoveries of which there is no idea at present and in comparison with which the present knowledge is poor.

According to the experience of ancient Yogis, sensible mat- ter was made out of five elements, Bhutani: Prithivi, Apas, Agni (Tejas), Vayu, Akasha.

Agni is threefold:
1. Ordinary fire, Jada Agni,
2. Electric fire, Vaidyuta Agni,
3. Solar fire, Saura Agni.
Science has only entered upon the first and the second of

these fires. The fact that the atom is like the solar system could lead it to the knowledge of the third.2

Beyond Agni is Vayu of which science knows nothing. It is

the support of all contact and exchange, the cause of gravitation and of the fields (magnetic and electric). By it, the action of Agni, the formal element, the builder of forms, is made possible.

And beyond Vayu is the ether: Akasha.

But these five constitute only the grossest part of the physical plane. Immediately behind is the physical-vital, the element of life buried in matter. J. C. Bose is contacting this element in his experiments. Beyond is the mind in matter. This mind has a far different form than the human mind, still it is a manifestation of the same principle of organisation. And deep below there are two more hidden layers....

That is the occult knowledge concerning the physical plane only. Science is far behind this knowledge.

The Hindu Yogis who had realised these truths did not elab- orate them and turn them into scientific knowledge. Other fields of action and knowledge having been open before them, they neglected what for them was the most exterior aspect of the manifestation.

There is a difference between the scientific mind and the cast of mind of an occultist. There is little doubt that one who could unite these two groups of faculties would lead science towards great progress.

🌸 The Mother ( Question and Answers, Volume-5, page no.67-68)

Master moves towards the disciple

Once upon a time, Gautam Buddha visits a town. The entire town gathers and is waiting to listen to him, but he goes on waiting. He keeps looking backwards at the road, expecting a little 13 year old girl to come. He happened to meet her on the road and she had told him – “Wait for me. I am going to give this food to my father at the farm, but I will be back in time. Don’t forget, wait for me!”

Finally, the elders of the town said to Gautam Buddha – “For whom are you waiting? Everybody important is present, you can start your discourse.” Buddha replied – “But the person for whom I have come so far is not present yet and I have to wait.”

Finally the girl arrives and exclaims – “I am a little late, but you kept your promise! I knew you would keep your promise because I have been waiting for you since my first memory as a child, when I first became aware… I think I was four years old when I first heard your name. Your name was enough to ring a bell in my heart. And since then for ten long years…I have been waiting!!!”

Buddha responded – “You have not been waiting in vain. You are the person who has attracted me to this village.”

At the end of his discourse, that little girl was the only one who goes to him and says:  “Initiate me. I have waited enough, and now I want to be with you.” Buddha replied “You have to be with me because your town is so far out! I cannot keep coming again and again. The road is long, and I am getting old!”

In that entire town not a single person came up to him be initiated into meditation, other than that little girl.

At night as they were getting ready to sleep, Buddha’s chief disciple Ananda asked Buddha “Master, before you go to sleep I want to ask you one question. Do you feel a certain pull towards a certain space… just like a magnetic pull?”

Buddha replied, “You are right Ananda. That is how I decide my journeys. When I feel someone is thirsty…so thirsty that without me, there is no other way for them… I have to move in that direction.”

*Master moves towards the disciple and the disciple also moves towards the master. Sooner or later they are bound to meet. The meeting is not of the body, the meeting is not of the mind. The meeting is of the very soul!*

*It is like when you bring two lamps close to each other; the lamps remain separate but their flames become one.*

Vishnu and Shiva

In the divine no less than in ordinary human character and action there are always two strands, sweetness and strength, mildness and force, saumya and raudra, the force that bears and harmonises, the force that imposes itself and compels, Vishnu and Ishana, Shiva and Rudra. The two are equally necessary to a perfect world action. The perversions of the Rudra power in the heart are stormy passion, wrath and fierceness and harshness, hardness, brutality, cruelty, egoistic ambition and love of violence and domination. These and other human perversions have to be got rid of by the flowering of a calm, clear and sweet psychical being.

But on the other hand incapacity of force is also an imperfection. Laxity and weakness, self-indulgence, a certain flabbiness and limpness or inert passivity of the psychical being are the last result of an emotional and psychic life in which energy and power of assertion have been quelled, discouraged or killed. Nor is it a total perfection to have only the strength that endures or to cultivate only a heart of love, charity, tolerance, mildness, meekness and forbearance. The other side of perfection is a selfcontained and calm and unegoistic Rudra-power armed with psychic force, the energy of the strong heart which is capable of supporting without shrinking an insistent, an outwardly austere or even, where need is, a violent action. An unlimited light of energy, force, puissance harmonised with sweetness of heart and clarity, capable of being one with it in action, the lightning of Indra starting from the orb of the nectarous moon-rays of Soma is the double perfection. And these two things saumyatva, tejas, must base their presence and action on a firm equality of the temperament and of the psychical soul delivered from all crudity and all excess or defect of the heart’s light or the heart’s power.

- Sri Aurobindo, Synthesis of Yoga.

Good stuff

*स्नान कब ओर केसे करे घर की समृद्धि बढाना हमारे हाथमे है*
सुबह के स्नान को धर्म शास्त्र में चार उपनाम दिए है।

*1*  *मुनि स्नान।*
जो सुबह 4 से 5 के बिच किया जाता है।
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*2*  *देव स्नान।*
जो सुबह 5 से 6 के बिच किया जाता है।
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*3*  *मानव स्नान।*
जो सुबह 6 से 8 के बिच किया जाता है।
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*4*  *राक्षसी स्नान।*
जो सुबह 8 के बाद किया जाता है।

▶मुनि स्नान सर्वोत्तम है।
▶देव स्नान उत्तम है।
▶मानव स्नान समान्य है।
▶राक्षसी स्नान धर्म में निषेध है।
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किसी भी मानव को 8 बजे के बाद स्नान नही करना चाहिए।
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*मुनि स्नान .......*
👉🏻घर में सुख ,शांति ,समृद्धि, विध्या , बल , आरोग्य , चेतना , प्रदान करता है।
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*देव स्नान ......*
👉🏻 आप के जीवन में यश , किर्ती , धन वैभव,सुख ,शान्ति, संतोष , प्रदान करता है।
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*मानव स्नान.....*
👉🏻काम में सफलता ,भाग्य ,अच्छे कर्मो की सूझ ,परिवार में एकता , मंगल मय , प्रदान करता है।
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*राक्षसी स्नान.....*
👉🏻 दरिद्रता , हानि , कलेश ,धन हानि , परेशानी, प्रदान करता है ।
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किसी भी मनुष्य को 8 के बाद स्नान नही करना चाहिए।
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पुराने जमाने में इसी लिए सभी सूरज निकलने से पहले स्नान करते थे।

*खास कर जो घर की स्त्री होती थी।* चाहे वो स्त्री माँ के रूप में हो,पत्नी के रूप में हो,बेहन के रूप में हो।
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घर के बडे बुजुर्ग यही समझाते सूरज के निकलने से पहले ही स्नान हो जाना चाहिए।
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*ऐसा करने से धन ,वैभव लक्ष्मी, आप के घर में सदैव वास करती है।*
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उस समय...... एक मात्र व्यक्ति की कमाई से पूरा हरा भरा पारिवार पल जाता था , और आज मात्र पारिवार में चार सदस्य भी कमाते है तो भी पूरा नही होता।
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उस की वजह हम खुद ही है । पुराने नियमो को तोड़ कर अपनी सुख सुविधा के लिए नए नियम बनाए है।
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प्रकृति ......का नियम है, जो भी उस के नियमो का पालन नही करता ,उस का दुष्टपरिणाम सब को मिलता है।
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इसलिए अपने जीवन में कुछ नियमो को अपनाये । ओर उन का पालन भी करे।
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आप का भला हो ,आपके अपनों का भला हो।
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मनुष्य अवतार बार बार नही मिलता।
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अपने जीवन को सुखमय बनाये।

जीवन जीने के कुछ जरूरी नियम बनाये।
☝🏼 *याद रखियेगा !* 👇🏽
*संस्कार दिये बिना सुविधायें देना, पतन का कारण है।*
*सुविधाएं अगर आप ने बच्चों को नहीं दिए तो हो सकता है वह थोड़ी देर के लिए रोए।*
*पर संस्कार नहीं दिए तो वे जिंदगी भर रोएंगे।*
ऊपर जाने पर एक सवाल ये भी पूँछा जायेगा कि अपनी अँगुलियों के नाम बताओ ।
जवाब:-
अपने हाथ की छोटी उँगली से शुरू करें :-
(1)जल
(2) पथ्वी
(3)आकाश
(4)वायू
(5) अग्नि
ये वो बातें हैं जो बहुत कम लोगों को मालूम होंगी ।

5 जगह हँसना करोड़ो पाप के बराबर है
1. श्मशान में
2. अर्थी के पीछे
3. शौक में
4. मन्दिर में
5. कथा में

सिर्फ 1 बार भेजो बहुत लोग इन पापो से बचेंगे ।।

अकेले हो?
परमात्मा को याद करो ।

परेशान हो?
ग्रँथ पढ़ो ।

उदास हो?
कथाए पढो ।

टेन्शन मे हो?
भगवत गीता पढो ।

फ्री हो?
अच्छी चीजे फोरवार्ड करो
हे परमात्मा हम पर और समस्त प्राणियो पर कृपा करो......

सूचना
क्या आप जानते हैं ?
हिन्दू ग्रंथ रामायण, गीता, आदि को सुनने,पढ़ने से कैन्सर नहीं होता है बल्कि कैन्सर अगर हो तो वो भी खत्म हो जाता है।

व्रत,उपवास करने से तेज़ बढ़ता है,सर दर्द और बाल गिरने से बचाव होता है ।
आरती----के दौरान ताली बजाने से
दिल मजबूत होता है ।

ये मेसेज असुर भेजने से रोकेगा मगर आप ऐसा नही होने दे और मेसेज सब नम्बरो को भेजे ।

श्रीमद भगवत गीता पुराण और रामायण ।
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''कैन्सर"
एक खतरनाक बीमारी है...
बहुत से लोग इसको खुद दावत देते हैं ...
बहुत मामूली इलाज करके इस
बीमारी से काफी हद तक बचा जा सकता है ...

अक्सर लोग खाना खाने के बाद "पानी" पी लेते है ...
खाना खाने के बाद "पानी" ख़ून में मौजूद "कैन्सर "का अणु बनाने वाले '''सैल्स'''को '''आक्सीजन''' पैदा करता है...

''हिन्दु ग्रंथो मे बताया गया है कि...

खाने से पहले'पानी 'पीना
अमृत"है...

खाने के बीच मे 'पानी ' पीना शरीर की
''पूजा'' है...

खाना खत्म होने से पहले 'पानी'
''पीना औषधि'' है...

खाने के बाद 'पानी' पीना"
बीमारीयो का घर है...

बेहतर है खाना खत्म होने के कुछ देर बाद 'पानी 'पीये...

ये बात उनको भी बतायें जो आपको "जान"से भी ज्यादा प्यारे है...

जय श्री राम

रोज एक सेब
नो डाक्टर ।

रोज पांच बदाम,
नो कैन्सर ।

रोज एक निबु,
नो पेट बढना ।

रोज एक गिलास दूध,
नो बौना (कद का छोटा)।

रोज 12 गिलास पानी,
नो चेहेरे की समस्या ।

रोज चार काजू,
नो भूख ।

रोज मन्दिर जाओ,
नो टेन्शन ।

रोज कथा सुनो
मन को शान्ति मिलेगी ।।

"चेहरे के लिए ताजा पानी"।

"मन के लिए गीता की बाते"।

"सेहत के लिए योग"।

और खुश रहने के लिए परमात्मा को याद किया करो ।

अच्छी बाते फैलाना पुण्य है.किस्मत मे करोड़ो खुशियाँ लिख दी जाती हैं ।
जीवन के अंतिम दिनो मे इन्सान इक इक पुण्य के लिए तरसेगा ।

जब तक ये मेसेज भेजते रहोगे मुझे और आपको इसका पुण्य मिलता रहेगा...

जय श्री राम

Emotion is a good element in yoga

Emotion is a good element in yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle. Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering. Not to kill emotion, but to turn it towards the Divine is the right way of the yoga. But it must become pure, founded upon spiritual peace and joy, capable of being transmuted into Ananda. Equality and calm in the mind and vital parts, an intense psychic emotion in the heart can perfectly go together. Awake by your aspiration the psychic fire in the heart that burns steadily towards the Divine - that is the one way to liberate and fulfill the emotional nature.

Sri Aurobindo.

A seed and God's name

A devotee took a tiny banyan seed and said to Mother, "Look, Mother, it is tinier even than the tiniest seed we know. From this will spring a giant tree! How strange!" "Indeed, it will," Mother replied. "See, that a tiny seed is the Name of God. From it in time come divine moods, devotion, love, and spiritual consummation."

True Wisdom

Sub-Judge: “Revered Sir, how can we know that true wisdom?”

Sri Ramakrishna: “When true wisdom comes, God does not appear to be very far. He is no longer there, but here in the heart. He is no longer “that”, but “this”. He dwells within all. Whoever seeks Him, finds Him”. …

Brahmo devotee: “What is the sign of one, who has attained true wisdom living in the world?”

Ramakrishna: “When the repetition of the Name of the Lord will bring tears to the eyes, send a thrill through the whole body and make the hair stand on end. The spiritual eye must be opened. It is open, when the mind is purified. Then the presence of Divinity will be realized everywhere and every woman will appear as Divine Mother.

Everything is in the mind. The impure mind brings attachment to the world, and the purified mind brings the realization of God. The impure mind of a man becomes attached to a woman. Woman naturally loves man and man naturally loves woman, and from this spring attachment and worldliness. …

So long as there is attachment to worldliness, and thirst for objects of lust, so long there is attachment to the body. As attachment to the world grows less, the mind goes towards the Atman or the true Self, and the attachment to the physical body becomes less. When the attachment to the world has entirely vanished, Self-knowledge comes, and the Atman is separated from the physical body.

When an ordinary cocoanut is cut into halves, it is very difficult to separate the kernel from the shell; but when it is dried, the kernel becomes separate from the shell by itself. You can feel it by shaking it.

A man, who has realized God, becomes like the dry cocoanut, his soul becomes separate from his body and all attachment to the body leaves him. He is not affected by the pleasure and pain of the body; he does not seek the comforts of the body; he moves from place to place like an emancipated soul.
"A true devotee of my Divine Mother attains absolute freedom in this life and is eternally blissful". When you notice that tears flow and the thrill comes at the repetition of the Name of the Lord, then you may know that attachment to sense -objects has become less and the devotee is on the path of Realization”.

Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna
(“The Gospel of Ramakrishna” by Swami Abhedananda, Vedanta Society, New York, Ch. XI “Sri Ramakrishna At The Sinti Brahmosamaj”, p. 331)