विपश्यना और दर्द-निवारण

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📃 वैसे तो मार्च सन् 1975 में मैंने प्रथम दस दिन शिविर लिया किंतु मुझे इगतपुरी में प्रथम एक माह के दीर्घ शिविर में भाग लेने का भी सौभाग्य प्राप्त हुआ। 

इस शिविर के पहले मेरी कमर में दर्द था जो बिना किसी औषधि के शिविर में ही समाप्त हो गया। इसी शिविर में मैंने उत्पाद और व्यय को ठीक से समझा, जो मेरे जीवन में रामबाण सिद्ध हुआ और हो रहा है। दर्द में जब उत्पाद समाप्त कर व्यय पर ही ध्यान लगाया जाए तो दर्द समाप्त हो जाता है। 

पांच साल पहले मेरे हार्निया का ऑपरेशन गुजरात में सिद्धपुर, पाटन में एक प्राइवेट नर्सिंग हॉस्पिटल में हुआ। ऑपरेशन रात्रि को 10 बजे हुआ और मुझे दर्द निवारक गोलियां रात्रि में लेने की सलाह दी गई। मैंने

कोई गोली नहीं ली और उक्त विधि का प्रयोग करके आराम से सो गया। सुबह डॉक्टर साहब ने गोलियां न लेने पर आश्चर्य प्रकट किया तो इसे मैंने उन्हें अपनी साधना का कमाल बताया।

मुझे पुरानी आर्थराइटिस भी है और मैं मन को दोनों घुटनों से होकर प्रति दिन गुजारता हूं। अतः घुटने थोड़े सख्त अवश्य हो गये हैं किंतु मुझे यह बीमारी अब नहीं सताती। कभी दर्द जरूर होता है तो मैं उत्पाद-व्यय के ज्ञान से ठीक कर लेता हूं। हां, साक्षीभाव प्रत्येक अवस्था में आवश्यक है। 

मुझे डॉक्टर ने एनलार्ड प्रौस्ट्रेट की बीमारी बताई, क्योंकि रात्रि में पेशाब करने के लिए अधिक उठना पड़ता था। मैंने दवाइयां भी लीं, कई बार ऑपरेशन का भी विचार किया, किंतु अब मुझे ऑपरेशन का विचार ही नहीं आता है। क्योंकि मैं प्रोस्ट्रेट पर साक्षीभाव से ध्यान केंद्रित करता रहता हूं।

मेरी आयु 73 साल की है। अतः कहीं न कहीं दर्द होता रहता है। सतिपट्ठान की शिक्षा से अब यह दर्द मुझे परेशान नहीं करता क्योंकि 'अरे कल्याण हो गया। इस पर ध्यान लगाने से अपने पूर्व जन्म के संस्कारों का क्षय होता है'- गुरुजी के ये वाक्य मुझे सांत्वना देते हैं और पुराने संस्कारों को निकालता निकालता दर्द भी समाप्त कर लेता हूं। प्रत्येक विपश्यना बैठक के बाद जो हल्कापन महसूस होता है तो ऐसा मालूम होता है कि व्याधि किस प्रकार आती है और कैसे दूर की जा सकती है।

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That's what Maa Kali's blessings can do!

An old priest used to always worship Maa Kali in the morning. His ritual included an offering of a cup of milk. So one day, he was sick and asked his grandson (hardly 2–3 years old kid) to go on his behalf. The kid happily went to the temple. As he completed his tasks of cleaning, putting flowers etc, he remembered his Grandfather's instructions and offered the milk to Maa Kali speaking in his innocent voice, “Maa please drink your milk!” So simple was his devotion that Maa appeared and drank up the whole cup! The happy kid went back to his Grandfather who was surprised. Then the kid asked for his food! The Grandpa decided to see if the kid had drank up the milk or the Godess actually had. So he sent him off to the temple with the empty bowl and tell Maa, “Maa, you drank up all the milk, now what will Grandpa and I have?” The toddler obviously did as instructed.

Maa Kali appeared again and laughed, “Is it so? Let me refill the cup!” She squeezed her breast and filled the cup with her own milk! The kid happily took it to his grandfather who now believed him looking at the cupful of milk! He asked the kid to have all the milk since it was his Karma which got him the divine darshan! The child later on became a very famous poet called Baldev Ratha. This is an 18th century incident. He is called as KaviSurya (Sun among poets) and even a city is named after him! That's what Maa Kali's blessings can do!

How can we cut kammas that are to come, by Vipassana?

 

Que-Ans :Kalyanmitra S N Goenka ji

1) How can we cut kammas that are to come, by Vipassana?

Goenkaji: When kamma ripens it brings its fruit. Before the fruit comes, the sensation comes. If we weaken the inevitable fruit by observing the sensations then the fruit that comes will be weaker.

Otherwise it would have come large and ripe, filled with bitterness or sweetness as the case may be.

Now we have demolished it by cutting at the roots.

We cannot forget the fundamental law of kamma, that no one else can remove our kamma. To dream that some guru or anyone else will remove it for us someday is to live with false hope.

2) Perhaps we are unable to cut our kamma, but we face it bravely and bear its fruit with resilience.

SNG: This is what we are doing.

The fruit of kamma that would have come along with unbearable suffering has come as a sensation and we dissolve it by observing it with equanimity; thus becoming free with very little suffering.

This is the rare and supreme gift of the Buddha.

He discovered where the starting point of kamma was and gave us this knowledge. Fruits of all our kamma will come inevitably. If we start watching sensations as soon as they arise, then when the fruit does come, it will be a weak fruit with no strength or power.

Even when a difficult and a particularly large fruit ripens it will cease to affect us. We will accept it smilingly, knowing that as kammas bringing unhappiness have borne fruit, so also kammas bringing happiness will bear fruit. We must remain steadfast with equanimity and fearless in both situations.

In my life also a major fruit of kamma came in all its bitterness. Large businesses, properties and riches were taken over by the government overnight, without our knowledge. Though we remained steadfast and grounded in Dhamma, we would have been better equipped to deal with it if we had been forewarned. We would have worked at weakening its impact. However that did not happen; never mind as we gained more time and opportunity to ripen in Dhamma.

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#कन्या_पूजन से सभी तरह के वास्तु दोष, विघ्न,भय और शत्रुओं का नाश होता है।

⚱ *नवरात्रि में कन्या पूजन में ध्यान रखे कि कन्याओ की उम्र दो वर्ष से कम और दस वर्ष से ज्यादा भी न हो ।*

⚱ *शास्त्रों के अनुसार दो वर्ष की कन्या kanya को कुमारी कहा गया है । कुमारी के पूजन से सभी तरह के दुखों और दरिद्रता का नाश होता है ।*

⚱ *तीन वर्ष की कन्या को त्रिमूर्ति माना गया है । त्रिमूर्ति के पूजन poojan से धन लाभ होता है ।*

⚱ *चार वर्ष की कन्या को कल्याणी कहते है । कल्याणी के पूजन poojan से जीवन के सभी क्षेत्रों में सफलता और सुख समृद्धि की प्राप्ति होती है ।*

 

⚱ *पांच वर्ष की कन्या kanya को रोहिणी कहा गया है । माँ के रोहणी स्वरूप की पूजा करने से जातक के घर परिवार से सभी रोग दूर होते है।*

⚱ *छः वर्ष की कन्या kanya को काली कहते है । माँ के इस स्वरूप की पूजा करने से ज्ञान, बुद्धि, यश और सभी क्षेत्रों में विजय की प्राप्ति होती है ।*

⚱ *सात वर्ष की कन्या को चंडिका कहते है । माँ चण्डिका के इस स्वरूप की पूजा करने से धन, सुख और सभी तरह की ऐश्वर्यों की प्राप्ति होती है ।*

⚱ *आठ वर्ष की कन्या को शाम्भवी कहते है । शाम्भवी की पूजा करने से युद्ध, न्यायलय में विजय और यश की प्राप्ति होती है ।*

⚱ *नौ वर्ष की कन्या को दुर्गा का स्वरूप मानते है । माँ के इस स्वरूप की अर्चना करने से समस्त विघ्न बाधाएं दूर होती है, शत्रुओं का नाश होता है और कठिन से कठिन कार्यों में भी सफलता प्राप्त होती है ।*

⚱ *दस वर्ष की कन्या को सुभद्रा स्वरूपा माना गया हैं। माँ के इस स्वरूप की आराधना करने से सभी मनवाँछित फलों की प्राप्ति होती है और सभी प्रकार के सुख प्राप्त होते है ।*

⚱ *इसीलिए नवरात्र के इन नौ दिनों तक प्रतिदिन इन देवी स्वरुप कन्याओं को अपनी श्रद्धा और सामर्थ्य से भेंट देना अति शुभ माना जाता है। इन दिनों इन नन्ही देवियों को फूल, श्रंगार सामग्री, मीठे फल (जैसे केले, सेब,नारियल आदि), मिठाई, खीर , हलवा, कपड़े, रुमाल,रिबन, खिलौने, मेहंदी आदि उपहार में देकर मां दुर्गा की अवश्य ही कृपा प्राप्त की जा सकती है ।*

⚱ *इन उपरोक्त रीतियों के अनुसार माता की पूजा अर्चना करने से देवी मां प्रसन्न होकर हमें सुख, सौभाग्य,यश, कीर्ति, धन और अतुल वैभव का वरदान देती है।*

Swami Vivekanand on Children

Swami Vivekanand on Children

Swami Vivekananda was very interested in children. He felt that children held the key to the future evolution of man. In America he would sit and chat with the children of his devotees and even play with them as he ventured to unravel the mystery of the child-mind. He held the view that children think in a very different way than adults. He cited 'Alice in Wonderland' as a perfect book written for children. The fantastic things happening there in the plot of the novel, Swamiji thought was the way children fantasised and that was quite in keeping with Vedanta as Swamiji understood it. After all Swamiji was one of the first thinkers in modern times in the world and certainly the first thinker in modern India who held the view that Nature was both deterministic and non-deterministic in different phases and in different readings of the human mind. Today, these two opposing views are held by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics developed by Heisenberg and others. At the macroscopic level Nature seems to be causal in her behaviour but at the microscopic level Nature seems entirely unpredictable and, hence, probabilistic in her behaviour. These two opposing theories have long eluded the synthesis that Einstein so sought -- the Unified Field Theory.

The Quantum Theory of Gravity and the Unified Field Theory are both incomplete and do not successfully explain all of physical reality. Perhaps it was Swamiji who was after all right. His Vedantic theory was that all physical laws of Nature were thought-sequences and generalisations of thought, arrangements of the data of the human mind. In the 1890s Swamiji had pronounced these ideas which were in altered particulate terms corroborated much later by the discoveries of Quantum Physics. Today we know that the observer plays his role in altering the status of the observed event which is somewhat akin to Swamiji's ideas about phenomena perhaps. This, so far as Swamiji's deterministic ideas are concerned. But then he also held the view that there is after all no intrinsic correlation in the events taking place in Nature, that these correlations are our attempts to classify the events but that they are fundamentally mental constructs of varying degrees of refinement from the very gross physical, material hard-core facts of experience to the progressively subtler world of ideas culminating in transcendence of the mind and so achieving freedom from its processes, patterns and orderings. This meant total lawlessness at the very base or absolute freedom from determinism. Nature thus operates according to Swamiji in, so to say, three phases. First, the lowest deterministic phase, then the probabilistic phase and finally, the freedom 'phase' if one may be allowed the latitude to say so.

Events are disjoint, unconnected in themselves, only appearing to be connected by the queer phenomenon of the tendency of the mind to connect them, for thoughts have perhaps a certain sequential nature at the human level at least. Well, Shankaracharya had pronounced the epic statement, 'Anirvachaniya Maya,' that is, 'phenomenal reality is inexpressible.' The ancient seer must have thereby meant that Nature has discrepancies which make any pronouncement on its functioning puerile. Even Sri Ramakrishna had said that there are many contradictions in the functioning of Maya. Swamiji had said that since there was no way to know this world adequately well, the best alternative was to reject the very attempt to do so and try to free oneself of it. Even his Master Sri Ramakrishna had said that one may never get to comprehend a ten-millionth part of phenomena were one to analyse it for ten million years. Therefore, one should concentrate on realising the spiritual ideal rather than spend one's mental resources on this unknowable phenomenal reality.

Question arises what was Swamiji trying to understand from his interactions with small children in America? Was he trying to understand the workings of Maya through his attempted understanding of the carefree, unconditioned thought-processes of the child-mind? Did he get any inkling of the laws of Nature through his study of child psychology which devoid of the trappings of the adult mind must have been so different from it? Did Swamiji get to understand the laws of the evolution of the human mind which may have been so pertinent to him in his quest for the formula of engineering the accelerated evolution of the human species unto Godhead? Who can tell? But the fact remains that Swamiji perhaps believed that the study of the child-mind held the key to the principal questions of human evolution and thus he was so very eager to get the little children into chatting with him on their own terms and never his. Of course one cannot discount his vast love that naturally made him the friend of these innocent ones! Sweet little kids, unto you belongs the future of humanity. Jai Swamiji! Jai Hind!

Written by Sugata Bose