Sunday, July 20, 2014
THE SECRET OF TRUE PEACE
Friday, July 18, 2014
Keep Going, Keep Going... This is our Mantra...
नहीं रुकना नहीं थकना सतत् चलना सतत् चलना
यही तो मन्त्र है अपना शुभंकर मन्त्र है अपना
हमारी प्रेरणा भास्कर है जिनका रथ सतत् चलता
युगों से कार्यरत है जो सनातन है प्रबल उर्जा
गति मेरा धरम है जो भ्रमण करना भ्रमण करना
यही तो मन्त्र है अपना शुभंकर मन्त्र है अपना...
हमारी प्रेरणा माधव हैं जिनके मार्ग पर चलना
सभी हिन्दू सहोदर है ये जन जन को सभी कहना
स्मरण उनका करेंगे और समय दे अधिक जीवन का
यही तो मन्त्र है अपना शुभंकर मन्त्र है अपना...
हमारी प्रेरणा भारत है भूमि की करें पूजा
सुजला सुफ़ला सदा स्नेहा यही तो रूप है उसका
जियें माता के कारण हम करें जीवन सफ़ल अपना
यही तो मन्त्र है अपना शुभंकर मन्त्र है अपना...
यही तो मन्त्र है अपना...
यही तो मन्त्र है अपना...
यही तो मन्त्र है अपना...
English Transliteration:
Charaiveti Charaiveti Yahin to Mantra hai Apna,
Nahin Rukna ,Nahi Thakna ,Satat Chalana Satat Chalana
Yahin to Mantra hai Apnaa, Shubhankar Mantra hai apna
Hamari Prerana Bhaskar, hai jinka rath satat chalata,
yugon se karya rath hai jo,sanatan hai prabal urja,
Gati mera Dharam hai jo, Bhrahmana karana Bhrahmana karana
Yahin to Mantra hai Apna, Shubhankar Mantra hai apna..
Hamari Prerna Madhav hai jinke Marg par chalana,
Sabhi Hindu Sahodar hai, yeh jana jana ko sabhi kehna
Smarana unka karenge aur ,Samay de adhik jeevan ka,
Yahin to mantra hai apna, Shubhankar Mantra hai apna,
Hamari Prerna Bharat, hai Bhoomi ki Karen pooja
Sujala Suphala Sada Sneha ,yahin to roop hai uska
jiye mata ke karan hum,karen jeevan safal apna,
Yahin to Mantra hai apna...Shubhankar mantra hai apna
Meaning:
Keep going, keep going this is our mantra. Never stopping and never tiring, we keep steadfastly moving forward.
Our inspiration is the sun, whose chariot moves steadfastly. It has been duty-bound through the ages, yet it has an everlasting intense energy. Movement is my Dharma, going from place to place.
Our inspiration is Shri Guruji, on whose path we are to tread. All Hindus are brothers – we have to tell this to the world. We should remember the great deeds of Shri Guruji and give more time to his mission
Our inspiration is the Bharat, the land we worship. It is the source of many good things and a constant source of love. We should make our life worthwhile by living for this mother of ours
CONVERSATION WITH SRI KRISHNA ...
KRISHNA : Activity gets you busy. But productivity gets you free.
Me : Why has life become complicated now?
KRISHNA : Stop analyzing life. Just live it. It makes it complicated.
Me : Why are we then constantly unhappy?
KRISHNA : Worrying has become your
habit. That’s why you are not happy.
Me: Why do good people always suffer?
KRISHNA : Diamond cannot be polished without friction. Gold cannot be purified without fire. Good people go through trials, but don’t suffer.
With that experience their life becomes better, not bitter.
Me : You mean to say such experience is useful?
KRISHNA : Yes. In every term, Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.
Me : Because of so many problems, we don’t know where we are heading…
KRISHNA : If you look outside you will not know where you are heading. Look inside. Eyes provide sight. Heart provides d way.
Me : Why does failure hurt
more than moving in the right direction?
KRISHNA : Success is a measure as decided by others. Satisfaction is a measure as decided by you.
Me : In tough times, how do you stay motivated?
KRISHNA : Always look at how far you have come rather than how far you have to go. Always count your blessing, not what you are missing.
KRISHNA : When they suffer they ask, “why me?” When they prosper, they never ask “Why me?”
Me : How can I get the best out of life?
KRISHNA : Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.
Me : One last question. Sometimes I feel my prayers are not answered.
KRISHNA : There are no unanswered prayers. Keep the faith and drop the fear. Life is a mystery to solve, not a
problem to resolve. Trust me. Life is wonderful if you know how to live.
He Who is Alone is Happy. Do Good to All, Like Everyone, But Do Not Love Anyone....
বিবেকানন্দ
25th July, 1897.
MY DEAR MARIE,
I have time, will, and opportunity now to clear my promise. So my letter begins. I have been very weak for some time, and with that and other things my visit to England this Jubilee season had to be postponed.
I was very sorry at first not to be able to meet my nice and very dear friends once more, but Karma cannot be avoided, and I had to rest contented with my Himalayas. It is a sorry exchange, after all; for the beauty of the living spirit shining through the human face is far more pleasurable than any amount of material beauty.
Is not the soul the Light of the world?
The work in London had to go slow — for various reasons, and last though not the least was l'argent, mon amie! When I am there l'argent comes in somehow, to keep the mare going. Now everybody shrugs his shoulder. I must come again and try my best to revive the work.
I am having a good deal of riding and exercise, but I had to drink a lot of skimmed milk per prescription of the doctors, with the result that I am more to the front than back! I am always a forward man though — but do not want to be too prominent just now, and I have given up drinking milk.
I am glad to learn that you are eating your meals with good appetite.
Do you know Miss Margaret Noble of Wimbledon? She is working hard for me. Do correspond with her if you can, and you help me a good deal there. Her address is, Brantwood, Worple Road, Wimbledon.
So you saw my little friend Miss Orchard and you liked her too — good. I have great hopes for her. And how I should like to be retired from life's activities entirely when I am very old, and hear the world ringing with the names of my dear, dear young friends like yourself and Miss Orchard etc.!
By and by, I am glad to find that I am aging fast, my hair is turning grey. "Silver threads among the gold" — I mean black — are coming in fast.
It is bad for a preacher to be young, don't you think so? I do, as I did all my life. People have more confidence in an old man, and it looks more venerable. Yet the old rogues are the worst rogues in the world, isn't it?
The world has its code of judgment which, alas, is very different from that of truth's.
So your "Universal Religion" has been rejected by the Revue de deux Mondes. Never mind, try again some other paper. Once the ice is broken, you get in at a quick rate, I am sure. And I am so glad that you love the work: it will make its way, I have no doubt of it. Our ideas have a future, ma chere Marie — and it will be realised soon.
I think this letter will meet you in Paris — your beautiful Paris — and I hope you will write me lots about French journalism and the coming "World's Fair" there.
I am so glad that you have been helped by Vedanta and Yoga. I am unfortunately sometimes like the circus clown who makes others laugh, himself miserable!
You are naturally of a buoyant temperament. Nothing seems to touch you. And you are moreover a very prudent girl, inasmuch as you have scrupulously kept yourself away from "love" and all its nonsense. So you see you have made your good Karma and planted the seed of your lifelong well-being. Our difficulty in life is that we are guided by the present and not by the future. What gives us a little pleasure now drags us on to follow it, with the result that we always buy a mass of pain in the future for a little pleasure in the present.
I wish I had nobody to love, and I were an orphan in my childhood. The greatest misery in my life has been my own people — my brothers and sisters and mother etc. Relatives are like deadly clogs to one's progress, and is it not a wonder that people will still go on to find new ones by marriage!!!
He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, butdo not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind — that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.
I envy so much your frame of mind — quiet, gentle, light, yet deep and free. You are already free, Marie, free already — you are Jivanmukta. I am more of a woman than a man, you are more of a man than woman. I am always dragging other's pain into me — for nothing, without being able to do any good to anybody — just as women, if they have no children, bestow all their love upon a cat!!!
Do you think this has any spirituality in it? Nonsense, it is all material nervous bondage — that is what it is. O! to get rid of the thraldom of the flesh!
Your friend Mrs. Martin very kindly sends me copies of her magazine every month — but Sturdy's thermometer is now below zero, it seems. He seems to be greatly disappointed with my non-arrival in England this summer. What could I do?
We have started two Maths (monasteries) here, one in Calcutta, the other in Madras. The Calcutta Math (a wretched rented house) was awfully shaken in the late earthquake.
We have got in a number of boys, and they are in training; also we have opened famine relief in several places and the work is going on apace. We will try to start similar centres in different places in India.
In a few days I am going down to the plains and from thence go to the Western parts of the mountains. When it is cooler in the plains, I will make a lecture tour all over and see what work can be done.
Here I cannot find any more time to write — so many people are waiting — so here I stop, dear Marie, wishing you all joy and happiness.
May you never be lured by flesh is the constant prayer of —
Ever yours in the Lord,
Monday, December 3, 2012
Refreshment For The Mind
Silence empowers an individual's capacities and enables the recognition and release of their unique potential. In today's world, silence is as necessary for the mind as oxygen is for the body. We need that spiritual breath that sustains our life in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Poem: These Are My Wishes For You by Sandra Sturtz Hauss

These Are My Wishes For You
Sandra Sturtz Hauss
May you find serenity and tranquility
in a world you may not always understand.
May the pain you have known
and the conflict you have experienced
give you the strength to walk through life
facing each new situation with courage and optimism.
Always know that there are those
whose love and understanding will always be there,
even when you feel most alone.
May a kind word,
a reassuring touch,
and a warm smile
be yours every day of your life,
and may you give these gifts
as well as receive them.
May the teachings of those you admire
become part of you,
so that you may call upon them.
Remember, those whose lives you have touched
and who have touched yours
are always a part of you,
even if the encounters were less than you would have wished.
It is the content of the encounter
that is more important than its form.
May you not become too concerned with material matters,
but instead place immeasurable value
on the goodness in your heart.
Find time in each day to see beauty and love
in the world around you.
Realize that what you feel you lack in one regard
you may be more than compensated for in another.
What you feel you lack in the present
may become one of your strengths in the future.
May you see your future as one filled with promise and possibility.
Learn to view everything as a worthwhile experience.
May you find enough inner strength
to determine your own worth by yourself,
and not be dependent
on another's judgment of your accomplishments.
May you always feel
Loved
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