Gurudev Uvacha

=========================================================== GURU PURNIMA TODAY. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Friday, July 23, 2021. 7:01. AM. Salutations to the Supreme Ruler Ishvara comes from the root – ‘to control’. Ishvara is the Master, the Ruler, the Controller and the King of the whole world. When we go to a new place, we are curious to know where the ruler, the king or president lives. We cannot see him, but we see his soldiers, administrators and other officers, through whom he controls the kingdom. Similarly, God or Guru manages the work of this whole world by the delegation of His power. Through these, He controls the world that functions under His laws. The Supreme Law Maker In a monarchy, the king is the law maker and hence above the law. He is also above the Supreme Court. He is the President. The Supreme Court is guided by the rules, but the king is even above the laws. Lord Yama can be compared ...

Thursday, July 22, 2021. 7:22. AM. The fabric of society is built with the building blocks of family units. Each jiva is born into a family and the majority, grow up in the same family, surrounded by their loved ones  parents, siblings, grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. There are of course, a few who do not have this privilege. Generally we find that despite the deep love that family members share, living together poses problems that arise from a host of negativities like anger, possessiveness, greed, and jealousy. Court rooms are full of cases, the highest percentage of which are between members of the same family. An individual comes into this world to fulfill his own destiny, for a purpose. It just so happens that members of a family live in the same house. For example while travelling we do not know who will be on the plane with us. On a flight, the one karma common to all is that all aboard wanted to travel on that particular flight on that day. Each one has a different go...

  Wednesday, July 21, 2021. 7:23.AM BRAHMAN IS EXISTENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS : All things exist. We cannot conceive of non-existence as different from existence, for even non-existence, in order that it may convey any sense, must become a content of consciousness. And consciousness must be. Existence is the minimum to which things can be reduced, without which even thought is impossible. Everything relates to existence of some kind, and there is no thought of non-existence. The Upanishad speaks of Brahman as that which is full, from which the full proceeds, and which remains full even when the full is removed from it. Swami Sivananda, while commenting on this Mantra, in his Dialogues from the Upanishads, points out that the infinite, invisible Brahman is That which is full, and the visible Hiranyagarbha or the manifested Brahman, or Brahman as this perceptible universe, is this which is full. From That unmanifest does proceed this manifest or the visible. When the whole universe, wit...

  Tuesday, July 20, 2021. 7:27. AM. Arise Bharat The Vishwa Hindu Parishad was founded at Swami Chinmayananda’s ashram in 1962, with Swami as the founder-chairman. In that year the pope was visiting India; Catholics had vowed to convert 108 Hindus to Christianity in each city the pope visited. Incensed at this predatory practice, Swami announced he would bring 1,008 back into the Hindu fold in each of the same cities. Reconversion of those who converted through enticement or coercion remains a central VHP goal. From 1964, Swami had no formal post with the VHP, but served as spiritual guide. According to Ashok Singhal, general-secretary of the VHP, Swami was responsible for the concept of the Hindu vote bank. Swami observed in 1988, “Strength in a democracy flows out of the power to vote, not just through physical strength.” Swami was not exempt from controversy. In fact, at times he invited it. He opened one meeting by saying emphatically, “I think that is not sufficient that I con...

 ========================================================= Monday, July 19, 2021. 7:18. AM. Every attempt to cultivate divine virtues, selflessness, straight-forwardness, courage, serenity, generosity, mercy and self-restraint, this in reality is Divine life or life in God. Ever keep up a balanced mind in success and failures, censures and praise, honour and dishonour, gain and loss, heat and cold. Give up identification with the body, wife, children and all kinds of property. Identify yourself with the all-pervading immortal blissful Atman and rest peacefully in Brahman. Man's life must not be confined to the limits of his family: but should take in the entire village or town, nay, the whole state, the whole country, the whole earth and the whole universe. His love must embrace the entire universe. Therefore, when he loves knowledge for its own sake and his love is universal and boundless, then the mighty protector God is pleased because man attains the summit of his glory. The tr...

----------------------------------------- Sunday, July 18, 2021. 6:49. AM. ------------------------------------------ Try to make an evaluation of what you have been throughout the year that has gone by. Have you grasped each day and made a gainful step upward and Godward towards your Destiny? Have you converted experiences that you encounter into things of increased wisdom and greater inner strength? And in the light of this evaluation, have you been better equipped to move towards this great new wondrous gift of God—one more year of 365 virgin days? Each day is filled with twenty-four golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes—precious, invaluable, beyond compare. They are yours to be utilised and filled with divinity, love, compassion, wisdom, spiritual aspiration, sincere sadhana. You can do all these things and more to enrich yourself. Let the New Year lift you up higher on the scale of spiritual evolution. Let it be a year to prove that God’s gift to you has not been in va...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Saturday, July 17, 2021. 7:38. AM.  "What is virtue? " : "Virtue and righteousness are practically the same. We cannot have righteousness without knowledge. One cannot know what virtue is unless it is based on the highest knowledge. People can be partially virtuous, relatively virtuous; they may err at some time or the other. But a man who is grounded on truth cannot err, because he is based on that which is absolutely right. Morality and ethics should be based on the knowledge of the Reality. Unless ethics is based on metaphysics, it cannot be perfect ethics. There should be an ultimate explanation of the behaviour of a saint, and that explanation is his own experience or anubhavam. ****** ==========================================================