Gurudev Uvacha

 ============================================================= ========================================================== Tuesday, February 15, 2022. 06:00. The world is perfect :  ========================================================= Brilliance of God manifests in the world all around us.  Tiniest of atoms to the largest of galaxies, each creation of God is a reflection of the perfection with which He has created this world.  In fact, the Vedas say that the world is a veritable form of God. They even go on to state the God himself becomes the world.  Just as a spider takes the out from itself—it does not make the web with any external material—similarly God does not use any external material for the creation of the world; he becomes the world himself through his energies.  So there is no question of God’s creation being flawed; the world is perfect. However when we see the world stricken with wars, natural calamities and so much chaos, we wonder is it ...

=============================================================== ================================================================ Monday, February 14, 2022. 06:00. #Spiritual Sadhana Varies by Individual Based on Temperament and Situation of the Sadhak. ============================================================== Not everyone can achieve spiritual progress using exactly the same methods or disciplines. The “one size fits all” approach tried by many religious or spiritual communities of the past only works if their members are all basically similar in temperament and their spiritual development. We have of course heard the stories of individuals who enter a monastery and who seem to be always “getting in trouble” because they cannot maintain silence all the time, or are not ‘serious’ enough in their demeanor for the rest of the community. We have heard also the stories of young energetic individuals being forced to tamp down their vital enthusiasm artificially to ‘fit in’. Sri Aurobind...

 ============================================================= ============================================================== #Sunday, February 13, 2022. 06:00 ##True Dharma Begets Peace, Purity And Prosperity : =============================================================== Generally, the word ‘dharma’ translates as ‘religion'. It brings to mind different religions – Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Islam and so on. It generates ideas of customs, rituals, traditions, places of worship as well as memories of wars and atrocities that have happened in the name of dharma. Therefore, the words ‘dharma, religion’ often generate negative feelings. Interestingly, despite all this, dharma thrives. To understand the wisdom and scope of dharma shastra, we need to understand the meaning of the two words, ‘dharma’ and ‘shastra’. The word that most aptly denotes dharma shastra is samvidhan, constitution. Dharma is that universal, divine constitution that relates to all human beings – to be happy in...

 =============================================================== ============================================================== #Saturday, February 12, 2022. 06:00. #Manage your mind and all becomes possible :    ==============================================================  Change management is a topic that is frequently discussed in the corporate world. People constantly change their minds; economic and political situations are volatile and subject to change. How is such uncertainty to be managed? Those who are familiar with the backdrop of the Mahabharata War are aware that the Pandava prince, Arjuna, knew that a day would come when a war would be waged against the Kauravas. He prepared for it for 30 years. While others merely anguished at the injustice meted out to the Pandavas, Arjuna trained rigorously and acquired divine weapons to battle against Karna, and even his revered Grandsire Bhishma and teacher, Drona. He was well-prepared. However,we do not know whe...

 ============================================================== ================================================================ Friday, February 11, 2022. 06:00. This article is from the book “An Apostle of India’s Spiritual Culture”. ============================================================== 1. INTRODUCTION : If the child is trained from the very beginning, then you will have very few problems later on. You will have very few occasions to chastise the child. All good Samskaras (impressions) should be implanted in the child since it learns to talk. When the child is born, the parents should feel that the Lord has graciously entrusted to their care the greatest treasure on earth. No sacrifice is too much if that would enable them to mould the child properly. When the child is somewhat mischievous, as all children are, the mother frightens it. “Oh, ghost will come”, she tells the child if it does not sleep quickly. This is not proper. Any type of fear element must be kept away f...

 ================================================================ ================================================================ Thursday, February 10, 2022. 06:00. THE EVILS OF ADHIKARIVADA : ================================================================ In one of his question classes the talk drifted on to the Adhikarivada, or the doctrine of special rights and privileges, and Swamiji in pointing out vehemently the evils that have resulted from it spoke to the following effect: With all my respects for the Rishis of yore, I cannot but denounce their method in instructing the people. They always enjoined upon them to do certain things but took care never to explain to them the reason for it. This method was pernicious to the very core; and instead of enabling men to attain the end, it laid upon their shoulders a mass of meaningless nonsense. Their excuse for keeping the end hidden from view was that the people could not have understood their real meaning even if they had prese...