Gurudev Uvacha

========================================================================= ========================================================================= Sunday, December 25, 2022. 06:00. HINTS ON PRACTICAL SPIRITUALITY : (Delivered at the Home of Truth, Los Angeles, California) ====================================================================== This morning I shall try to present to you some ideas about breathing and other exercises. We have been discussing theories so long that now it will be well to have a little of the practical. A great many books have been written in India upon this subject. Just as your people are practical in many things, so it seems our people are practical in this line. Five persons in this country will join their heads together and say, "We will have a joint-stock company", and in five hours it is done; in India they could not do it in fifty years; they are so unpractical in matters like this. But, mark you, if a man starts a system of philosophy, how...

 ====================================================================== ======================================================================== Saturday, December 24, 2022. 06:30 YOGA MEANS ‘UNION’; IT IS DERIVED FROM “YUJ” IN SANSKRIT. ========================================================================= IT IMPLIES A ‘ONENESS WITH THE SUPREME ENERGY’. THE PHILOSOPHY OF YOGA ORIGINATED IN INDIA THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. Yoga means ‘union’; it is derived from “Yuj” in Sanskrit.<br/>It implies a ‘oneness with the Supreme Energy’. The philosophy of Yoga originated in India thousands of years ago. Yoga works towards giving us a healthy mind in a healthy body. Practise of yoga on a regular basis helps us achieve good health (both physical and mental) by not only reducing the built up toxins in our body but by also preventing illnesses both mental and physical. Yoga teaches us number of asanas and postures that makes our body supple and improves the blood circulation which makes...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Friday, December 23, 2022. 06:00. Lover of Discipline : ======================================================================== Salutations to the Lover of Discipline Anusasana means discipline. Sasana is rule and anu means after. Anusasana is discipline after proper understanding. It is not indiscriminate control. It is control with wisdom. It is regulating ourselves and the things around us. Priyā is that which is loved. Anuśāsanapriyāya is one who loves discipline. Importance of Discipline : Gurudev loved discipline. His philosophy was, ‘If we have to do something, do it properly.’ Speak properly. Write properly. Do simple, everyday things systematically. He was meticulous in even the most mundane tasks. Once he was writing letters; the young Swami Tejomayananda (then Brahmacari Vivek Chaitanya) was sitting beside him and helping b...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Thursday, December 22, 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 relate...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Wednesday, December 21, 2022. 06:00. TYPE OF MIND YOU SHOULD PRAY FOR :  This article is a chapter from the book Seek the Beyond. ======================================================================== Loving adorations to revered and beloved Holy Master Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, who taught us about the transitory nature of all names and forms that go to make up this world appearance, who taught us the permanent nature of the Eternal Reality that is beyond all ever-changing names and forms, that is eternal and absolute, imperishable and everlasting. If we wish to attain enlightenment, illumination, divine perfection and liberation, we should channelise all our thoughts in the direction of this great, all-transcendental, absolute Reality. In making our mind move continuously and constantly in an unbroken thought stream to...

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, December 19, 2022. 06:00. Man's Destiny in the Universe :  ========================================================================= 1. Human arrogance can take many forms. One of its manifestations in a pre-eminent way is man's assumption that he is all-wise and his wisdom is incomparable, while its cruder forms take the shape of intolerance of the more respectable attitudes which the few enlightened ones entertain in life. Its subtler expressions go by the name of a scientific approach to things, which, it has to be confessed, is another name for a superior ignorance of anything which ranges beyond normal human understanding. This would make it obvious that a conceit of this kind is nothing short of a curse descended on humanity, and there has not been any other barrier to man's prosperity in the history of evolution...