Gurudev Uvacha

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.#Celebrating Diwali: The Deeper Purpose : November 5, 2021. 9:00AM :  Sirshree.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diwali, the festival of lights, is celebrated with pomp and enthusiasm all over India. It denotes the return of Lord Rama to Ayodhya after his victory over the demon king, Ravana. The name Ayodhya is made of “A-yudh,” which means the absence of war, the non-existence of conflict. This state of peace and joy can only arise with the return of Lord Rama, who symbolizes the divine presence. Thus, Diwali celebrates the return of love, joy, and peace in our lives upon the destruction of the demonic tendencies represented by Ravana. Since ol...

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2021. 8:00. PM. We Connect Differently To A Personal God : Swami Tejomayananda --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sri Rama was the maryadapurushottama, the ideal man. The purpose of his avatara was to teach us how to live. On the same day, three other mahapurushas, his brothers, were born. Their goal was different. They taught us how to love and their importance should not be underestimated. We must remember to pray to these great devotees, because the path to discover bhakti in our hearts, is only through the grace of the bhakta.   The relationship of each of the brothers with Rama was different. In the Bala Kanda portion of Sri ...

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 2, 2021. 5:44.PM.  HIS HOLINESS SRI SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA SARASWATI MAHARAJ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Known as Balakrishnan, he was born of noble parents at Ernakulam (Kerala) on the 8th of May, 1917. The rigidity of the family daily routine of worship, lasting for quite a few hours, became part and parcel of the mental and moral make-up of the young lad. And, added to this, he had the rare chance of coming under the influence of his family-Gurus who were saintly souls. Right from young age he had the inquiring mind which critically questioned everything. He was equally brilliant in his studies and emerged o...

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, NOVEMBER1, 2021. 5:00 AM. Bheeshma Sthuthi… -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lord Krishna knew how badly this “man of justice” was perplexed. So, Krishna took the frustrated Dharmaputra to seek advice from his grandfather Bheeshma who was still lying on “Sharashayya” – a bed of arrows – in the war field itself. He was awaiting the arrival of Uttaraayana, the auspicious time for leaving his body. The Pandava brothers along with Sage Veda Vyasa and other Sages followed him. Bheeshma Pitamaha was lying like a fallen mountain on the bed of arrows that adorned his entire body. As he could not get up from there, he offered Pranam to the Lord with his glance...

=========================================================== 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...