Let Us -- "Love"

The maximum of people in this world, to them, love is to ‘have’ something, something or someone under one’s possession. The more one try to possess something in the name of love the more failure in love comes to their hand.

Love is not of possession. Love is not a passion. Love is not any illusion. Love is not a desire, desire of something or someone.

Our desire for something or of someone is a mare ‘desire’ not love. We always try to create a bond with that desire of us in the name of love.

That desire held us as bonded. Do not let yourself to be a prisoner of your desire. Rise up. Wake. Do not waste more time with your desires.

Realise ‘love’ as freedom. Give love as freedom. Freedom from all our desire is true ‘love’.

Life is for love. Life is for freedom. Then why should we live in the world of desires? Yes, I know, many of you think that without any desire how can we live in this world? Do not worry; with desire, you are living in the world of duality where there is – good and evil, war and peace, happiness and sadness. However, without desire you are going to live in the world of love-peace and in divinity. This will be our world.

What is the use of getting liberated,part -II;Truth Absolute

Our soul i.e. the Self is always constant, we cannot deny our Self because it is non-imaginable that without “I” others are existing. At every moment we first accept or feel me then we feel others.

The body and the Soul cannot be the same. Because whatever we use cannot be the user. So, the Soul uses the body and that is why, the Soul is an entirely separate entity. As in the case of a cocoanut the real essence is quite separate from either the water or the outer periphery.

So, Soul is the only Absolute Reality. Horns of a dilemma begins from the very inception;”who am I?” – It should be a question and it must be solved. If we try to answer that; “I am such and such”, then I can only point out my body, or the mind or the intelligence which is not at all the real explanation of “I” or the soul. Because in reverse we do not use the body at all. Then in deep slumber we become ignorant of our body, mind, intelligence i.e. everything which we use in our so called conscious state. So, this sort of consciousness is no consciousness.

Consciousness is consciousness, and cannot be felt what we feel is, that is state. We feel these states as conscious- it is maya or illusion. Absolute consciousness i.e. consciousness itself cannot be a state. State is a passing phenomenon. The real consciousness i.e. Atman which is one without a second is always without any state either dynamic or static. Relativity or Non-relativity is applicable only to one Reality i.e. the Subject. Consciousness, Soul and Real “I” are one and the same.

What is the use of liberation Part - I

In this ever changing world we all are trying to invest best of ours to find fulfillment in our life. In this search we are more often misguided with the fact that by merely fulfilling the wants of our mind does not complete oneself, rather the fellow is then left with more complicated situations which generally does not seem to be controllable. So to ask the question - are we content? The answer if we judge neutrally is obvious- No. Why? That we can not answer, and in the process of expressing the reply we exaggerate our might and hide the facts.  

I assume who so ever shall be going through these lines, understands that the path of deliverance always starts with the fact of inquiring with one’s self. The people in the path of deliverance is shown the way by the inquiry of –“who am I? Where do I come from?”

As is been told in the “Yoga Basistha”. This inquiry leads to the realization of the Atman or Bramhan which is the true identity of us.

International Vedanta Society is striving hard to manifest the divinity that is already within us by practicing the Upanishads. And under the divine presence of Bhagavan many people are enlightened.

Now as many of the people who got a touch of Bhagavan got enlightened, though not all. However every one of them undergone a wonderful experience of peace and bliss within. “What does that represent; does it bring any benefit to my personal life?” This basic question arises in our mind when we are met with hard line people who say goal of life is to be free from all types of bondage. Does getting liberated bring any change to the present grim scene of the world?

 I remember one great event which may just fit here; it is from time immemorial a great conversation between Bhagavan Sri Krisna and his beloved friend Arjuna. If we are familiar with Srimad Bhagavat Gita, then we all know at the beginning, after seeing the great army of the Kaurabs, the opponent of Pandaba,Arjuna the greatest warrior  did not wanted to fight ,he got trembled in fear, and hid his fear saying he does not want to fight, what does it get by fighting with own people? It is better to go to the woods and take alms rather to fight with the people who are his relatives, whom he loved so much.

Then came the greatest of  blessing in the words of rebuke by Lord Sri Krisna, who said why you act like a meek , if you do not kill these people they shall be brought to their fates automatically, they shall die; it is a previlage given to you that you to fight for good and truth. So be an instrument to the almighty and fear not, fight, because it is your nature, it is your duty.

Actually whenever we are met with words which lead us beyond this material world we basically react by asking ourselves this question what benefit does this bring to my life or to the world?

Is it not true that great many deeds by great many people is just being forgotten, and however great  work one has done does not leave a trace behind in this ever flowing time; everything is forgotten. What our great forefathers did, even we do not remember they did so many wonderful things; all are past and gone in the darkness.

Our Bhagavan once said.” Sei Ram o nei, sei Ajyodhya o nei” it means neither Great Rama is there nor his Great kingdom, where everything was so peaceful, so blissful.

Every thing gets fainted in this ever passing world. Nothing is permanent, so it is for my sake to get the eternal peace with in me, because a lighted lamp can only light another lamp and an enlightened person can only remove all the darkness of ignorance, and only the person who got eternal peace within his Self can only give peace to the world

Tribute To Swami Vivekananda

Today is the Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, the great Indian monk. Here are few words of his

"To every man this is taught: Thou art one with this universal Being and, such, every soul that exists is your soul; every body that exists is your body; and in hurting anyone you heart yourself; in loving anyone you love yourself. As soon as a current of hatred is thrown outside, whomsoever else is hurts, it also hurts you; and if love comes out from you, it is bound to come back to you. For I am the universe--this universe is my body. I am the Infinite, only I am not conscious of it now; but I am struggling to get this consciousness of the Infinite, and perfection will be reached when full consciousness of this Infinite comes."

Let Love Rules The World

There are so many views in the world over God, but it seems very strange why people are so crazy to establish their own perception about God.

It would have been a different world if we people had stopped pursuing our own perception about God over others. Let us give the world a one more chance to be in PEACE.

Making Our Life Worthy

Every one has two wings with which they want to fly. One is mind and the other is body. However, the tragedy is the maximum of us do not know the destination of us. Not even, we have any idea of our final destination. We go on flying here and there and soon find ourselves that with so much work we gained almost nothing. Still we just cannot stop flying.

Know your destination. We first have to know about our destination to make our life worthy.

The 68th Birthday of Bhagavan, the founder and the core of Internatioanal Vedanta Society.