International Vedanta Society 20th Annual Convention, Guwahati, India

Our Amazing Mind

The most amazing thing with us is our mind.

Our mind always eludes us from Truth. It never allow us to see things what they actually are, rather our mind reflects the things of this world with its own color for that reason the world seems to be sometime nice sometime not. The colorful reflection of our mind cerates this maze which we perceive as the world around us.

The knowledge is guiding every one of us towards the path of the Ultimate Truth. We just have to follow our Knowledge. Help your intelligence to give you a hand to choose the right track in this fascinating journey.

Never just allow yourself to float aimlessly. It is very important to have a clear vision of the path that we are following. Assist your intelligence with good solid reasoning. Take the help of the great souls who have reached that Ultimate.

Think A While

Love is the purest expression in the world. But when it is related to something the love loses its purity. The pure love gets a name, becomes a relation. Thus denying divinity love losses its charm and only then the name of a relation remains on our hand to enjoy it. We take this relation as love and want to enjoy but it is not ‘love’. It is a not love but a mare relation. The essence –the ‘love’ is not there in a relation.

ANSWER OF OUR LIFE

Life is the canvas – we always adding colors to it to make it more interesting and beautiful. But without True knowledge the picture of our life won’t be the perfect one.

Everyday we try to add something new in our life. We want our life filled only with joy and lots of entertainment. But somewhere something is always missing. So our life never becomes as tasteful as we want it to be. Still we try to add the taste in our life in our own way. For that we enrich ourselves with property-money-knowledge. We search for a thing which will fulfill life. But we fail to recognize that precious thing. With all our effort through out our life this search for fulfillment goes on, until we recognize the knowledge of that precious thing, which in Vedanta, is called as Brahman.

The knowledge of Brahman is the knowledge which is the answer of all our search and makes us fully satisfied. Then only we truly say – “Yes we got the answer of our life.”

20th Annual Convention Invitation Card.

A JOINT VENTURE

There are people around ready to pull you down
Down-down-down, till you hit the ground.

There are situations ready to drag you down
Down-down-down, till you hit the ground.

But
You don’t blame them for you are not ready,
Ready as yet to take the leap upward
You have not prepared yourself for the journey.

Remember, you have to go defying the
The force of gravity, that takes effort,
Years of sustained effort and planning, and
A strong will force.

Everyone says take God’s help. But you
Keep on saying to yourself day in and day
Out:
I have nothing to worry about.
Nothing can bother me.
Nothing can disturb me.
I have God as my partner
It’s a joint venture.

Nothing truly great was achieved
Nothing truly great was ever achieved
Nothing truly great can ever be achieved
Until

Your will and God’s will
Your desire and God’s desire
Your effort and God’s effort
Meet and coincide.

The poem been contributed by Asish Deb.