From Ecstacy To Ecstasy

Unless you stretch yourself, unless you practice stretching your mind on a regular basis with utmost sincerity, unless you are in touch with your true self, you will not find peace; never ever find peace.
You might have everything life can offer- name-fame-riches-social status- plenty of people at your beck and call. Yet, you will be empty at heart. Until you are in tune with your higher destiny you will experience lack.
You might have cooked Chicken Biryani or Chicken Ala Kiev, put all your heart and soul to cooking, but have forgotten to add salt, how will the dish taste? Despite all the good ingredients, despite all your effort it will be tasteless.
Likewise, one must live for a cause, live for something greater than oneself or else life will be meaningless. “That something greater than oneself,” you might call God, without which something is missing in life.
As you surrender yourself wholly and solely to God, you will recognize, your requirements are met, your needs are taken care of. Deep inside you will feel, there is someone who guides you and leads you to the royal road of fulfillment.
The forces that drag you down- the people that pull you down have become powerless for your journey upward has already begun. You will experience a kind of joy you have never experienced before, taste the kind of freedom you have never tasted before.
Within you is love overflowing that no language can describe, as you notice, when you think, God thinks for you, when you speak God speaks through you.
You hear the celestial music as you march from ecstasy to ecstasy from eternity to eternity.

The Article been contributed by Asis Deb

Be Buddha

We know about Buddha, his life. In his youth he didn’t see any illness, or any old person, and above all he had no idea about death. The first time he saw an old man, a person suffering from illness and a dead body that changed him. He realised this world is not true. So began his search for truth and became – Buddha, the wise. But alas! We, everyday see old man, dying person, ill person still we believe nothing will happen to us. We will be fine always. This is not true. Everything won’t be the same always. We also have to die, suffer from illness. Our youth won’t stay long; we won’t be beautiful and fit always. This is the truth of this world. Know it. And be wise like Buddha.
Every one of us wants to be happy, but in this world it is not possible in this form. Until and unless one realises the Supreme Truth one will not be happy always. So to becoming Buddha is the only path to happiness.

Some extracts of Bhagavan's speach.

March On

March on. Do not allow life to stop. Remove all tiredness. Conquer all weakness. Be aware, that you are entitled to Eternity. Manifest yourself. Allow to blossom your latent wisdom. In your real Self, you are Saccidãnanda – Existence, Knowledge and Bliss Absolute. Ye Inhabitants of the world, sons of the immortal, realise your Self and cut asunder all your bondages. In you lie infinite strength. Realise it and become the ruler of your own destiny. Remember, that in the real nature of our Self we are One and Indivisible.

Deep In Our Mind

Mind is the most disturbing element. We can see many waves in the sea. The waves are always in motion. Some time it comes up some times down. Similarly we can see lots of thoughts are rising and again diminishing. But from where all the thoughts are coming and where it is going no one knows. All thoughts diminish like the waves in the sea. All these ups and downs of thoughts or waves of sea are very beautiful and attractive to look.
When we go in sea deep we will realize that the sea is so calm that can not be recognized by the people who are standing on the sea shore. Similarly we will find our mind is vibrating always but beyond this vibration there is a space of tranquility and peace. From outside we will not going to get the way. For this taste tranquility and peace we have to go deep, deep and deep in our mind.

Life is a journey towards Truth. Some walks in this path knowingly others remain ignorent, but they are also going towards the Truth.

Truth is divine. Thuth is Bliss. Thuth is God.

Realising the Truth within is the ultimate knowledge.

Human Mind - The Biggest Enigma

The biggest enigma is the human mind.
The greatest enigma is the mind of man that functions at different labels. Man is part animal and part God – the animal and the God live side by side within the same frame.
Is it possible to raise the animal to the level of God, you ask?
The answer is –YES.
Yes, it is possible to elevate the mind to a higher stage of consciousness- higher and higher and still higher.
Yes, it is possible to achieve a state of absolute bliss and absolute peace and remain there for humans are actually spiritual beings that have come down to have human experience.

The world had never been perfect in the past and will never be perfect in the future. We would be making fools of ourselves should we try to change it. The real joy – the real happiness the real peace, “the peace that passes all understanding” can only be found if we search within.
As we go within, as we start discovering our inner self, we find there is no disharmony no discord nor chaos of any kind anywhere, the birds are singing and the bees are humming all around us, everything is alive pulsating with inner joy, there is hardly any difference amongst cultures, amongst nationalities or races or classes.
HEALTH – HARMONY AND HAPPINESS
PEACE – POISE – PROSPERITY AND PLENTY.
Can be ours – ours for ever.
As we dive deep inside
We realize there is a basic unity in everything that we see or sense, every idea, every expression, every invention stems from the same source – the higher mind, the mind of all minds, the soul of all souls when each one of us feel -
“I AM THE CREATOR AND THE CREATION.”
The article been contributed by Asish Deb.

A True Spiritual Guru....

At the cross road of my life I felt strongly that a spiritual Guru is the only person who can guide me to move in the right direction in the balance portion of my life. I was not sure how to find such a Guru. Moreover, I read in a sacred book that you cannot search a Guru for you – Guru just appears in your life at the appropriate time. I did not believe it but strangely within a short period I was proved wrong.

By sheer chance, I came in contact with Shree Bhagavan – founder and live wire of International Vedanta Society (IVS) about one and half year back. After 2/3 meetings with him, I realized that the Guru has actually appeared in my life proving the ancient scriptures correct even today. Shree Bhagavan is preaching essence of VEDANTA in a very simple language to the interested people tirelessly for the last 25 years. Now we ( myself and my wife Anupa) are visiting Kolkata ashram of IVS regularly particularly in the evening to participate in the interactive discourses delivered by Shree Bhagavan/ Sannyasis( his direct disciples ).

In the major part of my life I was absorbed and interested in the outer world only. Now I have started asking myself seriously – “ who am I”, “ why I am here” etc etc. My life style has become simpler and without any addition of physical wealth ( I am a retired person ) I feel more content than before. I am now looking at life from entirely different angle.

Though the journey has just started and the destination ( realisation of God ) is far off – I have started getting the taste of spirituality through the loving guidance of Shree Bhagavan/Sannyasis. My wife is totally with me in this new pleasant journey.

I will be very glad if even one person is benefited from this message. I am also keen to know about real life cases of spirituality from others. Let us share spiritual experiences for mutual benefits.

Love; Jai Bhagavan

The article been contributed by Mr. K.P.Bhattacharjee.