30 June 2010

Satsang

"Sant ki vani atpati, jhat pat lakhe na koy,
Jo jhatpat lakhe, to chatpat darshan hoy."
The words of a saint may seem strange and not understood so easily. However, if someone understands right away, then he will see God.

29 June 2010

Satsang

"Ved puran sant mat ehu
Sakal sukriti phal nam sanehu."
Vedas, Puranas and saints all agre that one should know and remember the Holy Name of God because it is the fruit of all pious deeds.

28 June 2010

Satsang

"Bare bhagya paiye satsang,
Binahi prayas hohi bhav bhanga."
A person is very fortunate to get Satsang. Without any effort it carries him across the worldly ocean.

23 June 2010

Akbar

Once emperor Akbar went to hunt in a forest. by chance, he got separated from his attendants. He felt very thirsty. He saw a hut at some distance. He went there and saw a saint sitting in meditation. The emperor, at that time, was in ordinary clothes and so the saint did not recognize him. However, when the emperor asked for water, the saint gave him some. When he was leaving, the emperor requested him, "Please come and visit my hut one day. I live in Delhi. My name is Akbar."


Some time later in the course of his travels, that saint reached Delhi. He asked people there, "Brother, where is the hut of Akbar?" People replied, "Sir, don't call him just 'Akbar'. He is Emperor Akbar of Delhi". The saint said, "He may be the king, but I am not concerned with such things. Please just tell me where he lives." People guided him towards Akbar's palace.


The saint reached the palace. The king saluted him and gave him a seat. After sometime Akbar said, "Sir, Now it is time for my prayers, I will return as soon as my prayers are finished". Akbar started praying and the saint watched him. As he finished praying, Akbar knelt, spread his hands and asked for something. When he returned, the saint asked him why he was spreading his hands. The emperor replied, " I was asking God to bless me with wealth, sons, kingdom and all the pleasures of the world."


The saint stood up and said, " O King, you are in fact a big beggar. I will not eat bread even owned by a beggar and pauper like you". So saying, the saint departed.


In other words, everyone, from king to pauper, is engrossed in the swamp of sensual enjoyments. Only a very rare person asks God for devotion.
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22 June 2010

Satsang

"ghoom gham men din gaya,
sochat ho gayi sham.
Ek ghari prabhu na bhaja,
jan janani bhayi banjh."
"A man who does not remember God has in fact wasted the youth of his mother. It would be better for a woman to remain childless than to give birth to a son who has no devotion." What do you gain from believing false things or accumulating more and more wealth through deceitful or unfair means, or from constructing big buildings or from earning respect and holding high rank? What is the benefit in wasting a human birth for such false worldly things? What is the benefit in keeping a cow who will never in her life give milk?

21 June 2010

Proverb

"Kabir darshan sadhu ka, sahib awen yad,
Lekhe me soi ghari, baki din ke bad."
Only that life which is spent remembering God is meaningful. Seeing saints makes one remember God. The time spent listening to satsang and remembering God is what counts because all other time stands wasted.

15 June 2010

Satsang

"Ram bulawa bhejiya, diya Kabira roy.
Jo sukh sadhu sanga men, so baikuntha na hoy."
How will I get the same bliss and pleasure in heaven which I enjoy here in the company of the Holy Saints?

13 June 2010

Satsang

"Kabir sngat sadhu ki, katai koti apradh.
Occhi sangat dushta ki, athon pahar upadh.
Santon ki sangati bhali, jyon gandhi ki bas.
Gandhi kuchh deve nahin, to bhi bas subas."
The company of saints wipes out millions of sins. If you stay near a perfume seller you will start to smell of perfume too, even though the perfume seller does not five you anything. Similarly, company of saints makes us pious and pure by eradication all our sins, whereas the company of wicked people makes us miserable and disturbed.

12 June 2010

Satsang

"Kahta hun kahe jat hun, kahun bajaye dhol
Swansa khali jat hai, teen lok ka mol.
Aise mahange mol ka, ek swans jo jay.
Tinahun lok na pat tare, kahe dhoori milay."
I tell you and go on telling you to the beat of a drum that your breaths are being wasted for nothing, whereas each breath is more valuable that the three worlds. So, why are you wasting such costly breath? Without remembrance of the Holy Name of God, our costly breath is being wasted. No one can give us even one breath in exchange for all the money in the universe. Without meditation on the Holy Name, this human body will simply dissolve into dust.

11 June 2010

Earth

Smell is the natural function of the nose. It is dominated by the element of earth. The black bee is fond of fragrance, and its sense of smell dooms it. The bee flits from flower to flower all day, gathering nectar. This bee has the strength to pierce a hole in wood, but gets trapped in the velvet petals of the lotus flower in the evening. It does not pierce the flower due to its attraction and attachment to its fragrance and tenderness. Then at night an elephant comes, breaks the stem of the lotus flower with his trunk, tramples it underfoot and the bee dies.
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10 June 2010

Water

The tongue represents the water element and its function is to taste. A fisherman hangs an insect or worm on a fishing hook and lowers it into the water. A fish, who is swimming free in the deep water, gets trapped by the fishing line because it is tempted to eat. The fisherman reels in the fishing line and puts the trapped fish on hot sand. The fish abandons its life force in agonizing pain.
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09 June 2010

Fire

The natural function of the eye is to see the colour and shade of the objects. This organ is made from the fire element. for example, insects are very fond of light. Wherever a lamp burns, the gather and get burnt to death by the heat What do the get except a burnt body? In the same way, a man sacrifices his life for physical forms, for beauty.
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08 June 2010

Five Elements

This entire creation is made from five elements - fire, air, water, earth and space. The air represents the sound - the ears hear the sound. It carries words whether pleasant or unpleasant and these words can stir up passion and malice. A deer is totally engrossed in listening to music. It totally forgets itself and then it gets captured and chained by the hunter. So a deer who would normally run freely in jungle, is captured due to its attachment with sound and loses its freedom once for all.
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07 June 2010

Human Body

Now we have a human body and we can acquire Knowledge, renunciation and devotion to God. Salvation is achieved only in the human life form and in no other species. All saints, sages and Great Divine Souls were born as human beings. A human body may be very good-looking but if it is not used to remember the Holy Name of God, then it is useless. It is not at all appropriate for human beings to remain engrossed, all the time, in worldy enjoyments and attachments. A small mistake can ensnare a person in terrible miseries. A human body is cause for salvation and also for bondage. The person who plunges into devotion to God gets salvation while others, who forget God and engrossed in worldly enjoyments get trapped.
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06 June 2010

Transcendental Yoga

Yoga does not only pertain to physical well being but its main objective is to transcend the three states of consciousness which all human beings experience and attain the fourth state of consciousness called the Turiya and Turiyateet i.e. super consciousness. These five states correspond to Siva's activity, that is, His power of action; Siva's Lordship which is His of Knowledge; the third is Siva's power of will; the fourth is His labour which contains all the cycles of creation and destruction and, the fifth is the rest Siva enjoys in His own nature, which is His power of consciousness. The first three states belong to the sphere of trans migratory existence. The fourth and fifth, on the other hand, are higher, supra mundane or transcendental states of consciousness in which the yogi enjoys bliss by penetrating into the universal consciousness of the Self, through which he ultimately becomes liberate (Jivanmukta). The state beyond the fourth is the state of awareness which Paramansiva Himself enjoys when duality has entirely disappeared and everything is realized to be one with consciousness. The fourth is the state of awareness of the yogi who, catching hold of  the pure subjectivity flowing through the lower three states, is still actively elininatiing his sense of duality. While the former is the supreme subject as 'I' consciousness (aham), the latter is the pure awareness of 'I-ness' of the subject which encompasses the lower states, giving them life and joining them together. As such, the fourth state is the reflective awareness of one's own nature shining in all three states at one with them.
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04 June 2010

Why is man so unhappy?

Why has he been infected with the disease of materialism? Those who possess material wealth are just as dissatisfied as those who do not. This insatiable mental disease tortures man so much in this age of materialism, yet the leaders and the intelligentsia do not understand this fact.
How can we get peace? When will we be satisfied? When we forget the right path towards life's destination, we will wander endlessly, facing a lot of difficulties, just like a traveler who has lost his way. The same problems are being faced by human beings today as in the past. How can mental tension and unrest be eradicated: Saint Tulsidas says,"Sometimes this mind wants to enjoy sensual pleasures, sometimes it wants to enjoy immense wealth, sometimes it wanders towards seductive beauty, and sometimes, like a deer, it wanders in the solitude of the forest." So he says, 'Think about how to control this mind'.
The infallible technique to bring the mind under control is bestowed by the mercy of the Spiritual Master. Once sugar is mixed with sand, even though you may be as strong as an elephant you will not be able to separate them. But a little ant can separate them easily. The ant has this skill. In the same way, mind is subtle, so until you find that most subtle technique you will not be able to control it. The Master knows this mystery of how to separate the mind from the senses, and unite it with the Holy Word of God.
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