Jagat Janani Shri Mata Ji

The living Spiritual Master alone can impart the technique of controlling the mind and sensory organs. A devotee, with the help of the Spiritual Knowledge imparted by Him, can make his state of mind pure and free of wrong thoughts and thus treading the true path, he can achieve salvation in life.

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"KOTI NAAM SANSAR MEIN, TATE MUKTI NA HOY.

ADI NAAM JO GUPTA JAP, BOOJHE, BIRLA KOY."

There are thousands of names of God in this world but they won't liberate you. Only a rare person knows the Primordial Name which is remembered secretly within.

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Human Life

We think that animals must be happy. We see a dog riding along in a car and we think that it is being very well looked-after. But you haven't seen a dog cooking its own food, have you? Cows give milk but you won't see a cow cooking milk-pudding. They have to eat whatever they are given. Theirs is a passive existence. A human life, on the other hand, is an active existence. People can create karmas. We can see how much humanity has achieved. We read in the Ramayana that Ravana made all the deities serve him, and this surprises us. But today, due to science, we can push a button and turn on a fan - we have conjured up the `wind-god'! We push a button and on goes the heater - we have invoked the `fire-god'! We push a button to turn on the light — we have invoked the `sun-god'! So we can see how much mankind has accomplished. You don't have to be a bird to fly - now we have aeroplanes. You don't have to become an elephant to do heavy work - we have bulldozers which can do the work of an elephant. In other words, people can do actions and suffer or enjoy the consequences of action, too. Really, human beings have so much potential. We are a bundle of energies, we have so much power. But we have turned our attention outwards and are just racing. We have done so much, but we haven't been able to go within ourselves, and this is why we lack peace. www.manavdharam.org

Story

Once a poor brahmin went to a king and begged for alms. The king agreed to give him something but wanted him first to answer some questions. His first question was, "Why don't you have hair on the palms of your hands?" The brahmin was taken aback. He quickly remembered God and, after careful thought, replied, "Your Majesty, I am just a poor brahmin. My hands are always outstretched to beg. I live through others' donations, and that is why my palms are hairless." The king then asked, "Very well. Tell me why I don't have hairy palms. " The brahmin again remembered God and answered boldly, "Your Majesty, you are always giving. Your hands are always giving to others so how could hair grow on your palms?" "Very good," answered the king. "Now tell me why these courtiers, who neither give nor receive, don't have hairy palms." The brahmin replied, "It's like this. You keep on giving and I keep on taking. Your courtiers see this and it makes them wring their hands, so how could hair grow on their palms, either?" So into which category do we fall? Are we receivers or just hand-wringers? There are plenty of people who simply wring their hands. www.manavdharam.org

Agya

You know how important discipline and orders are in the army. To prove this to his men, one commanding officer assembled them on the top of a mountain, which was so slippery with moss that one false step meant falling thousands of feet below. So this officer blindfolded a soldier and told him to start marching. The soldier did so and just as he reached the slippery part, his officer called out "Halt!" He stopped right there. If he had not obeyed immediately but had taken just one more step, he would have fallen. The rest of the battalion saw this and then they understood the importance of obeying orders. When the soldier's blindfold was removed and he saw where he was, he thought, `If I hadn't obeyed I would have fallen to my death.' It was just a matter of one more step. Similarly, agya is extremely important for premies. If a devotee disobeys and takes a single wrong step it can lead to his ruin. Whatever merit he has accumulated from his devotion will be lost. On the other hand, if he follows agya, not a hair on his head will be harmed. Prahlad's father, King Hiranyakashyap, intended to tie him to a red-hot pillar, but the Lord appeared as a man-lion to save him. He had to take this shape because the king was protected by the boon that neither man nor beast would kill him. To save his devotee and kill the king, the Lord had to come in that form. So obeying agya is the prime duty of the disciple. www.manavdharam.org

Satsang

Lord Krishna did not deliver the teachings of the Gita for his own benefit, but for his devotee Arjuna's sake, so that Arjuna could be liberated. This transformation comes through satsang. Satsang is so pure and so powerful that it can save a person from catastrophe. What will listening to worldly people and their gossip do for you? It will only give you high blood pressure. Satsang will lower your blood pressure and make it normal! All the tension the world has caused you will go away. A person needs very little to live on, but how much tension and hassle he takes upon himself! It's something to think about. You can't take anything with you when you leave this world; you will have to leave everything behind. Even so, people carry such a load of tension around with them. Devotion teaches us to be aloof from worldly cares, to live like King Janak did. The lotus lives in dirty water but its flower is always above the water. This is how to live. www.manavdharam.org

Truth of Life

Our life is passing by, day by day. Every day the sun rises, then before we know it, it sets and it's evening again, making our life one-day shorter. Most people are caught up in their worldly routines and don't realize this. Their worldly concerns are a net, which enmeshes them and chokes them. The spider spins its web and ultimately surrenders its life in it. In the same way, the worldly person is strangled by a web of domestic problems. He has spent his childhood playing and his youth chasing pleasures. Even when he is old he is still full of cravings. He says he will meditate tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes, but time certainly does catch up with him. When Death comes for him he is full of regret that he does not know God. And until a person realizes God he cannot escape the wheel of birth and death and is bound to it for lives to come. A devotee, on the other hand, does not get stuck in Maya. He tries to realize God and escape the cycle of birth and death. www.manavdharam.org

Devotee

When a farmer sows seeds. Some seeds get eaten by birds even before they can germinate. Some are scattered here and there and don't get enough water or fertilizer. They grow a little then no further. But those seeds which get enough water, good soil and fertilizer at the right times are the ones which produce the best crops. A tiny seed turns into a shoot then a strong plant or a mighty tree, providing cereals or fruit. We have to become like this type of seed. A devotee needs the showers of satsang. If he doesn't do meditation and service, he will not achieve self-realization. If he doesn't do service, he cannot be called a devotee. He must be sincere, and if he serves the Master sincerely in thought, word and deed, he will succeed. www.manavdharam.org

Holy Name

We all have to leave this world one-day. So long as you draw breath, you are somebody's mother, sister, daughter or wife. But the day you stop breathing, nobody will want you in the house. They will want you out as quickly as possible. Neither your husband nor your son will go with you. The only thing that will go with you is what you have earned through meditation. So realise this Knowledge, realize this all-pervading Name - this is what will go with you. The great devotee Mira was from Rajasthan. What faith she had in the Holy Name! Her husband tried to kill her by sending her a poisonous snake in a basket, but when she opened the basket she found a statue of Krishna inside. The husband tried again, by sending her a cup of poison. But Mira had unshakable faith in the Holy Name. She remembered it as she drank and the poison changed into nectar. If we have the same kind of faith in the Holy Name, no power can sway us. That is why it is said, "If God protects you, nothing can harm you, even if the whole world is against you." www.manavdharam.org

Badhai

Take time right now
To enjoy this day
Relax in knowing
The promise God gave
That you are a child
Of God up above,
Made in His image
And made in His love.

Greetings on occasion of Pawan Janmotsav of Shri Suyash Ji Maharaj and Happy Independence Day 

Jai Satchitanand...... 

Programme Details

Pawan Janmotsav Shri Suyash Ji Maharaj 

 ( 15 Aug 2013 ) 

 
  Timings : Morning 10-3 PM

 
  Programme Venue :-
   Hans Nagar Ashram,
   Najafgarh Ghumanhera road,
   Panduwala Kalan ( New Delhi )
   Tel. :- +91-11-28315232

Envy

The very simple fact that our life is based on envy. That is so, is it not? Someone is more intelligent than I am, and I want to be equally intelligent; someone is more handsome, or has more money and can travel, and I want to be like him. The mind is constantly comparing itself with others, and such a mind is envious. A jealous mind is a miserable mind. www.manavdharam.org

Religious Life

Religion is to find out the ultimate reality. Man has always been asking if there is something other or beyond then this world. Because there is so much violence, conflict and unrest and inner confusion and mental agonies that man wants to escape and find something beyond it which can give him peace and happiness. Life is full of insecurity and fear in this world that man invents a God which can give him security and shelter. The priest and the religious authorities of traditional religions exploits the gullible people by further fostering this fear. But a fearful mind, scared mind can never be a religious mind. The first quality of religious life is fearless. Religious person is neither afraid of any one nor create fear in the mind of others. Religion is way of life in which there is inward harmony, feeling of complete unity and fearlessness. www.manavdharam.org

Unity

Life is action, to live means to act; the religious life is a life of action, not according to any particular pattern, but action in which there is no contradiction, action which is not segmented, broken up as the business life, the social life, political life, religious life, family life and so on, as a Conservative or as a Liberal. To see that there is an action which is not fragmented, which is total, complete, and to live that way, is the religious life. You can only act in that way when there is love. And love is not pleasure, cultivated and sustained by thought; love is not a thing to be cultivated. It is only love that brings about this total action and that can possibly bring about this complete sense of unity.  www.manavdharam.org

Thought

Can a human being, you and I, or another, can we come upon life that has no death? Can we come upon a life that is really timeless? Which means a life in which thought, which creates the psychological time with its fear, comes to an end. Thought has its own importance, but psychologically it has no importance whatsoever. Thought is a mischief maker, thought is always seeking pleasure, inwardly, love is not pleasure, love is bliss, something entirely different. And when all that is seen very clearly and one lives that way not verbally, not in a world of misunderstanding, but when all that is very clear, very simple then perhaps there is a life that has no beginning and no end, a life of timelessness. www.manavdharam.org

Programme Details

Pawan Janmotsav Shri Suyash Ji Maharaj 

( 15 Aug 2013 ) 

 
  Timings : Morning 10-3 PM

 
  Programme Venue :-
   Hans Nagar Ashram,
   Najafgarh Ghumanhera road,
   Panduwala Kalan ( New Delhi )
   Tel. :- +91-11-28315232

Silence

Meditation is a movement in stillness. Silence of the mind is the way of action. Action born of thought is inaction, which breeds disorder. This silence is not the product of thought, nor is it the ending of the chattering of the mind. A still mind is possible only when the brain itself is quiet. The brain cells-which have been conditioned for so long to react, to project, to defend, to assert--become quiet only through the seeing of what actually is. From the silence, action which does not bring about disorder is possible only when the doer has come to an end-for then the seeing is the acting. Such seeing is possible only out of a silence in which all evaluation and moral values have come to an end.

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Religious Life

The so-called religious life varies from clime to clime, from sect to sect, from belief to belief; and man suffers through the propaganda of the organised vested interests of religions. If we could set aside all that-not only the beliefs, the dogmas and rituals but also the respectability which is entailed in the culture of religion-then perhaps we could find out what a religious life is untouched by the thought of man.

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Satsang

It is written in the Bhagavad Gita that yogis stay awake at night, they are awakened in Brahma, when other people are asleep. Lord Shankar is ever in a transcendental state. It is written in the Ramcharitmanasa—“Mahamantra jehi japat Maheshu, Kashi mukti hetu updeshu .” Lord Shankar meditated on the great mantra (Mahamantra) which he bestows on people in Kashi ( Benares ) so they will be liberated. Whether it is Kashi or Pashupatinath or Rameshwarm, God is always seen the same way.

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Satsang

Narad Muni once asked Mata Parvati, “Please ask Lord Shankar why he wears a necklace of human skulls. Some people wear flowers, some wear rudraksha necklaces and some wear pearl necklaces, but Lord Shankar wears a necklace of human skulls. This is very strange.” When Mata Parvati asked Lord Shankar, he laughed and said, “Parvati, these skulls are yours! Whenever you have been born you married me. So I made this rosary of all of your skulls. Now that you have seen it, you will remember how many births you have taken.”

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Shri Satpal Ji Maharaj

If there is a disease, then there is a doctor also to cure it. If there is night, then the sun is also there to spread light. If there is darkness in the mind, ignorance within the heart, then there will definitely be the power to provide Light, but we will have to search for it.

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Jagat Janani Shri Mata Ji

Spiritual Knowledge alone is the supreme Knowledge. It tells us of the need to go within. As a tortoise withdraws its limbs within its hard shell. similarly a human being needs to turn within, away from all vices, lusts and temptations. Only then does he become fit to tread the path of Knowledge.

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