Swami Yogananda talked to God number of times and to know more about Swamiji, read Swamiji biography-‘’ Autobiography of a Yogi’’. He enlightened the people with his teachings. 1. Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘’something Else’’, which will bring him complete and unending happiness. Those individual souls who have sought and found God, as that Something Else, and for them the search is over. 2. Some body thinks He is not. The ether is filled with music which is caught by the radio, (otherwise we don’t know the music). It is also with God, the Almighty. 3. God is with you every minute of your existence, and the only way to realize Him is through ‘’Meditation’’. 4. “It is not a question of ‘Belief’ in the GOD’’. The scientific attitude one should take, on any subject is, ‘’whether it is true or not’’. For example, the law of gravitation, worked as efficiently before Newton as after him. The cosmos would be fairly chaotic, if its laws cold not operate without the sanction of human belief. 5. The human being has two sides—one visible, the other invisible. With open eyes you behold objective creation and yourself in it. With closed eyes, you see nothing (a dark void only); yet your consciousness is keenly aware and operative. 6. In deep meditation, you penetrate the darkness behind the closed eyes and also you behold the Light from which all creation emerges. By deeper ‘Samadhi’ (absolute motionless state) your experience transcends even the manifested Light and enters the-‘’All-Blissful Consciousness’’, a state infinitely more real, tangible joyous, than any sensory perception. 7. In that seemingly empty space, there is one link and one Life eternal, which unites everything in the universe—animate and inanimate. 8. To live without understanding the life is foolish and waste of time. We were given intelligence to solve the mystery of life that surrounds us. 9. Every individual must change his own life, if he wants to live in a peaceful world. The world … [Read more...]
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Random thoughts
These are the random thoughts of Art of Living Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What is the purpose of our life in this world?Some live meaning fully in this world while some may live life without purpose. Know yourself, why you have come to this world? What is the role you have to play here? You have come to this world: Not for worrying, not for facing troubles always, not to scold others, not for exhibiting your egoism, not to feel stress and strain, not to annoy others. You come to know the purpose of your existence here, there is a dramatic change in your mode of living. We are living to know some meaning to our valuable life. Ask yourself why I am not being in happy mood? Why I am getting angry? Why things are not going as I wish? Such type questions make you to look into your inner self. This introspection makes you feel that you now understand something. You are under the illusion that you know everything. But if anybody asks you what you understand about life, no reply comes from you. If a man changes from the state of “that I know all to a state of knows nothing “– it means you are on the path of understanding the meaning of your birth on this earth. It is called the state of enlightenment. If anything is beyond the human knowledge, it indicates it is the divinity. The wonderful thing is –man cannot properly understand his own mind. It is strange to here but true fact. Swamiji advises us to understand the life in the above angle and lead a happy and successful life, by believing in GOD. You don’t know what is happening in your mind which is like a roller coaster- it is a crowd. Our life is a mystery, beautiful, wonderful- so live it happily and peacefully. … [Read more...]
