Story:Just One More Day!

Vedas have described desires elaborately. There are two kinds of desires one is fundamental desire, the other topical desire. Topical desires arise in us more often than the fundamental desires. What are they?

We like to eat sweets, watch movies, gossip with friends…These are topical desires.

Now let us take a look at fundamental desires. Basically there are three desires under this category.

If we were to learn that today would be the last day in our lives, every one would expect 'Can we not live for a day more?' This is the first desire.

'Every one wishes to live a day more. This desire as per the Vedas is called `Sat.' But we also wish that extra day should be spent happily---this is the second desire, called 'Ananda.' When one attains permanent bliss, no one would wish to die.

The third fundamental desire is to gain as much knowledge as possible during one's lifetime. This is called hunger for knowledge.

One may not have any interest in the lessons taught in the school, but that does not mean that one has no interest in gaining any kind of knowledge.

Just for fun, try telling this to someone 'This is an important secret. I will reveal it to you tomorrow!'-he would not be able to even wait till the next day to find out what that secret is! We are not happy being ignorant. So I say, wishing to gain knowledge, wanting to learn new things, is third desire. This, the Vedas refer to as `Chit.' Hence, 'Sat' means the desire to live, "Ananda' means the desire that life should be happy, `Chit' the desire to acquire knowledge. The Vedas call them together as `Sat Chit Ananda.'

Sat, Chit and Ananda-are the three desires that we seek, a sea diver searching for pearls in the deep ocean holding his breath! 

Not knowing this basic truth, we live our lives lost in the un-essentials. 

Reflect on this story.
An Octroi officer was posted on a particular check post. He observed every day, a cyclist passing the check post carrying sandbags with him. This continued every day for years. There was no tax on sand and the Octroi officer allowed sand bags to pass.

Only after retirement did the Octroi officer find a big cycle shop near the place he used to work. To his surprise, he came to know that the cyclist, who used to carry sand bags, was the owner of the shop. On enquiry, it came to light that the cyclist, all along smuggled one cycle a day under the pretext of carrying sand bags.....

The Octroi officer to his dismay found that during his tenure, he had only checked the sand bags... missing the essential.

So often, we get lost in the unessential and miss what is essential. 

Therefore, the commitment of a spiritual person should be to fulfil the fundamental desire and not get lost in the unessential desires.

Spiritual desires uplift you and not drown you

Life is not measured by the time span we live but by the quality built into it.

We get lost in the unessential and miss what is essential.
- Swami Sukhabodhananda, Oh Life Relax Please!

http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/08/16/oh-life-relax-please/oh-life-relax-please.pdf

Man is Half-Awake and Half-Asleep

There was a belief in an empire that whoever becomes its emperor, would go to heaven and inscribe his name on a golden mountain. A man believing this ideology, toiled throughout his life, sacrificed his happiness, and became the emperor.

When he died, he went to heaven. The gatekeeper at the doors of heaven was very indifferent. The emperor retorted, 'Don't you know that I am the emperor?'

The gatekeeper replied, 'Many emperors have come here from time immemorial. So what is so great about you?”

The emperor was shocked and asked him to lead him to the golden mountain. The gatekeeper answered casually, 'Go straight, and turn right, you will find the way to the golden mountain.' The emperor reached the mountain and tried to inscribe his name on the golden mountain. He found the whole mountain filled with names; he was disappointed not to find space to inscribe his name. He came back and enquired gate keeper, 'Where can I find space to inscribe my name?' The gatekeeper casually replied, 'Wipe off one of the existing names and inscribe yours.'

In the infinity of time, where do we exist?
The greed for name and fame is a juvenile approach to life.


In the same workshop, her husband asked, 'When my wife gets angry, it is like the rage of a thousand flames. How do I deal with it?'

Can you see your expression very closely? It is a product of your imagination. One of the teachings of George Gurdjieff is.....There is an imaginary self in all of us. If one is not watchful, it creates its own world of reality. In a relationship we have to observe how our imaginary selves operate and learn to handle them with maturity.

When one is in a negative frame of mind, observe the following steps:
• Negativity is not in a given situation; it is more in us. For example when we say, 'Picnic is spoiled because of rain'... a negative feeling is generated---is it in rain or in us?
• Do not identify yourself with negative feelings. Feelings are like clouds which come and go fleetingly; but you are like the space. Do not identify with the clouds; but be centered in the space of consciousness. This process is called detachment. When you are attached to your negative feelings you become a prisoner to them. Attachment creates hell.
Reflect on this anecdote.

In the earlier days, there was an interesting technique for catching monkeys. A huge jar with a narrow neck was used. Nuts were dropped into a narrow necked jar, in the presence of a monkey. A monkey trying to grab the nuts from the jar got caught, because its fist clutching the nuts would get stuck in the narrow necked jar. Only if it dropped the nuts, would its hand be free and easy to remove from the jar. But the monkeys were too attached to drop the nuts and free themselves; hence, they were caught.
Are we also attached like this? 

Can we experience a sense of wonderment when we see difficult people creating their own world of hell? The experience of wonderment relaxes one's being. First change has to happen within us, only then we can motivate others. ‘If you feel good, you will experience that the world is right. But ignorant people feel that only if the world is right would they feel good.'

Contemplation:
Misfortune is a good teacher for the wise.

Let us change ourselves then the world will be an interesting game.

No news is good news for the unenlightened.

We unnecessarily mess things up in life due to our conditioning.

In the infinity of space & time where do we exist?

Man is a victim of his imaginary self.

Yoga of Wisdom:
Insecurity is a change. Change is God's method of presenting us a surprise

- Swami Sukhabodhananda, Oh Life Relax Please!
http://www.pdf-archive.com/2012/08/16/oh-life-relax-please/oh-life-relax-please.pdf

Five experiences can blossom your life

One day you should spend with the farmers. Morning to night, spend the day with the farmers and see how they sow the seeds, how they water the plants and how they care for the plants. Witnessing this enriches life. When you understand how food is grown and how much toiling has been done by the farmer, you will respect food, you will respect plants and you will respect the environment. So it is necessary to spend one day with the farmers.

One day you should spend in jail. You will understand how somebody has become a culprit, and you will understand that every culprit is a victim in some way. They had no knowledge, they were trapped in a situation, and so they committed a crime. You feel a lot of compassion and forgiveness for them.

One day you should spend in a hospital. You will see how people are suffering, then you will appreciate your own life. You will appreciate how fortunate you are. You will have compassion and you will see that you should put your life into better use, and you will become more health conscious. So one day in hospital gives you that.

One day you should spend in a mental hospital. If you spend a day in a mental hospital you will see how they scold you and how they speak to you. When you get scolded for no fault of yours, then you understand that this is how the whole world is. Then you do not get angry. That ego which says, 'I', 'Me', 'I know it', will simply dissolve. If you act like a mad person for just one day, you will become very natural. All the walls of ego that you have built around you, that ‘I am somebody’, will simply fall off. You are then able to understand people better, and you mingle with everybody. And nobody can upset you because you know the world is like a mental hospital. Everybody lives in their own world and they think only they are right.

If you go to Israel, you will find, in the Israel mental hospital there is a ward called Jerusalem Syndrome. Sometimes when people come as pilgrims, they walk into Jerusalem and suddenly they feel they are Jesus, or they are Mary Magdalene, or one of those characters and start behaving like that. So these people are put into this ward called Jerusalem Syndrome. They go crazy.

So when you go to the mental hospital, you will understand more about your own mind. This experience enriches your life. You will become immune to criticism. If someone criticizes you, you will not breakdown. Often people cannot withstand criticism. They do not understand that people in the world are crazy. So you get the ability to smile at every criticism that you face with just one day in a mental hospital. And then, you have to spend one day in a school. One day in a school and you will understand from where to where you have gone. You will reassess your own growth. You will learn patience. You will see how patiently you have to deal with the kids, and you will start taking responsibility. How you deal with kids, that is how you have to deal with all the people in the world.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
http://www.artofliving.org/five-experiences-you-must-have

Pancha Bhuta Aradhana

Pancha Bhuta Aradhana creates a powerful possibility where you can integrate your system and allow the five elements in your body to bind much better.

From one body to another, how well integrated these five elements are, determines almost everything about that person. If this body has to become a stepping stone for a bigger possibility, it is very important that the system is properly integrated. The air that you breathe, the water that you drink, the food that you eat, the land that you walk upon and the fire of life in the form of the life force, these are the ingredients with which your physical self is made. If you keep these controlled, vibrant, and focused, health, wellbeing and success in the world are assured. It is my endeavor to create various devices which will allow people to make this happen for themselves in such a way that the very way you exist is a Pancha Bhuta Aradhana.
- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

http://www.sadhguruonline.com/blog/the-night-of-the-dark-one-shivarathri

RHONDA BYRNE QUOTES

Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it!

Thoughts become things.

Whatever you can imagine is waiting for you, fully created in the invisible, and the way to make it visible is to harness the force of love by imagining and feeling what you love.

Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!

Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

Every day is an opportunity for a new life. Every day you stand at the tipping point of your life. And on any one day you can change the future – through the way that you feel.

When you fall in love with life, every limitation disappears. You break the limitations on money, health, happiness, and the limits of joy in your relationships.

Fall in love with life, unleash the power within you, and you will become unlimited and invincible!”

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change! 

Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want

The truth is that the universe has been answering you all of your life, but you cannot receive the answers unless you are awake. 

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful. 

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Gratitude is the great multiplier, so say thank you for your health every single day.

It only takes a few minutes in the morning to use gratitude to Have A Magical Day by giving thanks for the events in your day ahead of time, but this one practice alone will change the way your entire day unfolds.

Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures.

Create a Vision Board... pictures of what you want to attract... every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants.

See the things that you want as already yours.

Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.

Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.

Neville recommends at the end of every day, before you go to sleep, to think through the events of the day. If any events or moments did not go the way you wanted, replay them in your mind in a way that thrills you. As you recreate those events in your mind exactly as you want, you are cleaning up your frequency from the day and you are emitting a new signal and frequency for tomorrow. You have intentionally created new picture for your future. It is never too late to change the pictures.

The most powerful time to reprogram the subconscious mind is when you’re falling asleep at night. When you’re in that very sleepy state of being half asleep and half awake, plant the thought that you can do anything and you can achieve anything you set your mind to. Your aim is to make that “believing in yourself” thought your last thought

Make a written list of everything you love.

Turn away from the things you don't love and don't give them any feeling, because they are fine as they are but they have no place in your life.

Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not.

What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person – you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.

Thoughts are magnetic, and thoughts have a frequency. As you think thoughts, they are sent out into the Universe, and they magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency. Everything sent out returns to the source - you.

We often get distracted with this thing called our body and our physical being. That just holds your spirit. And your spirit is so big it fills a room. You are eternal life. You are God manifested in human form, made to perfection.

The only reason why people do not have what they want is because they are thinking more about what they don’t want than what they do want.

No matter what challenging situation you may find yourself in, imagine the best outcome of it and feel it! When you do, you will change the circumstances, and you will change the situation into what you want!

Spend seven minutes each day imagining and feeling what you want, do it until you know your desire belongs to you, as you know your name belongs to you.

It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher
- Joe Vitale, The Secret

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love. The feeling of love is the highest frequency you can emit.  If you could wrqp every thought in love, if you could love everything and everyone, your life would be transformed. 

- Rhonda Byrne 

Dissolving Your Ego

During the practice of yoga asana you realise how rigid you are physically. It takes a little more awareness for you to know the rigidity in your mind and emotions. Somebody who is very rigid in his thoughts and emotions believes that he is perfect because he does not allow room for any other way of looking, thinking or feeling. When you meet this man, you think he is pig-headed, but he thinks he is perfect. Similarly, there can be rigidity in the energy level too. For someone whose energy is very fluid, on the very first day of the simplest yoga kriya, his energy will start moving and transforming, whereas for another person, even after practicing it for a long time, nothing seems to happen. This simply depends on how malleable the energies are. Rigidity in all these dimensions isn't really separate for they are all interconnected. The rigidity in one dimension manifests itself in the other dimensions.

On Patanjali's path, yoga is a system where it doesn't matter what kind of a fool you are, what level of unawareness you're in, what kind of karmic bondages you have; there is still a way for you. If you are willing to at least bend your body then you will have already broken one karma. If your forehead touches your knee, then you have broken a physical karma. This is not a joke; it's quite an achievement for a person who has never done it before. This simple limitation would have increased with the passage of time. Even the little flexibility that's there in you today will reduce with the passing of time. A day will come when you're totally rigid, both physically and mentally.

This is happening to everybody. Look at your own life; see how flexible you were at the age of ten or twelve, both physically and mentally. At the age of twenty, that flexibility is lesser and by thirty, most of it has gone. Not only physical rigidity, but mental rigidity too sets in very severely as you progress; it's not progression, it is regression. They are not growing; they are going backwards. Unfortunately even with the little assets they have, they don't grow; they just go backwards. Whatever advantage you were born with, you haven't enhanced it; you have only taken it backwards. The path is actually very simple, but because of your personality it has become extremely complicated. The  complexities that one encounters on the spiritual path are not because of the path. The complexities are only there because of the mess that is your mind. Nothing moves within you. You become rigid, as if rigor mortis has set in. You need the Master's grace to quell the madness of your mind.

If you allow the Master's grace, then the path is very simple, as the path is the destination. If you simply sit here now, everything will pulsate with the existence. You have kept your energies suppressed to such an extent that the mind has become so oppressive that it suppresses life to the point where nothing moves except what is needed to support the ego. Your energies are moving only to the extent that is convenient for your ego. A little more energy and the ego will burst. The moment energy rises within you everything dissolves. The ego knows this very well. That is why it has kept it suppressed. If you don't have any energy, then again the ego will become very weak. When all energy is cut off, the ego will feel very weak and it doesn't like that. 

So it just allows that amount of energy, which supports and feeds it well. If the energy becomes too much, the ego will be shattered. If kundalini begins to rise, everything will be shattered and nothing will be left. You will be just a force merging with everything around you. You won't have a will of your own anymore. Since you are not willing to surrender your will, we are prodding you through this sadhana to provoke your energies. That is why the path of asana and kriya. Since you are not able to do it by yourself, just activate creation itself in a certain way. If it begins to move, it settles everything. It is like a flood; your centuries-old world is wiped away in only a few hours of fury. So your sadhana is not about getting somewhere. It is just a way, a method to unleash a flood so ennormous that it wipes away your petty creations and leaves you as the Creator intended you to be.
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

http://www.ishafoundation.org/news/columns/panorama/NavhindTimesThe_18Nov2007.pdf

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

If there is love in your heart, it will guide you through your life. Love has its own intelligence.
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev


“Being together is the beginning, Working together is the middle, Dissolving together is the ultimate" 
- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

A spiritual person and a materialistic person are both seeking the same infinite. One is seeking it consciously, the other one uncounciously.
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

A Situation becomes stressful only when you compulsively react to it.
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

What I have to offer is not in my words. Allow yourself to be drenched in my presence and you will be overwhelmed with blissfulness.
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev


“Once you cross the limitations of the actual physicality and the logical mind, time is not an issue.” 
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Yoga means cultivating your energy in such a way that gradually breaks the physical limitations and elevates you to the highest level of awareness, the flowering of the human potential.

“Time is always a relative experience. As your energies get more intense, you will see time just flies faster and faster.” 
-Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Sanskrit Mantras

om saha nāvavatu
saha nau bhunaktu
saha vīryaṃ karavāvahai
tejasvināvadhītamastu mā vidviṣāvahai
oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ

Om ! May He protect us both together; may He nourish us both together;
May we work conjointly with great energy,
May our study be vigorous and effective;
May we not mutually dispute (or may we not hate any).
Om ! Let there be Peace in me !
Let there be Peace in my environment !
Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !


Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya
Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya
Mrtyor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih

Om, Lead us from Unreality (of Transitory Existence) to the Reality (of Self),
Lead us from the Darkness (of Ignorance) to the Light (of Spiritual Knowledge),
Lead us from the Fear of Death to the Knowledge of Immortality.
Om Peace, Peace, Peace.


Dhyaana-Muulam Gurur-Muurtih
Puujaa-Muulam Gurur-Padam
Mantra-Muulam Gurur-Vaakyam
Mokssa-Muulam Guruur-Krpaa 

The Root of Meditation is the Form of the Guru,
The Root of Worship is the Feet of the Guru,
The Root of Mantra is the Word of the Guru,
The Root of Liberation is the Grace of the Guru.


Kayena vacha manasendriyairva
Buddhyatmana va prakrite swabhavath
Karoomi yadyad sakalam parasmai
Narayanayeti samarpayami

Whatever I do with my mind, body, speech or with other senses of my body, Or with my intellect or with my innate natural tendencies, I offer everything to Narayana


Vasudeva sutam Devam
Kamsa Chanoora mardhanam
Devaki paramanandam
Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum

I salute to the God Krishna who is the Son of Vasudeva,
Who killed Kamsa and Chanoora,
Who is the source of Bliss to His mother Devaki
And who is the Teacher of the Universe.


Karpuura-Gauram Karunna-Avataaram
Samsaara-Saaram Bhujage[a-I]ndra-Haaram
Sadaa-Vasantam Hrdaya-Aravinde
Bhavam Bhavaanii-Sahitam Namaami 

Pure White like Camphor, an Incarnation of Compassion,
The Essence of Worldly Existence, Whose Garland is the King of Serpents,
Always Dwelling inside the Lotus of the Heart.
I Bow to Shiva and Shakti Together.


Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ
tát savitúr váreṇ(i)yaṃ
bhárgo devásya dhīmahi
dhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt

"We meditate upon the spiritual effulgence of that adorable supreme divine reality
Who is the source of the physical, the astral and the heavenly spheres of existence.
May that supreme divine being enlighten our intellect, so that we may realise the supreme truth."

Syllable Translation
Om: Para Brahman
Bhur: The Physical plane
Bhuvah: The Astral plane
Svaha: The Celestial plane
Tat: Ultimate Reality
Savitur: The Source of All
Varenyam: Fit to be worshiped
Bhargo: The Spiritual effulgence
Devasya: Divine Reality
Dhimahi: We meditate
Dhiyo: Intellect
Yo: Which
Nah: Our
Prachodayat: Enlighten

"Let us adore the supremacy of that divine sun, the god-head who illuminates all, who recreates all, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright in our progress toward his holy seat."
- Sir William Jones

"Unveil, O Thou who givest sustenance to the Universe, from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, that face of the True Sun now hidden by a vase of golden light, that we may see the truth and do our whole duty on our journey to thy sacred seat."
- William Quan Judge

"We meditate on the worshipable power and glory of Him who has created the earth, the nether world and the heavens (i.e. the universe), and who directs our understanding."
- Sivanath Sastri 

"We meditate on the glory of that Being who has produced this universe; may He enlighten our minds."
Swami Vivekananda

"We meditate on the effulgent glory of the divine Light; may he inspire our understanding."
"We meditate on the adorable glory of the radiant sun; may he inspire our intelligence."
- S. Radhakrishna

Bhagavad-Geeta Dhyana Shloka

(1)

pārthāya pratibodhitāḿ bhagavatā nārāyaṇena svayaḿ

vyāsena grathitāḿ purāṇa-muninā madhye mahābhārate

advaitāmṛta-varṣiṇīḿ bhagavatīm aṣṭādaśādhyāyinīḿ

amba tvām anusandadhāmi bhagavad-gīte bhava-dveṣiṇīm

O Bhagavad-gita, thou hast been instructed to Arjuna, the son of Prtha by the Lord Himself and afterwards thee were included within the Mahabharata by the ancient sageVyasa.  Thy eighteen divine chapters are a shower of the immortal nectar of the wisdom of the Absolute.  O mother, destroyer of man's rebirth into the darkness of this mortal world, upon thee I meditate.

(2)

namo'stu te vyāsa viśāla-buddhe

phullāravindāyātapatra-netre

yena tvayā bhārata-taila-pūrṇaḥ

prajvalito jñānamayaḥ pradīpaḥ

Obeisances to thee, O Vyasa, thou art of mighty intellect, and thine eyes are large as the petals of the full-blown lotus.  It was by thee that the oil-filled lamp of knowledge of the Mahabharata was lit.

(3)

prapanna-parijātāya

totra-vetraika-pāṇaye

jñāna-mudrāya kṛṣṇāya

gītāmṛta-duhe namaḥ

I offer obeisances unto Lord Krsna, the refuge of ocean-born Laksmi and all who take refuge at His lotus feet. His one hand holds a staff for driving cows, and the other hand is raised, the thumb touching the tip of the forefinger, indicating divine knowledge.  He is the milker of the immortal nectar of the Bhagavad-gita.

(4)

sarvopaniṣado gāvo

dogdhā gopāla-nandanaḥ

pārtho vatsaḥ sudhīr bhoktā

dugdhaḿ gītāmṛtaḿ mahat

The Upanisads are as a herd of cows, Lord Krsna, son of a cowherd, is their mother, Arjuna is the calf, the supreme nectar of the Gita is the milk, and the wise man of purified intellect is the drinker.

(5)

vasudeva-sutaḿ devaḿ

kaḿsa-cāṇūra-mardanam

devakī-paramānandaḿ

kṛṣṇaḿ vande jagad-gurum

I offer my obeisances to Lord Krsna, the beloved son of Vasudeva, destroyer of the demons Kamsa and Canura, the supreme bliss of Mother Devaki and the spiritual master of the universe.

(6)

bhīṣma-droṇa-taṭā jayadratha-jalā gāndhārī-nīlotpalā

śalya-grāhavatī kṛpeṇa vahinī karṇena velākula

aśvattāma-vikarṇa-ghora-makarā duryodhanāvartinī

sottīrṇā khalu pāṇḍavārṇava-nadī kaivartakaḥ keśvaḥ

Of the terrifying river of the battlefield of Kuruksetra over which the Pandavas victoriously crossed, Bhisma and Drona were it's high banks, Jayadratha was the river's water, the King of Gandhara, the blue water-lily: there were sharks such as salya, Krpa was the current, Karna, the mighty waves, Asvattham and Vikarna, the dreadful alligators, and Duryodhana, the very whirlpool, but Lord Krsna was the ferryman!

(7)

pārāśarya-vacaḥ sarojam amalaḿ gītārtha-gandhotkaṭaḿ

nānākhyānaka-keśaraḿ hari-kathā-sambodhanābodhitam

loke sajjana-ṣaṭpadair aharahaḥ pepīyamānaḿ mudā

bhūyād bhārata-paṅkajaḿ kalimala-pradhvaḿsanaḿ śreyase

May the spotless lotus of the words of Vyasa that grows on the eternal waters of the words of Lord Hari, with its filaments of various tales of heroes and which is rightly endowed with the sweet fragrance of the explanations of the Bhagavad-gita, it's nectar beign quaffed with pleasure daily in this world by saintly persons who are compared to so many nectar-seeking bumble-bees and which destroys all the sins of the age of Kali - May this lotus of the Mahabharata bestow on us the highest good.

(8)

mūkaḿ karoti vācālaḿ

paṅguḿ laṅghāyate girim

yat-kṛpā tam ahaḿ vande

paramānanda-mādhavam

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna, the transcendentally blissful husband of the goddess of fortune, whose mercy turns the dumb into eloquent speakers and enables to lame to cross mountains.

(9)

yaḿ brahmā varuṇendra-rudra-marutaḥ stunvanti divyaiḥ stavair

vedaiḥ sāṅga-pada-kramopaniṣadair gāyanti yaḿ sāma-gāḥ

dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaḿ yogino

yasyāntaḿ na viduḥ surāsura-gaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ

Let all obeisances be unto the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna, whom Brahma, Varuna, Indra, Rudra, the Maruts and all divine beings praise with the divine hymns of the Vedas and their supplementary parts such as the Upanisads, whom the followers of the Sama Veda glorify with song, whom great mystics see with their minds absorbed in perfect meditation and of whom all the hosts of demigods and demons know not the limitations.  To him the Supreme Lord, let there be all obeisances.    

- Adi Sankaracarya

http://kksongs.org/songs/o/omparthayapratibodhitam.html

Let Sharing be the Only Law

If you are loving you remain relaxed. If you are not loving you become tense. Tension means simply that there is some energy that needs to be shared. If you don't want to share it then it accumulates and becomes a headache. Always remember that the more you share, the more fresh energy will be flowing in you.

I was reading the life story of a poet. He says he used to live in a very old house, two hundred years old. It was in a very primitive condition -- no modern facilities, no electricity, no running water. The house had a beautiful well with very fresh water, very pure. 

When electricity came to the town they closed the well hoping that if some day it was needed it could be re-opened. After fifteen years, just out of curiosity, the man opened the well, just to see how it was. It was one of the most ancient wells in that locality and it had never been dry. When all the other wells were dry, the whole town had come to drink from this one. When he looked in, it was completely dry. He couldn't find an explanation so he asked the experts.

They said that if you don't go on carrying water out of the well, sooner or later it dries up because the small springs that feed it with water become closed. Then by and by the water evaporates leaving the well dry. Each day the well needs to share -- then it is always flowing, with new water always coming in.

The same is true for human energy also. Each man is a well of energy. Love means that you allow somebody to throw a bucket in you, to draw some energy from you. Don't be a miser about it, otherwise soon you will start feeling that you are drying up. Then you will become tense and a deadness will gather around you. You become more and more afraid of sharing, because you think that if you share you will become even drier. You are in a vicious circle.

The whole logic is wrong. Whenever you feel something tension-like is gathering, share. Catch hold of any stranger, because in fact all are strangers. Some strangers you have known for a few years, some for a few months, some a few days, some you have just come to know, but you are strangers. Even your husband with whom you have lived for years is a stranger. Two strangers living together by and by become familiar, that's all.

Run and share with anybody, but never be miserly. I have been watching (to a sannyasin); you are becoming a little miserly. And you can like yourself only when you love. In fact when somebody likes you, only then can you like yourself. Each relationship is a mirror; it reveals your identity to you. Each relationship brings you something of your inner heart which was unknown to you before. Man is such an infinity that thousands of relationships are needed -- the father, the mother, the brother, sister, husband, wife, friend.

Thousands of types of relationships are needed to reveal you from every corner, from every aspect of your being, so that you know all your faces. Even then, all that you know about yourself will be less than you are. It can never be more than you, and it can never be equal to you because you are such an infinity that all the mirrors of the world cannot exhaust you. Something will always remain elusive.

Share more, and let sharing be the only law. To be a miser is to be a sinner. That is my definition of being a sinner. Mm? We are here for such a short time; why be a miser? Share, and whatsoever you give, give wholeheartedly and much will come automatically. Not that you ask for it or demand it; it just comes. The whole of existence re-echoes you.

Osho

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