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Posted by: shaw manetina At: 12, Apr 2004 8:58:05 PM IST
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Posted by: Mr. Kameswara Sarma Sriadibhatla At: 12, Apr 2004 8:38:12 PM IST
My god very serious discussions
Posted by: Mr. Kameswara Sarma Sriadibhatla At: 12, Apr 2004 8:28:05 PM IST
ALL WORK IS YOGA
Every bit of work is yoga for you when you are sincere. Think that the Lord is working through your hands, eating through your mouth. In the beginning some of your actions may be unselfish. But in the long run you can do all actions in an unselfish manner.
Always scrutinise your motives. Every act can be spiritualised when the motive is pure. Work is meditation. Serve everyone with intense love, without the idea of agency, without expectation of reward or fruits. It is selfishness that has deplorably contracted your heart. Selfishness is the bane of society. Selfishness clouds understanding.
Selfishness is petty-mindedness. Pursuit of pleasure increases selfishness. Selfishness is the root cause for human sufferings. Real
spiritual progress starts from selfless service. Serve the sadhus and sanyasins (holy ones), the bhaktas (devotees) and the poor and sick. Serve them with bhava, prem and bhakti (inner feeling, love and devotion).
The spirit of service must enter deeply into your very nerves and tissues. The reward is invaluable. Practise and feel the cosmic expansion and infinite ananda (bliss). Tall talk and idle gossip will not do, dear friends. Evince intense zeal and enthusiasm in work. Be fiery in the spirit of service!
Have nista (firm devotion) with God and cesta (activity) with hands. You will be able to do both these simultaneously by practice. The manual work will become automatic, or intuitive.You will have two
minds. One portion will be at work and three quarters of the mind will be in the service of the Lord - in kirtan, in meditation, in
japa. A raw, untrained aspirant feels, "My preceptor is treating me like a servant. He is using me for petty jobs." He who has nderstood the right significance of karma yoga will take every work as yogic activity or worship of the Lord. In his vision there is no menial work. In the light of karma yoga all work is sacred.
Posted by: shaw manetina At: 12, Apr 2004 7:21:48 PM IST
I agree that the feeling of becoming a better individual is quite intense for a few years and and after thinking a lot and listening/reading from enlightened souls it slowly dawns on me that understanding and our own self is the first and basic given in any kind of spiritual ascent. It really agonizes me to think of the years that I have wasted which could have been better utilized if only I understood this. It is not that the knowledge is not available. It is only that I was not ready to receive it. Looking back I think ego is the biggest obstacle in the process. It doesn't allow us to learn from others. It tries to find fault with others, looks to find "what is wrong" with their view. I would have learnt a lot if only I was trying to understand "what is right" about their view. I would have been the benefactor.
Very good words. To summarize, I think the point is always to "be"(means) what we want to "become"(goal).
Posted by: shaw manetina At: 12, Apr 2004 7:10:14 PM IST
Very nice.
Reminds me of a person who was meditating with Hanuman in his mind. A few years later his appendix started growing which was a puzzle doctors who attended on him could never understand. I cannot recall what happened to him or the veracity of the incident but thought I would share it here. The point to note from these stories is that any thing that we do should be done with utmost sincerity, meditation included. We can become what we want to become if we are sincere.
Posted by: shaw manetina At: 9, Apr 2004 8:46:05 PM IST
Correction : 2 nd line : There is no "DOUBT" in this.
Seeker
Posted by: shaw manetina At: 9, Apr 2004 7:34:34 PM IST
MIND TO GOD
Give the mind to God and then you will be liberated. You will be free from birth and death. You will get the highest bliss. There is no of this. Worship God in the poor and the sick. Service of the poor and sick is worship of God. Destroy ghrna (disgust and loathing) when you serve the sick. Then you will get citta suddhi (purity of the mind) quickly. Service of the poor and the sick is a powerful remedy to bring about the purification of the mind.
When you meet a real, sincere karma yogi, who is plodding in the line
for six or seven years, you can at once feel his purity, his selflessness, his inner joy, his inner peace, his inner strength, his inner spiritual growth. You can feel his nearness to God. You can see occasional flashes or glimpses of divine light during satvic moments. He has a pleasant feeling of having justified the divine command in the grand plan or scheme of things.
People do not want to remove mala (impurity) by selfless service. They do not want to remove viksepa (mental distraction) by upasana (worshipful contemplation). They think that service and bhakti are nothing. They at once jump to open the kundalini (the inner spiritual power) and raise the brahmakara vrtti (the notion that only Brahman is real). They will only break their own legs. Rather serve and worship. Jnana and yoga will come by themselves. Kundalini will be awakened by itself.
In the neophytes, in the path of karma yoga, the idea of being a separate worker, the idea of agency, may be strong. You feel that you are doing all the works. However, in course of time, when the heart becomes purer and purer, you will actually feel that some higher power, God, is working through you. You will feel that your body and mind are only instruments in his hands.
"When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth". St. Matt. VI - 3. Begging without any selfish motive, is not begging at all. It is pure yoga. It is for spiritual upliftment only. Remember - you cannot deny pain, you cannot wipe away all the pain in the world - but you can rise above pain by recognising your self.
Posted by: shaw manetina At: 9, Apr 2004 7:33:04 PM IST
Sri/Sneha,
karma yoga is all about action. All my posts are about action, not about prayer or meditation. I take it that you are not actually reading my posts but making an assumption that they are about siting in a corner and praying for God to appear.
In any case if someone says that meditation brings you closer to God it doesn't say that you should not do good to others. Meditating and doing good to others are not mutually exclusive.
"Two types of men can sit still without work. One is the idiot who is too dull to work. The other is the saint who has gone beyond all activity. Work is a means to the state of meditation. Instead of working for yourself, work for the Lord. Know that you are worshipping the Lord through your work."
Swamy Brahmananda
"The apostles of Shri ramakrishna"
Seeker
Posted by: shaw manetina At: 8, Apr 2004 9:20:58 PM IST
Posted by: Sri At: 8, Apr 2004 9:41:49 PM IST
oh...that double supports the discussion
Posted by: Mrs. Sneha sarma At: 8, Apr 2004 7:57:50 PM IST
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