🌿संतोषं परमास्थाय सुखार्थी संयतो भवेत्। संतोषमूलं हि सुखं दुःखमूलं विपर्ययः॥ [मनु स्मृति ४/१२ ]

If a person wants happiness, he should practice contentment and abstinence from pleasures. Contentment is the cause of happiness and discontentment is the cause of grief. [Manu Smriti 4/12]

🌿सत्यं ब्रूयात् प्रियं ब्रूयात्, न ब्रूयात् सत्यमप्रियं। प्रियं च नानृतं ब्रूयात्, एष धर्मः सनातनः॥ [मनु स्मृति ४/१३८]

Speak the truth; speak the truth which is kind [or nice]. Don't speak bitter truth. Don't speak incorrect things even if they appear nice. This is eternal practice. [Manu Smriti 4/138]

🌿यथा यथा नरोऽधर्मं स्वयं कृत्वाऽनुभाषते। तथा तथा त्वचैवाहिस्तेनाधर्मेण मुच्यते॥ [मनु स्मृति ११/२२८]

When a sinner accepts his sin before other people, he gets released from that sin just like a snake from his old skin. [Manu Smriti 11/228]

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The main reason why spiritual path seems difficult and spiritual growth seems like a struggle, is that deep-down, you're still not really convinced that divinity and happiness lies within you.

If you analyse yourself deeply enough, you will see that a significant portion of your mind still likes to indulge into the tendencies and habits that bind it and cripple it down. Or rather, a part of you is still helplessly in love with the chains of your own bondage.

See to it that if you really had a firm and complete conviction and understanding that the source of creation, which is of the nature of infinite bliss, is within you, your mind wouldn't wander anywhere else even for a second. Enlightenment thus would have been a matter of moment(s) and not lifetime(s).

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Disciple.: How is it that even scholars in Vedanta have not succeeded in the pursuit of enquiry?

Master.: Though they always study Vedanta and give lessons to others yet in the absence of desirelessness they do not practise what they have learnt.

D.: And what do they do otherwise?

M.: Like a parrot they reproduce the Vedantic jargon but do not put the teachings into practice.

D.: What does Vedanta teach?

M.: The Vedanta teaches a man to know that all but the non-dual Brahman is laden with misery, therefore to leave off all desires for
enjoyment, to be free from love or hate, thoroughly to cut the knot of the ego appearing as 'I', you, he, this, that, mine and yours, to rid himself of the notion of 'I' and 'mine', to live unconcerned with the pairs of opposites as heat and cold, pain and pleasure, etc., to remain fixed in the perfect knowledge of the equality of all and making no distinction of any kind, never to be aware of anything but Brahman, and always to be experiencing the Bliss of the nondual Self. Though Vedanta is read and well understood, if dispassion is not practised, the desire for pleasures will not fade away. There is no dislike for pleasing things and the desire for them cannot leave the person. Because desire is not checked, love, anger, etc., the ego or the 'false-I' in the obnoxious body, the sense of possession represented by 'I' or 'mine' of things agreeable to the body, the pairs of opposites like pleasure and pain, and false values, will not disappear. However well read one may be, unless the teachings are put into practice, one is not really learned. Only like a parrot the man will be repeating that Brahman alone is real and all else is false.

D.: Why should he be so?

M.: The knowers say that like a dog delighting in offal, this man also delights in external pleasures. Though always busy with Vedanta, reading and teaching it, he is no better than a mean dog. Having read all the shastras and well grounded in them, they grow conceited that they are all knowing, accomplished and worthy of respect; filled with love and hate they presume themselves respectable; they are only packasses esteemed for carrying heavy loads over long distances in difficult and tortuous ways. They need not be considered as regards non-dual Truth. In the same strain Vasishta has spoken much more to Rama.

~From: Advaita Bodha Deepika, Chapter 3

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I will tell you a secret. No matter what you are doing, neither let the past come up in your mind; nor let the future bother you.

Because the past is gone, and the future hasn't come up yet. When you live just in the memories, or in the imagination, you're living in that which is non-existent.

So when you are living in the non-existential, you are obviously missing the existential. Naturally you will suffer, as you will miss your whole life.

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New year won't change a thing for you as long as you choose to live by same old habits and patterns of your mind.

This year, let a conscious positive change blossom within you - that makes you atleast a little more sincere, joyful, empathetic and loving.

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🌷मनस्येकं वचस्येकं कर्मण्येकं महात्मनाम्। मनस्यन्यत् वचस्यन्यत् कर्मण्यन्यत् दुरात्मनाम्॥

The great persons are uniform in their mind, speech and action, but the wicked persons think something else, say something else and do something else.

~Hitopadesh, 1/101

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Commentary:

Thought, word and deed should always and at all times, be in harmony, each consistent with the other two. Because then only can grace flow in our heart. Grace will only flow freely when it has a clear and open passage. If thought, word, and deed contradict each other, each one following its own course, the flow of grace will be obstructed. For wicked people grace can never flow and lasting happiness can never be achieved, until they reform their deceitful attitude and behaviour.

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Don't worry much about what others say behind your back. They are wasting their precious time in just finding the faults in others, instead of fixing their own.

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🌿न निरोधो न चोत्पत्तिर्न बद्धो न च साधकः ।
न मुमुक्ष्रुर्न वै मुक्त इत्येषा परमार्थता ॥

There is neither death nor birth, neither a bound nor a struggling soul, neither a seeker after liberation nor a liberated one - this is the ultimate truth.

न तो मनो-निरोध है, न उत्पत्ति, न कोई बद्ध है, न कोई साधक । न कोई मुमुक्षु है, और न कोई मुक्त, यही परमार्थता अर्थात् परम सत्य है ।

~Vivekachudamani, Verse 574

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Lord Ram consoles Bharat by stating the change as the eternal law of nature and no associations are permanent. He says - People get delighted with the onset of every new season. But they do not realize that their life is reducing amidst this continuous change of seasons. We should look at our associations with others in a similar way :-

🌿यथा काष्ठं च काष्ठं च समेयातां महार्णवे समेत्य च व्यपेयातां कालमासाद्य कञ्चन। २/१०५/२६

🌿एवं भार्याश्च पुत्राश्च ज्ञातयश्च धनानि च समेत्य व्यवधावन्ति ध्रुवो ह्येषां विना भवः॥ २/१०५/२७

Just as the pieces of wood, floating on the ocean, come close for some time and depart afterward, in the same way, wives, children, kinsmen and wealth meet us for a while and get separated from us. Their parting is indeed inevitable in this world.

~Valmiki Ramayan, 2/105/26-27

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MUST WATCH

🍃🌸Dedo Prabhu🌸🍃

https://youtu.be/eKF5n_QQcRw

•Duration: 6:09 minutes

🌿Lyrics in English -

My Lord, grant me a boon:
Bless me with the eight mystic attainments
But wait, O Compassionate one!
First hear what these attainments should be...
May my ego grow infinitesimal
My Master’s grace abundant
May my desires turn weightless
And my gratitude deepen immeasurably
May I have unlimited access to the Master’s feet
And my devotion overflow
When old compulsions surface
May I no longer be slave to their power
Now all that’s left is the eighth
But wait, it is already found!
What do I gain by asking for absolute lordship
When I am already possessed by the splendour of Sadhguru?

🌿Lyrics in Hindi -

दे दो प्रभु मुझ को वरदान
अष्टसिद्धि कर दो प्रदान |
पर सिद्धि कैसी होगी ये
पहले सुन लो दया निधान ||
अणिमा हो निज अहंकार
महिमा गुरु की हो अपार |
लघिमा मेरी इच्छाएं
गरिमा गुरु प्रति हो आभार ||
प्राप्ति हो गुरु चरणों की
प्राकाम्य गुरु की भक्ति |
वासनाएं जब भी उभरें
वशित्व हो उन की शक्ति ||
सिद्धि आठवी रह गई है
वह तो मुझको मिल गई है |
ईशत्व का करूंगा क्या
सद्गुरु छवि सर चढ़ गयी है ||

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​​🌿பெற்றிருந் தாரையும் பேணார் கயவர்கள் உற்றிருந் தாரை உளைவன சொல்லுவர் கற்றிருந் தார்வழி உற்றிருந் தாரவர் பெற்றிருந் தாரன்றி யார்பெறும் பேறே.

[The True Disciples are Blessed]

The lowly ones care not for their parents, they abuse their kith and kin with words foul, nor do they follow the Guru’s behest. Only those who revere the parents, kith and kin and the Guru are in truth blessed, none else indeed.

🌿ஓரெழுத் தொருபொருள் உணரக் கூறிய சீரெழுத் தாளரைச் சிதையச் செப்பினோர் ஊரிடைச் சுணங்கனாய்ப் பிறந்தங் கோருகம் வாரிடைக் கிருமியாய் மாய்வர் மண்ணிலே.

[Consequences of Abusing Guru]

The Guru taught the wisdom Of One-Letter mantra [Aum]; He who speaks derisive of Him will be born a lowly cur; and having led a dog’s life for an entire Yuga, he will be born as a worm; and then to dust shall be consigned.

🌿பத்தினி பத்தர்கள் தத்துவ ஞானிகள் சித்தங் கலங்கச் சிதைவுகள் செய்தவர் அத்தமும் ஆவியும் ஆண்டொன்றில் மாண்டிடுஞ் சத்தியம் ஈது சதாநந்தி ஆணையே.

[Consequences of Abusing the Good]

The virtuous wife, true devotee true, and great Jnani - those who have done exceeding harm to shock these, their life and wealth will in a year disappear; True this is, upon Holy Nandi, I swear.

🌿மந்திரம் ஓரெழுத் துரைத்த மாதவர் சிந்தையில் நொந்திடத் தீமைகள் செய்தவர் நுந்திய சுணங்கனாய்ப் பிறந்து நூறுரு வந்திடும் புலையராய் மாய்வர் மண்ணிலே.

[Do not Abuse Guru]

Those who wounded feelings, of Holy Guru who taught, even one letter of the Mantra, Will be born a dog, and after a hundred dog incarnations, will die a human out-caste.

🌿ஈச னடியார் இதயங் கலங்கிடத் தேசமும் நாடுஞ் சிறப்பும் அழிந்திடும் வாசவன் பீடமும் மாமன்னர் பீடமும் நாசம தாகுமே நந்நந்தி யாணையே.

[Harm to World by Maltreatment of Guru]

If Gurus who are devout of God are caused pain in heart, the country, people and their greatness will all as one be destroyed; The thrones of heavenly king Indra, and of kings mighty here below, will alike crumble down; This is for sure true, I swear by our Nandi.

🌿சன்மார்க்க சற்குருச் சந்நிதி பொய்வரின் நன்மார்க்க முங்குன்றி ஞானமுந் தங்காது தொன்மார்க்க மாய துறையும் மறந்திட்டுப் பன்மார்க்க முங்கெட்டுப் பஞ்சமு மாமே.

[Do not Utter Falsehood in Guru’s Presence]

Utter not falsehood in holy Guru’s presence; Then will goodness and wisdom depart; Forgotten will be, the time-honoured path of righteousness and all else that leads to prosperity; The land falls a prey to famine.

~Sage Tirumular
• From: Tirumantiram, Tantra 2, Chapter 22

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The world is my creation, but suffering is your mind's.

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“No two days pass alike. Do not allow yourself to be overcome by despair. Have complete trust in Him in spite of everything.”

~Anandamayi Ma

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