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🍃🌸Avoid these 8 acts for practice of Brahmacharya🌸🍃

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Brahmacharya brings material progress and psychic advancement. It is the basis for morality. It is the basis for eternal life. It is the firm support for Brahma-Nishtha, which is eagerly longed for by sages, aspirants and Yogic students. It is the shield for waging war against the internal Asuras — lust, anger and greed. It serves as a gateway to the bliss beyond. It opens the door of Moksha. It contributes to perennial joy, to the uninterrupted and undecaying bliss. Even Rishis, Devas, Gandharvas and Kinnaras serve at the feet of a true Brahmachari. Even Isvara applies to his forehead the dust of the feet of a genuine celibate.

Brahmacharya is the only key to open the Sushumna and awaken Kundalini. It brings glory, fame, virtue and Mana-Pratishtha. The eight Siddhis and the nine Riddhis roll under the feet of the true celibate. They are ever ready to obey his command. The Lord of Death, Yama flees from him. Who can describe the magnanimity, majesty and glory of a true Brahmachari!

Brahmacharyena Tapasa Deva Mrityumupagnata. The Vedas declare that by Brahmacharya and penance the Devas have conquered death. How did Hanuman become a Mahavir? It is with this weapon of Brahmacharya that he acquired unsurpassable strength and valour. The great Bhishma, the grandfather of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, conquered death by Brahmacharya. It is only Lakshman, the ideal Brahmachari, who put down Meghanada, the man of inestimable prowess, the conqueror of the three worlds, the son of Ravana. The valour and greatness of emperor Prithviraj was due to the strength of Brahmacharya. There is nothing in the three worlds that cannot be attained by a Brahmachari.

The Rishis of yore knew fully well the value of Brahmacharya and that is the reason why they sang in beautiful verses about the glory of Brahmacharya. The scriptures declare emphatically:

"Ayustejo Balam Veeryam Prajna Sreescha Yashastatha Punyamcha Sat-Priyatvamcha Vardhate Brahmacharyaya"

By the practice of Brahmacharya, longevity, glory, strength, vigour, knowledge, wealth, undying fame, virtues and devotion to the truth increase.

An Akhanda Brahmachari, who, for a period of twelve years, has not allowed even a drop of semen to come out, will enter into Samadhi without any effort. Prana and mind are under his perfect control. An Akhanda Brahmachari has strong Dharana Sakti, Smriti Sakti and Vichara Sakti — power of grasping, retentive memory and power of enquiry. He need not practice Manana and Nididhyasana, reflection and meditation. If he hears the Mahavakya even once, he will at once achieve Self-realization. His intellect is pure, and his understanding is extremely clear. You also can become like that, if you attempt in right earnest.

-- Swami Sivananda

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​​🌿​​​​1232nd Birth Anniversary of Adi Shankaracharya🌿

Adi Shankaracharya Jayanti is observed as birth anniversary of Indian Guru and philosopher Adi Shankara. Adi Shankara was born in Kalady which is situated in Kerala during 788 C.E. and he left his physical body at young age of 32 in year 820 C.E.

Adi Shankaracharya Jayanti is observed on Panchami Tithi during Shukla Paksha of Vaishakha month and currently falls between April and May. Shankaracharya consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त) and revived it at a time when Hindu culture was on decline.

As we know that Shankaracharya is best remembered for his remarkable reinterpretations of Hindu scriptures and his sayings on the Vedic canon whether Brahma Sutras, principal Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. His philosophical teachings have deeply influenced various sects of Hinduism and also contributed to the development of the thought of modern India.

From very young age, he was inclined towards spirituality and religion. With the help of his guru, he mastered all the Vedas and the six Vedangas before the age of 12. Also, while travelling he did spread spiritual knowledge and the tenets of Advaita Vedanta.

He travelled all four corners of India, did debate (shastrarth) with hundreds of philosophers all across the nation and successfully defeated them all, established 4 spiritual institutes (mutts) in each geographic direction, wrote numerous hymns and stotras in praise of Gods and Goddesses, plus many many beautiful works and books. He left his body at a very young age of 32, despite of it he left an indelible mark on the people, methods of teaching of Vedas and development of modern thought.

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Role of Sri Adi Shankara was instrumental in the revival of Hinduism. He formed the doctrines that are followed by their respective sects even today. He has been one of the most important figures in the recent history of Hindu philosophy.

Today, on the auspicious occasion of His Jayanti, we pay immense respect and salutations to the Jagad Guru; who played an enormous and essential role in the growth of our culture and showed path and guidance to thousands and thousands of aspirants and seekers.🙏🕉

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​​भोगे रोगभयं कुले च्युतिभयं वित्ते नृपालाद्भयम् माने दैन्यभयं बले रिपुभयं रूपे जराया भयम्। शास्त्रे वादभयं गुणे खलभयं काये कृतान्ताद्भयम् सर्वं वस्तु भयान्वितं भुवि नृणां वैराग्यमेवाभयम्॥

भोगे bhoge – While enjoying; रोगभयम् roga-bhayam – fear of disease; कुले kule – in a clan (when one belongs to a high clan); च्युतिभयम् cyuti-bhayam – fear of fall in status; वित्ते vitte – in money (when one is wealthy); नृपालात् भयम् nṛpālāt bhayam – fear of the king; माने māne – in self-esteem (when one is in high place); दैन्यभयम् dainya-bhayam – fear of losing eminence; बले bale – in strength (when one is strong); रिपुभयम् ripu-bhayam – fear of the (stronger) enemy; रूपे rūpe – in beauty (when one is beautiful); जराया भयम् jarāyā bhayam – fear of old age; शास्त्रे śāstre – in scriptures (when one is learned); वादभयम् vāda-bhayam – fear of argument (from a more learned person); गुणे guṇe – in virtue; खलभयम् khala-bhayam – fear of bad persons (who attribute blame to virtuous persons); काये kāye – in the body; कृतान्तात् भयम् kṛtāntāt bhayam – fear of the god of death; सर्वम् वस्तु sarvam vastu – every object; भयान्वितम् bhayānvitam – is accompanied by fear; भुवि bhuvi – in creation; नृणाम् nṛṇām – for human beings; वैराग्यम् एव vairāgyam eva – only dispassion and non-attachment; अभयम् abhayam – (is) fearlessness.

In enjoyment lies the fear of disease; in high lineage lies the fear of fall in status; in wealth lies the fear of the king [fear of getting it snatched]; in self-respect lies the fear of losing it; in strength lies the fear of enemy; in beauty lies the fear of old age; in scholarship lies the fear of debate; in virtue lies the fear of a scoundrel and in the body lies the fear of the lord of death. All things on earth are associated with fear. Dispassion alone is fearlessness.

~Wisdom of King Bhartrihari

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​​🌿Consciousness and Matter🌿
🌻The Subtlest and the most Gross🌻

🍃At the start of creation, the hitherto unmanifested Spirit projected two natures—one, consciousness, and the other, matter. They are Its two vibratory expressions. Consciousness is a finer, and matter a grosser, vibration of the one transcendental Spirit. Consciousness is the vibration of Its subjective aspect, and matter is the vibration of Its objective aspect. Spirit, as Cosmic Consciousness, is potentially immanent in objective vibratory matter, and manifests Itself subjectively as the consciousness present in all forms of creation, reaching Its highest expression in the human mind with its countless ramifications of thoughts, feelings, will, and imagination. The difference between matter and Spirit is in the rate of vibration—a difference of degree, not of kind. This point may be better understood by the following example. Although all vibrations are qualitatively alike, vibrations from 16 to 20,000 cycles per second are gross enough to be audible to man’s sense of hearing, but vibrations below 16 or over 20,000 are generally inaudible. There is no essential difference between audible and inaudible vibrations, though a relative difference does exist. Through the power of maya, cosmic illusion, the Creator has caused the manifestations of matter to appear so distinct and specific that to the human mind they seem unrelated in any way to Spirit.

🍃Within the gross vibration of flesh is the fine vibration of the cosmic current, the life energy; and permeating both flesh and life energy is the most subtle vibration, that of consciousness. The vibrations of consciousness are so subtle that they cannot be detected by any material instrument; only consciousness can comprehend consciousness. Human beings are aware of the myriad vibrations of consciousness issuing from other human beings—expressed by word, act, look, gesture, silence, attitude, and so on. Each man is stamped with the vibratory signature of his own state of consciousness, and emanates a characteristic influence on persons and things. For example, a room in which a man lives is permeated with his thought vibrations. These may be distinctly felt by other persons if they possess the required degree of sensitivity. Man’s ego (his sense of I-ness; the distorted mortal reflection of the immortal soul) cognizes consciousness directly; and congnizes matter (the human body and all other objects in creation) indirectly, through mental processes and through sense perceptions. That is, the ego is always aware of possessing consciousness; but the ego is not aware of matter, even of the body it inhabits, until it takes thought about it. Thus a man in deep concentration on any subject is conscious of his mind but not of his body.

~Paramahansa Yogananda

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​​🥀The Yaksha asked — “What is the best of all laudable things? What is the most valuable of all his possessions? What is the best of all gains? And what is the best of all kinds of happiness?”

Yudhishthira answered — ”The best of all laudable things is skill; the best of all possessions is knowledge: the best of all gains is health: and contentment is the best of all kinds of happiness.”

🥀The Yaksha asked — “What man should be regarded as learned, and who should be called an atheist? Who also is to be called ignorant? What is called desire and what are the sources of desire? And what is envy?”

Yudhishthira answered — “He is to be
called learned who knoweth his duties. An atheist is he who is ignorant and so also he is ignorant who is an atheist. Desire is due to objects of possession, and envy is nothing else than grief of heart.”

~Excerpt from Yaksha Prashna, Vana Parva, Mahabharata

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​​When the mind moves even a little, that is worldly bondage samsara; when the mind abides firmly and motionlessly in the state of Self, that is liberation mukti. This is certain. Therefore know that the wise man must hold his mind firm by Supreme Self-awareness.

~Lord Shiva to Devi Parvati 🕉
•Devikalottara Agama, Verse 10

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