🌿To Prevent Mental Disease🌿

Cultivate peace, and faith in God. Free the mind from all disturbing thoughts and fill it with love and joy. Realize the superiority of mental healing over physical healing. Banish bad habits, which make life miserable.

🌿To Prevent Spiritual Disease🌿

Spiritualize the body by destruction of the consciousness of mortality and change. The body is materialized vibration and should be cognized as such. The consciousness of disease, decay, and death should be removed by scientific understanding of the underlying unifying laws of matter and Spirit, and of the delusive manifestation of Spirit as matter, of the Infinite as finite. Firmly believe that you are created in the image of the Father and are therefore immortal and perfect. Even a particle of matter or a wave of energy is indestructible, as science has proved; the soul or spiritual essence of man is also indestructible. Matter undergoes change; the soul undergoes changing experiences. Radical changes are termed death, but death or a change in form does not change or destroy the spiritual essence. Various methods of concentration and meditation are taught, but the Yogoda Satsanga methods are the most effective. Apply in your daily life the experiences of peace and poise you receive during concentration and meditation. Maintain your equilibrium amidst trying circumstances. Do not abandon yourself to violent emotions; stand unshaken by adverse turns of events.

~Parmahansa Yogananda

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🍃🌸DAY WISE CHANTS🌸🍃

✨When we get up in the morning -

कराग्रे वसते लक्ष्मीः करमध्ये सरस्वती । करमूले स्थिता गौरी प्रभाते करदर्शनम् ॥

karāgre vasatekarāgre vasate lakṣmīḥ karamadhye sarasvatī । karamūle sthitā gaurī prabhāte karadarśanam ॥

At the top of the palm dwells Goddess Lakṣmī, Goddess Sarasvatī in the middle, and Gaurī at the base. Therefore, one should look at one's hands in the early morning and contemplate on them.

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✨Before stepping on the earth in the morning -

समुद्रवसने देवि पर्वतस्तनमण्डिते । विष्णुपत्नि नमस्तुभ्यं पादस्पर्शं क्षमस्व मे ॥

samudravasanesamudravasane devi parvatastanamaṇḍite । viṣṇupatni namastubhyaṁ pādasparśaṁ kṣamasva me ॥

Oh Mother Earth! The Goddess with the oceans as garments and mountains as bosom! Consort of Lord Viṣṇu! Salutations to you. Please forgive the touch of my feet.

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✨Before starting studies at school -

सरस्वति नमस्तुभ्यं वरदे कामरूपिणि । विद्यारम्भं करिष्यामि सिद्धिर्भवतु मे सदा ॥

sarasvati namastubhyaṁ varade kāmarūpiṇi । vidyārambhaṁ kariṣyāmi siddhirbhavatu me sadā ॥

Salutations to you, Oh Goddess of wisdom Sarasvatī, bestower of boons and one who takes desired forms! I shall start learning, may there be success to me always.

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🌿Is God with Form or Formless?🌿

On another day, a devotee asked the Master, “Is God with form or formless?”

This has been a common question in the minds of most seekers on the path of God consciousness.

Thakur [Sri Sri Bhajan Brahmachari] replied with a calm voice, but thundering with the Truth that is enshrined in the Vedic tradition :-

Ishwar is God without beginning and without end. He is there from eternity, beyond the frame of time, eternally at play with the process of creation and annihilation. That is the reason the path of dharma or Truth is the path of justice, the path of peace. Truth reveals, in its own mysterious ways, the untruths with which the whole of the cosmic play is happening. You see God according to your own faith. You may call God formless or with form. Know that the formless aspect resonates to the nature of those who follow the path of Jnana [knowledge], while the divine in form speaks to those who follow the path Bhakti, which is devotion and love. Don’t force a formless god on the ones who are treading the path of devotional surrender. In the path of Bhakti [devotion], if the devotee cannot relate to the form of God, if he cannot see or touch God, his feelings would be hurt. If you have your ego – and your egoic existence is true to you so long as the world of form exists for you – various forms of God also are truth to you. Do you know what the great mystic saint Kabir has said? ‘Formless is my Father, and form is my Mother.’

~Excerpt from: Living with my Himalayan Master: Sri Sri Bhajan Brahmachari

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Discard your sense of doership, give up all your worries, miseries, fears and burdens to Me once and for all. When you surrender unquestionably to Me like this, I will Myself ensure that you're taken care of.

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🍃🌸DAY WISE CHANTS🌸🍃

✨Before starting any activity/project -

वक्रतुण्ड महाकाय कोटिसूर्यसमप्रभ । अविघ्नं कुरु मे देव सर्वकार्येषु सर्वदा ॥

vakratuṇḍa mahākāya koṭisūryasamaprabha । avighnaṁ kuru me deva sarvakāryeṣu sarvadā ॥

Oh Lord with a curved trunk, huge body, splendour equal to a crore Suns! Please remove all obstacles in all my endeavours always.

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✨For victory/accomplishment of all goals -

असाध्यसाधक स्वामिन् असाध्यं तव किं वद । रामदूत दयासिन्धो मत्कार्यं साधय प्रभो ॥

asādhyasādhaka svāmin asādhyaṁ tava kiṁ vada । rāmadūta dayāsindho matkāryaṁ sādhaya prabho ॥

Oh Lord! you are the achiever of the impossible. Is there anything which is impossible for you? Oh compassionate one! The emissary of Śrī Rāma! Please make my task succeed.

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✨For relief from physical and mental diseases -

बालाम्बिकेश वैद्येश भवरोगहरेति च । जपेन्नामत्रयं नित्यं महारोगनिवारणम् ॥

bālāmbikeśa vaidyeśa bhavarogahareti ca । japennāmatrayaṁ nityaṁ mahāroganivāraṇam ॥

“Oh Lord of Bālāmbikā! Master of all doctors! Remover of the disease of mortal world!” One should chant these three names of Lord Vaidyanātha constantly for cure of great diseases.

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Observe a tree and learn how to -

Always keep growing.
Stay grounded, no matter what.
Keep giving unconditionally.
Be support, shelter of others.
Let go of toxic, rotten stuff.

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Question: Do Hindus worship cows and the natural elements?

Answer: Hindus revere cows because they regard all of creation as sacred – whether conscious or inert, whether an animal or a plant. It is not that Hindus worship cows as deities. Hindus honour cows in gratitude for their generosity, value, and gentleness. The cow is looked upon as a mother, who contributes unconditionally, in so many ways, to the daily sustenance of the human being.

Vaidika hymns do address the natural elements, but the seeker is told to focus on the elements’ underlying powers and not merely their physical aspects. Each element has ādhibhautika [physical], ādhidaivika [celestial] and ādhyātmika [spiritual] significance.

Example: Agni signifies -

•Fire on the physical plane
•Purity on the celestial plane
•Light [Consciousness], or God, on the spiritual plane.

~From the Book: Hinduism FAQs, Q.43

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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. Sun is simply bright, it does not go to light candles anywhere [it does not correct anyone]. But because it is bright, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is the means of giving light to the whole world.

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🍃🌸KANAMPULLA NAYANAR - A brief Story🌸🍃

There was a town named Irukkuvelur on the south bank of river Vellar in Chozha nadu. It was a place surrounded by fertile fields, ponds and orchards. Jack fruit trees flourished on the fields and the honey from them dripped on the water bodies and floated on the surface, making them look like ponds of honey.

A rich landlord by name Kanampullar was the headman of the place. He was so devoted to Lord Shiva that he believed that the holy feet of Ishwar were the only true things in the world. Kanampullar made it his purpose in life to use his wealth to serve adiyars and also to buy oil and wicks for the burning of lamps throughout the night in the Shiva temples. His wealth started dwindlig in due course. At this stage, he left for Thillai to have darshan of Lord Shiva in the cosmic dance pose; thereafter, he decided to stay there.

He wanted to light the lamps in Thirupuleechuram. He sold away his properties and all the materials in his house and used the proceeds for meeting the cost of keeping the lamps in that temple burning. When the money thus obtained was also exhausted, he started cutting a grass known as kanampul and burning it in front of the Lord.

One day, he could not find any grass to cut and burn as a lamp. He then stood in front of the Lord, freed his knotted hair, held it aloft, lit it and waited for it to burn to the root, thus providing light to the Lord. Pleased with the sincerity, stead-fastness and sacrifice of the devotee, Lord Shiva gave Him the darshan, blessed him and let him reach His abode.

~From: Periya Puranam

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✨QUALITY OF MIND✨

A concentrated mind is a powerful mind and a dissipated mind is a weak mind. In order to develop mental power you must first develop a concentrated mind. A dissipated mind cannot have mental power. If the thoughts are scattered, they can be brought into concentrated focus by specific concentration practices. Then your mind will become so powerful that you can influence the minds of others. You can influence your character, your health, your whole life. If you have a stomach disorder, mental disorder, breathing disorder or any disorder, you can remove it by willpower alone. How can you develop willpower?

The secret is to concentrate the mind on one point. What is meant by a strong mind? A strong mind is one which can carry out its own decisions. In contrast, a weak mind is one which decides one thing but does another. From tomorrow I am going to do this or that but when tomorrow comes you forget everything. You are still the same because your mind is dissipated. All the great men about whom you have read in history, whether artists, writers, musicians, politicians, statesmen, military leaders, scientists or saints, achieved greatness because of the quality of their mind. They did not become great by a freak of nature or a stroke of luck. They each had a concentrated and hence a gifted mind.

To develop a higher quality of mind, you will have to analyze yourself and your aims, and you will have to give some time to the practice of concentration [preferably God forms, saints, sages, divine letters like "Aum", sacred places like Temples, natural scenes and objects, any of the 5 elements etc. - or any thing, the thought of which produces positivity and tranquility within you] for a certain while in the morning and evening. Remember always, if you want to do something or become something in your life, the quality of your mind has to be improved. If you have a low quality of mind then your performance in all spheres will be poor. If the quality of your mind is high then your performance will be correspondingly very great.

~Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati
•From - Dharana Darshan

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