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🌿How to get the Grace of God?🌿

⭐️Explained By: Ramana Maharshi⭐️

•Duration - 40 seconds

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✨SCRIPTURAL KNOWLEDGE AND DIRECT EXPERIENCE - BOTH ARE A MUST✨

🌿Such wisdom which can destroy ignorance is clearly of two sorts; indirect and direct. Knowledge is first acquired from a Master and through him from the scriptures. Such indirect knowledge cannot fulfil the object in view.

🌿Because theoretical knowledge alone does not bear fruit; practical knowledge is necessary which comes through samadhi alone. Knowledge born of nirvikalpa samadhi generates wisdom by the eradication of ignorance and objective knowledge.

🌿Similarly, experience of casual samadhi in the absence of theoretical knowledge does not serve the purpose either. Just as a man, ignorant of the qualities of an emerald, cannot recognise it by the mere sight of it in the treasury, nor can another recognise it if he has not seen it before, although he is full of theoretical knowledge on the subject, in the same way theory must be supplemented with practice in order that a man might become an expert.

🌿Ignorance cannot be eradicated by mere theory or by the casual samadhi of an ignorant man. Again, want of attention is a serious obstacle; for a man looking up at the sky cannot identify the individual constellations. Even a learned scholar is no better than a fool, if he does not pay attention when a thing is explained to him.

🌿On the other hand, a man though not a scholar but yet attentive having heard all about the planet Venus, goes out in confidence to look for it, knowing how to identify it, and finally discovers it, and so is able to recognise the same whenever he sees it again. Inattentive people are simply fools who cannot understand the ever-recurring samadhis in their lives. They are like a man, ignorant of the treasure under the floor of his house, who begs for his daily food.

🌿So you see that samadhi is useless to such people. The intellect of babies is always unmodified and yet they do not realise the Self. Nirvikalpa samadhi [attained casually] clearly will never eradicate ignorance. Therefore in order to destroy it savikalpa samadhi must be sought.

🌿This alone can do it. God inherent as the Self is pleased by meritorious actions which are continued through several births, after which the desire for liberation dawns and not otherwise, even though millions of births may be experienced. Of all the things in creation, to be born a sentient being requires good luck; even so, to acquire a human body requires considerable merit [punyas]; while it is out of the ordinary for human beings to be endowed with both virtuous tendencies and sharp intellect.

~King Janaka to Rishi Ashtavakra
•Tripura Rahasya, Chapter 17, Verses 35-52

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✨🌿When Einstein met Shri Rabindranath Tagore🌿✨

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🌿Guided Meditation - 10 Minutes🌿

This video provides a very simple yet highly effective guided meditation practice that everyone can do. This 10 minute meditation will help one to experience inner peace and bliss very easily. It will enhance mindfulness, bring positive energy and reduce anxiety.

✨A fine blend of Yogic and Vedantic practices✨

•Duration - 11:00 mins

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☀️In your mother's womb you vowed,
not to be born again.
When will you recall the vow?

☀️Who slays the highway robbers three,
Greed, Lust and Pride,
And yet, in utter humility, serves
his fellowmen -
He truly seeks out the Lord,
disregarding as worthless ashes
all other things.

☀️It is easy to read and to recite;
It is hard to practice what one reads,
And, reading seek out the Self within.
By constant practice, not by books,
Conviction grew in my heart
Of God, Who is Consciousness-Bliss.

☀️Why do you grope thus like the blind?
Pray, doubt not what I say to you:
If you are wise, enter within
And see the Lord Himself is there.
You need not search Him here and there.

~Maa Lalleshwari [Lal Ded] Vakhs

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​​✨Shubh Navaratri | शुभ नवरात्रि✨

🌿I move about with the rudras and vasus, and also with the ādityas and vishvadevas. I hold in me both mitra and varuna, and also indra, agni and the two ashvins.

🌿I sustain the pressed soma plant, the gods thvashtru [architect of the gods], pūshan and bhaga. I give wealth/power to the possessor of havis [oblation], to the mindful yajamāna [patron of the sacrifice] and to the person who performs the soma sacrifice.

🌿I am the sovereign ‘queen’ [of all existence], the gatherer of treasures, the knower of the supreme, the first among those worthy of worship. That Me, the gods spread in many directions, so that I have many abodes to enter and live in.

🌿He who eats food, eats through me; he who sees, who breathes, who hears what is spoken, does so through me; those who are ignorant of me, perish; hearken who is capable of hearing, I tell you that which is trustworthy.

🌿I alone myself speak this – which is pleasing to both gods and men. Whoever I wish, him I make powerful, a brahma [i.e., creator god], a rishi [realised sage] or a wise one [learned scholar].

🌿I bend the bow of Rudra for [aiming] the arrow for killing the hater of brahman. I rouse and make wars for the people [fight for the welfare of noble ones]. I have pervaded heaven and earth [all over].

🌿I bring forth the father [i.e. creator] of the heavens above. My womb [source of creation, or genesis] is in the waters, in the deep [cosmic] ocean. From thereon I pervade the entire world and the universe, and touch the apex of heaven with my body.

🌿I verily myself breathe forth like the wind, issuing out form to all the created worlds; beyond the heaven, beyond the world [I Exist eternally - beyond space & time] - so vast am I, in my greatness.

~Devi Suktam
•Rig Veda, Mandala 10

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On this auspicious occasion of Navaratri, may the grace of Ma Shakti bring all the health, wealth, joy, love, peace and wisdom to all of our lives. May the Divine Mother bless us so that we continue to grow spiritually and attain the highest good. 🙏😇

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☀️ शिवः शक्त्या युक्तो यदि भवति शक्तः प्रभवितुं न चेदेवं देवो न खलु कुशलः स्पन्दितुमपि । अतस्त्वामाराध्यां हरिहरविरिञ्चादिभिरपि प्रणन्तुं स्तोतुं वा कथमकृतपुण्यः प्रभवति ॥ १॥

🌿Lord Shiva, only becomes able to do creation in this world along with Shakti. Without Her, Even an inch He cannot move. And so how can, one who does not do good deeds, or one who does not sing your praise, become adequate to worship you, O goddess mine, who is worshipped by the trinity.

~Adi Shankaracharya
•Saundarya Lahiri, Verse 1

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May Adi Shakti Maa Jagadamba's Grace always be there to guide and bless us all. 🙏😇

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🌿This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

🌿O Man! Be ever prepared. Live this moment as though it is your last moment on this earth and acquire the maximum spiritual wealth here and now.

~Swami Sivananda

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This video [in Hindi] is very touching. It shows how the strong Past Life Samskaras flower beautifully and fight against all the odds and hurdles. This is surely due to the Grace of God only.

Otherwise, generally, in such a family having Tamasic Acharan and Swabhava, it's next to impossible to cultivate this level of devotion and intense faith towards the saints, from the scratch.

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☀️God is the All-Seer who generates, permeates, sustains and destroys the universe. He is Shiva, He is Vishnu, He is Brahma, the Sun, the Moon, etc. He is the One whom the different sects call their own; He [God] is not Shiva, nor Vishnu, nor Brahma, nor any other "exclusively" [God doesn't have any one specific form alone].

☀️Still, if devotees worship and contemplate Him with a body [in some form] according to their own inclinations, He shows them grace, assuming such a body. For He is unique and fulfils the desires of His devotees. Nevertheless, the conclusion must be reached that He is pure intelligence and His consciousness is absolute and transcendental.

☀️Such is the consciousness-intelligence in purity, Absolute Being, the One Queen, Parameswari [Transcendental Goddess], overwhelming the three states [waking, dreaming and deep sleep] and hence called Tripura. Though She is the undivided whole, the universe manifests in all its variety in Her, being reflected as it were, in a self-luminous mirror.

☀️The reflection cannot be apart from the mirror and is therefore one with it. Such being the case, there cannot be difference in degrees [e.g., Shiva, or Vishnu being superior to each other]. Bodies are mere conceptions in the lower order of beings and they are not to the point in the case of God. Therefore, be wise, and worship the one pure, unblemished Transcendence.

☀️If unable to comprehend this pure state [of Transcendental Consciousness], one should worship God in the concrete form [Saguna Rupa] which is most agreeable to Him; in this way, too, one is sure to reach the goal, though gradually. Though one attempted it in millions of births, one would not advance except in one of these two ways [via Bhakti or Jnana].

~From: Tripura Rahasya
•Verses From Chapter 7

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🌿How to see God?🌿

Does God Exist? Why people normally cannot see God? What to practice and what to avoid, in order to have an experience of God? How to Surrender to God?

✨Explained By: Ramakrishna Paramahamsa✨

•Duration - 11:30 mins

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​​✨🌿SHUBH VIJAY-DASHAMI🌿✨

Man's real nature is Absolute Bliss and Knowledge. He tries to reach this state with the help of his mind and intellect. But the mind constantly gravitates to the sense objects for sensual pleasures from the external world. By such extroverted pursuits man gets involved more and more in the world of objects and accumulates desires which veil the divinity in him. Man is thus in a helpless condition consumed by numerous desires. The ancient masters knew that he has to turn his attention inwards to gain the state of Absolute Bliss and Knowledge which he foolishly seeks in the external world. With this view of mind, they introduced various rituals and festivals throughout the year to remind man of his supreme goal and ideal. Dussehra or Vijaya Dasami are prominent among them.

Dussehra indicates as the word suggests, Dasa-papa-hara, the end or the liquidation of ten sins ten bad qualities. The ten sins [Kama-Lust, Krodha-Anger, Moha-Attachment, Lobha-Greed, Mada-Pride, Matsara-Jealousy, Swartha-Selfishness, Anyaaya-Injustice, Amanavta-Cruelty and Ahankara-Ego] are attributed to the 10 sense-organs through which the mind contacts and gains knowledge of the phenomenal world, and also reacts to the stimuli received from the world of objects. Therefore the idea is that on this sacred day, the ten sins are ended which signifies the end of the mind and therefore the end of the world of plurality [duality] when one becomes rooted in the Transcendental Experience – the Vijaya Dasami Day, the day of Sri Parameswara Prapti.

The 9 days Navaratri Pooja ends in the Great Grand festivity and Joy inexpressible, on the 10th day – the Vijaya Dasami Day. The 9 days Devi Pooja has removed the 9 great sins of man. On the last Vijaya Dasami Day, the devil is burnt down indicating the “transcendence of ego”, when man attains the great victory – Vijaya – over his sense-life and revels in the ecstatic experience of the Transcendental Reality! The 10th day ends the last of his sins and the mortal limited man in himself discovers that he is one with God! Live thy Life of Dasara! Burn down the ugly monstrous Rakshasa Roopa that we had ourselves built up in the previous nights; and in joy and revelry, dance round the wrecked blazing Monster — the “I”. 

The great Victory — the Vijaya! The Home-Coming — the great Vijaya Dasami Day! “Dasa hara” is the victory over the senses – means, end of Mind; which ends in the disappearance of the dreadful shadow “I”. When the mind is “off”, what remains is the Blissful, the Omnipotent and Omniscient mass of Beauty and Grandeur, the Supreme Mother! Make thy life a Mahanavami Celebration! With songs and dance, with puja and worship, with feasting and illumination, with Japa and Tapa, invoke the Powers of the Self, the Eternal Nature of Thee! Sivoham! Bring about a Dasara in Thy life – celebrate the life’s Vijaya Dasami – through Purushartha, which in the bhakta is not a stupendous task of adventure and strife, but a pleasure Puja Festival!

~Swami Chinmayananda

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🌿Under God's dispensation now and again, man has to suffer violent blows. Do you know that these blows are God's Grace? Without them it would be impossible for the person concerned to experience a change of heart at this particular stage.

🌿Try always to bear in mind that God sends all the worries of life for purifying yourself.

🌿Always remain calm and remember that whatever God does at any time is beneficent. When circumstances change in the course of events, what is there to worry about? Everything that happens at any moment happens by His will.

🌿The mind has been engaged so far in [sense] objects. Now, engage it towards God. You’ll see the path will gradually open up. Thoughts of sense objects are sure to leave, the veil will also gradually disappear. What is impermanent will certainly be destroyed.

~Anandamayi Ma

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✨​​🪔SHUBH DEEPAVALI🪔✨

🌼The Conquest of Hell [Naraka] The Puranas say that Lord Narayana has killed the demon [of misery], Naraka-Asura. This demon is none other than the one who lives as “I am this body, the source of misery”. One who seeks Naraka-Asura’s [i.e., the ego’s] source, and thus annihilates him, is truly Lord Narayana Himself.

🌼The Deepavali-bath, which is taken by all people on the fourteenth moon in remembrance of the conquest of Naraka, signifies the bath of Jnana, which is taken after destroying the ego Naraka-Asura, by searching for his source.

The above two verses were summarised in the following verse by Sri Bhagavan:

🌿He who kills Narakasura [the ego]
with the Wheel [i.e.weapon] of Jnana,
by enquiring, “Where is the source of Narakasura, who rules over Narakaloka, this wretched body, as ‘I’?”, is Lord Narayana; and that day [of the ego’s destruction] is the auspicious day of the fourteenth moon.

🌿Deepavali signifies the great Self-Effulgence which shines after destroying the reflected light [i.e. the ego], Narakasura, who was ruling this filthy body, which is the form of hell, as ‘I’.

🌿Deepavali signified the shining of Self after the destruction, through enquiry, of the greatest sinner, Naraka [the ego], who took the abode of this filthy body, which is the form of hell, as ‘I’.

🌿He is Narakasura [a demon] who feels attached in the thought that he is the body. That attachment to the body itself is a Naraka [hell].

🌿The life of a person who has that attachment, even if he be a Maharaja, is hellish. Destroying the attachment to the body, and the Self shining by itself, as Self, is Deepavali.

🌿He is the king of hell who says that he is the body which is hell itself. He is Narayana who ascertains who Naraka is, and destroys him with His vision of wisdom, Jnana-Drishti. That is the auspicious day of Narakachathurdasi.

🌿The false belief that this hell-like house called body is me, is Naraka himself. To destroy that false belief and let the self shine as Self, is Deepavali.

~Verses from: Guru Vachaka Kovai

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