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Good morning. Wake up to happiness. Best not to lose sleep, or health. Best is to keep improving our limits, test them & keep raising the bar. Lets do our best. Happy Monday. Stay safe. God bless us.

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Do everything you have to do, but not with greed, not with ego, not with lust, not with envy but with love, compassion, humility and devotion

Lord Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

Video: Latcho Drom (documentary)

Music: Vande Krishna (feat. Dhananjaya Pandit Das, Ananta Sri Das, Maha Sundari Dasi & Atma Priya Dasi)

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Bhagavad Gita 8.15

Having attained Me, the great souls are no more subject to rebirth in this world, which is transient and full of misery, because they have attained the highest perfection.

Bhagavad Gita 8.16

In all the worlds of this material creation, up to the highest abode of Brahma, you will be subject to rebirth, O Arjun. But on attaining My Abode, O son of Kunti, there is no further rebirth.

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𝓢𝓮𝓰𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽-2

✦ The Light in My Heart

The words — rays and radiance — come from the Sanskrit root word rā, which means to shine; it also means light. ma means within me, in my heart. So, Rāma means the light in my heart. When the mind with some skill in this body gets into the present moment, and purifies the mind and the heart, then Rāma, which means the light in our heart, shines. Four things come out of you when  Aśvamedha is done: Rāma, which means the light in our heart; Lakṣmaṇa means awareness; Bharat means talent; Śatrughna means one who has no enemies. It must be mentioned that aśva has two meanings; one is the horse, and medha means purifying. So, what is the horse— Your senses. When your senses are purified, then what comes up is the divine light in your heart (Rāma) and awareness (Lakṣmaṇa). Then you have no enemies (Śatrughna), and all the talent (Bharat) comes to you. It is also noteworthy that Rāvan means ego

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"Forgive me,

Oh Shiva!

My three great sins!

came on a pilgrimage

to Kashi, forgetting that

You are omnipresent

In thinking about you,

I forgot that You are

beyond thought.

In praying to you,

I forgot that You are

beyond words."

-SRI SHANKARACHARYA

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Good morning. Wake up to happiness. We are blessed with many 'entitlements' without our knowledge. Stay with gratitude in all our actions, instead of having things as an entitlement. Happy Sunday. Stay safe. God bless us.

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“Remember, the best shelter is in the silence of your soul. And if you can develop that silence, nothing in the world can touch you… - Paramahansa Yogananda

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Good morning. Wake up to happiness. Let's stay quiet, calm & peaceful. Let's just try to be us without the baggage. Happy weekend. Stay safe. God bless us.

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Shiva Shakthi

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CONVERSATIONS WITH ANNAMALAI SWAMI

Q: The seeker has many ideas: ‘I am a jiva (personality), I am bound and have to do sadhana to attain liberation’. Should we forget all these ideas? …

AS: Yes, forget them all! ‘I am the Self, I am all’. Hold onto this awareness. All other paths are roundabouts.

Q: Bhagavan said that repeating, ‘I am the Self’ or ‘I am not this body’ is an aid to inquiry but does not constitute the inquiry itself.

AS: The meditation, ‘I am not the body or the mind, I am the immanent Self’ is a great aid for as long as one is not able to do self-inquiry properly or constantly.

Bhagavan said, ‘Keeping the mind in the Heart is self-inquiry’. If you cannot do this by asking ‘Who am I?’ or by taking the I-thought back to its source, then meditation on the awareness ‘I am the all-pervasive Self’ is a great aid.

Bhagavan often said that we should read and study the Ribhu Gita regularly.

In the Ribhu Gita it is said: ‘That bhavana (mental attitude) ‘I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am Brahman, I am everything,’ is to be repeated again and again until this becomes the natural state.’

Bhagavan sat with us every day while we chanted extracts from the Ribhu Gita which affirm the reality of the Self. It is true that he said that these repetitions are only an aid to self-inquiry, but they are a very powerful aid.

By practicing this way, the mind becomes more and more attuned to the Reality. When the mind has become purified by this practice, it is easier to take it back to its source and keep it there. When one is able to abide in the Self directly, one doesn’t need aids like this. But if this is not possible these practices can definitely help one.

- Living by the Words of Bhagavan, p. 294

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Good morning. Wake up to happiness. Choices are optional for us to go forth our daily lives. To change is one of those options. If we choose wisely & change, we don't have to wait until change is the only option. Happy Friday. Stay safe. God bless us.

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To my Divine Mother I prayed only for pure love. I offered flowers at Her Lotus Feet and prayed to Her: “Mother, here is Thy virtue, here it Thy vice. Take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee. Here is Thy knowledge, here is Thy ignorance, take them both and grant me only pure love for Thee. Here is Thy purity, here is Thy impurity. Take them both, Mother, and grant me only pure love for Thee. Here is Thy dharma, here is Thy adharma. Take them both, Mother, and grant me only pure love for Thee.” (pp.138-139)

Excerpts from The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, tr. by Swami Nikhilananda, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York, 1973.

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The realized man lives on the level of the absolutes; his wisdom, love and courage are complete, there is nothing relative about him. Therefore he must prove himself by tests more stringent, undergo trials more demanding.

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Good morning. Wake up to happiness. Peel an onion & we shed tears. Peel the cloaks of perception & years of conditioned social responses that cloud our mind & shine bright and true. Happy Thursday. Stay safe. God bless us.

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Within each of us resides a pain-body; a dark shadow of the ego. The slightest event can cause it to emerge. When it does, an inner voice begins to spin sad, anxious, or angry stories about ourselves or others. It blames, complains and distorts perception. By pausing to acknowledge this unconscious identification, we take the first step toward becoming an adult, a step into our nature free of all conditioned and existential angst.

Eckhart Tolle