It is strange how we want freedom and we do everything to enslave ourselves. We lose all our initiative. We look to others to guide us, to help us, to be generous, to be peaceful; we look to the gurus, masters, saviours, meditators. Someone writes great music, someone plays it, interpreting it in his own way and we listen to it, enjoying it or criticising it. We are the audience watching the actors, football players, or watching the cine-screen. Others write poems and we read; others paint and we gape at them. We have nothing, so we turn to others...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Part 1 -- J. KRISHNAMURTI - A Biography by Pupul Jayakar
Posted on 1:11 PM by Unknown
Krishnaji refused to move from “what is”, the actual. He refused to discuss abstracts like God or eternity while the mind was a whirlpool of lust, hatred,and jealousy.Thought can only come to an end when the thinker understands himself, when he sees that the thinker and the thought are not two separate processes. To be free from aggression is not to become weak or humble. (p.11)“If religion perish here, it will perish everywhere and in India’s hand is laid the sacred charge of keeping alight the torch of spirit amid the fogs and storms of increasing...
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Ramana Maharshi About Mind Control
Posted on 10:51 PM by Unknown
D.: How can the rebellious mind be brought under control?M.: Either seek its source so that it may disappear or surrender that it may be struck down.D.: But the mind slips away from our control.M.: Be it so. Do not think of it. When you recollect yourself bring it back and turn it inward. That is enough.No one succeeds without effort. Mind control is not one's birthright. The successful few owe their success to their perseverance. Source : Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshis, Talk No. 398Source 2: http://www.arunachala.org/newsletters/2011/?pg=mar...
Friday, March 4, 2011
Prof. Grimes Shares His Experiences Of "Who Am I"
Posted on 10:37 PM by Unknown
From chapter "Who am I?" (Page 139) from the book “Ganapati” by Prof. Grimes:Once many years ago, I had a "chance" meeting with an Indian saint. He asked, in broken English, "Been India?" Since I had been in India for a number of years, the best, most easily demonstrable answer was to wobble my head in the characteristic side to side manner known to most Indians. The moment he saw that "wobble", he got a big grin on his face, entered the room, and closed the door behind him. He asked me, "Who you?" Having lived in India and being used to this type...
Gayatri and Sandhyavandana
Posted on 10:19 PM by Unknown
Source: http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part17/chap12.htmIf the Gayatri has not been chanted for three generations in the family of a Brahmin, its members lose caste (they cease to be Brahmins). The quarter where such Brahmins live cannot be called an "agrahara". It is perhaps not yet three generations since Brahmins gave up the Gayatri. So they still may be called Brahmins.In the same way if the Brahmin family has not performed sacrifices for three generations its members will be called "Durbrahmanas", degenerate Brahmins. Even though degenerate...
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