Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, industrialists and scientists have fantasized about a symbiotic factory setup. Consider two hypothetical factories A & B. Suppose the two factories could be arranged such that the waste product of factory A would serve as a raw material for factory B and the waste product of factory B would serve as a raw material for factory A. Then the factory setup would able to run perpetually with zero expenditure and unlimited profit! However this has always been nothing more than a fantasy. The raw materials...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Sunday, April 17, 2011
To those who say that they don’t believe in any religion
Posted on 9:22 AM by Unknown
Many people say that they don't believe in any religion. However, on taking a closer look, we can see that there is no one in this world who does not believe in religion.To those who say that they don't believe in any religion, I would like to ask, don't they believe in the body's religion of eating, drinking, sleeping and evacuating? Don't they believe in the religion of the mind? They may say that they don't believe in the religion of the soul.How can they believe in it? They don't even know what it is. However, don't they want to live forever?...
Friday, April 15, 2011
Silence Liberates
Posted on 12:02 PM by Unknown
There lived a pious man in Bengal, India. Every day a Sanskrit scholar would come to his house and read aloud a few soul-stirring spiritual teachings from the Gita, the Upanishads and the Vedas. The master of the house was an aspirant.He would listen most devotedly to these discourses.The family had a bird called Krishna. Krishna was kept in a cage in the room where the discourses were given. It also listened to these talks.One day the bird spoke to its master, "Could you please tell me what benefit you actually derive from these spiritual talks?"The...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Silence is the Nature of the Muni
Posted on 12:43 PM by Unknown
Muni is one who has controlled his mind. That which is the quality of a Muni is silence. That is the meaning of the word 'Mounam'. Since the general view is that the greatest of the qualities of a Muni is not talking, mounam has come to mean 'not talking'. Even if it is the quality of one who has controlled his mind, that helps people like us too who have not controlled our mind to reach that stage.The Upanishad says that the Muni who is also a Brahmajnani, gives up both thestates of remaining silent and not remaining silent. First, he learns,...
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