Karthigai Deepam Festival 2012

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World Is A Transit Lounge says Sri RaviShankar

http://timesofindia.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/science-of-spirituality/the-world-is-a-transit-loungeQ: In the fifteenth chapter of the Gita, there is a description of a tree which is upside down. The branches are in the ground and the roots are in the sky. What could be the significance of this?A: This is a symbol to signify that your origin is the Divinity; the consciousness. That is your root. The mind and all its paraphernalia are like the branches. And all the different types of rhythms in life, all the different emotions, are like...

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Attachment And Detachment

http://timesofindia.speakingtree.in/spiritual-articles/science-of-spirituality/attachment-and-detachment Have you observed a balloon seller?. He inflates a few balloons, ties a thread around each one and wraps those threads around his fingers. When someone comes to buy a balloon, he removes one from one of his fingers and gives it away. Then he inflates another balloon and ties it to his finger again. Our mind is like the balloon seller. Myriad different objects in the world entice us like balloons and our desires are like the threads that keep...

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The Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Bhagavada cannot be studied in isolation, says Devdutt Pattanaik

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-20/vintage-wisdom/30631242_1_vishnu-epics-ramayana The Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Bhagavada cannot be studied in isolation, says Devdutt Pattanaik. In the Ramayana is the story of a bear called Jambavan who served Rama with devotion, helping him along with the army of monkeys to attack Lanka and defeat the demon-king Ravana. It is said that he is a form of Brahma who wanted to walk the earth along with Vishnu when the latter took the form of Rama. But during that time, he had a thought, "How...

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Part 2 - Ramana Maharshi Devotee Lokamma

Lokamma of Pattakkurichi is most remembered for her cooking and singing. The published chronicles of Ashram life during Bhagavan’s time are replete with reports of Bhagavan asking Lokamma to sing particular hymns to suit the occasion. Much of what follows is taken from the 1980 Souvenir entitled Ramana Smriti, p. 152-55.I happened to meet Thenamma who had been coming to Ramanasramam for some time and who helped in the kitchen when there. Her accounts of Sri Bhagavan’s life and teachings sparked in me a deep longing to visit him. But my family members...

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The ways of karma By Sri Sri RaviSankar

Every object in the universe is endowed with four characteristics: dharma, karma, prema and gyana. Of these, karma is the most talked about; it is also the most misunderstood. The Gita says: "Gahna Karmanyo Gathi" -- Unfathomable are the ways of karma. There are three types of karma: Prarabha, sanchita and agami. The first is latent karma, an impression or seed of action. The second is karma as action, and the third is karma as result. Prarabha means 'begun'; the action that is already manifesting and that is yielding its effect right now. You...

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Part 1 - Ramana Maharshi Devotee Lokamma

LOKAMMA became a widow when she was very young. Her greatest wish was to meet saintly persons and to gain freedom from samsara by theirhelp. An uncle noted for his tapas initiated her into panchakshara japa. She would practice the japa day and night thousands of times and often had burningsensations in her body from the sheer power of the mantra.Later, at a time when her life was in chaos, she and her family made a pilgrimage to Rameswaram. She felt that her life as a widow was no longer tolerable and decided to put an end to it by jumping into...

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