Isavasya Upanishad : ( 26/12/2012. )

 =============================================================== ============================================================= Thursday, January 10, 2022. 8:00. PM. Part-1. Post -8. ============================================================= It is futile to imagine that external property can make us happy and enable us to live long. It is the breath that conditions our joy. Have all the gold and silver of this world and let your breath be choked, you will see how happy you will be. Let the organism not work properly. Even the little stupid joy that we seem to be enjoying in this world does not come from the house that we have or the land that we own. It is from an organic, harmonised, aligned function of the body that is the reason for our happiness. The life that is inside us, the principle of life that we really are, when it is operating in a perfectly harmonised way, makes us happy. If disorganisation takes place inside, life struggles to maintain itself in a disorganised soci...

================================================= Yagna at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai Chinmaya Mission Mumbai, has organized a discourse on #Excellence based on Bhagvad Geeta - Chapter 3 and on #Gratitude - Talk on Kritajnata & Practice of Gratitude Meditation by Swami Swatmananda, Acharya Chinmaya Mission, South Mumbai and West Zone Director - All India Chinmaya Yuva Kendra. Dates: 23rd to 28th February, 2015 ================================================ Monday, January 10, 2022. 6:00. PM. Part-1. Post -7. ================================================= We are friends because we are commonly placed in the position of participants in a cosmic purpose. Individually we cannot be friends. Sometimes the individual character asserts itself, and we behave like enemies. We hate each other. We do not always participate and love. The trait of dislike or hatred arises when the individuality in us asserts itself minus its position of participation in a cosmic whole.  When we are awak...

 ====================================================================== =================================================================== Wednesday, January 04, 2022. 8:00. PM. Part-1. Discourse-6. ======================================================================= So the whole Reality is not manifest in existence such as a stone or a rock, though some part of it is manifest there. But in us, a larger degree of Reality is manifest, because it is known that it is. There is rajas – intellect and rational activity. We may be full of education, knowledge, information, academic qualification, but we may be incomplete persons nevertheless, due to absence of peace inside the mind. An educated person may be bankrupt in inward peace because while the tamasic element of existence and the rajasic element of understanding are there – the fact of this individualised existence is there – the sattvic quality of joy is absent. The ananda aspect of Reality, the bliss aspect of Truth, has also...