Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Life Draws its Life from Death
Death is the end of a continuity that we call life. And, it is as an answer to the question that if we call life a continuity, and that how death can break it, that all religions are born. If there were no death, nobody would have bothered about religion at all. It is not life that inspires you to...
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Loneliness and Aloneness
The two words almost seem to convey the same meaning; a vacuum, emptiness, a feeling of hollowness - as if I am not. For the ‘I’ to exist, the wind of ‘thou’ is required. And it exists only on the surface, as waves. When you go deeper into your self, the winds no longer being there, the ‘I’ melts...
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Monday, August 7, 2006
Not Gold, but Somebody’s Hands to Hold
“If I were to die tomorrow,” the young woman says, “I would feel that my life had been full because I have known your love.” Her husband kisses her and they move away revealing the name of the ship on a life preserver: TITANIC This scene of the honeymooners standing at the rail of the oceanliner, I...
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Sunday, August 6, 2006
TO CHASE OR (not) TO BE CHASED?
The following piece is my inspirational dedication on the idea of Shadow that appears as today’s message of Sri Sathya Sai on “Religion and Spirituality,”-- the ‘voice of the Avatar.’ Desires are like shadows. And a Shadow is that which is not. It is either the not that is chasing you or you are...
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Saturday, August 5, 2006
HOW TO REACH TO THAT REPOSE OF THE TRANQUIL CONSCIENCE?
Swami Vivekananda, the illustrious disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, used to say that you will never come to a real understanding of the mysteries of life unless you pass through the ‘Slough of Despond’. “ Only then,” he says, “Life will no more be a struggle, but will be one of thanksgiving...
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GOD IS PLAIN BUSINESS
Adam was clearly instructed by God not to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. But he did. That was the sin. If knowledge was Adam’s sin, then what was Jesus’s virtue? Innocence. The symbolic significance of this is clearly evident that God has always desired man to remain innocent. Jesus was a...
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Friday, August 4, 2006
Isn’t Man Animalistic, and Animals Humane?
Man is an animal – as much of an animal as any other animal. But have you ever thought that man doesn’t finish with animality; he can be more than an animal, he can be less also. This is the glory of man, the freedom and the danger, the agony and the ecstasy. Man has infinite potential. A man can be...
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How is Inner Life Cultivated through Spiritual Awakening
All those things, that render men weak, are the characteristics of the body. Desires, passions, anger and fear are related to the consciousness rooted in the body. In order to lift this consciousness to the soul, these have to be eliminated. Normally, people are quite happy at their lot, and are...
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Thursday, August 3, 2006
Empty Spaces - the Portals of True Religion
The religions of the world have given so many diseases to man that they are unaccountable. One of the diseases is that they have made every man ambitious for reward - if not in this world then in the other world. They have made man so greedy, and at the same time they are all talking against greed....
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Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Why be God-fearing? Be God-Loving
You must have heard... in all the languages of the world - that ugly word; God-fearing! This word must have been coined by some faithfuls who, in their very faith, lost their discerning power. It must have been the creation of an unconscious mind. God-fearing? How can you be God-fearing and yet love...
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