From today onwards we have hoildays upto 26.04.2011. Its difficult to plan where to go ??? Really. I got up early today around 5 o clock in the morning and started to think what is the best way to start the day and I picked up few of my interests.
Number one....
Teachings from Ramana Maharshi. Ever since I went to Tiruvanamalai, I am inspired by Ramana's teaching about the inquiry into the self and potential that we are all created with.
Fate and Free Will
Free will and destiny are ever existent. Destiny is the result of past action; it concerns the body. Let the body act as may suit it. Why are you concerned about it? Why do you pay attention to it? Free will and destiny last as long as the body lasts. But jnana transcends both. The Self is beyond knowledge and ignorance. Whatever happens, happens as the result of one's past actions, of divine will and of other factors.
There are only two ways to conquer destiny or be independent of it. One is to enquire for whom is this destiny and discover that only the ego is bound by destiny and not the Self and that the ego is non-existent.
The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, by realizing one's helplessness and saying all the time, 'Not I, but Thou, oh Lord' and giving up all sense of 'I' and ‘mine’, and leaving it to the Lord to do what he likes with you. Complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-enquiry or bhakti marga.
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Q&A with Ramana, liked....
Another poem from Four Quartlets by the same Poet...The Dry Salvages (1941)
The moments of happiness — not the sense of well-being,
Fruition, fulfilment, security or affecton,
Or even a very good dinner, but the sudden illumination —
We had the experience but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experienceIn a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness. I have said before
That the past experience revived in the meaning
Is not the experience of one life only
But of many generations — not forgetting
Something that is probably quite ineffable
The list goes.... what a poet TS Eliot is ...... such a genius....
Before I publish this... I got the following one.....
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
Love,
Guru
Number one....
Teachings from Ramana Maharshi. Ever since I went to Tiruvanamalai, I am inspired by Ramana's teaching about the inquiry into the self and potential that we are all created with.
Fate and Free Will
Free will and destiny are ever existent. Destiny is the result of past action; it concerns the body. Let the body act as may suit it. Why are you concerned about it? Why do you pay attention to it? Free will and destiny last as long as the body lasts. But jnana transcends both. The Self is beyond knowledge and ignorance. Whatever happens, happens as the result of one's past actions, of divine will and of other factors.
There are only two ways to conquer destiny or be independent of it. One is to enquire for whom is this destiny and discover that only the ego is bound by destiny and not the Self and that the ego is non-existent.
The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, by realizing one's helplessness and saying all the time, 'Not I, but Thou, oh Lord' and giving up all sense of 'I' and ‘mine’, and leaving it to the Lord to do what he likes with you. Complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-enquiry or bhakti marga.
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Q&A with Ramana, liked....
Questioner: How are we to treat others?
Ramana Maharshi: There are no others.
Coming on to the next was poetry that I like most, believe it or not, when you get into the world of poetry, its sucha wonderful area, you lose yourself.... it happened to me as well.....
Today's poetry that touched my heart.... is (highligted the lines -liked)
TS Eliot's Choruses from The Rock (1934)
O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
Another poem from Four Quartlets by the same Poet...The Dry Salvages (1941)
The moments of happiness — not the sense of well-being,
Fruition, fulfilment, security or affecton,
Or even a very good dinner, but the sudden illumination —
We had the experience but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experienceIn a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness. I have said before
That the past experience revived in the meaning
Is not the experience of one life only
But of many generations — not forgetting
Something that is probably quite ineffable
The list goes.... what a poet TS Eliot is ...... such a genius....
Before I publish this... I got the following one.....
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
Love,
Guru
It was wonderfully 'SPiritual' and tastefully poetic :) good post Guru... we met only couple of times but these posts makes me know u more :).. Good going keep it up.
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