Dhanaraj M
A Nice Article about Love (by Swami Vivekananda)
I
once had a friend who grew to be very close to me. Once when we were
sitting at the edge of a swimming pool, she filled the palm of her hand
with some water and held it before me, and said this: "You see this
water carefully contained on my hand? It symbolizes Love."
This
was how I saw it: As long as you keep your hand caringly open and allow
it to remain there, it will always be there. However, if you attempt to
close your fingers round it and try to posses it, it will spill through
the first cracks it finds.
This
is the greatest mistake that people do when they meet love...they try
to posses it, they demand, they expect... and just like the water
spilling out of your hand, love will retrieve from you .
For love is meant to be free, you cannot change its nature. If there are people you love, allow them to be free beings.
# Give and don't expect
# Advise, but don't order
# Ask, but never demand
Posted at 08:49AM Feb 16, 2008 by dhanarajm in Personal | Comments[0]
Happy Youth Day
Narendranath (Vivekananda) was born on 12th Jan, 1863. Indian youth is celebrating Swami Vivekananda's birth day as National Youth Day.
Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna: When he was young, he met prominent religious leaders, but could not get a convincing answer from them to his question about the existence of God. This came about, in 1881, the historic meeting of these two great souls, the prophet of modern India and the carrier of his message. He asked Sir Ramakrishna, "have you seen God". He answered, "yes, I have seen him just as I see you here, only more intensely". At last here was one who could assure him from his own experence that God existed. After Sri Ramakrishna passed away, he became the leader for disciples. In his remaining life, he traveled to many countries, in order to spread his master's message.
Messages:
- He is an atheist who does not believe in himself
- Education by which the character is formed, strength of mind is increased
- Karmayoga means, even at the point of the death to help anyone, without asking questions. Be cheated millions of times and never ask a question
- Never mind these failures, these little backslidings, hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail thousand times, make an attempt once more
The ideal of man is to see God in everything
- It is meditation that brings us nearer to truth than anything else
- Arise, Awake, and Stop not till the goal is reached
Posted at 08:35AM Jan 12, 2007 by dhanarajm in Personal | Comments[2]
Buddha's Thrice Blessed Day
He was born as the son of King Suddhodana and named Siddhartha, that is, "He who has accomplished his purpose". One day he visited the city and came across an old man, a diseased person, a dead body, and a sannyasin. Being told that the first three were not rare scenes, but the inevitable fate of all living beings. He was very much plunged into deep thoughts. He decided to renounce the world in search of truth. After six years of hard questions, the much desired enlightment dawned upon him. He passed away at the age of eighty on a full moon day, which is known as the Thrice Blessed Day, as on this day he was born and also attained enlightment.
Swami Vivekananda on Buddha:
Buddha is the man who actually carried this teaching of Karma yoga into
the perfect practice. He is the ideal karma yogi acting without any
motive, and the history of humanity shows him to have been the greatest
man ever born, beyond compare, the greatest combination of heart and
brain ever existed, the greatest soul power that has been manifested.
Posted at 08:49AM Jan 10, 2007 by dhanarajm in Personal | Comments[4]