Bharatheeyam : ( 08/11/2012. )

Saturday, June 20, 2020. 07:15 AM. Chapter 1: The Spirit of Life-1. 1. Spirituality is the condition of the spirit. This definition would be indication enough as to whether we have to live a life spiritual or not. The nature of the spirit is, therefore, what we mean by ‘the spiritual’. And if we are to have a knowledge of the spirit, we shall also know whether it is necessary to be spiritual or whether it is possible for us to conduct ourselves in any manner other than the spiritual. 2. The spirit is what we generally call the essence or the substance of anything. We generally put a question: “What is the spirit of the whole situation?” “What is the spirit of what that person spoke?” and so on, by which we mean that the spirit of anything is the quintessential substance of that particular thing. The spirit, therefore, differs from the form, from the letter, and from the appearance. 3. While we try to investigate into the nature of the spirit in order to know what ‘the spiritual’ is, we...

========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, May 31, 2020. Chapter-20."Philosopher and Administrator " : 3. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. We have an erroneous notion of the very meaning of life, the concept of life, as something different from the divine element hidden in man. It is very essential, as His Excellency beautifully put it, that we have a total vision which is requisite if it is essential that we have to work on the command of God, as God would expect us to work. How does God work? He works with infinite hands, with total impartiality, and without any consciousness of the difference between Himself and His creation. We are likely, wrongly perhaps, to make a distinction between God and the world. We say the world is of matter and God is Spirit. --------------------------------------------------...

================================================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29/04/2020. Chapter-20."Philosopher and Administrator " : 2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #"An address given on the 22nd of October, 1975 in reply to the message of H.E. Dr. Channa Reddy, the then Governor of U.P., when he visited the Ashram." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I mentioned, it is almost impossible for the human mind to conceive what God is and, therefore, equally impossible to conceive what human duty can be in this world which is God's creation.  #"Yatra yogesvarah krishno yatra partho dhanur-dharah, tatra srir vijayo bhutir druva nitir matir mama." The message of Lor...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 05/04/2020. Chapter-20."Philosopher and Administrator " : 1. An address given on the 22nd of October, 1975 in reply to the message of H.E. Dr. Channa Reddy, the then Governor of U.P., when he visited the Ashram. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The message which has been so eloquently and powerfully expressed by our honoured guest His Excellency may be regarded as perhaps the spirit behind the voice of India. It has been an awakening message not only for the reorientation that is necessary in the envisagement of spiritual values, but also in the effort to rectify any erroneous approach in the public life of man in the outer world. The message, in its quintessence, conveyed the gre...

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22/02/2020. 19. To Thine Own Self Be True-6. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. #Very unfortunately, I have been placing only problems before the minds of people here. But unless we know what the diseases are, we cannot find a remedy.  ##To diagnose deeply the depths of the illness of man, is not an unnecessary adventure. It is the purpose of a medical man. And we should not give a pill of religion and think that the malady is over. The pill-religion will not work and it has not worked. We cannot swallow one tablet and think that God has come. It is a serious question before mankind as a whole.  ###And we are happy at this hour that serious thinkers in this direction are ...

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25/01/2020. Chapter-19. To Thine Own Self Be True-5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. *Very unfortunately, I have been placing only problems before the minds of people here. *But unless we know what the diseases are, we cannot find a remedy. *To diagnose deeply the depths of the illness of man, is not an unnecessary adventure. *It is the purpose of a medical man. *And we should not give a pill of religion and think that the malady is over. *The pill-religion will not work and it has not worked. *We cannot swallow one tablet and think that God has come. #It is a serious question before mankind as a whole. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...

====================================================================== ======================================================================= 02/01/2020. 19. To Thine Own Self Be True-4. ====================================================================== 1. How many of us can touch our hearts and confidently say that we do believe in the power of God? Do we also not believe in that which is not God? Are there not non-Gods in this world, or do you say there is only God everywhere? Is it possible for us to assert that there is no other thing in this wo rld than God? And, if a secret aspect of our psychic nature is not prepared to so openly proclaim that God only is and nothing else can be, is it true that we are also not secretly hanging on to something else which is anti-God, the non-spiritual? Or, are we in a position to declare again that there is no such thing as the unspiritual? Can religion say that even the worst evil is only a face of spirituality? We...