Bharatheeyam : ( 08/11/2012. )

Chapter 10: The Esoteric Significance of the Devi Mahatmya -16.   ( A talk given on the 13th of October, 1972, during the Navaratri worship ) He was not tired of saying this throughout his life. We can see, in his earlier books especially, that they commence with the sentence: "The goal of life is God-realisation." Whatever he had to say in those books, he said afterwards. So, the first thing is to remember that the goal of life is God-realisation. Do not forget this. The little petty tensions and turmoils and annoyances and worries and vexations are not the goal of life. They are the obstacles that come on our way, which we have to carefully obviate and go with caution – like a pilgrim who has lost his way in this wilderness of life – and yet confident at the same time that the warmth of the spiritual sun is always energising our personality and that we are never, at any time, any moment of our practice, completely cut off from that source of energy. Swami Kris...

Chapter 10: The Esoteric Significance of the Devi Mahatmya -15.   ( A talk given on the 13th of October, 1972, during the Navaratri worship ) And when we learn to see the significance of the presence of divinity or the universality of God even in our private actions, we are taken care of by universal forces. We need not bother about even the smallest problem of our life. Even the littlest of our difficulty will be taken care of in a proper manner by the forces that are in the world, provided, of course, that we are able to read the significance of universality even in the most private of our actions, even in the smallest and littlest of our actions. There is no such thing as a little action in the world. Everything is important. Even the most insignificant event is a very important event, ultimately, because hidden behind it is the ocean. This significance we have to learn to read. This is, in my humble opinion, what Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj meant whenever he sa...

Chapter 10: The Esoteric Significance of the Devi Mahatmya -14.   ( A talk given on the 13th of October, 1972, during the Navaratri worship.) This significance is brought out in all our epics and Puranas. Whether in the Mahabharata or the Ramayana, whether in the Bhagavadgita or the Devi-Mahatmya, they tell us the same account in different terminologies and with different emphases. It is always a song of the soul. The Bhagavadgita is a song of the soul, the Over-soul speaking to the lower soul. Here again, we have a similar account of the actual Sadhana involved in the realisation of this ultimate harmony of the soul with the Over-soul. The spiritual practice of a Sadhaka is, therefore, a confronting of the three forces of Tamas, Rajas and Sattva, gradually, stage by stage, in their cosmic significance, forgetting not for a moment that we are not 'islands'. No man is an island. You must have heard the poet's saying: "No man is an island unto himself." T...

Opinion    27/04/2016.        504.          All Members,         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.   Sub : BHARATHAM : A NATION OF SPIRITUALITY - A STUDY OF THE PRESENT    Ref : All  Indian states are failure with regard the below  given  requirements list. The Chief ministers, and the political parties of all  most  all  states  are without any VISION. The Major Requirements in the Nation's Development : - 1. Infrastructure. 2. Town / city plannings. 3. Discipline in the construction and uniform office buildings. / housings / shopping centers / government offices. 4. Garbage disposal / recycling management 5. Drainage facilities. 6. Public rest rooms/ toilets 7. Water management. 8. Recycling of used /waste water. 9. Rainwater management. 10. Parks/ playgrounds/ 11. small  children parks. 12. Public libraries. 13. Tra...

Chapter 10: The Esoteric Significance of the Devi Mahatmya -13.   ( A talk given on the 13th of October, 1972, during the Navaratri worship.) So, the dance of the cosmic spirit, in its supernal effort at self-transcendence, is majestically described in the beautifully worded sonorous songs of the Devi-Mahatmya, where we are given a stirring account, a stimulating description of what Maha-Kali did, what Maha-Lakshmi did and what Maha-Sarasvati did in bringing about this evolution, transformation of the whole range of Prakriti from Tamas to Rajas, from Rajas to Sattva and from Sattva to Supreme Vijaya, mastery in the Absolute, God-realisation. All our scriptures, Puranas and epics, all our ceremonies and celebrations, all our festivals and Jayantis – whatever be the occasion for a religious performance – all this is charged with a spiritual connotation, a significance which is far transcendent to the outer rituals which is involved in their performance. Every thought, eve...

Chapter 10: The Esoteric Significance of the Devi Mahatmya -12.   ( A talk given on the 13th of October, 1972, during the Navaratri worship.) When you lift one thread of a cloth, the whole cloth comes up, because of the interconnection of the warp and the woof of the cloth. Likewise, there is an internal interconnection of beings, which prevents any kind of individual effort for the sake of salvation. That is why salvation is universal, it is not individual. When you attain to the Supreme Being, you become the Universal Being. You do not go there as a Mr. So-and-so or as a Mrs. So-and-so. The path of Sadhana also is a cosmic effort of the soul, a subtle secret which most Sadhakas are likely to forget. It is not a small, simple, private effort of yours in the closet of your room, but a dynamic activity of your essential personality, internally connected by unforeseen relationships with everything in the cosmos. When you enter the path of the spirit you have also, at ...

Chapter 10: The Esoteric Significance of the Devi Mahatmya -11.   ( A talk given on the 13th of October, 1972, during the Navaratri worship.)  By Swami Krishnananda How can you contact a thing when there is a glass between you and the thing? Yet you can see it. So they say even Sattva is an obstacle, though it is better than the other two forces in the sense that through it you can have a vision or an insight into the nature of Reality which transcends even Sattva. There is a glass pane and you can see a mango fruit on the other side of it. You can see it very well, but cannot get it; you cannot grab it. You know the reason. Even Sattva is a subtle medium of obstruction, which acts in a double form – as complacency or satisfaction with what has been achieved, and an ignorance of what is beyond. These two aspects of Sattva are indicated by the two personalities of Sumbha and Nisumbha. They have to be dispelled by the power of higher wisdom, which is Maha-Sarasvati...