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Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji
Don't be a chatterbox! Be a chanting-box instead!
Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Don't be a chatterbox! Be a chanting-box instead!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
To awaken us to the state of Truth, we need sounds which are above this worldly plane and are established in Reality. These sounds or ‘Shabdas’ (divine sounds) are mantras like the Mahamantra.
Source: http://namadwaar.org/cherishedmemoirs/?action=news&id=1257141513
Awakening Sounds
We all dream while we sleep. Suppose, we hear a loud noise like that of a jar falling to the ground in the dream, it does not awaken us from our slumber. Instead, we only continue with our dream. But, if the same thing happens really, in the room in which we are asleep, we are up on our bed with a jerk, is it not?" asked Sri Swamiji.
He then continued…
"So too, in this life of ours, which is only a dream, mundane or common sounds that we hear in our day-to-day life fail to awaken us to Reality, which is the ultimate Truth. To awaken us to this state of Truth, we need sounds which are above this worldly plane and are established in Reality. These sounds or 'Shabdas' (divine sounds) are mantras like the Mahamantra. So, when chanted incessantly, they destroy our sleep called ignorance, thereby causing the dream called world to vanish and awaken us to the state of Reality!'
Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Friday, June 4, 2010
When a disciple leads his life with the clear understanding that it is the Guru who is running his life - adverse or otherwise, completely emptying the mind of personal likes and dislikes, seeing everything as Guru's leela, attains realization
Nama Article 3rd June 2010
Source: http://namadwaar.org/cherishedmemoirs/?action=news&id=1247458194
On Guru Poornima this year (2009), the devotee went to Ashram to meet Sri Swamiji. He was wanting to ask Sri Swamiji's message for Guru Poornima for the benefit of devotees all around the world.
When the devotee sat beside Sri Swamiji, His Holiness started a beautiful conversation, which reminds one of the spiritual conversations of the yore which reveals the supreme truth.
'What is the way to realization?' asked Sri Swamiji to the devotee.
The devotee was taken aback. He understood that the message was coming only in a very different way!
'Vina mahat pada rajobhisekam. Swamiji, only by reaching the feet of the guru can one get gnana (wisdom)'
'What does reaching the feet of the guru actually mean?' Sri Swamiji was certainly in a questioning mode!
'Reaching guru's feet means.. Well... Going to his abode and prostrating to him...' The devotee answered with hesitation
'That is true. Physically prostrating to a guru and being in his physical presence is good. That is a different story... But is it all?'
The devotee could not answer any further....
Sri Swamiji continued...
"When a disciple sheds all the adverse modes of the mind like kama (desire), krodha (anger) etc. and completely leads his life with the clear understanding that it is the Guru who is running his life - adverse or otherwise, completely emptying the mind of personal likes and dislikes, seeing everything as Guru's leela, in due course of time, disciple's mind will be completely synchronized with the mind of the Guru.
When that happens, then disciple's mind becomes submerged with the Guru's mind, which is pure brahman (God). This is how a disciple attains liberation by attaining the feet of a Guru."
Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Only Nama Sankirtan can be propagated
Sri Sri Muralidhara Swamiji
Dhyana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Jnana - All these paths need to be taught, but only Nama Sankirtan can be propagated. That verily shows its simplicity.
Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Sunday, May 30, 2010
The Indian mind has thought it wise to give a firm and absolute authority to the Guru
Source: The Psychology of Yoga, from his notebook of 1911 - Sri Aurobindo
For this [reason], among other more important reasons, the Indian mind has thought it wise to give a firm and absolute authority to the Guru
As the Indian mind ... advances westward towards inevitable conquest, it must inevitably carry with it Yoga and Vedanta for its banners wherever it goes. But in order that the victory may not be slow, it is necessary that whatever India has to offer should be stated to the West in language that the West can understand... Europe will accept nothing which is not scientific... Undoubtedly, for practical purposes the West is right....
Indian knowledge possesses such a scientific basis, but ... expressed only in broad principles, compact aphorisms. The aphoristic method has great advantages. It prevents the mind from getting encrusted in details and fossilizing there. It allows a science to remain elastic and full of ever new potentialities for the discoverer. No doubt, it has disadvantages. It leaves much room for inaccuracy ...
For this [reason], among other more important reasons, the Indian mind has thought it wise to give a firm and absolute authority to the Guru and to insist that the disciple shall by precept and practice make his own all that the master has to teach him and so form and train his mind before it is allowed to play freely with his subject.
In Europe, the manual replaces the guru; the mind of the learner is rigidly bound by the written rule and detail not by the more adaptable and flexible word of the guru.
Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee; teaches him the Truth; purifies the mind by his teachings and contact
Source: Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee; teaches him the Truth; purifies the mind by his teachings and contact
Devotee: What is Guru's Grace? How does it work?
Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi.: Guru is the Self.
Devotee: How does it lead to realisation?
Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi.: Isvaro gururatmeti ... (God is the same as Guru and Self ...). A
person begins with dissatisfaction. Not content with the world he seeks satisfaction of desires by prayers to God; his mind is purified; he longs to know God more than to satisfy his carnal desires. Then God's Grace begins to manifest. God takes the form of a Guru and appears to the devotee; teaches him the Truth; purifies the mind by his teachings and contact; the mind gains strength, is able to turn inward; with meditation it is purified yet further, and eventually remains still without the least ripple. That stillness is the Self.
The Guru is both exterior and interior. From the exterior he gives a push to the mind to turn inward; from the interior he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps the mind to achieve quietness. That is Grace. Hence there is no difference between God, Guru and Self.
Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Saturday, May 29, 2010
One should always meditate the form of Guru and always chant the mantra of Guru
Source: SRI GURUGITA - श्रीगुरुगीता
अज्ञानमूलहरणं जन्मकर्मनिवारणम् ।
ज्ञानवैराग्यसिद्ध्यर्थं गुरुपादोदकं पिबेत् ॥
गुरोः पादोदकं पीत्वा गुरोरुच्छिष्टभोजनम् ।
गुरुमूर्तेः सदा ध्यानं गुरुमन्त्रं सदा जपेत् ॥
Holy water of Guru's feet bestows us the true knowledge and renunciation and destroys the root cause of ignorance and relives us from the cycle of birth and death.
One should drink the Holy water of Guru's feet and eat the remnants of food taken by Guru.
One should always meditate the form of Guru and always chant the mantra of Guru.
Chant the Mahamantra Nama kirtan :
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
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