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October 9, 2009 at 6:25 am · Filed under **You have to understand that this is your life ..... ·Tagged **You have to understand that this is your life ....., balance, beauty, changing the world, children, content, days off from the job, easy, job, job i like, joy, life, maharaji., mind, mingle, people, Prem Rawat, priorities, priority, rearrange, retirement, sri sri paramhansa yogananda, talk, top, wait, waiting, within, world, yogi
You have to understand that this is your life, and you can
make the joy and the beauty happen every day. It really is very easy.
A lot of people think it can only happen if they change the world around them. They think they have to change their children, and by the time they’ve almost gotten there, the child’s moved out. Then they think, “What else can I change? I’ll get a job that I really like.” They finally find a job they really like, and then they realize what they really like is the days off from the job : ) Then they say, “Maybe what I need to do is retire.”
Waiting—just think of all the things people are waiting for. You don’t have to wait anymore. You don’t have to change all those things around you. You can’t anyway, because when you do try to change them, they’ll try to change you. And when they do, you won’t like it.
I realized I can’t change everything, but there’s one thing I can change. All I need to do is change my list of priorities. The change has to come from within. That’s why I’m saying it’s easy. You don’t have to throw anything out, just rearrange. Of all those things that
have taken priority, put the priority to be content at the very top.
That’s all.
—Maharaji : )
Balance
Though you must remain in the world, be not of the world. Real yogis can talk and mingle with people, but all the while their minds are rapt in God.
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, Yogoda Satsanga Lessons
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October 7, 2009 at 6:30 am · Filed under *A person who has all the four necessities of life and yet creates conflict...... ·Tagged **who has all the four necessities of life and yet creates conflict......, A person, ART OF LIVING : ), balance, basic necessities, clothes, coffee, cold, cold winter days, complain, conflict, dadabhagwan, dadashri, drink, food, fool, four necessities, ghee, home, inner peace of mind, life, material, milk, oil, on time, person, prison, Self-realization, spirituality, sri sri paramhansa yogananda, tea, truth, winter
A person, who has all the four necessities of life and yet creates conflict, is nothing but a fool. Does he or does he not get food on time? It does not matter whether the food is cooked in oil or not, but at least he gets his food on time, does he not? Does he also not get his cup of tea on time; whether it is once or twice a day, does he not at least get tea or something to drink? Does he not have clothes to wear? Does he not have a roof over his head? He should be thankful for all this, especially on cold winters days! So when people complain, in spite of having these basic four necessities, they should be locked up in prison! : )
—- Dadashri : )
Balance
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development….Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-realization.
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, in a “Para-gram”
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October 6, 2009 at 5:52 am · Filed under There is no happiness in following the ways of the world. ·Tagged active, anand, ascetics, balance, beyond imagination, bliss, calm, calmly active and actively calm, car, dada bhagwan, dadashri, desire, earn money, enjoy life, equanimity, eternal happiness, following, gold, greed, happiness, lazy, meditate regularly, meditation, money, overactive, radio, real happiness, sadhus, satisfaction, satisfaction from within, societal influence, soul, sri sri paramhansa yogananda, There is no happiness in following the ways of the world., want, ways of the world, wealth
There is no happiness in following the
ways of the world.
Questioner: There are some people
who want what others have. If they see others
with a car, then they want it too.
Dadashri: When does lokasangnya
arise (lokasangnya—to be dictated by societal
influence)? It occurs when one is not satisfied
from within. Until today, I have not found
a single man to give me bliss. Even when I
was young, I did not find a need to keep a
radio. Are these all not live radios walking
around. One is prone to be dictated by the
ways of the world when there is greed within.
The real meaning of satisfaction is samatrushna
equanimity amidst desire.
People will say that happiness lies in
money, but there are some Sadhus—ascetics
—who will not accept money even if you
offered it to them. Even if you give me all the
gold in the world, I would not accept it because
I do not find happiness in money or
wealth at all. Happiness does not lie in money.
If it did then every one will derive happiness
from it. Whereas everyone will experience bliss
derived from the Soul because it is real happiness;
it is eternal happiness. There is so much
anand bliss in the Self that you cannot even
imagine it.
Balance
I will be calmly active, actively calm. I will not become lazy and mentally ossified. Nor will I be overactive, able to earn money but unable to enjoy life. I will meditate regularly to maintain true balance.
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Metaphysical Meditations”
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October 1, 2009 at 6:07 am · Filed under GOOD STORY : " A GOOD MONK " : ) ·Tagged arid hearts, autobiography of a yogi, balance, balanced life, compassion, complaining, crime, divine hope, encumbered, excommunicated, family ties, forbidden, GOOD STORY : " A GOOD MONK " : ), heavy wordly duties, help, horrified, householder, inner renunciation, lady, liberation, mind, mistake, monastery, monk, MORAL, priest, renunciation, sri sri lahiri mahasaya, STORY, sweet new breath, woman, wordly men
Once a monk was traveling, and with him there were other monks and there was a river flowing. That monk saw that a lady was standing on the other side. She wanted to cross the river, but she couldn’t because the water was very deep. So, out of compassion that monk went to the lady and said, “Can I help you?” The lady said, “Yes, I want to cross the river. Please lift me up.”
The monk knew that it was forbidden for a monk to touch a woman but out of compassion he lifted the lady, he picked her up, he crossed the river and he put her on the other side. All the other brothers were watching. They were horrified that this monk had touched a lady. They went to the monastery and started complaining. They told their head priest that this man must be excommunicated because what he has done has broken the law. The law was that a monk should not touch a woman.
So, the head priest called everybody. He summoned all the priests. He told the monk, “There is a complaint against you. I have heard that you have touched a woman.” He said, “Yes, I have made a mistake, but these people have also made a mistake and that is greater than my mistake.” The head priest said, “Okay, I understand about your mistake, but what is the greater mistake that these people have committed?”
And that monk said, “I made a mistake. I only lifted that woman and put her on the other side. That was my mistake. But greater than my mistake is these people’s mistake because they have still lifted that lady in their mind and have brought her here.”
Moral: We have to understand that many people commit more crimes in their mind than they commit in reality. And we have so many; we do so many crimes in our mind with the result that the mind is very, very unhappy.
Balance
Mahavatar Babaji to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The millions who are encumbered by family ties and heavy worldly duties will take new heart from you, a householder like themselves….A sweet new breath of divine hope will penetrate the arid hearts of worldly men. From your balanced life, they will understand that liberation is dependent on inner, rather than outer, renunciations.”
—Sri Sri Mahavatar Babaji, in “Autobiography of a Yogi”
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September 14, 2009 at 6:48 am · Filed under How can we know what is the proper balance in our lives? ·Tagged balance, food, How can we know what is the proper balance in our lives?, life, meditate, money, stress, work
How can we know what is the proper balance in our lives?
The more you meditate, the more balance you’ll have in life. A person who doesn’t meditate can’t understand that, but people who have done meditation understand that the more you meditate the more balance you get. You have worldly obligations, and you blend spirituality with them. You say, “I have to work this much for my living and this much action performed in the world will give me enough food and clothing, enough time for my spiritual practice.” I think that it is on the basis of the spiritual experience that you can balance yourself. It naturally happens. When you throw a log into the water it does not swim – it does not have the power to swim. It floats with the water. So in meditation you throw yourself into that stream of life, it picks you up and you can go with that.
—– Shri Hans Ji Maharaj : )
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Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “The Law of Success”
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