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November 5, 2009 at 7:12 am · Filed under *People would eventually get fed up if sweet water were to come out of their taps .... ·Tagged COCA COLA, dadashri, DESIRES : (, enemy, fanta, ice cream, kabir sahab, materialism, simplicity, sri krishna, sri sri paramhansa yogananda
People would eventually get fed up if sweet water
were to come out of their taps, even if it was only for a day.
If you ask them why, they will tell you they prefer plain
water. True value of something is not realized until it is no
longer available. People go around looking for Coca-Cola
and Fanta. Why do you not figure out what your necessities
are? Would this body of yours complain if it got fresh air to
breath, pure water to drink and some simple food to eat at
night? It would not. Therefore decide on the basic necessities
for the body. People instead look for a specific flavor of ice
cream. Kabir Shahib said:
“No one is your enemy; your enemy is your
unnecessary materialism…
“Rid yourself of all your needs for unnecessary
things, and then you are free to roam about.”
— Dadashri : )
Simplicity
You think you must have this or that and then you can be happy. But no matter how many of your desires are satisfied, you never will find happiness through them. The more you have, the more you want. Learn to live simply. Lord Krishna said: “His mind is full with contentment whose desires ever flow inward. That man is like a changeless ocean which is kept brimful with constantly entering waters. He is not a muni who bores holes of desires in his reservoir of peace and lets the waters escape.”
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Man’s Eternal Quest”
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October 30, 2009 at 7:00 am · Filed under *IS GETTING RESPECT FROM OTHERS A NECESSITY FOR LIVING? ·Tagged clothing, dadashri, food, getting respect from others, shelter, sri sri paramhansa yogananda, temptations
The whole world is sunk in the ocean of accumulation
and hoarding of unnecessary materialistic things. God has no objection to your accumulation of things that are necessary for life. One should decide on his necessities in life. What are the basic necessities for this body? First and foremost is air, and this is available every second, free of cost. Then one needs water and food. The fire of hunger can be doused with simple food, but nowadays people want gourmet food. Clothing and shelter fall under secondary requirements. Is getting respect from others a necessity for living? People go around searching for respect and become completely veiled in the illusion of life.
—-DADASHRI : )
Overcoming Temptation
The old orthodox way is to deny temptation, to suppress it. But you must learn to control temptation. It is not a sin to be tempted. Even though you are boiling with temptation, you are not evil; but if you yield to that temptation you are caught temporarily by the power of evil. You must erect about yourself protecting parapets of wisdom. There is no stronger force that you can employ against temptation than wisdom. Complete understanding will bring you to the point where nothing can tempt you to actions that promise pleasure but in the end will only hurt you.
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October 29, 2009 at 7:18 am · Filed under **You are born in a family of fortunate ones : ) ·Tagged **You are born in a family of fortunate ones : ), dadashri, food, GOD, sri sri paramhansa yogananda, suffering, temptations, toilet
It is suffering when you do not get food to eat or when you do not get to use the toilet. The local authorities have made toilets available in every home. Otherwise in the old days you had to carry some water in a pot into the forest to relieve yourself. Now you have bathrooms with toilets in your own bedrooms! Even the landlords and the mighty rulers of the past did not enjoy such facilities. They too had to go to the forest. Even they had to run to the forest when they had diarrhea! People unnecessarily go around complaining about trivial things in
life. Why are they complaining unnecessarily?
Wrong understanding causes suffering. There is no such
thing as suffering if the right understanding is applied. If
there is a little infection in your foot, you have to look around to see if anyone else has the same kind of suffering. If you look in a hospital you will realize what suffering is, while here you suffer unnecessarily with a little infection. You have to investigate all this, do not you? What happens if you suffer without looking into all the facts? How can there be any suffering for people who have so much merit karmas like yourself? You are born in a family of punyasadis (fortunate ones), where you get your meal with very little effort.
—- DADASHRI : )
Overcoming Temptation
Remember that as a child of God you are endowed with greater strength than you will ever need to overcome all the trials that God may send you.
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Man’s Eternal Quest”
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October 24, 2009 at 7:05 am · Filed under *How wonderful are your eyes? : ) ·Tagged *How wonderful are your eyes? : ), contentment, dadashri, DESIRES : (, eyes, GOD, sri sri paramhansa yogananda, temptation
How wonderful are your eyes? Could you find such
eyes even if you paid millions of dollars? No, you could not. Some people complain even when they have a million dollars. They do not realize the worth of all the precious things that nature has given them. A person can be content if he simply learned to value just his eyes.
—- Dadashri : )
Overcoming Temptation
Desires are the most unrelenting enemies of man; he cannot appease them. Have only one desire: to know God. Satisfying the sensory desires cannot satisfy you, because you are not the senses. They are only your servants, not your Self.
—Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, “Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda”
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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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