Our ancestors said long back that this entire universe is filled with Love. This universe is created by love and has been brought up by love. GOD is Love, so there is divinity in love. The pure and selfless love makes man equal to or just like God. There is nothing more powerful than love on this earth, because love is the truth and eternal. Love has got that inherent quality and capacity of providing bliss (eternal joy) to us. It is true that no one can live without love. Hence we should languish for Love and live for Love. People use the word Love for sentimentality. Love is the (magic) wand in the hand of a devotee, with that he can do miracles. Love is the instrument for liberation. Love is the golden way to obtain the grace and holy things from God. Love suppresses non-violence, selfishness, immorality, injustice and unrighteousness. Love that does deceive or disappoint any body is the real love. Now a days, the word love is being used widely and it is losing its real sense. Lovers speak of love routinely which is most of the times is attraction that usually exist between two opposite sexes, (as opposite poles attract each other). Often love is used for lust which is also a temporary phenomenon and there is no holiness in it. Lust is a worldly thing and is often business type. Real love is not an empty expression or vague thing, but it is genuine and purposeful. Love and wisdom are the two sides of a coin. Man must have both. True love never demands monetary benefits or gratitude in return from the other side. The famous quotation is "Love thy neighbors as you love thyself’’. A prayer to God without sincere love is like eye without tears. Compassion is Love in action. So … [Read more...]
Sri Sri Ravishankar and Art of Living
Art of Living guru Sri Ravi Shankar says cultivate the habit of patient listening, without any thoughts or preconceived notions, go to a place where everything is beautiful, which is with in you. When you come to this place (then no other place), appears beautiful like this. Learning some thing about our breath is very important. Our breather’s rhythm is corresponding to the rhythm in the mind. For every rhythm in the breath, there is a corresponding emotion in the mind. So you cannot handle the mind directly, but you can handle the mind through breath. Nobody either at school or at home, teaches you what to do when you’re angry, upset or depressed. When you come to this world, the first thing we do is to take a deep breath and we start to cry. The last thing we will be doing is we will breathe out and make others cry. In between the whole life, we are breathing in and breathing out. The golden word is “No breathe –No life”,Know breathe – Know life.7 layers of existence according to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: 1. The body 2. Breathe 3. Mind 4. Intellect 5. Memory 6. Ego 7. The self. This is called art of living by Sri Ravishankar. It makes you to be in the present moment, and it helps you to maintain the innocence that we are all borne free and feel at home with every body anywhere. Take one week off every year for yourself that is just like taking car for servicing. During this time be align with nature wake-up with sunrise, do some exercise eat only necessary amount of food, also do some breathing exercise, do a few minutes of singing and spend some … [Read more...]
Art of Living by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Swamiji says-usually we heard the following statements from the people as: I, My life, what I achieved, my name and my fame. Does the above statement have any real meaning? Remember one thing: Our life is of very short duration on this earth. Many people lived here before your birth and they left this world already. We are also like that. No exception. Ignorance is the base of egoism. Usually you are of the opinion that ‘’I KNOW EVERY THING’’.First of all it is better to know about yourself, then the shallow in you comes out, and then the following questions gradually arise in you. They are:1. Who am I?2. Why I came to this world?3. What has to be achieved by me?If you could get answers to the above questions, then you stop thinking in these terms as below:1. Somebody said about me like this and that.That person did not answer to my enquiry or to my questions. By hook or crook I must my strength to them and teach them a lesson.Our life goes on depending on circumstances. Certain troubles are common in life, but you enjoy the every minute of life given by the Almighty - GOD.So do not go on worrying about minor ailments and spoil your life. The meaning of human being is filling happiness in the mind. Nothing will give trouble to us provided we have strong faith and loving others feeling in us.As everything available in this universe is not sweet, like that all our experiences are not good in nature. Sometimes we may commit mistakes. But have faith in you and think like this:I can face any trouble and GOD is there to look after me.Suppose you never did any mistakes in life and face no troubles, then you would never have pleasant moments in life. Failures and troubles … [Read more...]
Art of growing up: 11 tips to learn
The word “UP” has a vital role to play in our daily life and also in our personality development. 1. Get up: Early in the morning with the determination to make most of your day, useful and also meaningful. 2. Stand up: To your problems and difficulties. Face them and lick them. 3. Think up: Keep your thoughts high, clean, clear and truthful. 4. Brace up: Tighten your belt and keep moving forward even when the going gets rough. 5. Climb up: The ladder of success reaches upward rung by rung, but you have to/must do the climbing. 6. Stretch out your hand: Remember that he climbs highest, who helps another up. 7. Measure up: Meet the challenge of the times by doing your full share for the common good. 8. Bounce up: when you fell down. Every one falls and falls now and then; quitters just lie there. Heroes have to bounce. 9. Live up: To the highest and best, the moral rules and spiritual principles you know. 10. Look up: Consider and observe a tree, how it lifts its branches to the sky. The only way to grow is to look up. 11. Hope up: You know it very well that, “Hope is life’’. So never get despair. The golden word is, “Enthusiasm is oxygen to life and have plenty of enthusiastic living’’. Please visit my blog on Success Secrets. … [Read more...]
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