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Excerpts from Rishi Prasad – 18 Issue 177 Sept, 2007
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Excerpts from Rishi Prasad – 18 Issue 177 Sept, 2007
He is bound to suffer troubles, afflictions, life in wombs of mothers and hells. This
is as sure as death. Even Lord Brahma can not save him.
Satsanga and discrimination are the two clean eyes of men. The physical eyes are not
clean. No matter how much you treat them with all kinds of collyrium and Netrabindu eye drops,
filthy substances continue to come out of them. If they happen to see a beautiful damsel, impure
thoughts come in the mind. If they see a delicious stuff, the mouth starts watering. So, this is not
clean vision. But by the grace of God and the Guru, when discrimination is kindled, one
experiences his oneness with the Supreme Being, the direct and immediate experience of the
Absolute.
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
One is personal liking or passion and the other is goodwill. The passion for the samsara
gradually enslaves one thereto; while goodwill, in due course of time, does lead one to the Truth
personified God. One driven by goodwill does get divine inspirations at virtually every step of
his life besides having his intellect sharpened ever further. Thus goodwill brings real happiness
into one‟s life, paves the way for divine inspirations to guide him suitably and finally unites him
with the Truth Absolute. Personal liking ensnares man in sense pleasures, but goodwill leads one
into the practice of yoga quite naturally.
General Dyer had perpetrated the Jalianwala Baug massacre in the year 1919 AD and thereby
earned wide-spread notoriety among the people of that time.
The „Hunter Committee‟ that probed into the case did denigrate and censure him in the
harshest words; whereupon he lost his job as well. Then, eventually he was down with a (severe)
paralytic attack in 1921 AD. And the Nature‟s wrath of vengeance did not stop at that but made
him suffer the pangs of arthritis as well. A few days before his death when he was still suffering
from (acute) arthritis and in a conscious state, he declared, “May the world at large know from
me in these final moments of my life the consequent end of a person who, like me, basks in the
vainglory of being very clever and doesn‟t feel any sort of hesitation or shame while acting in an
absolutely violent manner.”
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
In order to enjoy the pleasure of a dinner, one has to be hungry; for without an appetite
the food seems tasteless. The basis of the relish of food is a good appetite, so too celibacy is the
foundation of the apparent pleasure derived from the breach of celibacy, the sex act. One who
has not observed celibacy is not eligible for indulging in sensual pleasures either. And if anyone
does so, it is just like trying to be a heroic donor by taking loans. But for how long can that hero
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celebrate his heroism after all, by mindlessly wasting the vital elements of his body without
conserving them? Hence even a lustful person needs to observe celibacy in order to experience
sensual pleasure. Whether it is for attaining Brahmic bliss like a yogi or sensual enjoyment (an
inferior variety of bliss) like a lustful one, observance of celibacy, which is the very foundation
of bliss, is but a must.
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
Keep it in your mind that the Bliss-personified Lord Supreme is equipped with all divine
riches and is always with us abiding verily in our own hearts. Joy or bliss does not come from
some external source or object. When the mental modifications are pacified one gets glimpses of
the Bliss-personified Lord and thereby experiences bliss. Likewise, when the mental
modifications are aroused one feels to be losing the bliss, but that bliss does never go anywhere.
It is only the ignorance of the Bliss-personified Lord that veils the bliss lying within us. Upon
getting enlightened one attains the very Lord Who is but eternally his own. One does not get
something that was not with him already. In fact, there is absolutely nothing other than Atman,
the Self. All of creation is but filled up with the all-pervading Supreme Self alone.
Know for sure that the object of your search is verily you. You and the Lord are not
separate entities. Similarly, You and I are no different either, but the same in essence. It is only
on the planes of name and form that we appear as different. God, Guru and the Self are all
essentially one and the same. You alone are the Truth, Consciousness and Bliss Absolute. You
are not the gross, subtle, causal or mega-causal body, but are yourself the one who knows it,
proves its existence and brings it into light. You alone do bring the sun, the moon, the planets,
etc. – all into existence. Only due to the ignorance of the Truth personified Self, you have
mistakenly identified yourself with this gross, subtle, etc. body, but this isn‟t the Truth.
The actual Truth is that the One you are searching through Self-enquiry is none other
than you. And all this visible and invisible world is but you alone, nothing else. Bondage is
caused by the ignorance only. Otherwise, you are ever liberated and benevolence personified.
You are yourself salvation personified, therefore it is absolutely futile to worry about attaining
the same. Whatever exists is verily you and nothing other than you. Unfathomed and infinite is
your glory. It can not be described in words.
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
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You must have four virtues in your life irrespective of whatever caste, race, stage of life
you belong to or whatever business, job or stage of edu-cation you are in.
The first virtue you should have in life is the tolerance to-wards
all dvand-vas or pairs of opposites, i.e. maintain-ing equanimity in
opposite con-ditions such as pleasure and sorrow, honour and
dishonour, adversity and prosperity, profit and loss, praise and
censure.
Bring tolerance into your life and be equanimous in the face of dvandvas. Have patience
during sorrows, adapt the virtue of renunciation during pleasures, nurture an optimistic outlook
in the face of adversities and you will get the strength to trample over the circumstances coming
in your life.
When engaged in worldly activities, be neutral, not yielding to emotionalism and do not
be indifferent to spiritual pursuit. Let your heart melt. Just as when you add colour to molten
wax, the colour spreads throughout the wax, whereby it becomes difficult to separate the colour
from the wax. Similarly, when you worship God, practise japa, meditation and selfless service,
and remember and contemplate God, let your heart be melted like wax so that it is imbued with
devotional love and your mind becomes one with God. But ironically enough, what we
practically do is that we let our heart melt when engaged in worldly activities and keep it
indifferent when engaged in devotion. At the time of satsanga your heart should be like molten
wax so that it is dyed with the colour divine.
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In sleep, some people droop forwards while others droop backwards. If the head droops
forwards, it means that the mind is concentrated in the heart and one is overcome by sleep. If the
mind is overcome by inertia the head will droop backwards. In samadhi, the head remains
straight.
In the Satayuga there was a majority of yogis and Self-realized saints. They didn‟t sleep.
They meditated for eight hours which, apart from being a mode of sadhana, fulfilled their
requirement of sleep as well. In any case, if one practises meditation perfectly for 4 hours, he can
make do with 2 hours of sleep.
I have seen Ghatwale Baba holding spiritual discussions till midnight or 1 am and then he
would wake up at 3 am to go into the jungle where he would meditate and carry out spiritual
practices. Whenever he felt tired, he would take a nap for one or two hours. For a yogi, 4 hours
of sleep is more than enough. 8 and 6 hours of sleep are sufficient for a child and a worldly or
pleasure-seeking man respectively.
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
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“O King! One who has developed enmity with some powerful person, is weak, is devoid
of wherewithal, whose all belongings have been usurped, who is a lustful person or a thief, does
suffer from insomnia.”
(Udyoga Parva: 33.13)
How enormously cumbersome is the burden of karma, anxiety, tension, etc. on the head
of people that they can‟t even sleep at night and have to depend on sleeping pills for that! This
problem has already taken a serious form in western countries. And though India has still only
marginally been affected by this problem the preys thereto are primarily those who in slavish
compliance with foreign cultures give too much importance to fast food, etc. in their diet as well
as to the comfort and convenience of the physical world while considering spiritual progress to
be minor. (Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
„I will be happy if I pass my exams…‟ what great will you achieve by passing the
exams? „I will be happy if I get a job…‟ Are they happy who have a job? „I will be happy if I get
married…‟ Are they happy, who are married? „I will be happy if I beget a son… If my son gets
married, how happy I would be! I wish my son is separated from me, I would then be happy…‟
You can be happy only if you know your Real Self, or else there will be misery, and nothing else
but misery for you!
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Some say, „We will be happy if we get these objects of enjoyment.‟ I know people who
over indulged in sense pleasures and died suffering from tuberculosis, asthma, blood-pressure
and insomnia; but failed to attain happiness. By indulging in sensual pleasures, people have
become afflicted with diseases and died a miserable death but never attained happiness.
Somebody said, “We will be happy if so and so much of our business assignments is
completed.” But these business assignments have never been completed in anybody‟s life. One
assignment gives rise to another and so on.
Just as a child is born out of a (grown up) child and a tree out of a tree, so also does one
assignment give rise to another and that goes on till the very end of life.
“The merit of propitiating Lord Vishnu which could be accomplished in the course of
one year in Satyayuga, could be accomplished in a month in Tretayuga O King, and the same in
a fortnight in Dvaparayuga. Whereas ten times that merit can be achieved through mere
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remembrance of Lord Vishnu in Kaliyuga.” (The Skanda Purana, Vaishnava Khanda, Vaishakha
Masa Mahatmya: 22.20-21)
“May all remember and remind each other of Hari, Who annihilates the mass of sins
instantly.”(The Srimad Bhagawata: 11.3.31)
Notwithstanding its numerous demerits, Kaliyuga has one excellent merit. With lust,
anger, greed, attachment, diseases, deceit, loss of peace, wars discord between brothers and
spouses, etc. ruling the roost in the Kali-age, it has become a „Filth-age‟ in effect. But then, it has
an enormous excellence too in the form of „Smriti Yoga‟, i.e. recollection of the Lord or the yoga
(union) through the name divine.
Irrespective of how small a means of sadhana you take recourse to, if you earnestly aim
at attaining God driven by a firm conviction of – „God alone is mine‟, all defects of Kaliyuga are
automatically nullified. Then the incoming wealth would not be wasted on unworthy pursuits but
would duly be spent on good endeavours alone. The wealth that is not spent on righteous
endeavours is sure to be wasted on evil pursuits, viz. indulgence in alcohol, non-vegetarian
foods, gambling, etc. or else would be mindlessly squandered away by one‟s progeny; otherwise
end up falling into the taxman‟s net.
Three things are supremely important in Kaliyuga. One of them is of course – „Smriti
Yoga‟, i.e. remembering the Lord along with the japa of His name divine; while the second one
is „Dana Yoga‟, i.e. exercise of charity. „Charity is the only means in Kaliyuga.‟ One possessing
wealth should donate it. One should serve if he is able. A knowledgeable person may go ahead
and enlighten the people. But it should not be a mere bookish knowledge enabling him to deliver
discourses. He should first imbibe and assimilate the Knowledge of his Guru by leading a life of
total obedience to Him. Donations of peace, knowledge, devotion and love are all essential
virtues. Once virtues are developed, vices will automatically vanish and the heart will be purified
as a matter of course.
If you experience an increasing peace of mind, are treading the path of dharma and utilize your
money in dharma oriented pursuits rather than wasting it on mindless pampering of your fanciful
desires, your money will prove to be a saviour to you. But in case your money is spent only
towards bringing sense pleasures and luxury to you, it would but prove to be a degrader to you.
The two means of „divine recollection‟ and inclination towards good endeavours lead one to
salvation.
And the third important thing is to awaken discrimination by reflecting on the matters
like – what ultimately do the worldly achievements bring us? … What after all do we get by
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amassing a large sum of money? … What truly worthy do we get even after having amassed a
sizeable amount of wealth? After all, everything has to be left behind when the body crosses the
portals of the grave. Hence, before death overtakes us we should make it a point to realize the
deathless Self. Let us know and comprehend That Peace Absolute and Consciousness Absolute
Self, Which does not die even after the death of the body.
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
Brahmavettas don‟t get joy by getting something or by meeting somebody. They are bliss
personified themselves. If you see them blissful, don‟t think that it is because of some external
agent. And one, whose joy depends upon external agents, is not a Brahmavetta. A knower of
Brahman is contented in Himself.
Ordinary children look beautiful if they wear beautiful clothes, but Lord Sri Krishna
lends beauty to whatever He wears. Ordinary people look graceful in good clothes and
ornaments, but a Brahmavetta looks graceful in whatever he does. Jadabharataji looked graceful
even when he was made to carry the king‟s palanquin along with the kaharas. Ashtavakraji
looked graceful even in his awkward gait, while was due to the deformities in his body. Lord
Rama looks graceful even which wailing for His wife Sitaji and brother Lakshmanaji.
What a marvellous effect the-Bliss personified Self has! Lord Vishnu, Lord Rama and great
men have Supreme Bliss as their very Being; same is the case with you. You only need to wake
up, that‟s all. (Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
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Sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing are the five kinds of action-
born or sensual pleasures. If one develops the habit of seeking happiness
from worldly objects, one will meet his end very soon. It is better instead
to observe self-restraint and get the joy of Bhagvad Bhava, devotional
sentiments, japa or meditation. But then, even japa or meditation cannot
be continued perennially. Nor can the same kind of Bhava or spirit of
devotional love be maintained forever, as emotions will keep changing.
They actually commit a grave mistake who say, “I used to have such and such experiences in
meditation. Bapuji! I could see You in my dreams but now I do not have such experiences any
more. Alas! I am lost.” These are, after all, emotional joys and emotions keep changing.
Happiness, whether external or emotional, cannot remain constant and those who wish to keep
them constant, create misery for themselves. “I should look beautiful forever.” Well, that is
impossible, for beauty belongs to Nature and hence is ephemeral.
Superior to emotional joy is the pleasure derived through vichara, i.e. spiritual reflection,
as it involves (comparatively) less efforts. The joy of reflection is derived by moulding the
mind in accordance with the principle that has once been assimilated.
Greater even than that joy is the bliss derived through knowledge. On realizing the very genesis
of that bliss as one‟s real „I‟ –
„Blessed with the grace of the Perfected Guru;
And the knowledge of the Perfected Guru having descended upon Him,
Asumal was transformed into Sai Asaram.
As a witness to the three states of waking,
Dream and deep sleep;
He revels in the Brahmic Bliss.‟
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
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As a result of an assemblage of saints, a miserable place devoid of wealth and one‟s kith
and kin becomes prosperous and populated, even death is converted into a celebration and
misfortunes appear verily like good fortunes.
Just as poor people look at pearls with great love, so also should one endeavour to have
darshana of those blessed saints whose minds are satiated with the bliss of Self-repose.
Penance or other modes of self-mortification are of no help in destroying the mind. The mind,
spiritually trained with discrimination, gives up its tendency of developing modifications of
sankalpas-vikalpas and devlops the Brahmakara Vritti leading to Self Realization that is
endowed with the all-pervading consciousness of the Brahman. The destruction of the mind is
the attainment of the Supreme goal of human life and the dawn of total eradication of all
miseries. Therefore, endeavour to destroy your mind and not to engage it in external activities.
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
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Never trust your mind. Given a free reign, the mind will put your very life into jeopardy.
A goad has to be used properly in order to keep an elephant under control. Similarly, in order to
keep the mind under control one needs to take regular recourse to satsanga, virtuous
contemplation, pious study and translating the precepts thereof into life. Make a time-table
leaving no room for the mind to be empty. Bind every moment of your life with the shackle of
punctuality giving no freedom to the mind. You must sincerely regret for the time you have
already wasted. The supremely gracious Lord is very kind. Take refuge in Him and He will
certainly protect you. Though humans, we lack in humanity. Everywhere it is
barbarousness that meets the eyes. In order to become true humans, bring self-restraint in your
life. „A human being (manushya) is one who can forge a relationship with God through the
mind (manas)‟.
(Read the complete article in Sept 2007 issue of Rishi Prasad)
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Ayurveda holds Amla to be useful in diseases like menorrhagia, piles, impotency, heart
diseases, urinary diseases, burning sensation, indigestion, asthma, cough, diarrhoea, jaundice,
tuberculosis, etc. It nourishes all the seven dhatus. Apart from being a heart and brain tonic it
prolongs life, improves memory and eyesight, and also increases lustre, strength and potency.
The hair roots get strengthened with the hair getting darker. It purifies the blood and improves
immunity.
Scientific research has confirmed that the anti-oxidant enzyme available in Amla
prevents ageing. Fully ripened, and well-nourished fresh Amla fruits are beneficial to all. If that
is not available, Amla-powder, Amla-jam or Chyavanprash can be used throughout the year.
Glossary
Brahmacharya – celibacy.
Brahmabhavana – to contemplate oneself as being the Brahman.
Brahmadhyana – meditation on the Brahman.
Brahmavetta – one established in the Brahman.
Brahmajnana – knowledge of Brahman or the Self.
Bhava – divine mood, spiritual ecstasy, a state of the mind imbued with some emotion.
Brahmakara Vritti – mental modification in the form of Brahman.
Darshana – the pious act of meeting some revered one or deity face to face.
Daridranarayana – the poor as manifestations of Lord Narayana.
Dhatu – vital element of the body.
Gugal – a gum from the herb called Indian bedellium (commiphora mukul).
Guna – any of the three qualities of Matter or Nature.
Guru-Tattva – the all pervading spiritual essence of the Guru.
Havana – a fire sacrifice.
Japa – repetition of a mantra.
Jiva – the individual soul.
Jivatman– the individual soul.
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