hare krishna

Hare Krishna !

Dear devotees,

The following is a piece of beautiful conversation between Ma Indira and Her spiritual master (Guru) , Dadaji (Dilip Kumar Roy). Hope, you will like it :

HIS FLUTE

Ma (With a smile) : People keep asking about His Flute, Dada! But believe me, to them it is all words ! One note of His Flute and my every pore is filled... every drop of my blood is set aflame. I tell you, Dada, if you once heard His Flute, your whole world would be consumed to ashes in a flash. The other day I was buying some vegetables in the market. All around me was nothing but din, dust and hurry. Suddenly, I heard just a single note....just one and the whole world trembled and melted away into a shadow : only He survived...the sole reality ! But I could not very well tell this to the fruit seller, could I, and be taken for a mad woman ? So I just stood there and pretended to look inside my purse..... O Dada, I can tell you when one hears His Flute : when your nearest and dearest delights in the world are reduced to dust beside Him, then only you may be sure that you have heard His Flute.

(Taken from "The Rounding Off" by Ma Indira Devi)

So, that is it. Let us pray to have that ear to hear His Flute.
With love,

Kumar.

 

Yes...I found that to be true...oh and sorry everyone...it was Sky Light Publications! :: hehe.

 

Has anybody here at all read Swami Chinmayananda's The Holy Geeta? It is one of the most brilliant commentaries on the text, very carefully reasoned, scientific, logical and beautiful.

 

Hare Krishna!

Dear Bhaskar,

I have not read but have heard a lot about The Holy Gita by Swami Chinmayananda. It would be a matter of great pleasure to know more about Swami Chinmayananda from you. The Holy Gita and Swami Chimayananda are like the sides of the same coin. A great life and a great Yogi.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Gurudev Chinmayanandji... He was a journalist and a passionate freedom fighter. He was captured and jailed by the British and then when he was on the brink of death they threw out into a gutter to die. There he was found and rescued by a compasisonate old lady who nursed him back to health. After independance, he worked to bring social reform and in an attempt to expose all Gurus and Swamis for frauds, he went to Rishikesh to interview Swami Sivananda. Sivanandji said that there is no use of a single interview, he suggested a whole months stay to research the story. At the end of that month, Gurudev took Sanyasa. He then went to Uttar Kasi to study vedanta from Swami Tapovanam. Later he descended to the plains to teach vedanta to the people. His style of oratory and writing was crisp, scientific, lively and engaging. Gurudev was a tower of majesty, a magnificent edifice to the enormity of human potential.

 

Hare Krishna!

Dear Bhaskar,

That's wonderful and amazing! Thank you. It also tells us how destiny works for us in most inexplicable ways. Glory to Mahajnani Swami Sivananda and His most distinguished disciple , your Guruji, parampujyapad Swami Chinmayananda.

Jai Guru ! Jai Guru ! Jai Guru !


Love,

Kumar.

 

HARE KRISHNA !

SWAMI RANGANATHANANDA IS NO MORE IN HIS MORTAL BODY

Another great Yogi mahapurush, mahajnani, param pujyapad Swami Ranganathananda(SHANKAR Maharaj) breathed his last on monday at 1551 hrs (Indian Standard Time) at a hospital in Calcutta.

Shankar Maharaj was the Acharya and President of Sri Ramakrishna Math and Mission in its Head Office at Belur (Calcutta,India). He was 96.
He was born Shankaran in Trikkur in Kerala on December 15,1908 and at the age of 18 He renounced everything and took Mantra Dikhsha from Swami Shivananda (Mahapurush Maharaj, one of the twelve disciples of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa.) Later, He took Sanyas in 1933 from Swami Shivananda and after a long sadhana He came back to us to shower His grace ,kindness and compassion on us.

He had travelled all over the world and was known internationally as a great yogi and a great scholar. He had written several books. He conformed to true religion of mankind, to be tolerant and respectful to all and to love and reach God by loving one and all.

Pranam at His lotus feet.

Kumar

 

DEAR, DEAR GDKUMAR!!! I'm so glad that you're on line!! Can you talk with me? Are you Buddhist (I don't know how to write this word. Sorry)? I also want to be in this religion, but I can't find information about it!! Can you tell me sth about it? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

"DEAR, DEAR GDKUMAR!!! I'm so glad that you're on line!! Can you talk with me? Are you Buddhist (I don't know how to write this word. Sorry)? I also want to be in this religion, but I can't find information about it!! Can you tell me sth about it? PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hare Krishna !

Dear Anita,

Thank you for your kind post. Well, it is not very easy to answer your queries. First of all I am not a Buddhist the way people go by to establish one's lineage. In that sense I am a Hindu.

But honestly, I always loved to be identified with all the religions. Honestly, I do not know anything about any religion(Including Hinduism) and I am afraid I do not qualify to tell you anything about any religion.

I have learnt, by the grace and compassion of my Guru and by my life as a teacher, that to love one and all without any discrimination is the best way to love, worship and reach God. Before you ask me l would like to tell you that my Guruji never spoke a word of Hinduism or any other religion. He only talked about God and how we can reach Him.

So, dear Anita, that is it. If you love one and all with the knowledge that you are loving and worshipping God only, I suppose you will automatically belong not only to Buddhism or Hinduism but to all religions on this earth. Because all religions,after all, centre about God alone.

With love and best wishes,

Kumar.

 

It's easy - all you need is love!!!

 

Hare Krishna !

Dear Anita,

Yes, it is easy. What we need is unconditional love. It sounds so simple but in practice it is not so.

The fellow who has given me pain, suffering and tears in my eyes despite loving him, it is not at all easy to continue loving him. It is not easy not to have unkind thoughts about him and to forgive him.

Here comes the question of unconditional love, love without any expectation of anything in lieu of. Probabaly only after having such unconditional love one can say like Lord Jesus, " Oh God, they do not know what they are doing, please forgive them." even after bearing the pain and torture of crucifixion.

Anita, dear, no great thing grows or happens in a day or overnight but definitely we can develop this matchless quality through His compassion and over a long process of practising it.

With love, best wishes and prayers,

Kumar.

 

You are right Anita - if you have love, you have everything.
It has been said that the Divine, God - whatever name you use - is like vast sun radiating love. We just have to step into the sunlight.

Love & peace.

 

Hare Krishna!

MAHAJNANI'S KATHAMRITA

Faith, reliance upon God, surrender and self-giving to the Divine Power are necessary and indispensable. But reliance upon God must not be made an excuse for indolence, weakness and surrender to the impulses of the lower Nature : it it must go along with untiring aspiration and a persistent rejection of all that comes in the way of the Divine Truth. The surrender to the Divine must not be turned into an excuse, a cloak or an occasion for surrender to one's own desires and lower movements or to one's ego or to some Force of the ignorance and darkness that puts on a false appearance of the Divine.

...............From "Bases of Yoga" by Sri Aurobindo.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna!

MAHAJNANI'S KATHAMRITA :

You have only to aspire, to keep yourself open to the Mother, to reject all that is contrary to her will and to let her work in you - doing also all your work for her and in the faith that it is through her force that you can do it. If you remain open in this way the knowledge and realisation will come to you in due course.
........From "The Bases of Yoga" By Sri Aurobindo.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna!

MAHAJNANI'S KATHAMRITA :

It does not matter what defects you may have in your nature. The one thing that matters is your keeping yourself open to the Force. Nobody can transform himself by his own unaided efforts; it is only the Divine Force that can transform him. If you keep yourself open, all the rest will be done for you.
............From "BASES OF YOGA" By Sri Aurobindo.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Hari om!

There is a bhajan by goswami Tulsidasji who says, "I have heard that Sri Hari is patit paava, one who purifies the fallen. I am fallen and he is one who purifies the fallen, such a wonderful match has been made between us."

 

Thanks gdkumar for the Sri Aurobindo quotes.

Here is short extract from 'The Sunlit Path' by Sweet Mother -

Come out of words.
The main trouble is that you think with words, but these words are empty of meaning; most of the time they are mere words - you talk of the Divine, you talk of the Supreme, you talk of yoga, you say many things, but does all that correspond in your head to something concrete? To a thought, a feeling, a clear idea, an experience? Or are they simply words?
...You must see the thing, the experience behind the words. Here, we speak of "yoga", but elsewhere one would speak differently; some would say "I am seeking my raison d'etre", and so on. Those who have a religiouis bent will say "I want to find the Divine Presence". There are fifty ways of saying the thing but it is the thing which is important; you must feel it in your head, in your heart, everywhere. It must be concrete, living, otherwise you cannot advance. You must come out of words and get into action - get into the experience, get into life.

Om Namo Bhagavate

 

"Here is short extract from 'The Sunlit Path' by Sweet Mother -

Come out of words.
The main trouble is that you think with words, but these words are empty of meaning; most of the time they are mere words - you talk of the Divine, you talk of the Supreme, you talk of yoga, you say many things, but does all that correspond in your head to something concrete? To a thought, a feeling, a clear idea, an experience? Or are they simply words?
...You must see the thing, the experience behind the words. Here, we speak of "yoga", but elsewhere one would speak differently; some would say "I am seeking my raison d'etre", and so on. Those who have a religiouis bent will say "I want to find the Divine Presence". There are fifty ways of saying the thing but it is the thing which is important; you must feel it in your head, in your heart, everywhere. It must be concrete, living, otherwise you cannot advance. You must come out of words and get into action - get into the experience, get into life.

Om Namo Bhagavate"
.... ...............From BlackBillBlake


Hare Krishna !

Dear BBB,

It is wonderful, thank you for giving us that.
Sweet Mother knew exactly where we, the children, mostly go wrong. So, she said, "You must come out of words and get into action - get into the experience, get into life." Glory to The Mother. Let us all understand and follow this wonderful teaching.

Love,

Kumar.

 

There is a bhajan by goswami Tulsidasji who says, "I have heard that Sri Hari is patit paava, one who purifies the fallen. I am fallen and he is one who purifies the fallen, such a wonderful match has been made between us."
...............From Bhaskar.

Hare Krishna!

Dear Bhaskar,

What to say, you have given so much of 'Shanti' thro' Tulsidasji....Thank you !
That's wonderful and that is truly the wonderful match between Him and all of us. We are the fallen, He first purifies and then embraces us. Thank you again.

Love,

Kumar.

 

Thank you Kumar, Andrew (BBB), and Bhaskar for sharing all these beautiful passages.