tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47633898194164484222024-03-06T07:02:54.692+05:30Sri Rama Krishna Temple JaipurUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-89942563405357967352020-01-18T22:16:00.001+05:302020-01-18T22:16:55.438+05:30Vivekananda in 2020<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><h1 class="gmail-title gmail-style-scope gmail-ytd-video-primary-info-renderer" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;max-height:4.8rem;overflow:hidden;line-height:2.4rem"><span class="gmail-style-scope gmail-ytd-video-primary-info-renderer" style="word-break:break-word;font-weight:normal"><font size="2" style="" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">We are proud to share this beautiful production on Swamiji, in both English and Hindi. 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color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"></font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">--</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"> </font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>Swami Sheshadri<br></b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-24032251278568850022019-03-26T19:56:00.001+05:302019-03-26T19:56:27.028+05:30Re: This, above all, to thine own self be true ...<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</span><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Om</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Sending again ...</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">--</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"> </font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>Swami Sheshadri</b></font></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Swami Sheshadri</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jaisriramakrishnalayam@gmail.com">jaisriramakrishnalayam@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 1:56 AM<br>Subject: This, above all, to thine own self be true ...<br>To: <<a href="mailto:rkmutemple@gmail.com">rkmutemple@gmail.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:rkmpinkcity@gmail.com">rkmpinkcity@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_1416120193358402986gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"> ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirAA_hmvpcnGvciqhLL2dpQdK-R1uf7ziGPiH-maIrryyz4TkRFbwIk2RXvQcIwXUHRWUaKNzekqMOTOyeBKpkOmBoUCqKLe1Ruu6VQhYJKZ9uIS29xn1yFVAM8poKLZVR8oXZQseZeW-r/s1600/IMG_4284-787033.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirAA_hmvpcnGvciqhLL2dpQdK-R1uf7ziGPiH-maIrryyz4TkRFbwIk2RXvQcIwXUHRWUaKNzekqMOTOyeBKpkOmBoUCqKLe1Ruu6VQhYJKZ9uIS29xn1yFVAM8poKLZVR8oXZQseZeW-r/s320/IMG_4284-787033.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6672705814335580738" /></a><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Proclaims the Shruti (Taittireeya) - </span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">सत्यं वद! धर्मञ्चर !</span> </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">'<b>Impossibly difficult</b>', exclaims the Jiva in this yuga!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Indeed, the practice of truth is </font><b><font color="#0000ff">the</font></b><font color="#000000"> penance in this Kaliyuga, avers <b>Sri Ramakrishna</b>. The Jiva, facing untold troubles and obstacles, seeks some 'relief' in Thakur's statement - 'Ah!, how well He understands us!' </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Untruth, for the Jiva, is simply <b>the</b> way of life. Dharma is so 'inconvenient' today, and possibly approaching a time where it may be relegated to being irrelevant! What does the human value today? Has the four-fold purushartha just got abridged to Artha-kama alone?</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">Untruthfulness, and insincerity, its corollary, have become as fluid as one's breath! So much so, that one oft wonders how one could even live without untruth!!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">The 'understanding' of irreparable material loss upon abiding by truth and dharma is very 'clear' to everyone. Exceedingly rare is the recognition of the loss resulting from non-conformity to them - for, it is a much subtler issue!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">We spin an 'Avarana' of untruth around us - a gap between the 'real me' and the 'projected me'. Though greater the gap, greater my woes and stress, I understand it not, and assiduously hold up a facade that I want others to know me as! Falsehood within falsehood! Mahamaya has the last laugh!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">I am true to none - parents, family, friends, society, Nation, my work, discipline, exercise, food - nothing...</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Even when one sees oneself sinking day by day, there is no resolve, no serious attempt to extricate oneself, "</font><font color="#990000">उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानम्</font><font color="#000000"> ... "</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">"This, above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day", said the Bard, "thou canst not then be false to any man!"</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><b><font color="#0000ff">Even</font></b><font color="#000000"> in the only act where the will is supposedly free, i.e. <b>prayer</b>, </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">where one is not answerable or accountable to anyone but oneself, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">one is unable to manage to be true! Such is the force of long habit, immersion, or 'esnarement' of maya - the saga of helplessness. 'Lord answers <i><b>sincere</b></i> prayers', but hey, are prayers not meant to be sincere in the first place, that Bhagavan may exclaim, "You are not serious, are you?"</span></div><div><div><br></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">There are melodious hymns and structured prayers of exquisite depth and beauty, but does it reflect in my heart as well? Jiva's predicament is well understood by the compassionate Guru Maharaj, and He does not judge us. He even sends his chosen Apostle to articulate our helplessness and plight - Swamiji speaks for us in the famed stotra thus - "O Bhagavan, </span><font color="#990000"><font size="4">वक्त्रोद्धृतो</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">s</font><font size="4">पि हृदये न विभाति किञ्चित् , </font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">do you not know that even though beautiful words of prayer escape my lips, they do not echo in my heart? That is how I am, a Jiva!" </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFNo9jXFvT0SpQX2oEagbcpmLiOyQtwr88CR0pDK62epPqo4DyTVa3EknrMlm0K2h-uQ6bM8bHWtUh0GXZEIRk8tC0AhNtUa2DzLWo5s153CtotW8bRra-AHF5dLbwqW6CIRjzuf4H3IKZ/s1600/IMG_4270-791384.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFNo9jXFvT0SpQX2oEagbcpmLiOyQtwr88CR0pDK62epPqo4DyTVa3EknrMlm0K2h-uQ6bM8bHWtUh0GXZEIRk8tC0AhNtUa2DzLWo5s153CtotW8bRra-AHF5dLbwqW6CIRjzuf4H3IKZ/s320/IMG_4270-791384.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6672705831365561538" /></a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">O compassionate Lord, who knows this weak Jiva's limitations, and considers </font><i><font color="#666666">even the attempt</font></i><font color="#000000"> as acceptable, even as a doting Mother accepts the ignorant infant's prattle as a praise - I am encouraged, to take a tottering step towards you... may be, one day, I shall succeed in dissolving my self-created avarana, and just be myself, a child of Ishvara!! </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Hence, O my </font><font color="#990000">Guru Maharaj</font><font color="#000000">, I have none else to go to ...and am sure of being accepted by you, the way I am ...</font></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><div><a 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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-56935898923175331262018-01-10T00:59:00.001+05:302018-01-10T00:59:16.210+05:30Salutations to Mahaveera Vivekananda!!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMbz3eLe21O6itbeNyePwTfkEqUjdQFed3Po1XH7GVuIw-bHW9__Sca7iluN2JJv_3Gw79M4c2AsYaulCUnFHGSuhzr7dPDRLvuWVfucYwO8hRM8uZ7pibo0lJ8MaStJzCRL_hgkT2vtB/s1600/DSCF6670-756213.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMbz3eLe21O6itbeNyePwTfkEqUjdQFed3Po1XH7GVuIw-bHW9__Sca7iluN2JJv_3Gw79M4c2AsYaulCUnFHGSuhzr7dPDRLvuWVfucYwO8hRM8uZ7pibo0lJ8MaStJzCRL_hgkT2vtB/s320/DSCF6670-756213.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6509135288160219250" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a 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heard the roar of the lion of Vedanta; yes, the roar that jolted our slumbering nation to throwing off the oppressive yoke of centuries, and breathe free...</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidvfEQ3O3W5nBo6eS_mGQ_dUPi0hLjbhawYF4Ayefn5RUaqYYvgIDneR0dPLXjyZxjeJXfZ5s6jMz1mQ5rSdxkQgQ1-PaYzsZDX8m_k4Jy6-EKYEXao2NbCVQyeVzW9o0QFr81E-JrkM3x/s1600/DSCF6673-764139.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidvfEQ3O3W5nBo6eS_mGQ_dUPi0hLjbhawYF4Ayefn5RUaqYYvgIDneR0dPLXjyZxjeJXfZ5s6jMz1mQ5rSdxkQgQ1-PaYzsZDX8m_k4Jy6-EKYEXao2NbCVQyeVzW9o0QFr81E-JrkM3x/s320/DSCF6673-764139.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6509135315606309394" /></a><br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><b><font color="#cc0000">Vivekananda</font></b><font color="#000000">, from whom emanated the words of fire... </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">exemplified </span><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large">the prayer of the Vedic Rsis, </font><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large">in our times, "</font><font color="#990000" style="font-size:large">अग्निर्मे वाचि श्रितः"</font><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large">,"may fire be </font><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">enshrined in my speech!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large">We know well how he wished that the youth of the nation may hold </font><font style="font-size:large" color="#cc0000"><b>Mahaveera Sri Hanuman</b></font><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large"> as their ideal, ideal in every possible way! In his own life, we get a clear image of the personality of Sri Hanuman! </font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcyxvPOq6D99Qg5pU1yEl8TcdSIpx1moBTIh9LFc1uSHO5xdtk7HKVEO-mmzgmE2L-sMaTgmyXJNCxrqBds9e6ngyg_lRTz01q-fU0wlCh_sfI_HKnsov91by1DiD-axM7VU94Da051-D/s1600/Mahaveera-766468.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbcyxvPOq6D99Qg5pU1yEl8TcdSIpx1moBTIh9LFc1uSHO5xdtk7HKVEO-mmzgmE2L-sMaTgmyXJNCxrqBds9e6ngyg_lRTz01q-fU0wlCh_sfI_HKnsov91by1DiD-axM7VU94Da051-D/s320/Mahaveera-766468.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6509135325764231458" /></a><br><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large"><i>"</i></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:large" color="#660000"><i>Aye, I am ever the servant of Sri Ramakrishna</i></font><font style="font-size:large"><font color="#660000"><i>..</i></font><font color="#000000"><i>"</i> </font><font color="#0000ff">or</font><font color="#000000">,<i> "</i></font></font><font style="font-size:large" color="#990000"><i>out of dust he could produce a thousand Vivekanandas..</i></font><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large"><i>"</i>, </font><font style="font-size:large" color="#0000ff">or</font><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large"> "</font><font style="font-size:large" color="#660000">G.C.,</font><font style="font-size:large" color="#444444"> </font><font style="font-size:large" color="#660000">ask me to pulverise the mountains, or dry up the oceans... but how can I speak about Sri Ramakrishna..</font></font><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large">" (meaning, I am too small to describe my Master) - describe his attitude as </font><font style="font-size:large" color="#0000ff"><i>Ramakrishna-dasa</i></font><font color="#000000" style="font-size:large">, like Sri Hanuman exemplifies dasya-bhakti in this world as </font><span style="font-size:large"><i><font color="#0000ff">Ramadasa</font></i><font color="#000000">)</font></span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">. Such self-effacing giants, who served their Masters with devotion exemplary, had so much in common. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">One performed Rama's work, and the other worked out Ramakrishna's command...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIicZvzo-aXD-KBAnpFU8uZ96k2DsqCqDb5CqsA5YH-UAlJE_nOQLm-agbH2EmbvUVpE21Z2nV5W5DCKVyZdJz_3AnBLVm4przMSWQyVT6d-h4t-CVJB6C6HMQ2zqG7Xm51cL0lzQ8gu3f/s1600/DSCF6672-768548.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIicZvzo-aXD-KBAnpFU8uZ96k2DsqCqDb5CqsA5YH-UAlJE_nOQLm-agbH2EmbvUVpE21Z2nV5W5DCKVyZdJz_3AnBLVm4przMSWQyVT6d-h4t-CVJB6C6HMQ2zqG7Xm51cL0lzQ8gu3f/s320/DSCF6672-768548.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6509135335775917986" /></a><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">...</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">and Mother Sita who blessed Sri Hanuman, blessed Vivekananda as Mother Sarada!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitrKC4ocMaySArL7wp7v6AC0JIlmcwAQaURgcXcOiJlkG4ZQCHYAGCpfjcm2ImBh1hSVnl69S99-3StACVmdLHFIyE0-koZavDPZigfmE3VN8yphjPuiOzp6_UVUk_zDuHa8ceK1gK7114/s1600/DSCF6676-770835.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitrKC4ocMaySArL7wp7v6AC0JIlmcwAQaURgcXcOiJlkG4ZQCHYAGCpfjcm2ImBh1hSVnl69S99-3StACVmdLHFIyE0-koZavDPZigfmE3VN8yphjPuiOzp6_UVUk_zDuHa8ceK1gK7114/s320/DSCF6676-770835.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6509135344480247666" /></a><br><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Despite stupendous accomplishments, where was Hanuman in his own reckoning, other than as </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Rama-dasa</font></span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">? </span><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0FH0E3t-Dwi5y9mFGxtaHNgPSC_pp2tPZul73GLgiTCP13k8_BGYfmMd_ox5d1yZufxOa4JR-ZaSRIVGMAVUbrhcqTkCDRSfoKGzZbqkNuh-mzRCKe5pRuoogOcrM_ITqMEinfAriw7wQ/s1600/Rama-773053.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0FH0E3t-Dwi5y9mFGxtaHNgPSC_pp2tPZul73GLgiTCP13k8_BGYfmMd_ox5d1yZufxOa4JR-ZaSRIVGMAVUbrhcqTkCDRSfoKGzZbqkNuh-mzRCKe5pRuoogOcrM_ITqMEinfAriw7wQ/s320/Rama-773053.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6509135354022020546" /></a><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Swamiji says, <i>"</i></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#990000"><i>our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted when we are without thought of self</i></font><font color="#000000"><i>"</i></font><font color="#444444"> </font><font color="#0000ff">or</font><font color="#444444"> </font><font color="#000000"> <i>"</i></font><font color="#660000"><i>the world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunder bolt!</i></font></font><font color="#000000"><i>"</i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yes, for its own good, the world must know him (them) as " </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">अतुलित-बलधामं </font><font color="#000000">and </font><font color="#990000">ज्ञानिनां अग्रगण्यं</font><font color="#000000"> and </font><font color="#990000">सकल-गुण-निधानम्</font><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">" , as also pray to him (them) for </font><font color="#0000ff">निर्भयत्वं</font><font color="#000000"> and </font><font color="#0000ff">वाक्-पटुत्वम्</font><font color="#000000"> !!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPjm4tKH2Fklxq0OD8aDM_baNLNPmCdZWbLTfVrqk8aoqufPQea6LJgJ171BnvCzKZI0dqpDzujBiQN2YGPt8ZioO2vA26Knd9iJD8mumar7UHfQXmHEt6NRTXBQNhxMQUKoM2ZEx9QWp4/s1600/DSCF6674-775271.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPjm4tKH2Fklxq0OD8aDM_baNLNPmCdZWbLTfVrqk8aoqufPQea6LJgJ171BnvCzKZI0dqpDzujBiQN2YGPt8ZioO2vA26Knd9iJD8mumar7UHfQXmHEt6NRTXBQNhxMQUKoM2ZEx9QWp4/s320/DSCF6674-775271.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6509135363489218706" /></a><br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">A look at the figures of both these Mahaveeras would convince anyone of 'Strength' assuming a form! </font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Look at the </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">immortal words that </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">emanate thence, "</span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#666666">make your nerves strong. </font><font color="#990000">What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel..</font><font color="#666666">..stand on your feet and be men!</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">"</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">"If there is one word that you find coming like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bomb-shell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word, '</font><font color="#990000">अभीः'</font><font color="#000000"> <i><b>fearlessness</b></i>."</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">"</font><font color="#990000">This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death</font><font color="#666666">. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death</font><font color="#000000">." </font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">" To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul; " at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal."</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">In as many words, is </font></span></b><b><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Swamiji describing Sri Hanuman for us to emulate, to hold as the ideal -</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"> for a nation that needs just this elixir of life?</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Words of fire </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">that can</span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"> only come from </font></span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">'</font></span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-size:large">अतुलित-बलधाम ' '</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-size:large">निर्भय ' </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">one of</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">extraordinary strength, wisdom, perseverance. </font></span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000">The National ideal has to be </font><font color="#990000">Mahaveera Hanuman</font><font color="#000000"> from </font><font color="#0000ff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><i>Ramayana</i></b></font><font color="#000000"> of yore, </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">or </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">Mahaveera Vivekananda</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"> from </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"><b><i>Ramakrishnayana</i></b></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"> of now, for </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">they are non-different, the two names for </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">the same phenomenon!!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffZSks0oDhy5bG0cS-HQ90QISyslNzpJLtoW-gGnvW_laK-R27f4y-8ZsP2kZsv3FeyHnAvN_sBOA9zr4tBHTSYMVXz-T9CJcVUAKMM-UIHFLcYYbdPcAIyBLcx-UmW1OJHzgcsrV7ALT/s1600/DSCF6682-777169.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffZSks0oDhy5bG0cS-HQ90QISyslNzpJLtoW-gGnvW_laK-R27f4y-8ZsP2kZsv3FeyHnAvN_sBOA9zr4tBHTSYMVXz-T9CJcVUAKMM-UIHFLcYYbdPcAIyBLcx-UmW1OJHzgcsrV7ALT/s320/DSCF6682-777169.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6509135372590507586" /></a></font><br><font color="#0000ff">Salutations yet again!!</font><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</span><span 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color="#000000">Before we have dealt with the vagaries and pending struggles of the year 'just past', the 'new one' is here, </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#0000ff">2018</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">, opening with Kalpataru day!!</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">The accounts not yet settled, the mind still unsettled, the Jiva enters another set of 365 days Samsara, (thankfully one Samvatsara (year) at a time!).</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">"Kalpa-taru", we are told He is. 1886 began with that phenomenal day, just months before He wound up His Leela. The incident, or rather event, is worth reading again each year.</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">On a warm sunny day time of a cold winter, some Jivas, symbolizing minds as it were, were sitting or strolling in the garden-house (Udyan Bati). It was a pleasant hour, and the senses rejoiced at the sights and sounds, and the freshness in the air.</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhNw3lbBVihDgGyNk0IX419Od39xfF5tIgLDfwF8VFB5SlFiNJMXq9BgldNQcKl4fxH51fbknIWavOZULwV8KHJW-d71K-1DlqClxsai1YI-7yBDEsNDJHO3OrN2Y9r5V0h4cf6WLJiA3/s1600/DSCF6590-782420.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLhNw3lbBVihDgGyNk0IX419Od39xfF5tIgLDfwF8VFB5SlFiNJMXq9BgldNQcKl4fxH51fbknIWavOZULwV8KHJW-d71K-1DlqClxsai1YI-7yBDEsNDJHO3OrN2Y9r5V0h4cf6WLJiA3/s320/DSCF6590-782420.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6506160268223751394" /></a><br><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">They were there, primarily just to be around in the vicinity of Sri Ramakrishna (who was unwell), and because it was a holiday, and so there were no other commitments - </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">some relative freedom</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"> - if we may say so.</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZFlfgRMDWh4GL2djoAN020DYKaJYYOeL1OVsZ1H1uLLzA9EKv5l0zFJ3ek_T3xlgDboBZCQ0YCcVgN0fEKIb81-xzAf2IzhJ-9vPVnmRvLfMo2wfLgDpg-DHbVAEMHSi7w1FBgC-elTT-/s1600/DSCF6586-783077.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZFlfgRMDWh4GL2djoAN020DYKaJYYOeL1OVsZ1H1uLLzA9EKv5l0zFJ3ek_T3xlgDboBZCQ0YCcVgN0fEKIb81-xzAf2IzhJ-9vPVnmRvLfMo2wfLgDpg-DHbVAEMHSi7w1FBgC-elTT-/s320/DSCF6586-783077.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6506160269157878290" /></a><br><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">Unexpectedly, and to the pleasant surprise of those few gathered Bhaktas, Sri Ramakrishna arrived, walking towards them in the garden path, and they were overjoyed to behold Him right ahead.</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"></font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666">They greeted him, and approached joyously. It is then that he suddenly posed the question to Girish Babu, as to what he understood of Him</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">. </font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">Kneeling in surrender, and overcome with emotion, pat came Girish's clear and spirited reply, "How can my little self describe Him, </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">in extolling the greatness of</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">whom Valmiki and Vyasa fall short of words ...."</span></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jcj3lX9F0r5mSWEkXoJ9ItnfzdKcrMMhRxj_M6OgrGLnWWMZv_nyWT8HALJrtp-Y-zG9tQJWUNX7KTEyxsDvCW66GVbMn1Ik9RTTA_iIcK_N7BrqkSJXKZMpBYksPVz650Uzq7yMhTdl/s1600/DSCF6579-784691.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-jcj3lX9F0r5mSWEkXoJ9ItnfzdKcrMMhRxj_M6OgrGLnWWMZv_nyWT8HALJrtp-Y-zG9tQJWUNX7KTEyxsDvCW66GVbMn1Ik9RTTA_iIcK_N7BrqkSJXKZMpBYksPVz650Uzq7yMhTdl/s320/DSCF6579-784691.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6506160280082594306" /></a><br><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">Charmed at those words of devotion, Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna, in a powerful gush of compassion, blessed them all like never before, with those celestial words, "</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">What more can I say to you, may you all be awakened!</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">" ....and He went into ecstacy. </font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">The profound blessing sent them into amazingly blissful state, an exalted mood, wherein, forgetful of all else, they prostrated at His feet in surrender, worshiping Him in various ways.... He had granted them without any reservation, their spiritual desires; it was in sheer abandon, all conditions thrown overboard!!</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAEKBoUtrqmwF3x7KMNeCHzIju91yz4xr9TF-07NNg9S1-eBKZZxKP1N2qp2eTz9wfY6WX32qYVf1hh8F1Sf3CR-PqYQUu6KqLuuxVrMbp9isR8E0tcxqT3e-h951NURMlhqv5K-CFOxo3/s1600/DSCF6577-788593.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAEKBoUtrqmwF3x7KMNeCHzIju91yz4xr9TF-07NNg9S1-eBKZZxKP1N2qp2eTz9wfY6WX32qYVf1hh8F1Sf3CR-PqYQUu6KqLuuxVrMbp9isR8E0tcxqT3e-h951NURMlhqv5K-CFOxo3/s320/DSCF6577-788593.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6506160297287006738" /></a><br><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#0000ff">Revealing Himself, He had granted </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">Abhaya</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"> - refuge to them all - all who sought Him there...</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">All those Jivas, the minds so to say, had one thing in common - He was the center of their being, their seeking! As against the deluge of all other desires, they sought the one, obtaining whom every other seeking ends...and it is in this very Kaliyuga!!</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2skoqwqTALMUcUFX58rppVPPd26AWPta0hGNVBMRFoV1WRf1sgvoWrtog5zmWaSSdZkMVJYZ8U6yCZtbdXYwzC0hhwxXey3ZxLZYyo_hN8ANCzT6Xlq-8S37cZE4evxxBWPJkQIzUKQPt/s1600/DSCF6588-790554.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2skoqwqTALMUcUFX58rppVPPd26AWPta0hGNVBMRFoV1WRf1sgvoWrtog5zmWaSSdZkMVJYZ8U6yCZtbdXYwzC0hhwxXey3ZxLZYyo_hN8ANCzT6Xlq-8S37cZE4evxxBWPJkQIzUKQPt/s320/DSCF6588-790554.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6506160301624844530" /></a><br><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">What is even more reassuring is the fact that </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">it is Thakurji Himself who walked towards them</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">, to grant them refuge! When the mind is intent upon the Lord, as against a billion 'desirables' in the world, His Krpa can not be held back..... it flows.</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fV_pu4s4BgdSqmb29FCuc6O7_23VkZsks9xyVKKjxzQaecZP6dbsvnSKMQYOLRARt9rPY7y7FfC702G6w6bBLZU-y6zJ3jZQr3WbOCpVjaXS6XvfSPofsfkJ1NDQ49AeFhZFA49rGb6-/s1600/DSCF6578-791511.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fV_pu4s4BgdSqmb29FCuc6O7_23VkZsks9xyVKKjxzQaecZP6dbsvnSKMQYOLRARt9rPY7y7FfC702G6w6bBLZU-y6zJ3jZQr3WbOCpVjaXS6XvfSPofsfkJ1NDQ49AeFhZFA49rGb6-/s320/DSCF6578-791511.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6506160307776096098" /></a><br><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">A Kalpataru may grant all kinds of desires, but here is the </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#cc0000">Moksha Taru</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"> that awakens any Jiva (mind) that lovingly seeks Him. <b>They loved the Lord and the Lord loved them.</b> </font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#0000ff">What minds... what a day...and what a revelation!!</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">Kashi</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"> is 'Moksha Puri', and n</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">o wonder it was </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">Kashi-pur</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> where abahayam was granted!!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Let us too, keep our minds </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">relatively free</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> of entanglements, and be 'available' to love Ishvara!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">OM</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, 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clear="all"></font><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><font color="#990000"><span style="font-size:large">भक्त्याss</span><span style="font-size:large">रभति</span><span style="font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large"> यो निःसार-</span><span style="font-size:large">संसार-दासस्त्वां सम्प्रपत्तुम् </span></font></div><div><font color="#990000"><span style="font-size:large">मायां संहृत्य स्वान्ते तं तारयसि स्वदा</span><span style="font-size:large">सं सारदा</span><span style="font-size:large"> त्वम् l</span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">साssनन्दा वसतु हृदि मदनिशं सारदा ज्ञान-दात्री </font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">आर्त-त्राण-परायणे ! जननि हे ! मां पाहि श्री सारदे ll</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">The Mother is the Mother, is the Mother, as none else! The Father may shun the errant child perhaps, in some frustration, looking to the 'seeming incorrigibility'.....but how can the Mother who is the Mother!!</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">I might have chased the glitter of the world for all the best part of my life, and now, worn out, forlorn, and burnt by the very world, think of my Mother - so late for anything tangible for inner growth!</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Yet it is She - the most compassionate one - The Mother, who still wishes to trust me in devotion to herself! Ah! It is the Mother, after all, to repose such faith even in the most worthless of her children ... because She is the Mother!!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">She is Mahaamaayaa, and chooses out of compassion for the hapless child, to withdraw Maya's deluding power unto Herself, just a bit - enough to pull me out of the morass, to take me across Samsara - out of sheer compassion (... and not qualification); all just because this child did at last call out for her!</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">May that Sarada, the Dispenser of Jnana (Self-knowledge), joyously abide in my heart for ever and ever!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">O Mother, ever-committed to saving those in distress, save me from this Samsara!</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">*</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">निःसार-</span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">संसार-दासः</span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-size:large"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">slave of the 'worthless' world.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">*</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">* </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">स्वदा</span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">सं सारदा </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">can be read as '</span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">स्वदा </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">संसारदा</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> ' Samsarada </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">संसारदा - </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">one who grants the vagaries of the world and its entanglements, if that is what one seeks, or Svada </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">स्वदा - </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">one who grants Herself, the only abiding truth, the cause of everything, </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">सारदा , </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">because she is </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Janana-daatri - giver of knowledge </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">ज्ञान-दात्री</span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-size:large"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3pB4D16YYfiK1egAycKVOCcBUeoF5inKe1apuN_MNEfC8vl9JbhyphenhyphenA48xSJaFZl2bWDRD4XZPAczLVutM45sJnQA3LsqteLN6yniqLGuMmOS7NOFsU125EFH8m0_moOPS316REt5D0XmIL/s1600/DSCF6476+-+Copy-736317.JPG"><img 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A reminder to seek the grace of Ishvara, to awaken to the only goal everyone really has, to be able to surrender at the feet of the Guru, to be able to pursue Brahmavidya unhindered.... commit to Sravana-Manana-Nididhyasana! .... all this, as precious time flows by, as the body ages, as the senses wear out and one is slowly, then acutely aware of the advent of the evening of life! </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Mahamaya has her total sway, powerful sway. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">'</span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">बालस्तावत् क्रीडा सक्तः, तरुणस्तावत् तरुणी रक्तःl </font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">वृद्धस्तावत् चिन्ता-सक्तः, परमे ब्रह्मणि कोsपि न सक्तःll',</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> says Shankara, exhorting the Jiva to seek Ishvara - Bhaja Govindam, Bhaja Govindam....', he shouts, trying to awaken us, our clouded minds (मूढ-मते). </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">The Sadguru, exemplified by Adishankara, overcome with compassion, relentlessly prods the Shishya; for, who can love us more than the Guru? 'Uttama Vaidya', Sri Ramakrishna calls him rightly - He doesn't give up! </font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#990000"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">शान्ता महान्तो निवसन्ति सन्तः, </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">वसन्तवल्लोकहितम् चरन्तः l </span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">तीर्णा स्वयं भीम-भवार्णवं जनानहेतुनन्न्यानपि तारयन्तः....ll</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCOe03XHdzepFq2OJgp03IfRmXacFQu1eTVQRGS8yQsZaOspNKFT7cXNlR37AEz5ojMsQaXOF_yAXcgE_mmClHfBGUAgCRJDk8pBG_N1sXHU6DsB-pqO3CXqCqtUD7W_SWPx3Av81qAzl2/s1600/DSCF6007-715666.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCOe03XHdzepFq2OJgp03IfRmXacFQu1eTVQRGS8yQsZaOspNKFT7cXNlR37AEz5ojMsQaXOF_yAXcgE_mmClHfBGUAgCRJDk8pBG_N1sXHU6DsB-pqO3CXqCqtUD7W_SWPx3Av81qAzl2/s320/DSCF6007-715666.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6441233393002573058" /></a><br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">But for these compassionate ones, where would we be? With our dull initiatives and feeble moves, where indeed??</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Grateful salutations again and again at the Guru's feet - that grant liberation....</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Prayer, and more prayer... to endow us with that unwavering commitment to freedom!!</span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">--</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"> </font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>Swami Sheshadri<br></b></font></div></div></div></div></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-65991669533679207312017-03-01T01:05:00.001+05:302017-03-01T01:05:51.236+05:30शुद्धा बुद्धिः<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMVmHWXacQ8OXljIbvW_x2w6Yp358Y7p5QgcD8ZEbPvumoeXKUx23HT0AjNeg9RGMNUFzH10DstUYkDvbyMA05WxH6ANIzo_OG1Af0TlQTh8KRq3H2yCgEuQvSh7KMidKPH5N3p7i09ogO/s1600/DSCF5654-751238.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMVmHWXacQ8OXljIbvW_x2w6Yp358Y7p5QgcD8ZEbPvumoeXKUx23HT0AjNeg9RGMNUFzH10DstUYkDvbyMA05WxH6ANIzo_OG1Af0TlQTh8KRq3H2yCgEuQvSh7KMidKPH5N3p7i09ogO/s320/DSCF5654-751238.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6392245148633053362" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a 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style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</span><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">"</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000">..शुद्ध-बुद्धि-दायकं तं </font></span><font color="#990000"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">ईश्वरम् </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">देवेदेवं रामकृष्णं नमामि !</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">" says Sri Swami Virajananda in his Ramakrishna Tunakam.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkBA1cqlx_ogrG_SSOYYLSlh_bHc3imbP4blRLQGl9SA8TqS0-TfptoSgxsraUh_XhewnVZUxWdfCzeP7a4h8Dr5avmbvXLNiaIoFF21qIVBaKUf0Uzy23Ey81okKV0rFJIOWflEoFJA1A/s1600/DSCF5663-768712.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkBA1cqlx_ogrG_SSOYYLSlh_bHc3imbP4blRLQGl9SA8TqS0-TfptoSgxsraUh_XhewnVZUxWdfCzeP7a4h8Dr5avmbvXLNiaIoFF21qIVBaKUf0Uzy23Ey81okKV0rFJIOWflEoFJA1A/s320/DSCF5663-768712.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6392245223479303266" /></a><br>Well, all our problem seems to be due to absence of this </span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">शुद्ध-बुद्धि .</span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"> An intellect that discriminates, one that is one-pointed towards the goal... is almost untraceable in us! "</font><font color="#0000ff">व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः</font><font color="#000000"> is indeed one," says Bhagavan, </font><font color="#990000">एकेह </font><font color="#000000">- it is single and well ascertained, clear and unambiguous understanding - with respect to Moksha. The notions of those who lack discrimination are many-pronged and innumerable. Almost everything looks desirable, worth chasing, an endless wild goose-chase... till you are exhausted and old age overtakes you.. and you are done with one more precious birth! ... Possibly hoping that that you will hit the jack-pot in the next life ... and samsara goes on!</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">व्यवसाय</font><font color="#666666"> means </font><font color="#990000">निश्चय</font><font color="#666666">, clarity with reference to what I seek and how I am to gain it - it is </font><font color="#ff0000">शुद्धि</font><font color="#666666"> in the </font><font color="#0000ff">बुद्धि</font><font color="#666666"> ! To see clearly that Moksha is the destiny or goal of a human being, which is exactly what I am seeking for, that it is in the form of freedom from the sense of limitation, and that it is centered on </font><b><font color="#000000">myself</font></b> <font color="#666666">only and is not outside me - is </font></span><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">शुद्ध-बुद्धि</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">It is easy to discern how rare that seems to be. How many do we see endowed with this clarity? You need grace for this! From the very opening upadesha in the Kathamrta it is relentlessly made crystal clear - the aim of human life is to know Ishvara (non-different from the self). Sri Sri Guru Maharaj seems to hammer this truth in, coaxing and cajoling, sometimes endearingly and sometimes harshly, throughout - as if saying '</span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">अन्यां वाचां विमुञ्चथ</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> !' This identifying the core of one's life's pursuit is THE most important step! And it needs </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">कृपा</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> as Swami Virajanandaji reveals to us.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwpOY7IpRrLSqouEPdxHvIh2pULCFPV261ol8DEIoW8l0DJK8pxfKrlRLEWHOmuX_yN_v_IgToYFsjI_xtGcFcz7RDNHIWX6Km_gQ5J5bPgcDHxVUiklVrbFgvJbkzMGUtZsuZGaj38Pyb/s1600/DSCF5664-770118.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwpOY7IpRrLSqouEPdxHvIh2pULCFPV261ol8DEIoW8l0DJK8pxfKrlRLEWHOmuX_yN_v_IgToYFsjI_xtGcFcz7RDNHIWX6Km_gQ5J5bPgcDHxVUiklVrbFgvJbkzMGUtZsuZGaj38Pyb/s320/DSCF5664-770118.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6392245226818700066" /></a><br>Clad in white, in the whiteness of His Sattva form he seems to point to this ! May Sri Thakurji grant us just that. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">May this heart turn into a temple of worship to thee, where, at your feet, I may set my seat to behold you!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBKvb1kTcUQQcb9soNavtZnzykvcrPqT8tBI5Avu4s5A4XNz9ngYI6hfZaqivy9u1F06rScME0hAFsqxalYYUqYmD7ae5HGS44G7cwpv1dLV7meeF-vjWRmPgNyUj3Qg1cgANW5Y-wl1f/s1600/DSCF5660-771456.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyBKvb1kTcUQQcb9soNavtZnzykvcrPqT8tBI5Avu4s5A4XNz9ngYI6hfZaqivy9u1F06rScME0hAFsqxalYYUqYmD7ae5HGS44G7cwpv1dLV7meeF-vjWRmPgNyUj3Qg1cgANW5Y-wl1f/s320/DSCF5660-771456.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6392245236818187986" /></a><br>Having known only the outer world of</span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"> प्रवृत्ति</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> , of endless seeking after <b><i>security and pleasure</i></b> ... and both consistently denied to me there, may I come to understand, as Swamiji's mellifluous verses sing to us the fact.. </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">यस्मात् अहं तु </font><font color="#0000ff">अशरणो,</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> for I am without any support here - helpless and hopeless, </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">जगदेकगम्य</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> - O Lord, (who is the only possible destination for all). It is clear to me hence, that thou art my sole support </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">तस्मात् त्वं एव शरणं मम</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> , O friend of the helpless </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">हे दीन-बन्धो</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> !<br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUTzWZE2BNfc6blymqPkNoC3Apg4XUcmctBSLZZaXrGO3H9oNM8YFlHN3t3Ti32x5BDZctH1IjBfWXDUjapmS5laPDJ_OcIkbBufVmI0V3osRV8hNCrFQ2h7boGEe3QN8h7qo0-dcJBoqq/s1600/DSCF5668-772733.JPG"><img 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ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>Swami Sheshadri<br><br></b></font></div></div></div></div></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-80270929526711367992017-01-21T01:06:00.001+05:302017-01-21T01:06:07.456+05:30The Lion Roars!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJCwoyfQU1kDlWUVBIvtAPd1n_vQebNlx9j9G85FyT1yiGSkyt3z9GoSKg325959_0QSw5HfFkPxH91IHIwWwFxVt61rIS7zKOxp2lN1XJc2F5s6GEqbuji9geeZ8nFkapJ87GiCubS-Lt/s1600/DSCF5528-767456.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJCwoyfQU1kDlWUVBIvtAPd1n_vQebNlx9j9G85FyT1yiGSkyt3z9GoSKg325959_0QSw5HfFkPxH91IHIwWwFxVt61rIS7zKOxp2lN1XJc2F5s6GEqbuji9geeZ8nFkapJ87GiCubS-Lt/s320/DSCF5528-767456.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6377772895224459074" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a 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style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOCe3sStcf36PGlWAcYn9qRHlIWlAa1lJ7yIqxCMtgUcuZ6n0wKVH4E-Iw5wC92bgcPo2hpXrly9_3bRBHLT9Hi735uBwZA-gMtW2_MySPri3EqlfbrVC6xfnV2w_OTo3RDebowMnQmCa/s1600/DSCF5531-773032.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIOCe3sStcf36PGlWAcYn9qRHlIWlAa1lJ7yIqxCMtgUcuZ6n0wKVH4E-Iw5wC92bgcPo2hpXrly9_3bRBHLT9Hi735uBwZA-gMtW2_MySPri3EqlfbrVC6xfnV2w_OTo3RDebowMnQmCa/s320/DSCF5531-773032.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6377772916909705346" /></a><br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">नूतनं शङ्करं मायाssशु-नाशकं, दीन-नारायणस्यार्चकं सेवया l</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">भारतोद्धारकं विरजं नरेन्द्रं, चिदानन्द-रूपं यतीन्द्रं नमामि ll</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">The roar that woke us up, the echoes of it that continue to prop our staggering selves, still emanate in the immortal words that instill hope and power for us Indians steeped in Tamas, and for humanity at large!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#666666">Such unshakable faith had he in the future of India, and in even the hapless Indian of then, and 'free' Indian of today, that none else but the vision of a Rsi could have beheld it!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Did anyone in the recent past love us so 'fiercely'? Had anyone concerned Himself so intensely about us? He did, for He was a condensed Bhaarata himself. He is the voice of India, nay the roar of India, that the world unmistakably heard! </font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#666666">Does our bosom swell in 'legitimate' pride when today the West 'celebrates' India and Indians; haven't we shared those golden moments when for the first time the world stood up to applaud our Prime Minister and now does it every often.... a sense of National Identity fills us and the Indian diaspora all over.</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Can we then not imagine the scene where the </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>lone Indian Lion</b></font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"> roared about a Century and a quarter ago? </font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">All alone, in an absolutely unfamiliar land... He thundered enough to be called a 'Cyclonic' Monk! That roar shook the 'civilized' part of the world like an earthquake, and subsequently our sleeping selves... like a Tsunami that follows!!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">The maker of Modern India, the embodiment of Ancient India, our beloved benefactor - </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#ff0000">Swamiji</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIXieqh7s-gyd6ZOfJ3ialen99EUkAM0oPCooNOl8_G7Zlz_OIIX51jvaZFu4wn5lQEz6bc5iOGM-e5ZrGuO1WheI_GxgvOzzKQ7xFVp48vkNvdHZKxrO4c_Mi3qRVYItF8N9rhAe-74C/s1600/DSCF5534-773880.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIXieqh7s-gyd6ZOfJ3ialen99EUkAM0oPCooNOl8_G7Zlz_OIIX51jvaZFu4wn5lQEz6bc5iOGM-e5ZrGuO1WheI_GxgvOzzKQ7xFVp48vkNvdHZKxrO4c_Mi3qRVYItF8N9rhAe-74C/s320/DSCF5534-773880.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6377772923720682450" /></a><br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Is it without reason that He was 'Ramakrishna-priya'? His very bones worked out His Guru's will!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Who but He could say this, "</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000">My life's allegiance is to this my motherland; and if I had a thousand lives, every moment of the whole series would be consecrated to your service, my countrymen, my friends.</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">"</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Bhaaratoddhaaraka indeed. How may my little self salute you, O Hero of Heroes! You have no parallel.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">The words of fire that emanated from your lips, "</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#cc0000">Strength is life, weakness is death</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">," infused in us the strength to throw off the oppressive foreign yoke, and hold our heads high.... they still do, and we need them more than ever before. </font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#666666">We are also able to see the plight of the Country today, that instead tread for over seven long decades in pursuing 'education for employability and money.'</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">May the Lord let Bharata see that the only panacea lies in what you have taught us..."</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Man-making, Character-building Education</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">";</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000">नान्यः पन्था विद्यते भारताय </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">! <i>There is no other way, <b>no other way</b></i>... for it is character energy that we have lost in our selfish material pursuits!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font 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dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">ll</font></span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"> ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय</span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"> कल्पतरवे </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">ll </font></span><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2WIF-hYSQdH0gg9YriT3G1DcgpInEudE9LzbIFB3bu4vzE72lHTigR0VfNQPZW0C0bb5oXpAPTXSw1trLm0KGFtnGzgMUxhYZJHXoyaMmH74_s9QxPTtibMj-6jBNDnJDEjAL17FgQ4K/s1600/DSCF5493-716342.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2WIF-hYSQdH0gg9YriT3G1DcgpInEudE9LzbIFB3bu4vzE72lHTigR0VfNQPZW0C0bb5oXpAPTXSw1trLm0KGFtnGzgMUxhYZJHXoyaMmH74_s9QxPTtibMj-6jBNDnJDEjAL17FgQ4K/s320/DSCF5493-716342.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6371064369550156642" /></a><br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">धर्म-हानि-हारकन्त्वधर्म-कर्म-<wbr>वारकम् ,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">लोक-धर्म-चारणञ्च सर्व-धर्म-कोविदम् l</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">त्यागि-गेहि-सेव्य-नित्य-पावना<wbr>ङ्घ्रि-पङ्कजम् ,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">तन्नमामि देव-देव-रामकृष्णमीश्वरम् ll</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear Bhaktas,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">If one were to seek from the Lord one's wish, which would have a guaranteed fulfilment, what would one choose? </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#666666">Actually, it is a boon we are talking about</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#666666">We would, of course, first want to be sure that it would be fulfilled, for it is too good a proposition, and thus, hard to be so sure of these days!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Which wish must take precedence over the others crowding up, would be difficult to say. I would have chosen something yesterday, which I would not do today, but would ask for something different now in the light of my present understanding! And I can scarcely predict what I would ask in future, may be, feeling also that I had asked for something not so worthwhile previously!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Does my mind clearly know what is the most prudent thing to ask? P</font></span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">erceptions</span><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"> seems to change , complicating matters! Can I seek help and guidance in asking, or is desire more personal and individual, than can be generalized?</font></span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Bhagavan Himself declares something interesting, in the Geeta : 'I am desire itself, but that which is unopposed to Dharma.'</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000">धर्माविरुद्धो भूतेषु कामोsस्मि भरतर्षभ </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">!'</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsYriWl58s_MM5Ye21GxpeJ7cWrJAhTrqUlmLBxAk_FggG-69n1GPXFRC4BFYLn9TBnLnLze7Us9CcdGF3yUMQteSxdD9COS2yBunK9vN6Yz4zQ_J-GFtJk7DxiiiT2ZXSVKvXCKIpbee0/s1600/DSCF5489-718183.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsYriWl58s_MM5Ye21GxpeJ7cWrJAhTrqUlmLBxAk_FggG-69n1GPXFRC4BFYLn9TBnLnLze7Us9CcdGF3yUMQteSxdD9COS2yBunK9vN6Yz4zQ_J-GFtJk7DxiiiT2ZXSVKvXCKIpbee0/s320/DSCF5489-718183.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6371064375238621698" /></a><br></font></span><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Sri Ramakrishna came to establish and uphold dharma, not allowing it to slide down..., teaching jivas to desist from actions that are not in consonance with dharma. He set a personal example to the 'Dharmis' in order that there is never a compromise. Like Rama is celebrated as '</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><font color="#990000">विग्रहवान् धर्मः </font><font color="#000000">' (</font></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">embodied </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">dharma itself), in this Kaliyuga Sri Ramakrishna was the same, </font><i><font color="#666666">against odds</font></i><font color="#000000"><i>!!</i> Such amazing dharmanishtha, "</font></span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">if I dance sixteen steps, you will at least dance one!</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">" he would say to all; Swamiji called him '</span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">सर्व-धर्म-स्वरूपिन्</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> ' in salutation.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">If such is the Kalpataru, what should we be asking Him for? Well, we have the famous incident from the life of Swamiji, wherein Sri Ramakrishna sends him to ask from Mother Kali whatever he desired, and the</span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"> </font></span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Kali</font><font color="#cc0000"> 'Kalpataru'</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> would fulfill the same without a shade of doubt. We know how impossible it turned out for Swamiji to beg for anything material and menial, and that he could only ask for </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Jnana</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">, </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Vairagya</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> and </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Shuddha Bhakti</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> - in the three attempts encountering the benevolent Divine Mother, even in dire penury. He set the standard, the ideal, of what should be sought from the Lord. </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">You can not be as foolish as to ask for a brinjal when you meet the King, was Thakurji's point!!</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">So then, from Kalpataru Thakurji, should we ask for</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Jnana-Bhakti-Vairagya</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">? </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">Today, for most of us, they are not more than unassimilated words, with unclear meaning, and even really not something which is our heartfelt-need. Do we actually want them? What do we do then, if we are not to ask what we really want and are not sure we honestly want what should be asked for? </font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Why not do something honest and sensible, by following what our most benevolent Rishis taught us... that most relevant of all possible prayers - the gift of Rishi Vishwamitra to humanity:</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">O Lord</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">, </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">धियो नः प्रचोदयात्</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> !</span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"> May you illumine our intellects</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">, so that we can think correctly. Endowed with right thinking, we may even know what to ask of you. You - who are all-knowledge, all-power and is all-pervading!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">हे कल्पतरो, श्री राम-कृष्ण भगवन् , नो धियः प्रचोदयताम् !!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiauf8g-CBVAKn9WkuPTpJKR7Y7HV904QFwGjfCJI0ei6LJ2yTU7e15j1zbrusM9dQX-5jyeMowafnd0F2RPEmKnP7gpW2tJNLWeNzB3pkVlg0JPykLdm-fDioWSPAQEXDgd3z1tI0t8j75/s1600/DSCF5496-719954.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiauf8g-CBVAKn9WkuPTpJKR7Y7HV904QFwGjfCJI0ei6LJ2yTU7e15j1zbrusM9dQX-5jyeMowafnd0F2RPEmKnP7gpW2tJNLWeNzB3pkVlg0JPykLdm-fDioWSPAQEXDgd3z1tI0t8j75/s320/DSCF5496-719954.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6371064383688498514" /></a><br>So sings the lone Kite perched on the Shikhara of Sri Thakurji's temple, on Kalpataru day.... yes the Kite we call </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">mind</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">!!<br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">--</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"> </font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>Swami Sheshadri<br></b></font></div></div></div></div></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-43138651506965367062016-12-21T01:09:00.001+05:302016-12-21T01:09:20.392+05:30llॐ श्री मात्रे नमः ll Jagatkaarani Maa<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggWHZKeM4B5m_7gn8soDETmYc0VzZE9ITTRomGH-XPQcGKVjSasfFrtnLvV-zGBW28OcBTEUTsm_AxH6gzTSr5qkRiAjJ7t85mXJK0yTOvNlXODN6Iiy4XZW_wNXVNb6D-DUqRtFoccnDI/s1600/DSCF5446-760393.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggWHZKeM4B5m_7gn8soDETmYc0VzZE9ITTRomGH-XPQcGKVjSasfFrtnLvV-zGBW28OcBTEUTsm_AxH6gzTSr5qkRiAjJ7t85mXJK0yTOvNlXODN6Iiy4XZW_wNXVNb6D-DUqRtFoccnDI/s320/DSCF5446-760393.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6366270084485480386" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a 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style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ॐ श्री मात्रे नमः </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">ll</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhavPUYaxSK-JzWxvk85fxviRrne88q3hBW8DVPksrPh6WUawzIwuAMRPuAkIvcC-LYW1DHWIkiR3mr4mhk8_EaqLyDTREhslGZ2FOgzBGPNyPuVqEQDpte7LQsZtKvYnXZ_Dqlzn-4i1ZT/s1600/DSCF5459-772090.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhavPUYaxSK-JzWxvk85fxviRrne88q3hBW8DVPksrPh6WUawzIwuAMRPuAkIvcC-LYW1DHWIkiR3mr4mhk8_EaqLyDTREhslGZ2FOgzBGPNyPuVqEQDpte7LQsZtKvYnXZ_Dqlzn-4i1ZT/s320/DSCF5459-772090.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6366270133581665826" /></a><br></span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">Dear Devotees,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">The face of Divinity and Innocence, Love and Simplicity, Purity and Compassion is but one - that of the Mother!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Where she is, there you are secure as a being, there you rest assured in peace, there you are enveloped in a causeless love... the </span><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">raison d'être</font><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> for life itself!</span></font></div><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">The Mother, whom we owe our existence to, of whom we are born even as whatever is born or manifest, is also Jaganmata, 'Jagatkarani'....</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">She is the cause of the Universe, She is the </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Upadana Karanam</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">, the very material and fabric of this Jagat, and is really what you see as the Jagat itself in perception - non-different from Her - Shakti! The Jagat does not exist independent of Her. She is the Mother, in way impossible of even complete comprehension !</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CqKTEC51y194uQiQYQu6mA94cGkExbDXREfAVMgJEachiMH3Iwm0RVB2hdaZIIIYOI74zu_PXecIuq6CZeWjyJhPhWSUKMbvXRw80sTfIHWpR2damu-BWXxIzxcgG4JnrCUKzI-UlEdP/s1600/DSCF5454-772922.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2CqKTEC51y194uQiQYQu6mA94cGkExbDXREfAVMgJEachiMH3Iwm0RVB2hdaZIIIYOI74zu_PXecIuq6CZeWjyJhPhWSUKMbvXRw80sTfIHWpR2damu-BWXxIzxcgG4JnrCUKzI-UlEdP/s320/DSCF5454-772922.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6366270135510301986" /></a><br>She smiles as the flowers, sways as the branches, stands erect as the Shrine's shikhara, and is the clarity of the sky! Inside and outside, Prakrti (nature), is Her - </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">all Matter is Her</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> - as a matter of fact!<br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhur8KzVaZZlSJlar4LHAba2KrOaEx1INn6rZkerFnYMayxKMLSPkcvsgFdttzu3LUEEte6X5fSJpFehUkDOloPmjtNw5VbZWejP1d0AwoqXn-L4w-OmTD9wT2CU3atOFn88jjBPeg67N/s1600/DSCF5451-773839.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhur8KzVaZZlSJlar4LHAba2KrOaEx1INn6rZkerFnYMayxKMLSPkcvsgFdttzu3LUEEte6X5fSJpFehUkDOloPmjtNw5VbZWejP1d0AwoqXn-L4w-OmTD9wT2CU3atOFn88jjBPeg67N/s320/DSCF5451-773839.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6366270141621112866" /></a><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">She is the Dharma making whatever essentially itself. It is remarkable, that the offspring itself is nothing but the Mother, existing in Her alone - it is not just 'any Mother' - She is The Mother!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWpWwJIYT0VRG-pOWSjYNAV40STlwP5fuNOIpIv5kfsQv9Y013ncww0Tk4EuWVY3RVnyCv0l2fmiTO32AwEgFtx0SSALHpciQZGomwR5R6Jn6BNHAOpfa1QmvD5prozCuMwihc0xw3MZz/s1600/DSCF5460-774616.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWpWwJIYT0VRG-pOWSjYNAV40STlwP5fuNOIpIv5kfsQv9Y013ncww0Tk4EuWVY3RVnyCv0l2fmiTO32AwEgFtx0SSALHpciQZGomwR5R6Jn6BNHAOpfa1QmvD5prozCuMwihc0xw3MZz/s320/DSCF5460-774616.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6366270139207245250" /></a><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Knowing Mother as what we are made of, does make a great deal of difference, the Mother abides in us as the cause, never away from us. And what a glory unfolds when that Shakti incarnates as condensed compassion - Sri Sri Ma - compassion without cause or limit!!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEgPg6QqNM5sMZAvv7Uy6fwVCusapXedwgPr8UjpocRbm3UCxrw6RWN0D9w5G0vUtNz0ZNoGHzv7syFJ7ZHVm8vkH0nbYp9nAoXTKfJRx2G9086_zodwTGV4sMVEZeEN3ZUNjrDo3EuVKO/s1600/DSCF5464-775310.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEgPg6QqNM5sMZAvv7Uy6fwVCusapXedwgPr8UjpocRbm3UCxrw6RWN0D9w5G0vUtNz0ZNoGHzv7syFJ7ZHVm8vkH0nbYp9nAoXTKfJRx2G9086_zodwTGV4sMVEZeEN3ZUNjrDo3EuVKO/s320/DSCF5464-775310.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6366270144831897570" /></a><br>As Guru Maharaj, She teaches Jivas, how to relate to Her. An abiding relationship, where the child can demand nourishment through knowledge.<br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">May this Jayanti day be an Ode to Her, our dearest Maa...</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTNeCeI9kWvqZEXRQJ_nzF43aEtpsJ1stMlFbnq__fqPrCedFD_lpEvMj0914vAYLiOcW_Mk80nfgs_vh_4075pMQ3tXp51AJLmxgIQ1Aa8pbD2x298V2BYfw7IBKZFx2eBto7fCTNzcWH/s1600/DSCF5457-776070.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTNeCeI9kWvqZEXRQJ_nzF43aEtpsJ1stMlFbnq__fqPrCedFD_lpEvMj0914vAYLiOcW_Mk80nfgs_vh_4075pMQ3tXp51AJLmxgIQ1Aa8pbD2x298V2BYfw7IBKZFx2eBto7fCTNzcWH/s320/DSCF5457-776070.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6366270151186302706" /></a><br><br></span></div><div></div><div><font size="4"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbjGepcswouIVBo6MlwBghhD88fanhsS3AiyxPfngfKkM1Ni4ImdDnnh0ThDIhRhxuIfcYYm6L6MQ9FWLU-aQLawTTogjzL0jqlBiLn5n7iX9LuxDnLt0_qJ-4mdELkos4MW9FugYjbwhw/s1600/IMG-20161029-WA0026-728969.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbjGepcswouIVBo6MlwBghhD88fanhsS3AiyxPfngfKkM1Ni4ImdDnnh0ThDIhRhxuIfcYYm6L6MQ9FWLU-aQLawTTogjzL0jqlBiLn5n7iX9LuxDnLt0_qJ-4mdELkos4MW9FugYjbwhw/s320/IMG-20161029-WA0026-728969.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6347374668717018898" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="m_3948834827648635084gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll नमो कालिकायै ll</span><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">Dear Bhaktas,</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">Son and the Mother; </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666">Mother and Son</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000">; Mother is Son; Son is Mother!</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><b>Shyama</b></font><font color="#666666">, the Mother and </font><font color="#000000"><b>Shyama-lal</b></font><font color="#666666">, the son. The Dark one, is sung of in songs that send one to raptures, for they were sung to their beloved Mother by Her beloved sons...</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidgBgbXCgmAp7J6I4KfZ-0AtWF34bveVYMErYm0b1OpN3Q69AXWklW17Xk13DZNcqI9BNv1xjSJ2iW8H7xsGLKPTs4bdYMsNcu7UnXbQalvG8w5JopCwylr9WQpfAnySgoeM75sVY1GU5t/s1600/DSCF5358-729664.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidgBgbXCgmAp7J6I4KfZ-0AtWF34bveVYMErYm0b1OpN3Q69AXWklW17Xk13DZNcqI9BNv1xjSJ2iW8H7xsGLKPTs4bdYMsNcu7UnXbQalvG8w5JopCwylr9WQpfAnySgoeM75sVY1GU5t/s320/DSCF5358-729664.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6347374672361214130" /></a><br><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">निबिडो आन्धरे मा तोरो चमोके ओ रूपो राशी ..</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">ताहि जोगी ध्यैन धोरे होये गिरि-गुहा-बाशी ...</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"> Yet, </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">when Ramprosad sang this, he was 'lost' in the Mother. Deeper one's devotion gets, lesser one's identity expresses apart, and, greater is one's identity with the whole, that is the Lord! Ramprosad, Kamalakanto, Daasharathi....all merge into that one limitless Kali, enraptured....</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheunTI4OmT88_JwBKYl8l6wyWfrX4LmEbvPFN4TJetzmvR3C3-lKO_FuQwhfIh-8p-HIWMRRqJ9vQXIf5jyTji4DRvRpLav91Zg1romjeOLTZ49mUvdkyuTG_o555amIGtB60MixUt-hCm/s1600/DSCF5339-730334.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheunTI4OmT88_JwBKYl8l6wyWfrX4LmEbvPFN4TJetzmvR3C3-lKO_FuQwhfIh-8p-HIWMRRqJ9vQXIf5jyTji4DRvRpLav91Zg1romjeOLTZ49mUvdkyuTG_o555amIGtB60MixUt-hCm/s320/DSCF5339-730334.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6347374672853705346" /></a><br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">In Sri Ramakrishna, where Ramprasad, Kamalakanto, Dasharathi, Sri Chaitanya all expressed and merged, one sees it all vividly, as if He were a screen set up by the Mother Herself... to reveal Herself!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2TgiOrzlkBtbXQpV8ap1_PC7fDEmh19yc3ozlPBu6lH9zDLqnWONSpx_f4hNAofuEsjxh4sbbIsCVIHbtOnsiAxrV7bwykGfGsnGL40K_XPdsVPZ5IAW3Artqz3Kj8cGVI1UP1H0K8D2/s1600/DSCF5356-731249.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT2TgiOrzlkBtbXQpV8ap1_PC7fDEmh19yc3ozlPBu6lH9zDLqnWONSpx_f4hNAofuEsjxh4sbbIsCVIHbtOnsiAxrV7bwykGfGsnGL40K_XPdsVPZ5IAW3Artqz3Kj8cGVI1UP1H0K8D2/s320/DSCF5356-731249.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6347374678000372050" /></a><br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">In a devotional mood, one can indeed worship one's Ishta, even perform a Pooja in detail, with all the Upacharas, with, of course the awareness that one is worshiping the Divine Mother, even to one's heart's content, and feel the joy, the Ananda. Son and Mother, Mother and Son.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">What if the Mother becomes the Son and Son the Mother, in enraptured identity? Can we say who fed whom in that finale of worship? We have heard that, and a mesmerised Mathur Babu knew immediately that the question is difficult to answer, if it was his Baba (Sri Ramakrishna) who sat on the worshipper's seat when it began. Did Kali come to be Him, the Son, or did He become Bavatarini, the Mother? Who ate? The one who eats up all Brahmandas, having given birth to them?</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">When Kali Pooja was done, Sri Ramakrishna watched it from His lotus seat...</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7VUs5iFAdnKmVx1VR4ihEXCyAudGdY55-zNGYY4i3ByBCTjlw16JOIRAJq5PFbRp3FxDoUg0AJhUq1IvsvtKwqe5vPKlEt6dLQRVe0NBGU1rMUV_mhEpDRUdHBglDmnZVORtjBXhv2mG/s1600/DSCF5349-731930.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7VUs5iFAdnKmVx1VR4ihEXCyAudGdY55-zNGYY4i3ByBCTjlw16JOIRAJq5PFbRp3FxDoUg0AJhUq1IvsvtKwqe5vPKlEt6dLQRVe0NBGU1rMUV_mhEpDRUdHBglDmnZVORtjBXhv2mG/s320/DSCF5349-731930.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6347374679422594642" /></a><br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Or was it Kali who watched Her beloved son for hours, amidst the ongoing Pooja....and enrapturing Kali Keertan?</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTVG1-e-PnbHO6cNtAzdn8nkqsDO2mfy25DgZHj51mTN3tO8iFUNf2U1H-_7t-RoTO2RI45_BptmXKFjpM15wa0FZ3yyZxE2U5WiKDvoUSaLUqKieQJJvhMjXWuAWYvwnlNkmjQRALP07/s1600/DSCF5340-732553.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTVG1-e-PnbHO6cNtAzdn8nkqsDO2mfy25DgZHj51mTN3tO8iFUNf2U1H-_7t-RoTO2RI45_BptmXKFjpM15wa0FZ3yyZxE2U5WiKDvoUSaLUqKieQJJvhMjXWuAWYvwnlNkmjQRALP07/s320/DSCF5340-732553.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6347374682680231586" /></a><br>We watched as they watched each other... this Amavasya night on this 'Jnana-deepawali'....<br></span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">One is</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">now</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">a</font></span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">mused to note that He had a son by name</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> <b>Abhedananda</b>, </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">who was also called</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> <b>Kali</b>, </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">and who also sang aloud...</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">प्रकृतिं परमां अभयां वरदाम्</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"> ..... </span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">to tell us the secret</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">??</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Say </font><font color="#cc0000">Ma</font><font color="#0000ff">, who are you, and why do you sport a beard sometimes?</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">--</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"> </font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>Swami Sheshadri</b></font></div></div></div></div></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-38368579621153006962016-07-21T01:30:00.001+05:302016-07-21T01:30:03.006+05:30Guru Poornima : Salutations to Sri Guru Maharaj!<p 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMGyfwccE4IAtIaTS6s7KemDbvSdMqW2Z7nnztMwhXnHAODV6OYFoXC51vtdHp80c8R4yk1bMqMS4NUtWdvyRoMljGgh20lZYaJcFx0czUtrYlwC0JVP29SSJKa200udG_eCMnofGzt5wS/s1600/011+-715898.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMGyfwccE4IAtIaTS6s7KemDbvSdMqW2Z7nnztMwhXnHAODV6OYFoXC51vtdHp80c8R4yk1bMqMS4NUtWdvyRoMljGgh20lZYaJcFx0czUtrYlwC0JVP29SSJKa200udG_eCMnofGzt5wS/s320/011+-715898.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6309499442174208770" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">गुरु-मूर्त्तये</font><font color="#990000"> </font></span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"> ll</span><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear Mumukshus,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">He is called variously - Sri Ramakrishna, Thakurji, Paramahamsa, Ramakrishnadeva, Avataravarishtha, Sarvadevadeviswaroopa, Ishtadeva and so on....each Bhakta at his/her own terms! </font></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">He listens to all calls, whatever be the reason far calling upon be! "</font><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000">चतुर्विधा भजन्ते माम् </font><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">" says Bhagavan Sri Krshna in the Geeta. </font><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">When called upon, He comes to the aid of the one in distress ( </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#990000">आर्तः</font><font color="#000000">), grants material welfare to those who perceive its lack (</font><font color="#990000">अर्थार्थी</font><font color="#000000"> ), and much more!</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSaAL_DvRDwv99fDn_StzgFNJFSSDKdcERj412kkNpgmilnXqMIpa0qtQ11JPezwZwhfIlQ_PxMdBFOFzlCD21FtnRnasDwNMdXEF34QLZwitfLW9eQMwTVAafHVzFkUzFQO7-vjCbponE/s1600/Guru+Maharaj+-716897.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSaAL_DvRDwv99fDn_StzgFNJFSSDKdcERj412kkNpgmilnXqMIpa0qtQ11JPezwZwhfIlQ_PxMdBFOFzlCD21FtnRnasDwNMdXEF34QLZwitfLW9eQMwTVAafHVzFkUzFQO7-vjCbponE/s320/Guru+Maharaj+-716897.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6309499448170750962" /></a><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#666666">We wonder which of His names is more sweet than the other! What would He Himself like to hear, if there were entertained, such a choice and thought?</font><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#666666"><br></font></font></div><div></div><div></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">Tulasidasji adored Sri Rama and we have his 'Manas', the sweet and deep gift. He also prayed to Sri Hanuman, Rama's inseparable servant. In his 'Hanuman Chaleesa' he prays for the grace of Rama-dasa Sri Hanuman thus, "</font><font color="#990000">कृपा करहुं</font><font color="#000000"> " but in his infinite wisdom, adds just how that grace be bestowed, "</font><font color="#0000ff">गुरुदेव कि नाईं</font><font color="#990000"> </font><font color="#000000">" even as my Guru!!". He is so clear - bless me as my Guru, so that I may behold the Lord, the truth of myself, as you yourself do, and for which you are hailed as '</font><font color="#990000">ज्ञानिनां अग्रगण्यम्</font><font color="#000000">' (the best among Jnanis). </font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">He has sung of Hanuman in the Sundara Kanda '</font><font color="#990000">जिमि अमोघ रघुपति कर बाना , एंहि भांति चलेउ हनुमाना </font><font color="#000000">' - Hanuman proceeded to find Sitadevi, even as the </font><font color="#0000ff">unfailing arrow shot from the hands of Sri Rama</font><font color="#000000"> himself. Complete surrender unto Bhagavan Sri Rama and dissolution of his individual ego into Rama is implied. Rama alone guides his intellect, the aim is Rama's sankalpa, the force and direction of the arrow is all Rama's - Rama fills him -</font><font color="#0000ff"> he knows Rama as his truth</font><font color="#000000">!</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">If one has a Spiritual Teacher, one </font><b><font color="#0000ff">will</font></b><font color="#000000"> know, says the Shruti, " </font><font color="#990000">आचार्यवान् पुरुषो वेद</font><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#000000">". Tulasi knew this so well!</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">Above all, hence, Sri Swami Vivekananda and the Parshadas all hailed Him as "</font><font color="#990000">Sri Guru Maharaj</font><font color="#000000">". Wasn't His entire life, a guide to seekers? His entire utterances 'Ishvara prapti upaaya'? 'Yoga Sahaaya' , is hence, another great name Swamiji used for Him in the Aratrikam.</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">Here is a prescription, a life of </font><font color="#cc0000">no compromises</font><font color="#000000">, if one is a Mumukshu. A staunch advocate of Teevra Mumukshuttva, we have seen '</font><font color="#990000">अतिनिन्दित इन्द्रिय राग</font><font color="#000000">', '</font><font color="#990000">त्यागीश्वरत्त्व</font><font color="#000000"> ', the repeated refrain of '</font><font color="#990000">काम-काञ्चन त्याग</font><font color="#000000">' etc., in short, His only concern was to make one an '</font><font color="#990000">उत्तम अधिकारी</font><font color="#000000"> ' for Brahma Vidya.</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">Above all roles we see Him in, it is His role as an unfailing Guide to Ishvara that He Himself loved most!</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666">Let us then, on this Guru Poornima celebrate Him as the Guide - Guru, the Lord Himself, descended upon earth, out of extreme compassion, as Guru!!</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">For, isn't the greatest compassion needed for </font><font color="#0000ff">solving the fundamental cause of all problems</font><font color="#000000"> and freeing a Jeeva - Moksha, rather than solving every other problem and keeping one in Samsara for more?</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiga7qyrVVTMJZ78EKE65Q_GyDD1L8tIW_Z5wuLQT4K6H-c8YjQdVVCYYjMb-phFCjRpwJ-SfbCzRWwVRcXZLgzHeiFYFFMt7p8rNasBSEU3OzSaOYXPeqR9UZgH8t9KQ9Hkw53Gz1fcBtK/s1600/001+-718117.JPG"><img 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difficult times! Looking around, we see the human orientation, the major direction of thrust of human endeavours (Purushartha).. reflected in the media, echoed in the youth and old alike, global in spread, guiding today's society in its notions and perverted 'value' system - even as Swamiji had averred over a Century ago - money(wealth) and lust (Kama) enthroned as the 'King' and 'Queen' - ruling the minds of humans!</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666">So deeply entrenched are they getting by each passing day, that it almost appears a sin to question them. This then, is not only 'legitimate', but looks like the norm, and all else is considered aberrant.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">It is long forgotten that money is a <i>means</i> and not an <i>end</i>. Akin to mistaking the night for the day, this overlooking the obvious, this Aviveka, seems ubiquitous! The same goes for Kama. There is a never-before-seen frenzy ... there is neither time to question, nor even to pause! This is Kaliyuga, in its first quarter!</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666">In this age characterised by superficial thinking, the faculty of choice is more clouded than ever. The fallout of such a pursuit is surely rampant physical maladies and a weak mind full of anxieties, apprehensions, unrest, frustration, depression, restlessness, fear and pervading negativity. Even more insecurity, even more displeasure. Samsara is</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#000000"> दुः ख</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666">, pain!</font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">The need for help is more than ever. How do I handle this mind, amidst a barrage of sensory experiences, how do I secure and validate myself, how do I discover peace and fulfilment?</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">Am I not looking for an unwavering Pole-star in my vain and indisciplined life, one that is most compassionate?</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">"</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीन-बन्धो</font><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"> !" calls out Swamiji, presenting Sri Thakurji as the unfailing beacon - the 'Yoga-sahaaya'! There is hope, and a bright one - even in these times.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzNiQvr3ZgFUj5mnD_zM92QxDoEblKUQlennejzMPNd9mxYlq7uUwKbPUg27SH_NEyRwIZmEhXXhgF0tZfc1xoxMYOgkXNCrVEv6HIdGy9ZsmPDrrUL18qU495jv0x7DddjP6t1WPj_8xT/s1600/DSCF4309+-+Copy-745521.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzNiQvr3ZgFUj5mnD_zM92QxDoEblKUQlennejzMPNd9mxYlq7uUwKbPUg27SH_NEyRwIZmEhXXhgF0tZfc1xoxMYOgkXNCrVEv6HIdGy9ZsmPDrrUL18qU495jv0x7DddjP6t1WPj_8xT/s320/DSCF4309+-+Copy-745521.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6260534798757627986" /></a><br><br></font></div><div></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">Even staying in the thick of the world, He gently leads you to the goal of your life, not allowing the fledgeling desire for freedom to wane, not letting one go off track, and helping one stay focussed on the goal of life - even as the Bhramaras we see here below hover around floral ambrossia alone!!</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGgvNgTVPOd_hrOJu08GYkptd3uhctqvqo0J7NBZ7qERezRY3jUjd9KYuhyhja7Qp6B_RoDszaqWfEOuv5swNfJ1X9u6LIIwxCrMoiGt6ItcGQp_mz1BjxpIhnmYlNziwCVXvFxm3zRaK/s1600/DSCF4316-748631.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsGgvNgTVPOd_hrOJu08GYkptd3uhctqvqo0J7NBZ7qERezRY3jUjd9KYuhyhja7Qp6B_RoDszaqWfEOuv5swNfJ1X9u6LIIwxCrMoiGt6ItcGQp_mz1BjxpIhnmYlNziwCVXvFxm3zRaK/s320/DSCF4316-748631.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6260534811216965602" /></a><br><br></font></div><div></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#666666">Generations of Mumukshus have found in you the sure, gentle and uncompromising guide and benefactor. Countless seek your refuge too, scorched by the harsh trials of the Samsara:</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">यस्मादहन्त्वशरणो जगदेकगम्य !</font></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">तस्मात्त्वमेव शरणं मम दीन-बन्धो !</font></span><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5WPnddwb5QeR5eTOnIrqKYuQI-3fL9X21jvXmg_yyQCEppx4noYPPl-clDVyQW3i5dSYrQMhTrge5hKyaypzwBcZwWfi8YJSCDvv58cOBr9UlDr4DTyeFl442_qTD5ZK7wKNNsn-Fmmt5/s1600/DSCF4310-751341.JPG"><img 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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-47133270042949672272016-01-02T01:23:00.001+05:302016-01-02T01:23:32.729+05:30Kalpataru Maa!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuncla-khD3U0UtFDTFQMhZ3CGHoVsGEmBw97cauU3jNWXlSBkjrzsM76iyztiM7N6iPROAM46Mfuxb6yX00SBOtZzpZWKJTSxrMLxXLeKndg2AxxGRgcHYvUmzrodavtcf96TrYiLIS4B/s1600/DSCF4143-712730.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuncla-khD3U0UtFDTFQMhZ3CGHoVsGEmBw97cauU3jNWXlSBkjrzsM76iyztiM7N6iPROAM46Mfuxb6yX00SBOtZzpZWKJTSxrMLxXLeKndg2AxxGRgcHYvUmzrodavtcf96TrYiLIS4B/s320/DSCF4143-712730.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6234909591071148210" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckRe7PjxY25620KIdjNnMx6LicmkqBqz-v1BgwWnNTKYoEzdfrCgYEOkJ_XjCgcFlAV2i3Oftfg6OulEP43MTCYqkcHHkBivrLBFuPDJ4e0kSW8vDsDqLLpaRGjO_9GU3ZeHvrAXtbYaP/s1600/DSCF4157-728843.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckRe7PjxY25620KIdjNnMx6LicmkqBqz-v1BgwWnNTKYoEzdfrCgYEOkJ_XjCgcFlAV2i3Oftfg6OulEP43MTCYqkcHHkBivrLBFuPDJ4e0kSW8vDsDqLLpaRGjO_9GU3ZeHvrAXtbYaP/s320/DSCF4157-728843.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6234909661171990610" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">ll</font></span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"> ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय कल्पतरवे </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">ll </font></span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">ll</font></span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large">ॐ श्री मात्रे नमः </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">ll</font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitNbdX_28f8Uza2pPbA13pc7bcxq_UT-fLx12l4vRlaaTB0lI5tic9geb_qrLjfrDIuEKXHfJV_AldXsNQC-lzuX3hgiaUhmeV7HY-HeOlrv68X9CSRDUhmzzPj3cFeNNSPmlWvGVC2tRt/s1600/DSCF4151-730882.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitNbdX_28f8Uza2pPbA13pc7bcxq_UT-fLx12l4vRlaaTB0lI5tic9geb_qrLjfrDIuEKXHfJV_AldXsNQC-lzuX3hgiaUhmeV7HY-HeOlrv68X9CSRDUhmzzPj3cFeNNSPmlWvGVC2tRt/s320/DSCF4151-730882.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6234909669222811410" /></a><br><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear Devotees,</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">What a coincidence! Or is it? </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000">Kalpataru diwas is Sri Sri Maa's Jayanti this time. </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">The <b>Kalpa-vrksha</b> stands at the North-east corner of the temple, looking at the Real Kalpataru presiding inside... It has one queer feature - </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#666666"><i>the trunk is bifurcated right from the bottom.</i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjKF3fCMmtLB8ZbsY1aPjlSWOO3zAGfiU5KwbNtM-cFX323VhiIK4GKYG-G3RPuMU9C3OUN3bfi-S0Tl_753cvZeZJ7iIBuIGXZ4heT99gk7dtArPYQjh167esfGZ6k3JKJvCxKkMV79A/s1600/DSCF4153-732693.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjKF3fCMmtLB8ZbsY1aPjlSWOO3zAGfiU5KwbNtM-cFX323VhiIK4GKYG-G3RPuMU9C3OUN3bfi-S0Tl_753cvZeZJ7iIBuIGXZ4heT99gk7dtArPYQjh167esfGZ6k3JKJvCxKkMV79A/s320/DSCF4153-732693.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6234909677080947010" /></a><br>Kalpataru is the legendary 'wish-fulfilling tree' that abides in Indra's precincts. One could ask for the desired object, standing beneath it...of course, all that is finite, surely.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"> We are reminded of what Maitreyi, in her wisdom, asked on behalf of all of us, "</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000">किमहं तेन वित्तेन कुर्यां येनाहं अमृता न स्यां ?</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000">" (What am I to do with all the objects if they would not make me immortal..)<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#666666"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">That brings up the natural question - would Ishvara, invoked as Kalpataru, be as apologetic as that?</span><span style="font-size:large"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Narayana Bhattathiri</font><font color="#666666"> in his famous </font><font color="#0000ff">Naraayaneeyam</font><font color="#666666"> addresses this in a glowing verse thus</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"> -</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><font color="#990000"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">नम्राणां सन्निधत्ते सततमपि पुरस्तैरनभ्यर्थितान</span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">प्यर्थान् कामानजस्रं वितरति परमानन्द-सान्द्रां गतिम् च l</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">इत्थं निश्शेष-लभ्यो निरवधिकफलः पारिजातो हरे त्वं </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">क्षुद्रं तं शक्रवाटी-द्रुममभिलषति व्यर्थमर्थिव्रजोsयम् ll </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">"</span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666">Indeed it only befits vain mendicants to be begging from and of that insignificant tree that grows in Indra's garden, </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">when O Lord Hari, you are there to shower what is desired, even though unprayed for, and transcending all that, the fruit called limitlessness - Moksha - upon devotees that have surrendered unto you!"</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBt9ioxrEHJctfgLrFO_g7JFy6Ch73673fTbz2Av5bSrLLIaK5y_AlZNrA4aHPMfp8rdW6jABb-0SDXZ-vVa0gN5VO8SbyCoEMVK5ZsZnl4lhnzLzoFMIfQeBTEXR7tY8H3hIclSy7voHy/s1600/DSCF4149-734531.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBt9ioxrEHJctfgLrFO_g7JFy6Ch73673fTbz2Av5bSrLLIaK5y_AlZNrA4aHPMfp8rdW6jABb-0SDXZ-vVa0gN5VO8SbyCoEMVK5ZsZnl4lhnzLzoFMIfQeBTEXR7tY8H3hIclSy7voHy/s320/DSCF4149-734531.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6234909683130949282" /></a><br><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Ishvara is not an 'ordinary Parijata' who would want to grant you what would keep you bound in the finite Samsara. It could be said without a shade of doubt about Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna a least. Not for nothing was He so choosy about the right devotee - one who would not ask for things that bring bondage, one who wanted Ishvara Himself, Moksha alone!!</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Yet, it takes a day like today, where one sees a </span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Kalpataru day superimposed on Sri Maa's Jayanthi </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">to understand why that </span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">Kalpataru Ishvara has indeed got to be patently Motherly - for this kind of compassion, born of sheer vatsallya!</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf4dOLCqB7Vi_nVNMlUKJc08nGRIc5u5t_PsNDDozZTQ3le54c4G5fcv9mi-pWt-QXy6JCa1Hhg_GU46OJQUdHjsHsghEbmWfRYHYLSoz2eFBTTe2v83hr63e7FzU0bijr1f_pQbkB-1hy/s1600/DSCF4145-736754.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf4dOLCqB7Vi_nVNMlUKJc08nGRIc5u5t_PsNDDozZTQ3le54c4G5fcv9mi-pWt-QXy6JCa1Hhg_GU46OJQUdHjsHsghEbmWfRYHYLSoz2eFBTTe2v83hr63e7FzU0bijr1f_pQbkB-1hy/s320/DSCF4145-736754.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6234909694631754434" /></a><br>Isn't it then rightly said of Her -<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">भोगाद्दुष्कर्म-कोट्या कृत-मलिनं दुर्लभम् मर्त्यजन्मं </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">माया-मोहाग्नि-पङ्के गहनतमे अन्धकारे निमग्नम् l</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">मोक्षं वक्ष्ये किमपरं प्रदिशसि भक्तमुन्नीय स्वाङ्के </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">आर्त्र-त्राण-परायणे ! जननि हे ! मां पाहि श्री सारदे ll</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">"Even upon that lowly devotee as has sullied this rare-to-attain human birth with millions of misdeeds and sense-enjoyments, and who is deeply immersed in abyssmal darkness, in the quicksand of delusive ignorance that scorches - </span><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">She generously bestows Moksha, having lifted up his dirty self right on to Her own lap!!</span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">What more do I have to say in extolling the glories of my Mother! O Ma Sarada, the ever-eager Savior of those in distress and suffering, please save me!"</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#ff0000">Indeed it takes Motherhood for manifestation of Ishvara's '</font><font color="#000000">Kalpavrkshattvam</font><font color="#ff0000">'!!</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#ff0000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Well, did not Bhagavan say to Arjuna, "I am the Father of this Jagat, and the Mother as well..." (</span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">पिताहमस्य जगतः </font><font color="#cc0000"><b>माता</b></font><font color="#990000"> धाता पितामहः...</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">) </span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666"><i>Is it to indicate this truth that the Kalpa tree near the temple has a bifurcated trunk?</i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#666666"><i><br></i></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Maa! You chose this coincidence, You alone must choose to put us on your lap, we are ignorant as children, O Dayaamayi!!</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hAxvURyhTMBZORwtvEqhlflchnkAmrVTUJZLHYBjB0fOCaZzyzE_hZ4ze4MDQx_YTN0uvb2qi5j0DHJHXi0WIhVhcgHn-oGi4SiVdR2W8RJhwX_f9aZrILQFuk77Am-V5RSz38ufx2ju/s1600/DSCF4152-738943.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hAxvURyhTMBZORwtvEqhlflchnkAmrVTUJZLHYBjB0fOCaZzyzE_hZ4ze4MDQx_YTN0uvb2qi5j0DHJHXi0WIhVhcgHn-oGi4SiVdR2W8RJhwX_f9aZrILQFuk77Am-V5RSz38ufx2ju/s320/DSCF4152-738943.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6234909702210195954" /></a><br><br></span></div><div></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">--</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"> </font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>Swami Sheshadri</b></font></div></div></div></div></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-70606021207449042492015-08-01T13:32:00.001+05:302015-08-01T13:32:26.717+05:30Guru Poornima : Aaraatrikam<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZd4OSJU_K-6WCL5XzeZ2BwkfrC0fJdqnkUq_ljnUxp2zNBiE8fow89ZmS9P0qSrKeJU2ma8iqWLhoeMSOmkhe6-CEeRi7LPLwMXr4r-p-YovIBr2b7r5QMh-KGrDyJBl45Hhwb4MW1dVj/s1600/001+Alankara+on+Guru-poornima+-746718.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZd4OSJU_K-6WCL5XzeZ2BwkfrC0fJdqnkUq_ljnUxp2zNBiE8fow89ZmS9P0qSrKeJU2ma8iqWLhoeMSOmkhe6-CEeRi7LPLwMXr4r-p-YovIBr2b7r5QMh-KGrDyJBl45Hhwb4MW1dVj/s320/001+Alankara+on+Guru-poornima+-746718.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6177950310972497522" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a 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ll</font><div><font color="#cc0000" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Dear Devotees,</font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">"</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000">अनन्याश्चिन्तयन्तो मां</font><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"> " said Bhagavan Sri Krshna, "</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">यॊग-क्षेमं वहाम्यहम्</font><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"> ", declaring security of total care for those devoted single-pointedly.</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">Over five thousand years later He manifests as Sri Ramakrishna to grant another standing abhaya in Kaliyuga, and on easier terms than can be imagined!</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">The standing guarantee that He will help every seeker on the path towards Ishvara.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">It may have taken the wisdom of Tulasidasa to invoke Hanuman as Guru, "</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#cc0000">कृपा करहुं गुरुदेव की नाईं</font><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"> ".</font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">But here, now, every seeker knows that at any stage, Sri Thakurji offers unconditional help, prompting Swamiji to call Him out unequivocally as - " </font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#cc0000">योग-सहाय </font><font color="#000000">".</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">How deeply true it is! Thousands can testify to it! The unfailing friend in one's spiritual journey - Sri Thakurji.</font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQPoljpkTKBT8cUySjQXBxLAfFToUecV6NVM_3_SkY9TkQUXO2yZafAugox1iSPhTPTz48bbkYb3rIqZyNvsH2Ct1Vno2FiKX2s0N92RDA7P4kk5sZ-YENm4PH5p5mHbIdKoK1Go8js9k/s1600/Resplendent+Sri+Guru+Maharaj-792591.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirQPoljpkTKBT8cUySjQXBxLAfFToUecV6NVM_3_SkY9TkQUXO2yZafAugox1iSPhTPTz48bbkYb3rIqZyNvsH2Ct1Vno2FiKX2s0N92RDA7P4kk5sZ-YENm4PH5p5mHbIdKoK1Go8js9k/s320/Resplendent+Sri+Guru+Maharaj-792591.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6177950504086527890" /></a><br><br></font></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#000000">This Guru-poornima, may we recognise Him as such and call out ourselves "</font><font color="#0000ff">हे योग-सहाय !</font><font color="#000000"> </font></font><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">कृपा करहुं गुरुदेव की नाईं </span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">"... Well, isn't that the reason why all choose to call Him Sri Sri Guru Maharaj?</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">Leading a purely Ishvara-centered life, He guides every Jiva to the true goal of human life - Ishvara.</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">May He help us with dispassion, true devotion and Self-knowledge</font><font color="#000000">, </font><i><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">which alone</b><font color="#000000"> </font><font color="#0000ff">He likes doing </font></i></span><i><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">any way</span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">!</span></font></i></div><div><font size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font color="#000000">Guru-poornima Evening Aaraatrikam images are attached ...<br clear="all"></font></font><div><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">--</font><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"> </font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#990000"><b>Swami Sheshadri</b></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Jaipur</font></div></div></div></div> </div></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-79056764827097299842015-01-01T23:34:00.001+05:302015-01-01T23:34:05.280+05:30Kalpatarum Vande!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuDktro0N1klf750b9A5MsP-OG38pGvExAlIDuKhqYiaOiDWKFxJZm9DvCULxX6AuyTA4re6I0vDs1Tk6pPPVzqsQVzIVutY4hwdtXALmIJ0Qy2jXoHj7x9IU7-1uyN_k8zr8aaeT8KyR/s1600/001-745280.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQuDktro0N1klf750b9A5MsP-OG38pGvExAlIDuKhqYiaOiDWKFxJZm9DvCULxX6AuyTA4re6I0vDs1Tk6pPPVzqsQVzIVutY4hwdtXALmIJ0Qy2jXoHj7x9IU7-1uyN_k8zr8aaeT8KyR/s320/001-745280.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6099435293631249490" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGmjGO28R0Uxe3LtGaFXJqmoV_50csXnL3vYefnnT2W6co7L9tvhAHAhIjuaqYhrQViTx-yMP7iFYOio5syovrAGlb8uLV7gn_5UVLLloP1QXn_3d53Zk7FAMyu6S__jtgzobL1d_NGBkS/s1600/002+Sri+Maa+-747589.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGmjGO28R0Uxe3LtGaFXJqmoV_50csXnL3vYefnnT2W6co7L9tvhAHAhIjuaqYhrQViTx-yMP7iFYOio5syovrAGlb8uLV7gn_5UVLLloP1QXn_3d53Zk7FAMyu6S__jtgzobL1d_NGBkS/s320/002+Sri+Maa+-747589.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6099435304719363570" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtejkXKZ_AO7LzR0efLPtlakE1QuccvNchgFaLBu7TuSPJefSTUbG58uyHwk8swnBHLEfm1JeuZdOUJTlSgMoW8lKWyHUwRcfN5fX5CHVRWv75kKPGNwVrEkTjTpk9AMWwRDofYfyAUE09/s1600/003+Sri+Swamiji+-750207.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtejkXKZ_AO7LzR0efLPtlakE1QuccvNchgFaLBu7TuSPJefSTUbG58uyHwk8swnBHLEfm1JeuZdOUJTlSgMoW8lKWyHUwRcfN5fX5CHVRWv75kKPGNwVrEkTjTpk9AMWwRDofYfyAUE09/s320/003+Sri+Swamiji+-750207.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6099435314046792802" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSt5JDU0XFx3RNBnU9KPgdA76njIILQ3l6ssj_93MJzIDSeA_0dDfVsc0ijIWggz4A-THO0M8FUteNmpkOG7i6WsCn0zY-YsLGItfgZAyZ7MJqcKkFWrJrj20pTyxSckEe2Gv9nl2-Apxn/s1600/004+Ramam+Bhaje..-752274.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSt5JDU0XFx3RNBnU9KPgdA76njIILQ3l6ssj_93MJzIDSeA_0dDfVsc0ijIWggz4A-THO0M8FUteNmpkOG7i6WsCn0zY-YsLGItfgZAyZ7MJqcKkFWrJrj20pTyxSckEe2Gv9nl2-Apxn/s320/004+Ramam+Bhaje..-752274.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6099435323925453666" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#38761d">ll ॐ श्री रामकृष्ण-कल्पतरवे नमः ll</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000">Dear Bhaktas,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000">This day presents us a thoughtful question. The Giver is ready, the giving is assured, the taker has hands outstretched....., but wait, what do we want? A want that will leave us a 'wanting' person, unfulfilled? Or a want that will put an end to all our wants forever? O speak up my dear mind, is not enough enough? There does seem to be a valid hope, that I shall not be small, inadequate, limited, struggling Samsari any more! Hear ye the sweet utterance of the sweetness-incarnate, the ever-compassionate Thakurji, arousing us from the worldly slumber with the Abhaya-vakya, "</font><font size="4" color="#0000ff">What more shall I say? I bless you all, may you be illumined..!</font><font size="4" color="#000000">" </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="4">So think deep this day, O dear Mind, let it be '</font><font size="4" color="#cc0000">Sara</font><font color="#000000" size="4">' you seek, not 'Sam-</font><font size="4" color="#cc0000">sara</font><font color="#000000" size="4">' that you have sought birth after unfulfilled birth!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkFkLBKp-3MbtwMIR_fW32d8m0J9bAzlR4ixvTGw06oTY-vBJnu4glqp-5COKOjpun-5WYWePuYSmbd6HxT1YCWu3sO5LRVIWz0v95BIk0MGX3hD_ak4kLAGcCyqgOQN-98M5ljsrbXk8/s1600/005+Winter+it+is%2521+-754741.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtkFkLBKp-3MbtwMIR_fW32d8m0J9bAzlR4ixvTGw06oTY-vBJnu4glqp-5COKOjpun-5WYWePuYSmbd6HxT1YCWu3sO5LRVIWz0v95BIk0MGX3hD_ak4kLAGcCyqgOQN-98M5ljsrbXk8/s320/005+Winter+it+is%2521+-754741.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6099435335268112946" /></a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">On this auspicious 'Ekadasi' <font color="#38761d">Kalpataru</font> day, may we have the wisdom to want the want that frees us from wants, and lets us know that we are the limitless Atman and be free!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#38761d">Jai Sri Guru Maharaj!</font><font color="#990000"> जय श्री गुरु महाराज !</font><br></font><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-13599649465660188022014-12-13T22:04:00.001+05:302014-12-13T22:04:46.308+05:30We have a Mother... 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd5ASq91QhUXqBUp4W2_O2CBiAkL7DmZk_Bc7JqV14dmwB_dc-aScBP9vRr2eeCtvRWEgqvuk-QelOR0myzL-HRpjyUUbS4e-yiTrDU7qvKj7pZrBQb8OeDHTuB5N03Z4-H9lvQTvJw0Fg/s1600/00+Agneh+Yaa+daahikaa+shaktih..+-713412.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd5ASq91QhUXqBUp4W2_O2CBiAkL7DmZk_Bc7JqV14dmwB_dc-aScBP9vRr2eeCtvRWEgqvuk-QelOR0myzL-HRpjyUUbS4e-yiTrDU7qvKj7pZrBQb8OeDHTuB5N03Z4-H9lvQTvJw0Fg/s320/00+Agneh+Yaa+daahikaa+shaktih..+-713412.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6092361773634220322" /></a><br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"> <font color="#990000">सर्व-विद्या-स्वरूपां त्वां सारदां प्रणमाम्यहम् ll</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">Sri Maa Sarada Devi's advent day is celebrated all over the world today. She came to heal those scorched by the world of becoming... Samsara. She came as 'Sara'da, the embodiment of knowledge hence, to enlighten, to free Her children.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#990000">"When you are in distress, just remind yourself that you have a Mother...", is Her </font><font size="4" color="#0000ff">abhaya-vaakya</font><font size="4" color="#990000">, providing refuge with effusive love. Well then, what really matters is, do we know this? </font><font size="4" color="#0000ff">Her real advent is then, when you know Her as Your Mother... your very own!!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">Fire's burning power is inseparable from it, as is the Holy Mother from Sri Ramakrishna. For us, His healing and loving power, that touches our core... as the fount-head called Ma!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">The name Maa, short, simple sweet, intimate.... for all... newborns to the decrepit .... The Mother of all, awaits our call... Her advent!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdsqco9fuq9iE-swtcwIE62jlv95k-BBWpx8B4DUMrNmaG4z9RVZs1s3_hxp_sXPV2QawidU9csc99caqpOEoilF0dHvIb8QTrfMBRjI8iZhoThcexzPuiVBnYhhWOcv5feMKJ3bfFxiYO/s1600/00+Thakurji+today%2521+-715660.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdsqco9fuq9iE-swtcwIE62jlv95k-BBWpx8B4DUMrNmaG4z9RVZs1s3_hxp_sXPV2QawidU9csc99caqpOEoilF0dHvIb8QTrfMBRjI8iZhoThcexzPuiVBnYhhWOcv5feMKJ3bfFxiYO/s320/00+Thakurji+today%2521+-715660.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6092361786488996482" /></a></font><br><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Sri Sri Thakur on Kamalasana watches as all the worship, Homa, songs, Arati and Pushpanjali are offered... to Him, His Shakti!!</font><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">We capture the celebration in a few images for you...</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#cc0000">Jai Sri Maa</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" color="#cc0000"><br></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-28127360820655035732014-10-24T03:16:00.001+05:302014-10-24T03:16:46.001+05:30KALI THE MOTHER, being worshipped now!<p class="mobile-photo"><a 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src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-ELCuwoscDGiSy0SQDEk2Re_CVwkKsORKrcr2dR6FOoEaPwsdfmtPYCAZKxd5cJ9cxMuBEOVtj_Y-v80Z6R57Jpk_j6MB-kCRmE_vwXN6LHgDcGlQvRseEOgwppS3L7cixu1Pa0n1S1O/s320/DSCF2841-722036.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6073516784567583378" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#0000ff"> ॐ</font><font size="4" color="#ff0000"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#ff0000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#ff0000">शिवश्शक्त्या युक्तो यदि भवति शक्तः प्रभवितुम् </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#ff0000">न चेदेवं देवो न खलु कुशलः स्पन्दितुमपि l</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#ff0000">अतस्त्वां आराध्यां हरि-हर-विरिञ्चादिभिरपि </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#ff0000">प्रणन्तुं स्तोतुं वा कथमकृत-पुण्यः प्रभवति ll </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxYHSVurVX4ORU5Dtf41yxiT8oZSAaBR7foo3ncYMBjngPW8Sa1aLXfQYt8W81Ahe3jARv9kCc6FSUnwmAtBD724IT7-FWx-9YMYoWhrCPyQxI6Y2Gaf7xyrQz4ucSQwOPgQlAMBHCq-4/s1600/DSCF2842-724492.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaxYHSVurVX4ORU5Dtf41yxiT8oZSAaBR7foo3ncYMBjngPW8Sa1aLXfQYt8W81Ahe3jARv9kCc6FSUnwmAtBD724IT7-FWx-9YMYoWhrCPyQxI6Y2Gaf7xyrQz4ucSQwOPgQlAMBHCq-4/s320/DSCF2842-724492.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6073516793231802258" /></a><br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">Says Acharya Shankara in this exquisitely devotional hymn, Soundarya Lahari, about the Divine Mother, "Even the Quiscent Reality, Shiva, is stirred to activity only by Her power - else He is, as we see Him, lying quietly and inactively under Her feet!" Can we know Him without Her? Could we comprehend fire without its heat and burning-power? Inseparable as the word and its meaning!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">"Vishnu, Rudra and Brahma revel in adoring you alone, O Mother!" </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">"How can any one without great Punya even extol you or worship you, physically or mentally?"</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YLyBkUFbdAwvBrduWFQ7IAGelfAV88TqN_WfNU6hc8dEOHjGBUGpsWXedxtcL4VOVNpvhYWApEZxGgKYs6OvYQ_ptfHx05jLMoSvR5wgW8JdmtT_XsRcogTZgUzO4ndAjH1nmQWJ-uN7/s1600/DSCF2835-727188.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YLyBkUFbdAwvBrduWFQ7IAGelfAV88TqN_WfNU6hc8dEOHjGBUGpsWXedxtcL4VOVNpvhYWApEZxGgKYs6OvYQ_ptfHx05jLMoSvR5wgW8JdmtT_XsRcogTZgUzO4ndAjH1nmQWJ-uN7/s320/DSCF2835-727188.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6073516807596319746" /></a><br></font><span style="font-size:large"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">Sri Ramakrishna echoed this again and again, "</font><span style="font-size:large">Well, O Mother, it is only through Your grace that one could even approach You!" </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#990000">It is all Your will, Your power! O My Shyama Maa, do grant that Bhakti to this ignorant child... </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#990000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#990000"><i>Even as a child choicelessly, naturally, effortlessly and without being taught - adores, loves, calls on and depends upon the Mother in complete innocent trust, .... so may this child immersed in Samsara come to You!</i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">With the background and atmosphere reverberating with the deafening noise of the Diwali fire-crackers all around - reminding one of the Samara-bhoomi, Samsaara - Her worship proceeds, complete with melodious Kali Keertan.... a symbolic setting indeed.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff">And Sri Sri Thakurji watches in joy, the adoration of His Mother............</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><font color="#0000ff"><br></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS0txptTo4UA6xraIOJPGWPU6mDlEvv2NpR6r8q6dqtaXOOHhcBs7Pw5kZpT-A4LQyQGe7m-odrw5E4SuPpLs700JwWJssCeZphcBFT0wA4kW9odFmMaJ41WCdwE2tU_foUJZuRTz68e_H/s1600/DSCF2830-729537.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS0txptTo4UA6xraIOJPGWPU6mDlEvv2NpR6r8q6dqtaXOOHhcBs7Pw5kZpT-A4LQyQGe7m-odrw5E4SuPpLs700JwWJssCeZphcBFT0wA4kW9odFmMaJ41WCdwE2tU_foUJZuRTz68e_H/s320/DSCF2830-729537.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6073516817803530930" /></a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">A few more images of the ongoing Kali worship, this Amavasya night are appended! </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">Amavasya night, Mahakali sporting with Mahakala... and Sri Thakurji divinely intoxicated...in poorna Bhaava... is an inspiring reminder!!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#cc0000">Jai Sri Maa!!</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-91783904354027963822014-10-17T04:05:00.001+05:302014-10-17T04:05:47.246+05:30Human Development In Line With Swami Vivekananda's World View<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGH1cdwuVNVV_XwPxS8cfoirzNt3ZMrhkvlDRbYpiIyc2Twf_G70hdgg7uxVzcCQV4JjW0-IbbRc757ZLbiJ4ZiU1dO8R4btO-Lj-FCqsob9lf_Zj5uv7sKgCYVrfbL2w4RxXJqATwa60l/s1600/RKM+Talk+2+-747247.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGH1cdwuVNVV_XwPxS8cfoirzNt3ZMrhkvlDRbYpiIyc2Twf_G70hdgg7uxVzcCQV4JjW0-IbbRc757ZLbiJ4ZiU1dO8R4btO-Lj-FCqsob9lf_Zj5uv7sKgCYVrfbL2w4RxXJqATwa60l/s320/RKM+Talk+2+-747247.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6070931751646955314" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5RfVkesGrXH3940iBJWUIqXcssiEBZqMzFNWYAlUUs09-MLFMBycDnxwRC828_21ruZ8BVlBuGu8KtRDLpCXOBO3rEQddsfRClnoZZ5KPYQQYJOA9t5IaMUZWSFizpiMA7bBX3k7OU-IL/s1600/RKM+Talk3+-749830.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5RfVkesGrXH3940iBJWUIqXcssiEBZqMzFNWYAlUUs09-MLFMBycDnxwRC828_21ruZ8BVlBuGu8KtRDLpCXOBO3rEQddsfRClnoZZ5KPYQQYJOA9t5IaMUZWSFizpiMA7bBX3k7OU-IL/s320/RKM+Talk3+-749830.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6070931766285905186" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">OM</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">Dear Bhaktas, </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">Shri <font color="#0000ff">Swami Nikhileshwaranandaji</font>, Secretary, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Memorial, Vadodara, delivered the First "<font color="#cc0000">Reginald D. Devaraj Memorial Lecture</font>", at the Ramakrishna Mission, Jaipur's Vi</font><span style="font-size:large">vekananda Sabhagrha last Sunday,</span><span style="font-size:large"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">He spoke on "</span><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><font color="#0000ff">Human Development In Line With Swami Vivekananda's World View</font>".</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrzhq2OnWS5dLuoEru6MZgLibC59RMs3fwedifYMxsGIa1ao5Rs5TVrWhEQQLts6gpLzDuyV88-A4rQ0kCuN_ToWt1t9cIVih9p4v5iRSPTwIy9naCYoDKGlou1bWLE8MtiRe8VgUamEZJ/s1600/RKM+Talk+1-752759.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrzhq2OnWS5dLuoEru6MZgLibC59RMs3fwedifYMxsGIa1ao5Rs5TVrWhEQQLts6gpLzDuyV88-A4rQ0kCuN_ToWt1t9cIVih9p4v5iRSPTwIy9naCYoDKGlou1bWLE8MtiRe8VgUamEZJ/s320/RKM+Talk+1-752759.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6070931772094225090" /></a><br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">Referring to the 'World view' of Swamiji, he said that it was only Vedanta and not else! Well, of course, it was one that we had virtually forgotten then. It was hence a revival for us, and also the most practical approach to Human development in the light of Vedanta. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">The aim of Vedanta is to know the Self as Brahman, the truth and to appreciate the relativity (or मिथ्यात्व ) of the Jagat. He put this aim as the motto of the Ramakrishna Order that he founded, "आत्मनो मोक्षार्थं जगद्-हिताय च" - for one's own liberation, and for the welfare of the world.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">If the Universe be so relative, what did the great Swamiji want anyone to serve this </font><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">मिथ्या जगत्</span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">world, or 'improve' it for? Well, it is surely akin to attempts at straightening a dog's curved tail, but equally surely, it would strengthen your arms and straighten you instead - very desirable indeed! चित्तशुद्धि , would doubtless accrue from Seva, getting you closer to the aim. Vivekananda thundered to the world the message of the Upanishads, the Divinity of Man, and pointed out that the aim is to Manifest just that, to know that one is the Limitless. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">For this, he said, one has to harness all the inner resources we have, the 4 faculties - his charter for human development. He called it Work, Worship, Knowledge and Psychic control, and emphasized the need for a synthetic approach. He said that 'eternal' or 'limitless' love is not possible between two finite beings whose minds are constantly changing, both moving towards death - and hence must one yoke oneself only to the Limitless.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Synergism or synthetic approach overcomes the drawbacks of any one particular inner resource:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"> i) <font color="#0000ff">Action approach</font> - Work ( कर्म ), even 'Seva' often results in a bloated ego, but if one were to temper it with ( भक्ति ) devotion to the Lord, and surrender the action and results to Bhagavan, it solves the issue!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">ii) <font color="#0000ff">Emotional approach</font> - Worship ( भक्ति ) can sometimes turn into foolish sentimentalism. It is best tempered with knowledge and Intelligence.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">iii) <font color="#0000ff">Knowledge</font> (ज्ञान ) - a purely intellectual faculty may often result in dryness and sometimes insensitivity. Devotion there brings joy and compassion!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">iv) Purely <font color="#0000ff">psychic/mind-control</font> ( राजयोग ) may also go 'out of control', and end with Neurosis or even worse. Hence is needed a timely tempering with service ( सेवा ) to beings - it holds sanity in place!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">This mixing judiciously ( समन्वय ), reduces the drawbacks of each approach, allowing for a balanced personality.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">The speaker referred to the Monks and Brahmacharis of the Order, whose daily lives strives to be योग - a healthy blend of the four:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">The morning is spent in Contemplation, Meditation and devotion (ज्ञान-ध्यान-भक्ति ), the day spent in work, action in the right spirit (कर्म-योग) and evening and night again in Devotion, Knowledge and Meditation (भक्ति-ज्ञान-ध्यान) - a smooth and fluid holistic human development!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">It is said, the <font color="#0000ff">IQ</font><b> </b>- deals with how to play the game of life, whereas, <font color="#cc0000">EQ</font> - deals with playing it in changing circumstances and change of strategies consequently. <font color="#9900ff">SQ</font> (Spiritual Quotient), however, raises fundamental questions pertaining to the aim, and tries to solve them... the Why and Whether of actions aims and strategies!! One, of course, needs all the three to develop well!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">All-round development, holistic, does not leave out any one of the following four:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">1. <font color="#990000">Physical development</font> - for health, courage, self-esteem and action. Today's only 'physical' enjoyment culture takes you down this road - fast food.... fast-life....fast-death!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">2. <font color="#990000">Intelligence -</font> is the next very important development dimension, that catapults you, yet that is not enough alone - see the rate of depression and suicides amongst the most 'educated'. Worse, one could also 'Nuke' the world!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">3. <font color="#990000">Emotion and mind -</font> have to develop well. There has to be concentration of the mind and its proper handling, for success. It is said, ' By आहार-शुद्धौ (purity of all intake) accrues - सत्त्व-शुद्धिः (purity of the mind) and as a result - ध्रुवा-स्मृतिः concentration and sharp recall'.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Even these three alone are inadequate. Did not Ravana have all the three and yet did kidnap Seeta Devi? True, without the key dimension, the fourth,</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">4) <font color="#990000">Spiritual and moral development -</font> human development does not fulfil, does not express the divinity - his aim!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">Bhartrhari</font>, the great sage described humans in four categories:</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">One <b>Satpurushas</b>, who strive only for the welfare of the others - at any cost. Second, the <b>Saamaanyas</b> or ordinary, who would help others insofar as it does not harm their selfish interests. He calls the third <b>Manava-raakshasas</b> (demons in human garb), who harm others if it serves their selfish interests. Alas! for the fourth category, he laments, <font color="#0000ff">he can't even find a name</font>, for they harm others without any reason, including selfish!!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Well then, he would have swooned if he were alive today, to see that there is a fifth category - who will harm, even kill others, even if they themselves die in the process... we all know 9/11 and more..!!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">Thus Vivekananda wanted 'Man-making, Character-building education ...for Satpurushas are today a miniscule minority!</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">One has heard of the famous 'Three Monkeys' of Mahatma Gandhi, symbolic of 'see not evil' (eyes closed), 'hear not evil' (ears closed) and 'speak not evil' (mouth closed). But the speaker was surprised to discover a strange departure when he visited Switzerland. The three 'Swiss monkeys' were modelled as one eye open, one ear open, and mouth partially open! </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Yes, unable to figure out ....till the Upanishad Shanti Mantra struck him in full, 'भद्रं कर्णेभिः शृणुयाम देवाः may we hear all that is auspicious (though hearing no evil), भद्रं पश्येमाक्षभिर्यजत्राः may we see all that is auspicious (though seeing no evil), स्थिरैरङ्गैस्तुष्टुवाङ्ग् सस्तनूभिः....... with able limbs and bodies and auspicious speech (speaking not evil), may we spend this life for Thee alone, O Lord!' How wonderful!!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Nikhileshwaranandaji concluded by reciting Bahadur Shah Zafar's insightful Sufi song that was dear to both Sri Ramakrishna and Swamiji - </span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000">जो कुछ है सो तू ही है ..</font>. </span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">All that IS - is YOU alone..A song that echoes Vedanta, and Swami Vivekananda's World view, distinctly.....</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>Reginald D. Devaraj (1954-1994</b>), was born in Singapore, served as a Captain in the Army there before pursuing his interest and business in showcasing Culture, particularly dance and music from the then Soviet Union. He shifted to later to Bucharest, Romania, where he passed away. He was an avid mountaineer with abiding charm for the Himalayas. His family and kin have initiated <b>Memorial Lecture to be held annually, on October the 17th</b>, his birth day. Our sincere thanks to them, as this very first lecture had a salutory impact on the listeners, and shall reach hundreds more through the posting of this summary. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#990000">Narayanasmrtis!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">--</font><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-57385248453490317422014-10-12T02:09:00.001+05:302014-10-12T02:09:39.624+05:30Jyotirajyoti Ujala Hrdi Kandhara..<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYeAX92DEjEd7D2IR1zyNM0Th6BK3w-2o1uXHc91Bu3NHMEOt6dYCC0-ujKQ0Rt82IhcehFPP5uX1sDGIe_AWMVvcmurJm1sCuRY5LIFEJ8sj1XcRXe43mI7hjpKQKduEzUhhQGtW6ZDh/s1600/01+Pancha-pradeepa+-779624.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYeAX92DEjEd7D2IR1zyNM0Th6BK3w-2o1uXHc91Bu3NHMEOt6dYCC0-ujKQ0Rt82IhcehFPP5uX1sDGIe_AWMVvcmurJm1sCuRY5LIFEJ8sj1XcRXe43mI7hjpKQKduEzUhhQGtW6ZDh/s320/01+Pancha-pradeepa+-779624.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6069046401257851618" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a 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ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#cc0000" style="background-color:rgb(244,204,204)">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#cc0000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000">Dear Devotees,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000">Following Shaaradeeya Navaratri, the Sharad-Pournamasi just went past... and the beauty of Sharatchandra was there for all to see. In Bharatavarsha, that beauty of the Sharat full moon only reminds us of the radiant face of the Lord, the delight of the devotees' hearts!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">The Divine Mother is alluded to in the Lalitha Sahasranama as </span><font size="4" color="#000000">'</font><font size="4" color="#ff0000">शरच्चन्द्र-निभानना</font><font size="4" color="#000000"> .'</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xVgINjWgYMLc6iiN4XUm8QmHJNlVlGlsEYNjK1q39dqBP76sxkg7dbW0jMJ1ZEK7L6KNDvu22dP2jOa48s1Z7WZY5E7HOvZh2xXc_mjjo2bpC_GP8khBnJFdSj_GyVWVrSKwglzIX4Uh/s1600/Om+Hreem+Rtam..+Tvamachalo..+-798296.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8xVgINjWgYMLc6iiN4XUm8QmHJNlVlGlsEYNjK1q39dqBP76sxkg7dbW0jMJ1ZEK7L6KNDvu22dP2jOa48s1Z7WZY5E7HOvZh2xXc_mjjo2bpC_GP8khBnJFdSj_GyVWVrSKwglzIX4Uh/s320/Om+Hreem+Rtam..+Tvamachalo..+-798296.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6069046480995800146" /></a><br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000">Thakurji, being '</font><font size="4" color="#990000">Sarvadeva-devi-swaroopaha</font><font size="4" color="#000000">' delights us all with the same radiant face, familiar to us as our very dearest - Ishta ! At Jaipur, the glow is for all to see, every day -</font><font size="4" color="#cc0000"> Nitya-sharachchandra</font><font size="4" color="#000000">!</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000">May that radiance, dispel the darkness in our hearts... prays Swamiji in the Aaraatrikam...</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff" size="4">ज्योतिरज्योति उजल हृदि-कन्धर </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font color="#0000ff" size="4"> तुमि तमो भञ्जन-हार !! प्रभु ....</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-47201187307470510872014-04-15T23:50:00.001+05:302014-04-15T23:50:24.086+05:30Aratrikam in 'Jaya varsha'<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9TD-PpY42ZyJF_4_4kHf1Cy237ZUyV7rpplzchajRGn0uM-veeFRQ7h5bs7wlyuS1LAryvVbjXF841IZ_UdNr6ekhVjXnmIkl4xQBBu9ObwSHn9y2cov5JN9WH5zyLzKkQ9IE0EgzWN6/s1600/002+-724087.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw9TD-PpY42ZyJF_4_4kHf1Cy237ZUyV7rpplzchajRGn0uM-veeFRQ7h5bs7wlyuS1LAryvVbjXF841IZ_UdNr6ekhVjXnmIkl4xQBBu9ObwSHn9y2cov5JN9WH5zyLzKkQ9IE0EgzWN6/s320/002+-724087.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6002586273557060402" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQfeMHx8Wah0U0LuvQIVey9SCmqwu-uLNApUSk8vxdicnHL3gw2lHHc8Cy8ltw0S4F4FEWQekvpRhAPxDsAqHZ_w8_Z7AAH4GK-IBdq51oK0FOWduqn6X-NS93hyghnAZu8yzvdnrNPM8j/s1600/003+Before+Aratrikam-727986.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQfeMHx8Wah0U0LuvQIVey9SCmqwu-uLNApUSk8vxdicnHL3gw2lHHc8Cy8ltw0S4F4FEWQekvpRhAPxDsAqHZ_w8_Z7AAH4GK-IBdq51oK0FOWduqn6X-NS93hyghnAZu8yzvdnrNPM8j/s320/003+Before+Aratrikam-727986.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6002586285336925186" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcntrlKRhiRuJDSLSGXSjQGluAWScJZpoxLVvnIDXHYWLayZmI8qZQM6coY1IfdAI5vxJCNIzGysTFRtTdsulahB-N08RrAYMt6DGCdftcQItQ7NmixY3Ldp02j553ATkZLJBke_YrclDg/s1600/004+Aratrikam+-730738.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcntrlKRhiRuJDSLSGXSjQGluAWScJZpoxLVvnIDXHYWLayZmI8qZQM6coY1IfdAI5vxJCNIzGysTFRtTdsulahB-N08RrAYMt6DGCdftcQItQ7NmixY3Ldp02j553ATkZLJBke_YrclDg/s320/004+Aratrikam+-730738.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6002586295633267842" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgggfmhlDEF5n_yx-6OE642jIvjagWst9eptMKLyykbHBYwCrM85vq6UOD-ZIVdQfmV1l2o9eKAtQJoHD-eGmk1e_uGW_GBE9-PhJa5NQeqjyY9crrydpRwXqWXqcSAuHuQfsI4gbWSyFNP/s1600/005+Gaeechhe+Chhanda+Bhakata+vrinda..-733134.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgggfmhlDEF5n_yx-6OE642jIvjagWst9eptMKLyykbHBYwCrM85vq6UOD-ZIVdQfmV1l2o9eKAtQJoHD-eGmk1e_uGW_GBE9-PhJa5NQeqjyY9crrydpRwXqWXqcSAuHuQfsI4gbWSyFNP/s320/005+Gaeechhe+Chhanda+Bhakata+vrinda..-733134.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6002586306583556994" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDf3jAWHdUrybdZ_ORzYepOz8-EXaFh0Jo_aQuXlWpe1EjOTDIvAT7vMPKxklNIUDXJqwLjnl-tm-4k_uU8-Navf7uZ8zoZDMfUqEPztywuSb72HvuVASZwP2dhvqUV8Zke7jVjaL5C8U_/s1600/006+Aarati+tomar%252C+jaya+jaya+%2521-740269.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDf3jAWHdUrybdZ_ORzYepOz8-EXaFh0Jo_aQuXlWpe1EjOTDIvAT7vMPKxklNIUDXJqwLjnl-tm-4k_uU8-Navf7uZ8zoZDMfUqEPztywuSb72HvuVASZwP2dhvqUV8Zke7jVjaL5C8U_/s320/006+Aarati+tomar%252C+jaya+jaya+%2521-740269.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6002586338313687714" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#cc0000">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</font></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;display:inline"> <font size="4">Dear Bhaktas,</font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">With Mesha-Ravi Sankrama, comes Baisakhi, Vishu, Bihu or Poila baisakh!</font></div> </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">It marks the New year day in most of solar calenders in India. It is Bangla and Tamil New year day. In Shashthi Samvatsaras, this is the year 'Jaya'. For us then, it rightly starts with "<font color="#990000">Jaya jaya Aarati tomar</font>"!!.....</font></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4">Sri Thakurji, decked in the finery of a bordered Peetambara, woven in Andhra... smiles to bless His Bhaktas this day at the Jaipur Temple....</font></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAGNQyKDT391EEz4GRBt-oMGPCa55vIoNMe20nT1dvh203GUDr30J-_6ptpWkZxXbtsbbdUoI1Egdk-IdxnBBakC-VyLvpgAIMR6e6JUlWzoCVZIHMDthJp_7Oel6NkxUr-cE7ni9QOTPe/s1600/001+Thakurji+wearing+bordered+Peetambara+-742397.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAGNQyKDT391EEz4GRBt-oMGPCa55vIoNMe20nT1dvh203GUDr30J-_6ptpWkZxXbtsbbdUoI1Egdk-IdxnBBakC-VyLvpgAIMR6e6JUlWzoCVZIHMDthJp_7Oel6NkxUr-cE7ni9QOTPe/s320/001+Thakurji+wearing+bordered+Peetambara+-742397.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6002586346601240162" /></a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"> <font size="4">Today's Arati is captured in a few frames for you.</font></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#0000ff">May that bring Jaya to everyone is our prayer!</font></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#cc0000">जय श्री गुरु महाराज जी की .... जय!!</font></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font size="4"></font></div><br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div> </div></div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-92078247093609356332014-03-29T22:48:00.001+05:302014-03-29T22:48:56.102+05:30Come to peace...<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTCiEQxR05loofKzRoP-JAMUcDr3wWP_oN0SE01HJR7REsS7LGdPwyvPoLIO8JL9aFF1SrtjawY8jpDjXjTqyASwaYGz9QM2pLOyj8WY0WLMFxhCGFGteNkkjvHSILYoDHGNCDOLdy_IQ/s1600/Back-drop+-736103.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKTCiEQxR05loofKzRoP-JAMUcDr3wWP_oN0SE01HJR7REsS7LGdPwyvPoLIO8JL9aFF1SrtjawY8jpDjXjTqyASwaYGz9QM2pLOyj8WY0WLMFxhCGFGteNkkjvHSILYoDHGNCDOLdy_IQ/s320/Back-drop+-736103.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5996261979560523698" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4" color="#cc0000" style="background-color:rgb(244,204,204)">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"> <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">Dear Bhaktas,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">Indeed, the opening of Sri Sri Thakurji's Temple was a memorable and grand event. It is even more important that now one could come to this temple and be in the lap of peace, meditation and prayerfulness! We brought you pictures, and a few words woven to bring an inner image... there is no substitute, however, to experiencing it oneself. Please do come... any day!</font></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">Some Bhaktas wished to have pictures of the thematic back-drop. While it would not have been easy to photograph it in the settings it was in, we bring the design file itself to you in .jpeg, which is more clear. The upper written text was a separate visual, but it is given here together as you saw.</font></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"><font size="4">Also attached is the explanatory text on the concept and theme, as a word document.</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-44676983914873923602014-03-24T18:53:00.001+05:302014-03-24T18:53:32.470+05:30Sri Ramakrishna Temple Jaipur : The 'elevation' at Dusk!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVhUpkLOxYC7AtTz8lTvBibEjm3QRLaQpAqIRh2Z1GPQO83JJWS7XFAdh0Lphty2CETqsOvxAPlfVo01H9SvNsjOPdPwxZvfpwApBTltcmvegFdoJAwoolB1WVbF8RbNOxoh7XD8MJWgGg/s1600/002+Aaraatrikam+-712470.JPG"><img 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style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">I am sure you were delighted to see our Beloved Thakurji, ere His 'arrival', His first darshan. Once we were able to behold Him seated majestically on the Kamalasana, delighting every heart, we could truly say that He descended for us! A salutation to Him was offered through '</font><font color="#cc0000">Vandanam</font><font color="#000000">', and it reached most devotees that beheld Him on the opening. Here He is, in Avatarana, we reproduce...</font></span></div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUydGNdBdtuvuMaDrcySSMCqLtO56cEdIwWR89rWs57FHYNC1CG-HeHjwxC_X6XmhHp4gL9x0eTEkV5haQpxiDW3xTasdbM48WDUVzmXduk7c6sdcYCqSz9ffuP0BwE8ckK5Jo_AFrHUbh/s1600/000++Vandanam+-736214.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUydGNdBdtuvuMaDrcySSMCqLtO56cEdIwWR89rWs57FHYNC1CG-HeHjwxC_X6XmhHp4gL9x0eTEkV5haQpxiDW3xTasdbM48WDUVzmXduk7c6sdcYCqSz9ffuP0BwE8ckK5Jo_AFrHUbh/s320/000++Vandanam+-736214.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5994345996086136898" /></a><br> </font></span></div><div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:large">The worship began with a special Pooja in the morning. As the dusk set in and the sky turned crimson, the conch shell blew, bells rang... and it was Aaratrikam, salutations to Him again and yet again.. "</span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#990000">नमो नमो प्रभु वाक्य-मनातीत...</font></span><span style="font-size:large">." Bhaktas rejoiced in the divine music and sheer spiritual splendour of Sri Sri Guru Maharaj's presence. O how delighted Sri Swamiji would be at this sight... His divine Sankalpa at work!</span><font size="4"><font color="#990000"><div style="display:inline"> <br></div></font></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjePZoz1jqfdllUUOZyzzL9FhlEunIDngYlrX73J-Yq4gqSq3HP1FfnjqZBWqV_ZI4VXbnAC1GgjaCufeBDsg4Iu6T_fqjb_H-kCkKRPQMmsCDdOHq6QLcwTqsY4hrey1ZkpSqlKz49QCFf/s1600/001+Aaraatrikam+-739504.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjePZoz1jqfdllUUOZyzzL9FhlEunIDngYlrX73J-Yq4gqSq3HP1FfnjqZBWqV_ZI4VXbnAC1GgjaCufeBDsg4Iu6T_fqjb_H-kCkKRPQMmsCDdOHq6QLcwTqsY4hrey1ZkpSqlKz49QCFf/s320/001+Aaraatrikam+-739504.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5994346010830391426" /></a><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px"> <font size="4"><font color="#990000"><div style="display:inline"><br></div></font></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font size="4"><font color="#000000">Pancha-pradeepa, Karpoora neerajana, Shankha-teertha-snaapana, Udvartana, Hrdaya-kusuma-samarpana and Chamara-upachara....with such elevating Aaraatrikam sung soulfully....</font></font><font size="4"><font color="#990000"><div style="display:inline"> <br></div></font></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font size="4"><font color="#000000">Outside, the temple glowed in colourful celebration to Mano-vachanaikaadhara... with Jyoti...</font></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"> <font size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font size="4"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGyhUnhY8Eyj5cUt8c04KEjKZW2YAiLmYdpQCwrjW-hlnf868jNfOos0J3mDYE_XFPMhLFrI85SElfaba9M8_Hp2cGYqNnl7JKgcF1ILHjoxQbfgSMhfDDUXyK0x5_4mwpMQkBG_qwVuN7/s1600/A-742481.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGyhUnhY8Eyj5cUt8c04KEjKZW2YAiLmYdpQCwrjW-hlnf868jNfOos0J3mDYE_XFPMhLFrI85SElfaba9M8_Hp2cGYqNnl7JKgcF1ILHjoxQbfgSMhfDDUXyK0x5_4mwpMQkBG_qwVuN7/s320/A-742481.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5994346022417976994" /></a><br></font></font></div> <div style="font-size:13px"><font size="4"><font color="#000000"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font size="4"><font color="#000000">We leave you here with hte pictures of Aaraatrikam, every step of it and with a 'celestial' view of the Shrine at night....</font></font></div> <div style="font-size:13px"><font size="4"><font color="#990000"><div style="display:inline">To</div> access the entire postings till date, just click this link </font><font color="#000000">(or the 'Blog' icon on the right top of RKM Jaipur website)</font></font><font color="#000000">:</font><span style="font-size:large"><div style="display:inline"> </div></span><span style="font-size:large"><div style="display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div> <div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><a href="http://sriramakrishnatemplejaipur.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://sriramakrishnatemplejaipur.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><font color="#990000">.<font style="background-color:rgb(252,229,205)">..<span style="font-size:large">and don't you forget to forward this to any deserving person you know!</span></font></font></div> <div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:rgb(244,204,204)">श्री गुरु महाराज जी की जय !!</span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:rgb(244,204,204)"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-21685255900665043112014-03-23T23:11:00.001+05:302014-03-23T23:11:16.035+05:30Sri Ramakrishna Temple, Just ahead of Pratishthapana...<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh782fyw6pHwVvml0CsHzxq8DiCpjDiUkXfRHJEBXRTOb81e-gv_19hmqqPb2nS4f8kUp4jnxvGmElUXEr1rX3ETE3MlGGJIscjv8229Ny3rh_93D4AJ0WYjjsA29lZ1DtPHW8YRgKYNGBm/s1600/001+Sri+Sri+Ma-776035.JPG"><img 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPA4mq5xzzRnMd6RZMC9UouTvd31leOCdTRXYnH4VM_m0eumVMdDCU6OjkNIRB6Mis3JzHG35thzf45BfznG8ZHw36rsxOOzBdPxAAgU0rcSzZ62gi6roSklkMBDl37xMt_pzBV9ANeUe/s1600/012+Preparations+for+pooja-706176.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOPA4mq5xzzRnMd6RZMC9UouTvd31leOCdTRXYnH4VM_m0eumVMdDCU6OjkNIRB6Mis3JzHG35thzf45BfznG8ZHw36rsxOOzBdPxAAgU0rcSzZ62gi6roSklkMBDl37xMt_pzBV9ANeUe/s320/012+Preparations+for+pooja-706176.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5994041354127274882" /></a></p><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:rgb(249,203,156)">ll ॐ नमो भगवते रामकृष्णाय ll</span><br clear="all"> </div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">Dear Bhaktas,</span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><br> </span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">You have seen 'pictorially' the events of the Pratishthapana day. We now bring you some exclusive pictures of the evening before Pratishthapana, where we see the preparations and decorations... and the Poorva-pooja to Sri Thakurji. </font></span></div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Well, He did sit down on the Kamalasana at Jaipur, the Holy City of Sri Radha Govindadevaji!</font></span></div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDuCVUhg-OcaFlhVRjxhXKPeMI1pvPkVtL9qR9Ph43oFxQ3MnJ4MieV5ntTKoNjguSLCzLOF7xldElLluR4aLGiYdeyi8b914ZHZ_ItlOdp-LD_ihjNJk7-6_3QqN5Oe19obmorZh8VSLh/s1600/000+Thakurji+has+sat+down+on+the+Kamalasana%2521-708874.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDuCVUhg-OcaFlhVRjxhXKPeMI1pvPkVtL9qR9Ph43oFxQ3MnJ4MieV5ntTKoNjguSLCzLOF7xldElLluR4aLGiYdeyi8b914ZHZ_ItlOdp-LD_ihjNJk7-6_3QqN5Oe19obmorZh8VSLh/s320/000+Thakurji+has+sat+down+on+the+Kamalasana%2521-708874.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5994041368501473138" /></a><br> </font></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">The Pratishthapana was on the Jayanti of His Parshada</span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000">,</font><font color="#cc0000"> Yogin Maharaj,</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"> who too then was all decked-up and graced the Peetha!</span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br> </span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbVXCXstEJU1xoa9jiM9nHb4C-GzOmvfyvKByYoparc8ZpVSAvgOnhOITugoxlskVXEjSur_izHzHpfIjctmkBatXIcpwD_1T1zaBMwT-hePW1OueVSaFDFUgQI3g86KbCqf2_FVbL1gkk/s1600/00b+Swami+Yogananda+-711180.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbVXCXstEJU1xoa9jiM9nHb4C-GzOmvfyvKByYoparc8ZpVSAvgOnhOITugoxlskVXEjSur_izHzHpfIjctmkBatXIcpwD_1T1zaBMwT-hePW1OueVSaFDFUgQI3g86KbCqf2_FVbL1gkk/s320/00b+Swami+Yogananda+-711180.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5994041375774035314" /></a><br> </span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">And just how did Sri Thakurji look the night before? </span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large;background-color:rgb(241,194,50)">Splendid in His Peetambara</span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="background-color:rgb(241,194,50)">.</span><span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">.</span></span></font><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">.</font><font color="#000000">.ready to bless us!</font></span></div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIm07Wx5DnVX6pbrxu5vcu1f0DJTM2p3tYlNtRWFSDlX7mOy_MTKUMhPnj4_x2TlSUvcVzL3_MFADSpUcOoPSB1hNeDNlhE5d2FtjhY_Nyovi9rtXtLkaXlo8zmZF0g49Oqv65xgQnnxtV/s1600/00a+Sri+Sri+Thakurji+at+Jaipur-714259.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIm07Wx5DnVX6pbrxu5vcu1f0DJTM2p3tYlNtRWFSDlX7mOy_MTKUMhPnj4_x2TlSUvcVzL3_MFADSpUcOoPSB1hNeDNlhE5d2FtjhY_Nyovi9rtXtLkaXlo8zmZF0g49Oqv65xgQnnxtV/s320/00a+Sri+Sri+Thakurji+at+Jaipur-714259.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5994041388135099090" /></a><br> </span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">After all the decorations, was this auspicious first worship ...to the </span><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#e69138">Sarva-deva-devi-swaroopa!</font></span></div> <div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiddA-VlgWWn1Atpm9k-qIhGF7Uh4Pn-ra2eZklQZyZ6F_Jv593vsJ88CuUBrSQmlR4UrhEqx17lo70Qyai1oJKfvjk-l9coSeSKcs_ncpBIfJA8wkQjYSrpPfwCxctZmLdknDNgilClUrX/s1600/00cWorship+at+the+new+Temple+-716699.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiddA-VlgWWn1Atpm9k-qIhGF7Uh4Pn-ra2eZklQZyZ6F_Jv593vsJ88CuUBrSQmlR4UrhEqx17lo70Qyai1oJKfvjk-l9coSeSKcs_ncpBIfJA8wkQjYSrpPfwCxctZmLdknDNgilClUrX/s320/00cWorship+at+the+new+Temple+-716699.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5994041394788888370" /></a><br> </span></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">We are appending more images of the praparations, and will soon be back with more to treat you to... bliss!</span></div> <div><div style="font-size:13px"><font size="4"><font color="#990000"><div style="display:inline">Meanwhile, to</div> access the entire postings till date, just click this link </font><font color="#000000">(or the 'Blog' icon on the right top of RKM Jaipur website)</font></font><font color="#000000">:</font><span style="font-size:large"><div style="display:inline"> </div></span><span style="font-size:large"><div style="display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></div> <div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><a href="http://sriramakrishnatemplejaipur.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://sriramakrishnatemplejaipur.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font color="#990000">.<font style="background-color:rgb(252,229,205)">..<span style="font-size:large">and don't you forget to forward this to any deserving person you know!</span></font></font></div> <div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:rgb(244,204,204)">श्री गुरु महाराज जी की जय !!</span></div> </div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4763389819416448422.post-55008408308691774112014-03-20T13:40:00.000+05:302014-03-20T13:41:13.397+05:30ठाकुर जी पधार्' या म्हारे देस !! 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ms',sans-serif;font-size:large">,</span><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><br> </span></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000" style="background-color:rgb(244,204,204)">ठाकुर जी पधार्' या म्हारे देस !!</font></span></div> <div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial"><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000" style="background-color:rgb(244,204,204)"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial"> <span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#990000" style="background-color:rgb(244,204,204)"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhKc4pC_qQMI456Hq7NGRDx03UJRndgple7c_fQASudf6ERpEaljRniT6ee-XsGEC52-HGRucnc4q8io4Ta-T1Og724N1vM3k1XGqr9Pd9fK6CUwjX4yPeq0HSmeulJKWAoB9RGQTAQ36r/s1600/00+Thakurji%2527s+glimpse+-740519.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhKc4pC_qQMI456Hq7NGRDx03UJRndgple7c_fQASudf6ERpEaljRniT6ee-XsGEC52-HGRucnc4q8io4Ta-T1Og724N1vM3k1XGqr9Pd9fK6CUwjX4yPeq0HSmeulJKWAoB9RGQTAQ36r/s320/00+Thakurji%2527s+glimpse+-740519.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5992781354422978898" /></a><br> </font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Thakurji has come here to stay, in His beautiful Temple at Jaipur! At the crack of dawn, a vibrant and poignant procession of Sadhu-vrnda proceeded fromn the old temple, carrying the pictures of Thakur, Ma and Swamiji, led by mangala vadya.. Shankha ghosha and Nadaswaram! Bhaktas rejoiced, sang and danced in ecstacy. O what a great good fortune for all of us. Beautiful Chhatras were held on top, chamara-seva continued unabated, veda mantras filled the air and time and again the ebullient shouts of "</span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">Guru Maharaj ji ki Jai</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"> !!" reverberated... an experience only possible to experience... not describe. </span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPyuWGLwJuFNU82r-01CoAR-hqe4Nwnn8byAVFG9wGXAn-3G-5O6J2oaJMjkBujCzc3IpiyUAxuf83P8TjcUmZkmAS7UbGSTAczalfLH6wrWk5UFqloQ_Yl-qZzmyAQq4z0vUQbT-ghL5/s1600/013+The+Trinity+under+Chhatras+-742866.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPyuWGLwJuFNU82r-01CoAR-hqe4Nwnn8byAVFG9wGXAn-3G-5O6J2oaJMjkBujCzc3IpiyUAxuf83P8TjcUmZkmAS7UbGSTAczalfLH6wrWk5UFqloQ_Yl-qZzmyAQq4z0vUQbT-ghL5/s320/013+The+Trinity+under+Chhatras+-742866.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5992781370509476882" /></a><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Three Pradakshinas of the Shrine, and then up the main stairway... where </span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">Srimat Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"> unveiled the plaque declaring the temple open, and cut the ribbon to enter the prayer hall. Sadhus followed, and the pictures from the old Shrine were placed below the preset. Revered Swamiji then performed the Pratishtha and offered Pushpanjali. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">He did Karpoora Aarati (Neeraajana) to Sri Thakur, Sri Ma and Sri Swamiji.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"> All Sadhus then offered Pushpanjali at the feet of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna.</span></div> <div style="font-family:arial"></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">The Temple was then opened to all devotees, who did Pranam and get the first glances of Sri Sri Thakurji on this very holy day, and Jayanti of Sri Swami Yogananda.</span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Homas continued, and the Abhimantrita Kalasha, was taken in a Pradakshina with Vadya ghosha. Climbing up the temporary ramp, the Kalasha jalam was poured on the Shikhara Kalasha, 80 feet above. Once again Jayaghosha emerged and water shower sanctified the Devotees waiting below.</span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiby9Qs43lO5Cw5WEpWaHzJ-1XqiukpIT21Qfz4-gk3dwoz91mRt7vmqO_ZIzrzhVgQNERaJCGBxq6Fn0576vNxN2UCU3slN52i_Bd3D0VQeCGcdB7TVKO-9Les9pl_xl9UpRWnPbtC2miN/s1600/023+Kumbhabhishekam+-746347.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiby9Qs43lO5Cw5WEpWaHzJ-1XqiukpIT21Qfz4-gk3dwoz91mRt7vmqO_ZIzrzhVgQNERaJCGBxq6Fn0576vNxN2UCU3slN52i_Bd3D0VQeCGcdB7TVKO-9Les9pl_xl9UpRWnPbtC2miN/s320/023+Kumbhabhishekam+-746347.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5992781383689174450" /></a><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">At the same time there was, in the Garbha-grha, a special pooja to Thakurji, performed by Sri Swami Shantatmanandaji.</span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiuJrTKVsSVRHpAhNRNa2O8V3AHV4JNK1stptBTkIrj32CQMoXgKAau6CU9NavPAATdIYjkhWyJo4hwft5TAh5PixYxI22IHusLdOJ7dN9gOflFmJsqaLBFFGE0FSpUdIFHjaHvWqZeEhQ/s1600/021+special+pooja+to+Thakurji+-748927.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiuJrTKVsSVRHpAhNRNa2O8V3AHV4JNK1stptBTkIrj32CQMoXgKAau6CU9NavPAATdIYjkhWyJo4hwft5TAh5PixYxI22IHusLdOJ7dN9gOflFmJsqaLBFFGE0FSpUdIFHjaHvWqZeEhQ/s320/021+special+pooja+to+Thakurji+-748927.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5992781393675637202" /></a><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Poornaahuti to the Homas was done. All the events were webcast live on the Mission website.</span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">We bring you joyous glimpses of the blissful event in a small attempt to tell you. Yes, we espied Chandra stealing a look at the procession of Chandramani's Ananda-putra!</span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheTwFTzOjJaU1jPudDnRr5DPljECoOMmWhyphenhyphen2tSClBpNbWbq-qpfO6HCm4HFTb85u9vezrgNWS9I5-yQbebZtYrnhO3y3hF3Sm-X30YutJwS71CjdwUYu92Rcmnt6ArG2DabrBdgMlE5JQz/s1600/00+Chandra+watches+-750651.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheTwFTzOjJaU1jPudDnRr5DPljECoOMmWhyphenhyphen2tSClBpNbWbq-qpfO6HCm4HFTb85u9vezrgNWS9I5-yQbebZtYrnhO3y3hF3Sm-X30YutJwS71CjdwUYu92Rcmnt6ArG2DabrBdgMlE5JQz/s320/00+Chandra+watches+-750651.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5992781397901241682" /></a><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">Sanjaya, after the thunderbolt experience of Krishnaarjuna-samvaada and the Vishvaroopa darshana could </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">only find some words like, "</span><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#0000ff">तच्च संस्मृत्य संस्मृत्य हृष्यामि च पुनः पुनः , हृष्यामि च मुहुर्मुहुः !!</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large">"</span></div> <div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:large"><font color="#cc0000">May Sri Sri Thakurji's grace be on all who come here to see Him and to call upon Him.</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><br> </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large"><br></span></div><div><font size="4"><font color="#990000">We remind, to access the entire postings till date, just click this link </font><font color="#000000">(or the 'Blog' icon on the right top of RKM Jaipur website)</font></font><font color="#000000" style="font-size:13px">:</font><span style="font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"> </div></span><br></div></div><div><div style="font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"> <a href="http://sriramakrishnatemplejaipur.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://sriramakrishnatemplejaipur.blogspot.com/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><font color="#990000">.<font style="background-color:rgb(252,229,205)">..<span style="font-size:large">and don't you forget to forward this to any deserving person you know!</span></font></font></div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif"> <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:rgb(244,204,204)">श्री गुरु महाराज जी की जय !!</span></div></div></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><b><span style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif">Swami Sheshadri</span></b></span></div> </div> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1