Vedanta Sandesh Monthly eMagazine of the International Vedanta Mission
Year - 24
Issue 9
Mar 2019
Cover Page
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The cover pages of this year continues to be the theme of - Birds of India. This month we have the biggest of the flying birds - the beautiful Flamingo. The Greater Flamingo is a colourful wading bird and is often found flocking together with the Lesser Flamingo in the coastal regions. The former is about 5 feet tall, and the lesser is around 3 feet tall but more pinkish. The plumage is basically pinkish/white in colour with long, downward bending bills are pink with a black tip and their long, thin legs are also pink. Greater Flamingos are omnivores and filter-feeders. Flamingos use their long legs and webbed feet to stir up the bottom of the water where they then sweep their bills upside down through the water. The bill has a filter-like structure to remove food from the water before the liquid is drained. Water is sucked in through the partly opened bill. As it is squeezed out again by the tongue. They form monogamous pairs which remains together for their entire lives. Greater Flamingo is the state bird of Gujarat. Its Hindi name is Rajhans. The cover page photo has been taken from a Bird Forum on the Internet and was clicked on the outskirts of Delhi. Om Tat Sat
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CONTENTS
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Vedanta Sandesh Mar 2019 1.
Shloka 5
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Message of P. Guruji
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Tattva Bodha 9-12
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Letter 13-14
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Gita Reflections 15-21
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The Art of Man Making
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Jivanmukta 27-29
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Story Section 30-32
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Mission / Ashram News
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Forthcoming Progs 52
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Internat News 53
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Monthly eMagazine of the International Vedanta Mission Mar 2019 : Year 24 / Issue 9
Published by
International Vedanta Mission Vedanta Ashram, E/2948, Sudama Nagar, Indore-452009 (M.P.) India http://www.vmission.org.in / vmission@gmail.com
Editor:
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Swamini Samatananda Saraswati
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When deep reflection is done on the two Arani-like divisions of the seeker & the sought, then, just as in the churning of Arani, a fire of knowledge is kindled, which burns away all the fuel of Agyana. Atma Bodha - 42
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Message from Poojya Guruji
Dealing with Asuras
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Bhagwan Sri Krishna says in Bhagwad Gita that the objectives of his Avatara are manifold - present a role model for the mumukshu’s to learn the art of living in this world; revealing the secrets of manifestation of the unmanifest; give us food for thought for our enlightenment and last but not the least protecting the good and finishing off the evil - so as to re-establish the rule of Dharma once again. Dharma is an order for the holistic well-being of all. The present political dispensation and leadership of the country is sincerely dedicated to establish the rule of law in the country and also the world for the well-being of all. In this process many a times drastic actions become inevitable. This is what we saw in the case of Indian action of destrying the havens of terrorists in Pakistan. We commend the strong decision of the Prime Minister to take such strong actions - irrespective of the consequences. He and his team have played their cards very nicely & firmly. Handling of the international community, giving a freehand to security forces, truly believing in the capabilities of our forces, and having the guts to take such a decision. We salute the leadership who are working in the exact spirit as revealed in our scriptures - in letter & spirit. Other leaders never had the guts to take such strong actions - just because of the fear of possible fallouts, and thus the cancer of terrorism kept spreading.
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A leader should always be selfless, keeping the country above the self. They should be highly intelligent and sincere. Giving out their heart & soul for the well-being of all. We are grateful to God, this is exactly what we have in our country today. No wonder India is progressing in all fields. The world also respects the righteous and the strong. This is indeed a paradigm shift in India’s policy towards dealing with terrorists and their perpretators. There will definitely be some shortterm muscle-flexing but the message has gone wide & clear and this will be the new normal now. The line has been crossed and this country will hereafter deal with asuras in this firm way alone. Basically it is the responsibility of that country alone to handle the so-called non-state elements, but if they can’t then intervention by us should be expected.
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Om Tat Sat.
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TATTVA BODHA
Going beyond Sanchit Karmas
Swamini Samatananda
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n the previous articles, we looked upon the
three types of karmas namely sanchit karmas, aagaami karmas and prarabdha karmas. Having discussed this we will now see how a Jivanmukta or a person who is liberated here and now also goes beyond these karmas. In this discussion, we will see how a Jivanmuktah goes beyond the sanchit karmas.
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The basic principle in case of the bondage of karmas is
that as long as we see ourself as the doer so long we will bear the fruits of our actions. If I am the doer of actions then I shall also be the enjoyer of my actions. This is logical too. The journey of this doer and enjoyer begins with ignorance of the Self and the misapprehension that I am a limited being. This ignorance and wrong understanding gives birth to the limited Jiva who then sees himself as a doer and enjoyer (Karta and Bhokta). Thus the journey of samsara and bondage begins. This is a common V edanta Sandes h
scenario that whenever we achieve something our sense of ego
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Tattva Bodha is elated with joy as ‘I am the doer’ and so also the enjoyer in us is intoxicated with the ecstasy of enjoying his fruits of action. Along with this, he accepts the suffering of adversities too with a pinch of salt and pepper. So life becomes a ride on the sea with smooth sailings sometimes, and rough seas at other times. It is only when a curious spiritual seeker of knowledge awakens to the truth that I am the limitless, self-effulgent, and blissful Brahman that he transcends all sense of doership and enjoyership. The existence of the doer and enjoyer Jiva were solely dependant on the conviction that I am a small limited being and therefore I need to seek gratification from outside. As soon as one discovers through direct knowledge that I am Brahman all the Sanchit karmas get destroyed immediately. This knowledge as though roasts all the sanchit karmas. It is well known that seeds once roasted do not germinate or sprout again. Once this realization takes place there is no more fructification of these karmas. All the karmas which were accumulated in countless crores of our earlier lives dissolve immediately and the man of knowledge is free from them. With the dissolution of the doer and enjoyer the cycle of birth and death too comes to an end. This entire scenario is like waking up from a dream. We all
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identify with the dream personality and come to see the dream
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Tattva Bodha world as real. Thus if the dreamer is real then all that the dreamer did too becomes real and we go on to face the consequences of all our karmas. But as soon as the dreamer wakes up and realizes that it was all a dream and his identity transcends the dreamer then that very moment I am free. Just as we wake up from a good or bad dream. The moment we wake up the entire scene is dissolved. I am no more the dreamer or the doer and enjoyer in the dream thus it all ends there. The entire story is dependant on the principle that if there is a doer then there has to be an enjoyer. If one is identified with the karta then one has to face the fruits of action. It is only through Self-knowledge that the individual Jiva transcends his identification as a limited being and comes to see himself as Brahman, the limitless non-dual reality. With this, the dream comes to an end and
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all the Sanchit Karmas are transcended.
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Mail from Poojya Guruji A Pure Mind What is Antahkarana Shuddhi? Hari om ! A shuddh antahkarana means to be endowed with a mind & intellect which is highly intelligent, selfless, magnanimous and sensitive. It is basically indicative of good inner health & well-being. Such a person responds to every situation thoughtfully instead of mechanically. A thoughtful response is possible when a person retains equanimity in all positive & negative situations. Our antahkarana has various capabilities, and one of the important capacity is that of memory, it not only remembers what it has gone through but can also condition its responses on the basis of past experiences. Most of the time our conditionings take over our responses and in the process new learning stops. This is basically the root of a so called impure mind. Memory is blessing but end of new learning is indeed a bane. Arrogance means to take our existing knowledge & conditionings as the ultimate and thus become closed to new learning. Such people obviously take themselves as a limited individual and have strong likes & dislikes for various things. Likes and dislikes alone are responsible to bring happiness & sorrow in our lives, so these people V edanta Sandes h
constantly go through ups & downs, have fears & insecurities, and have various attachments and arrogances. All this is indicative of an impure
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mind. These people may be smart enough to get things done in their respective fields but are incapable to probe their own conditiongs and identities.
When Arjuna wanted to get the knowledge of the truth, Lord Krishna advised him to polish his mind a bit more before jumping on the band-wagon of Self-Knowledge. He further advised him to focus on three sadhanas of Yagna, Daan & Tapas, which are highly effective sadhanas to purify the mind. These sadhanas help incorporate qualities like selfless self application, magnanimity and will-power & inner strength,
Love & om,
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Gita Reflections
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Incorporating Yagna-Spirit (vk;q%
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Those foods which increase longevity, mental strength, physical strength, health, comfort, and pleasure, which
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Gita Reflections
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he glory and the essence of Sanatan Dharma are known as ‘Adhyatma’ which means with reference to the ‘Self ’. In the vision of Sanatan Dharma our vision of life, our attitudes, joys and sorrows, liberation and bondage, everything revolves around the understanding of the Self. If one has the right knowledge about the Self-one discovers a sense of fulfillment within his own self and the entire vision towards life and all its experiences changes. If one does not have any right understanding of the Self then even the best of all the worlds can become instrumental in bringing about sorrow and misery. Hence in Hindu culture discovering the true nature of the Self is the ultimate goal of life and rest all is an instrument in realizing that goal. Thus the scriptures give a very crisp classification of Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksha in life where dharma, artha, and kama are a means to experiencing the world and discovering its utility and limitations and then going on to discover the reality of the world, its creator and the Self-leading to moksha.
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This being the vision and road map of self-discovery everything that we do and indulge in right from our basic necessities of food to our intellectual appreciation everything can either help us actualize our goal or can take us away from it. Thus in the Geeta, on one hand, Bhagwan Krishna speaks of the immortal and divine nature of the Self which is beyond the body and mind, which is beyond any description of words and percep-
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Gita Reflections tion and on the other hand the Lord also gives us lifestyle tips which help us discipline our body, sense organs and purify our mind of various likes and dislikes. Intelligent empowerment of the body, the sense organs, the pranas, and the mind is an inevitable part of spiritual evolution. The actualization of the body and the mind are the first steps of Self-actualization. Every scripture begins with the prerequisites of a fit and disciplined body, a pure mind free from individual likes and dislikes and intellect as sharp as a razor. One should see this fact clearly that spiritual awakening is not merely an intellectual appreciation of Vedantic knowledge but a knowledge genuinely appreciated reflects in all our physical and mental responses in life and at the same time also when we are with our own self. The fulfillment of life is not only fulfilling the need for wealth and desires but also walking on the path of dharma to fulfill the various desires and then aiming for moksha that is a discovery of contentment within. This being the essence of Hindu Dharma every aspect of life, be it our basic requirements like food clothing etc, our field of action, wealth, education, family, society, practise of righteousness (dharma) everything is aimed to finally discover the true Self which is of the nature of pure existence, consciousness and bliss.
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This being the case our scriptures give us guidance right from the basic levels of our physical body and sense organs, to our
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Gita Reflections pranas, mind, and intellect at the subtle level. In the Seventeenth chapter, sloka 8 of the Geeta Bhagwan Krishna speaks of a sattvic diet. It is indeed amazing that Bhagwan Krishna felt the need to talk about a saatvic rajasik and tamasik diet in the middle of a grave situation of a war. But as we can see that our scriptures see every level of our personality equally important in helping us evolve spiritually. Food or Annam is the inevitable necessity of our physical existence. But at the end of the day, it is a form of medicine one should take to keep the body living, energetic and thoughtful. It is not a means of pampering the taste buds. But more than often food is taken as a means to fulfill our never-ending temptations of the tongue and we eat unintelligently stuffing the body making it inert and unhealthy. Today the food industry is one of the most throbbing industries where obesity is the modern day epidemic. Food temptations and lifestyle imbalances are enveloping all age groups to early illnesses of the body and the mind. An unimaginable amount of cattle is raised and killed to satiate the non-vegetarian eater. Environmentalists are raising an alarm against the greenhouse emissions brought about by cattle breeding and the oceans are being wiped out of a number of lives therein. There can’t be a better example of selfishness than the life of a human being whose very existence is becoming a threat towards all living and non-living things on earth.
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The Geeta classifies all aspects of life at the level of three
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Gita Reflections gunas of sattvic, rajasik and tamasik. Sattva guna represents a selfless, magnanimous mindset of simple living and high thinking, whereas a rajasik mindset is the self-centric kind, living only for fulfilling the interests of the individual self at any cost. A tamasik mind is a dull mind neither concerned for the self nor for anyone else. Secondly, Sri Krishna classifies our attitude as sattvic, rajasik and tamasik too.
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In this sloka of the Geeta, Bhagwan Krishna speaks of Sattvik aahaar or diet. A diet that helps not only in keeping the body and mind healthy in worldly affairs but which also supports the performance of various sadhanas of service, devotion, meditation, and knowledge. Food does not directly give liberation but the source of food, the way it has been cooked, the quantity, the quality, the time it has been consumed, and the way it has been consumed everything contributes to our physical, mental and spiritual well being. He says sattvic people consume foods that increase longevity. A vegetarian diet is a sattvic diet that surely keeps away diseases as compared to a non-vegetarian diet. Eating fresh food and a diet that brings about mental strength, immunity, physical strength, good health, physical and mental comfort and pleasure. Food is not just eaten by the tongue but we first eat with our eyes and nose, so food that is pleasing to the eyes and flavourful to the nose, foods that are not dry but have rasa in it, which are delicious, nourishing for the body and the mind. When a person con-
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Gita Reflections siders eating food in a sattvic manner he not only embraces healthy food but also keeps aside unhealthy food like non-vegetarian food, alcohol, tobacco, stale and unhygienic food.
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The Geeta teaches the art of making every action into a yagya, so eating food is also a very important yagya. Just as performing a yagya is a spiritual persuit at its own level so also eating food is a spiritual pursuit at its own level. Nowadays eating on the go is a modern day fad. Can we imagine performing a puja on the go, or performing a puja while we talk on the phone or while watching television. Eating food is also a puja, a yagya performed towards the Vaishvanara Devata in the stomach who is digesting our food and nourishing the body. So the first important thing is having an attitude of yagya or puja when we eat food. It is a prasad which is going to nourish our body and mind. It is the most basic and instinctive activity of our life yet extremely important. Let us make it a yagya for our physical, mental and spiritual well being.
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Acting Deligently
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ction is the answer, not inaction. Running
away from problems is cowardice-and the result of cowardice is sorrow, shame, and defeat. Facing the situation is courage-and the blessings of courage are sublimity and success. The personality of Arjuna, now drowned into a hysterical confusion, is not available for any advice or guidance. The teacher has to whip up the student to intellectual alertness so that he will be ready to receive a re-education in its values and ideals. The lesson is a mystic re-education in the truths of life and in the real meaning of the play of the world of multiple objects and beings. And Krishna can start such a rejuvenating course of treatment only if the student is intellectually available for this re-education. And Arjuna is now shattered so completely, that he has come to a dull, static condition of comprehending coma. This is the ‘Arjuna Disease.’ This is a universal ailment. Not only individuals, but even communities and nations can enter into such an Arjuna mood of impotency and an overwhelming state of perplexity arising from a total sense of frustration. We are seeing this calamitous V edanta Sandes h
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The Art of Man Making The remedy prescribed for Arjuna is a Krishna specific, we may say, and in the concluding chapters, we find that Arjuna, the suffering patient, himself roars with a self-discovered enthusiastic dynamism that he has rediscovered himself. The hero glides out from behind the darkening clouds of confusion and shines brilliantly upon the field of his action and soon wins a total victory, a complete success, a spectacular achievement. Why not see if this cure will help the world of the youth today? Dejected and frustrated, the human mind at once thinks of a rejection of the scheme of the world around it and, benumbed, it remains idle. Modern youth revolts against the establishment’, and plans a life of idle enjoyment-but it has failed: it cannot keep quiet, inactive. It is compelled to act, strikes, processions, marches, sit-ins, lie-ins, shooting, breaking, looting, smashing, destroying are all examples of disillusion and frustration. No one can sit inactively; as long as one is alive, one has to act. For even the simple act of breathing, is nevertheless, an act. Arjuna is persuaded to act, to face the outer situation to crash into the problem, rather than to listlessly drop his spear and pull back from combat. An action is noble because
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of the ideal towards which one strives; in itself, an action is
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The Art of Man Making neither good nor bad. It is the motive in the heart of man that makes an act either good or bad. Once we are careful to choose for ourselves the right type of motive to inspire our activities, the achievement is not only spectacular, but the entire effort becomes rewarding in terms of the feeling of peace and the sense of fulfillment that floods the bosom. Young men and women must act diligently, tirelessly, constantly. To act is the expression of the glorious life in us. The life-force in any embodied being gushes out into expression as work and action. To live idly is to blanket the smoldering fire of life with the ashes of lethargy and sloth, Tamas. When we work joyously to gain a great ideal or goal, our efficiency increases. An idle hand loses all its abilities even though the individual’s proficiency may not have dried up. Proficiency in any field we gain through study and discussion in institutes and colleges. The knowledge we have gained in or proficiency, when expressed through diligent and planned activities, becomes the play of efficiency in us. Success in life depends not on proficiency but entirely on ef-
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ficiency. As a nation, our country may be surprisingly in-
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The Art of Man Making telligent and our workers and technicians comparatively more proficient than the Japanese, the Malaysian or the Sinhalese workers. Yet they are better performers than us-they have more efficiency; we have more proficiency. Proficiency in an individual is not creative until it transforms itself into efficiency. The means is to act-to act diligently, with your heart in your work, with gusto to improve, a spirit to outshine your own present abilities. The spirit of challenging yourself by yourself is the secret of self-improvement and personality unfoldment. In this subjective competition, those who succumb are the stagnant ones whose development is arrested,
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success foiled, achievement doomed-alas! by themselves.
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Jivanmukta Wandering In Himalayas
75 Trilokinath Excerpts from the Travel Memoirs of Param Poojya Swami Tapovanji Maharaj
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he endless expanse of snow lay dazzling
white in the bright sunshine. As far as the eye could see there was nothing but snow, snow, snow. It seemed to me as though I was not on the earth, but in a world of silver. The glassy white mass of snow reflected back the glowing light of the sun, and no one could bear to look at it for any length of time because of the blinding glare. I sat on the rock for fifteen minutes enjoying the splendor of the landscape. The meeting of the glittering white expanse below and the spotless blue above had raised the mountain top on that afternoon into a rare and wonderful world. Generally, the tops of the Himalayan peaks are lost in the clouds. Only rarely, very rarely, do the silvery peaks appear below a canopy of bright, deep blue. Still, more rarely do people pass this way. The mood of a cultured mind on witnessing a sight so inspiring and the nirvikalpa samadhi that a Vedantin experiences are not much different. If a world differentiated by name and form, characterized by love and hate, pleasure and pain, variegated by conceptions of friend and foe, wife and children, and complicated by the differences of the learned and the ignorant, master and servant and man and woman--if this world is absent in the state of nirvikalpa samadhi, such differences have no place in the realms of Nature either. That is why the wise ones regard V edanta Sandes h
the intuitive perception of Nature as the content of samadhi.
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Jivanmukta As I sat there absorbed in the sights around me, I failed to note the progress my companions had made without me. When I realized what had happened, I got up and hurried forward. Now I was descending, and the descent was as dangerous as the ascent had been. I climbed down slowly and cautiously, supporting myself with my walking stick. None among us had any idea of the extent of the snowfield before us. Only the merchants could only hazard a guess. Fortunately, it did not extend beyond a mile. Once we had crossed the dangerous area carefully, we descended briskly along the broad earth-covered side of the mountains. Whereas the Vyasa Ganga has its source on this side of the Lutang mountain, the Bhaga originates on the other side. Another river called Chandra flowing down from another mountain joins the Bhaga, thereafter to be called Chandrabhaga (Chenab), which forms one of the tributaries of the Indus. Descending from the mountains we followed the course of the Bhaga and arrived at a dharamsala. Thus in a few hours, we had traversed the ups and downs of snow for three miles and eight miles of bare ground. Crossing the Lutan Pass was like passing through the gate of hell. We were
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Legend of Mahashivaratri
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here are several legends of why Maha Shiv-
aratri is celebrated. One of them is the story of King Chitrabhanu.
The story can be found in the Shanti Parva (chapter) of the
Hindu epic Mahabharata where the old Bhishma, whilst resting on the bed of arrows and discoursing on Dharma (righteousness), refers to the observance of Maha Shivaratri by King Chitrabhanu. The story tells how the mighty ancient ruler Chitra Bhanu of the Ikshvaku dynasty, king of the whole of Jambu-Dwipa (ancient name for India), was once observing a fast with his wife when the renowned sage Ashtavakra came on a visit to his court with some pupils in tow. Finding the king fasting, Ashtavakra asked him the reason. King Chitrabhanu explained that he had a gift of remembering the incidents of his past birth, and in his earlier life he had been Suswara, a hunter in Varanasi. His only livelihood was to kill and sell birds and animals. One day, when out searching for a game, he shot a deer, but was overtaken by darkness and climbed into a bel tree for safety. Thinking that his wife and children were without food and waiting anxiously for his return, he began to cry bitterly. To his utter dismay, he also found his canteen leaking water. The water, together with bel leaves from the tree, fell onto a Shiva-linga (a symbol for the worship of Lord Shiva) placed V edanta Sandes h
at the foot of the tree. The next morning he sold the deer and
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Legend of Mahashivaratri bought food for his family. As he and his family was sitting down to have their food, a stranger arrived to his doorstep requesting for food. True to the ancient custom of Hindu hospitality, Suswara served the food first to the guest and then had his own. He lived for many years without learning that he had by chance fasted on the day of Shiva-Ratri, but when the hour of death drew near two messengers from Lord Shiva appeared to conduct his soul to paradise. It was then that he learnt that he was being rewarded for having observed the fast on that auspiscious day and night. The messengers told him that the leaves he had dropped by chance on the Lingam, was in imitation of its ritual worship. Also, the water from his leaky canteen had washed the Lingam (also a ritual action), and he had fasted all day and all night. Thus, he had unconsciously worshipped the Lord during the night of Shivaratri and had earned great merit by the observance. As a reward, his soul granted place in various heavens until it reached the highest, and he was afterwards reborn in high rank as a king and was specially favoured by being given the knowledge of his former life. Thus the Maha Shivaratri fast is said to have been first observed by Chitra Bhanu and the custom is still practiced in India. On Maha Shivaratri, devotees observe fast, offer fruits, flowers and bel leaves on Shiva Linga and keep vigil all night in
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Mission & Ashram News
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Bringing Love & Light in the lives of all with the Knowledge of Self
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Mission News Satsang at Mumbai
At the residence of Avinash Dattaji
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Avinashji is the Managing Trustee of ICF
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Mission News Satsang at Mumbai
Bhajans by various devotees
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Followed by a short talk by Poojya Guruji
Arrangements were very lovingly done
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He talked about the concept of God
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Is God a great individual?
or the divinity & goodness in all?
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Mission News Satsang at Mumbai
He explained on the basis of Gita
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I am the - Balam Balavatam
Lovely prasad for all was organized
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Mission News Satsang at Borivili
At the residence of Navin Sharma
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Talk based on Hanuman Chalisa
17th Feb 2019
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Mission News Aashirwad Satsang for Newly Wed
Marriage of Monish & Harshika
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Younger son of Suresh Rohra
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Mission News Aashirwad Satsang for Newly Wed
A very lovingly organized Satsang
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Started with lovely Bhajans
Followed by Aashirwad of Poojya Guruji
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Mission News Aashirwad Satsang for Newly Wed
Aim to Live a Full Life
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Lovingly & Together
Fulfill all Four Purusharthas - fully
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Ashram News Hanuman Chalisa Satsang: Feb 2019
Bhajans - Chanting - Pravachan - Aarti
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Ashram News Hanuman Chalisa Satsang: Feb 2019
Bhajans - Chanting - Pravachan - Aarti
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Ashram News Mahashivratri Vedanta Camp
27th Feb to 4th Mar 2019
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At Vedanta Ashram, Indore
Sadhana Panchakam / Gita Ch-16
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Ashram News Mahashivratri Vedanta Camp
Sadhana Panchakam by Poojya Guruji
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Gita by P. Swamini Amitanandaji
Meditation by P. Sw Samatanandaji
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Pooja by P. Sw Poornanandaji
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Chanting by P. Sw Samatanandji
Bhajans / Q&A after Dinner
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Ashram News Mahashivratri Vedanta Camp
Campers from Mumbai / Amdavad
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Lucknow / Vadodara & Gandhi Nagar
Culminating with Mahashivratri
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General News Trip to Tungareshwar
Outskirts of Mumbai - near Vasai
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Ancient Shiv Mandir in a National Park
17th Feb 2019
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General News Trip to Tungareshwar
We saw some rare & lovely Birds
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Asian Paradise Flycatcher etc
Trip was with Satish Sharma, Dahisar
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General News Trip to Bharatpur
Saw the Fort of Bharatpur
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Did Birding at KWL Sanctuary there
5th / 6th Feb 2019
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General News Visit to Matheran
Hill-Station of Maharashtra
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It is a Vehicle-Free Town
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