Whatever one thinks within oneself in his own intelligence, that alone is experienced by him. To a suffering person a night is an epoch, and a night of revelry passes like a moment - SAGE VASISHT
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- Desire and Distress.
- My friend the material nature.
- My this temporary body.
- Laws of material nature.
- I prefer to be 'easily contented'.
- Something deep within is always silent.
- True Spiritual position.
- I am beyond time.
- Something that remains permanent and worth yearning for.
- Hold hand of the eternal supersoul
- The Unreal World..
Friday, January 26, 2007
In Praise of India - Famous Quotations
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
The Importance of Devotion or Bhakti
The Three Modes of Material Nature of a living entity
The Material nature of a human being consists of three modes
Mode of Goodness
Mode of Passion
Mode of Ignorance
When a living entity comes in contact with nature, he gets conditioned by these three modes. From Mode of Goodness, real knowledge develops. From Mode of Passion grief develops and from Mode of Ignorance, foolishness, madness and illusion develops
In Mode of Goodness one develops knowledge but they become conditioned by the concept of happiness, one becomes wiser than those otherwise conditioned, a person in the mode of goodness is not so much affected by material miseries and has a sense of advancement in material knowledge.
In Mode of Passion one develops hankering for material enjoyment, he wants to enjoy some sense gratification, he wants to have a family, children, wife, house, property, these are few example products of the mode of passion and to achieve all this he has to work hard and there he becomes associated with the fruits of his activities and thus is bound by such activities. Modern civilisation is considered to be advanced in the standards of modes of passion. When there is no liberation for those in the mode of goodness, what of those who are entangled in the mode of passion?
In Mode of Ignorance, a living entity practices madness, indolence and sleep and all this binds the conditioned soul, mode of ignorance is just the opposite of mode of goodness, every one under the spell of mode of ignorance becomes mad, such people are very reluctant to make advancement in spiritual knowledge and do not want to understand what is what, such people are lazy, they are not even active like the person in mode of passion, normally a person in mode of ignorance sleeps more than is required, such a person you will notice is always dejected and is addicted to intoxicants and sleeping, these are few symptoms of a man in mode of ignorance.
Sometimes the mode of passion becomes prominent, defeating the mode of goodness and sometimes the mode of goodness defeats passion and at other times the mode of ignorance defeats goodness and passion. In this way there is always a competition for supremacy - Lord Krishna
Monday, January 22, 2007
The Perfect Person
The Human body is composed of following:
- Soul
- Intelligence
- Mind
- Working Senses
- Dull Matter
If placed in the above given order, it makes a man a perfect being, the dull matter has to be controlled by the working senses and working senses are to be given direction by the mind, intelligence should be in charge of the mind and the Soul above intelligence.
Many times we notice that the above order is disturbed and at times it becomes like:
- Soul
- Mind
- Intelligence
- Working Senses
- Dull matter
Many times we notice it becomes like:
- Soul
- Mind
- Working Senses
- Intelligence
- Dull Matter
And at times its like:
- Soul
- Working Senses
- Mind
- Intelligence
- Dull matter
thus sometimes working senses become more superior in control and sometimes intelligence takes over and at times the mind takes control of intelligence and working senses.
Well we may realise that every living entity has the mind but all are not intelligent or all donot wish to utilise there intelligence.