स्वामी बोधानंद से संदेश, थीमिक नोट्स, ट्रैवलोगेज और मैनेजमेंट लेख पढ़ें। विषय और विषयों की श्रेणी स्वामीजी के पते मानव क्षमता के विकास, प्रबंधकीय उत्कृष्टता और नेतृत्व के अध्ययन से गतिशील गतिविधि के बीच में शांतिपूर्ण अनुभव का अनुभव करने के लिए विस्तारित हैं। यहां कई अवसरों पर, कागजात और विचारों से चयन किया गया है, ट्रैवलोग्राज थीमैटिक नोट्स पत्रों और बैठकों, सार्वजनिक साक्षात्कार और मीडिया रिपोर्टों के माध्यम से गुरुदेव और उनके भक्तों के बीच वार्तालाप और चर्चाएं जो गुरुदेव आध्यात्मिक और सांस्कृतिक महत्व के अवसरों पर लिखते हैं। हम पत्रों और नोटों को संग्रहित करने की प्रक्रिया में हैं जो गुरुदेव ने अपने शिष्यों, सहयोगी एट। पिछले चार दशकों के दौरान यदि आपको लगता होगा कि गुरुदेव ने आपको पत्र में लिखा है, तो आम हित और भलाई के लिए एक विषय है, कृपया हमें यही भेजें। हम इस पृष्ठ में चयनित भाग की मेजबानी करेंगे। श्री गणेश चतुर्थी संदेश - 29 अगस्त 2014 - गणेश शुभ शुरुआत का भगवान है। भगवान का नेतृत्व करने वाले इस हाथी को बिना किसी मानवीय प्रयास से शुरू करना चाहिए, जो पूरे भारत और पूर्वी एशिया की पूजा करता है। भद्र के महीने के वैक्सिंग चाँद का चौथा दिन (शुक्ला चतुर्थी) गणेश के भक्तों का सबसे महत्वपूर्ण दिन है। कुछ लोग मानते हैं कि इस दिन गणेश का जन्म हुआ था, जबकि कुछ अन्य कहते हैं कि गणेश ने इस दिन अपने हाथी के सिर को प्राप्त किया था। फिर भी कहानियां कह रही हैं कि गणेश ने अपने छोटे भाई कार्तिकेय पर आम प्रतियोगिता जीतकर इस दिन अपनी बेहतर खुफियाई साबित की थी। यहां तक कि ऐसी कहानियां भी हैं जो कहती हैं कि इस दिन गणेश मोदक और उसके पेट में फंसे हुए थे और फिर उन्होंने फूला हुआ चावल खाने के लिए एक व्रत लिया। यह भी कहा जाता है कि चंद्रमा चंद्रमा बड़े पेट को खुले हुए पेट को देखकर घबरा गया और शर्मिंदा और गुस्से में गणेश ने लोगों को इस दिन चंद्रमा को देखने से रोक दिया। इसलिए कई भारतीय भाषाओं में परेशान दृष्टि के लिए चतुर्थी का इस्तेमाल होता है। लेकिन इस दिन का सच्चा महत्व तीन निकायों के अतिक्रमण है, तीन ऊर्जा के खेल से परे जा रहा है, और चेतना के चौथे आयाम को हमारी वास्तविक प्रकृति के रूप में महसूस कर रहा है। गणेश अथर्व सिध्हा ने घोषित किया कि गणेश प्रकट ब्राह्मण और महावाक्य, तात्र्वामासी का आयात है। शिव के अभाव में गणेश पार्वती के सार से पैदा हुए थे। जिसका अर्थ है कि गणेश हमारे बेहोश है जो हमारे उच्च और निम्न चेतना के बीच एक पुल के रूप में खड़ा है। शिव के साथ मुठभेड़ और अहंकार के नुकसान और एक विवेकी ट्रंक के अधिग्रहण के लिए शिव के साथ एकता और शिव-शक्ती यूनियन का अनुभव प्राप्त करने के लिए आवश्यक है। गणेश आध्यात्मिक पुनर्जनन और मोचन का शाश्वत प्रतीक है गणेश आशीर्वादों के बिना कुछ भी पूर्ण नहीं है और न ही सफल है। इसलिए हम सभी मंत्र को मंत्र करते हैं: एएमएम गेमपुते नामः स्वामी बोधनंदा 28 अगस्त 2014 कॉलेज स्टेशन, टेक्सास गुरु पूर्णिमा ग्रीटिंग्स - 12 जुलाई 2014 - स्वामी बोधानंद से संदेश वैसाखा महीने के शुक्ल पक्ष के शुक्ल पक्ष के पांचवें दिन (पंचमी तिथी) - हिंदुओं और भारतीयों के लिए एक यादगार दिन है। दार्शनिकों। यह उस दिन था जब सबसे बड़ा हिंदू दार्शनिक और आध्यात्मिक नेता श्रीमद् भगवद् पडा शंकराचार्य का जन्म हुआ था। और इस साल, आदी संकर जयंती 4 मई 2014 को मनाई जाती है। भगवद पाडा शंकराचार्य (780-820 ई।) को हिंदू धर्म के भव्य भवन के तीन स्तंभों में से एक माना जाता है, साथ में ऋषि यज्ञवल्क्य (3000 ई. पू.) और ऋषि वेद व्यास (1200 ईसा पूर्व) यज्ञवल्क्य ने धर्म की केन्द्रीय दृष्टि को भाषण में प्रदान किया, "अहम ब्रह्मासिक्षक" कि ब्रह्मांड एक अभिन्न वेब है और यह है कि मैं चेतना एकरूप सामान्य कारक है। बाद में, वेद व्यास ने उसी सामाजिक-राजनीतिक संदर्भ में सूक्ष्मता की व्याख्या की और भारतीय-हिंदू संस्कृति और राजनीतिक अर्थव्यवस्था के लिए नींव रखी, व्यक्तिगत स्वतंत्रता और सामाजिक सामंजस्य को बढ़ावा दिया। इसके बाद, अनौपचारिक रूढ़िवाद और परस्पर विरोधी और असहिष्णु सांप्रदायिकता, बौद्ध नास्तिकता, जैन संततिवाद, संकल्प द्वैतवाद और चार्विक भौतिकवाद की वजह से हिंदू धर्म कमजोर हो गया और परंपरागत मान्यताओं को हिलाकर रख दिया और भारतीय समाज में विचारों की एकता और विचारों की एकता के लिए गंभीर चुनौतियों का सामना किया, युवा दक्षिण भारतीय ब्राह्मण विद्वान और अनुभवी शंकराचार्य उन विद्रोहियों और विरोधियों के लिए निश्चित, पुनरुत्थान और मजबूत हिंदू प्रतिक्रिया थे। उन्होंने भारतीय-हिंदू विचारों और प्रथाओं को अपनाया। संकर विविध विचारों और प्रथाओं का एक महान सम्मिलक था। धार्मिक-दार्शनिक विचारों की अद्वैत प्रणाली ने सोचा कि शंकर ने एक सत्य के वैदिक निश्चय के आधार पर व्याख्या की - कई प्रदर्शनी अब भी सात हजार भारतीय हिंदू आध्यात्मिक और सांस्कृतिक अनुभव के शिखर के रूप में बनी हुई हैं। चिरस्थायी बौद्धिक योगदानों के लिए शंकर भगवान प्रवीण त्रेही ग्रंथों - भगवद गीता, ब्रह्मासूत्र और दस उपनिषदों का चयन, हिंदू धर्म की अंतिम पुस्तक के रूप में, चार महावकों के प्रस्ताव के साथ - प्रज्ञनम ब्रह्माकोट, उद्धृत उद्धृत, "आत्मा आत्मा ब्रह्माकोट" quot; अहम् ब्रह्मासविच, आध्यात्मिक चिंतन के मार्गदर्शक सिद्धांतों के रूप में। प्रस्थाना ट्रेनी ग्रंथों पर संकरों के टिप्पणियां हिंदू धर्म पर अंतिम शब्द मानी जाती हैं। रामानुजचार्य और माधवचार्य जैसे अन्य टिप्पणीकारों ने केवल शंकर के भव्य विचारों के साथ ही तंग किया है। यह दुख की बात है कि जनता के बीच ज्यादा जागरूकता और यहां तक कि आधुनिक भारतीय नेताओं को शंकर के महत्व के बारे में और भारतीय आध्यात्मिकता और संस्कृति में उनका योगदान नहीं है। अपने जन्मदिन का जश्न मनाने और इस दिन को अद्वैत वेदांत की शिक्षा देने के लिए, हम न केवल इस महान गुरु को हमारे सामूहिक ऋण का भुगतान करेंगे, बल्कि एक विभाजनकारी और विवादित दुनिया के लिए सहानुभूति, आवास और आपसी सम्मान की भावना भी लाएंगे। मुझे इसमें कोई संदेह नहीं है कि आचार्य शंकर भविष्य के भविष्यवक्ता होंगे और अद्वैत वेदांत उभरते बहुसांस्कृतिक वैश्विक समाज के धर्म होंगे। जय जय जय संकर 15 अप्रैल, 2014 को उद्धृत करने के लिए स्वामी बोधानंद से संदेश Vishu एक फसल उत्सव है एक भरपूर फसल के लिए भगवान का शुक्रिया अदा करने का अवसर। भोजन पर नए कपड़े में दोस्तों और रिश्तेदारों से मिलने के लिए चुटकुले दरार और आतिशबाजी का आनंद लें। नई आशाओं और विचारों के साथ एक दिन शुरू करने के लिए, अज्ञात भविष्य में एक उच्छृंखल राम की तरह चार्ज करने के लिए। युवा युवाओं और युवाओं के लिए युवाओं का उत्सव है। बुजुर्ग केवल दूसरा बेला खेलते हैं बच्चे और किशोर विशेष रूप से सजाए गए वेदी के दर्शन (ldquokanirdquo) के लिए विशु दिवस की सुबह जल्दी जाग रहे हैं। वे घबराहट और झल्लाहट करते हुए अपनी आँखों के साथ गर्भगृह की ओर मुड़ गए। फिर पीले फूलों, फल, अनाज, सोने के सिक्के और नए कपड़े की एक नई उज्ज्वल दुनिया उनके सामने अनावरण करते हैं और आंखों और कल्पनाशील मन के लिए एक वास्तविक दावत। परिवार में सबसे बड़े (ldquokaranavarrdquo) मेहमानों और घरेलू सहित परिवार के सभी सदस्यों के लिए सिक्कों और कपड़ों के उपहार (ldquokineetamrdquo) देता है मानव बंधन को नवीनीकृत और गहरा करने का अवसर। सबसे महत्वपूर्ण फसल जो कि विष्णु मनाते हैं वह आंतरिक गुणों की प्राप्ति और परिणामी आध्यात्मिक जागृति है। अपने सभी भव्यता में स्वयं का फूल। आंतरिक प्रेम और आनन्द का कटाई और उन्हें एक और सभी के साथ साझा करना विशु आत्म-नवीकरण का एक दिन है प्यार, स्वामी बोधानंद नई दिल्ली, मार्च-अप्रैल 2014 में पतंजली योगसूत्रों पर वसंत रिट्रीट, नई दिल्ली में 3 मार्च से अप्रैल 2014 तक पतंजली योगसूत्रों पर स्वामी बोधानंद व्याख्यान देंगे। स्थान: 15, पूर्वी एवेन्यू, महारानी बाग पश्चिम, नई दिल्ली जानकारी के लिए और अरुण और रुमेनी गुलाटी को लिखने के लिए। ईमेल: ltramni. gulatigmailgt वार्षिक Sambodh @ फाउंडेशन दिवस कार्यक्रम 27 मार्च 2014 पर हमारे गुरु स्वामी बोधानंद का जन्मदिन सालाना साम्बो फाउंडेशन दिवस के रूप में मनाया जाता है। Sambodh फाउंडेशन नई दिल्ली 27 मार्च 2014 को अपने वार्षिक फाउंडेशन दिवस कार्यक्रम का आयोजन कर रहा है। समय: 5.30 p. m. स्थान: 15, पूर्वी एवेन्यू, महारानी बाग पश्चिम, नई दिल्ली जानकारी के लिए और अरुण और रुमेनी गुलाटी को लिखने के लिए। ईमेल: ltramni. gulatigmailgt ग्लोबल हिंदुत्व एंड इंडियन आईडेंटिटी - फ्री बोरिंग, ओपन एंडेड वार्तालाप के साथ स्वामी बोधानन्द - 22 मार्च 2014 हिंदू धर्म एंबेडेड भारतीय पहचान - स्वामी बोधानन्द के साथ नि: शुल्क बहते हुए ओपन एंडेड वार्तालाप शनिवार शाम को इस बातचीत के लिए सम्मिलित हों (22 मार्च) कुंजम यात्रा कैफे में, हौज खास गांव, नई दिल्ली फेसबुक के माध्यम से इवेंट में जुड़ें संपर्क: रत्नेश माथुर संक्षिप्त परिचय - पहचान के लिए भारत की खोज 7000 साल से हिंदू धार्मिक और सांस्कृतिक अनुभव से तलाक नहीं हो सकती। हिंदुओं को हिमालय और सिंधु, गंगा और ब्रह्मपुत्र नदियों के संदर्भों के साथ हिंदुत्व को भारतीय भूगोल के संदर्भ में परिभाषित किया जाता है। भारत और हिन्दू जैसे शब्द सिंधु या सिंधु नदी का उल्लेख करते हैं बाहर के लोग जानते हैं और सभी भारतीयों को हिन्दू कहते हैं, वे वेदांतिन, मुसलमान या ईसाई नहीं हैं। एक ऐतिहासिक धर्मनिरपेक्ष भारत बनाने का आधुनिक प्रयास इस ऐतिहासिक तथ्य को अनदेखा कर देगा, यह बेअसरकारी और व्यर्थ होगा। अमेरिका, यूरोप, मध्य पूर्व, एशिया प्रशांत, कैरिबियन, और अफ्रीका में - हिंदु दुनिया भर में हैं। इंटरनेट युग ने उन्हें एक साथ और बहुसंस्कृतिवाद को पहचान के लिए एक खोज में लाया है। धार्मिक दुनिया के विचार और सांस्कृतिक दृष्टिकोण जीवन के लोगों के दृष्टिकोण और अनुभवों की व्याख्या के अंतर्गत आते हैं। यह इस संदर्भ में है कि हम इस सम्बन्ध में भारतीय पहचान पर एक राष्ट्र के रूप में और अलग-अलग देशों से संबंधित व्यक्तिगत हिंदुओं के रूप में शामिल हैं। quot - इसावास्य उपनिषद, 4-5 अप्रैल 2014 पर स्वामी बोधानंद व्याख्यान, 4 बजे 5 अप्रैल 2014 को इसावस्या उपनिषद में स्वामी बोधानंद दो व्याख्यान देंगे, नोएडा में। संपर्क: श्याम और रेणु खोसला Email: ltsskhoslahotmailgt टेलि: 9811722805 भारत निवास केंद्र में 30 मार्च 2014 को सार्वजनिक व्याख्यान Sambodh Foundation नई दिल्ली अपने आध्यात्मिक पावरक्वाट को उजागर करने पर स्वामी बोधानंद द्वारा सार्वजनिक व्याख्यान के लिए आप और परिवार को सौहार्दपूर्वक आमंत्रित करते हैं: रविवार 30 मार्च 2014 , 7 - 8.15 बजे स्थान: गुलमोहर हॉल, भारत आवास केन्द्र, लोदी रोड, नई दिल्ली जानकारी के लिए डॉ। बीपी माथुर, श्रीमती नलिनी शर्मा, श्रीमती रुमेनी गुलाटी या श्रीमती अनु खेरा ई-मेल ltsambodh. indiagmailgt Wisdom Leaderhip - 28 मार्च 2014 - एआईएमए नई दिल्ली ऑल इंडिया मैनेजमेंट एसोसिएशन, नई दिल्ली में व्याख्यान और इंटरैक्टिव सत्र 28 मार्च 2014 को स्वामी बोधानंद के साथ विसमडम लीडरशिप पर आयोजित किया गया है। (केवल निमंत्रण या पंजीकरण द्वारा भागीदारी) स्थान एंपी संपर्क अनूपभ सहगल, प्रबंधक एलएमए रिलेशनशिप सदस्यता, ऑल इंडिया मैनेजमेंट एसोसिएशन, मैनेजमेंट हाउस, 14, इंस्टीट्यूशनल एरिया, लोधी रोड, नई दिल्ली 110003 ईमेल asehgalaima. in 27 फरवरी 2014 - शिवरात्री संदेश - स्वामी बोधनन्द सभी को प्रेम करने वाला भगवान इस वर्ष 2014 में प्यार करता है, शिव रत्री 27 फरवरी को गिरता है। रतरी का मतलब रात है, जो एक चुप, चिंतनशील दिमाग, भय, चिंता, उम्मीदों और निराशा से मुक्त है। शिव की भक्ति में भीतरी दिखने से मन के सभी आंदोलन दूर हो जाते हैं। भक्ति जानना है कि कार्रवाई और प्रतिक्रिया के एजेंट के रूप में हम एक बड़े पूरे का हिस्सा हैं, जो शिव है, और हमारे पर्यावरण का गठन करने वाले सभी प्राणियों के लिए अंतर्निहित जिम्मेदारी की एक स्थायी भावना के साथ बातचीत करना होगा शिव सभी जीवित और गैर-जीवित संस्थाओं का प्रभु है। शिव राती रात, जब दुनिया सोती है, जागरूक भक्त इस सच्चाई को जागता है कि वह शिव के नृत्य से प्रेम में है, जो इस विशाल ब्रह्मांड के रूप में प्रकट हुआ है। सभी प्यार सभी के भगवान प्यार है। इस शुभ दिन पर, शिव तीसरा आंख खोलता है और बुराई को नष्ट कर देता है, जो हमारे मस्तिष्क और आत्माओं को मिट्टी देती है। भक्त, जो वीर घंटों तक सतर्कता रखता है, आत्मनिर्दिष्ट सीमाओं के दायरे से छुड़ाया जाता है और स्वतंत्रता और आनंद के देश में उत्थान किया जाता है। ओम नामा शिव शिवोहम भगवद् गीता और बुद्धिमान नेतृत्व - एएमए में व्याख्यान - 17-21 फरवरी 2014 5 अहमदाबाद मैनेजमेंट एसोसिएशन 16 - 20 फरवरी 2014 द्वारा आयोजित किए गए स्वामी बोधानंद द्वारा व्याख्यान। भगवद गीता एंड वाइड लीडरशिप इनक्लियरिव डेवलपमेंट, लोकतंत्र, बहुलवाद, मानवाधिकार, लिंग समानता, पर्यावरण, हरे रंग की ऊर्जा, जीत-जीत समाधान आदि वर्तमान चर्चा शब्द हैं। परन्तु वर्तमान दुनिया का क्या अभाव है, मानव गतिविधि के सभी क्षेत्रों में बुद्धिमान नेतृत्व हमें व्यापक अर्थहीनता, क्रॉस भौतिकवाद और नैतिक सापेक्षतावाद से जूझने के लिए प्रेरित करता है। भगवान बोधानंद ने भगवद गीता के प्रकाश में चर्चा की, वर्तमान नेतृत्व संकट पांच विषयों को उठाते हुए - 1. बुद्धिमान नेता की आत्म प्रतिबिंब 2. पृथक सगाई 3. बड़ी और छोटी तस्वीर 4. अन्य की समस्या 5. जीतने के लिए लड़ो स्वामी बोधानन्द कोटेशन पर बोलते हैं - 16 फरवरी 2014 को अंतिम मानव संसाधन केंद्र, स्वामी बोधानंद गोवा में 16 फरवरी, 2014 को ऑल इंडिया मैनेजमेंट एसोसिएशन द्वारा आयोजित तीसरे नेतृत्व रिट्रीट में एक व्याख्यान देंगे। कोट कीमती - अत्याधुनिक मानव संसाधन केंद्र मानव संसाधन की पहचान अभिनव और उत्पादक गतिविधियों के लिए महत्वपूर्ण स्रोत के रूप में की गई है। स्वामी बोधानंद ने चेतना के अनंत संसाधनों में दोहन करने के साधन के रूप में इंटरैक्टिव रिक्त स्थान में प्रतिबिंबित करने की क्रिया की सिफारिश की है। प्रेरित नेतृत्व के लिए एक नई रणनीति मुंबई में व्याख्यान, 10-15 फरवरी 2014 स्वामी बोधानन्द 12 और 14 फरवरी 2014 को सम्बोध मुंबई द्वारा आयोजित मुंबई में मानसिक चुनौतियों के लिए एक प्रतिद्वंद्वी - दैनिक जीवनोत्सव में आध्यात्मिकता और अध्यात्म पर दो व्याख्यान देंगे। 2014 नव वर्ष स्वामी से संदेश बोधानन्द एक नया साल आशा और संभावनाओं के एक नवजात बच्चा बंडल जैसा है खतरों और अवसरों से भरा एक अनिश्चित भविष्य और नए साल की आकृतियां व्यक्ति, समुदायों और राष्ट्रों के रूप में प्रकट होंगी, उनके स्व-हितों और आकांक्षाओं के अनुसार चुनाव करें, उनके दृष्टिकोण, ज्ञान और आत्म-धारणाओं के आधार पर। एक उभरती हुई वैश्विक चेतना को अक्सर सांप्रदायिक पूर्वाग्रहों और आदिम भय और शत्रुताओं द्वारा नाकाम कर दिया जाता है प्यार, स्वतंत्रता, न्याय और समुदाय जैसे उच्चतम मानवीय आदर्श मनुष्य हर जगह सत्ता, शक्ति और सुख की तलाश में निराश हैं। 2013 कई मामलों में निराशाजनक था, लेकिन दया और दान, साहस और करुणा के बहुत से अनगिनत कृत्य भी थे, जिन्होंने आशा की लौ को उज्ज्वल रखा जब मैं रॉक क्र्रिवर्स में हरे रंग के फूल और छोटे फूल देखता हूं, तो मेरा दिल आनन्द में कूदता है और मैं रोना चाहता हूं कि आशा अभी भी जीवित है। हर नवजात बच्चा आशा का दूत है। तो भी हर नया साल है, और 2014 अलग नहीं होगा। आशा रखो, बड़ा सपना, जोखिम उठाओ, अज्ञात को गले लगाओ, साहसपूर्वक कार्य करें, और आपको कभी पछतावा नहीं होगा। 2014 को निर्णायक कार्रवाई के एक साल होने और universerdquo में एक छोटे से गड़बड़ के बारे में बताएं। स्वामी बोधनंद 27 दिसंबर 2013 केरल में नई दिल्ली ऋषि विजन 2014 कार्यक्रम दिग्विजय गुरुदेव (2012) से संदेश सम्बोध इंडिया से दीपावली ग्रीटिंग्स यहां स्वामी बोधनंद दीवाली से दिवाली का संदेश है रोशनी का त्योहार। भारत एक जीवंत देश है और हिंदू धर्म एक गतिशील धर्म है। दिवाली, हिंदुओं का सबसे मनाया त्योहार, निराशा पर आशा का उत्सव, उपभोग पर संरक्षण, लोभ पर साझा करना, नफरत पर प्रेम करना, उधार लेने पर बचत करना और खत्म होने पर है। पौराणिक रूप से, दिवाली भगवान रामा के उत्साह का राक्षस राक्षस रावण पर निर्णायक विजय का स्वागत करते हैं। ऐतिहासिक रूप से दिवाली वैदिक प्रतिमान में भारत के एकीकरण का प्रतीक है। इसलिए दीवाली एक अद्वितीय संस्कृति और सभ्यता के रूप में भारत की एकता और आत्म-जागरूकता मनाती है। व्यक्तिगत साधक के लिए, रावण उसके अहंकार का प्रतिनिधित्व करते हैं और राम उच्च स्वयं का प्रतिनिधित्व करते हैं अहंकार उच्च स्वयं को ढंकता है और आगामी भ्रम का उपयोग करने से असहाय मन को आनंद और धूमधाम के द्वीप में अपहरण करता है। अंत में स्वयं स्वयं स्वयं-अनुशासन (लक्ष्मण) और नि: स्वार्थ कार्य (हनुमान) की मदद से स्वयं को स्वीकार करता है और मन को अहंकार से मुक्त करता है और स्वतंत्रता और आनंद के संघ को पुन: स्थापित करता है। स्वामी बोधानंद 10 नवंबर 2012 संबोधा सोसायटी इंक। सिन फ्रांसिस्को वेदांत रिट्रीट, न्यूयॉर्क, सितम्बर 2012, सितंबर 2012, वेदांत रिट्रीट, न्यूयॉर्क (पिक्चर कॉर्टसीः तिलक अग्रवाल) सितम्बर 2012, वेदांत रिट्रीट, न्यूयॉर्क (पिक्चर कॉर्टसीः तिलक अग्रवाल) ज्ञान में स्थिरता (व्याख्यान - ऑडियो धारा) अटलांटा के लिए वेदांत केंद्र ज्ञान में स्थिरता - स्वामी बोधानंद गुरु गुरू पूर्ण गुरु संदेश से गुरुवार को संदेश 2012, निर्माता है, गुरु निरर्थक है और गुरु विनाशक है: गुरु अज्ञान के ढांचे को तोड़ते हैं, सकारात्मक मूल्यों का पोषण करते हैं और रचनात्मक विचारों और कार्यों को प्रेरित करता है गुरु चुप्पी और व्यक्तिगत उदाहरण के द्वारा सिखाता है। गुरु आनंद का एक महासागर और बारहमासी ज्ञान का भंडार है। गुरु गहरी, शांत और सभी को गले लगाते हैं। गुरु ईश्वर है, गुरु स्व है और गुरु प्रेस्टीटर हैं। गुरु देवता का द्वार है गुरु सर्वोच्च चेतना है गुरु प्रेरणाहीन करुणा है गुरु ग्रंथों का दुभाषिया है गुरु पिता हैं, गुरु माता हैं, गुरु दोस्त हैं और गुरु प्यारे हैं। गुरु एक सच्चा मरहम और एक प्रभावी चिकित्सक है। गुरु उपभोक्तावाद की बीमारी और संकीर्ण दिमाग की अंधापन का इलाज करते हैं। गुरु एक कीमियागर है जो स्पर्श, एक इशारे, एक नज़र या एक शब्द से परिवर्तन बनाता है। गुरू प्रकृति है - जंगलों, पहाड़ियों, घाटियों, घाटियों, रेगिस्तान, नदियों, महासागरों, आकाश, सूर्य, चंद्रमा, तारे- जो अभी भी होकर सिखाते हैं। गुरु हमारी सांस है, हमारे दिल की धड़कन और हमारा अस्तित्व गुरु स्थिरता में आत्मविश्वास का कानाफूसी है गुरु बिना मांग प्यार है - एक ऐसा जगह जहां दस लाख फूल खिल सकते हैं, दस लाख सूर्य फूट फेंक सकते हैं और एक मिलियन swans फ्लाई हो सकते हैं। गुरू हर्ष का उत्सव है - आनंद आनंद इस दिन, आकाशगंगा की शुक्लक्षि, 3 दिवसीय, 3 जुलाई को, हमारे गुरु श्री वेद व्यास हजारों साल पहले एक सदाबहार द्वीप पर पैदा हुए थे जो धीरे-धीरे मादा गंगा के चांदी के पानी से निकले थे। एक गरीब मछुआरी महिला का बेटा, वह सबसे अधिक विद्वान और दिन के ऋषि और हिंदू धर्म के संस्थापक बनने के लिए अनाथ हो गया। धर्म का पालन करने वाले अभ्यासों का अभ्यास करते रहने के एक अप्रतिम उत्तराधिकार से धर्म निरंतर रहता है। समय की आवश्यकताओं के अनुसार धर्म का अर्थ और अभ्यास किया जाना है। गुरु धर्म के भंडार, वाहन और ट्रांसमीटर हैं। श्री। सभी हिन्दू गुरुओं में वेद व्यास सबसे पहले और सबसे महत्वपूर्ण हैं। हिंदू धर्म के भक्तों ने अपने जीवन के गुरुओं के चरणों में पूजा करते हुए सेवा देने और गुरु परंपरा और धर्म की शिक्षा के प्रति अपनी प्रतिबद्धता की पुष्टि के द्वारा इस शुभ दिन पर ऋषि व्यास के सम्मान और आज्ञाकारिता का पालन किया। एएम श्रीगुरुभाई नमाह मानव उत्कृष्टता के लिए स्वामी बोधानन्द सम्बोध केंद्र कालमाजू, मिशिगन स्रोत: गुरु पूर्णिमा, गुरुपूतिमा के अवसर पर संदेश 3 जुलाई, 2012 को माउंट। कैलामा मानसरोवर यात्रा तब याक गुरू पूर्णिमा नदी में फेल हो गया। स्रोत: स्वामी बोधानंद, भेजा गया: बुधवार, 13 जुलाई, 2011 1:35 पूर्वाह्न, गुरुगुर्मानिमा के अवसर पर 15 जुलाई, 2011 को आध्यात्मिक और नैतिक व्यवसाय सर्वोच्च हैं जीवन में लक्ष्य। दुनिया के साथ सक्रिय रूप से बातचीत कर लोगों को खुशी खोलना नैतिकता और आध्यात्मिकता का अर्थ है। ज्ञान के बारे में सुनना स्वयं से स्वयं को गुरू प्राप्त करते हैं और कभी-कभी संबंधों में परावर्तनशीलता का अभ्यास करते हुए स्वयं का अहसास होता है। ऋषि व्यास वैदिक ज्ञान की शुरुआत का प्रतिनिधित्व करते हैं और वह गुरु माना जाता है, जिन्होंने व्यक्तिगत अभ्यास और सामाजिक हस्तक्षेप से स्वयं ज्ञान की व्यवस्थित शिक्षा की शुरुआत की। वेद व्यास ने वेदों को भारतीय चेतना में लाया और कई टिप्पणियों और कथाओं के माध्यम से अपने ज्ञान का विस्तार किया। वह भारत की सचेत रक्षक और मूल्य निर्माता हैं 15 जुलाई, वेध व्यास जयंती के इस शुभ अवसर पर, आश्रम के महीने के पूर्णिमा के दिन, हम आध्यात्मिक साधक हमारे गुरु के कमल पैरों पर शरण लेते हैं और सभी गुरुओं का आशीर्वाद प्राप्त करते हैं जो आते हैं और मानवता को आशीर्वाद देते हैं। जय जय गुरुदेव स्वामी बोधानंद स्रोत: स्वामी बोधानंद भेजा गया: सोमवार, 6 जुलाई, 2009 10:52:43 प्रधान मंत्री, सैन फ्रांसिस्को गुरु ब्रह्मा गुरु विष्णु गुरु देव महेश्वर, गुरु दक्षता परम ब्रह्मा तस्मैलाई श्री गुर्वे नमः। गुरु वास्तव में निर्माता ब्रह्मा, रक्षक विष्णु और मुक्तिदाता महादेव हैं, गुरू एक महान ब्राह्मण के साथ है जो कि सर्वोच्च गुरुदेव के लिए मेरा आत्म-सम्मान है। गुरु अंधेरे के पुनर्निर्माण, हमारी सतर्क आंखें, दुनिया के सभी प्रकाशमय सूर्य हैं। गुरु प्रकाश और प्यार है और हमारे भीतर की आत्मा के लिए हमें ले जाता है। गुरु हमारी यात्रा के लिए एक रूपक है, जो शुरू होता है जब सब कुछ खत्म होता है। एक धूमिल सुबह में, गंगा के बीच में, एक कमाल की नाव में, उत्साही प्रेम में ऊर्जा और अनुभव एकजुट होता है। वसंत की हवा खुशी में नाचती थी फ़ायरफ़ीली उत्साहित प्रत्याशा में सुनहरे कपड़े उतारते हैं। नीले आसमान ने अपनी लाख आँखों को शर्मिंदगी में बंद कर दिया। गुरु पैदा हो रहा था। बुद्धि का भोर मंत्र ऋषियों के दिलों में छिपे हुए थे। मंत्रों में दफन की गई बुद्धि दुनिया अंधेरे में हार गई ऋषि व्यास ने अपने जाल की तरह, अपने मछुआरों के पूर्वजों ने पीढ़ियों के लिए किया, लेकिन अब ज्ञान के मोती के लिए। वेदों को प्रकाश में आया फिर वैदिक संस्कृति के उच्च दोपहर हम रूपकों की दुनिया में रहते हैं। गुरु जीवन के लिए हमारा रूपक है व्यास गुरु के लिए हमारी रूपक है। प्यार वैसा के लिए हमारा रूपक है। वसंत सुबह में एक लहराती गंगा पर, एक कमाल की नाव में खिलने वाला प्यार। स्रोत: स्वामी बोधानंद भेजा गया: 10.00 बजे, 5 जून 2008, मानव उत्कृष्टता के लिए सांबोध केंद्र, कलामाजू, मिशिगन इस वर्ष भगवान वेद व्यास की जन्मगांठ 18 जुलाई को गिरती है। वह युवा और खूबसूरत मछुआरी महिला मत्स्यगंधी में पुराने और झुर्रीदार ब्राह्मण ऋषि परसार से पैदा हुआ था। यूनियन एक गड़गड़ाहट नाव में, एक गड़बड़ सुबह, शक्तिशाली गंगा पर, जगह ले ली यह एक अविश्वसनीय रूप से रहस्यमय और अद्वितीय गर्भधारण था पानी के सागर की बेटी उत्साह में ज्ञान की बैठक के महासागर के बेटे ज्ञान और मर्दाना जुनून और स्त्री की जिज्ञासा की एक दुर्लभ बैठक अनुभव और युवाओं का एक संघ। यह हिंदू आध्यात्मिकता, संस्कृति और अक्षरों के बेहतरीन फूलों के लिए जमीन तैयार करता है। कृष्णा (व्यास नाम दिए गए नाम) एक सैंडी द्वीप में मछुआरों के लोगों के बीच अपनी मां के साथ बड़ा हुआ, जो गंगा जल में घूमता रहा। उन्होंने युवा उम्र में तैराकी और मछली पकड़ने में महारत हासिल की मछुआरों के सभी समुदाय में अंधेरे पतले लड़के को बड़े आँखों, मोटी होंठ, विस्तृत माथे और घुंघराले बालों के साथ प्यार करता था। कृष्ण पूर्व सतर्क बच्चे थे। चूंकि वह एक द्वीप व्यास में बड़ा हुआ था, उन्हें भी दुवेयान के रूप में जाना जाता था, जब कृष्ण देवैयायन सात वर्ष का था, तो उसका पिता पिछले समझौते के अनुसार प्रकट हुआ और उसे दूर कर लिया और वैदिक अध्ययन के लिए गुरुकुला में नामांकित किया। गुरुकुला की स्थापना और स्वयं परसारा द्वारा चलाया गया था। पारसारा विवाहित नहीं था, एक पैर में लंगड़ा था और वैदिक व्याख्याओं में सबसे बड़ा जीवित विद्वान था। युवा व्यास तुरन्त उनके पिता निजी सहायक और निरंतर साथी बन गए। परसार ने वेदों की केवल एक शाखा को सिखाया, अन्य शाखाएं आयोजित और भारद्वाजा, अत्री, विश्वमित्र, कसीपा, अघोरा, एट अल जैसे अन्य ऋषियों द्वारा सिखाई गईं। विभिन्न जनजातियों से संबंधित लोग अपने देवताओं के नाम पर अक्सर क्षेत्र, गायों और स्वर्ण हासिल करने के लिए झटके लगे। वैसा के रूप में पूर्ण मर्दानगी में बड़ा हुआ, उन्होंने अपने प्रसिद्ध नारे के साथ इन झगड़े जनजातियों को एकजुट करने का प्रयास किया: सत्य एक है, हालांकि व्याख्याएं बहुत हैं वह संपूर्ण आर्यवर्त, काबुल से कोलकाता, हिमालय और विंध्याओं के बीच के भूमि के आसपास चले गए, और विभिन्न ऋषियों से मुलाकात की, वेदों की अपनी शाखा एकत्र की और फिर उन भजनों को चार खंडों में संकलित किया - द रिक, यजस, समन और अथर्व वेद। हमारे वैदिक पूर्वजों का केंद्रीय अभ्यास यज्ञ था और वे कई देवताओं में और रिदम की अवधारणा में विश्वास करते थे। यज्ञ अग्नि बलि के माध्यम से देवताओं और मनुष्यों के बीच सूक्ष्म विनिमय है और ब्रह्मांड में मौजूद संतुलन और तालमेल है। व्यास ने बहुलवादी सहानुभूति के विचार पर बल दिया और तब से यह हिंदू धर्म का सर्वोच्च आदर्श रहा है। वेद-व्यासा की वजह से वेद-वैसा का सम्मान प्राप्त करने, संपादन, प्रकाशन और प्रसार करने के कारण वेद वैश्य के लिए कृष्ण देवापेयान को मिला। व्यास की माता मत्स्यगन्दी ऊर्फ सत्यवती ने कुरु वंश के राज राजा सैंटनु से अंततः शादी कर ली। उन्होंने व्यास को राजनीति की भँवर में लाया, जिससे उन्हें ताल, आत्मा, ब्रह्मा, यज्ञ और धर्म के सिद्धांतों की व्यावहारिकता का परीक्षण करने का अवसर मिला। व्यास पहले से ही समझ में आ गया है कि व्यक्ति एक ब्रह्मांडीय नेटवर्क का हिस्सा है और उसका अनिवार्य प्रकृति शुद्ध चेतना है इन विचारों को एक समकालीन ढांचे में पेश करने के लिए व्यास ने अपने महान काम - महाभारत इस महाकाव्य में व्यास ने मानव आत्मा को एक अपरिहार्य नेटवर्क के रूप में पकड़ा और मानवीय अनुष्ठानों की त्रासदी और मानव आत्मा की आखिरी जीत को दर्शाया। व्याष्म, धर्मपुत्र, धृतराष्ट्र, दुर्योधन, कर्ण और द्रौपदी के व्यास के लक्षण वर्णन ने मानव स्वभाव की जटिलता और विरोधाभास पर पूरी तरह से कब्जा किया। व्यास का उद्देश्य मानव संबंधों में प्रकृति और धर्म के संचालन का वर्णन करना था। व्यास ने अपने सिद्धांत के तर्क को बताने के लिए ब्रह्मा सूत्र लिखा था कि व्यक्ति सभी मूल्यों का अंतिम स्रोत है। व्यक्ति अस्तित्व, ज्ञान और खुशी का स्रोत है। व्यक्ति में कार्य करने वाली चेतना हर घटना का आधार है। व्यास एक पूरी तरह से चल रहा अध्यात्मवादी था- वह आत्मा पदार्थ का स्रोत है, यह विकास प्रकट करने की प्रक्रिया है जो छिपी है और चेतना में अव्यक्त है। महाभारत का एक हिस्सा, भगवद गीता व्यास दार्शनिक विचारों के शिखर गहना है। कृष्ण, योद्धा नायक, अपने भ्रमित चचेरे भाई, अर्जुन, अपने समय के अग्रणी धनुर्धार को सिखाता है। उस व्यक्ति को परिणामों की परवाह किए बिना किसी व्यक्ति की क्षमता और विवेक के लिए अपने कर्तव्य का पालन करना होगा। यदि लोगों को अच्छी तरह से किया जा रहा है और सामूहिक कल्याण के बीच एक विकल्प होना चाहिए, नायक उत्तरार्द्ध को चुनता है। अभिनेता कर्तव्य के कॉल के रूप में किये गये उनके कार्यों के लिए जिम्मेदार है, लेकिन नतीजतन, परिणामस्वरूप अभिनेता के नतीजे पर नज़र रखने पर इसका कोई नियंत्रण नहीं होता है, नतीजतन द्वारा मापा जाता है, अभिनेता कार्रवाई परिणाम श्रृंखला से मुक्त है भगवद् गीता अभिनेता, कार्रवाई और परिणामों के बीच के रिश्ते पर एक उत्कृष्ट प्रदर्शन है कर्तव्य से बाहर की गई कार्रवाई पाप के दाग से मुक्त होती है, भले ही यह कुछ लोगों को दर्द हो। कर्तव्य की भावना चुनाव बनाने के लिए स्पष्टता देता है एक योद्धा सही है जब वह कर्तव्य से बाहर हो जाता है व्यास ने अपने आधे भाई पत्नियों के बावजूद सही किया क्योंकि उसने इसे कर्तव्य की भावना से बाहर किया था। एक नाबालिग लड़की से बलात्कार करने वाला एक मध्यमवर्ग आदमी उस घृणित चीज़ को घृणा करता है जो उस नीच कृत्य में शामिल नहीं होता है। बलात्कारी या हत्यारे के आवेगपूर्ण कृत्य कर्तव्य के विचार-विमर्श के प्रदर्शन के विपरीत ही है। गीता के केंद्र शिक्षण, लोगों के कर्तव्य की अलग प्रदर्शन, निर्माता के लिए एक भेंट के रूप में, है। व्यास ने बड़ारिक जंगल में एक साथ महीने बिताए, हिमालय में उनके पीछे हटने की स्थिति फिर से थी। उन्होंने वहां अपने अधिकांश काम लिखे हैं उन्होंने एक परिणाम के रूप में एक अन्य वस्तु का अधिग्रहण किया - बड़ारिका वन, बदर्याण के निवासी व्यास के अठारह पुराणों ने उन्हें अपनी कल्पनाशील सर्वश्रेष्ठ में दिखाया। पुराणों में मानव मामलों को देवताओं, मनुष्यों, स्वर्गदूतों, रक्षा, असुरस, गंधर्व, कन्यार, यक्ष, पशुओं, पक्षियों, सरीसृप और यहां तक कि पेड़ों के बीच गड़बड़ी हुई बातचीत के रूप में चित्रित किया गया है। वे एक-दूसरे की भाषा के बारे में संवाद कर सकते थे और जानते थे। तर्क के प्रजनन बिस्तर के संदर्भ में हर मानव अनुभव को समझाने के बजाय, व्यास ने अनुभव और कारणों के संबंधों की व्याख्या के लिए एक उपकरण के रूप में कल्पना की थी। इस प्रकार अगर एक जवान अविवाहित लड़की गर्भवती हो जाती है, तो वह उसका अनैतिक व्यवहार नहीं है, बल्कि पिछली ज़िन्दगी में गंधर्व के प्रति उनके वादे या शक्तिशाली किन्नार या देवता के मोह के परिणामस्वरूप। यदि नवजात शिशु एक के बाद एक मर जाते हैं, तो इस युगल के पिछले जीवन में उस प्रभाव के लिए एक समझौता हुआ था और त्रासदी सिर्फ एक पूर्व निर्धारित योजना के परिणाम के रूप में होने की उम्मीद है मानव जीवन के थिएटर में क्या अनुभव होता है, वह सिर्फ एक छाया है जो कि हुआ, हुआ और जीवन के अन्य थियेटरों में भी होगा। मानव जीवन एक अथक गहराई को प्राप्त करता है - कई स्तरों पर कई खिलाड़ी भी एक ही एपिसोड के बाहर खेलने में शामिल होते हैं पुराणों ने जीवन को बहुरंगी गहराई के साथ जटिल पैटर्न की एक पुंजली वेब के रूप में चित्रित किया है, प्रत्येक कतरा जो अपने स्वयं की एक इच्छा, चरित्र और व्यक्तित्व दिखा रहा है। व्यास पुराण पढ़ना एक चिकित्सीय अनुभव है। कृष्ण दैवीय बड़ारायण वेद व्यास हिंदू धर्म के संस्थापक हैं, जैसा आज हम जानते हैं। वह एक लंबी उत्पादक जीवन जी रहे थे। वह एक विचारक, आयोजक, शिक्षक, दुभाषिया, लेखक, परामर्शदाता, समस्या निवारक, सलाहकार, राजनीतिक रणनीतिकार, संस्था के निर्माता, अथक यात्री थे और सभी एक प्रबुद्ध गुरु से अधिक थे। मानव गतिविधि का कोई भी क्षेत्र नहीं है जिसमें उसने अपना मन नहीं लगाया और समृद्ध किया। वह सबसे बड़ा और सबसे बड़ा भविष्यद्वक्ता या भारत का गुरु है। वह आदि गुरु हैं प्रशंसनीय शिक्षक अपनी पवित्र छवि पर शत्राु की पेशकश करके हम सभी गुरुओं का सम्मान कर रहे हैं जो आते हैं और मानवता को आशीर्वाद देते हैं। जब हम भगवान वेद व्यास को याद करते हैं, तो हम पयण का अर्थ समझते हैं: गुरु निर्माता हैं ब्रह्मा गुरु निर्जन हैं, विष्णु गुरु उद्धारकर्ता है, शिव गुरु वास्तव में सर्वोच्च सत्य हैं, गुरु के लिए हमारी पूजाएं, स्वामी बोधानन्द संबोधा मानव उत्कृष्टता के लिए कलामज़ू, मिशिगन 10.00 5 जून 2008 स्रोत: स्वामी बोधानंद भेजा: 11.42 बजे, 17 जुलाई 2007, सैन फ्रांसिस्को एक बहुलवादी, जीवित परंपरा में, हिंदू बुद्धि परंपरा की तरह, गुरु की भूमिका सर्वोपरि है इस तरह के एक संस्कृति में ज्ञान किसी पुस्तक में बंद नहीं किया जाता है, हालांकि उत्कृष्ट और उत्कृष्टता पुस्तक हो सकती है। इस तरह की परंपराओं में ज्ञान गुरुओं के पास है, जिन्होंने आदर्श जीवन शैली के अध्ययन, प्रतिबिंब, अभ्यास और शिक्षण के विषयों पर अपना जीवन समर्पित किया है। हर गुरु के पात्र के अनुसार सत्य को प्रत्यक्ष रूप से अनुभव करना चाहिए और निजी ज्ञान के अधिकार से बोलना चाहिए। सती गुरु शब्द रोट से सीखी स्मृति से वसंत नहीं करते हैं, लेकिन चिंतनशील अनुभव के ताजा स्प्रिंग्स से। सच्चे गुरु, मूल दृष्टि से समझौता किए बिना, समय और परिस्थितियों की आवश्यकताओं के अनुसार ज्ञान की व्याख्या करने की स्वतंत्रता प्राप्त करता है। कार्यस्थल, परिवार को, सामुदायिक जीवन में, शिक्षाविदों को, और वास्तविकता के विरोध के साथ रचनात्मक वार्ता में शामिल होने और वास्तविकता की धारणाओं के साथ - अकेले उनके पास व्यावहारिक जीवन की रोजमर्रा की कगार पर आध्यात्मिकता लेने के लिए स्पष्टता और स्थिरता है। हिंदुओं का मानना है कि समय-समय पर प्रतिमान बदलाव मानवीय समझ में होते हैं और महान अवतारवृत्तियों के नेतृत्व में शक्तिशाली आंदोलनों ने वास्तविकता को फिर से परिभाषित किया है और मानवीय आकांक्षाओं को फिर से परिभाषित किया है। राम, कृष्ण, बुद्ध और गांधी, मूसा, यीशु, मोहम्मद, कन्फ्यूशियस, न्यूटन, डार्विन, आइंस्टीन एट। दैवीय के ऐसे युगों की अभिव्यक्तियां थीं हिंदुओं में महान गुरूओं को समय-समय पर बड़ी ग़लतफ़हमी, भ्रष्टाचार, भ्रम, लालच और मानवीय व्यवहार और समुदाय के जीवन में हिंसा के अस्तित्व को साफ करने के लिए अद्वितीय सौभाग्य था। उनमें से कुछ थे, ऋषि यज्ञवल्क्य, ऋषि वशिष्ठ, ऋषि वाल्मीकि, वेद व्यास, गौदापदचार्य, शंकराचार्य, रामानुजाचार्य, मदवाचार्य, तुलसीदास, रामकृष्ण परमहंस, स्वामी विवेकानंद और रमना महर्षि। Of all these Hindu Gurus, the name of Sage Badarayana Paraasara Krishna Dvaipayana Veda Vyasa, or simply, Veda Vyasa stands out as a beacon light through millennia of Hindu history. He was the compiler of Vedas, and the author of Mahabharata and Brahma Sutras. He laid the firm foundation of Hinduism by his crystal clear and uncompromising teachings and tireless dedicated work. Vyasa was a great synthesizer and emphasised on mystic statements like: quot Truth is one, but paths are manyquot quot Thou art Thatquot quot Consciousness is Truthquot quotThe creation is non-separate from the Creatorquot etc. In a multicultural global society and when science and technology has become the nursery rhymes of every child and material progress the dominant mantra, Vyasas insights and wisdom help us integrate the best in all traditions and systems of knowledge and create a unifying vision of ethics, conduct and meaning for human striving. I have no doubt that Sage Vyasas teachings will have more and more relevance as the world becomes more integrated, complex and multi-cultural. On the auspicious day of Guru PurnimaVyasa Jayanti I wish all of you blessings from all Gurus who appeared and yet keep appearing on the planet to teach and enlighten humanity. Jai Gurudeva Jai Sri Vyasa Bhagavan Jai Sri Sankaracharya Love, Swami Bodhananda Source: Swami Bodhananda Sent: 30th June 2006, Kalamazoo, Michigan, On the occasion of Vyasa Purnima on 10th July, 2006 The birth anniversary of Sri Veda Vyasa falls on the 10th of July. He was born 5000 years ago to a fisher woman, in an island. His father was a Brahmin scholar called Parasara. From such humble origins Vyasa grew up to become the greatest spiritual and ethical preceptor of India. He is the founder of Hinduism as we practice it today. Hindus call him Adi Guru, the ancient teacher. The birthday of Sri Vyasa is hence celebrated as the day of fullness of Guru. Veda Vyasa systematised and edited the four Vedas that became the foundation stones of Hinduism. The cardinal principles of Vedas are: (1) There are many paths to the One God. (2) The world is a dynamic expression of God, hence Divine. (3) God is to be realised in the hearts of individuals who cultivate compassion for fellow creatures. Vyasa further developed these ideas into a system of ethics and social conduct in his famous composition, the Mahabharata. The Gita, the core sacred book of Hindus, is set in the Mahabharata in the midst of a battlefield. It gives the message of detached engagement in the performance of ones worldly duties as a path to spiritual growth. Ever since down to this day Hindus have followed the light shown by Vyasa. Guru is the vehicle of knowledge transference. It is true with any branch of knowledge, be it material science or spiritual wisdom. We stand on the shoulders of our forefathers. Without words and writing and teachers, civilization will come to a grinding halt. Gurus role is as important today as it was during the ages of oral tradition. It is Guru who transforms data into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. He interprets symbols for day-to-day living. He welds the transcendental and the terrestrial into a happy harmony in human awareness. He is the Shiva who brings down the Ganga of knowledge from Heaven to earth. Guru is Acharya who teaches by practice, who walks his talk. The syllable Gu in the word GURU represents darkness and Ru in the sense of remover. Etymologically GURU means remover of spiritual darkness or ignorance. Guru is inspired by his inner energy and motivated by compassion for the suffering world. His words or actions have no tinge of self-aggrandising greed or ambition. Vyasa lived in the forest of Badarikaranya, away from the city, away from power and pomp. But he was there when the nation faced a crisis, with his ethical compass and spiritual torchlight. The whole community listened to him in abated breath. He set standards for kings, philosophers and businessmen to follow. A Guru is a RAJARSHI, that is, an involved spiritual beacon, contributing to the well being of people. Vyasa advised the Kuru dynasty, Vasishta, the solar kings and in modern times we have the glorious example of Mahatma Gandhi. A Guru never turns his face from the problems of the world. According to Sankaracharya, Guru is quotahetuka dayasindhuquot - an ocean of motiveless compassion. The Katha Upanishad says: quot uttishtata jagrata praapya varaan nibodhataquot - Arise Awake Seek company of great souls and gain enlightenment. The Mundaka Upanishad says: quottat vijnaanaartham gurumevabhi gachet, samitpanih srotriyam bramhma nishtamquot - to know the truth may the seeker approach a scholar well established in wisdom. The Gita says: quot tat vidhi pranipaatena, pariprasnena, sevayaquot - may you know the truth through surrender, enquiry and service. The Veda cautions: quotacharyavaan purusho vedaquot - blessed by a guru one comes to know the truth. In all these scriptures the importance of Guru is highlighted. Sant Tulsi Das dares to say: If God and Guru appear together, first prostrate to Guru and then to God, for it was Guru who opened our eyes to God. Shiva Purana says: Guru saves from Gods anger, but not even God can save when Guru is angry. Such is the reverence in which Hindus hold for Guru and the Guru Parampara, the succession of teachers. It is all the legacy of Veda Vyasa. His full name was Krishna-Dvaipayana-Badarayana-Paarasara - Veda Vyasa. Salutations to this Loka Guruworld teacher of India who taught us ahimsa paramo dharma - lsquocoexistence is supreme virtuersquo. This is the message the modern world, torn in several factions, urgently needs. Swami Bodhananda Kalamazoo, Michigan 30th June 2006 Source: Swami Bodhananda Sent: Thursday, 10 Jul 2003, 20:07:59, Kalamazoo, Michigan On the occasion of Guru Purnima on 13 July, 2003 We celebrate Guru Purnima on 13 July, the day five thousand years ago Sage Vyasa was born as a love child to Parasara Muni and Satyavati, the fisher woman. Vyasa was called Krishna because of his black complexion, and Dvaipayana because he was born in an island (dvip) flanked by the Yamuna. He was also called Badarayana, the inhabitant of the Badarika (Jujube tree) forest. Later this great saint came to be known as Veda Vyasa for his seminal work of collecting, editing, publishing, interpreting and propagating the four Vedas - Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva. Thus Vyasas full name was Paarasara Krishna Dvaipayana Badarayana Veda Vyasa. His independent works are, the Mahabharata, the Puranas and the Brahmasutras. The Prasthanatrayee, that is, the Brahmasutras, the ten principal Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita are essentially the work of Sri Veda Vyasa. The Prasthanatrayee are the triple scriptures of the present day Hinduism. The great Acaryas of Hinduism such as Sankaracarya, Ramanujacarya and Madhvacarya and later Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and Mahatma Gandhi wrote commentaries for at least one of these scriptures. Therefore Sri Veda Vyasa can be called the fathermotherGuru of Hinduism as we know and practice it today. Sri Vyasa was not only a scholar, but he also was an active statesman who took interest in the affairs of the nation. He came to the help of his motherqueen Satyavati in running the kingdom when his half-brothers, who were kings, were found inadequate for the task. Sri Vyasa even went to the extent of siring children in Ambalika and Ambika, the royal queens, who could not conceive from their husband kings - Vicitravirya and Citrangada. The central teachings of Vyasa can be condensed into the following: (1) Truth is one. but paths are many. (2) World is one family, hence to exist is to co-exist. (3) God Divinity lives in the heart of each humanbeing. (4) GodDivinity can be experienced moment to moment in a pure mind. (5) Purity of mind is attained when engaged in the world through self-giving work. Whenever Hindus have forgotten to live these immortal teachings of Veda Vyasa then they came to suffer humiliation and cultural degradation. That has been happening to us, Hindus, for the last 1500 years. Instead of responding creatively to challenges of the Muslims and the British, and grow in stature, we withdrew from the arena of action, and tried to find our god in seclusion and in the cocoon of our small self. Now Vyasas teachings are finding world acceptance and are experimented on the world theatre by globally conscious individuals. I have no doubt that Veda vyasas teachings will be the foundation of the emerging world spiritual consciousness. Salutations to Our Guru, Sri Veda Vyasa. Jai Jai Gurudeva, Swami Bodhananda Thursday, 10 Jul 2003, 20:07:59 Kalamazoo, Michigan Source: Swami Bodhananda Sent: July 21st, 2002, 3.30pm, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA On the occasion of Guru Purnima on 24th July, 2002 Guru Purnima falls on 24, July. This was the day Bhagavan Krishna Dvaipayana Paaraasara Veda Vyasa was born. He was born to Matsyagandhi Satyavati, the fishermans daughter, by Sage Parasara, the great master of the Vedas. Shri Veda Vyasa is the greatest proponent of Hinduism as we know and practice it today. Veda Vyasa enjoyed royal patronage of the Kurus as his mother later married the Kuru king Santanu. Santanus children in Satyavati were Vichitravirya and Chitrangada. They married the princesses of Kasi - Ambika and Ambalika. Since the princes remained childless, Vyasa procreated children in those princesses. These two boys were called Dritarashtra and Pandu. Shri Vyasa continued to take interest in the affairs of the state. This provided him insights into the behaviour of men and women in powerful positions. That is how Vyasa was able to weave spirituality into the nitty-gritty of daily life. The Mahabharata is a classic work of Veda Vyasa in which he describes the passions and drives that fuel people to do stupendous as well as horrendous deeds. The ethical issues arising out of dilemmaic situations and powerful men, caught in the web of their past, struggling to come out of the swamp of their inner confusions are fascinating themes depicted in this epic. And the great teaching of the Bhagavad Gita, showing a way out of this mental paralysis, a beacon light shines in centre of this storm. Shi Veda Vyasa composed, according to traditional wisdom, all the 18 Puranas including the Bhagavata Purana. He is the undoubted author of Mahabharata and Brahmasutras. Shri Veda Vyasa got his best spiritual training under the tutelage of his scholar-Saint father who was an authority in the Vedas. It was Vyasa who later collected the vast repertoire of the Vedic lore, edited and published in the form that we know the four Vedas today. There could not have been the future Hinduism without Vyasas foundational work. The later Acharyas like Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, Vallabha, Chaitanya, Tulasi Das and others have only interpreted variously the texts written by Vyasa. Shri Veda Vyasa was the defining moment in the long story of Hinduism. The Hindu world view and ultimate aspirations which determine the Vedantic culture of India and of one billion strong Hindus all over the world were inspired by this great Rishi. These are the reasons why Hindus worship Vyasa as the Guru of gurus - Adi Guru. Krishna claims in the Gita that among Muni-s He is Vyasa, who is considered an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Guru is one who guides us beyond the ocean of ignorance, limitations and sorrow. His energy arises from a vast sea of compassion, born of spiritual vision. Lord Krishna, Lord Rama, Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad, Moses, Confucius, Socrates were all great teachers who strove to lift human kind from their little selves to the Oceanic Vastness of the Self. By offering Salutations to Vyasa we are actually honouring this long succession of teachers who manifested, from time to time, to bless suffering humanity. It is said that our biological parents bring us into the turmoil of the world and our Guru help us remain above those turbulences. On this auspicious Day of the Guru, we offer our prostrations at the lotus feet of our Guru, so that He may purify our hearts and lift our spirits to the presence of the all-pervading Spirit - The ultimate Bliss of Union. On this day we rededicate ourselves to the path of spiritual knowledge and self-realization, of ineffable Love and the all-encompassing Consciousness, to the study of the scriptures and a life of contemplation. Salutations Salutations Salutations At The Lotus Feet Of The Guru. Swami Bodhananda July 21st, 2002, 3.30pm, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Source: Swami Bodhananda Chinmaya Jyoti, Vol.3, No.1, July 1981, pg.3 The socio-cultural dimension of mans existence is not inherited genetically, but acquired in the course of social living. It is culture and social awareness that distinguishes man from the animal. The process of acquiring this culture is education. The person who helps the transmission of culture is called Guru. Culture is a wide term which includes a vision of life, corresponding values, behavior patterns, goals and expectations in life. It sets the standards by which success or failure is measured. To some success is the increase in the quantity of desires entertained and fulfilled, whereas to others success is freedom from wants and enjoyments there of. The Hindu Vision of life remain unchanged from what it was 5000 years ago, say in the times of Sage Vyasa, Sage Yajnavalkya, Gargi, Sri Rama or Sri Krishna - the yearning for the limitless, love for renunciation, a happy acceptance of ones lot in life, and a deep respect for others living and non-living. Culture is a question of attitude, not of mere material advancement, of harmony with nature not of conflict and strife. Such an attitude can be imparted only by those who live that ideal. No amount of theorizing and pamphleteering can achieve it. Hence the need of a teacher who live by his convictions. His life and conduct is the teaching. The Hindu tradition is supremely fortunate in having a succession of teachers like Sri Vyasa, Acarya Sankara, Swami Tapovanam et. al. July 17th we celebrate Vyasa Jayanti as world teachers day. Krishna Dvaipayana, alias Veda Vyasa was the greatest of all Hindu teachers. He collected all Vedas, edited and published them. He devised a method of teaching and is the first spring of Guru Sisya Parampara, whose blessings we enjoy through our teachers. Our salutations to Sage Veda Vyasa, and Poojya Gurudev who blazes our path towards peace and Godhood. Source: Swami Bodhananda Chinmaya Jyoti, Vol.3, No.1, July 1981, pg.3 Source: Message written for the occasion of the celebration of Navaratra by His students and devotees of Sambodh Foundation Bangalore Chapter, India, in 1998 The other day we celebrated Navaratra the memory of the epic fight that the DIVINE MOTHER fought against Mahishasura, the buffalo demon, and the final victory of the good over evil. On the tenth day dasami the Divine Mother having accomplished the mission of HER advent, disappeared into the surging waters of the ocean. Her entire creation heaved a sigh f relief as the world was finally free from the scourge of Mahishasura, the epitome of ignorance and arrogance. Sakti is the power of the Lord by which HE deludes creatures as well as delivers them. In fact delusion and deliverance are two aspects of the same process. Both are His play. Only the deluded will know the value of deliverance. It is only when you lose the diamond that you know the value of the diamond. As the Mahisha of ignorance overpowers our faculties, the intellect get deluded, emotions are muddied, senses run riot, perception become warped, the spring of love in the heart dries up, words become bitter and acerbic, thoughts turn split, deeds become violently destructive, and the quality of life is totally and irreparably degraded. Mahisha also stands for death and disintegration. Mahisha wallows in filthy water. It is a beast of burden, oblivious of the hideous weight over its back. It is a symbol of voiceless suffering. Mahisha represents he unacceptable levels of suffering, suppression and disruption caused by kama, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, matsarya, damba, ahamkara, asuya and irsya all due to a fall from spiritual values and holistic vision. The ordinary human being is so steeped into this mire of psychological filth that all his attempts to pull himself out have come to naught. Like the TuskerKing Gajendra of Bhagavatam, he is carried deeper and deeper into the whirlpool of Samsara by the crocodile of his insatiable greed. It is at such dreadful moments of pitch darkness in midday, as all our struggles are frustrated by an enemy from within, that good people start fervently fasting and praying for the DIVINE intervention, for a fresh transfusion of life giving energy. When the Mahisha, that huge hulk of all devouring darkness straddle the length and breadth of the individual and social life, swaying menacingly its powerfully crooked horns, stamping its hoofed feet irreverently on anything holy, beautiful and vulnerable, its puffed nostrils shooting shafts of fury, its eyes bulging into venomous rage, it is then good people helplessly look heavenward with upraised open arms and cry their heart out for DIVINE intervention. It is then Lord Vishnu, Brahma, Siva, Indra, Varuna, the sun and the Moon, and all the other Gods, along with the Rishis and Munis pool together any pray to the most compassionate DIVINE MOTHER of the universe to intervene and take action. They all, in unison, beseech Her to put on Her terrible form, to jump on to the back of her snarling mount, the roaring lion, put out her eighteen hands and pull out the armory of eighteen missiles, to join battle with the Mahishasura, and vanquish him once for ever. Granting their collective prayer, the Universal Mother came down on the Mahishasura like bouts of thunderbolts, slicing and incinerating the dark monster into extinction. Darkness ended and there was sunshine again. Navaratra is a message of hope, of faith, in the ultimate victory of good over evil. Faith is an inbuilt mechanism of good asserting decisively when the balance of forces shifts in favour of evil. Navaratra heralds the regenerative, creative powers in the midst of entropy and death. Navaratra is the celebration of hope, and the reaffirmation of Faith. satyameva jayate na anrtam satyena pandha vitatah devayanah Truth alone triumphs, never untruth The paths to Gods are made of Truth. OM TAT SAT JAI MATA DI On Deepavali Swami Bodhananda Chinmaya Jyoti, Editorial, Vol.2, No.5, November 1980, pg.3 As the earth spins on its imaginary axis as ususal, ushering in the month of aswini, the people inhabiting the region between the Hindukush and the Arakhan, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, prepares themselves to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights. Light has a special meaning and significance in human life. A devout traditional Hindu tends a permanent fire in his house. A modern Hindu keeps a lamp or a zero watt bulb burning in his pooja room. The Lord, the Self of all beings is of the nature of light - jyotisvaroopah. The early Vedic Rishis chanted: lead from darkness to light, from death to deathlessness. The ultimate reality, the consciousness, the Brahman is pure light. It is in the light of that consciousness everything that falls in the field of experience, including the sun and the moon, is illumined. He alone shines in his resplendent glory, and everything else shines after him. Chinmaya Jyoti, Vol.2, No.5, November 1980, pg.3 On Sri Ganesa, and Siddhi Vinayaka Kalasa Programme Swami Bodhananda in an email response to Naveen Budhraj Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:01 PM Please use this message for the Spring News Bulletin. We, Ganesha devotees, have been chanting the mantra and offering charity in the Siddhi Vinayaka Kalasha for the last two years. Last year we reaffirmed our commitment to this sadhana program. Large number of new devotees came forward enthusiastically to join the Kalasha Sadhana. Some from the old batch left too. That has been always the case. But Ganesha blesses all of us unconditionally. With His curved trunk He removes all obstacles from our path. His small piercing eyes keep constant vigil on our deeds and misdeeds. His large, oversized years listen to all that we consciously and unconsciously say. With His single tusk He writes the script of our destinies. Shri Ganapati Bapa is a symbol of joy, contentment and mirth, of affluence and wealth, peace and health. His two consorts, Siddhi and Buddhi, constantly serve Him in His world redeeming work. Devotees of Ganesha are blessed with sharp intellect and fulsome success. In April,2003 we visited Sattal. Jasjit Mansingh, Marion (from Netherlands), Naveen, Alka and me spent three days in the gorgeous setting of the Himalayas, walking along the narrow footpaths visiting homes and chatting up with the villagers. Our purpose was to develop friendship with them, to assess their immediate needs unobtrusively and see what we can do for them on your behalf. Their urgent universal requirement was clean, running, drinking water. Later they may need schools, health clinics, roads, electricity, and the list goes on and on. Our team committed two lakhs for the water project. I am sure you will approve of that. Later, an utterly dejected and lost villager came to us and talked about his ailing wife, who required immediate medical treatment. We decided to grant him monetary help of Rs. 5000 on the spot. The fact there was somebody to listen to his tale of woe and bring some succor to his dark world of hopelessness brought a suspicion of a smile on the weather beaten wrinkled face of that man. For the first time I saw the face of God. Friends, this project that we have collectively undertaken is something we have to do on a priority basis. So many of our brethren are suffering. We have to do our bit for them. This is the way to do it, not with arrogance, but with humility - that Lord ganesha is giving us an opportunity to serve the world and purify ourselves. Sambodh Foundation and Sambodh Seva Trust are organising many programs for the spring. Naveen Budhraja will be detailing all of them in his report. Wishing to see you in all those functions. Jai Ganesha Maha Ganesha Love and regards, Swami Bodhananda Swami Bodhananda Sent on August15th, 2002, 12.11am, from Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA Onam is many things to many people - a harvest festival, beginning of the new year, nostalgia for a long lost kingdom of equality and justice, yearly reunion with their most beloved expatriate king-Mahabali, victory of divine piety over earthly might, conquest of ego by the spirit and above all an occasion for fun and celebration. We take off ten days from our busy schedule, decorate the forefront of our homes with floral designs and worship God (in clay statues) as the ideal king who visits each and every one of his citizens in their homes. For the masses God is a benevolent king, who protects the weak and promotes the good. But goodness alone is not enough. Goodness with out humility is arrogant display of power, a mindless standardization of human values. Who ever has tried that system has failed miserably. You may make every body equal, but humanity loses individuality in a mass of homogeneity. That is what happened to the ideal of Mahabali. Like the communists and socialists, he forcibly imposed equality, and people lost their quality and creativity and the zest for life. The young brahmachari Vamana by a creative intervention demolished the whole structure of inertia and somber statusquo in which mahabali ruled as the sole decision maker. Vamana came as a humble mendicant wanting only three square feet of land to spread his contemplation - cushion. The mighty Mahabali, secure in his power and glory, condescendingly, but thoughtlessly, granted, even against his teachers advise, the request. Apparently a good act, but with out circumspection. And the structure which Mahabali constructed over years on the principle of equality and inertia collapsed like a pack of cards, like the erstwhile Soviet Union. What is the message of this ambivalent story A good king was sent packing to the nether world by a just God for no apparent reason or justification There are two messages: 1) that power with out humility will not be lasting and 2) that equality without freedom for individual enterprise will not be sustainable. The spiritual message is surrender to God and do your best for the good of others. Love and hearty Onam Greetings Swami Bodhananda Sambodh Foundation Sambodh Foundation, India . is a not-for-profit charity and spiritual organisation, that works for social, and spiritual uplift, inspired by the vision and teachings of its preceptor, SWAMI BODHANANDA. An acclaimed Teacher of Vedanta, Gurudev with rare clarity and vision, through discourses, interviews, lectures, classes and seminars unfolds the answers to the perennial yet contemperaneous question who am I. Sambodh Foundation is a forum for philanthropists and service-minded Sadhakas, to pool their resources, to set up appropriate institutions, with a dream for the spiritual revival of the humankind. Guided by Gurudevs sacred vision Sambodh practises the inculcation of values such as respect for all religions, respect for the individual and hisher fundamental rights, respect for nature and humans symbiotic relationship, all with a scientific temper. The goal is noble. The work is rewarding. But the path is ardous. We need a reservoir of good will among the enlightened public. Finance is required. Workers are needed. But what is more precious is the good wishes of the people, of all of you. Join us and discover a new world and a new life of happiness, love, self-unfoldment and self-fulfillment. Let us participate in Gods work and let us feel Gods abundant grace every moment of our lives. Sambodh INDIA has centres in several cities in Kerala with ashrams in Trivandrum, Cochin, Calicut and Palakkad. The headquarters of Sambodh Kerala is in Trivandrum, at Bodhananda Kendram, beside the river Kalady, frilled by coconut palms, and with a picturesque vanatage point. There is a full fledged guest house, halls, and class rooms in Bodhananda Kendram. Bodhananda Kendram in Trivandrum is the oldest Centre of Sambodh India, and was started by the disciples of Gurudev in 1988. Siddhi Vinayaka is the patron deity of Sambodh Kerala and other Sambodh Centres. Devotees of Sambodh in India and the United States worship Siddhi Vinayaka with the Ganesa Gayatri mantra . and also contributing to microcharity through the Siddhi Vinayaka Kalasaradhana Programme. Read More Sambodh India has inspired a research foundation, Bodhananda Research Foundation for Management and Leadership Studies. BRF-ML was found in 1990 inspired by Gurudevs vision that leadership will be the most challenging issue in the twenty-century not only in corporate management, but all enterprises that would need innovation, imagination and team effort. BRF-ML organises seminars and courses on a wide range of themes on Indian management. The most recent event was a course on classical Indian ways of reasoning, with focus on the text Tarkasamgraha . Read More The activities of Sambodh Bangalore are primarily two-fold: The Sambodh Centre for Vedanta amp Siddhi Vinayaka Temple which is coming up in the city and the Sambodh Centre for Living Values in the outskirts of Bangalore which is devoted to activities that promote a green life style based on ecological principles. Sambodh Bangalore organises events to support underprivileged children with educational aids planting of trees, medicinal plants and organic farming and nurtures Sambodh Centre for Living Values, with a variety of a programmes that inspires interdisciplinary dialogues studying Vedantic texts and living with the nature. Currently, Sambodh Bangalore is overseeing the construction of the completion of Vedanta Centre and the Siddhi Vinayaka Temple. To Know How You can Support, See Brochure Sambodh Delhi is the central office for all Sambodh Centres in India. Apart from the administrative overview of the Centres, Sambodh Delhi organises annual lectures by Gurudev, and also study classes on Upanishads, Gita, and Vedantic texts, when Gurudev is in India. Apart from leadership and management studies seminars and lectures, Sambodh Delhi organises a variety of charity events to support the poor and underprivileged, and also supports a project for facilitating drinking water in Sattal, a Himalayan village. See Pictures Thematic Notes Sapta Padma -- The Seven Lotuses The human is a conglomerate of energy vibrations. Modern science says that human body is formed of 10 trillion cells. It is these cells that function as bone, marrow, blood, flesh, skin, neural networks, sense organs, and motor organs. Cells are a collection of atoms. Atom is a vibration of energy. This vibration rests in vacuum and vacuum rests in consciousness. It is this consciousness which Rishis know and realize through meditation as sacchIdananda and bodhasvarupa . Man ends up a samsari and unhappy person when he leads a body-oriented life without knowing these different dimensions of existence. Identified with the superficial manifests of consciousness such as nama (name) and rupa (form), and forgetting the essential relationship with the depths, he as a limited and insecure individual spends his lifetime, eating, sleeping, and procreating. Human consciousness which is trapped in the four expressions: kama (desire), krodha (anger), bhaya (fear) and dura (greed) needs to be awakened and heightened, led through the different dimensions of existence, and integrated with the comprehensiveness of consciousness. What is called for is a self-fulfilling pilgrimage from selfishness to selflessness. From desire through love to devotion from the navel through the heart to hrit from greed through austerity to compassion from Muladhara through anahata to the sahasrara . The Rishis with their subtle vision saw the totality of universe in the human form as virat purusha . The universe has the form of a man of perfect shape sitting in siddhasana . The extroverted human who walks carefree in his two legs is unaware of this secret. The universe is full of energy vibrations with different frequencies. The Rishis realize the totality of these vibrations as aumkara the pranava . The energy vibrations of the Yogi in siddhasana orchestrate with the cosmic energy vibrations. The sushumna nerve becomes enlivened in this meeting of the microcosm with the macrocosm. The potential energy which lies in slumber in the Muladhara needs to be awakened through this sushumna nerve, to the sahasrara . । Sushumna is the extremely subtle nerve which begins two inches above the anus, passing through the vertebral column of the spinal cord, like a long lotus reed, and reaching the brain. This nerve is not apprehensible through scientific instruments. The point above the anus, where the Sushumna nerve starts is called the Muladharam . and the other points upwards where the Sushumna touches are called Svadhishtanam . Manipurakam . Anahatam . Visuddham and Ajna . The Sushumna nerve ends in the Sahasrara which exists centred on and encompassing the brain. These energy centers which exist in the path of the Sushumna nerve are called Padma and Chakra . They are called Padma since they have the power to bloom like a lotus and radiate energy. They are also called Chakra since they are the sources of Sakti energy. Whereas Muladharam is two inches above the anus where the spinal cord ends, Svadhishtanam is two inches above Muladharam on the genital. Manipuraka Padma exists on the centre of navel, Anahata Padma is on the centre of heart, Visuddha Padma is on the Adams apple, Ajna Padma is on the bhrumadya between the eyebrows, and Sahasraram on the centre of the brain. Sahasraram is the Padma with thousand petals. If Sushumna nerve could be compared to a lotus reed, these Padma centres of Sakti could be compared to the flowers on that reed, placed at specific distances from bottom to top. The central point of attention of a body focused human is on the Muladharam where Ida and Pingala meet. Of these two nerves which begins at Muladharam going up encircling the Sushumna . Ida through the left nostril and Pingala through the right nostril relates with the bahyaprana outside Prana . Ida and Pingala nerves and Muladhara Padma form the substratum for the experience of duality. Ida by relating with the left side of the brain, and Pingala by relating with the right side of the brain becomes the substratum for the opposing forces in the individual and cosmos. When Ida is the substratum of buddhi intelligence, paurusha manliness, Surya sun and Agni fire, Pingala is the substratum of emotions, feminine qualities, moon and water. Human who is the slave of ahamkara ego, and mamaakara - mine-ness, identifying with Ida and Pingala nerves, exists in the Muladharam . influenced by kama desire, krodha anger, lobha greed and bhaya anger. The human energy caught up in the Muladharam needs to be liberated. This has to be achieved by the blooming of the Muladhara Padma. The four-petalled Muladhara could be awakened, by taking a long breath through the right nostril, holding it inside, and exhaling it through the chanting of Aumkara . The consciousness which is awakened and freed from the Muladharam becomes free of kama-desire. Further, with the chanting of Aumkara . consciousness liberated through the awakening of the six petalled Svadhishtana . and thus becoming free from anger awakening the ten petalled Manipurakam and becoming free from greed awakening the twelve petalled Anahata Padma and becoming free from fear awakening the sixteen petalled Visuddha Padma and becoming free from vasana-s awakening the two petalled Ajna Padma and becoming free from self-ignorance continued with the chanting of Soham and awakening the thousand petalled Sahasrara to the spectacle of thousand suns rising together. When consciousness awakens through the Sushumna transcending each Padma . gradually the levels of Panchabuta five elements, triguna and the seer-seen duality are also transcended. Sakti energy is limited consciousness. Siva is unlimited consciousness. Siva-Sakti-Samyoga is the limited consciousness awakening to the unlimited consciousness, like the river merges with the ocean-this is the awakening of Kundalini . Human consciousness confined to the Muladhara is called Kundalini the coiled snake lying in two folds. Since this snake is the reflection of Siva consciousness it is also said that it is coiled around the Sivalinga . Sushumna is the passage which guides the consciousness from the lowest level to the highest level. It is about reaching the seventh level of Sahasrara crossing the six Chakra, that the poet Tunjath Ezuthacchan wrote: padiyaarum kadannavide chellumbol Sivane kanaanaakum Siva sambho climbing the six steps one sees the Siva. Tantra sadana tradition describes the means and methods for the awakening of the Kundalini . and achieving Purna Prajna by the touching of Kundalini of Sahasrara Padma and awakening it. Agama Sastra also says that only by the direct guidance of a realized Guru, only a student who has renounced all desires, can get the complete realization through this path. Source: Article written by Swami Bodhananda, Sambodh News (Bangalore) Vol.1, No.1, 1996 Generally our happiness is due to a reason. Can you be happy without any reason Your very nature is happiness. When the sun shines, it is not due to any reason. It is its nature. In the same way can I be a happy person, since it is my nature Can I always remain in the state of happiness If you can then you are in Samadhi. A happy person is a Sanyasi, is a Samadhistha. Samadhi is not just siiting in padmasan. । You dont meditate for obliging the teacher, either. It is not for the sake of the teacher nor the society. It is for your own healthy being. It is to discover your own inner potential. Having touched that level of consciousness, you wont go around establishing relationships with an expectation of happiness. That state of consciousness where there is no seeking for happiness is Samadhi. It does not mean that you wont think of a car or a television. A happy person can also think of a car or a television. But understand that they can give you comfort not necessarily happiness. A television can set can give you pleasure and comfort. But comfort need not necessarily make you happy. You will be comfortably unhappy. That is all This is the greatest discover of the Rishi that comfort need not necessarily make an individual happy. You can have comforts. But for happiness, you have to meditate. For comforts you must work. । I am sacchidananda is not a conclusion. That is something which you have to experience in your daily encounters. Therefore, let us not say quotI am a limited personquot. Let us not say quotI am a unhappy personquot. The existential woe of the modern man is that he thinks that at the heart of human situation it is a cesspool of pain there is no joy at all man is unhappy, radically and deeply. This kind of a self-image has to be changed. When you dont understand yourself properly, when you belittle yourself, then nobody can uplift you. If you say that you are weak, you ARE weak. If you say you are strong, you ARE strong. It is your choice. You have the ability to respond to the situation as a useless person or as an intelligent person, as a unhappy person or as a happy person. This is the meaning of responsibility. You have the ability to choose your response to the situation. Nobody can deny you that ability, except yourself. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994) Meditation is seeing What is. To see is involves seeing is not. Seeing is and is-not is the vision of the whole. Seeing is when the blind is desire-free. Desire is always for the other. The other is not-seeing. And not-seeing is agitation. Not-seeing is seeing what one projects. What one projects is different from what is. Projection is an act of the desiring mind, and non-projection is a state of non-desire. A non-projecting mind is ever in meditation. It alone sees. Others see not. There seem to be two things - is and is-not. Is-not is never away from and adds nothing to is. Hence there is only is. Meditation is seeing is. Source: Chinmaya Jyoti, Vol.3, No.1, July 1981, lsquoMeditation for the Monthrsquo, pg.4 Desire and Desirelessness Desire is a natural impulse that drives human beings to act and express himselfherself. Desire is also the cause of self-alienation, mental agitations and the insatiable pursuit of possessions and pleasures. Every individual has to determine for himself the contours and the meeting points of desire and desirelessness. Desire leads to self-expression and success in the world. Desirelessness leads to inner stability and fulfillment. But the flipside of desirelessness is lethargy and otherworldliness that make individuals incompetent in the world of action. The challenge is to understand the significance of desire in human development and the meaning of desirelessness in human fulfillment. The Indian wisdom traditions teach a perfect balance between these two opposing directions of desire. Swami Bodhananda 21 May, 2006 Who is a Guru Guru is one who has the inner leisure to guide another person. Why should another person need guidance Because he has lost himself. Can one lose oneself The need for the other is the expression of loss of oneself. How does one lose oneself By trying to be somebody other then oneself. Why should one try to be somebody other than oneself Because he is not happy with what he thinks of himself. What does one think oneself to be One thinks oneself to be a wanting person. What does one want Happiness. What is happiness Happiness is a state of not wanting happiness. How can one attain that state By not striving to attain it. How does one give up striving for happiness By knowing that one is happiness itself. How does one know that he is happiness itself By sitting at the Lotus Feet of a Guru who has the inner leisure to allow the other to sit at his feet. Why should the Guru need the inner leisure Otherwise he will always be in a hurry. Why is one always in a hurry Because one is not happy. Why is one is not happy Because he does not know the source of happiness. What is the source of happiness The Lotus Feet of the Guru. How can the feet of Guru become the source of happiness Because he is happiness unbounded. How can happiness unbounded have feet and hands Not possible Then how can one sit at the Lotus Feet of the Guru By opening up ones heart to the abundant grace of the Guru. How does one open up to the Guru By loving the Guru. How can one love the Guru By giving up oneself totally to the Guru. How does one give totally to the Guru By serving him lovingly. Does Guru need loving service No. Then what is the point of loving service to the Guru Serving a Guru who does not demand service is the way to open up ones heart to the Guru. (Source: Sambodh News Bangalore, Vol.1, No.1, 1996) Differences are not opposed to the integral experience of events. Difference is not division. We all can be different, unique individuals. Still we all share a common existence. That common existence which we share, of which are integral parts and limbs, that is God. Human consciousness can experience that integrality of existence. When you become an integrated person, the whole existence can be experienced integrally. This is the idea of meditaion. It is an experience of the continous explosion of energies within you. You feel that energy streaming forth in all your activities. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994) One has to clearly see the demarcation between Kshetrathe field, and Kshetrajnathe knower of the field between the content of consciousness and consciousness. The world is the content of consciousness. Consciousness is the container which you are. Understand the clear demarcation. The contentthe world changes. The containerconsciousness does not change. When one changes the other does not change. You are the consciousness, which does not change. Whatever you experience is the content of consciousness, which changes constantly. In all your experiences, there is a changing and a changeless dimension. The changingallow it to change The changelessBe the Changeless. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994) In Vedanta, ahamkara means I am the doer attitude. Instead of saying I am doing it say He is functioning through me I am only a pencil in the hands of the Lord He is the great poet Using me He is scribing the great poem of my life. This should be your attitude, that you are not the doer, but an instrument, a vehicle through which the Lord expresses. Ahamkara is the feeling of I am the doer. Whatever you do you entertain such a feeling. You also feel that since you are the doer you should get the credit too. If you donrsquot get the credit you become violent, you react and feel miserable. One who does not feel that he is the doer, who feels that he has been given an opportunity to be used by the higher power--he is Anahamkarah--one who is free from the doership notion. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994) We gather memories in our lives, bitter and sweet, good and bad. An ordinary person cannot avoid gathering memories. An intelligent person will try to avoid memory. He will try to experience and integrate that experience. He will not allow the experience to hang out like a meaningless root from his personality. Most people are unintelligently led by memories. The past bothers them. The more the past bothers you, the less efficient you become in the world. When the speaker explains, most of the time you dont listen. Generally there are gaps in our attention. We are not able to give continuous attention. Because, memory comes in between. The memories that you gather of likes and dislikes are the adventitious roots. They are meaningless and useless growth from you. They become a burden for you. Memorieslikes and dislikescause further activities based upon the past experiences. If you are inimical to somebody, you keep that memory and you will react according to that memory for the rest of your life. Your life becomes a life of reaction and not action. Our actions are always reactions. And we dont know why we behave like that. If it is a good experience you want to repeat. Thus you miss the joy of newness in life. That is the reason for boredom. Because we all the time act on the level of memorieslikes and dislikes. We gather memories and unconsciously they operate in us. If you refuse to accumulate this garbage, if you keep your consciousness clean, if you hold on to the centre of your being, then you can enjoy the newness of life. Two kinds of memories are gathered in the business of living. One is the psychological memory and the other technological or factual memory. Whatever you learn is the technological or factual memory. But in the process of learning you gather some psychological memory too. Technological memory is very important to live in this civilisation which is man-created. It is the psychological memory that you gather along which becomes a drag on you. You must get rid of it as early as possible. Jealousy, agitation, envy, comparison, anger, insecurityall these are born of psychological memory. You accumulate these in the process of living. Mind is a combination of both technological and psychological memories. An intelligent person will gather technological memory and avoid psychological memory. We need technological memory. Otherwise we will be a cipher. We need knowledge. But we donrsquot need any disturbances at all. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994) One has to clearly see the demarcation between Kshetra -- the field, and Kshetrajna -- the knower of the field between the content of consciousness and consciousness. The world is the content of consciousness. Consciousness is the container which you are. Understand the clear demarcation. The content-- the world changes. The container-- consciousness does not change. When one changes the other does not change. You are the consciousness, which does not change. What ever you experience is the content of consciousness, wich changes constantly. In all your experiences, there is a changing and a changeless dimension. The changing-- allow it to change The changeless-- Be the Changeless. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994) In Vedanta, ahamkara means I am the doer attitude. Instead of saying I am doing it say He is functioning thorugh me I am only a pencil in the hands of the Lord He is the great poet Using me He is scribing the great poem of my life. This should be your attitude, that you are not the doer, but an instrument, a vehicle through which the Lord expresses. Ahamakara is the feeling of I am the doer. Whatever you do you enetertain such a feeling. You also feel that since you are the doer you should get the credit too. If you dont get the credit you become violent, you react and feel miserable. One who does not feel that he is the doer, who feels that he has ben given an opportunity to be used by the higher power--he is Anahamkarah --one who is free from the doership notion. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994) A Sanyasi is one who can stand apart and watch the situation, and make appropriate responses to it. While a Samsari gets caught up by a situation and becomes a victim of it, a Sanyasi stands apart and responds creatively. In the process he discovers himself, unfolds his inner potential. Sanyasa . which is the highest ideal is not running away from activity. It is looking inward for that extra magazine of energy. A Sanyasi . is therefore one who is self-inspired and self-motivated. We should not have the wrong notion that Sanyasa means renouncing everything and going back to the forests. For the last two thousand years we have been indulging in such thoughts: let us go back to the Himalayas let us go back to the forests. And that is the reason why we have come to such a pass. Renunciation means you have to create and renounce. If you dont create you have no right to renounce. To create means you have to invoke something unique out of yourself. Those people who can invoke their potential in their interactions with the world, alone can invoke their potential in their interactions with the world, can alone leave what they create for other people. They keep moving ahead. Sanyasa means a constant forward movement. Create and leave behind what you have created. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994 ) The entire thrust of the Bhagavad Gita is not to give a psychological or material explanation for things. The entire thrust of the Gita is to lift the individual and solve his existential and spiritual problems. And once your spiritual problem is solved, once you discover that you are inwardly strong--quotIn my being I am strongquot-- then what ever be the nature of the challenge you will emerge stronger and diviner. The world there after will not become a problem, but an opprotunity for you. Is it not The more you crush a piece of sandal wood, the more fragrance emanates from it. In the same way when you discover that you are inwardly strong, the world becomes an opportunity for you. The more you are crushed the more your fragrance emanates all around, the more your divinity manifests all around. And then you will not curse the world. You will stand in utter reverence to the world, because the world has given you an opportunity to discover and unfold your depth. Then you become a thankful person to God and to the world that is created for you. Unfortunately, since we dont know the technique of living, this art of living, the world has become a veritable prison for us. Hence throughout the Bhagavad Gita Bhagavan concentrates upon Arjunas self-awareness, his own self, his Being. (Selection from a lecture given by Swami Bodhananda in the year 1994 ) Bhagavad Gita - Ch. 15 W hen Arjuna became self-reflective, he paused for a minute between the impending action and his present status. And when he paused he suddenly realised that the war he was going to start is not going to solve any of his probelms. War and violence is no solution to human problem. There are conflicts in our daily lives, in our minds, at our homes, in the family, in the government. There are conflicts because we are all individuals. We have our own personalities and individualities, and we want full expression. When you try to express your individuality, to discover your self, to unfold your potential, there is going to be strife, struggle and conflict. But war is not the mechanism for solving conflicts. The two super powers had tried that for the last fifty years. They misdirected the resources of the world for accumulating nuclear stockfile and created a balance of terror. Finally they discovered the foolishness they have been practising. Arjuna discovers in the battlefield that war is no solution: quotI may win the war, I may get my kingdom back but I have to kill a lot of people--innocent people, innocent children, youth, women and all of them-- for my own gloryquot. Arjuna thinks about this situation, the consequences of his actions. This is the meaning of reflection--to think about the consequences of your action. (Selection from the Gita Jnana Yajna lecture on Bhagavad Gita:Ch.15 given by Swami Bodhananda 6 February 1994) Seven Spiritual Laws 1. Law of Brahman Every individual is a field of infinite potentiality. Everyone seeks expression of this potential energy, which is possible only through altruistic desire fulfilling activities The phenomenal world is always in a flux of constant change. Individual has to accept this fact of change and prepare to face change, psychologically and technologically, by designing innovative responses. Change is to be seen as a tool of Brahmans expression. 3. Law of Dharma Every individual is unique in nature and has different talents and needs. The talents have to be expressed and needs are to be fulfilled. This has to be done within the limits of Universal Dharma. The purpose of education is to develop natural skills to meet innate needs with awareness of dharma, which is the meaning of Svadharma. This Law is about the Cause and Consequences. Present life of an Individual is constituted by his past thoughts and deeds. And future life is determined by what is done presently. Law of Karma says that individual creates hisher own destiny by the moment to moment choices and actions. World exists based on the principle of Sacrifice that is nothing but give and take. In traditional yajna Devas - the controllers of Nature - are propitiated for materialistic and spiritual well being. This mutual nourishing and cherishing efforts ensure peace and happiness for the individual and also the society. To sacrifice is to receive, to possess is to lose. Detachment is the key to happiness. Detachment ensures ability to watch the thoughts and actions impartially like a witness while interacting with the world. It will help to cherish multiple perspectives and intuit diverse solutions to issues of life. Maximum productivity or efficiency is gained when mind is relaxed and playful. Effective individuals expend least energy while facing challenges and problems. This provides experience of self exploration and expression. (based on the book quotSeven Spiritual Lawsquot authored by Swami Bodhananda) Saint and Saintliness Saintliness cannot be acquired. It has to be discovered as ones own essential nature. when I appreciate my incapacity to hurt or get hurt by an individual, event or situation, I recognise the saint that I am. Thus the sure mark of a saint is this incapacity to wound or get wounded. Such a sanctimonious person remains ever as fresh and innocent as a morning lily, as pliable and tender as a tropical creeper, and as accommodating and unresisting as the infinite space. The external expression of saints varies according to conditionings that they have acquired down the millennia genetically, racially. But the essential sweetness and fragrance that emanates through such expressions remain the same. An Aurobindo cloistered in his wooden panelled study hatching out of wonderful phrases, ideas and imageries may appear diametrically opposed to a Ramakrishna Paramahamsa stammering out rustic tales and anecdotes clumsily squatting on a rickety charpai. A Vivekananda roaring down to the learned assembly of religious leaders, majestically dominating the stage in his gorgeous orange robes may look an incongruent counterpart of a Ramana Maharshi in his meagre loin attire silently smiling to an unlettered aspirant. A Christ on the cross meekly suffering the agony of crucifixion may seem an absolute antithesis to Lord Krishna, whip in his hand in the battle field exhorting the unwilling Arjuna to fight a bloody war. A Naranattu Bhrantan gleefully immersed in his purposeless labour of rolling a huge stone up and down the slopes of the mountain, resting in the graveyards, contemptuously looking down upon the tempting and seductive world may stand out ridiculous compared to a Krishnamurti elegantly employing slick words and streamlined phrases in Oxford accent to bring out the profound silence that he experiences. From a peripheral view, these saints look different from each other. But a perspicacious observer can see the golden cord of saintliness running through all their apparently contradictory expressions. They show a profound concern for the problems of the world, and an incredible unconcern for their own. They have infinite capacity to patiently suffer without being revengeful, to remain ever hopeful without being expectant they are always unpredictable and remain choicelessly alone. If nobody answers their call they prefer to walk alone. Saintliness is born out of inner contentment, is an expression of a state of non-desiring. The saints inner plenitude is not the least affected by the lavishness of his external munificence. That quality of total renunciation makes him loving and lovable. Nobody is afraid of a saint and the saint is afraid of anybody. Fear appears where give and take is involved. Who is a saint What are his marks What makes him saintly What is the essence of his saintliness Arjuna asked these questions to Lord Krishna: O Lord, tell me the marks of a wise man steadied in his vision. quot Lord answered that one who is ever awareful and has a mastery over his desires is a wise man, one who is contended with what he has, never desiring for a change. Slavery to desires is unsaintly. Hence, a saint, in Sanskrit is called a Swami, a master. The saints strike no roots anywhere. They are pathless people, their path cannot be mapped out nor can it be traced back. Their callings are different their source of inspiration is different. A saint is ever victorious for his victories leaves none vanquished behind. A victory without a victor and vanquished is a lasting victory. Such victories leave no bitter memories, nor any need for revenge. Christ murmured, O Lord, they dont know what they are doing. He on the cross betrayed no resentment or anger. He only felt sorry for his persecutors. In this sense a saint is most unpredictable by the ordinary standards. There can be scholarly or illiterate saints, mild or furious ones, flamboyant or self-effacing, socially committed or socially unconcerned, dynamic or dozing, of all shades and hues. Still they remain beyond all definitions, far beyond the confines of social, historical and psychological categories. They are what they are inspite of everything. They dont choose to be saints, but they discover themselves to be saints. Theirs is the only authentic, free and relaxed life. Their presence is often an enigma, sometimes even a nuisance to the selfish conformist world. Their style of living is a non-violent rebellion and a destabilizing factor in the security-mongering hypocrite world. A saint is a disturbing question mark and his saintliness gives him the authority to hurl at the world answerless questions. He is a mystery, always secure, living the most insecure life. He is the question and the answer, the beginning and the end. (From a published article by Swami Bodhananda in a magazine in 1981) The single most important cornerstone of a successful relationship is transparency - which means expressing ones needs, feelings and expectations sincerely to the partner. Transparency in relationship enables partners to understand each other better and adjust mutual responses with empathy and care. No lasting and successful relationship can be built without respect and sensitivity to each others needs. Experience teaches us that a strong sense of self-worth and self-sufficiency constitute a necessary condition for mutually nourishing relationship. Too much expectation from a relationship leads to inevitable frustration and dejection. Two happy people make a happier and fulfilling partnership. Happiness as an experience has to be independent of the ups and downs of relationships. Happiness is the quality of a detached and caring mind. Two happy people enjoy being together and bring out their best in a partnership of give and take and find space for each others follies and foibles. Accommodation, acceptance and trusting love are the sweet fruits of transparency. What is the need of the ONE to manifest as many Source: Reply to a post-graduate student of philosophy, in a letter dated 13.06.1989, sent from Kasarkode (North Kerala). You have raised an interesting question answering which I have to consider apparently irreconcilable facts. The realisation that body is a divine tool to win Gods grace and to attain self-realisation itself is a major attitudinal change. quotAre we diminishing the potentiality of all-pervading consciousness by contenting that body is a divine instrument for self-expressionquot In spirituality body does not mean just one body, it includes all the bodies - samashti sarira-s. The hymn to the cosmic person unveils the supreme consciousness as one with thousands of heads, hands and legs. One who is no more identified with one body can experience the manifestation of consciousness through all the bodies. All the gross, subtle, causal bodies are together known as Maya. And, consciousness is Mayavi - the wielder of Maya. quotWhat is the need for body for all the pervasive, omnipotent self-principle to manifest, isnt it already manifestquot Yes infact the body itself is a manifestation of the all-pervasive consciousness - mayabhih indrah pururupamiyate bahusyam prajayeyeti - (may I become many). So, body is not an external conditioning for consciousness, it in fact is consciousness appearing, without undergoing intrinsic changes (vivarta). quotWhat is the need of the body for one who is in Samadhiquot No Samadhi is possible without the body. What is known as jivan mukti is with the body - navadvarepure dehe aste sukham na kurvan na karayan (Gita ch.5) - When the body of a Jivanmukta falls it is called mahasamadhi. Sankaracharya was a Jivanmukta. Real samadhi is absence of doership (kartrtva) - na karmanam anarambhat naishkarmyam purushosnute (Gita ch.3) - Not doing action is not samadhi, ie. naishkarmyam. quotIs it neccessary for the infinite space to manifest through a potquot Pot-space is a euphemism for the infinite space - tatvamasi - Thou (pot-space) (is) That (infinite space). We find Muktapurusha-s supremely active - Sankara, Ramkrishna, Vivekananda, Yajnavalkya, Janaka and Sri Krishna. Their apparent acitivities (karma) were not opposed to samadhi (atma-akarma). Bhagavad Gita unfolds a vision of karmani akarma darsanam - actionless in the midst of acitivity - (freedom in action, not from action). To explain the phenomenon of realised savants being physically active, bodys divine instrumentality was suggested. Bhagavan Krishna suggests - Be just an instrument O, left-handed - nimittamatram bhava savyasachin. Now, you take a pot Is not pot in space Of space and nothing but space What are clay (pot) molecules but atoms what is atom except vast space and tiny matter of protons, electrons and neutrons are they also not just modification of space. Vedanta conetents that - atmanah akashah akasat vayuh etc. ie. consciousness modifies as space, and space modifies as air, fire, water and earth etc. So, pot is nothing but a manifestation of space, is in space, has space - therfore pot is space. Can you say space (the cause of pot) conditions or limits space (infinite space). So too the body is a manifestation of divine consciousness, is in consciousness, has consciousness - is nothing but consciousness. It is a dance of consciousness. Can you say that the dancer is conditioned or limited by her dance The whole universe is intelligence and consciousness. Meditate upon the Guru and sing his glories, but understand Guru, God and supreme consciousness are the same, like even the wedding ring, ring and gold are the same. One day you may lose value for the wedding ring, but still it is valuable as a ring then you lose value for the ring too, but you have value for gold. If you can see gold in your wedding ring that vision is real. So too see supreme consciousness in your Guru and sing the glory of Self which you are. And remember all values are given by you - so you are the ULTIMATE VALUE - Tattvamasi - You are that Love Swami Bodhananda Source: Reply to a post-graduate student of philosophy, in a letter dated 13.06.1989, sent from Kasarkode (North Kerala). About Swami Bodhananda Swami Bodhananda was born in a quiet village called Mattatur, 36 miles north east of Kalady the birth place of Adi Sankaracharya. From early childhood he showed great interest in reading and discussing i ssues pertaining to His country, culture, and geopolitics. He spent long hours of time either in solitude or dialoguing with his friends, teachers, and wandering monks. Everyday the young boy walked 10 miles to the school eager for the classes and to devour books in the public library. By the age of 14 he finished reading Nehrus Glimpses of World History . complete works of Swami Vivekananda, and Mahatma Gandhi, and by 17 he finished Marxs Das Capital . Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations . Herbert Marcuses One-dimensional man, Regis Debres Revolution in Revolution . and Albert Camus The Rebel . The brilliant student, graduated with government scholarship from Christ college, (Irinjalakuda) Kerala, and subsequently chose economics for post graduation. Read More Ashrams amp Officesou think you had a bad year Consider the case of Toby Lenk. Some 19 months ago this guys stake in online toyseller eToys made him worth 325.8 millionlanding him in the 69th spot on our list of technologys 100 richest. At the end of January, Lenk owned stock worth 500,000, not even enough to buy an apartment on Manhattans Upper West Side. And how about Bill Gates Last year, his 92.7 billion fortune put him on top of our list and gave him an 80.3 billion lead over Oracles founder, Larry Ellison. Gates is still in first place, even though 38.3 billion was hacked off his fortune. But now, hes only 12.3 billion ahead of his nemesis, Ellison, on our list. The Oracle founders decision to switch from clientserver computing to an Internetbased model helped boost his fortune by some 29.6 billion, to 42.1 billion, since our last list in November 1999. Pure Internet moguls were not so fortunate. The hottest Internet stocks of 1999 were hammered in 2000. For all those formerly rich CMGI stockholders with pennies jiggling in their piggy banks, theres good news: Youre not alone. CMGIs David Wetherell was knocked off his perch as the 22nd richest last year to 79th this year, having lost 84 of his wealth. Despite the best efforts of ubiquitous ham William Shatner, who cashed out about 25 of his stock before the fall, Pricelines Jay Walker sank from 11th to 91st at last count he was worth 190 million. Time magazines former Man of the Year, the preternaturally optimistic Jeff Bezos, fell from seventh with 7.3 billion, to 16th this year, with 2.3 billion. Search engine software was hit hard along with portals thus, Inktomi put three guys on the list in 1999 and none this time around (Chief Scientist Eric Brewer saw his fortune slip from 460 million to 80 million). That said, stocks of companies that build and maintain the Internets infrastructure held up surprisingly welland some even delivered gains. Networking companies such as Sycamore, Broadcom, and Juniper made their richest shareholders much richer. Software and hardware companies also held up well. When Handspring, founded by the inventors of the PalmPilot, went public this year, all three cofounders made the top 100. And Rich List veteran Sanjiv Sidhu from i2 Technologies is worth 6.8 billion, up 583 from less than a billion dollars last year. This list includes a total of 33 billionaires (compared to 30 the previous year), 12 of them new ones. Still, the total wealth this year was 25.9 billion less than last time around. But get this: Subtract Microsofts three richest and the rest of the list is richer than last years alsorans. It actually was a little tougher to get on the list this year as well. The last spot belongs to Susan Orr, a former director of HewlettPackard, with 182.9 million. A year ago, No. 100, Steve Kirsch of Infoseek, needed just 167.4 million to make the cut. The 30th spot on this years list cost 1.37 billion and belongs to Vincent Smith from Quest Software last year that spot was claimed by Apples Steve Jobs with 1.02 billion. (Jobs has 1.38 billion this time around, which gets him the No. 29 spot.) After last years stumble, its easy to forget that the technology sector has created enormous amounts of wealth in recent years. So we should note that, while the 256.6 billion total wealth of our 100 richest doesnt quite measure up to the 1999 figure, it far surpasses the 152.9 billion figure of two years ago and the 108.6 billion of three years ago. Turns out that the old saying is mostly right: The rich, as a group at least, may not always get richer. But their tendency to accumulate wealth even in tough times is awfully impressive. And if that isnt an old saying, well then, it should be. Methodology: Values calculated using closing stock prices as of January 30, 2001. Holdings taken from most recent proxies filed with SEC. Includes only shares and options beneficially owned as defined by the SEC. List confined to individuals associated with information technology companies (public as of January 30, 2001), excluding telecom and biotech companies. Must have been employed by company or retired within the last year. Past stock sales and outside holdings included, when possible. RankNameAge Position CompanyLocation HoldingsEstimated Wealth Type of Business Bill Gates, 45 Chairman, Chief Software Architect Microsoft, Redmond, WA 731.9M54.39B Bill Gates has lost a jawdropping 38.3 billion since our last list. It wasnt just the court order to break up the company that caused Microsoft stock to sink last year. Gates monopoly has had lessthanstunning Internet initiatives, and then theres the slowdown in PC sales. Still, hes got more than a little spare change. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded nearly 1.5 billion in 2000, mainly to combat disease in the Third World and improve education in the U. S. Larry Ellison, 56 Chairman, CEO Oracle, Redwood City, CA 1.39B42.12B Hes still not Master of the Universe, but hes gaining ground. Remember, this is a guy who has won the deadly SydneytoHobart sailing race and hired private investigators to dig through Microsofts trash. Scott Kriens, 53 Chairman, CEO Juniper Networks, Mtn. View, CA 14.2M1.66B Kriens is among a lucky few folks in the technology sector to have gotten much, much richer last year: His fortune is up 157. The reason: Juniper keeps killing Cisco with its highend routers, which sell for around 400,000 a pop. The firms technology is six to nine months ahead of its bigger rivals, helping Juniper grab 30 of the market just two years after it began shipping products. Kriens fortune, though, hiccuped at the end of the year, as Juniper shares fell 48 from their 244.50 October peak, due to investor worries about slumping demand for its products. Frank H. Levinson, 47 Founder, Chairman, CTO Finisar, Sunnyvale, CA 39.0M1.57B This former Bell labs physicist held up better than many last year. As tech shares began their long slide last March, shares of Finisar, which makes fiberoptic subsystems, soared to an alltime high. Fears of a spending slowdown from telecom equipment firms eventually sent the stock tumbling, although the shares still sport an eyepopping 134 PE on this years earnings. Pradeep Sindhu, 47 Founder, CTO Juniper Networks, Mtn. View, CA 13.1M1.56B Legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla calls Sindhu techs biggest unsung hero. The Juniper founder and former Xerox PARC principal scientist has expanded routers capabilities, making Juniper the only company so far to seriously threaten Cisco and permanently alter the Internets backbone technology. Pretty smart. He also was bright enough to know that he made a better CTO than CEO, and after running the company for seven months, relinquished the reins to No. 25, Scott Kriens, in 1996. Stephen Garofalo, 49 Chairman, CEO Metromedia Fiber Network, White Plains, NY 87.4M1.48B Long Islander Garofalo dropped out of college to work for his dads Brooklynbased electrical contracting company. There he developed his business plan: install fiber underneath cities and sell the rights to use it to corporations. Garofalo eventually mortgaged his house and borrowed against the family business to expand Metromedia. By 2004 the company will have 3.6 million miles of fiber optics in cities around the world. Steve Jobs, 45 CEO, DirectorApple ComputerPixar, Cupertino, CAEmeryville, CA 10.0M217.3M 30.0M1.16B CH, Despite Pixar stocks 10 loss and Apple stocks 70plus nosedive, Jobs made a lot of money in 2000. Desperate to get Jobs to ditch the interim part of his title, the Apple board granted him 6.2 of the companys stock and a GulfStream V jeta package that at the time was worth more than 500 million. Vincent Smith, 36 CEO Quest Software, Irvine, CA 35.0M1.37B After failing as a ski bum, he started a venture capital firm in 1993, which is how he got to know No. 52 David Doyle, who started Quest in 1994 to make software for Oracle databases. They took the company public in August 1999. When the dust cleared, Smith was worth 3.4 billion. Business Key: SWSoftware SEMISemiconductors INTInternet CHComputer Hardware NETNetworking PERPeripherals RankNameAge Position CompanyLocation HoldingsEstimated Wealth Type of Business William D. Morean, 45 Chairman Jabil Circuit, St. Petersburg, FL 34.8 million1.30B The iconoclastic Morean gave up the title of CEO in September. He must have wondered if he had done the right thing: The stock promptly lost twothirds of its value, and Morean lost 1.5 billion. But things are looking up: In January the company inked a 4 billion, threeyear deal with Londonbased telephone equipment maker Marconi. The stock jumped almost 30 on the news, and Morean made back a healthy 219 million. J. Joe Ricketts, 59 Chairman, Co150CEO Ameritrade, Omaha, NE 110.1M1.18B A diehard biker who hangs out at the infamous motorcycle rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, Ricketts watched his fortune go for a dizzying ride last year: Ameritrade shares were down 67. In September he reclaimed the coCEO position he had given up four months earlier. Charles Wang, 56 Chairman Computer Associates, Islandia, NY 32.5M1.08B The man who made Computer Associates the worlds thirdlargest software company, behind Microsoft and Oracle, watched his wealth plummet more than 40 in one day last July after CA warned that firstquarter earnings per share would come in at least 39 cents below expectations. One month later Wang stepped down as CEO. Hell now focus on business development and work on another turnaround, the NHLs New York Islanders. Stephen Case, 42 Chairman AOL Time Warner, Dulles, VA 18.1M981.1M Case, a devout Christian, must have felt like the Biblical Job in 2000. The merger of AOL and Time Warner, announced in January of that year, was supposed to turn his Internet blue chip into a realworld blue chip. But investors pummeled the stock because it was no longer a pure Internet play then they dumped it for being an Internet stock when that sector tanked. The stock fell more than 50and Case lost 870.2 million. Even his charitable donations caused him problems: Gayrights groups attacked Case for gifts to antihomosexual Christian organizations. Robert Galvin, 78 Chairman, CEO Motorola, Schaumburg, IL 42.5M978.2M Robert Galvin joined the family business as a stock boy in 1940. Few of the ensuing 60 years were as difficult as 2000: The stock fell 58, and Papa Galvin lost 1.3 billion. But his remaining stake in the company makes his retirement, shall we say, secure. Greg Reyes, 38 President, CEO Brocade Communications San Jose, CA 9.6M944.9M Under the guidance of the 6foot2, 220pound Reyes, Brocade has muscled its way into the 35 billion data storage market. Revenues for the leading maker of fiber channel switches used in storage area networks grew 389 during the last fiscal year, while earnings soared 800. Unfortunately, Reyes personal fortune didnt make out so well: The value of his Brocade holdings fell from 1.1 billion in October 2000 to 880 million by years end. Donna Dubinsky, 45 Cofounder, CEO Handspring, Mountain View, CA 22.0M933.6M Donna Dubinsky has been battling Microsoft her whole careerand lately shes been winning. In 1992 she joined No. 21 Jeff Hawkins and No. 93 Ed Colligan to found Palm, where the trio created the PalmPilotthe fastestselling new computer product ever. They sold Palm to U. S. Robotics in 1995 and in July 1998 started Handspring, where they repeated their success: The companys dexterous Visor PDA has seized a 23 market share. Meanwhile, Microsofts handheld computers repeatedly have floundered. Pehong Chen, 42 Founder, Chairman, CEO BroadVision, Redwood City, CA 60.1M831.9M Chen is still on this list by virtue of his 22 stake in BroadVision, the ecommerce software company he founded in 1993. This despite the companys stock performance: BroadVision shares have dropped almost 90 from their peak last March, and Chens stake has sunk by 4.5 billion. Still, BroadVision remains the ecommerce platform to beat. Jerry Rawls, 56 President, CEO Finisar, Sunnyvale, CA 20.6M801.4M Shares of Finisar bucked the telecom trend during much of 2000, climbing 56 through last September. Investors liked the promise of a company whose products enable cool things like TV telephones. Rawls went on a buying spree, spending stock to buy two opticalcomponent firms, a laser diode maker, and a company that tests performance on Ethernet networks. Still, the stock dropped 38 from October through the end of the year, costing Rawls 366.3 million. Patrizio Vinciarelli, 53 Chairman, President, CEO Vicor, Andover, MA 21.0M770.2M Vinciarelli, a former Princeton physics professor, lost 408 million in a little more than a week last February when Vicor stock plummeted 50 on news that two major customers were curtailing or eliminating purchases of the powerconverter companys new products. Vinciarelli regrouped, leading his company to 78 earnings growth in 2000. Although Vicor narrowly missed its fourthquarter estimates, analysts expect earnings to almost double in 2002. Business Key: SWSoftware SEMISemiconductors INTInternet CHComputer Hardware NETNetworking PERPeripherals RankNameAge Position CompanyLocation HoldingsEstimated Wealth Type of Business Michael Saylor, 36 Founder, President, CEO MicroStrategy, Vienna, VA 43.5M732.2M This oncehot data mining companys motto is Intelligence Everywherebut the people in the bookkeeping department aint so smart. MicroStrategy shares took a 70 nosedive during two days last March, when the company announced it overstated 1999 revenues by 25 and posted a loss for the yearnot its previously reported profit. Since then, the stock is down another 85, and Saylor (who owns 55 of the firm) and other company executives have been ordered to pay out more than 10 million in fines and stock to the SECthe largest penalty ever for such misconduct. Total decline in Saylors wealth since our last list: 161.2 million. Judith amp Terrance Paul, 5353 Cofounders, Advantage Learning Systems, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 24.6M723.9M The company that makes educational software for the K12 set received excellent grades from shareholders when the stock soared 200 last year. That made this husbandandwife team, who own 72 of the company, 274.6 million richer. Keith Krach, 43 Chairman, CEO Ariba, Mountain View, CA 18.6M717.3M Country boy Krach nearly lost the farm since our last list: Arch rival Commerce One won a hotly contested battle to provide the technological backbone for GMs Web exchange. Ouch. Krach had spent 10 years at General Motors, managing the companys robotics unit. Still, Ariba could become one of the youngest companies in history to hit 1 billion in annual sales. Meg Whitman, 43 President, CEO eBay, San Jose, CA 12.9M684.4M Whitman is the Internets No. 1 glamour girl, appearing in Glamour and Vanity Fair. While eBay stock is down more than 50 since last March, it was one of the few Internet firms to beat analysts earnings estimates and raise its sales forecast for 2001. Now thats sexy stuff. Donald R. Scifres, 53 Cochairman JDS Uniphase, San Jose, CA 12.8M676.6M Last summer Scifres (another Xerox PARC alum) called his old buddy Jozef Straus (No. 74), CEO of JDS Uniphase, for a chat. A few weeks later, the two firms announced their 41 billion mergerthe largest ever seen in the tech world. The combination creates a fiberoptics component giant with annual sales of 2.7 billionand nets Scifres, who holds more than 200 patents for lasers and fiberoptics technologies, a 75 million retention bonus. Scott Cook, 48 Founder, Chairman Intuit, Santa Clara, CA 17.9M668.0M Cooks push to turn Quicken into the ultimate onestop personal finance portal didnt help his fortune last year: Intuit stock slid 34 in 2000, even though the firm exceeded analysts earnings estimates in three consecutive quarters. But Intuitwhich Cook founded after his wife complained about paying the bills by handis still cooking, with an 80 share of the smallbusiness accounting software market. Patrick H. Nettles, 56 Chairman, CEO Ciena, Linthicum, MD 7.3M667.0M Since earning a PhD from the California Institute of Technology, Nettles career has spanned 30 years and five companies. Ciena has been his most successful. From January to October, shares skyrocketed more than 400, but then they floundered during the rest of 2000, due to worries that financial troubles at the firms customersabout 40 telecom carriers, some of the largest overseaswould crimp demand for Cienas products. Jack McDonnell, 56 President, CEO McDATA, Broomfield, CO 10.5M619.6M McDonnells firm, spun off by EMC, was one of the IPO success stories of 2000. On its first day, the stock sizzled to a 305 gain. Investors love the firms leadership in highend fiberoptic switches for storage area networks, a market expected to grow 120 annually during the next four years. Jon Shirley, 62 COO, Director Microsoft, Redmond, WA 9.2M582.1M Often credited with sculpting Microsofts business infrastructure, Shirley now concentrates on philanthropic efforts like Seattles Olympic Sculpture Park. He also drives race cars alongside celebrities, sports heroes, and other plain old rich folks who share his Speed Racer fantasies. Rob Glaser, 38 Founder, Chairman, CEO RealNetworks, Seattle, WA 53.6M576.3M Glaser managed to make our list again even though slower advertising revenue growth and increased competition from arch rival Microsoft led to a 90 decline in RealNetworks stock price by the end of 2000. And hell probably make our list next year as well: RealNetworks owns 85 of the streaming media market and has crucial partnerships with America Online, Nokia, and Sony. The firms success has helped Glaser pursue another interest: He has become a coowner of the decidedly lowtech Professional Bowlers Association. Business Key: SWSoftware SEMISemiconductors INTInternet CHComputer Hardware NETNetworking PERPeripherals RankNameAge Position CompanyLocation HoldingsEstimated Wealth Type of Business George Perlegos, 50 Founder, President, CEO Atmel, San Jose, CA 33.3M561.3M A leading manufacturer of integrated circuits, Atmel leads the market in smart credit card technology. In the 80s Perlegos, a reserved, familyoriented man, founded the company on the proverbial shoestring after a stint at Intel. Atmels semiconductors are being used in cell phones, digital cameras, DVD players, and settop boxes as well as those credit cards. Speaking of which, wonder what the spending limit of Perlegos Visa is David Doyle, 39 Cofounder, President Quest Software, Irvine, CA 13.8M538.3M Cofounder Doyle (who owns 16 of Quest) made his first million by age 30, and life has only improved since then. These days he spends some of that wealth on wine (his cellar is stocked with 10,000plus bottles) and real estate (hes looking to buy a 7.1 million penthouse in Sydney, Australia, where hell no doubt stockpile Shiraz). Bobby Johnson Jr., 43 Cofounder, President, CEO Foundry Networks, San Jose, CA 23.0M510.6M Good news was in short supply last year. Johnson, who owns 20 of the company, watched his wealth plummet as Foundry shares suffered a meltdown, plummeting 90. One problem: weakening demand for highperformance networking products. Shares of database software firm Embarcadero Technologies resisted gravity following its April IPO, helping place Browning, Myers, and Wong (brother of No. 82 Stephen) among techs nouveau riche. Business Key: SWSoftware SEMISemiconductors INTInternet CHComputer Hardware NETNetworking PERPeripherals RankNameAge Position CompanyLocation HoldingsEstimated Wealth Type of Business JAY WALKER, 46 Founder Priceline, Norwalk, CT 64.1M190.2M Pricelines old catchphrase, This is going to be bigreally big, now smacks of irony. The firm lost a slew of high profile executives and warned investors about sluggish earnings. Walker slipped 80 spots on this years list after his wealth dropped some 4.2 billion. JOHN MOORES, 56 Director Peregrine Systems, San Diego, CA 5.8M189.8M San Diego Padres owner Moores is among the more philanthropically inclined of our 100 tycoons. He sold his 6 million coin collectionincluding his prize possession, an 1807 gold U. S. Liberty cointo raise money to fight childhood diseases. EDWARD T. COLLIGAN, 40 Senior VP Marketing and Sales Handspring, Mountain View, CA 6.0M189.0M Colligan successfully awed tech junkies and reached the masses when he was vice president of marketing at Palm Computing. Now the frenetic Colligan heads up marketing for Handspring, which he founded with Donna Dubinsky (No. 37) and Jeff Hawkins (No. 21). JURE SOLA, 50 Chairman, CEO Sanmina, San Jose, CA 4.6M187.0M The visionary Sola has built Sanmina into a powerhouse in the 85 billion electronic contract manufacturing market. In the process, Sola, a Croatian immigrant, has built a fortune. SANJAY KUMAR, 39 President, CEO Computer Associates, Islandia, NY 5.7M185.8M The softspoken Sri Lankan took control of the worlds thirdlargest software maker in August, when founder Charles Wang (No. 33) bumped himself up to chairman and relinquished the CEO title. In October, Kumar promised to revamp the company, focusing its 1,200 products into three key solution areas. RUBIN GRUBER, 56 Cofounder, Chairman, Director Sonus Networks, Westford, MA 4.0M185.1M Serial entrepreneur Gruber decided 212 years after college that he would never again work for anyone but himself. In 1997 he jumped when his cousin suggested he pursue his passion for Internet voice packetization. He made a phone call, and within three minutes he had his first funding for Sonus Networks. Good call: The stock surged 900 after its May IPO. MORTON TOPFER, 64 Counselor to the CEO, Director Dell Computer, Round Rock, TX 5.6M184.7M Dell elder statesman Topfer plans to retire at the end of 2001, making this the last year hes likely to grace our list of technologys working rich. The silverhaired tech veteran is likely to split his golden years between his historic home in Austin and his newer house in Las Vegas. SHELBY BONNIE, 35 Chairman, CEO Cnet, San Francisco, CA 10.1M184.3M Bonnie, who grew up on a horse farm, took over Cnets reins last year from Halsey Minor. Most analysts applaud Bonnies moves to strengthen international operations and gallop into the data services market.
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