Anandashram The Vision For Nov 2019
Anandashram The Vision For Nov 2019
Anandashram The Vision For Nov 2019
Vol. 87 No.
NOVEMBER 2019 02
anandashram, PO anandashramA 671531, india
2 THE VISION Nov 2019
SOURCE
ife flows from an ancient Source.
The Source is sweetness — bliss eternal.
All life is the expression of this bliss.
Ignorance of the Source is the bitterness of the life,
Know the root is the free, immortal joy:
Then life is a stream teeming with pure delight.
Now, it glides in rhythm of harmony and peace.
Life marches, informed with a subtle, Divine energy
‘Tis not daunted by obstacles and onward goes,
Conquering and surrendering and creating in its
course,
The fragrant flowers of love and service.
Blissful itself and yielding peace to all —
Life knows its Source.
— Swami Ramdas
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BELOVED PAPA
SWAMI RAMDAS ANSWERS
evotee: People are prepared
to fight all over the world, and
there is no good preaching.
Papa: The solution rests in our
perfectly loving everybody. If we set the
example, we will make others also free from hatred.
There can be peace in the world only if we love one
another. By so doing we get peace for ourselves and
share it with others. We have to eradicate ill will and
hatred from our hearts. Then only we can love others
in the true sense of the term and by such love develop
harmony in our hearts and harmony outside us.
There are many people who want to love, but
they do not know how to do it. If they are told that if
we learn to love one another we will be really happy
and that our unhappiness or discontent is due to our
lack of love for our fellow-beings, they cannot easily
understand. Love is the only remedy for doing away
with all thoughts about war, discord and strife. At
present our mind is not full of love, but of confusion.
If we concentrate on love, we will gradually create an
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POINTS TO PONDER
ujya Swami Satchidanandaji, while paying
homage to Beloved Papa and Pujya Mataji on
occasions like their Jayanti and Mahasamadhi
days etc., always took the opportunity to highlight
their illuminating and inspiring lives and teachings.
Pujya Swmaiji also used such occasions to lay stress
on the salient points about Sadhana.
Some of the points from Pujya Swamiji’s talks
are reproduced below for all of us to ponder over.
As the word ponder indicates, these points are to be
seriously reflected upon. It will then help the aspirant
understand how far he or she has progressed on
the spiritual path, how to overcome the lethargic or
rather lukewarm attitude towards Sadhana, and by
what means one’s speedy spiritual progress can be
ensured.
1. Ashram — a sacred place to love and serve.
Daily examine your failings and correct yourself.
2. All devotees should live in harmony with those
around and be a model to others.
3. Hold fast to the high ideals set by Beloved Papa
and Pujya Mataji and thus, make the Ashram a
haven of peace and bliss.
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body because you can see your body, you can feel the
body. The seeing entity or the feeling entity is different
from the seen or felt object — the body. How can you
be the body then? What do you say now?
Aspirant: Yes Sir, I agree that I am not the body
but the body is mine.
Saint: Now that you know that you are not the
body, send your ‘visiting card’ with the correct identity.
Aspirant: Sir, this time I cannot go wrong. I am
the mind.
Saint: Sorry friend, this time also you are bluffing.
Analyse as to what is the mind? The mind is nothing
but a flow of thoughts. Where your thoughts are,
there your mind is. If you are the mind, you should
have been dead when the mind is not functioning.
But during your deep sleep state, your mind is not
working. If it is active, you cannot experience the
deep sleep state which is free from dream and waking
states. So, it shows that even in the absence of your
mind, you continue to exist and on waking up, you
say that you enjoyed the sleep. Tell me friend, who
was it that enjoyed the sleep? Was it the mind or
something other than the mind?
Aspirant: Yes Sir, I agree that I am not the mind
though the thoughts arise in me which means the
mind exists in me. I have been so far thinking that
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DEAR CHILDREN
Pleasure Goes With Pain
man was passing on the road when he saw a
blind man. He wanted to take the blind man
to his house for dinner. But as he had to go in
a hurry, he told the blind man to come to his house
and have dinner with him. He went to his wife and
asked her to have one more meal prepared as he had
invited a blind man for dinner. His wife replied she
would prepare two extra meals. When asked why she
was preparing meals for two instead of one, she said,
“The blind man cannot come alone, he will be led by
another.”
This illustration is to show that worldly happiness
does not come to us alone but is always accompanied
by sorrow. Pleasure born of material things is always
mixed with sorrow. The objects of the senses cannot
give us unmixed happiness; this is the experience of
every one of us. We must, therefore, rise above the
pairs of opposites and, going deep into the heart,
discover the Eternal Source of joy within and behold
the whole universe as Divine, ever filled with light,
joy and peace.
Source: Stories As Told By Swami Ramdas
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ANANDASHRAM NEWS
15,500-CRORE NAMA JAPA YAGNA
FOR WORLD PEACE: The total Japa received
in the third round of the 15500-Crore Nama Japa
Yagna For World Peace in the month of September
is 180 crores. The grand total of the Japa done so far
in this round now stands at 6356 crores.
100th Jayanti
Of Pujya Swami
Satchidanandaji
ujya Swamiji’s birth
P
2019.
centenary will be celebrated
on the 12th of November
THOUGHT FOR
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