Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jan 20)

Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby winston » Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:17 am

What is the litmus test to determine if our Spiritual Practice is pleasing to the Divine or not?

If you keep awake throughout twelve hours on the festival of the Divine due to illness, the vigil will not win His favour.

If you quarrel with your spouse and desist from food for one full day, it will not be recorded in the book of the Divine as a fast.

Remember, no "enjoyer" can be a "devotee"; anyone with an eye on profit they derive from service to the Divine, can never be a true devotee.

People praise the Divine to the skies one day and decry Him the next, when their fortune is dry.

Similarly, those who declare ‘My Divine is great and others are small’, do not know the elements of spiritual discipline and are unfit for entering the field of spiritual service.

Money is the currency of the world; Spiritual Practice is the currency of the spirit.

The Divine looks for purity, sincerity, simplicity and steady joy in Spiritual Practices, in the contemplation of His name and form.

- Divine Discourse, Aug 19, 1964.

Test all your actions, words, thoughts on this touchstone: “Will this be approved by the Divine?
Will this rebound to His renown?”

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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby behappyalways » Wed Nov 06, 2019 4:25 pm

Driver breaks down in tears after getting lost on the way home
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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby winston » Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:18 am

What is the surest way to experience the Divine? What quality should we cultivate within ourselves and refine ourselves continuously?

The effulgent Sun can be seen only with his own light. Similarly, only through the grace of the Divine, can you obtain a vision of the Divine. No skill, intellectual effort or scholarship, is required to experience the Divine.

Just as clouds may obscure the Sun, the clouds of egoism, attachment and hatred, prevent one from seeing the Divine.

Prayer and spiritual practices, are the means by which these clouds are dispersed. Spiritual practices is the royal road to reach the Divine.

The human make-up is a mixture of good and bad traits. One in whom the good traits predominate, tends to see only the good in others. Those who have equal-mindedness see the good and bad qualities impartially.

It is necessary therefore to cultivate good qualities. The world must be viewed as the reflected image of the Divine. All acts must be done as an offering to the Divine.

- Divine Discourse, Feb 11, 1983.

Constant reflection on the glory of the Divine helps to transmute the body, mind and spirit.

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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby winston » Fri Nov 08, 2019 8:37 am

How should we relate to the principle of "Auspicious" and "Fierce" in our daily living?

Consider the food you eat - it is auspicious, when you consume it intelligently and in moderate quantities.

It becomes fierce, devastating in its effects, if consumed with greed and in inappropriate proportions.

In fact, every thing or thought that obstructs the surge of divine bliss in any such situation, experience, or idea is "fierce";

Every step towards limitation, regulation, control, progress and sublimation is auspicious, fruitful and beneficial.

It is desire which haunts an individual that makes one’s food a boon or a bane.

It is the mind that decides the desire and directs it.

A sharp knife can be used for slicing a fruit or for stabbing. In the hands of a surgeon, it can save a life, rather than destroy one.

Never forget that your own mind can liberate you from bondage or bind you more tightly with the objective world.

Listen to the Omnipresent Divine present as the Inner Motivator within you and allow Him to guide you!

- Divine Discourse, May 30, 1974.

See yourself in all; love all as yourself

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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby behappyalways » Fri Nov 08, 2019 5:24 pm

‘Attending’ your own funeral: South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons
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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby winston » Sun Nov 10, 2019 7:34 am

What is the significance of chanting the Divine’s Name?

When you chant the divine name with love at least once, you will experience inexplicable and overwhelming bliss in your heart.

The divine name melts even a stone-hearted person. Even ice takes time to melt, but His heart melts instantaneously when you chant His name with love. So chant the Divine’s name.

Even while you are traveling, you must chant His name silently without attracting others' attention.

Everywhere, at all times and under all circumstances, you must contemplate on the name of the Divine.

There is no greater spiritual exercise than this. The essence of all spiritual practices is contained in chanting His name incessantly.

In this period, chanting God's Divine name is the only royal path to attain liberation.

Develop noble feelings; contemplate on the Divine with full faith that He will grant you everything you need.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 14, 2003.

To gain liberation, to win the Divine’s grace, it is not enough to repeat His name; you must practice the Divine principle.

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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby winston » Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:06 am

Can We All Practice Nonviolence?

Nonviolence is not some exalted regimen that can be practiced only by a monk or a master; it also pertains to the way one interacts with a child, vacuums a carpet, or waits in line.

—Kenneth Kraft, “Meditation in Action”
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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby winston » Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:06 am

Can We All Practice Nonviolence?

Nonviolence is not some exalted regimen that can be practiced only by a monk or a master; it also pertains to the way one interacts with a child, vacuums a carpet, or waits in line.

—Kenneth Kraft, “Meditation in Action”
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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby winston » Mon Nov 11, 2019 2:58 pm

What is a simple tip to follow every day?

It is not what you hear that is beneficial, but what you put into daily practice.

Develop renunciation towards your own needs and wishes.

Examine each on the touchstone of essentiality.

When you pile up things in your apartments, you only promote darkness and dust; so also, do not collect and store too many materials in your mind.

Travel light. Have just enough to sustain life and maintain health.

The pappu (dish made of lentils) must have only enough salt to make it relishing; that is to say, do not spoil the dish by adding too much salt.

Life becomes too difficult to bear if you put too much desire into it.

Limit your desires to your capacity and even among them, have only those that will grant lasting joy.

Do not run after fashion and public approval and strain your resources beyond repair.

Also, stick to your own righteous actions and the code of rules that regulate life or the stage you have reached.

- Divine Discourse, Aug 19, 1964.

Desires are born of greed. When greed is weakened more and more, discontent declines in equal measure.

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Re: Life 34 (Sept 19 - Jul 20)

Postby winston » Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:07 am

How should we progress in our worship of the Divine?

How long can we tolerate a boy staying in the same class at school? He must proceed from one class to the next higher one, year after year.

The spiritual aspirant too should not stagnate in one spiritual practice.

From the master-servant relationship with the Divine, the aspirant must advance to the body-limb relationship and reach the stage of merging in the All-inclusive One - that is to say, from Dualism, through conditioned Non-Dualism to Monism or Non-Dualism.

In the initial stages, man worships portraits or idols of the Divine, in all the sixteen forms of reverential homage. But, one should progress from this stage to the awareness of the Inner-Self.

Flowers fade and rot soon. The effect of offering flowers may not last long.

What the Divine loves more are the flowers blooming on the tree of one’s own life, fed and fostered by one’s own skill and sincerity. They are the flowers of virtues grown in the garden of one’s heart.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 06, 1981.

Practise the attitude of offering every act at the feet of the Divine as a flower is offered in worship.

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