Daily Hindu Wisdom

[Green Gaia]

How much pleasure you take
In acquiring worldly goods!

But to find happiness
You must give them all up.

-Ashtavakra Gita 18:2

 

[Green Gaia]

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures, as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret, and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.


-Swami Sivananda

 

[Green Gaia]

You're like milk
in water: I cannot tell
what comes before,
what after,
which is the master,
which is the slave;
what's big,
what's small.

O lord white as jasmine
if an ant should love you
and praise you,
will he not grow
to demon powers?

-Mahadeviyakka

 

[Green Gaia]

The unitive state cannot be attained
Through words or thoughts or through the eye.
How can it be attained except through one
Who is established in this state himself?

-Katha Upanishad

 

[Green Gaia]

Amid accumulated millions a man remains poor
If he neither gives nor enjoys his wealth.

Vast wealth can be a wretched curse to one who neither
Gladdens himself in its worth nor gives to the worthy.

-Tirukkural 101:1005-1006

 

[Green Gaia]

Neither the sense of acting; nor actions, nor connections of cause and effect comes from the Lord of this world. These three arise from nature.

-Bhagavad Gita 5:14

 

[Green Gaia]

When a man realizes
He is neither the doer nor the enjoyer,
The ripples of his mind are stilled.

-Ashtavakra Gita 18:51

 

[Green Gaia]

Said the sage Sanatkumara to Narada:
"Where one realizes the indivisible unity
of life, sees nothing else, hears nothing else,
knows nothing else, that is the Infinite. Where
one sees separateness, hears separateness,
knows searateness, that is the finite. The
Infinite is beyond death, but the finite
cannot escape death."


-Chandogya Upanishad

 

[Green Gaia]

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.


-Swami Vivekananda

 

[Green Gaia]

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

-Mahatma Ghandi

 

[Green Gaia]

Side by side, those who know the Self and those who know it not do the same thing; but it is not the same: the act done with knowledge, with inner awareness and faith, grows in power. That, in a word, tells the significance of OM, the indivisible.

-Chandogya Upanishad

 

[Pah]

By nature my mind is empty.
Even in sleep, I am awake.
I think of things without thinking.

All my impressions of the world
Have dissolved.

My desires have melted away.

So what do I care for money
Or the thieving senses,
For friend or knowledge or holy books?

-Ashtavakra Gita 14:1-2
From "The Heart of Awareness: A Translation of the Ashtavakra Gita," by Thomas Byrom, 1990. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston. www.shambhala.com.

 

[Pah]

The soul is infinite, universal, detached.
When one discovers this triad, that is God.
What is perishable is the material.
What is immortal and imperishable is the bearer.
Over both the perishable and the soul the divine one rules.

-Shvetashvatara Upanishad

 

[Nitai]

Hare Krishna

Here is some necter about Brahman

- Mayavadis hold: Brahman, the Supreme Truth, is nirvisesa, (devoid of attributes), nirguna (without qualities) and nihsakti (powerless or having no potencies); and it is only illusion which causes the appearance of jivas (the individual living entity) and jagat (the world of inert matter) in Brahman.
- Vaishnavas ask: to whom this illusion belong?
- Mayavadis answer: it belong to the jiva in the grip of ignorance; others say that the illusion of jivas and jagat arises when Brahman is afflicted by ignorance.
- Vaishnavas so reply: but you say that jiva is actually Brahman. In this way you hold that Brahman can be afflicted by ignorance. But cannot be so, because it is illogical and opposed to sastras. According to the Upanisads:
brahma satyam jnanam anantam brahma
"Brahman is truth, Brahman is knowledge and Brahman is without end."
ekam eva dvitiyam
"There is no other substance other than Brahman."
Brahman is described as the embodiment of knowledge, bliss and truth in all the three phases of time; it is also unlimited and one without a second. How, then, Brahman can be afflicted by ignorance? From where did this second substance called ignorance come? That ignorance is false, for it is neither real or unreal. Infact if there is no other substance apart from Brahman, it cannot exists something contrasting it
- Mayavadis may answer: it is the jiva to be illusioned.
- Vaishnava disagree in these terms: you say that jivas comes from Brahman in the moment become afflicted by ignorance. That means that Brahman should be the original shelter of avidya. This idea is contrary to Vaishnavas and even Mayavada basic ideology.
Therefore the theory of illusion cannot be accepted.

 

[Jyothi]

moodha janeehi dhanagama trishna
kurusadbudhim manisini trishna
yallabhasenija karmopatram
vitaam yenah vinodaya chittam.

Bhaja Govindam

 

[Jyothi]

the foolish desire for wealth
the wise start looking for intellect for the mind
for the ones who do good
wealth is a happy heart.

 

[Moses the God Archetype*]

Oh maize you seem to know our faith well which is good beloved, but to quote our great teachers words you must understand them as well in order to really move forward in the process of life, the impersonal brahman or krsna's aura to understand is very hard for the embodied being, devotion or bhakti is key, even God has personal form.:bounce

 

[Jyothi]

purnamadam purnamidam poornat poornamudachyathe
Poornasya poornamadayaa poornamevavashishyathe
Om Shanthi Shanthi Shanthi hi

this is complete and that is complete
completeness is born out of completeness
take completeness out of completeness and completeness remains.
OM Peace Peace Peace