Guest guest Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 Before i convey my good wishes to all the members of this group, for Deepawali, please join me to pray for those innocent people killed in the barbaric Delhi Bomb attacks...and also for those unfortunate souls who died in tragic rail accident. I pray to God on this Diwali day to bring light and enlightenment in our heart and soul love baba Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Namaste _/\_ all. Happy celebrations of Diwali on November 1st, 2005 to all! oM asato mA sad gamaya, tamaso mA jyotir gamaya, mRtyor mA amRtaM gamaya oM zAtiH ! zAntiH! zAntiH! (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad I.3.28) Om. >From the unreal lead me to the REAL. >From darkness lead me to LIGHT. >From death lead me to IMMORTALITY. Peace! Peace! Peace be upon you! Celebrating Diwali, the Festival of Lights signifies Sri Ramas's victory over the dark influence of evil forces and thus leading the souls from the unreal material world filled with sinful tendencies to the eternal, spiritual realm of Lord and attain deathless state of Divine Bliss. It also signifies Lord Krishna's rescuing adventure of thousands of young princessess held as captives by the demon Naraka and restoring their honor and bestowing yet more blessings by accepting them all as His own consorts. It is also an auspicious appearance of Lakshmi devi, the Mother-Goddess presiding over good fortune, prosperity and wealth to enrich the devotees as well as celestial gods and goddesses. Jaya Sri Radhey! ******************* "There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it". - Edith Wharton ********************** "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Gustav Jung, "Erinnerungen, Traume, Gedanken", 196 ************************ "By meditation upon light and upon radiance, knowledge of the spirit can be reached and thus peace can be achieved". - Patanjali (B.C. 500?) *********************** WHAT IS DIWALI? HERE IS A HINDU RESOURCE FOR YOU TO FOLLOW UP FOR INFORMATION: http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa110599.htm Light Up Your Life! All About Diwali — the Festival of Lights! , "Baba ji" <beirut_ka_baba> wrote: > I pray to God on this Diwali day to bring light and enlightenment in > our heart and soul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 dear friends Deepavali means the series of lights. Krishna himself told in Gita ‘Jnana Deepena’ i.e., light means knowledge. In other verses also Swami told the same “Satvat Sanjayate” “Prakasa upa” i.e., Satvam (Good quality) is light. Satvam means knowledge. So light is knowledge. Gita also says “NA PAVAKAH” i.e., Sun, Moon, and Fire cannot shine before Lord. Veda also says the same “Kutoya magnih”. This clearly discourages the light in physical sense. Veda and Gita are authorities. Other Sanskrit verses written by blind Scholars are not authority. Any body that learnt Sanskrit can write a verse. Even “Charvaka”, the atheist wrote Sanskrit verses. So, why are you burning the lights and crackers, which cause pollution of environment leading to the green house effect? Rains are not coming properly due to this. By burning the lights, the ignorance – darkness is increasing. Life is the light and hunger is the fire as said in Gita “Aham Vysvanaro”. Give food to the beggars who are unable to do work and let the life lights glow. You are burning these lights for so many generations. Did Lord appear or appreciated at any time directly to any devotee? Lakshmi (Money) comes to you by your sacrifice and not by these lights. These lights benefit merchants only. ‘Adi Sankara’ did this real Deepavali. He lighted the ignorant people by wandering throughout India. Lord was pleased by such propagation of knowledge and appeared before him in the cave of Himalaya. Sankara dissolved in the Lord along with his body. Today you must remember the real divine lights that propagated knowledge and devotion. Such divine eternal lights are Sankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Rama Krishna Paramahamsa, Vivekananda, Ramana Maharshi, Meera, Tyagaraja etc., Inspired by those lights you should also become a light by participating in the divine propagation of knowledge and devotion. You are burning lot of oil and ghee today through these lights. Oil and ghee are food. Veda says ‘Annam Naparichaksheeta’ i.e.; food should not be destroyed. Food is also a form of Lakshmi (Dhanya Lakshmi). You are burning Lakshmi (Goddess of wealth). How can you get Lakshmi by this act? Today is the victory of Satyabhama. Satyabhama was the incarnation of Goddess Earth. Naraka was her son. For the sake of Lord she fought with her son and participated in the festival with joy, on this day when the Lord killed her son. She has crossed the bond of children before the love on God. Satyabhama means real light. Rukmini is another light because she ran away with the Lord opposing her parents and brothers. Gopikas are the divine lights. They crossed all the bonds for the sake of Lord. Radha became mad of the Lord. She is the topmost light as the queen of the 15th uppermost world called ‘Goloka’. There are six bonds representing the six whirlpools (chakras). They are respectively the bonds with 1) Mother 2) Father 3) Husband or wife 4) Children 5) Fraud Gurus 6) Illusionary forms of the real God who is only one. Out of these six bonds the central two bonds are very strong. If these two are crossed they can cross all the chakras. Gopikas danced with Lord Krishna leaving their husbands in the Brindavanam (Raasakeli). They gave butter (their stored money) to Krishna without giving it even to their children. Hence only Goloka in which Gopikas are living is bright with the real lights called Gopikas. Radha is the headlight. Hanuman is also equal to Radha. He never did any work for himself. He participated in the work of Lord only throughout his life. Such sacrifice comes only due to madness on the Lord. Radha exposed her madness. Hanuman controlled the same madness because he has to do the service of the Lord. Radha exposed whatever madness was hidden in the heart of Hanuman for the sake of the public to understand. If Hanuman exhibits that madness, the work of the Lord is affected. Hanuman and Radha are the two eyes of the Lord, which are the lights of all the lights because any light can be seen only with the eye. Hanuman is a devotee of Rama who was born in the dynasty of Sun. Radha is a devotee of Krishna who was born in the dynasty of Moon. It is said that Sun and Moon are the two eyes of the Lord i.e., Hanuman and Radha are the two eyes of the Lord. Krishna becomes happy with such real lights. Worship Satguru who is the incarnation of the God in the human form. He comes down to light the ignorant people in this world. You participate in His program of propagation of the light of knowledge. You become his servants and spread his divine knowledge. Then each human being becomes a light of knowledge. All the darkness of ignorance will vanish. This is the real Deepavali by which the Lord becomes immensely pleased with you. Christians are also burning the candlelights on Christmas day in the same manner. But what did Lord Jesus tell? He told ‘I am the light’ i.e., God is Light. Before that lights no other light can shine, because the Light of all these lights is God. Veda says same thing “Tasya Bhasa”. He also told ‘I am the path’. The light means knowledge as per Gita and as per Veda also. Therefore this means that the knowledge of Lord Jesus is the path. The preaching of Lord Jesus i.e., the Holy Bible is the path. The preaching of all the human incarnations of God like Gita, Bible and Kuran are the different lights and are one and the same i.e., the light only. So all the Holy books of all the Religions are the lights and paths. Since God is knowledge and God is truth, Knowledge is truth. Veda says the same. ‘Satyam, Jnanam’. Therefore participation of yourself in His divine program to propagate the Holy Bible is the real participation in the festival of candlelights. God came down in human form as Jesus for this purpose. Then only you have known the truth. This is the meaning of Jesus telling ‘ I am the Truth’. This means that Jesus who is the God in the human form is the real form of God. Lord comes down in human form in every human generation. He preaches the same that was preached by the past human incarnations. Every human generation should participate in the program of the human form of God of that generation. Every body should participate in the propagation on every day and so every day is ‘Deepavali’. Every human incarnation is Lord Krishna. Every ignorant person getting rid of ignorance i.e., darkness by the divine knowledge propagated by you is a real light of Deepavali. at the lotus feet of shri datta swami surya www.universal-spirituality.org pyari_h <no_reply> wrote: Namaste _/\_ all. Happy celebrations of Diwali on November 1st, 2005 to all! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. 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Guest guest Posted November 1, 2005 Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Namaste all. teSAM satata yuktAnAM bhajatAM prIti pUrvakam dadAmi buddhi yogaM taM yena mAm upayAnti te "To them, ever devout, adoring Me with LOVE, I GIVE the Yoga of Discrimination by which they COME to Me." (B.G.10.10) The Glory of God begins to dawn in the heart of the seeker who devotedly and sincerely practises Bhakti. This initial experience gives impetus for further pursuit of Bhakti Yoga, leading to greater cognition of God's Glory. This is the 'Buddhi Yoga' endowed with which the seeker gets to know more and yet more of the sweet sublimity of the Lord and be ardently drawn to Him. Devotion does this way wax with Buddhi Yoga. "A man confined within a dark room contacts a ray of light coming in through a tiny aperture. He gathers knowledge of light to that extent. But as the aperture increases in size his conception of light widens. A man in the broad day light has his own view of light. Similar to this, God reveals Himself in varying degrees and aspects according to the nature and attainments of His devotees. - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa teSAm evAnukampArtham aham ajnAnajaM tamaH nAzayAmyAtma bhAvastho jnAna dIpena bhAsvatA "Out of pure compassion for them, dwelling in their hearts, I destroy the ignorance-born darkness, by the luminous lamp of wisdom." (B.G.10.11) The Lord's choosing to reside in the HEARTS of beings is His COMPASSION. Because of His PRESENCE as Conscience, beings are prompted to seek what is good or at least what seems good. The unbroken consciousness of the Lord is the flame emanating from this lamp of wisdom, set up in the heart of the DEVOTEE. He beholds the Divine Presence within himself with the AID of Divine LAMP. "The policeman patrolling at night carries a bull's-eye lantern with the aid of which he sees the persons loitering about. But this lantern does not disclose its carrier. If he, however, turns it on himself the others come to know who he is. Likewise Lord reveals His Nature and Its contents, but keeps Himself hidden. Nobody can see Him except through His Grace and Compassion. - Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Jaya Sri Radhey! , pyari_h <no_reply> wrote: > Happy celebrations of Diwali on November 1st, 2005 to all! > > oM asato mA sad gamaya, > tamaso mA jyotir gamaya, > mRtyor mA amRtaM gamaya > > oM zAntiH ! zAntiH! zAntiH! > > From the unreal lead me to the REAL. > From darkness lead me to LIGHT. > From death lead me to IMMORTALITY. > > Peace! Peace! Peace be upon all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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