Bharatham : Uthishtatha-Jagratha : (wef-05/11/2012. )

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= Sunday,  October 23, 2022. 08:00. Discourse 3: Sure Ways of Success in Life -2. 2.Sacrifice and Dedication in Life =========================================================================      Herein comes into high relief the significance of the teaching that we have to perform actions without regard for their fruits, because the fruits are not in our hands, they are determined by the ultimate law of the universe, which, in the present condition of our minds, we can neither understand nor follow. Our duty is to act, act in the right way, bearing in mind that we are fulfilling an inviolable and unavoidable imperative, not forced upon us by any outward mandate, but by the law of our own being, to ignore which would be nothing short of folly. To work with any fixed ulterior motive beforehand would be like naming a ch...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Tuesday, August 09. 2022. 08:00. Discourse 3: Sure Ways of Success in Life -1 1 : Yoga an Art and Science : ======================================================================= 1. Yoga an Art and Science : The Yoga system, especially that propounded by the sage Patanjali, is a masterly science of psychology. We are asked to control the modifications of the mind-stuff in order to be able to have clear perception and true insight. Patanjali points out that we become normal only when we cease from thinking in terms of forms of the mental modification and begin to adopt quite a different way of perception. In other words, we have to rest in our own selves, first, in order that we may be healthy and also have a healthy perception of things. All types of objective thinking are considered in our system of Yoga as certain diseased conditions ...

 ======================================================================== ======================================================================= Sunday, July 10. 2022. 07:30. Discourse 2: The Psychology of the Inner Man-5. Post-5. ========================================================================= Secret of Right Action : No action is seen to fully bring to us the intended result, because it is bound up with several factors not under the control of the actor. It is meaningless to think that a divine way of living is not the usual way and that it is some mystic segregation and introversion not normally connected with life. This misconception arises on account of a misunderstanding of what spiritual life is and the aim of life should mean to us. When every type of action is visualised as a process of the universal activity of God, or the Absolute, individual and personal agency drops out from the scene altogether. Behold the soul-stirring dictum of the Bhagavad-Gita, that the ...

 ======================================================================== ====================================================================== Tuesday, June 21. 2022. 6:00.AM. Discourse 2: The Psychology of the Inner Man-4. Post-4. ======================================================================= Metaphysics of Thought and Its Functions : Continued ... The mind, in the Vedanta philosophy, is conceived not as any independent entity opposed to matter, as is the case in several systems of Western philosophy, but is understood to be an aspect of the material principle itself appearing in a more rarefied form. The psychology of the Vedanta is a highly scientific methodology evolved out of the fundamental concept that the supreme reality is Absolute Consciousness and anything that may seem to be opposed to it can only be a phase of itself. The fivefold base of objective perception, viz., sound, touch, form, taste and smell, is found to be inseparable from and reciprocally related...

 =============================================================== ================================================================ Sunday, June 05. 2022. 6:00.AM. Discourse 2: The Psychology of the Inner Man-3 Post-3. ============================================================== Life a Process and Activity : Not only the body and the senses but even the self conceived as a limited individual centre of consciousness is a process of intense activity, moving, changing and evolving incessantly. The individual self is the basis of knowledge as well as action. Due to confinement to a spatial existence the individual self is dominated over and harassed by certain urges, felt within itself, pointing to certain external objects and states. The desire for food, clothing and shelter, for name, fame, power, sleep, and sex, often appears in the human individual as a violent force which cannot be easily subdued or even intelligently controlled. These deep-rooted urges are an immediate consequenc...

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Thursday, April 14. 2022. 6:00.AM. Discourse 2: The Psychology of the Inner Man-2 =============================================================== 2.Life a Process and Activity : The philosophy of the Vedanta makes a distinction between existence as such and the experience of any type of existence. We may say, if we would like, that a fact or an existence is absolute so far as it goes, and a subjective experience of it is relative. Human life is a psychological process, and not an Immutable existence.  A knowledge of the functions of the mind is essential to understand life in its fullness. In the observation of the mind we can have no instrument, such as the ones we use in observing, measuring, examining or cleaning outward things.  The mind is the student as well as the object of study, when life as a whole is the theme that we wish to investigate...

 ============================================================== ============================================================= Monday, March 01. 2022. 6:00.AM. Discourse 2: The Psychology of the Inner Man-1 ============================================================= 1.Relativity of Perception : We noticed that our essential Self is the highest reality. Even doubt and denial of it really affirm it. In our ordinary external life we are prone to believe that our eyes are the seers of objects. This is the uncritical opinion of the common man. But it is not difficult to perceive that the eyes by themselves have not the power to know things independently. The matter comes into high relief in the states of dream and deep sleep, when, even if the eyes be kept open, nothing external can be seen or observed. No sense-organ seems to function in these states. The ears, even if they are kept open, cannot hear sounds. If we place a few particles of sugar on the tongue of a sleeping man, he will...