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The cancer in your soul - Lyn McTaggart

2010-12-10T21:45:00.000-08:00

Lynne McTaggart's latest blog:

December 10th, 2010

As I prepare for our special cancer teleconference with the pioneering Dr Patrick Kingsley this Sunday, Ive been looking over the many things I have written about the disease.
I have largely characterized it as a deficiency disease a slow-motion starving of vital nutrients resulting from the wholesale industrialization of food or disease of toxicity a poisoning from our chronic exposure to some 20,000 chemicals present in our air, food, water and homes.
Clearly, these elements play an important supporting role. But perhaps not the leading one.
Spontaneous disappearance
They do not, for instance, explain spontaneous remission how a giant mass can be there one day and virtually melt away the next. A small body of research concerns terminal cancer patients who, with little or no medical intervention, end up beating the odds.
Although medicine likes to pretend that these cases are rare, one in eight skin cancers spontaneously heals, as does nearly one in five genitourinary cancers.
Virtually all types of illnesses, from those where organs have supposedly packed up, as in diabetes or Addisons disease, to those where a body part is supposedly irretrievably damaged, as in atherosclerosis, have healed on their own.
Rather than calling these cases what they are the bodys ability to self-correct medicine refers to them as spontaneous remission, as though the illness has simply decided to go into hiding, but might still suddenly spring out at you again at any moment.
We all marvel at cases of spontaneous remission because even the most enlightened among us subscribe to the body-as-machine paradigm. Under this model, what is broken stays broken, until a seasoned mechanic comes along with the right monkey wrench or spare part.
Clearly, whats going on there is something more complex than eating your greens and throwing away your toxic cleaning products.The sheer volume of cases of spontaneous remission shows that self-repair and renewal is natural to the human body.

Losing the plotLately, Ive been sifting through these studies, looking for the common thread. What these cases collectively say about cancer is highly instructive. In case after case, they describe people up against a major roadblock in their lives: an unremitting stress; an unresolved trauma; a prolonged hostility; a marked isolation; a profound dissatisfaction; a quiet despair.They describe people who are boxed in a corner with no apparent way out, people who have lost not only the plot but also their role as the central protagonist of their own life drama. They are people who, in short, hurt deeply in their very souls.Those people who beat their cancer, whose survival remains unexplained, are those same individuals who find a way out of the corner. They get rid of the source of the psychological heartache: they divorce the abusive husband; they resolve the problem with their mother or daughter; they take full responsibility for their illness.
But, most important of all, they find the lost meaning in their lives. Most cases of spontaneous remission seem to take place after the patient has made a major psychological shift to recreate a life that is engaging and purposeful. They play the piano or go trekking in Tibet, if thats what they always meant to do before they got derailed in their lives. They find a path back to their joie de vivre.

The power of thoughts
Most people, this would suggest, get ill because theyve lost all hope of life ever being good. And this suggests that they have cancer because of their thoughts the thoughts they think about themselves and their lives.
For many years, Ive studied evidence of how profoundly and quickly the brain alters its function and even its physical structure from mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation is more than just relaxation. It creates a profound change in your worldview: an acceptance of what is in the current moment without a judgemental overlay.The research on mindfulness suggests that our physicality is like Play-Doh, to be molded from our conscious thoughts. Form follows function. If the brain can be physically revised throughout life just by thinking better thoughts, so too can the rest of the body.
Indeed, the dynamic plasticity of the body its ability to go from ill to well overnight demonstrates how deeply it is a maidservant of consciousness.
Much has been written about the so-called cancer personality. For me, the real question is getting to the heart of the cancer in your soul.

-LynMcTaggart is the best selling author of The Intention Experiment and more

DAYA MATA – A glimse of her stature

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[Note: This was at the time when Swami Shyamananda Giri (he was not a swami then) was looking for a quite ashram near Calcutta where he could retire from responsibilities and meditate. At the same time he had heard of Yogoda Math at Dakshineshwar and was contemplating joining YSS. Below is an extract taken from an article `In Memorium: Swami Shyamananda Giri' from the SFR Magazine – Fall 1971. Swami Shyamananda Giri had this to say about Daya Mata then.]

"In 1958, I decided I would try to find a quite ashram near Calcutta where I could retire from responsibilities and meditate. I had heard of Yogoda Math, which was a short distance from Kali temple at Dakshineshwar. I went there and found that it was indeed secluded; not many visitors came, and it was beautifully situated on the banks of the Ganges. I talked with one of the monks about possible accommodations. He told me about the founder and shwoed me his book, Autobiography of a Yogi. I bought the book and went away.

"I was skeptical about a yogi who would write his autobiography, and especially one who had spent many years in the West. But as I casually leafed through the pages, I saw this was no ordinary text - whatever passage I chanced to read rang with spiritual vitality and truth.

"But imagine my astonishment when I turned to the page on which Mahavatar Babaji's picture appears. 'It is he!' I exclaimed, 'the one in the vision, for whom I have been searching these many years! Can it be? or am I only imagining?'"

Then he remembered that the monk at Yogoda Math had told him they were making preparations for the visit from America of the president of Paramahansa Yogananda's society. He also remembered his sceptical reaction: "An American Spiritual leader? And a woman at that? Absurd!" Such were his thoughts. Yet he felt somehow drawn, and within a few days he found himself talking to Sri Daya Mata. "When I came away from that meeting, I knew she had supplied the ingredient that had been missing in my sadhana. I had been following the path of Jnana Yoga, inspired by the illustrious example of Swami Vivekananda; but my own swadhana remained dry and empty.

Ma told me I must cultivate more devotion, more love and longing for God. My heart began to fill and I knew she was right. Strange, that first meeting with Ma was on the very day, twelve years after, of my vision of Babaji in Rajgir; I felt my search had ended."

Yet doubt waged a battle in his mond. The whole of his life and search would be wasted of he were misled by delusion now. He kept at a distance, coming to the ashram to meditate quietly, and then slipplig away. He even tried staying away for long periods of time. But when he came again, the same peaceful assurance crept over him. Sri Daya Mata had already singled him out of the crowds as the one outstanding soul she had thus far met in India who was deeply seeking God.

He travelled to Ranchi when Daya Mata went there on her visit to the place in India where Paramahansaji's work had started with a flourishing boy's school. There they has many heart-to-heart talks about the work. Daya Mata poured out to him her heartache at finding her Guru's work in India badly neglected and deteriorated - it was a dying institution. She felt his keen response and understanding.

He also accompanied Sri Daya Mata's party to the Yogoda Satsanga ashram of Swami Yukteswar in Puri. If any doubts remained in Shyamananda's mind, on this trip they were to be dispelled forever.

Jagannath Temple at Puri is considered one of the holiest in India. It held a special reverential place in Shyamananda's heart. He had made pilgrimages there many times, and his meditations in its sacred environs had always been blessed deeply. By special concession granted by His Holiness Sri Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha*, Sri Daya Mata was the first American ever to be allowed to enter Jagannath Temple^. Shyamananda was in her party that day.

As she meditated before the alter - on which are images of Krishna in the aspect of Jagannath, Lord of the Universe; his sister Subadhra, and his brother Balarama - she went deep into an ecstatic state, becoming totally oblivious of all around her. Shyamananda related his own experience at that time:

"I stood at a distance on one side, against the wall, watching Ma in meditation. Suddenly her form began to disappear into light. I looked at Jagannath's image at the alter, then back to Ma, and again at the alter; several times I did this, shaking my head to be sure I was not imagining. I knew they were One! This experience continued for a long time, then gradually Ma's form began to reappear. After a while she got up and left the temple. As she did so I noticed that she dropped her ochre handkerchief. I wondered why those who were with her did not pick it up. I was extermely reluctant to touch it. In that sacred place, witnessing what I had just witnessed, that handkerchief was a symbol. To pick it up was to commit myself before the Lord, as if picking up her banner. I had never thus committed myself to anyone or any organization. Yet I couldn't leave it lying there. I looked frantically at the alter and prayed, "Lord, what are you doing? What are you asking?' Finally I said, 'What is to be, let it be, O Lord.' And I picked up the handkerchief and carried it outside to Ma."

Sri Daya Mata had been only dimly aware of dropping the handkerchief, and of sensing his reluctance to pick it up. She also understood it was a symbol. When he handed it to her, it was a confirmation of what she already knew: God had chosen him to help rebuild her guru's work in India.

[Note: A similar symbolic act of "picking up Guruji's banner" had taken place years earlier in Shyamananda's life when during a Durgapuja in 1930 the young Binayendra (Swami Shyamananda's name before he became a YSS_SRF monk) and a few of his friends were on a holiday at a rented bungalow in Ranchi. Unknown to the vacationers, this bungalow, a part of the Maharaja Of Kasimbazar's estate, had once been used by Paramahansa Yogananda's Yogoda school, but had been vacated in 1929 when it was outgrown. "When we arrived there," said Shyamananda, "I noticed a Yogoda signboard lying on the ground. It was covered with dirt, and the white ants were eating it. I could never bear to see anything being spoilt, even if it did not belong to me. I also thought, 'This must have been some spiritual institution; it is not right that this sign board lies on the ground for people to walk on it.'" He picked up the sign, brushed off the dirt and ants and propped it against a tree: his first thoughtful, though unknowing, act of service to his Guru.]

[* - Spiritual head of Gowardhan Math, founded in Puri in the 9th century by Lord Shankara, India's greatest philosopher, and reorganiser of the Swami Order.]

[^ - Since its founding, centuries ago, the temple had been closed to non-Hindus and Westerners. That restriction had been lifted coincidentally with Sri Daya Mata's visit to Puri. Not long afterward, the restriction again became the rule.]

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Bro. Satyananda's Spiritual Homework: Give 60 seconds to God

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A Cute Story About Daya Ma

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Courtesy: www.yogananda.net (http://forum.yogananda.net/index.php?/topic/19139-a-cute-story-about-daya-ma/pagep186057hldivine%20motherfromsearch1&#entry186057)

From Br.Ramananda's repertoire

Once during his tenure as secretary, Ma was scheduled to give an interview to a prestigious magazine. The reporter was to arrive at anytime and Ma was deeply absorbed in her work. Brother was a wee bit concerned about Ma's 'appearance' as she was going on print as Head of a large international body and her sandals were slightly scuffed and her chuddar a bit faded. He was thinking all this, and "as usual",he said,"Ma read my thoughts. And just asked me to stay calm". Finally the appointed hour came and Brother went out in the lobby to greet the reporter, and to wait for Ma to join them. And as he waited in the lobby and "it was barely a few moments/minutes" since he had left Ma alone with her work, and in she kind of 'waltzed' with "a complete makeover". Her cotton robe was silk, her hair was absolutely coiffed in place, and shoes shiny and polished. And as she walked past him, she gave him an amused sideways glance and said, "So Brahmachari, how do i look?"

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Dear Devotees,

Jai Guru!

All the "Monks lectures" have been deleted (relocated to its original source) from this blog as i received a message from a devotee that they belong to devotee2devotee.com. SDL was not aware of it and I sincerely apologise for posting them here without giving credits. They were mailed to me from an Indian devotee.Meanwhile you can see all the lectures from thier original site
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Swami (Brother) Bhavananda ji leaves his body

2010-09-29T22:54:00.000-07:00

Om Guru....

With a heavy heart...we wish to pass on the message
received from Br. Gokulananda that RESPECTED SWAMI
BHAWANANDAJI....left his body...last night...at 1 am...

Please pray for SWAMIJI.
Please request other devotees in your group to pray
too....Gokulananda....
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Courtesy (be email) Mr Rusy Malegamwala ( Bangalore,India)

A RARE GLIMPSE OF HOW A LOVER OF GOD LEAVES THIS WORLD

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Shortly after this, the birthday of Sri Ramakrishna was celebrated. Maharaj (Swami Brahmananda) stayed at the Belur Math for the occasion; then he returned to Balaram's home in Calcutta. Two days later he had a slight attack of cholera, but recovered within a week. This illness which left him feeble was followed by diabetes, which took a serious turn. Many doctors came to treat him one of whom wore the religious mark on his forehead.

"Doctor," said Maharaj, "the Lord Siva, whose symbol you wear on your forehead, is the only Reality. Everything else is unreal." A devotee asked: "Maharaj, are you suffering very greatly?"
"Please try to realize," Maharaj answered, "that in my condition I have to bear physical suffering patiently and without complaint."

But as he said this, his face lighted up with a divine radiance. The pain seemed to have melted away. He lost external consciousness and became absorbed in meditation. About nine o'clock that same evening, he placed his hand on Nirvanananda, and said: "Do not grieve. You have served me well. You shall be merged in God andreach knowledge of Brahman. I give you my blessing that you may attain this." Then he called call the disciples and devotees who were present to his side. For each he had a blessing and an affectionate word.
"Ah, my children," he said tenderly, "never forget God and you will realize the highest good. Do not sorrow. I shall be with you always."

Once more he became absorbed in his transcendental vision. After some time had passed, he continued in a sweet, tender voice: "I am floating, I am floating on the leaf of faith and knowledge on the ocean of Brahman." Then suddenly he exclaimed: "Ah! The feet of Sri Ramakrishna -- I know them! Viveka, my brother Vivekananda! Premananda ... Yogananda ..."

Thus, with his divine sight, he recognized the brother-disciples who had already passed away. He was living in that transcendental realm where he had lived throughout his life; but now he no longer concealed the fact. He began to describe his visions. "Ah," he murmured softly, "the blissful ocean of Brahman! Om! Salutations to the Supreme Brahman! Om! Salutations to the Supreme Atman!" While speaking of his divine experiences, his throat became dry. A disciple offered him a drink, saying: "Maharaj, please drink this water. It has lemon in it." "The mind doesn't want to come down from Brahman," said Maharaj slowly. "Pour Brahman into Brahman," and like a child he opened his mouth for the water to be poured into it. Then he turned to Swami Saradananda and said: "Brother, Sri Ramakrishna is real. His divine incarnation is real."

After this Maharaj was silent for a while. He was deeply absorbed in meditation, and his face wore an expression of great sweetness. The minds of those who were present were so uplifted that they felt no grief -- only joy and silent calm. All sense of the world and of death was lost. Suddenly, out of the silence, the voice of Maharaj was heard: "Ah, that inexpressible light! Ramakrishna, the Krishna of my Ramakrishna ... I am the shepherd boy. Put anklets on my feet, I want to dance with my Krishna. I want to hold his hand -- the little boy Krishna ... Ah, Krishna, my Krishna, you have come! Krishna... Krishna... Can't you see him? Haven't you eyes to see? Oh, how beautiful! My Krishna... on the lotus ... eternal ... the Sweet One!
"My play is over now. Look! The child Krishna is caressing me. He is calling me to come away with him! I am coming ..." The tenderness and heavenly compassion that filled his heart were expressed in every word he uttered.

The whole atmosphere of the large hall where he was lying seemed to vibrate with this emotion. No one can describe the extraordinary sense of holiness, which was created by his presence. Everyone knew that the fateful hour was approaching, and that Maharaj was taking his final leave. During the early hours of the morning, he remained silent for some time and fell into a slumber. At seven o'clock he awoke, and was again possessed by this high spiritual mood. He called a few disciples who had just arrived but who had not been present the previous night. To each he gave his blessing, bestowing comfort and fearlessness.

Two more days passed, and another night came on. By this time his life was despaired of, and gloom fell upon all. His physical condition grew worse and worse, and the doctors were amazed that he had not passed into a coma days before, as is usual with this kind of illness. But so great was the power and spirituality of his mind, so completely was it freed from the meshes of physical matter, that it remained completely unaffected by the condition of his suffering body. He maintained perfect consciousness right up to the last moment of his life. As that last evening faded into night, his chest suddenly heaved. It was as if a great wave of breath passed up the body to the throat. His half-closed eyes opened, and he gazed into the distance, his eyes shining with the brilliance and unspeakable beauty.

Thus it was that, on April 10, 1922, the life left his body.

"Do not grieve. I shall be with you always." Those were his last words to his disciples. After his passing away, we all had the feeling that Maharaj was intensely present within us. He was closer to us than ever before. As long as Maharaj was in the physical body there was a barrier. Afterward, the barrier was gone.
More than forty years have passed since that day and every disciple can bear witness to the fact that Maharaj still lives, protects, and guides him onward toward the goal.

When I was about to leave India and take up my duties in the United States, Swami Shivananda said to me: "Never forget that you have seen the Son of God. You have seen God."
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-from The Eternal Companion - Life and Spiritual Teachings of Swami Brahmananda - by Swami Yatiswarananda, Swami Prabhavananda and others, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Madras 600 004.

Text courtesy ( email) Mr Rusy melagamwala ,Bangalore, India

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*Change Your Thinking **

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It will take just 37 seconds to read this and it might help to 'change your
thinking'.* *

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.*

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One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help
drain the fluid from his lungs.

His bed was next to the room's only window.*

*The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.*

*The men talked for hours on end.* *

They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their
involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..*

*Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he
would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could
see outside the window.*

*The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his
world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the
world outside.*

*The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.* *

Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats.
Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view
of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.*

*As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man
on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this
picturesque scene.* *

One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.*

*Although the other man could not hear the band - he could see it in his
mind's eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive
words.*

*Days, weeks and months passed.*

*One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to
find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in
his sleep.* *

She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away. *

*As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved
next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making
sure he was comfortable, she left him alone. *

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Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look
at the real world outside.* *
He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.*

*It faced a blank wall.*

*The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who
had described such wonderful things outside this window.*

*The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.
*

*She said, 'Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.'** *

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Epilogue:** *

*There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own
situations.*

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Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled. *

*If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money
can't buy.*

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'Today is a gift, that is why it is called **The Present**.'*

Courtesy: Dr Nikhil Seth ( Delhi, India) on e mail..

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL

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The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being..

She said, 'Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?'

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, 'Of course you may!' and she gave me a giant squeeze..

'Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?' I asked.

She jokingly replied, 'I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids...'

'No seriously,' I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

'I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!' she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this 'time machine' as she shared her wisdom and experience with me..

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she revelled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor.

Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, 'I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.'

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, ' We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humour every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!

There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody! Can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets..'

She concluded her speech by courageously singing 'The Rose.'

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those months ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. We make a Living by what we get. We make a Life by what we give.

Courtesy : Mrs Shweta Khanolkar ,India ( Via e mail)

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Brother Sevananda - Q & A Session

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Thursday Morning Satsanga, SRF Convocation 2010

Question: Explain God to us.
Satchidananda: ever conscious, ever new bliss. God will answer prayers and guide us. The ego knows that by philosophizing we keep God “out there”.

Question: How do you meditate?
When meditating, it’s difficult not to intellectualize. Master said tune in and “get my meaning.” The difference between meditation and concentration is that meditation is the application of concentration. Use Master’s teachings and keep as simple as we can. The real education is to practice and then we can go back and study.

Question: How do we be still and know that I am God?
Look at Man’s Eternal Quest. Practice the techniques and find out their meaning. It’s God talking to us. Know the aspects of God in you as peace, wisdom, and bliss. Keep the body still; still minds and settled thoughts become calm and clear.

Every person at sometime has a spiritual experience. Bro. as a child felt that presence, but wondered where God came from. God is the creator of the universe but spirit is the creator of God. The nature of sprit is beautiful and can’t be questioned.

Question: Please talk about animals.
The devotee had to put their cat Pumpkin to sleep on Friday and is missing her so much that they feel like crying. Bro. says “cry, of course. It’s your pet. You loved it.”

Saints show poise when the rest of us would fall apart. In Mejda, when Ananta passed before cremation the body was placed on a cot outside the door. Father asked for cover to be removed and gazed longingly on his child’s face. On the following days father went about his routine. What power had father mastered to stay serene? Saints may not react outwardly but that doesn’t mean they don’t feel inside.

Emotions are energy and we can allow it to flow through us. When Sister Gyanamata passed there were tears in Master’s eyes. She was free, but Master had tears of love because on this side he would miss her. Each time we recall a little pain, when each one passes away, rejoice in the astral world. Expand hearts to loved ones.

Question: Is it possible to love someone unconditionally and be detached?
Yes if you love them unconditionally you want what’s best for the person and be unattached. To attain divine love, we go through an unconditional state. We still care, but more so since we are detached. Read in The Divine Romance, “How Feelings Mask the Soul”. If something is mine, it’s my responsibility to keep it for all and see that it’s available to others. We own it but it’s not ours. It belongs to God really.

Question: Master writes about protecting loved ones. Please talk about parents protecting kids.
Love them unconditionally. Believe it or not, they’re going to be okay. Set boundaries when they’re in your house. But we all have free will.

Our guru follows us wherever we go. We’re all equally special. We’ll all come back. We can’t save loved ones from those hard knocks. If an avatar can’t protect a person are prayers to no avail. Prayer has to help as it releases positive energy. Let go, meditate and leave it in God’s hands. Go to God and we’ll have safety forever for ourselves and those we love.

Question: Why are so many photos of Guru displayed? Isn’t this considered Guru worship? Master can give guidance. The reaction can be understandable to new people until they understand better. We have to deepen our understanding and get comfortable.

Bro. tells the story of Helen Keller who had an incredibly full life but if she’d been able to see she would have wanted to see the face of her dear teacher, Anne Sullivan. Our Guru loves us unconditionally.

Question: How do we pray for others?
Last fall in the magazine Ma had an article on prayer. Help others with prayers—meditate deeply. Keep in touch with the omnipresent power.

Text courtesy: Mr Rusi ( Bangalore) Thanks!

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Will That Day Come to Me, Mother?

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Beauty of colours: Thanks God for it!

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Spiritual Enlightenment |- Article on The Self-Realization Fellowship

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By Judd Handler

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Inspiration: The Love of God Protects you

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Do not long for human love. This longing in your heart is really the desire for God. His love you will find will be with you through eternity, and through all your trials and miseries you will feel His love protecting you. You came with Him, you are still with Him, yet you deny Him now, but when your loved ones are gone, He still will be with you. When you hear the voice of God saying that He loves you, then you will be satisfied. He will never let you be the victim of trials and suffering, for His love will be the power that will guard you.

Human love, when it is charged with the Divine, becomes perfect. When you cut off the little brook from the fountain, then it is lost. When you cut off human love from divine love, then it is imperfect. Remember, you are your own judge. Will you doom yourself to suffering and ignorance or will you say: "I shall free myself!" If restlessness troubles you, meditate. The greatest of all temptations is restlessness. When restlessness comes, it causes evil. If you meditate regularly, you will be with God all the time.

Text courtesy ;Guruji's Madhumakhi (gurujis.madhumakkhi@gmail.com )

India: Contribution to the world

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My India

Not where the musk of happiness blows,
Not where darkness and fears never tread;
Not in the homes of perpetual smiles,
Nor in the heaven of a land of prosperity
Would I be born
If I must put on mortal garb once more.

Dread famine may prowl and tear my flesh,
Yet would I love to be again
In my Hindustan.
A million thieves of disease
May try to steal the body’s fleeting health;
And clouds of fate
May shower scalding drops of searing sorrow –
Yet would I there, in India,
Love to reappear!

Is this love of mine blind sentiment
That sees not the pathways of reason?
Ah, no! I love India,
For there I learned first to love God
and all things beautiful.
Some teach to seize the fickle dewdrop, life,
Sliding down the lotus leaf of time;
Stubborn hopes are built
Around the gilded, brittle body-bubble.
But India taught me to love

The soul of deathless beauty in the dewdrop
and the bubble –
Not their fragile frames.
Her sages taught me to find my Self,
Buried beneath the ash heaps
Of incarnations of ignorance.
Though many a land of power, plenty, and science
My soul, garbed sometimes as an Oriental,
Sometimes as an Occidental,
Travelled far and wide,
Seeking Itself;
At last, in India, to find Itself.

Though mortal fires raze all her homes
and golden paddy fields,
Yet to sleep on her ashes and dream immortality,
O India, I will be there!
The guns of science and matter
Have boomed on her shores
Yet she is unconquered.
Her soul is free evermore!
Her soldier saints are away,
To rout with realization’s ray
The bandits of hate, prejudice, and patriotic selfishness;
And to burn the walls of separation dark
Between children of the One, One Father.
The Western brothers by matter’s might
have conquered my land;

Blow, blow aloud, her conch shells all!
India now invades with love,
To conquer their souls.

Better than Heaven or Arcadia
I love Thee, O my India!
And thy love I shall give
To every brother nation that lives.
God made the earth;
Man made confining countries
And their fancy-frozen boundaries.
But with newfound boundless love
I behold the borderland of my India
Expanding into the world.
Hail, mother of religions, lotus, scenic beauty,
And sages!
Thy wide doors are open,
Welcoming God’s true sons through all ages.
Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God –
I am hallowed; my body touched that sod.

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
- From Songs of The Soul
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Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.

1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.

2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

3. The world's first University was established in Takshila in 700BC.

More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.

6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.

7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word "Navigation" is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan's works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53

10. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra

13. Chess was invented in India

14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India .

15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley India in 100 BC.

Quotes about India

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. Albert Einstein.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition. Mark Twain.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India French scholar Romain Rolland.

India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. Hu Shih (former Chinese ambassador to USA )

ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS.

BUT, if we don't see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow.

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STROKE: Remember the 1st Three Letters.. S.T.R.

STROKE IDENTIFICATION:

During a BBQ, a woman stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) .she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Jane went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening

Jane's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital -
(at 6:00 PM Jane passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Jane would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this...

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.

RECOGNIZING A STROKE

Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR . Read and Learn!

Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.

Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:

S *Ask the individual to SMILE.

T *Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)

(I.e. It is sunny out today.)

R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.

If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.

New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue

NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue.. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke.

A cardiologist says if everyone who reads this & sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.

I have done my part. Will you?

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Guru vandana ( hymns to the Guru perceptor) - Traditional Indian.

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We lay the flowers of our devotion at Thy beloved lotus feet

Guru Stotram (गुरु स्तोत्रम्)

ब्रह्मानन्दं परमसुखदं केवलं ज्ञानमूर्तिं द्वन्द्वातीतं गगनसदृशं तत्वमस्यादिलक्ष्यम् |

एकं नित्यं विमलमचलं सर्वधीसाक्षिभूतम् भावतीतं त्रिगुणरहितं सदगुरुं तं नमामि ||

I prostrate myself before that Guru, the Bliss of Brahman, the bestower of Supreme Happiness, who is Knowledge absolute, transcending the pairs of opposites, expansive like the sky, the goal indicated by the great sayings like “Thou art That”, the one eternal, pure, unchanging, the witness of functions of the intellect, who is above all Bhavas (mental conditions) and the three Gunas (Sattva, Rajas and Tamas).

अखण्डमण्डलाकारं व्याप्तं येन चराचरम् ।
तत्पदं दर्शितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru,, who has made it possible to realise the state which pervades the entire cosmos, everything animate and inanimate.

अज्ञानतिमिरान्धस्य ज्ञानाञ्जनशलाकया ।
चक्षुरुन्मीलितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥
Salutation to the noble Guru, who has opened the eyes blinded by darkness of ignorance with the collyrium-stick of knowledge.

गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णुः गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः ।
गुरुरेव परंब्रह्म तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, who is Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara, the direct Parabrahma, the Supreme Reality.

स्थावरं जंगमं व्याप्तं यत्किंचित्सचराचरम् ।
तत्पदं दर्शितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, who has made it possible to realise Him, by whom all that is - sentient and insentient, movable and immovable is pervaded.

चिन्मयं व्यापियत्सर्वं त्रैलोक्यं सचराचरम् ।
तत्पदं दर्शितं येन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, who has made it possible to realise Him pervades everything, sentient and insentient, in all three worlds.

सर्वश्रुतिशिरोरत्नविराजित पदाम्बुजः ।
वेदान्ताम्बुजसूर्योयः तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, whose lotus feet are radient with (the luster of) the crest jewel of all Srutis and who is the sun that causes the Vendanta Lotus (knowledge) to bloosom.

चैतन्यः शाश्वतःशान्तो व्योमातीतो निरंजनः ।
बिन्दुनाद कलातीतः तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru,who is the ever effulgent, eternal, peaceful, beyond space, immaculate, and beyond the manifest and unmanifest.

ज्ञानशक्तिसमारूढः तत्त्वमालाविभूषितः ।
भुक्तिमुक्तिप्रदाता च तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to that noble Guru, who is established in the power of knowledge, adorned with the garland of various principles and is the bestower of prospority and liberation.

अनेकजन्मसंप्राप्त कर्मबन्धविदाहिने ।
आत्मज्ञानप्रदानेन तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, who by bestowing the knowledge of the Self burns up the bondage created by accumulated actions of innumerable births.

शोषणं भवसिन्धोश्च ज्ञापणं सारसंपदः ।
गुरोः पादोदकं सम्यक् तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, by washing whose feet, the ocean of transmigration, endless sorrows is completely dried up and the Supreme wealth is revealed.

न गुरोरधिकं तत्त्वं न गुरोरधिकं तपः ।
तत्त्वज्ञानात्परं नास्ति तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, beyond whom there is no higher truth, there is no higher penance and there is nothing higher attainable than the true knowledge.

मन्नाथः श्रीजगन्नाथः मद्गुरुः श्रीजगद्गुरुः ।
मदात्मा सर्वभूतात्मा तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, who is my Lord and the Lord of the Universe, my Teacher and the Teacher of the Universe, who is the Self in me and the Self in all beings.

गुरुरादिरनादिश्च गुरुः परमदैवतम् ।
गुरोः परतरं नास्ति तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः ॥

Salutation to the noble Guru, who is both the beginning and beginningless, who is the Supreme Deity than whom there is none superior.

त्वमेव माता च पिता त्वमेव, त्वमेव बन्धुश्च सखा त्वमेव ।
त्वमेव विद्या द्रविणं त्वमेव, त्वमेव सर्वं मम देव देव ॥

(Oh Guru!) You are my mother and father; you are my brother and companion; you alone are knowledge and wealth. O Lord, you are everything to me.

Inspiration and courtesy: Shri Dhirendra bhai Parmar ( Mumbai,India) E mail: dhiren_1012@yahoo.com

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A Cute Story About Daya Ma

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From Br.Ramananda's repertoire

Easy West Magazine of self realization fellowship (old copies )

Photo album of Sri Sri paramahansa Yogananda of some rare pics

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Monks lectures relocated

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Swami (Brother) Bhavananda ji leaves his body

A RARE GLIMPSE OF HOW A LOVER OF GOD LEAVES THIS WORLD

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*Change Your Thinking **

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL

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Brother Sevananda - Q & A Session

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Kirtan Chanting Video-SRF

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Beauty of colours: Thanks God for it!

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Spiritual Enlightenment |- Article on The Self-Realization Fellowship

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Inspiration: The Love of God Protects you

India: Contribution to the world

My India

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