Great Quotes - from - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev - Dt 09-12-2012

Great Quotes

from

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Sadhguru’s words are always a treat for the eyes and ears of his disciples (and fans). For one who is on the Yogic path, these words continue to inspire him as revelations of truth from the Guru. For one who is not on Yogic path yet - these words will certainly be an encouragement and inducement to enter into the Yogic Path.

This blog has been covering Sadhguru’s Great quotes periodically. Here is the latest installment. Some of the Key words (from my view) are in Bold letters. The request is that reader may pause and think over there – before proceeding further. It makes the reading more purposeful.

1.   One who is stuck in the realm of right and wrong, liking and disliking,  will never know the texture of love.

2.   The essential possibility of being human is that we can act out of our intelligence, love, and compassion rather than out of compulsions.

3.   One you see that you are just a small happening here and something far larger becomes a living reality for you, you will be a devotee

4.   For your physical and mental Growth, the lap of your mother is very important. For your spiritual Growth, the lap of grace is most important.

5.   Fear is always about something that is not yet there.  So, fear is about the non-existent – which means it is hallucinatory.

6.   All limitations are only in your physical Framework, not in the existential framework of life

7.   A consecrated space is a cared-for, cultured space. This is where a human being should be if he wants to blossom

8.   You know social life, you know physical life, you know psychological life – but you are yet to experience the existential dimension of life

9.   If you organize your thoughts and emotions around the fact that you are mortal, you will naturally live joyfully and at full potential

10.                Learn to keep your identifications aside, and you will be blissful

11.                Spiritual seeking is an investigation – not of an Individual person but of the existence

12.                Civilizing human societies means to see to it that every human being can find expression to who he is without interference from anyone else

13.                Most situations that you believe to be a curse could actually be a blessing – if only you look at them without social conditioning

14.                You are only given the raw material for your life. What you make out of it is up to you

15.                One who is entangled in the physical and material can never know the face of the divine, nor will the divine ever know him

16.                The yogic system is about enhancing your perception. The divine should not be an imagined hope, it should become a living reality for you

17.                For people who do petty things in their lives, life is too long. For people who seek the deepest dimensions of life, it is never long enough

18.                The physical and mundane has to be handled logically. What is beyond cannot be handled within the limitations of logic

19.                Death is something that has happened to you over and over again. It is a mystery to you only because your memory is short-term

20.                Once the fear of what will happen to you disappears,  you can really involve yourself with life

21.                Spiritual process means moving from the psychological to the existential, from falsehood to the reality

22.                What we call the ultimate truth is also the basis of life

23.                Karma is not in your action – it is in your volition. It is not the content of your life, it is the context which creates the karma

24.                The mind is something that you can turn on and off – because it is not reality. Only existence is always on

25.                Disentangle yourself from social influence. Look at your life from your own intelligence and choose the best way for you

26.                If people around you become more important to you than your own wants, your life will be simple and wonderful

27.              The most significant aspect of being spiritual is that you are moving from the psychological, the social and the physical to the existential

28.                Meditation means to become absolutely aware. It is the only way to be completely free

29.                Once you become aware that you are mortal, you will not be dead serious about anything but eager to live as intensely as possible

30.                If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense

31.                If you create any tension either in the body or in the mind, you don’t need another enemy in your life. You will just slowly work against yourself. Not just in terms of physical health, in many other ways.

32.                If you want to know whether you are moving ahead in life or not, just see if you are a little more joyful today than you were yesterday. 

33.                Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly

34.                Your business is with the ropes that are tying you down, not with the sky. If you untie these ropes,  you will any way reach the sky

35.                You cannot do meditation but you can become meditative. Meditation is a certain quality. It is not a certain act. If you cultivate your body, your mind, your energies and your emotions to a certain level of maturity, meditation will naturally happen.

36.                The fear of suffering makes your life a half step. Freedom from the fear of suffering is needed for a full-stride life.

37.                Frustration, discouragement and depression mean you are working against yourself

38.                For one who sees life as a stepping stone for a larger possibility, there is no failure. For one who looks at the simple events of life as the goal of life itself, there is failure and success (In answer to the Question - he current economic situation and the fear of failure have made me immobilized. How do I change this? )

With  Pranams & Best Wishes

To all Sadhguru’s Disciples & fans

Yours

(v.vijayamohan)

GREAT QUOTES = FROM SADHGURU JAGGI VASUDEV - Post dt 06-OCT-2012

GREAT QUOTES

FROM SADHGURU

JAGGI VASUDEV

Post Dated 06-Oct-2012

Look at the Quotable Quotes  section of any web site; You  will find most of the quotes coming from western  authors, leaders and religionists. They are good and impressive – as far as they go. But they are also a painful indicates the GAP in the spread of knowledge and wisdom from the EAST to the other parts of the world.

India had the best of knowledge and wisdom in many fields of human life and Endeavour for several millennia. The life and sayings of Great leaders like Lord Krishna and Rama remains unknown to the rest of the world in any significant way. They are certainly not mythical characters who never existed. They were actual human beings, with divine blessings, the best ever born on earth. Their quotes therefore need to be studied in greater depth and made known to the whole Human race.

When we come to spiritual leaders, the best are undoubtedly from India.

They are not only spiritual;as their wisdom touches every aspect of human life – and life after life too.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is one such Extraordinary Spiritual leader - who transcends the boundaries of all religions, nations, races, and in fact, all such labels that divide human beings. His beautiful words touch upon many facets of human life and are relevant in every part of the world.

This Blog has been covering his fascinating QUOTABLE QUOTES; and, Readers can find number of his quotes in the earlier posts in this Blog.

Here are a few more GREAT QUOTES from the Sadhguru for the attention of readers. As always, the ACTION PART is put in BOLD LETTERS, so that the action and its result come to our attention distinctly.

1.    “I am not talking about you being a spectator, I am talking about involvement. I am talking about involving yourself into life in such a way that you dissolve into it. 

2.    Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.

3.    Animals are neither crude nor cruel. They just function according to the dictate of their instinct.

4.    The same dimension that made Krishna or Jesus who they were, exists within you too. It just needs your attention to blossom.

5.    If you are willing to strive there is a way to go beyond all the limitations that are considered human.

6.    Mantras are means to prepare you towards the higher possibility of becoming meditative.

7.    If you conduct your relationships responsibly, with love and care, they will go well.

8.    You have the potential to experience the whole universe as a part of yourself. Yoga is about exploring this possibility.

9.    Prosperity comes out of clarity and competence; not because of competition against others.

10. If we nurture hatred and violence against others, some day, it will get us too.

11. If you look heavenward, you will lose your sense of reality.

12. All of us have the opportunity to do something useful in the world. Instead of looking at someone else, look at what you can do.

13. Guilt is a socially cultivated emotion, a poison directed against yourself.

14. Contentment is a poor substitute for joy.  It means you have given up on the possibility of living joyfully.

15. Birth and death are just passages where life is moving from one phase to another.

16. Education needs inspiration, not just information. Only an inspired human being can transform his life and lives around him.

17. Every experience of your life – light and darkness, pain and pleasure, misery and joy, agony and ecstasy – happens only within you.

18. Exploring your Potential to the fullest is more important than being one step ahead of someone else.

19. Logic can take you through the mundane. But, if you want to know the magic of life, you need to transcend logic.

20. Boredom occurs when you have neither attention nor involvement with life around you but just lost in your own thoughts.

21. A rat race is for rats. A human being can consciously create what he wants without being driven by social compulsions.

22.    Your body and mind are just accumulations that you have gathered. What you can accumulate can be yours, but it can never be you.

23.    Spirituality is not about peace, joy or going to heaven – it is about exploring yourself totally.

24. How beautifully you can relate to someone simply depends upon your willingness and flexibility, and that in turn upon how blissful you are.

25. Love is a longing to include someone as a part of yourself. It is a possibility to become more than what you are, by inclusion.

26. Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

27. Only when there is no fear of suffering, you are willing to totally involve yourself with life around you.

28. Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active.

29. The moment you ascribe who you are right now to what happened yesterday, you have written off your life.

30. Once you have access to the source o creation within you, your health and well being will naturally be taken care of.

31. Thinking that nobody in this world is okay is the first step to madness.

With best wishes

To all Disciples and followers of Sadhguru &

All other Readers.

(V.Vijayamohan)

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GREAT QUOTES - of SWAMI SUKHABODHANANDA - (POST DT 24 SEP 2012)

GREAT Quotes

of

Swami Sukhabodhananda

Swami Sukhabodhananda  is one of the Great Indian Spiritual Masters of our times. His LIFE PROGRAM is Unique in its spiritual experience and its lessons for worldly success both. His other programs are also marvelously structured and are suitable for both spiritually oriented Individuals and also for those aspiring for worldly success.

His Books are a real pleasure to read and highly illuminating. They are  a MUST READ for learning LIFE’S LESSONS in the most effective way.

Here are some of his Beautiful quotes. As You can see – these quotes are as much intended for daily life, as they are – for spiritual path.

You will enjoy each quote. But please read, and re-read  till the intent gets into your mind and heart.

1.    When God gives us problems, it is to humble us and not to tumble us.

2.    Pain is a gift from the divine to look into what is happening more deeply.

3.    You should be the master of the mind rather than mind being your master. You should use the mind rather than let the mind use you.

4.    Mind creates misery by its desires, expectations, anger and jealousy stimulated by unnecessary comparisons.

5.    When one is alert, one can transform poison into medicine.

6.    A noisy and pushy mind leads one to a state of unhappiness.

7.    In a seed, there is an infinite capacity to grow. Infinity exists in a finite seed. A seed planted becomes a tree. From a tree again there is a fruit, from a fruit there is a seed, from a seed a tree, so in a finite seed there is the infinite capacity to grow.

8.    Worry is a form of identification. It is useless. Unfortunately many of us think it is right to worry about someone we love. This is madness in motion. Give up this voluntary form of suffering.

9.    Learn to be a witness to your thoughts and feelings. In the witnessing consciousness, there is no identification with anything. Identification leads to misery.

10. Can you dwell a little more on the inner world, the mind? Generally, we are present physically in a place while being psychologically elsewhere. Outer seeing makes you see physically where you are. Inner seeing makes you see psychologically where you are.

11. There is no greater force than awareness. When one increases awareness, even a poison can turn into a medicine and with no awareness a medicine can become a poison.

12. There are differences in a relationship. Do not give too much of importance to them. Give importance to your love and commitment, to your commonality, like you enjoy the joy rides in an amusement park, even though it appears scary. It gives you jitters but still you enjoy. Enjoy your relationship.

13. Negative emotions poison life. Like avoiding poisonous food, avoid negative emotions. Like how you are very alert when you see a poisonous snake, be very aware and alert of negative emotions. Let them come, don’t identify with them. Don’t participate in them.

14. If you go on comparing, life becomes miserable. If somebody is better than you, learn from them; enjoy others’ success. No one can have all the good qualities. Someone will always be better than you at some level. Do not whip yourself with this comparison.

15. The Gita encourages us to be calm and serene irrespective of the situations that we face in life. Only such an individual is closer to enlightenment who remains calm. The greatest discipline is in keeping our minds calm in spite of external turbulent situations. This is the core teaching of the Gita.

16. A Zen Master was asked about the secret of his being always happy. The Zen Master replied, ‘When I wake up in the morning, I ask myself whether I want to be in - heaven or hell? Then I decide to be in heaven. The moment I decide to be in heaven, I create heaven in every moment of my life.’

17. The choice in our life is either we come from commitment or complaint. We have to decide that. Invariably we find people who are powerful are those who operate from commitment. And those who are powerless, always operate from complaint. One’s state of being will be powerful if one operates from commitment.

18. Another dimension one needs to add is to operate from selflessness. When we do something that is selfless, we find unknown forces mysteriously strengthen our hands. Pathanjali, a great Yogi says, ‘Do something good … be in the path of goodness, and… you will find forces that mysteriously help you.’

19. Understand that you are the creator of your suffering. This understanding will help you dissolve suffering. An unhappy person in heaven will convert even heaven into hell; a happy person can convert hell into heaven.” So, change is not required anywhere except within oneself.

20. There are two types of sufferings :- • Legitimate; • Illegitimate;  Legitimate suffering is sorrow that is proportionate to the situation. For example your son dies in an accident. This sorrow is valid. But if you continue worrying for more than one or two years, then there is a psychological aspect to it.  To handle legitimate sufferings, one should understand that such suffering is the result of your past deeds…Illegitimate suffering is suffering that is not proportionate to the situation. For example, somebody calls you a fool. You brood over it for days on end. It is this suffering that one can end through right thinking.

21. When your suffering is due to Karma, your past deeds, you have to understand that you are only repaying your debt.

22. Surrender is a leap from the ordinary to the sacred; from the logical to the cosmic. Surrender is like opening the third eye….

23. Surrender is in the realization that God gives me what I need more than what I want. Surrender is trust. Surrender is being open to life.

24. Mostly, tensions emerge from the way your mind languages your experience. For example, a student runs several miles and enjoys running but when it is made a punishment, running creates tension. Where does the tension come from? It is through the interpretations in one’s mind.

25. Observe a surfer…. the stronger the waves, the more does he enjoy it. He decides that he is going to enjoy the waves while surfing. When waves are strong, he is totally present in the moment. There are no interfering thoughts in him. In such space something in him makes him very alive to the life around him.

26. Learn to be in the present. Be aware of the present in total. There is joy being in the present. Do not get lost either in the past or future.

27. Learn to live from the ‘higher self’ and not from the ‘lower self.’ The ‘higher self’ encourages you, as it is filled with positiveness. The ‘lower self’ is an interfering self. It discourages you. It acts more like an obstacle.

28. Can my house be like that of a rich man? Or can my house be better than that of my neighbour? You are always lost in comparison. But life is simple. Ambitions make it complex. Only if you stop the greedy game of going ahead of others, can you be happy.

29. A meditative attitude is very different. Meditation awakens your awareness. Once your awareness is of high order, you realise the foolishness of comparison. You would not allow others’ success to define your failure. You would see the beauty of ‘what is’ and not get lost in ‘what should be.’

30. You would see the uniqueness of yourself. Everyone is unique. Everyone is incomparable. You would learn the art of seeing beauty even in imperfection. You would participate in the miracle of life than being busy in judging life. You would listen to the music of life. You would listen to the mantra of life or the song of life. Your listening would be with your heart. Without this inner and outer, music will not be heard. With this, your perception awakens to newer heights.

31. Commitment is the language of the wise; complaint is the language of the fools. Commitment is a responsibility and also includes accountability. In life, one should be responsible as well as accountable. Generally one takes responsibility without accountability; this weakens one’s being.

32. We have both - an actor and a thinker in us. Every time we lie, the thinker warns us that we are lying and the actor asks us to shut up and continue telling lies. In such a state, there is a split in our being — between the actor and the thinker. It is like riding a chariot with two horses, with the horses going in two different directions. Commitment creates integrity. In this state, it is easier to bring forth the excellence in our lives.

33. Excellence happens when there is love to grow and contribute.

34. Creativity occurs primarily through the power of intention. Intention is like sowing a seed in existence. Allow it to germinate. Allow the forces of nature to nurture life.

35. Commitment also involves dropping illusions. We do not see the world as it is. We see the world projected through our verbose minds.

36. When you are unhappy, there is a pay-off, People give you sympathy. When you are happy, you have to pay a price…. people feel jealous of you.

37. Since childhood you play this racket of getting attention. As you grow up this game continues. Have you seen beautiful girls? They tempt men and when a man falls for them, they push him aside and thus feel strong. This is called the ‘kiss me off racket.’ Men also use anger as a racket to protect their inner wound. Anger in such a case becomes a defence mechanism.

38. Rackets are manipulative games to seek attention. They are types of mental sickness. One’s psychological immune system becomes weak. Hence, one is prone to the path of wrong, like when one’s body’s immune system is weak; one is prone to an infection.

39. Become aware. Each time you are miserable, it is your choice. This is your game. You have some hidden agenda. If you see the foolishness of the hidden agenda, then you will drop it. It is like being tempted to eat excess sweets, but the moment you know it is harmful; you will not be tempted to eat them.

40. Buddha, Krishna and Jesus can still be communicated to, if only you are more meditative. Their ‘presence’ is never destroyed. Lord Krishna in the Gita says, ‘They are fools who consider me to be only the body.’ All great masters can be connected to, if you are more meditative. You need not be frustrated if you can’t meet your master. Be in silence. Ask your question in that space of silence and you get an answer not from the mind but from the beyond. You have to experience this. This is not a matter of logic; it is a matter of experience

41. Do we have likes and dislikes or do likes and dislikes have us? As unconscious beings, likes and dislikes control our lives. Conscious beings are masters of likes and dislikes. When likes and dislikes are under your control, they will serve you and in such a state, you are not messed up. Likes and dislikes are not the problem. However, do they control your life, or are you controlling them, is the real question.

With Hearty Greetings to

All readers &

Especially the followers & Disciples of the Swamiji

Sd/-

(v.vijayamohan)

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