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Om Saha na vavatu

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Om Saha na vavatu
Saha nau bhunaktu
Saha viryam karavavahai
Tejasvinavadhitamastu ma
Vidvisavahai
Om Santissantissantih

TRANSLATIONS:
May we be protected together.
May we be nourished together.
May we work together with great vigour.
May our study be enlightening.
May there be no hatred between us.
Om peace, peace, peace.

OM Lord, protect us as one, nourish us as one/ Let us flourish in Thy strength as one.
Let our knowledge, O Lord, be changed to Light and change our hate to love.
Om peace, peace, peace.

Gayatri Mantra

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Gayatri Mantra
Om Bhur Bhuvah Svaha
Tat Savitur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi
Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodayat
Om

TRANSLATIONS:
The Dawning, the Day and the Dusking,
These most excellent daughters of the Sun,
The Radiant forms coming from the Gods,
We meditate upon you and reach out to you.
This is my offering.

Throughout the experience of Life
That essential nature illuminating existence is the adorable One.
May all beings perceive through subtle and meditative intellect the brilliance of enlightened awareness.

We meditate on that light.
May our intellect be illumined by that light of God.

May there be peace on mortal, immortal and divine planes.
I meditate upon the most brilliant splendor of the Sun God. May he stimulate our intellect (so that we are inspired to take the right action at the right time).

May the mighty God illuminate our intellect to lead us along the righteous path.

Yoga never demands the sacrifice of our reason

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

It only bids us: use it a thousand times more. Yoga does not require us to give up our active lives. It says simply: act but know how to act. Yoga does not by any means wish us to push our understanding aside. It only tells us: discriminate correctly and act fearlessly. Yoga does not expect us to flee from the world and to retire into the Himalayas. It assures us: the refuge you seek you will never find in the outside world. It is within you. Leave the stormy world of the senses behind you, raise your consciousness to the central point of your being and realize that here alone is the force, here alone is the peace and here alone the refuge you are seeking. Yoga teaches us: do not condemn the world. Deify the world through your deeds, purify the world by your utterances and ennoble the world by your presence.

–Selvarajan Yesudian

The openness to life itself that we cultivate

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frees us from a great deal of conditioning and many inherent and inherited assumptions…Life is not about answers. It is about learning to live in the middle of complete uncertainty and doing so gracefully.

– Swami Chetananda

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need,

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but not every man’s greed.

– Gandhi

When our inner nature is truly free, we find within ourselves

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

a wealth of treasure: love, joy and peace of mind. We can appreciate the beauty of life, taking each experience as it comes, opening our hearts to it and fully enjoying it. Realizing these qualities within ourselves is the greatest freedom that can be gained.

–Tarthang Tulku

All these divisions we see on all sides, all these disputes and opposition,

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are caused because men cling to ritual and outward appearances, and forget the simple, underlying truth. It is the outward practices of religion that are so different, and it is they that cause disputes and enmity – while the reality is always the same, and one. The Reality is the Truth, and truth has no division. Truth is God’s guidance, it is the light of the world, it is love, it is mercy. These attributes of truth are also human virtues inspired by the Holy Spirit.

– Abdu’l-Bah

I am so small I can barely be seen

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How can this great love be inside of me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but They see enormous things.

– Rumi

The things that will destroy us are:

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Politics without principles; Pleasure without conscience; Wealth without work; Knowledge without character; Business without morality; Science without humanity; And worship without sacrifice.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Love is a skill, a precious skill that can be learned

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

There are many other skills that are useful, even necessary, but in the end, nothing less than learning to love will satisfy us. The saints and mystics tell us that life has only one overriding purpose: to discover the source of infinite love and then to express this love in daily living. Without love, life is empty; without love, life is meaningless. The only purpose which can satisfy us completely, fulfill all our desires, and then make our life a gift to the whole world, is the gradual realization of the Self within, which throws open the gates of love. We cannot dream what depth and breadth of love we are capable of until we make the discovery that this divine spark lives in every creature.

– Eknath Easwaren

 
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