Dharmic Wisdom Quotes

[Agnideva]

yo vai bhuma tat sukham nalpe sukham asti bhumaiva sukham bhuma tveva vijijnasitavya iti bhumanam bagavah vijijnasa iti ||

- Chandogya Upanishad (VII.23.1) of the Samaveda

Translation/commentary by Swami Krishnananda:

"Happiness is Plenum, happiness is completeness, happiness is the totality, happiness is in the Absolute," declares the great master Sanatkumara.

The term 'bhuma' used in this Upanishad is a novel word of its own kind which cannot be easily translated. It has a pregnant significance within itself which implies absoluteness in quantity as well as in quality, an uncontaminated character, permanency of every type, immortality, infinity and eternity. All these ideas are embedded in the very concept of what the Upanishad calls 'bhuma'. Well, we can translate it in no other way than to call it the Absolute Being. The Brahman of all the Upanishads is the same as the Bhuma mentioned here in this Chhandogya Upanishad. That alone is happiness.

[Agnideva]

That Supreme Light which projected Itself as the universe like a soaked seed which sprouts – I am that Supreme Light. I am that Supreme Light of Brahman which shines as the inmost essence of all that exists. In reality, I am the same Infinite Brahman even when I am experiencing myself as a finite self owing to ignorance. Now by the onset of knowledge (I realise that) I am really that Brahman, and That is my eternal nature. Therefore, I realise this identity by making myself, the finite self, an oblation into the fire of the Infinite Brahman, which I am always. May this oblation be well made.

~Mahanarayana Upanishad (I:67) of the Krishna Yajurveda

[mirabai]

It is in the spirit of Mirabhai, who wrote (among other things):

if by bathing daily, God could be realised
sooner would I be a whale in the deep
if by eating roots & fruits God could be known
gladly would I choose the form of a goat
if the counting of rosaries uncovered God
I would say my prayers on mammoth beads
if by bowing before stone images uncovered God
a flinty mountain I would humbly worship
if by drinking milk God could be imbibed
many calves & children would know God
if abandoning one's wife could summon God
would not thousands be eunuchs?

Mirabhai knows that to find the Divine One
the only indispensible is love

[mirabai]

"Where Râma is, there is no room for any desire — where desire is, there is no room for Rama; these never coexist — like light and darkness they are never together."
........The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 3, Para-Bakta or Supreme Devotion

[Agnideva]

Look to this Day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendor of beauty;
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today well lived makes
Every yesterday a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation of the Dawn!
Listen to the exhortation of the Dawn!

~ Kalidasa
Usha Vandanam
(Salutations of the Dawn)

[Agnideva]

Namaste MG,

Hey you found the source! KOOL

Yes! I came across this last week and I thought of you, so I posted it here. It is called the Usha Vandanam written by the poet Kalidasa, who is very famous for his Sanskrit plays. Apparently, it is written from the perspective of the Dawn ... it is the Dawn (Usha) speaking to us!

Now is the time to come home to myself….

Wow, how profound. Thanks .

OM Shanti,
A.

[Agnideva]

Father, there is little to tell. My consciousness has never associated itself with this temporary body. Before I came on this earth, Father, I was the same. As a little girl, I was the same. I grew into womanhood, but still I was the same. When the family in which I had been born made arrangements to have this body married, I was the same ... And, Father, in front of you now, I am the same. Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change[s] around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

~Anandamoyi Ma

[saidevo]

From Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba in His Discourses and Writings

Who Am I?

Na Punyam Na Papam Na Saukhyam
Na Dukkham Na Manthro Na Tirtham
Na Veda Na Yajnam
Aham Bhojanam Na Bhojanam
Naiva Bhojam Na Kartau
Chidananda rupah Shivoham,Shivoham
Sadananda Rupam Advaitam
Sathyam Sivam Sundaram
--- Nirvana Shatkam by Adi Shankaracharya

Neither sin nor merit; neither pleasures nor pain.
Neither sacred formulae nor sacred places.
Neither Vedas nor yajnas (rituals).
I am neither the eaten nor the eater nor the act of eating.
I am the ever blissful One; One without a second.
Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

In this link, Baba sings this song:
http://vahini.org/audio-sai/1-07NaPu...uya-Manasu.mp3
I am THAT.

The Power of the Lord's Name

A bar of iron sinks in water, but beat it into a hollow vessel, it will float and carry some weight also. So too, man's mind sinks easily in the sea of desires. Beat it hollow, hammering it with the Name of the Lord. It will float safely on the sea of troubles. -- Baba

Sadhana

(Sanskrit Sloka)
Sathsangatwe Nissangatwam, Nissangatwe Nirmohatwam,
Nirmohatwe Nischalatattwam, Nischalatattwe Jivanmukti

Good company leads to detachment,
detachment makes one free from delusion,
freedom from delusion leads to steadiness of mind
and steadiness of mind confers liberation.

God
Where there is confidence, there is love;
Where there is love, there is truth;
Where there is truth, there is peace;
Where there is peace, there is bliss;
Where there is bliss, there is God.

[Agnideva]

O strong One! Make me strong!
May all beings look upon me with the eye of a friend!
May I look upon all beings with the eye of a friend!
May we look upon one another with the eye of a friend!

~Shukla Yajurveda Samhita XXXVI.18

[mirabai]

If I Cannot Forgive Myself

If I cannot forgive myself
For all the blunders
That I have made
Over the years,
Then how can I proceed?
How can I ever
Dream perfection-dreams?
Move, I must, forward.
Fly, I must, upward.
Dive, I must, inward,
To be once more
What I truly am
And shall forever remain.
- Sri Chinmoy