ALL OF OUM ( Vaidik name of God in Sanskrit Language )

तैत्तिरीय उपनिषद से .... OF OUM ....(The first name of God in all Indian Religions except Buddhism )

ओमिति ब्रह्म । ओमितीदँ सर्वम् । ओमित्येतदनुकृतिर्ह स्म वा अप्यो श्रावयेत्याश्रावयन्ति ।
ओमिति सामानि गायन्ति । ओँ शोमिति शस्त्राणि शँ सन्ति । ओमित्यध्वर्युः प्रतिगरं प्रतिगृणाति ।
ओमिति ब्रह्मा प्रसौति । ओमित्यग्निहोत्रमनुजानाति ।
ओमिति ब्राह्मणः प्रवक्ष्यन्नाह ब्रह्मोपाप्नवानीति । ब्रह्मैवोपाप्नोति ॥ १ ॥ इत्यष्टमोऽनुवाकः ॥
Om means Brahman. Om means all this. Om means obedience. When they have been told, 'Om, speak,' they speak. After Om they sing Vaidic songs . After Om they recite hymns. After Om the Adhvaryu gives the response. After Om the teacher gives orders. After Om he (the sacrificer) allows the performance of the Agnihotra. When a Braahmana is going to begin his lecture, he says, 'Om, may I acquire Brahman (the Veda).' He thus acquires the Veda.

"The goal which all the Vedas declare, which all austerities aim at, and which men desire when they lead the life of continence … is OUM . This syllable OUM is indeed Brahman (Universal Self ). Whosoever knows this achieves all that he desires. This is the best support; this is the highest support. Whosoever knows this support is adored in the world of Brahma." -Kathopanishad

"OUM is the one eternal syllable of which all that exists is but the all development, The past, present and the future all included in this one sound, and all that exists beyond the three forms of time is also implied in it". -Mundakopanishad
'' There is harmony, peace and bliss in this simple but deeply philosophical sound. By vibrating the sacred syllable OUM, the supreme combination of letters, if one thinks of the Ultimate Personality of Godhead , he will certainly reach the highest state of "stateless" eternity, - Bhagavad Gita.
A Mantra chanted correctly or incorrectly, knowingly or unknowingly, carefully or carelessly, is sure to bear the desired result for physical and mental well being. It is also Scientifically True that the effects of chanting OUM cannot be established through reasoning and intellect. It can be Experienced or Realized only through Practice , and constant repetition only ..
OUM harmonizes the physical,psychological and spiritual forces with the intellectual and Natural forces. When this happens, you begin to feel like a complete being - mentally and physically. All Virtues follow you and all vices leave you and you do not know ,when and how . But this process is very slow , although sure and requires a lot of patience and perseverance .
"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God."- Bible . Thus interpreted this teaching of the Bible, and equated OUM with God. All mantras generally begin and often also end with OUM.
पुरुष विशेषः ईश्वरः ; सः गुरुनाम गुरु ; तस्य वाचकः प्रणवः ( ओउम )
Best among men is God .HE is the Guru of Gurues (best of all teachers ) Name by which He is called is Pranaw = OUM - Patnjal- Yog -Sutra .
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SCRAPS SENT TO FRIENDS

EXCELLENT WISDOM OF BUDDHA -
Selflessness is the best achievement
Self-mastery is the greatest worth .
Service to others is the best quality of man ..
Continual awareness is the wisest perception .
Emptiness of everything is the best knowledge .
Not conforming with the worldly-ways is the best action .
Transmuting the passions is the best magic .
Non-attachment is the best generosity .
Peaceful mind is the all goodness.
Humility is the greatest patience .
Action without expecting results is the best effort ..
A mind that lets go, is the best meditation .
Seeing through appearances is the excellent wisdom .
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All of your activities in your life /or on web must bring some growth
,development & improvement to your personality or building of your
individual self . it may be TRUTH(knowledge ,science;facts)MORAL (
modification in your behaviour & learning) ;BEAUTY-( all that
result in pleasure and happiness) . this activity is only can be called
-CREATIVE otherwise you are wasting your time ,money and your
potentials , you have . If you can contribute to yourself only then you
can contribute to others . plz. mind - being poor yourself you can not
give others . A painful weeping man can not make others laugh &
happy .
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एकला चलो रे (टैगोर )
If they answer not to thy call walk alone,
If they are afraid and cower mutely facing the wall,
O thou of good luck,
open thy mind and speak out alone.
If they turn away, and desert you when crossing the wilderness,
O thou of good luck,
trample the thorns under thy tread,
and along the blood-lined track travel alone.
If they do not hold up the light when the night is troubled with storm,
O thou....
with the thunder flame of pain ignite thy own heart
and let it burn alone.
(I have put good in place of original 'evil' )
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** THINK & ACT ;PRAY WITH CONFIDENCE.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times .
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SCRAPS SENT TO FRIENDS

GLOBAL VILLAGE STATISTICS

If we could reduce the population of the Earth to only 100 individuals this would be the breakdown:

* 57 people would be from Asia, 21 Europe, 14 Americas 8 Africa.
* 52 people would be male, 46 female,
30 would be white, 70 would be of other races, 30 would be Christian, 70 of other religions,
* 6 people would own 59% of the riches of the entire world and all 6 would be from the U S A..
* 80 people would live in unsanitary conditions, 40 would be illiterate, 50 would be hungry, 1 would be dying, 1 would be born.
* 2 would own a computer, and 1, only 1, would be highly educated.

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* If you have woken up this morning feeling well u r luckier than 500 000 million people dat will not wake up d next morning
* If u have never experienced d fear of war, loneliness, d agony of torture, hunger, u r in a better position than 500 million people in d world
* If u have food in d store, clothes on yr body, roof over your head, a place to sleep in, u r richer than 75% of this planet
* if u have money in d bank, wallet, or in box, you are among 8% of well-to-do people
* If u have parents, family n children u belong in a rare group of people
* If u can read this text, u r not among 2 billion people who cannot read

Well said - work as if u do not need money, love as if never suffered, dance as if nobody watching n sing as if nobody is listening.

Live as if Heaven on Earth. n when u read this know dat somebody is thinking of u and dat u r not alon

NONDUALISM - ( ADVAITA )

Nondualism is the belief that dualism or dichotomy are illusory phenomenae. Examples of dualisms include self/other, mind/body, male/female, good/evil, active/passive, and many others. A nondual philosophical or religious perspective or theory maintains that there is no fundamental distinction between mind and matter, or that the entire phenomenological world is an illusion (with the reality being described variously as the Void, the Is, Emptiness, or the Mind of God).

Many traditions (generally originating in Asia) state that the true nature of reality is non-dualistic, and that these dichotomies are either unreal or (at best) inaccurate conveniences. While attitudes towards the experience of duality and self may vary, nondual traditions converge on the view that experience does not imply an "I".
In Western philosophy, nondual views are often called monism. Many postmodern theories also assume that the dichotomies traditionally used are invalid or inaccurate. For example, one typical form of deconstruction is the critique of binary oppositions within a text while problematization questions the context or situation in which common myths such as dualisms occur. Nondualistic beliefs also include monism and pluralism.
Nondualism - Advaita
Advaita (Sanskrit a, not; dvaita, dual) is a nondual tradition from India, with Advaita Vedanta as its philosophical arm. The theory was first consolidated by Sri Adi Shankaracharya in the 8th century AD. Adherents to this theory of the nature of the soul (Brahman) are known as Smartha's.
According to Ramana Maharshi, the jnani (one who has realised the Self) sees no individual ego, and does not regard himself (or anyone else) as a "doer" of actions. The state of recognition is called jnana which means "knowledge" or "wisdom" reffering to the idea that in this state of being, one is constantly aware of the the Self. Bob Adamson (Melbourne, Australia), once a student of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj who belonged to the Navanath Sampradaya lineage says that a 'Jnani' is the 'knowing presence' which abides with all (of us) yet this knowing is seemingly covered over by identification with the 'minds content'. However, teachers like Adamson point to the fact that the content of the mind is known, recognized by a prescence or awareness that is independent of the minds content. Adamson teaches that we form an idenity based on the content of the mind (feelings, sensations, hopes, dreams, thoughts), however our true identify or nature is that which observes all of these things- the seer, the witness or the Self.
Heart Sutra
A Mahayana Buddhist scriptural text that expounds, in condensed form, the doctrine of the Perfection of Wisdom. The text is Indian in origin and achieved its greatest popularity in China and East Asia. Its best-known teaching is the claim: "Form is Emptiness, and the very Emptiness is Form.
Śūnyatā, शून्यता (Sanskrit, Pali: suññatā), or "Emptiness," is a term for an aspect of the Buddhist metaphysical
critique as well as Buddhist epistemology and phenomenology. Shunyata signifies that everything one encounters in life is empty of soul, permanence, and self-nature. Everything is inter-related, never self-sufficient or independent; nothing has independent reality. Yet shunyata never connotes nihilism, which Buddhist doctrine considers to be a delusion,but materialism as delusion .

ONE RELIGION OF THE MAN ON EARTH

"If I am sure of anything, it is this humanity, which is common to all .... So it is with the universal religion, which runs through all the various religions of the world in the form of God; it must and does exist through eternity. 'I am the thread that runs through all these pearls... ' (Gita) and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof, only the majority of mankind is entirely unconscious of it .....""One must learn that truth may be expressed in a hundred thousand different ways, and that each of these ways is true as far as it goes. We must learn that the same thing can be viewed from a hundred different standpoints, and yet
be the same thing ...Religion is realization, not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming changed into what it believes. That is religion And that is " DO NOT DESTROY " - (Vivekanand )
basis of universal religion is not conversion to one faith or creed, but acceptance of every religion as the path to the same Truth. Acceptance, and not mere tolerance, of every sect and every religion as a true path for self-realization .
There is only one goal for all efforts and learning , all moral and spiritual activities, the experience of the Truth, through virtues like -love , nonviolence , co-opration ,brotherhood , peace and physical and mental prosperity .

THEORY OF KARMA ( ACTION )

Karma means not only action, but also the result of an action. The consequence of an action is really not a separate thing. It is a part of the action, and cannot be divided from it. Breathing, thinking, talking, seeing, hearing, eating, etc., are Karmas. (Immannuel Kant )
Any deed, any thought that causes an effect, is called a Karma. The Law of Karma means the law of causation. Wherever there is a cause, there an effect must be produced. A seed is a cause for the tree which is the effect. The tree produces seeds and becomes the cause for the seeds.( Upnishads )-Quoted by SwamiShiwanand.
The ever changing physical, biological, psychological, ethical and spiritual components and our individual and group reactions according to our choices being empowered to be free , are the causes of our pleasure, pain and suffering. Our existence is complex combination of aggregates of all this flux-result . There is no 'One Thing' that determines anything but it is always the interconnected and interdependent flux of 'Many Things.' All this that we call Existence is in dynamic form ;action , reaction ,interaction , resulting again in action and this chain of actions goes on in multifarious/heterogeneous ways . ONE goes to two and then four then sixteen and so on and so forth . As twenty six letters form the dictionary and it is well said and correctly -this whole creation is the manifestation of ATMA /OUM / ONE SINGLE UNIVERSAL SOUL .
In this way we are left in a world where we are free to make choices of actions within limits caused by necessary forces of circumstances said above . we can not change the biological ,geographical and cultural backwe can do all this by changing our ethical grounds wherein we are born and raised but we can easily or sometime struggling and striving we can change our responses to these factors and stimuli and thus can create a new trend in our lives or improve and change that what we call fate to a great degree . we can change our ethical ,moral and mental attitude and can turn the direction of our present action and living condition as Lord Bauddha , Socrates .Gandhi and many more did .We have a fate ,no doubt , but we can change it ,improve it ,remake it and can write otherwise ,good or bad .(but within limit and limit is not known so far )
You are what your deep driving desire is;As your deep driving desire is, so is your will;As your will is so is your deed;As your deed is so is your destiny.(Upanishad)

As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. (Denis Waitley )
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeits of our own behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars: as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!(W.SHAKESPEARE, King Lear )

SCRAPS SENT TO FRIENDS

सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः। सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः ।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु। मा कश्चित् दुःख भाग्भवेत् ॥
Happiness be unto all,
Perfect health be unto all.
May all see good in everyone,
May all be free from suffering.
अज्येष्ठासो अकनिष्ठासा
एते सम भ्रतारो ववृधुह सौभाग्य
“No one is superior or inferior . All are brothers. All should strive for the interest of all and should progress collectively.

श्रेय और प्रेय ::The Better & The Dearer-
The better is one thing, the dearer is another thing; these two bind a man in opposite ways. Of these two, it is well for him who takes the better; he who chooses the dearer fails of his object.
The better and the dearer approach a man; Going round them, the sage discerns between them. The sage chooses the better rather than the dearer; The fool chooses the dearer, through lust of possession.
(Katha Upanishads)
Human Greed: You can have or be anything you want, but . . . ... Since we cannot have everything we want, frustration and unhappiness are unavoidable, unless we learn how to curb our greed. One of the major causes of suffering in the world is greed, also known as avarice, covetousness, or cupidity.
लोभः पापस्य करणं ( Greed is the cause of sin.)

अविद्यास्मितारागद्वेषाभिनिवेशाः पञ्च क्लेशाः॥३॥
Avidyāsmitārāgadveṣābhiniveśāḥ pañca kleśāḥ - Paatanjal-Yog sutra .

Afflictions (kleśāḥ) -

1 - Ignorance (in the form of a misapprehension about reality) (ávidyā),
2 - Egoism (in the form of an erroneous identification of the Self with the intellect) (asmitā),
3 - Attachment (rāga),
4 - Aversion (dveṣa), and
5 - Fear of death (which is derived from clinging ignorantly to life) (abhiniveśāḥ).

GANDHI A SAINT AND HERO

the real greatness of Mahatma Gandhi lies in his own growth ; growth of his Soul cultivated in culture of Indian soil but well nourished ,manured and irrigated by world -religion ,thought and moral philosophy with his extraordinary power of understanding and tempering and fully knowing that it was all well and true . that no good were bad and bad were good in any thought ,religion or moral science .
He learned and earned to know that one GOD is known by different names ( ekam Sad vipra bahudha vadanti ) and that all men on this Earth are but of one race , one feeling and one kind of thinking that Jesus declared " O Man ! yuo are the salt of the Earth " Gandhi tried all his life to enrich this Salt in him and told us to do the same in all of our actions.
Gandhi with all and full belief aims at growth of individual -human as a man described in Bible and in Vedas . this is what Buddha says -'' grow yourself (aptdeepo bhaw )Soul -growth of man then family then a group or society and then Nation and finally the growth of World -Citizen as a perfect man ,individual ; that he calls the society of RAM -RAJ that has no state but state-men .
What he did in South Africa and thereafter in India and how he shook down the British Empire in India and credited himself with freedom of India and became The Father of Nation all these are no doubt great things and notable contribution to World ...and the thought of Non- Violence ;Styagrah , theory of disobedience .going on fast to remake things gone wrong ...and what he said and wrote and that politics without and with religion ....and many things and thoughts and actions are very very important but most important was and is that how he lived his own personal life ; he grew in his individual soul that looked like touching Universal -Soul ;the Soul to that one can go far .
It is then , difficult to decide , in real Evaluation of his achievement ; as a Hero for his heroic deeds and struggles or a meek ,humble and simple man with all humility , who sacrificed his whole life in search of Truth and Non- Violence for peace and experimented successfully without expecting any reward or recognition but only and only for growth of his own personal holy life .
there are two creeds of great men - Hero and Saints and he was the both . I think, in human history ,they are saints that last longer and Gandhi was more a Saint than Hero .

SEVEN QUESTION ANSWERED IN RAMCHARITMANAS

Questions (asked by Garun ,The Best among Birds )
1 -Who is the best among all living beings ?
2 - What is the worst of miseries ?
3 - What is the best of blessings ?
4 - What are the characters of good and bad men ?
5 - What is good (Punya ); best Religion to be fallowed ?
6 - What is evil or sin strictly negated ?
7 - What are the diseases caused by our mental abnormalities /mind set ?

Answers given by Kagbhushundi .the worst among birds (but excels in Knowledge)

1. Human body is the BEST form of living being on this Earth. those who loose this life and do not try of their best are dammed .

2. Poverty is the worst of miseries in this world .

3. Company of good /saint is the best source of bliss and happiness .

4. Saint suffer for others but those mean , suffer themselves to cause suffering for others moreover,without any reasonable cause .

5 Non-violence( love to all living and non-living ) is the highest religion as command in Vedas .

6. To speak ill of others is worst of all evils . .

7 Infatuation is the root cause and source of all the disease .
Lust causes wind (vataz roga ); greed > phlegm ; anger > bile, when all these three are tempered in one results in Typhoid Delirium (Sannipata ). desires for many immoral objects of senses cause many different kinds of nameless aches.
Attachment causes skin-disease ;enevy >ring worm .Grudg to see others happy ,causes consumption (T.B.); wickedness ,mean- mentality and narrow-mindedness causes leprosy. Egotism is the cause of painful gout; and hypocrisy, deceit, arrogance pride cause of parasite -disease called Neharua in Hindi. Thirst for enjoyment causes dropsy; while the three types of craving - for progeny, riches and honour is the root cause of weight -gain and its resulting ailments and different kind of incurable fevers . There are many more to mention.now much of that . one can kill then we may think of the results of these all and many.
we reduce the effect of these disease by this knowledge by correcting our mind in right direction and right action but this can be only easy if we go to refuge of God .
- From Ramcharitmanas (Uttarkand ) Plz. read in original from 120 to 122 dohas .