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 .

GOD IS BLISS IN VEDANT

True happiness is synonymous with God and that is eternal, unlimited, infinite, permanent and immeasurable. (Chandogya)

Once divine bliss is attained, it is attained forever. (Vedas)

God is bliss (ananda). From bliss all beings are born, in bliss all beings are sustained, and into bliss all beings will merge at the time of complete dissolution of the universe. (Taitariya)

God is omniscient (all-knowing). He Himself is the form of knowledge. (Mundak )

He is God, the supreme divine personality who is the governor of Maya (material energy). He is the one in whom the material universe exists and from whom the material universe evolves. Within Him the material universe is established, and due to His inspiration the material universe is produced. (Bhagwat)

God does exist, and He can be experienced. When you have complete faith in Him, you receive God's grace fully, and due to this you are liberated from Maya forever. (Vedas)

God is omniscient and omnipotent. The individual soul has limited powers. Due to Maya, he is in ignorance and attached to the sense objects of the world. Both God and the souls are eternal. Apart from these two there is a third eternal existence: Maya. God is supreme. He enlivens Maya through His grace, and with this inspiration, Maya creates this universe. God is not the direct creator of this world. (Vedas)

Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, "I am the ultimate goal of the all the souls. I am their protector. I grace them with divine knowledge and love. I am their loving supreme God. I am the observer of the actions of the souls. All the souls reside in Me; I am their ultimate refuge when they humbly surrender to Me."

God is one. He resides in the hearts of all the living beings. He is omnipresent. He is the supreme soul of all the souls and graciously observes all their actions as an eternal witness. He is absolute bliss, which is beyond all mayic (material) qualities. (Shvetashvatar)

SCRAPS SENT TO FRIENDS

Don't compare yourself with any one in this world. If you compare, you are insulting yourself.what you are , you are the best and beautiful .
No lock is without a key, similarly no problem without solutions ,find out the alternative ways of solutions .
Every success has a painful story. Every struggle has a successful end. our duty is to strive for that we can do the best on our part ..
Try not to criticize and judge the mistakes of others. Difficult,recognize your own and correct it .It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to cover the earth with carpet.
We can not bring back the events and things already happened; But we can start now and create and write a new fate.If a problem can be solved, no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved what is the use of worrying. Don't complain about others; Change yourself.
Mistakes are painful when they happen. But year's later collection of mistakes is called experience, which leads to success.
Be bold when you loose and be calm when you win.

WISDOM IN UPNISHADS

Not through much learning is the Atman reached, nor through the intellect and 'the sacred teachings. It is reached by those whom He chooses; to His chosen the Self reveals His glory.
Beyond the senses is the mind, beyond the mind is the intellect, higher than the intellect is the Great Atman [the totality of all minds], higher than the Great Atman is the Umanifest. Beyond the Unmanifest is the Person, all-pervading, and imperceptible.
Smaller than the smallest, greater than the greatest, this Self forever dwells within the hearts of all. When a man is free from desire, his mind and senses purified, he beholds the glory of the Self and is without sorrow.
Though seated, he travels far; though at rest, he moves all things. Who but the purest of the pure can realize this Effulgent Being, who is joy and who is beyond joy.
Formless is he, though inhabiting form. In the midst of the fleeting he abides forever. All-pervading and supreme is the Self. The wise man, knowing him in his true nature, transcends all grief.
*Kathopanishad
As long as there is duality, one sees "the other," one hears "the other," one smells "the other," one speaks to "the other," one thinks of "the other," one knows "the other"; but when for the illumined soul the all is dissolved in the Self, who is there to be seen by whom, who is there to be smelled by whom, who is there to be heard by whom, who is there to be spoken to by whom, who is there to be thought of by whom, who is there to be known by whom? Ah, Maitreyi, my beloved, the Intelligence which reveals all--by what shall it be revealed? By whom shall the Knower be known? The Self is described as "not this, not that" (neti, neti). It is incomprehensible, for it cannot be comprehended; undecaying, for it never decays; unattached, for it never attaches itself; unbound, for it is never bound. By whom, O my beloved, shall the Knower be known?
* : Bhrihadaranyaka
If you think that you know well the truth of Brahman, know that you know little. What you think to be Brahman in your self, or what you think to be Brahman in the gods--that is not Brahman. What is indeed the truth of Brahman you must therefore learn.
I cannot say that I know Brahman fully. Nor can I say that I know Him not. He among us knows Him best who understands the spirit of the words, "Nor do I know that I know Him not."
He truly knows Brahman who knows Him as beyond knowledge; he who thinks that he knows, knows not. The ignorant think that Brahman is known, but the wise know Him to be beyond knowled
* Kena
The door of the Truth is covered by a golden
disc. Open it, O Nourisher!
Remove it so that I who have been worshipping
the Truth may behold It.

O Nourisher, lone Traveler of the sky! Controller!
O Sun, offspring of Prajapati! Gather Your rays;
withdraw Your light. I would see, through Your grace,
that form of Yours which is the fairest.
He, that Person who dwells there--is I myself!
* Isha
Dwelling in every heart,
the Self is the Lord of all,
the seer of all,
the source and goal of all.
The Self is not outer awareness,
It is not inner awareness,
Nor is it the suspension of awareness.
It is not knowing,
It is not unknowing,
Nor is it knowingness itself
It cannot be seen nor grasped,
It cannot be contained.
It is beyond all expression and beyond
all thought.
It is indefinable.
The only way to know it is to become
* Mandukya

VEDANT IN BUDDHISM

No matter how things are regarded-as being or non-being,
It is manifest everywhere before you.

... One in all,
All in One
If only this is realized,
No more worry about your not being perfect!
Do you know that leisurely sage who has gone beyond learning, and who does not exert himself in anything?
He neither endeavors to avoid idle thoughts nor seeks after the Truth;
[For he knows that] ignorance is also the Reality,
[And that] this empty, illusory, body is nothing but the absolute Reality .

When the mind is not disturbed, it is as if there is no mind.
The subject is quieted as the object ceases;
The object ceases as the subject is quieted.

The object is an object for the subject;
The subject is a subject for an object.
Know that the relativity of the two
Rests ultimately on the oneness of the Void.

In the oneness of the Void, the two are one,
And each of the two contains in itself all the ten thousand things.
When no discrimination is made between this and that,
How can a one-sided and prejudiced view arise?
When oneness is not thoroughly understood,
In two ways loss may be sustained:
The denial of the world may lead to its absolute negation,
While the denying of the
Void may result in the denying of your [true] Self.

The Truth is perfect like the vastness of space,
With nothing wanting, nothing superfluous;
It is indeed due to making choices
That the One Reality is lost sight of.

Pursue not the outer entanglements,
Dwell not in the inner Void;
When the mind rests serene in the oneness of 'things,
Dualism vanishes by itself.
--- Buddhism (Dharmakaya).