What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
122
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
What is Practical Vedanta?
Pushing, marching labour and no stagnant Indolence,
Enjoyment of work, as against tedious drudgery,
Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion,
Organisation and no disaggregation,
Appropriate reform and no conservative custom,
Solid real feeling, as against flowery talk
The poetry of facts, as against speculative fiction,
The logic of events, as against the authority of departed authors;
Living realization and no mere dead quotations,
Constitute Practical Vedanta.
–Rama tirtha
Om world peace… Om world peace… Om world peace…
PARABLES OF RAMA
Courtesy:
Swami Rama Tirtha Pratisthan,
9,Vishnu puri, Church Road, Aliganj,
Lucknow-226022
122 – BELIEF IN SELF
(A Criminal and the King)
A man was taken to be a criminal by a certain king of Asia, because he would not bow before the king. This old king got offended when people did not bow before him. The king said to the criminal, “Do you nit know what a powerful and strict monarch I am? Do you not know that I will kill you, you are so audacious?
The man spat in the king’s face and looked so fiercely at him that he was exasperated. The man said, “O foolish dolly that you are, you have neither the power nor the authority to put me to death. I am my own master. It is my power to spit in your face, it is in my power to insult you and it is in my power to see this body put on the cross or scaffold. I am the master of my body. Your authority is second-hand, my authority comes first.”
Similarly, feel and realize that you are always your own master. Look at things from the standpoint of your Atman, and not through the eyes of others. Feel your independence, feel that you are the God of gods, the Lord of lords, for that you are. So long as man does not realize his own Divinity there will be suffering always.
Moral: - Belief in the lower self makes you bold, but belief in the higher Self (Atman) makes you Divine.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
PR
| 43 - WEAKNESS WITHIN (Finding Fault with Gravity) A man fell down and hurt his legs, and he began to find fault with Gravity and cried, “O wretched Law of Gravity, you made me fall. “Well, it is better for millions of men to fall and break their legs than for the Law of Gravity to be eliminated. Fight not with Gravity; take your steps cautiously and you will have no falls, all your injuries, all your hurts, all your anxieties and troubles are due to some weakness within you. Remove that and fight not with circumstances, do not blame your fellow men, throw not the blame on the shoulders of others, but remove your own weakness. Bear in mind that whenever you fall or suffer or are troubled, it is due to some weakness within you. Remember this and fight not with Gravity. What is weakness within? It is the dark pitch of ignorance which makes you look upon the body, the senses, as you. Get rid of it, discard it, and then Power itself you become. Moral: - Anxieties, miseries, sufferings and troubles cannot be removed by fighting with the circumstances but by removing one’s own weakness within, to which they are really due. |
| Vedanta says that your relations and connections to be an aid to you and not an obstacle. Everything you meet in this world should be a stepping stone instead of a stumbling block. Convert your stumbling block into a stepping one. –Rama tirtha |
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