Our anxieties and cares are the offshoot of our wealth and possessions and they deplete the life-force share of creative vibratory elements ether and air, thus effecting the vital organs of our body (viz. mind and heart) that derive sustenance from these elements.
Temptation begins by capturing your attention. What gets your attention arouses your emotions. Then your emotions activate your behaviour, and you act on what you feel. The more you focus on “I don’t want to do this,” the stronger it draws you into its web.
Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting it. Once your mind is on something else, the temptation loses its power.
Spiritually, your mind is your most vulnerable organ. To reduce temptation, keep your mind occupied with God’s Word and other good thoughts.
CHRISTIAN SUPERNATURAL TEACHINGS, BIBLE CLASS LESSONS, GOSPELS BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU, THE SUPERNATURAL TEACHER AND SOLE SPIRITUAL HEAD, BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR
This is a study of how Jesus went to prayer for Peter when he was falling away, and Satan was having power in his life. Jesus interceded and Peter was brought back.
Politics and christianity - What to expect - A biblical perspective.
* How God chooses leaders - Example from Judges.
* "Yahweh says to his anointed (mâshı̂yach), to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him,
* Moses was chosen by God
(not democratic, because he was rejected by his own people)
* Who is your ruler - the one you elect or the Christ?
* Was Jesus an Anti national?
"So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;" (Ephesians 2:19-21)
* Which nation do we truly belong to?
Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.” (John 18:36)
CHRISTIAN SUPERNATURAL TEACHINGS, BIBLE CLASS LESSONS, GOSPELS BY LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU, THE SUPERNATURAL TEACHER AND SOLE SPIRITUAL HEAD, BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR
This is a study of how Jesus went to prayer for Peter when he was falling away, and Satan was having power in his life. Jesus interceded and Peter was brought back.
Politics and christianity - What to expect - A biblical perspective.
* How God chooses leaders - Example from Judges.
* "Yahweh says to his anointed (mâshı̂yach), to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him,
* Moses was chosen by God
(not democratic, because he was rejected by his own people)
* Who is your ruler - the one you elect or the Christ?
* Was Jesus an Anti national?
"So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone; in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;" (Ephesians 2:19-21)
* Which nation do we truly belong to?
Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.” (John 18:36)
Lesson 1 in a series on the Sermon on the Mount. Adapted from a lesson with the same title by Chip Bell at www.Bible.org. Presented September 9, 2012, at Palm Desert Church of Christ, by Dale Wells.
A quiet talk about the babe of bethlehemGLENN PEASE
Mary the Virgin .
Gabriel the Messenger
Elizabeth the Kinswoman .
Joseph the Friend
Bethlehem the Birthplace .
Jesus the Babe Born
Unto Us," the New Heir .
Lesson 1 in a series on the Sermon on the Mount. Adapted from a lesson with the same title by Chip Bell at www.Bible.org. Presented September 9, 2012, at Palm Desert Church of Christ, by Dale Wells.
A quiet talk about the babe of bethlehemGLENN PEASE
Mary the Virgin .
Gabriel the Messenger
Elizabeth the Kinswoman .
Joseph the Friend
Bethlehem the Birthplace .
Jesus the Babe Born
Unto Us," the New Heir .
Grihasta is a man who is in tune with his real self, who works within the frame work of Grihasta Dharma, then, his life becomes Grihastashrama. When his evolution within compliments outside living, then it becomes Grihastashrama.
A Grihasta is a Karma yogi, for whom Lord Krishna while explaining the nature of right action, has advocated a path of Spiritual Action by performing all works as oblations (Yajna). Yajna is any selfless act or sacrifice offered solely to God. It is the religious rite in which the soul offers itself in the Fire of Spirit.
It is said that Grihastashrama is the best of all ashrams because it is the one that feeds the other ashrams.
Muuramen kirkon kunnostuksen suunnitteluratkaisujen valintaSimo Lampela
Kyseessä on Tuomas Tahvosen opinnäytetyön pohdintaa siitä, mikä kunnostusvaihtoehto on käypä kirkon sisäkattoon. Koko työ ja erit sen 7 luku = https://publications.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/29471/Tahvonen_Tuomas.pdf?sequence=1
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The paper analyses the structure of hydraulic distribution module. For piping structure design and cal
culation of the hydraulic distribution module, it analyzes the uniformity of fluid distribution in the pipeline, cons
idering the condition that the multi-port well are working simultaneously. The finite models of 5 kinds of schem
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pes, on the premise of other factors unchanged. And they are simulated combining with engineering cases by the
FLUNET software. The results show that the scheme gets a good distribution uniformity in which the diameter
of main pipe is 1/2 in, and the distance between branch pipes is 20in. It also determines the design steps of the pi
pe structure of hydraulic distribution module.
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Greed by raising expectations in men, serves only to whirl them about, like a vortex of the sea swallows marine animals.
Being over powered by greed, we are unable to reach the goal of perfection, like a bird entangled in a snare is kept from flight. Of all worldly evils, greed is the source of the longest sorrow. She exposes even the most secluded man to peril.
All our bodily troubles are avoided by abstaining from greed, just as we are freed from fear of night demons at the dispersion of darkness. As long as men remain in dumbness and mental delirium, they are subject to the poisonous colic of greed.
Men may get rid of their misery by freeing themselves from anxieties. The abandonment of cares is said to be the best remedy for greed.
What beauty is there in the body of a woman composed of nerves, bones and joints? She is a mere statue of flesh and a frame of moving machinery with her ribs and limbs.
Sexual desire, like a huntsman, has spread his nets in the form of women for the purpose of ensnaring deluded men like silly birds. A woman is nothing but a form composed of the five elements, so why intelligent men should be fondly attached to her?
Lust for the opposite sex is one of the major hindrances in the Spiritual Journey of the soul back to its Real Home. It has to be given up by both the sexes.
The observations of Rama are some of the suggestions to overcome the inherent attraction for the opposite sex. The key to overcome this temptation is not to pay attention to the attractive features of the opposite sex. And before casting a second glance one should activate these observations in the mind applied vice versa.
I employed my mind to discriminate the nature of things, which gradually led me to discard all thoughts of sensual enjoyments.
What are worldly pleasures good for, and why do men multiply on earth? Men are born to die, and they die to be born again.
There is no stability in the tendencies of beings whether movable or immovable. They all tend to vice, decay and danger, and all our possessions become the grounds of our poverty.
We are sold by none, yet we are enslaved to the world. Knowing this well, we are spell-bound with riches, as if by the magic wand of Sambara.
The thought that consumes me like wildfire in the hollow of a withered tree is, “How is misery to be alleviated?” We must make an effort to end this slavery.
All accidents, anxieties, troubles and wicked exertions proceed from ego and self-confidence. Hence I deem ego to be like a disease.
This world resembles a long continuous night in which our ego, like a hunter, spreads the snare of affections.
All that I have eaten, done or offered in sacrifice under the influence of ego have gone for nothing. The absence of ego is the real good. Everything belongs to God and we must learn to rid ourselves from the false concept of ‘me’ and ‘mine’.
I am free from anxiety, O sage, ever since I have come to know the impermanence of all enjoyments, gave up my sense of egoism, and attained tranquillity of my mind.
We all remain here, as slaves sold to Fate and Destiny, and we are deceived by their allurements…Destiny, the faithful and obedient wife of Fate, is naturally fickle on account of her being a female. She is always bent on mischief and disturbing patience.
Everyone in this world is fond of affluence and pleasures, not knowing that these are only calculated to lead him to his ruin. All individual existences are liable to appear and disappear. All desires are chains to the world, and all worldly beings are constantly seen to be led away to where, necessarily, no one can tell.
The duration of human life in this world is being decreased in each generation in proportion to the increase of wicked acts. The desire of pleasure is as vain as the expectation of reaping fruit from a vine growing in the sky. Yet I know not why men of reason would not understand this truth.
This world (samsara) is as a whirlpool in the ocean of creation, and every individual body is as impermanent as foam, froth or a bubble, which can give me no relish in this life.
Knowledge is a burden to the unthinking, and wisdom is burdensome to the passionate. Intellect is a heavy load to the restless, and the body is a ponderous burden to one ignorant of his soul.
There is a vegetable life in plants, and an animal life in beasts and birds. Man leads a thinking life, but true life is above thoughts. Man must seek his liberation now while living in this very lifetime. Those who miss this golden opportunity are no better than old asses.
The paths of youth lead through a maze of errors to the gate of hell. Those who have been left uncorrupted by their youth are not to be corrupted by anything else.
The human mind anxious to derive pleasure from the youthfulness of the body, falls into the cave of sensuality…It is very rare to have a happy youth filled with humility and spent in the company of respectable men. Such youth is distinguished by feelings of sympathy and is joined with good qualities and virtues.
All these observations of Rama are true in our present time. As childhood is the foundation of youth, similarly youth is the foundation of manhood. This is the most critical period of our life.
Unfortunately we are led into manhood and play the game of life blindly without knowing the Law that governs it. Ignorance of God’s Law is the cause of our bondage life after life and those who seek company of the realized and act accordingly advance up on the ladder of life towards their liberation.
A man in tottering old age is ridiculed as an imbecile by his own sons and servants, and even by his wife, friends and relations.
“…so does old age seize the body with a tremor and fill all its limbs with the rust of diseases.” What then is the good of this miserable life, which lives subject to old age?
Rama’s observations are a reminder to all of us that due consideration and the right preparation for old age should be done while young.
I see no deeds in the world that endure to the final liberation of men. Actions proceeding from a fool’s desire for results serve only for their restlessness on earth. Even in old age, those corrupted by their greed will not accept sermons on their eternal concerns…I know not how to pass this state of human life.
Reflect carefully on the observations of Rama, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu, on the vanity of this world. A cycle of four yugas starts with Satyuga, in which people live by the norms of Dharma. In Satya Yuga contentment is the chariot and Dharma is the driver. In Treta continence is the chariot and might is the driver. In Dwapar penance is the chariot and virtue is the driver. In Kaliyuga fire is the chariot and falsehood is the driver.
The cycle that starts with society’s unflinching adherence to Dharma ends with complete moral degeneration in Kaliyuga, wherein people burn in the fires of lust, anger and greed; relationships are built on narrow self-interest; and the affairs of society are run through falsehood, cunning and deceit.
YV BKII CH12 The Greatness of True KnowledgePardeep Sehgal
Rama, I honour you as one of a perfect mind. You know what to ask and you understand what is spoken to you. Therefore I will continue speaking to you respectfully.
Be still, keep your mind fixed in yourself, and attend to knowledge. Be free of pride and passions and incline yourself to pure truth. Whatever business or investigation someone undertakes, it must be brought to a happy conclusion that tends towards his peace and tranquillity.
One obtains the capacity for yoga by discussing the scriptures in the company of good people, which alone can provide us with the great charm of spiritual knowledge.
The journey of this world is delightful to one who, after the removal of his errors and dispersion of the cloud of his ignorance, has come to the knowledge of truth.
The body with its smiling face appears like a good plant bearing both good and bad fruit, but it has become home for the snake of greed and the crows of anger.
The mind is the architect and master of this bodily dwelling, and our activities are its supports and servants. It is filled with errors and delusions which I do not like.
It is no lovely house where the external organs are playing their parts, while its mistress understanding sits inside with her brood of anxieties.
The body lies like a tortoise in the cave of greed amidst the ocean of the world. It remains there in the mud in a mute and torpid state without any effort for its liberation.
Wheel of Time spares none and continues to rotate. Rama is seeking help of two great sages of his time. Time does not spare gods, demigods and even the three principal gods (creator, preserver and destroyer) then where do we stand as human being of limited intellect.
It is high time that we pause and reflect on this issue. On our own we cannot stop the Wheel of Time. Imagine the momentum the Time has in pushing us ‘down and out’ to fulfil our desires.
We are always keen to repeat pleasurable experiences and Time makes us do and undo the same thing over and over again. This has been going on for aeons and since we do not stop desiring, we are unable to stop the Wheel of Time.
We shall have to seek the help of realized persons now, of our time, who have been successful in doing so.
The senses of an unreasonable man are always running astray to the wrong and never turning to the right way. The eyes of a blind man lead him to fall into a pit.
Who is that great man that has crossed the great ocean of the world, whose exemplary conduct exempts one from misery? O you good men who are present here and learned in divine knowledge, teach me so that I may obtain the fullness of my heart and may not come to grief and sorrow anymore.
Rama, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the Lord of the ‘Three Worlds’ is humbly praying to the two great sages of his time learned in divine knowledge to teach him the method to clean the impurities of his mind so that he does not have to face grief and sorrow anymore.
Rama, the Lord of the ‘Three Worlds’ is humbly praying to the two great sages of his time learned in divine knowledge and to the august gathering to tell him how the ancient saints fled out of the reach of misery.
The aspirant who longs for liberation has queries in his mind similar to those of Rama, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The aspirant should address his queries to the Lord within and if he is sincere in his quest, rest assure, he will be guided to the proper living teacher of his time depending upon the nature of query.
The first step has to be taken by the aspirant. The Lord cannot do it for him. Because all souls being part of God, He cannot act selectively for a single soul. His act will apply to all souls and selective recall means recall to all souls. Since the ‘Play of World’ set in motion by Him is not yet coming to an end, each individual part has to desire merger with Him.
The perverted understanding that believes in destiny is grounded on false conception. One may as well enter fire with the conviction that it will not burn unless it is so destined.
If destiny is the sole cause of everything, then why should a man take actions of bathing and making his offerings, sitting and walking, all of which may be done by his destiny?
Therefore, O Rama, give up this destiny of your mistaken fancy, which in reality is devoid of its cause or effect and is a false and ideal nothing. Give yourself to your best efforts.
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This is a study of the laughter of the lost that will not last because they laugh at the will of God and His gift of salvation. They laugh because they feel no need of God, They are self-sufficient and laugh at the weaklings who need God and His support.
Ignorance is the spring of misery. Through ignorance one suffers afflictions and incurs great danger. Ignorance has its origin in covetousness. As covetousness grows, ignorance also grows. Ignorance exists there where covetousness exists.
Current COVID virus is a direct attack on the vital Link necessary for transfer of Energy to Form. Our willful engagement in the Greed-Deceit group of negative attributes at Shanks has given birth to this virus.
Life is going to be different post Corona. It is a message to the entire world that we must limit performance of our activity which is based on the Greed-Deceit group of negative attributes.
Disclaimer: This is the opinion of the writer. All are welcome to make further studies in this direction.
Brother, there are three evils most formidable of all: lust, anger and greed. The weapons of greed are desire and hypocrisy, of lust naught but woman; while anger’s weapon is harsh speech: so declare the great sages after deep thought. Woman is God's wonderful creation but to lust after her is not desirable.
Ansuya to Sita on Wifely Virtues from the Epic 'Ramayana' by Tulsi Das Ji. • The woman who deceives her husband and loves a paramour is cast for a hundred cycles into the worst hell known as Raurava. Who is as depraved as the woman who for the sake of a moment’s pleasure reckons not the torment that shall endure for a thousand million births?
Lord Mahadev - Uma discourse on Women's Duties from the Epic 'Mahabharata'. Uma concludes: 'Maheshwara, I do not desire Heaven itself if thou art not satisfied with me'.
No man even in anger, should do anything that is disagreeable to his wife, seeing that happiness, joy and virtue, - everything depends on the wife. A wonderful discourse from the Epic 'Mahabharata'.
Due to their natural disposition women cannot be regarded as offenders. It is the men who should be stained with guilt of any wrongdoing to women. A wonderful discourse from the Epic 'Mahabharata'.
Celibacy 4 - Right Company and Firm DecisionPardeep Sehgal
The sexual impulse has been there for countless lives, and you never know when it will rise again. Therefore, it is important to remain in the right company. If you go out of right company, because of the existing impulse, sexuality will start to sprout all over again.
What is nischaya (determined decision)? Nischaya means, no matter how powerful an army of worldly difficulties arises with attacks, you would not back off.
What is nischaya? It is to stop all other thoughts and come onto only one thought. If you make a firm decision, all the evidences will come together and make it happen. If your decision is not firm then the evidences will not come together and your goal will not be accomplished.
True understanding is one that produces results. All other understanding is unfruitful.
Mind, intellect, chit and ego should remain in brahmacharya. And if mind, intellect, chit and ego turn towards brahmacharya, then the external sexuality will shed off automatically.
The illusion of sex is such that it will sink all, even the one who thinks that he has no attachment to anything in the world. This illusion of sex has sunk great sages and masters from tremendous spiritual heights.
Celibacy 2 - Means of Attaining BrahamacharyaPardeep Sehgal
In sexuality, the more a person enjoys it, the more he has a burning desire for it. By not getting involved in the sexual act, one may become uneasy and unsettled for a month or two. But it is not possible for a person enjoying sex to get rid of the desire for it.
In case of excessive intake of ice cream the vomiting is the inhibitor and the act was from outside. But in case of sex the motivation for act is from within. Sex is in the mind and it derives its power from Ignorance (Illusion, Maya) whose charge does not diminish. Repeated indulgence in sex does not appease one’s hunger for its enjoyment.
The research of the scriptures done by people in our country, has led to the discovery that the path of brahmacharya is the best inhibitor to control the desire of sex pleasure.
Celibacy 1 - The Detailed Analysis of SexualityPardeep Sehgal
Brahmacharya means control of the Veerya. The vital force or Veerya is preserved only by one who is established in the practice of Brahmacharya. The vital fluid or semen is lost and wasted during sexual indulgence.
From food comes juice or chyle; from chyle comes blood and flesh; from flesh comes fat; from fat comes bones; from bones come marrow. Lastly, from marrow comes semen.
The Veerya comes out of the very marrow concealed in the bones. It is found in a subtle state in all the cells of the body. Mark here how precious the semen is! It is the last essence of food. It is the essence of essences.
In Yoga Shastra it is stated: "The falling of semen brings death; the preservation of it gives life." 'The nemesis of reproduction is death. The sexual act is essentially katabolic (or a movement towards death) in the male, and in parturition of the offspring it is katabolic for the female.'
"The future is for the nations who are chaste". Tom Mann
Listen! Rama, I am now telling you the secret of accomplishment. Of all the requisites for wisdom, Divine Grace is the most important. He who has entirely surrendered himself to the Goddess (Pure Consciousness by devotion through a true Guru) is sure to gain wisdom readily. Rama! This is the best of all the methods.
This method does not require other aids to reinforce its efficiency, as other methods do for accomplishing the end. This is hard for those whose minds are directed outward; and it is easy, sure and quick for devotees engrossed in the Goddess of the Self to the exclusion of all else.
My concrete form is the eternal couple - the Supreme Lord and Energy - always in undivided union and abiding as the eternal consciousness pervading the three phenomenal states of waking, dream and sleep, and reclining on the cot whose four legs are Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the Protector), Siva (the Destroyer) and Isvara (Disappearance) and whose surface is Sadasiva (Grace) which is contained in the mansion known as 'fulfilment of purpose' enclosed by the garden of 'Kadamba' trees in the jewel island situated in the wide ocean of nectar surrounding the cosmos and extending beyond.
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Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, Isvara, Sadasiva, Ganesa, Skanda, the gods of the eight quarters, their energies, other gods, celestials, serpents and other superhuman beings are all manifestations of myself. However, people do not know ME because their intellect is shrouded in ignorance.
I grant boons to those who worship ME. There is no one besides ME worthy of worship or capable of fulfilling all desires.
ADS6 - Different States of the Wise (Jnanis)Pardeep Sehgal
What kind of effort can avail to disclose the eternally self-resplendent consciousness?
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• Being coated with a thick crust of infinite vasanas (dispositions), it is not easily perceived.
• The incrustation must first be soaked in the running stream of mind control and carefully scraped off with the sharp chisel of investigation.
• Then one must turn the closed urn of crystal quartz - namely, the mind cleaned in the aforesaid manner - on the grinding wheel of alertness and finally open the lid with the lever of discrimination.
• Lo! The gem enclosed within is now reached and that is all!
Intellects are the cumulative effects of the predispositions acquired by karma. Effort is necessary so long as the predispositions continue to sway the intellect
Diversity is visible only in space, and this space is in the Self, which in turn projects it at the moment when differentiation starts although it is not then clear. Rama! Look within.
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• What you perceive as space within is the expanse wherein all creatures exist, and it forms their ‘Self’ or consciousness.
• What they look upon as space is your ‘Self’.
• Thus, the ‘Self’ in one is space in another, and vice versa.
• The same thing cannot differ in its nature.
• Therefore there is no difference between space and ‘Self’ - which is full and perfect Bliss-Consciousness.
The strongest fetter is the certainty that one is bound. It is as false as the fearful hallucinations of a frightened child. Even the best of men cannot find release by any amount of efforts unless his sense of bondage is destroyed.
An aspirant for wisdom first turns away from the pleasures of life and absorbs himself in the search for knowledge, which he learns from a master. This is hearsay knowledge.
In order to experience it, he ponders over it and clears his doubts. Then he applies the knowledge to himself and tries to feel his immortal being transcending the body, mind, etc., he succeeds in feeling his Self within.
Later he remembers the teaching imparted by his Guru that the Self being unqualified, cannot be differentiated from God and experiences his unity with the Universal Self. This is in short the course of wisdom and liberation.
If you infer its eternal light, then closely investigate whether the light is of itself or not. Everybody fails in this investigation however learned and proficient he may be, because his mind is not bent inward but restlessly moves outward.
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• As long as thoughts crop up, so long has the turning inward of the mind not been accomplished.
• As long as the mind is not inward, so long the Self cannot be realised.
• Turning inward means absence of desire.
• How can the mind be fixed within if desires are not given up?
Therefore become dispassionate and inhere as the Self. Such inherence is spontaneous (no effort is needed to inhere as the Self). It is realised after thoughts are eliminated and investigation ceases.
ADS2 - Cosmic Intelligence and Reality of the UniversePardeep Sehgal
All that is seen has an origin and there must therefore be an antecedent cause for it.
If a thing can appear without a cause there is no relation between cause and effect, and there can be no harmony in the world. A potter's work may lead to a weaver's products, and vice versa, which is absurd. Each occurrence must have a cause for it; that is the rule.
The universe must have a Creator, and He must be an intelligent principle, but He cannot be of any known type because of the vastness of the creation. His power is past understanding and is dealt with in the Scriptures, whose authority is incontrovertible.
This whole universe consisting of the mobile and the immobile, arises from, abides in, and resolves into Him. This is the final and well-known conclusion of the Scriptures; and the Scriptures never err. The guide by which one can apprehend the metaphysical and transcendental matters is Scripture alone.
ADS1 - The Story of Hemalekha and HemachudaPardeep Sehgal
Investigation is the root-cause of all, and it is the first step to the supreme reward of indescribable bliss. How can anyone gain security without proper investigation? A deliberating man always shines over others. Brahma is great because of deliberation; Vishnu is worshipped because of it.
Association with the Wise Must Precede "Vichara" – Deliberation – Self-Enquiry. A man undoubtedly reaps the fruits of his company. I shall relate to you a story to illustrate this:
"There was once a king of Dasarna by name Muktachuda. He had two sons: Hemachuda and Manichuda. They were comely, well-behaved and well-learned. At one time they led a hunting party, consisting of a great retinue of men and warriors, into a deep forest which was infested with tigers, lions and other wild animals…
Fie on human beings who appraise the foulest part of the body as the most delightful. If one should see beauty in that body-part which is wet with impure excretions, where will not man see beauty? Tell me!
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Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
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In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
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Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
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Yoga Vashishtha of Valmiki
Book I, Chapter 13
Denunciation of Wealth
Book I, Chapter 13
Denunciation of Wealth
Rama said:
1O sage, here wealth is reckoned a blessing, yet
she is the cause of our troubles and errors.
2She bears away like a river in the rainy season. All
high-spirited simpletons are overpowered by her
current.
3Her daughters are anxieties fostered by many a
bad deed, like the waves of a stream raised by
winds.
4She can never stand steady on her legs anywhere, but
like a wretched woman who has burnt her feet, she
limps from one place to another.
5Wealth like a lamp both burns and blackens its
owner, until it is extinguished by its own flame.
6She is unapproachable like princes and fools, and
likewise as favourable as they to her adherents, without
scanning their merits or faults.
7She begets only evils in them by their various acts, as
good milk when given to serpents serves to increase the
strength of their poison.
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Denunciation of Wealth
8Men are gentle and kind hearted to friends and
strangers, until their hearts are hardened by their
riches, which like blasts of wind serve to stiffen
frost.
9As brilliant gems are soiled by dust, so are the learned,
the brave, the grateful, the mild and the gentle
corrupted by riches.
10Riches do not lead to happiness but redound to sorrow
and destruction, as the plant aconite when nourished
hides fatal poison in itself.
11A rich man without blemish, a brave man devoid
of vanity, and a master lacking partiality are the
three rarities on earth.
12The rich are as inaccessible as the dark cave of a huge
serpent, and as unapproachable as the deep wilderness
of Vindhya Mountain inhabited by fierce elephants.
13Riches, like the shadow of night, overcast the
good qualities of men, and like moonlight, bring
to bloom the buds of their misery. Like a
hurricane, they blow away the brightness of a fair
prospect. Riches resemble a sea with huge surges.
14They bring a cloud of fear and error upon us, increase
the poison of despondence and regret, and are like
dreadful snakes in the field of our choice.
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Yoga Vashishtha of Valmiki
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Denunciation of Wealth
15Fortune is a frost to those who are bound to asceticism,
and is like the night to the owls of libertinism. She is
an eclipse to the moonlight of reason, and like
moonbeams to the bloom of the lilies of folly.
16She is as transitory as the rainbow, and as
pleasant to see by the play of her colours. She is
as fickle as lightening which vanishes as quickly
as it appears. Hence none but the ignorant have
reliance on her.
17She is as unsteady as a well born maiden following a
base born man to the woods. She is like a mirage that
tempts runaways to fall to it as the doe.
18Unsteady as a wave, she is never steady in any place,
like the flickering flame of a lamp. So her leaning is
known to nobody.
19She, like the lioness, is ever quick to fight, and like
the leader of elephants, she is favourable to her
partisans. She is as sharp as the blade of a sword, and
she is the patroness of sharp-witted sharpsters.
20I see no joy in uncivil prosperity, which is full of
treachery and replete with every kind of danger and
trouble.
21It is pity that prosperity is like a shameless wench who
will again lay hold of a man who has abandoned her for
her rival poverty.
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Denunciation of Wealth
22What is she, with all her loveliness and
attraction of human hearts, but a momentary thing
obtained by all manner of evil means, and
resembling at best a flower shrub growing out of
a cave inhabited by a snake, and beset by reptiles
all about its stem?
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[Rama’s observations herein above are a lesson for all
seekers of Truth. Our anxieties and cares are the
offshoot of our wealth and possessions and they
deplete the life-force share of creative vibratory
elements ether and air, thus effecting the vital organs of
our body (viz. mind and heart) that derive sustenance
from these elements.]
[Temptation begins by capturing your attention. What
gets your attention arouses your emotions. Then your
emotions activate your behaviour, and you act on what
you feel. The more you focus on “I don’t want to
do this,” the stronger it draws you into its web.
Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than
fighting it. Once your mind is on something else,
the temptation loses its power.
Sometimes this means physically leaving a tempting
situation. Walk away from a group that is gossiping. To
avoid being stung, stay away from the bees.
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Denunciation of Wealth
Spiritually, your mind is your most vulnerable
organ. To reduce temptation, keep your mind
occupied with God’s Word and other good
thoughts.
If you’re serious about defeating temptation, you
must manage your mind and monitor your media
intake.]
[Redound: Return or recoil; contribute; have an effect
for good or ill.
Sharpster: A swindler; someone who is adept at coning
others; a con artist.
Aconite: Any of various usually poisonous plants of
the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and
palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowers.
Wench: A girl or young woman; to associate, esp.
habitually, with promiscuous women.]
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