Tendencies And Influences

Guruji's Knowledge Sheet: Tendencies & Influences Life moves by dual (two) factors: inner tendencies and outer influences. Inner tendencies form your attitudes and behavior, while external influences makes strong impressions in your mind. Often your tendencies generate external situations. And situations around you can form tendencies within you. This is what is called Karma. Both these factors - the tendencies from within and influences from outside, can either be beneficial or harmful. It is the awareness that filters the outer negative influences and it is the awareness that corrects and annihilates the unhealthy inner tendencies. This awareness is called Gyana. The purpose of education is to develop this awareness, so that you can be selective about your tendencies and influences. It is practically impossible to resist the external influences and the inner tendencies without raising one's consciousness. This can be gradual or sudden. And that is how a human being has both free will and destiny. Freedom is when you have a say about your tendencies and your influences. And only awareness and impeccable devotion can bring this freedom. - Sri Sri || Jai Guru Dev ||

Education

Education has five aspects 1. Information -- Often we think information is education, but it is only one aspect of education. 2. Concepts -- Concepts are the basis for all research. You need to conceive in order to create. 3. Attitude -- An integral aspect of education is cultivating the right attitude. Proper attitude at the right time and place determines your actions and behaviour. 4. Imagination -- Imagination is essential for creativity, for the arts. But if you get stuck in imagination, you may become psychotic. 5. Freedom -- Freedom is your very nature. Only with freedom, do joy, generosity and other human values blossom. Without freedom, attitudes become stifling, concepts become a burden, information is of no value and imagination becomes stagnant. - Sri Sri || Jai Guru Dev ||

Prestige & Honor - Your Golden Cage

Honor reduces the freedom. Your fame, honor and virtue can limit your freedom. Nobody expects a good person to make a mistake. So the better person you are, the higher the expectations people have of you. It is then that you lose your freedom. Your virtues and good actions are like a golden cage. You are trapped by your own good actions, for everyone expects more from a good person. Nobody expects anything from a bad person. Most of the people are stuck in this cage of prestige and honor. They can not smile. They are constantly worried about keeping up their prestige and their honor. It becomes more important than their own life. Just being good or doing good to keep the prestige and honor is worthless. Prestige and honor can bring more misery in life than poverty. Many desire fame, but little do they know that they are looking for a cage. It is an art to be dignified, and yet not be suffocated by it. Only the wise would know this. For the wise one it is natural to be in honor, and he has no concerns even if it falls apart. Despite having fame or prestige, he will live as though he has none. A wise person can handle any fame without feeling suffocated, for he is crazy too! By doing good in the society one gains prestige, then enjoying the prestige and honor, one loses their freedom. Question: Then how do you keep your freedom? Answer: By being like a child, considering the world as a burden a joke or a dream. - Sri Sri || Jai Guru Dev ||

The Subtle Truth About Virtues

The Subtle Truth About Virtues If we observe our behavior, we procrastinate doing something good but we are in a hurry when it comes to doing something bad. For example if we are angry we want to express it immediately and not wait. Do you know WHY? Because virtues are your very nature and they will never leave you. Your vices are not your nature and they will leave you. The negative tendencies are transient and they will leave you if you do not act on them. Frustration, crying cannot stay for long, at least with the same intensity. Perhaps we are concerned that the vices will leave us if we do not act on them. It is only wise to postpone the vices for they will not stay and act immediately for doing good, otherwise we will keep postponing the good for the next few lifetimes. (Laughter!!! ) - Sri Sri || Jai Guru Dev ||

Sakha - Your Reliable Sense

There are three things: the Self, the senses, and the object, or the world। And there are three words: sukha, pleasure; dukha, sorrow; and sakha, companion. These have one thing in common: "kha," which means "senses."The Self through the senses experiences the world. When the senses are with the Self, that is pleasure (sukha), because the Self is the source of all joy or pleasure. When the senses are away from the Self (dukha) -- in the mud, lost in the object -- that is misery. Mud, misery, mind -- they are very close.Self --- Senses ("Kha") World --- Joy (Sukha) --- Sorrow (Dukha) Self is the nature of joy. In any pleasant experience, you close your eyes; you smell a nice flower, or you taste or touch something. So sukha is that which takes you to the Self. Dukha is that which takes you away from the Self. Sorrow simply means that you are caught up in the object, which goes on changing, instead of focusing on the Self.All the sense objects are just a diving board to take you back to the Self.Sa-kha, companion, means: "He is the senses." Sakha is one who has become your senses, who is your senses. If you are my senses, it means I get Knowledge through you; you are my sixth sense. As I trust my mind, so I trust you. A friend could be just an object of the senses, but a sakha has become the very senses.The sakha is the companion who is there in both the experiences of the dukha and of sukha. It means one who leads you back to the Self. If you are stuck in an object, that wisdom which pulls you back to the Self is sakha.Knowledge is your companion and your companion is Knowledge. And the Master is nothing but the embodiment of Knowledge. So sakha means, "He is my senses, I see the world through that wisdom, through Him."If your sense is the Divine, then you see the whole world through the Divinity.Your head will be in the mud in a few years; don't put mud in your head while you are still alive.

- Sri Sri

Jai Guru Dev

Five Factors That Influence The Mind

Five Factors That Influence The Mind Place, Time, Food, Past Impressions, and Associations and ActionsThe space -the place you are in। Every place you are in, has a different impact on the mind .Even in your house, you can see that you feel different in different room. A place where there there has been singing, chanting and meditation has a different influence on the mind. Suppose you like a particular place; you may find that a little later it will not be the same.Time is also a factor. Different times of the day and year have different influences on the mind.Different types of food that you take influence you for some days.The past impressions- the Karmas- have a different impact on the mind. Awareness, alertness, knowledge and meditation all help erase the past impressions.Associations and actions The people and events you are associated with do influence your mind. Your actions and associations effect your mind. In certain company your mind behaves in one way and with others in a different way.Question: Should we worry about them?Answer: No need to be paranoid about it. Just know them!Though these five factors influence the life and the mind, know that the Self is much more powerful. As you grow in knowledge, you will influence them all. Sri श्री Jai Guru Dev

The Big Mind

You know there is a Big Mind and a small mind. Sometimes the Big Mind wins over the small mind and sometimes it is the other way around.When the small mind wins over, it is misery and when the Big Mind wins,it is joy.Small mind promises joy and leaves your hand empty। Big Mind may bring resistance in the beginning but fills you with joy.The word Guru means great. Jaya means victory। Deva means one who is fun-loving, playful, light. One who is playful is often not dignified and when one is dignified, he is often not playful.Jai Guru Dev is victory to the Big Mind in you that is both dignified and playful. That is what Jai Guru Dev means: "Victory to the Greatness in you."You do not say victory or hail to the Master as he has won over already. You say victory to your own Self, your own Mind, which is being veiled by the small mind. SRI SRI Jai GuruDev.