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Read ‘The Great Learning’!

Confucius, a Chinese thinker and social philosopher.  His teachings had an impact in China,Korea,Japan,Taiwan and Vietnam.
I am paraphrasing the main points of ‘THE GREAT LEARNING’:
1.    Knowing the end: One must know what to achieve,only then can the path be achieved. Once the path is known, things should be investigated ,knowledge gained and then virtue can be attained. He’s asking people to reflect and investigate their hearts,purify their own thoughts,be sincere to their own conscience.
2.    Self-Renovation : One must continuously indulge in moral refinement and know himself or herself. The attainment of knowledge will lead to sincerity of one’s own thoughts and ultimatlely lead to a virtuous person.
3.    Root to branches: Perfecting knowledge is like knowing the root. Once a person is virtuous,he or she moves on to regulating families (brotherly love,kindness) and then to governing the state (with good faith) and ultimately to making the entire kingdom happy and peaceful. One can not preach what one does not practice. (Anti-Hypocrisy… Do u know of anyone who is not a hypocrite?? I do not!! )
4.    Virtue is the root, wealth the result:  Running behind wealth will lead to disaster and it is an end which need not be worried about. Once virtue is there, everything falls in place. In a state, pecuniary gain is not to be considered its prosperity, but prosperity is to be found in righteousness. If wealth is acquired in the morally incorrect fashion, one always will be scared of losing it in the same manner.
5.    Easy to fail: It takes time and effort to become virtuous but one mistake can lead to its fall.
6.    Learn to respect people with knowledge instead of being jealous and hindering their progress.
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Mann Bawra Tujhe Dhoondhta…

Hi all,
I just read the first chapter of “Aghora-Left hand of God” ,MA. The author describes his experiences in achieving Siddhi (Not kaya Siddhi, Not Maya Sidhhi),  which he describes as having the Universal Mother Goddess, Smashan Tara to protect him all the time. He gives the credit of all his good deeds, talents, able doings to his Goddess Mother. He wants to convey to all his children (He doesn’t believe in having ‘disciples’;I will paraphrase that part of his teachings later) that one has to devote many lifetimes to attain that level of spiritualism.
Not disciples,but children: He emphasizes the point that to teach one has to keep learning all his life. To be a Guru,one who comes before God, treats his students as children. The guru is expected to forgive his students just like any parent would do. A parent has infinite capacity capability of forgiveness and to love; the same is expected of the Guru.
I liked this one-liner : “For those who believe in God, no proof of his existence is necessary and for those who don’t believe no proof is possible.”
Not everyone can be truly spiritual but one must clear up their personal lives:  This leads to a progression of the soul of a person. From partial spirituality, one rises to a greater level. And after many lives, when a person has been taught fully about spiritualism, he or she can attain Siddhi.
He once again emphasizes the fact that it is SHE who does it all. His capability of curing others, talents, capabilities, confidence comes from her,the Goddess Smashan Tara, his MA!!

This is from WIKI on AGHORI:

The Aghori are a Hindu sect believed to have split off from the Kapalika order (which dates from 1000 AD) in the fourteenth century . Most other Hindus condemn them as non-Hindu because of their cannibalistic rituals. Aghoris or Aughads command extreme reverence from rural populations as they are supposed to possess powers to heal and relieve pain gained due to their intense practices.

Aghori ascetics, while being devotees of the Hindu God Shiva, are monists who adhere to the common Hindu belief in liberation (Moksha) from the cycle of reincarnation (samsara). This liberation is a realization of the self’s identity with the absolute.

In essence, Aghoris base their beliefs on two principles. First, that Lord Shiva is perfect. Second, that Shiva is responsible for everything; every rock, tree, animal, and even every thought. Due to this, everything that exists must be perfect, and to deny the perfection of anything would be to deny the Gods. Aghoris eat any form of food and toxicant, engage in a variety of sexual practices, ritually and otherwise and also allegedly meditate on dead bodies.

The Aghori ascetic is himself a symbol of the God Shiva. He goes naked or wears the shroud of a corpse, he covers himself in the ashes of the cremation ground. The corpse upon which he meditates is a symbol of his own body and the corpse devouring ritual is a symbol of the transcendence of his lower self and a realisation of the greater, all pervading self.

<This religious sect works in secrecy>

Samashan Tara means “Tara of the Cremation Grounds”,second of the Great Wisdom Godesses,tantric manisfestations of Parvati or Kali or Mahadevi.

PS. I should have read wiki earlier, would have understood that article better!!

Cheers!

The son of BAHA’O’ALLAH

I just finished reading a pdf document on the teachings of Abdul Baha (SERVANT OF GOD), son of Baha’O’Allah (GLORY OF GOD). I don’t understand too much philosophy, so if you are expecting to read anything substantial , DO NOT read further. I am merely  going to summarize whatever my tiny mental faculties have gathered. It’s only for myself J

Well!

During the 19th century, a movement ,aimed at bringing unity into the world,took place in the East,Persia to be precise. The preachers or the great seers as the author calls them were 3: Bab, Baha’O’Allah and Abdul Baha in chronological order. The article mainly concentrates in revealing the courageous lives lived by them and their teachings.

Basis of this movement: Love for God, and thus love for mankind

Teachings of Abdul Baha (He was a disciple of his father)

1. Unity of religions: He asks people not to differentiate among the religions, they are all one. Worship is not about praying on the altar but developing ‘an attitude towards divinity which is reflected in one’s life’.

2. Ceasing wars: “Most great peace” as he calls it will come when the entire mankind will live as brothers and all the nations would be happy. The prejudices people have against race,caste,creed should be eradicated.

3. Love for mankind: He asks people not to love their country but their own kind. The gigantic temples that stand in every nation must not only satisfy people’s spiritual needs but also material needs. The gates of every temple should be open to all and from these temples love for mankind should flourish. Hospitals, temples,orphanages,universities should be build around the temple so that each man can be equal.

4. Will power and freedom: There is no prison beside ‘SELF’. One can overcome the limitations of consciousness by making a door of will. Its all in the mind. One has to believe in ‘radiant acquiescence’ [DID NOT UNDERSTAND THIS PART ] to be released from the prison of ‘self’. Once that is achieved, even death can not imprison one.

I guess these were the 5 main points. One is left dumbstruck by reading about the kind of life he’d been through in the prison of Acca, and yet Abdul Baha called his ‘prison freedom, troubles rest and death life’!!!