Ravishankar.G's Blog – December 2010 Archive (5)

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Good evening to all of u and have a divine blessed New Year 2011 ahead …..



If we take a look at the world around us, we have a million reasons to be proud about, as the amazing human race. After all, have we not landed on the Moon? Have we not sent Pathfinder to Mars? Gene-mapping and cloning have become a reality. Hats off to the exponential progress made in the realm of science!



Nevertheless, if we contemplate for a moment on the question, "Have…

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Good evening to all of you and have a divine blessed "Merry Christmas and Love filled "Happy New Year"

 

Every year, millions of people all over the world celebrate the Holy Christmas. There are festivities and joyous celebrations, a lot of merry-making. People rejoice that Lord Jesus took birth in our midst about two thousand years ago.



It is certainly an event over which all humanity ought to be proud and jubilant. But it is essential, too, to…

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In vedanta there are only two kinds of moods - joy, exultation or exhilaration and grief or depression. Now there is joy and five minutes later there is depression - the currents alternate. They belong to the sad-urmis (six waves, i.e. grief, delusion, hunger, thirst, decay and death). People of gloomy moods attract gloomy thoughts from others and from the akasic (etheric) records in the…

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1. Thulasi,when taken along with pepper in the evenings for three days consecutively, treats cold, cough and fever.



2. Irritation in the urinary tract is healed when the juice of Thulasi and cow's buttermilk mixed together are taken thrice a day.



3. When the…

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That which is like poison at first but in the end like nectar - that pleasure is declared to be sattvika, born of the purity of one's own mind due to self-realization.



That pleasure which arises from the contact of the sense organs with the objects, which is at first like nectar, and in the end like poison - that is declared to be rajasa.



That pleasure which at first and in the sequel is delusive of the self, arising from sleep, indolence and heedlessness…