Mind Mirror

Mind is a glass mirror
standing in front you see
yourself and the world around
while seeing a flower you only see
surface of the mirror in which
flower is reflected...
so is in the mirror of mind
lie all that you perceive
through the senses...
mirror reflects because
it is coated with silver - rasa!
Should there be no rasa,
mirror will become a glass...
then you see no more yourself or the world...
you see what is beyond through it
So is with the mind...
when rasa, the lingering taste of
worldliness is no more..
end all perceptions and
the transparent mind becomes
the window to see what lies behind and beyond...

Meditation is when
the mind mirror becomes
glass window of the Self!
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them - Thomas Merton
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This little girl comes home from her first day at Kindergarten school. And she goes to daddy and says "I am never going to school again."
"Why??"
"Because my teacher said, 5+5=10; 6+4=10;7+3=10;8+2=10; and that 9+1=10!"
"And your point is???"
"SO SHE NEEDS TO MAKE UP HER MIND!!!"
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Matter of Awareness

I see the sun's brilliant rays
entering through a tiny little hole,
falling over the soft and smooth
petals of a beautiful flower...
of brilliant colors and vivid shades...
of healthy leaves - lavish green and pretty...
am I seeing the flower or reflected light?
are the colors real or shades of light?
can my eyes see objects ever?
or capture merely the reflected lights?

Is it not same with Awareness?
Is IT ever conditioned by matter
that I ever experience IT through?
or is IT just conditioned AS matter
that It subtly expresses through?
and when there is nothing really matters
to that Awareness, is it conditioned ever?
who can cover IT, when you are ITS lover?
Think about it over and over...
if you do, IT is dear and near...
here, there, everywhere!!

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There is no TIME when there is no I and ME!

==================Humor
Early morning a travel agent gets a call: 'How much time it takes to fly from Detroit to LA?'
Wishing to give exact details by checking the web, she replied: 'Just a minute'
The caller responded: 'Thanks' and hung up!
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Karma

Karma is impotent without the presence of relevant guna, mood of the mind. A violent past will have not effect unless there is the presence of egoistically active mood (Rajas), so also a virtuous past without intelligently calm mood (Sattva) and passionate urge without secretly sensuous mood (Tamas).

Another factor that can activate karma is the influence of vishaya, contact with matter. While one would like to let go of a passionate past by maintaining sattva mood, he can be smothered by sight of a sensuous object or watching a passionate movie which may influence both guna and karma

No one can rectify the past karma nor can deny contact with matter. The options we have are: slow and steady cultivation of right values and cautious contact with matter.

Values such as humility, non-violence, forgiveness, compassion are the conscious choices we can make to weaken the effects of karma!
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There are the waves and there is the wind, seen and unseen forces. Everyone has these same elements in their lives, the seen and unseen, karma and freewill - Kuan Yin
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At the Saturday night tent revival, the preacher announced: "Anyone with 'needs' to be prayed over, come forward to the front at the altar."
Leroy got in line, and when it was his turn, the preacher asked: "Leroy, what do you want me to pray about for you?"
'Preacher, I need you to pray for help with my hearing."
The preacher placed one finger in Leroy's ear and placed the other hand on top of Leroy's head and prayed and prayed and prayed. He prayed a blue streak for Leroy.

After a few minutes, the preacher removed his hands, stood back and asked: "Leroy, how is your hearing now?"
Leroy said: 'I don't know, Reverend, it's on next Wednesday!"
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Ocean Waves

Ocean as waters gathering momentum by
wild winds rising up to reign
as waves of diverse forms
origin is just some indistinct stir
within or without, emerging as destructive forces
shattering all that come on their way
only to subside on the dry, vast shores...
so is Awareness as thoughts gathering momentum by
impressions galore, rising up as diverse moods...
Waves big and small never lay beyond
wide shores of the Sea
so are thoughts by the boundaries of the Self

Are you the Ocean or the waves?
Waves if you are, wild momentum won't stop
until you reach the calms shores on death...
Ocean if you are, allow the waves to
dance on and about you, unperturbed by them
peace will prevail forever in your subtle depth...
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The Ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far reaching - Swami Sivananda
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The bidding was proceeding furiously and strong when the Chief Auctioneer suddenly announced:
"A gentleman in this room has lost a wallet containing ten thousand dollars. If returned, he will pay a reward of two thousand dollars."
There was a moment's silence in the auction house and from the back of the room came a cry:
"Two thousand five hundred!"
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Change and Challenge

Change brings in constant challenge,
every challenge demands
distinct change within.
To an infant, walking is a challenge.
To a student, learning is a challenge.
To a lazy labor, working is a challenge.
Allow the change, it is easy
to meet the challenge.

It is hard to be soft,
yet it is consistent soft winds
that have shaped the rocky mountains!
To be non-violent is to be ever ready
to face violence from mind's negative habits.
To be compassionate is
to rise above the habitual passions
that are hard to let go!
To be loving is the readiness
to include the unloving and the unwilling!

Nobility is the dexterity
built with bricks of change
that were thrown by the challenges of life
- one may choose to create
a robust fort or
pile them up for a tombstone!

Choose to change, face the challenge!

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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing is so gentle as real strength - St. Francis de Sales
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A man's wife was complaining to their friends about her husband who was spending all his free time in the bar. So one night he decided to invite her along to the bar with him.
"What will you have?" he asked.
"Oh, I don't know. The same as you I suppose" she replied.
Husband ordered a couple of beer and threw his down in one shot. His wife watched in amazement, then took a sip from her glass. She immediately spat it out.
"Yuck, that is TERRIBLE!" she spluttered. "How can you drink this stuff!"
"Well, there you go" said the husband. "And you think I am out here enjoying myself every night!"

Path of Love

To claim that one can realize Truth
merely through the ken of intellect is
akin to a sparrow attempting to
empty the shore less ocean with
its tiny, slender beak!

Truth is not personal,
yet it is not impersonal either!
It transcends logic and abstract,
when given personality
fills the heart with nameless love!

Personified He is
when stands in front of a mirror,
reflection there is You...
offer Him anything you like
where will it go, Dear?
This is the path of Love,
you get soon as you give..
love Him..will He not?
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"We should take care not to make the intellect our God, it has of course, powerful muscles, but no personality! - Albert Einstein
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An elderly lady was invited to her old friend's home for afternoon tea. She was impressed by the way her friend preceded every request to her husband with endearing terms calling him,
"Dear Hubby, My Love, Darling, Sweet pie"
Amazingly, she had been married almost 50 years and it seemed they were still very much in love. While the husband was off in the garden, the lady leaned over and said to her friend,
"I think it's wonderful that, after all the years you've been married, you still call your husband those loving pet names."
The old woman hung her head.
"I have to tell you the truth" she said, "I forgot his name about ten years ago!"
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Vasana

Vasana is the result of
fanciful ideas projected upon
a thing whose cause and consequences
are not inquired - so said
Sage Vasishta to Sri Rama

Delightful moon that you admire,
neither the light is its own,
nor is the other side is bright...
so you see through the eyes of fancy!

Rush of energy that reaches the senses
while in pursuit of sense pleasure
neither joy is in the objects
nor is in the senses
so you relish through the senses of fancy!

In deep slumber of every night
while your world is surely forgotten
neither bliss is in restful bosom
nor it is of the quiet mind
so you revel through darkness of ignorance!

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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind - John Lyly
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A man in a bar sees a friend at a table, drinking by himself.
Approaching the friend he comments, "You look terrible. What is the problem?"
"My mother died in August," he said, "and left me $25000."
"Gee, that's tough," he replied.
"Then in September," the friend continued, "My father died, leaving me $40,000."
"Wow. Two parents gone in two months. No wonder you're depressed."
"And last month my aunt died, and left me $15,000."
"Three close family members lost in three months? How sad!"
"Then this month," continued, the friend, "absolutely nothing!"
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