Blossom Goodchild - October 25, 2014

Here we are once more … Hello! I am keen to carry on with the current topic of ‘nothing matters’. Trusting that is ok?

Benevolent greetings to Each One. Indeed, we are also keen to assure you of reasoning’s behind ‘matters’ that ‘don’t matter!

My word, you’re in fine fettle this morning! So … onwards. Many have written in, asking me to address the issue of karma, and how that all ties in with this subject … Off you go!

We have spoken to you before, regarding issues of this nature. In that … One does not ‘get away’ with anything. For that which One gives out … be it of LOVING kindness … or be it of abuse to the soul in its many forms … One receives back a thousand fold.

So then … surely that would matter? If one was full of hatred and spent their life time ‘offering’ hate … when they passed over … how miserable it would be to receive all that they had given out … a thousand fold! That WOULD matter to that soul wouldn’t it? It would matter to them THEN, that they had not chosen to offer LOVE.

Yet, they CHOSE hate for that life time. To learn lessons … to experience ‘that side’ of things … from that vantage point. Having learned that lesson … they may well go on to another life time and offer only LOVE of the Highest frequency. KNOWING what they KNOW from a deeper soul perspective.

Let us look at ‘CHOOSING’ shall we? One can CHOOSE to BE anything/anyone that suits them at that time. In general One follows their heart … and the pathway in which that takes them … determines how much, or how little they benefit.

So, one who is choosing the dodgier side of life … are they following their heart?

Indeed ... because their heart may be full of hatred or greed.

Does that make them feel good?

On a superficial level. Yet, deep down their ‘TRUE BEING’ would KNOW that this is not who they TRULY are.

Does that matter?

No. Because you are in The Game. One can be very competitive whilst playing a game and FEEL the need to always win and come out on top. Or, One can just accept that it is JUST A GAME … and it matters not who wins or loses.

That’s all very well when playing ‘Scrabble’ … yet, when ‘Playing with our souls’ … it seems rather callous.

Who is playing with your souls?

You tell me.

YOU. YOU are playing The Game. Please understand that ‘We’ … nor anyone else … did not capture you and force you to BE IN IT. You lined up in your droves asking … some begging … TO BE CHOSEN TO BE PART OF IT. For … from the level of understanding you had before ‘beginning The Game’ … you knew how much it would benefit The Whole … and we mean THE WHOLE.

With the greatest of respect … we ask you to recall that …

YOU CHOSE TO BE HERE.

TO BE IN THIS GAME OF LIFE.

TO BE OF SERVICE IN THIS WAY.

I’m trying to ‘Get this’. I really am. And just when I think I am ‘Getting it’ … I lose it ... because another question arises. If we are here to be of service to THE WHOLE … how can, how we behave, ‘not matter’?

It does.

Ahha. Gotcha! You said ‘nothing matters’.

It doesn’t. The fact is … FREEDOM OF CHOICE. You can CHOOSE to let it matter … if you want it to. It doesn’t matter either way, whether you CHOOSE to let it matter or not.

Then how are we being of service … if it doesn’t matter one way or another?

Because you are playing out The Game.

Is there a point … a purpose to The Game?

No.

Shall I bother to carry on with this?

If you CHOOSE.

Some of me wants to walk away … to quit … for, where is this getting us? Where is this getting anyone? How is it helping us to become Lighter? It’s confusing many and therefore, lowering the vibration. Yet … I so want to get to the bottom of this … and I am enjoying the challenge!

Then, let us continue. The Game is an experiment … as we have said.

And in my early conversations with you … you said the experiment had gone horribly wrong.

It has. We could not foresee its outcome … for it had never been done before. The same with any experiments … some are successful, some not. So, One keeps trying ... until they get the required result.

So … the required result of this game is?

To see what a soul in human form can accomplish when left to their own devices. Yet … it does not matter … because … at the end of the day …

YOU ARE LOVE … in its fullest Highest form.

THAT IS WHO YOU ARE.

You have come here to play … to act out … to see what can be FELT. To see how you can become yourself in all the trillions upon trillions of different forms.

Then, where does this matter of ‘us’ and ‘Mother Earth’ moving into the fifth dimension come into it? You say that is what we came here to do.

This is correct. And this will be accomplished. It is on the game board. As One continues ‘up the ladder’ … One reaches certain ‘markers’ on the board.

THIS IS THE DIVINE PLAN.

The Divine plan is a board game???

In a sense … yes.

And the dice?

Your choices!

Bingo! Well played! I get that. Could we go back to the karmic thing though … Because these are our FEELINGS that are being ‘flung about here’. It would matter to me how I had behaved on Earth … it would matter to me how I chose to treat another.

Why?

I can sense you are not asking ‘why’ flippantly … yet, to get me to where I am going.

Correct. Why does it matter to you how you treat another?

Because my heart would ‘hurt’ if I did not offer LOVE to myself or someone else.

Therefore, you CHOOSE to BE a soul that desires to come from a LOVING disposition. You CHOOSE it … because it suits you and FEELS right.

Yes …

Let us try another tactic to help you understand.

Good luck with that!

Imagine … imagine for a moment … that you are not in/of The Game. You are a free spirit without form … looking down upon a very large board game. This game consists of many, many players. Little people, some with hats on … some tall, some short … Yet, look upon them as ‘figurines’ on a board.

The Game begins … EVERYONE has the same goal … to finish The Game … to get to the top of the board. There are no instructions … no rules.

So sorry to keep interrupting … yet, you have said in the past, that there are Universal Laws. We have discussed this before … and when they are broken, there are repercussions … ie … the karmic thing.

Dearest, dearest soul … One who is trying so hard to make sense of this. How we LOVE and admire your determination to ‘Get it’ … Every little bit of it.
Not one life time … not twenty … not a hundred lifetimes … would enable you to understand IT ALL. For, every question that arises within these teachings … allows fifty thousand more to unfold. As hard as this may ‘hit you’ … we ask that you allow some things to absorb through your BEING … and allow time …

Of which there is none …

… To unfold ‘some’ of life’s mysteries.

That sounds a great idea to me. It all gets so confusing. I know I am not the only one. I wish I could set you up with an email address … then you could deal with some of the emails from those feeling the same as I do!! OK. Back to being out of our bodies and looking down at The Game …

The Game began … One moves up … One moves down … through choices made. As One looks down from a HIGHER perspective upon the board … they can see certain ‘land marks’ that are there to be accomplished … as One reaches them.

Is it not so … that through choice … One repeats old patterns? They are simply (as we have referred to before) climbing the ladder, or, slipping down the snake to the ‘same old’.

When CHOOSING NOT to repeat … when CHOOSING to ‘move Higher’ … One finds NEW challenges … more pleasurable ones.

Keep looking down from above … at these little figures … playing a game of making choices … from which … is determined the direction they move on the board. Little figures on a board … playing a game.

Little figures with FEELINGS …

Yet, the Higher they CHOOSE to move up … the more LOVING these FEELINGS become.

The more LOVING the FEELINGS become … the less One CHOOSES to ‘repeat patterns’. As One moves nearer and nearer to the top … to the ‘home’ space … the determination to ‘get there’ increases.

Yet … from the ‘Above … out of The Game’ view point … One can see that ‘time doesn’t matter’ in this game. One does not have to reach a land mark’ by Sat. 25th Nov 5010 … They are simply moving toward the landmark.

THEY CHOOSE WHEN they reach that point … through the choices they make. They CHOOSE how to FEEL as they play The Game.

Those little figures CHOOSE how to FEEL … good or bad … high or low … happy or sad … as they move up the ladders. It doesn’t matter what they FEEL … it is their choice to FEEL anything they CHOOSE.

When you are looking down on The Game … you observe these figurines. You don’t judge them for their movements. You desire only for each One to ‘learn’ how The Game works. Each One shall finish. There is no question of that. Each One shall move up the ladder … at their own pace … through their own choices.

You see … it doesn’t matter … The Game shall see itself through … ‘no matter what’.

We FEEL this is enough to absorb for today.

Ya think? Again, my friends … Thank you. Thank you for your patience. We shall resume again ‘soon’. Love ya.

And we … as we observe your ‘comings and goings’ … Love Each One of you.

In love and thanks.

* The Federation Of Light speak of LOVE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsCqVjqSss.

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Resonating in Alignment with the Creator by University Collective Consciousness of Sirius

Resonating in Alignment with the Creator by University Collective Consciousness of Sirius

Channelled through Natalie Glasson- 24^th October 2014- www.omna.org

You are connected to every being upon the Earth and the inner planes therefore you move as one and that one is the Creator. There are multiple levels of the Creator’s light, consciousness and love and yet all exist in harmony as one. The Creator is a source of energy and light which is continuously in a state of flow and active vibration which means all aspects of the Creator experience the same flow. It is the flow of the Creator which moves continuously and automatically through our beings which allows connection of all aspects of the Creator as one. Oneness could be described as team work, all souls working together in unison or accepting and sharing with each other in unison. The Creator is in a continuous active experience of simultaneous giving and receiving, thus constantly fulfilling and being fulfilled, recognising and being recognised, awakening and being awakened, accepting and being accepted, and connecting and being a connection. That which the Creator shares is simultaneously experienced within, it is impossible to comprehend or understand whether the Creator first gives and then receives or first receives and then gives due to the fact they occur simultaneously. Every soul is an aspect of the Creator and therefore composed of the same energy, when we allow ourselves to recognise that which we see within our own beings within others and that which we recognise within others within ourselves we begin to realise we all are existing in unison, our higher aspect goals and desires are the same, every person and being is simply expressing the different and diverse aspects of the Creator to bring fullness and experience to our resonance with the Creator as well as aiding our understanding of ourselves as the Creator, even if only as a smaller form of all that is the Creator.

If we can acknowledge we are all composed of the same energy whether we exist in physical form like yourself or in energetic form on the inner planes as we do, then we allow ourselves to feel a sensation of connection within our beings which is eternal, supportive and completely true; it is the divine flow, a connection to all things and beings. If you dissolve the belief of separation and accept the divine flow of the Creator, it is realised that we are all a part of a major river constantly connected and working in unison, continuously transforming and expanding. Therefore you have access to all you require for your lifetime and entire existence on the inner planes. It is only your perspective which has accepted the reality of lack which is due to the belief that all things including yourself are disconnected from the Creator and each other.

When you exist in a family, whether large or small, you may feel a connection, there is no physical evidence that describes your connection. There may be physical resemblance and emotional bonds which act as evidence to you, and yet without physical connection describing your unity you continue to feel links. It is as if you extend from a source, whether you are in physical contact or communication with your family or not. This acts as a replica or a symbol to you that you are connected to all beings; the Creator is the source or family you are born from and it is the same for every being, you are all members of the same family. Although not physical connected or maybe not in communication there is a bond, the same that can be found in families which ties you all together in oneness.

Every person/ soul on the Earth or the inner planes expresses the diverse and different qualities of the Creator as a way of paving a journey of resonance and remembrance of their divine family and source; the Creator. There is constant similarity between every person and soul which could be described as a core resonance and yet we all allow ourselves to express the colourful spectrum of the Creator as a way of experiencing all that is the Creator. The diversity and similarity of expressions of the Creator could be seen as duality and yet it is a period of great exploration which will gradually dissolve as we all notice the Creator in a similar way. This will symbolise those on the Earth and the inner planes have aligned with and resonate as one with all that is the Creator. It is in this moment of all aspects of the Creator aligning and vibration harmoniously with the Creator we will experience the divine flow, which is our eternal connection and oneness to all. It is important to recognise this period of ascension as an exploration of the similarities and diversities of the Creator within all, rejoicing and celebrating the expression of the Creator pouring from all. It is through this expression and acceptance of all aspects of the Creator on the Earth and the inner planes alignment and resonance will form which you will recognise as love, peace, security and harmony.

Not only are souls expressing different and yet familiar aspects of the Creator, there are also different levels of resonance and acceptance of the Creator. You may find you resonate more fully with the Creator than your friend or neighbour, meaning you have opened up to accept an aspect of the Creator more fully. This doesn’t mean you are better in anyway it simply means you are connecting with a certain level of resonance with the Creator which is a different level to your friend or neighbour. While you may feel completely different to others around you, as if you are on a different wave length or a different perspective you are actually vibrating in unison with souls across the world and universe you may not know. Imagine the levels of resonance, alignment and acceptance of the Creator within your being as different colours of light. For example, your resonance with the Creator may be on a yellow level while your friend or neighbour may be on a red level, both are equal and active exploration processes of and with the Creator. There are numerous people on the Earth who are connected with the yellow level and the red level and so forth, creating groups of consciousness and resonance with the Creator. As people awaken, they move to different levels and groups adding their energy and consciousness to the group. Eventually all groups will merge and unite as one. The purpose of my explanation is to share with you there are many people and souls across the world and the universe which you share the same resonance to the Creator with, resulting in similar perspectives, actions and beliefs. You are connected to these people, they support you and you support them even though you may not have physically met. Thus you have a powerful source of connection and supportive power, you are never alone and you will attract into your reality these people more and more so you can resonate with the Creator together in harmony.

These levels of consciousness can create friction as one person may not be able to feel a resonance or understanding of another. Please know connection is always present as is a familiarity and similarity, due to the experience that the other is not on a similar vibration of resonance and alignment with the Creator as you, you are invited and being asked to expand and extend your boundaries through the actions of acceptance and compassion. As you move your boundaries you actually allow your level of consciousness and resonance with the Creator to merge with the other person and their resonance to merge with you thus unity on a deeper and more profound scale of the aspects of the Creator is born. Moving your own boundaries of resonance with the Creator through acceptance of others and all allows you to resonate more perfectly with the Creator as well as creating major shifts within the universe, ascension and consciousness of humanity; a very powerful impact.

When you find yourself judging, resisting or arguing vocally or energetically with another make yourself aware this is a divine opportunity for all aspects of the Creator to unite through you and your actions in this situation. Recognise your entire energy may vibrate as a different rhythm to the other due to your resonance and alignment with the Creator and yet you are both apart of the divine flow of the Creator so eternally connected. Consciously invite yourself to expand your boundaries of resonance with the Creator to accept a new merged resonance with the Creator. This is not to accept or merge with the energies of the other but to merge with their alignment and resonance with the Creator which is pure thus strengthening your own and the others. The actions of acceptance and compassion allow your boundaries to expand and recognition of the both of you as the same. Through your compassion and acceptance you are allowing aspects of the Creator to merge which is influencing, inspiring and supporting all you are connected to which is all that is the Creator; everything.

It is our wish for you to also contemplate the understanding of the Creator being in a continuous active experience of simultaneous giving and receiving, thus constantly fulfilling and being fulfilled, recognising and being recognised, awakening and being awakened, accepting and being accepted, and connecting and being a connection, all simultaneously. Do you perceive the same within your reality and experiences? It is your divine right to give and receive simultaneously. Often when we give and expect something in return it doesn’t come, when we learn to give without expectation of receiving we align ourselves with an aspect or part of the divine flow of the Creator. This allows us to trust in the constant flow of the Creator, with trust we begin to notice ourselves opening up to receive, therefore trusting in the flow of the Creator from us and to us. As the trust grows we allow ourselves to awaken to the reality of receiving and giving being simultaneous. This may be experienced first within your being and then within your reality, it symbolises your deeper resonance with the Creator as you accept the divine flow of the Creator. It is as if you are chiming in time with the Creator accepting your divinity and truth.

Trust is a powerful tool; it is good to notice in your perspective areas of trust and distrust, acknowledging whether trust is justified or needed and where trust requires enhancement.

With connection and love,

University Collective Consciousness of Sirius

Sivananda Daily Reading

26 October
Posted: 24 Oct 2014 10:00 PM PDT
Ignorance
The mind is a creation of avidya! (ignorance) and it is the effect of avidya. The mind is filled with delusion this is why it tempts you and makes you go astray. If you can destroy the cause of the mind by getting knowledge of the Supreme Self, the mind is nowhere; it dwindles into an airy nothing.
The whole experience of duality, made up of perceiver and perceived, is pure imagination. There is no ignorance apart from the mind. On the destruction of the mind, all is destroyed. The mind's activity is the cause of all appearance. On account of illusion you think that the outside objects are separate from you and real.
As long as there is mind there are all these distinctions big and small, high and low, superior and inferior, good and bad, etc. but the highest truth is that there is no relativity. If you can transcend the mind by constant and profound meditation on Atman you will be able to attain a state beyond the pairs of opposites wherein lies supreme peace and highest knowledge.
The first thought is the 'Ithought'. As this 'I-thought' is the base of all other thoughts, egoism is the seed for the mind. The idea of 'I' brings in its train the idea of time, space and other potencies. With these environments, the name 'jiva' (soul) accrues to it. And contemporaneously with it there arise buddhi (intellect), memory and manas (mind) which is the seed of the tree of desire.
You cannot realise God if you have the slightest trace of egoism, or attachment to name and form, or the least tinge of worldly desire in the mind. Try to minimise egoism little by little. Root it out by self-sacrifice, by karma yoga, by self-surrender, or by vedantic self-enquiry. Whenever egoism asserts itself, raise the question within yourself: "What is the source of this little 'I'?" Again and again ask this question and, as you remove layer after layer, the onion dwindles to nothing. Analyse the little 'I' and it becomes a non-entity.
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The ego is the Lord for whose entertainment the dance is performed and the objects of the senses are his companions. The intellect is the dancing girl and the senses are the persons who play on the instruments which accompany the dance. The sakshi (witnessing soul) is the lamp which illumines the scene. Just as the lamp, without moving from its place, furnishes light to all parts so too, the sakshi from its unchangeable position illumines everything situated inside or outside.
Satsang Bhavan Lectures, Message 13
Posted: 24 Oct 2014 10:00 PM PDT
Satsang Bhavan Lectures of Swami Sivananda
Chapter III: Stages of Life

27. The Philosophy of Mundan / 28. Brahmacharya / 29. Upanayanam

27. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MUNDAN
Swamiji's speech on the occasion of the Mundan ceremony of Sri Lakshman, son of Sri Sivanarayan Vadhwa, Divisional Superintendent, Eastern Railway, Dinapore, on 19th August, 1956.
Today is an auspicious day. It is the day of the Mundan ceremony of Sri Lakshman, son of Sri Sivanarayan Vadhwa, Divisional Superintendent, Eastern Railway. They had been here today and the Mundan ceremony was performed in my kutir, on the sacred bank of the Ganges.
Mundan ceremony is one of the samskaras in life. I think there are eighteen samskaras and Mundan is one of the important samskaras. In Mundan ceremony the hair is removed. Mundan is very convenient. It is convenient for bath. Any number of times you can take bath. You will not catch cold. The time spent in combing the hair is also saved. Generally people waste much time in combing the hair.
Hair and skin are the two important vehicles of maya. The whole beauty of a person consists in hair and skin. If the skin is removed from a body, one man will have to stand beside it with a long stick to drive away the vultures! If one hair falls in milk, you throw away the milk, for it will cause you vomiting. Where is beauty of the hair then? Real beauty is in the Atma, your inner self. Do not depend upon the beauty of the body. Develop vairagya, dispassion. Look at the components of the body. How filthy they are! To a woman, hair is the most valuable property. If you try to remove the hair she will die!
You should meditate on the Beauty of beauties, Atma, and attain realisation, atmasakshatkar.
Let us do kirtan today for the health, long life, peace, prosperity and divine aiswarya of the boy, and the family, as well as the whole world at large.

28. BRAHMACHARYA
Thirteenth April is a remarkable and auspicious day. It is the Kumbha Mela day in Hardwar. It is Tamil New Year's day. On this auspicious day the Upanayanam ceremony of Sri Ramakrishna, otherwise known as Ramu and Sri Rajagopalan, otherwise known as Raju, took place. They are brothers of Annaswami. They are the sons of Sri. N. Srinivasan, a greatest devotee, of Egmore, Madras. —Swami Venkatesananda
Upanayanam ceremony is a most fundamental sacrament amongst the Hindus. During this ceremony the boys enter Brahmacharya Ashram. Brahmacharis are of two kinds. After finishing studies, vedic or college studies, they become householders, they marry. Some become naishtic brahmacharis. They take a pledge or vow to lead the life of brahmacharya throughout the life. For this word 'naishtic brahmacharya' yesterday Dr. Roy gave a very good substitute, 'Chronic Brahmacharya!'—because he is a doctor. Brahmacharya is not a disease. Brachmacharya is a universal mahavrata, a great vow to be observed by all, not only by Hindus. He who has taken a pledge or vow to remain a brahmachari throughout his life is a brahmachari. He may enter the order of sanyasa or he may remain as a brahmachari, taking the vow of celibacy. A brahmachari is one who moves in Brahman—'Char' means 'to move'. He who, through meditation, lives an inner life in the Atma or Brahman is a brahmachari.
Brahman or God is purity, and we will have to realise him through the practice of purity. Brahman or God is truth. We have to realise him by observing truth in thought, word and deed. brahmacharya should be observed in thought, word and deed. A bramachari should strictly avoid the eight breaks in brahmacharya. That is very important. The upanayana thread consists of three threads. That means purity in thought, word and deed. He promises that he will break the three knots of avidya, kama and karma. That is the significance of the knot in the three threads. From ignorance (avidya) is born desire (kama), and to satisfy the desires one works (karma). He is bound. Man always works with expectation of fruits and with the idea of agency. "I am the doer." So he is bound. By self-realisation one should free himself from all bondage.
     bhidyate hridayagrantihsh, chindyante sarva samsayah,
     ksheeyante cha asya karmani, tasmin drishte paravare.
          (Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.8)
When one attains self-realisation all doubts are rent asunder, all karmas are burnt, all doubts are cleared, because he attains knowledge of the self.
In the practice of brahmacharya certain things are necessary to keep up brahmacharya. I used to sing a song "Just as curd, pappad, and acharchutney goad the tongue to eat more kitchedy, japa, kirtan and swadhyaya develop bhakti marvellously." Japa, kirtan and swadhyaya aid brahmacharya marvellously.
Whenever kitchedy is prepared you want curd, pappad, and achar. They are a good combination, good appetiser. So also the spiritual appetiser is japa, kirtan, satsang, swadhyaya—japa of any mantra, study of Upanishads.
When one becomes a brahmachari, he is initiated into the mysteries of Gayatri, the blessed mother of Vedas. Gayatri mantra is the greatest mantra. For householders and brahmacharis Gayatri is the greatest mantra, just as OM is the greatest mantra for sanyasins. Gayatri and OM are one. Gayatri bestows mukti and bhukti, not only liberation, but also bhukti, enjoyment in this world. So, a brahmachari should be regular in reciting Gayatri, understanding the meaning. OM and Tat are one. They mean Parabrahman. Savituh—Iswara, sun or consciousness hidden in the sun. Varenyam—fit to be worshipped. Bhargah—remover of sins and ignorance. Devasya—resplendent. Jnana-swarupa—Embodiment of knowledge. Dheemahi—We meditate.
Dhiyoyonah prachodayat—May he enlighten our intellect, give us Light, so that we may know our essential divine nature and give up identification with the body, dehadhyasa.
The first part of Gayatri mantra is stuti, praise, just as in Maha Mrityunjaya mantra first there is stuti. Trayambakam yejamahe sugandhim pushtivardhanam. Sugandhim—full of fragrance.
Pushti vardhanam—'He who increases bodily health and spiritual knowledge'. Even so the first portion in Gayatri is stuti of Ishwara and the second is prayer. It is not a selfish prayer asking for son, property or earthly possessions. Dhiyoyonah prachodayat—'For my buddhi (intellect) give enlightenment, illumination'. So a brahmachari should repeat Gayatri daily with bhav, not merely counting sixteen or thirty-two. He must do one thousand and eight. The more you recite, the more your intellect will develop. You will have a brilliant face. So you must be regular in reciting Gayatri with bhav and meaning. The heart will be purified. All sins will be destroyed. You will get devotion, onepointedness, faith and it will lead you to meditation, aspiration, renunciation and realisation. You should do japa and kirtan. Kirtan also is of great help for purifying the heart, for attaining success in life, vidya, tushti, pushti. You can do kirtan of any mantra, Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, or Sri Ram Jaya Ram Jaya Jaya Ram, or Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya—any mantra, your ishta mantra or guru mantra.
Satsang is a great help in maintaining purity. It is a fortress to protect you from the onslaughts of maya, satsang with saints and devotees, is positive satsang. When there is no positive satsang, have negative satsang. Study of books written by realised souls is negative satsang. Study Yoga Vasishta, Ramayana, Bhagavata. A brahmachari should have a daily programme. Early morning he should get up. After a little prayer he should start his study, bath and arghya. He should offer arghya in the morning, noon and at night. This is very important. He should observe dietetic discipline. He should avoid garlic, onions. turnip, too much pungent articles, oily and dry things, musur ki dal, etc.
You must sow the seed now, when you are robust. You must offer a very good pure flower to the Lord. You must offer a pure intellect, not an old intellect full of evil samskaras. Offer a very good flower, of your intellect, of your heart.
Ramakrishna, Rajagopal, it is only for you I am talking. You must become brilliant charged with power and wisdom, like a lighthouse in Srinivasan's family. Venkatesananda has already become a blooming cosmic light. He is an exemplar to you. You should both lead a bachelor's life, and after you have got established in getting money, a good post, you can marry. Do not marry before that. It will be a burden. You must have economic independence. You both should marry because already I have absorbed Swami Venkatesananda. You must keep up the line.
Be regular in japa, Gayatri japa. You will get success in everything. You will become a first class professor and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees you will hold. Do not think that Gayatri is only a sound. It is very potent. You know of Malaviyaji's success in establishing the Benares Hindu University. All this is due to his japa of Gayatri on Triveni bank. You may have heard of Vidyaranya. He did purascharana of Gayatri and caused a golden shower in karnatic, to remove famine from the land. There are twenty-four letters in Gayatri. Akshara Laksha japa you must do-twenty-four lakhs. This is one purascharana you will become a first class Brahmin, a first class pandit. This 'sixteen business' will not do—hurrying up thinking of coffee and iddly. Get up early and do 1,008. On Sundays do more. This is a treasure, japakajana, a real treasure. It is the only thing that will follow, that will liberate you, that will afford you spiritual, inexhaustible wealth. People have ignored this. At this young age you must sow the seed of spirituality. It will grow into a big tree, blossom and bear fruit. You must become ideal devotees. So regularly do japa. Remember the convocation address given in ancient times. Satyam Vada. Dharmam Chara. Be righteous. Dharma is law, dharma is duty. Dharma is religion. If you are a dharmic purusha only you will be saved in this world. There is no difference between an adharmic purusha and a horizontal being. Think of the prestige of the family. Become a noble soul. People should admire and appreciate your character, your excellent virtues. These are wealth. Humility, tolerance, courage, boldness, self-restraint, self-reliance—all these virtues you should cultivate. Amanitwam, adambitwam, ahimsa, kshanti, arjavam. These are dharmalakshanas. Self-restraint, cheerfulness—these are angas (limbs) of brahmacharya. Justice, impartiality—these are all forms of brahmacharya. Bhishma, Lakshmana Anjaneya, Swami Dayananda, Vivekananda—these were brahmacharins. Those who have attained spiritual greatness, moved the world and elevated people to high standards of morality and spirituality are people who have observed brahmacharya.
Western psychiatrists and psycho-analysts say that brahmacharya will lead to neurosis. They have no knowledge. The vital energy should be sublimated into ojas, spiritual sakti, which will move the whole world. If it is transmuted into ojas sakti, it is useful for realisation, for doing great work in the spiritual path, elevating people. The fruit of observing brahmacharya is veeryalabha, attainment of immense spiritual strength and samadhi. So be on the alert. Be vigilant. Be diligent. Become ideal brahmacharins, ideal citizens, ideal Indians, yogis, vedantins, sages and bhagavatas. All you can do through the power of brahmacharya. Become a Bhishma, Hanuman, Lakshmana. It is within you, to make yourself a great yogi. Also do not neglect your material prosperity. Both are necessary, material and spiritual—not lopsided development. Wealth is necessary. Acquire wealth and spend it in charity, in serving the poor, in serving spiritual institutions. There is a great work before you.
Strive. Plod on. Overhaul yourself. Transform yourself and become a devotee, become a good citizen, become a luminary and become like Swami Venkatesananda. May God bless you with health, long life, peace, prosperity and bliss eternal is my fervent prayer.
They are fortunate. On the Ganges bank, in Uttarakhand, on the Kumbha Mela day—it is only the devatas and angels will have Upanayanam ceremony on the Ganges bank, in the presence of Annaswami and Guru Swami, these rare ones. Their previous samskaras have materialised and taken this shape. So they have come to the land of rishis and they will also become rishis. Glory to such small boys, Ramakrishna and Rajagopal—both are very intelligent boys, artists, scientists. May Lord bless them their family, parents, Rukmani, Srinivas, their sister Vijaya. May they all shine as great spiritual personalities.

29. UPANAYANAM
Swamiji's speech on 12th July 1956, in connection with the Upanayanam of Sri Venkitasubramanian and Swaminathan.
Today is the Upanayanam day of the two noble, praiseworthy brahmacharins, Sri Venkitasubrahmanian and Sri Swaminathan. I trust they will be regular in the recitation of Gayatri, the blessed mother of the Vedas, who gives bhukti and mukti, not only release or freedom from births and deaths, but also enjoyment in this life. Whatever the devotees want, the blessed mother gives. So they will have to be regular in reciting Gayatri, not only today in the presence of the priest, but at all times. Sandhyavandan, offering arghya to the sun, gives purity, removes obstacles and paves the path to blessedness. They should be regular in Sandhya and Gayatri. If not, 1008, at least 108 Gayatris they should do daily. They can do 1008 Gaytaris on Sundays. It is necessary for health, peace and success in all undertakings, for success in career or life and in passing examinations, grace of mother Gayatri is necessary.
You should be regular in Sandhya, Gayatri, study of Gita. You should practise selfless service. You should observe the vow of sadachar, right conduct, of ahimsa (non-injury), satyam (truthfulness) and brahmacharya (celibacy) in thought, word and deed. This will mould your character, and enable you to lead a life of renunciation, aspiration and meditation. Brahmacharya life is a preparation for a higher, divine life.
You are wearing yajnopavita of three threads. It means that you will have to be pure in thought, word and deed. That is the means which will lead you to God-realisation, a higher divine life where there is immortality and eternal bliss. You will be free from hunger, thirst and pain. That is the goal of life. There is one Atma which is free from hunger and thirst, pain and sorrow. You have to realise this Atman. Then alone all miseries will come to an end. You will have to attain nirvikalpa samadhi. That is the goal of your life. Therefore prepare yourself for a life of renunciation, developing all divine virtues. Amanitwam, adambitwam, ahimsa, kshanti, arjavam, abhayam (courage). A timid man will not have success to any undertaking. Be bold, truthful. Cultivate courage. Fearlessness is Brahman. Amritam, abhayam, paramo—'supreme fearless Brahman'.
Life here is a preparation for the divine life, immortal life. The phenomenal world is a means to attain the Absolute. You will learn many things here. The world is a vast university. Nature is a book. It teaches many lessons. So you should benefit from this world of relative experience and try to rest in your own satchidananda swaroopa. That is the goal of life wherein you enjoy immortal bliss and are not brought again to this mundane world of sorrow and death. You will enjoy freedom from death. You will see Atma everywhere. You will behold oneness, unity of life, unity of existence and unity of consciousness. There is only one life, one common consciousness. He who sees the reality, he who realises the Atma, goes to the world of eternal bliss and eternal sunshine and enjoys freedom from birth and death; he enjoys ever-lasting peace, perennial joy. That state you can attain only seclusion through discipline, aspiration, renunciation solitude, meditation.
You must prepare yourself for that now, and not after you have retired from service. In old age you will not be able to sit in one asana for practising meditation. Youth is the period when you have to sow the seed of spirituality, again all sorts of good samskaras, by study of Gita, Upanishads, service, discipline, and cultivation of virtues. You should not aspire to merely become a Ph.D., D.Litt. These are nothing. They are mere husk. Though they may help you in leading a little comfortable life in the world, they will not help you in attaining the Goal.
Let me remind you of the last word of the Upanishads—TATWAMASI. In essence you are not the perishable body, composed of the five elements. You are the witness of the three states. You are the witness of your mind. In reality you are satchidananda swaroopa—existence-knowledge-bliss. Everything exists. Existence is common. You are pure existence. You are pure knowledge, and pure bliss. Satchidananda is your goal. Never forget this.
Every day you have to repeat Gayatri. It will help you to open the door of intuition. It is filled with sakti-sarvasakti, ananta-sakti and achintya-sakti—all powers, infinite power and unthinkable powers. Therefore be regular in your recitation of Gayatri. The more japa you do, the more power you generate, and you are nearer to God. Daily do one thousand Gayatris. Do not waste your time. Conserve your energy. Practice obedience, reverence. Cultivate virtues. This will make you divine, and enable you to attain God-realisation. You will become a jivanmukta; not after death, but remaining here you will attain jivanmukti. May you shine as glorious yogis by cultivating virtues, by practising daily meditation and become useful citizens, beacon-lights to your family, and assets to the whole world. May Lord bless you all with health, long life, peace, bliss, prosperity and immortality.
Your mother, Sri Bhagyalakshmi, has trained you intelligently. In this modern world, people have no faith in Upanayanam ceremony, but she has faith. She is a bit orthodox. Orthodoxy is necessary for the preservation of our vedic culture. You are fortunate in having your Upanayanam performed here on the Ganges bank, beside this auspicious Viswanath Kshetra.
You should not aim at many titles, you must become yogis, bhaktas, saints, glorious personalities full of divine virtues.
Gayatri will give you insight, far sight, intuition. So be regular in your japa, kirtan, meditation, selfless service, self-analysis, study of Gita. Now you should start study of Gita and Ramayana. You should understand the way of life, the way of ideal life, the way to Illumination, how to cut your knots of avidya. You should free yourself from avidya, kama and karma (ignorance, desire and action) and become glorious jivanmuktas.
You should develop the virtues enumerated in my song of eighteen 'ities'—serenity, regularity, absence of vanity, sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. You should daily sing this song and practise these virtues. If you practise the one virtue, 'serenity', you will be established in all other virtues also. Serenity is not easy to cultivate. Adaptability is a wonderful virtue. If you cultivate it, you will be able to mix with all and be one with all. Generally people are not able to adapt. The wife is not able to adapt herself to her husband, so there is friction and rub in the house. The wife thinks that "the husband should obey me." The husband thinks, "The wife should obey whatever I say." That is not possible. So friction results. The secretary is not able to adapt himself to the minister. So he resigns. You should adapt, you should reduce your ego. If you want to drink water from a tap, you have to bend. Similarly, you have to bend, you have to crush your egoism, pulverise your ego. You should become humble. Then only you will be able to attain success both in the world and in the spiritual path. He who has no adaptability becomes a rolling stone. He moves from place to place. A rolling stone gathers no moss."
Let us do kirtan and Mahamrityunjaya japa for these glorious brahmacharins, who will become really great, religious, divine persons in the future.


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