Me, My guru – working of Karma noted in a real life situation!

 

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Me, My guru – working of Karma noted in a real life situation!

Points to understand the post:

"We thought she would quote Rama, Krishna and we would counter that.

We had our argument against forgiveness and yet she didn’t go there. We were prepared to attack those and such explanations but here she was talking something completely different from what we expected." See here – the students are already having reasons to forgive the wrongdoer. They also had been explained how karma works based on Itihaasa (History of Vedic culture). And they had come prepared to counter all that if told. It means students don’t ask questions to which they don’t have answers – many times. They know the answers. They want validation for their venting and emotions. They come to sell their line of thinking to the Guru. No doubt, they go back angry when Guru doesn’t buy their ‘reasons’.

Ask yourself “Why do I ask questions? What is it that I am seeking?” be honest in your effort in seeking answers. Don’t fool yourself.

Your honesty will open the doors of heaven for you!

Your honesty will make you courageous.

Your honesty will make you fearless.

Your honesty will release you from your bondage and karma!

 

Let’s understand this with some exercise.

I’ll give one real-life example at a time.

I want you people to see how this example applies to your life situations.

In what way does this example help you to understand how the lives of those around you in impacted by this “law of karma”. Not every time we’ll be able to see it happen in our life. It is too personal for us to note that. But, in the joy of finding pain and seeking revenge for others, we notice these things happening in others' lives.

Share your stories – real life ones to validate the ‘law of karma’. How you have seen this law operate in and around your life.

When the number of stories is good enough to run home this point, I’ll share one more example – a real-life one – and then the exercise will continue. This way let’s learn it as we read about these cases.

If I don't receive feedback - enough of it from your end, then this topic will not be discussed further......

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# Me My guru series, karma, everything happens for a reason, as you sow so you reap, on receiving and giving, good and bad deeds, the effect of our actions and deeds,

also read suggested https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2020/08/few-faqs-with-guru.html 

any questions or doubts?

On Shivarathri

 

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On Shivarathri

And being “Awake” the whole night just doesn’t apply to one single night. It applies to every period of ignorance that is equated with night. We are asleep to our “real nature”. We are ignorant of our soul consciousness. We are bound to this body which is not us! All this is the night that is responsible for our sleep – meaning ignorance. We go around in this life as if we are ‘sleepwalking’. So, this festival reminds us of our sleepwalking state of existence. It is asking us to wake up to our consciousness. It is giving us a call to wake up! So, nighttime, as much as you can be awake be, but in sadhan. If you can’t sit for long, then just do pranayama or meditation for as much as you can and then go to sleep. If possible, wake up early and then do some meditation and go to sleep if you can’t be awake for long.

Those of you who can’t do any Pooja or any other ritual at home and yet wish to be part of this celebration, just meditate and do pranayama. Do it as long as you can. You can do it for ½ an hour, take a break and then do the same. Continue to do so throughout the day and the night. This is best on all accounts. This gives the best results.

Each unto his own!

Pick the sadhan that is closest to your heart and convenience and be with it.

Things will fall in place as the years roll on!

Concluded...

# shivarathri, fasting, rituals of India, Vedic philosophy and culture of India, 

Just visit old posts to recollect that which is already told, experienced, or observed  

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On Shivarathri

 

On Shivarathri

 

For the list of sadhan that one can do during shivarathri https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2023/02/on-shivarathri.html 

Now, why we do Shivarathri is known to most of you through various discourses that you hear/heard or you must have read somewhere. So, let’s let it slide…

Reasons through Puranic stories are of course interesting. But, many times, the real purpose is lost in blindly following the stories or the rituals.

We are asked to fast and be awake the whole night. Many do it sincerely. They don’t eat anything or eat at their convenience and then are awake by watching some devotional movies on the TV or cinema.

Few of you would want to fast as per your regular way. Good for you.

Others may want to do but can't for various medical reasons or health conditions be it acidity or any other one.

For those who want to and yet can't go the "full fasting way" - relax, there is a middle path!

Pick easily digestible food like sabudana khichdi, idli, fruits, and juices - something that is preferably steamed and with as good as no oil. Don't take any meat, masala items or fried items. Eat a little less than usual. The trick is to keep your system light so that you can observe all the energies that come with your sadhan completely. If your body's energies go to digesting your food, then you will not be able to do sadhan the right way. That actually is the reason for fasting. So, now you can do the needful keeping in mind the reason. 

Fasting in any of these forms will detoxify your body which is also a primary benefit of fasting. 

“Upavasamu” means “to sit near” – upa – near and vasamu – is to sit. Then what does upavasamu mean? It means to sit near “Guru” who will give you knowledge that can dispel the darkness within called ignorance and take us from death to immortality.

So, depending on the “festival and its Deity form”, upavasamu would mean “be or sit near the Vishnu/Shiva/Mother Goddess” and so on.

So, the whole day we need to be sitting near “Shiva”.

What does that mean?

Do we have to go to some Shiva temple?

No! it just means we have to be with “Shiva consciousness” the whole day!

And that happens easily and effortlessly when we are in Pooja or some ritual singing and talking of HIM or His grace! And so, we end up doing every Pooja that we consider special for HIM.

For those who don’t or can’t do Pooja, just be with sadhan. Nothing can equate to that!

And the list of sadhan is already given at the start of this post.

Throughout the day, be with some sadhan as much as you can. That way you benefit more today as the energies today will magnify your sadhan and thereby you benefit more than on ordinary days with the same sadhan!

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# shivarathri, fasting, rituals of India, Vedic philosophy and culture of India, 

Just visit old posts to recollect that which is already told, experienced, or observed https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=shivarathri 

Bommala kovulu

 

Bommala kovulu

My film making skills are not that good as you can see...bear with it...

just wanted to share Dassera with you all...

Happy Dassera and may right win over evil.

May we procure artha, kama based on dharma....

May the devil within be overcome by the Divine within..

May we choose right over pleasant.

May we bring meaning to our lives.

May this Dassera bring us closer to ourselves....

# A land and culture called India,Rituals and Traditions of vedic culture,All religions lead to same goal,Upanishads,dassera,

On religion and peace!

On religion and peace!

More wars are fought in the name of religion than anything else.....religion is for peace and to develop divine qualities in us and if it does not do it, does it matter which religion I follow?

Think about it!

also reads : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=vedic+culture

Bhagavatam – Krishna answers King Dhritarashtra

Bhagavatam – Krishna answers King Dhritarashtra

After the Kurukshetra war (the war which was fought between cousins of Kuru Dynastry – Pandavas and Kauravas, a war between ‘the right and the wrong’ at the end of Dwapara yuga) , King Dhritrarashtra, father of 100 sons called ‘kauravas’ grieved the death of his sons. When Lord Krishna went to console him, he having seen the ‘vishwaroopa’ of Lord Krishna in an earlier instance knew him to be the one who could know the past and future, the cause and the effect of events asked  Krishna, “I had hundred  sons and all of them were killed in the war. Why? You say it is one’s karma that one experiences what one does in life – both good and bad. Then tell me, what was the cause of my grief of having lost 100 sons?”

Krishna replied, “Fifty lifetimes ago, you were a hunter. While hunting, you tried to shoot a male bird, but it flew away. In anger, you ruthlessly slaughtered the hundred baby birds that were there in the nest. The father-bird had to watch in helpless agony. Because you caused that father-bird the pain of seeing the death of his hundreds sons, you too had to bear the pain of your hundred sons dying.

Dhritarastra said, "Ok, but why did I have to wait for fifty lifetimes?" 

Krishna answered, "You were accumulating punya (pious credits) during the last fifty lifetimes to get a hundred sons because that requires a lot of punya. Then you got the reaction for the papa (sin) that you have done fifty lifetimes ago."

“But this is wrong!” cried Dhritarashtra.

“No. this is justice and Law of Karma” replied Krishna.

This is a very small anecdote from Mahabharata from Mahabharata – one of the epics of Vedic Culture. Now, what does this tell us?

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related topics : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=law+of+karma

On cow’s milk

On cow’s milk

Drinking cow’s milk – is it good or bad? Is it right or wrong?

It is established fact that the next and only best thing after mother’s milk is ‘cow’s milk’ to the child. It is the safest and only ‘food’ right for both the children, the old and those whose constitution doesn’t support normal diet due to health complications.

Can the ‘safest’ food be ‘wrong’?

As per vedic culture, it is one food item that can be used for any sort of religious practice. It is enough as ‘prasadam’ – the food offered to the God after the religious practices of prayer, best to do ‘Abhishekem’ – a type of washing or cleansing idols as per vedic culture and tradition, used along with rice and clarified butter as ‘ahuti’ – an offering made to the fire God during various forms of pooja or homam.

Let’s keep religion aside for time being. Let’s look at simple facts only. It is again and again established that ‘yogurt’ made from milk is ‘probiotic’ and helps fight the infections and good for our immune system. Of all types milk cow milk had been found to be the best.

Ghee – is the by-product of butter and known to be the best form of fat and is required by the body. It gives ‘good cholestrol’. Cow-dung, clarified butter/ghee offered as an offering to fire daily just twice is known to do away with air  pollution.

Read Link on homam https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=gajanand+maharaj

Manure made with cow dung, ghee, milk and its urine when sprinkled in the fields is the best manure to the earth and such fields have given excellent yields. These are organic ways of raising crops, age old traditional way of farming in India that maintains the quality of soil and is eco-friendly. All our practices had been eco-friendly all these centuries, until of course we were swept by the flood of  ‘assumed culture and intelligence of the western world’ that brought the down fall of our character, practices and we are now bearing the brunt of such wrong beliefs and practices imbibed from the cultured ‘west’.

Now, why should we go through these benefits and facts about other products that we receive from cow if our simple doubt is ‘is drinking cow’s milk good or bad?’

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there are other sites too on this topic that you can choose to visit are....

Guru poornima or Buddha poornima

On Guru Pournami

This is a very special day for people following Vedic culture, Buddhism and Jainism and hence this special day is celebrated both in India and Nepal in a very special way – called as ‘Guru Poornima’.

When it is celebrated : The festival is celebrated on the full moon day (Purnima) in the Hindu month of Ashadha (June–July) of the Shaka Samvat, as it is known in the Hindu calendar of India and Nepal. This day marks the first peak of the lunar cycle after the peak of the solar cycle. And this year it falls today!

Significance : This was the day when Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa – author of the Mahabharata – was born to sage Parashara and a fisherman's daughter Satyavati; thus this day is also celebrated as Vyasa Purnima. Veda Vyasa did yeoman service to the cause of Vedic studies by gathering all the Vedic hymns extant during his times, dividing them into four parts based on their use in the sacrificial rites, and teaching them to his four chief disciples – Paila, Vaisampayana, Jaimini and Sumantu. It was this dividing and editing that earned him the honorific "Vyasa" (vyas = to edit, to divide). "He divided the Holy Veda into four, namely Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva. The histories and the Puranas are said to be the fifth Veda." The seat of Guru is hence called as ‘Vyasa Peetam’ meaning ‘the seat of Vyasa’. It is believed that the ‘Guru’ is in the same lineage as ‘Guru Vyasa’ when he takes the seat of the Guru.

As per Hindu Mythology :

This is the day when Lord Shiva shared his knowledge with the ‘Saptarishis’ the Seven Rishis (Seers) and thus became the ‘Adiguru’ or the ‘First Guru’. This happened on the banks of the lake Kantisarovar, which stands a few kilometers above the Kedarnath Temple in the Himalayas. These Rishis then took the mantle of spreading the knowledge in the entire world.

As per Buddhism and Jainism : 

This is the day when in Sarnath, the great Gautama Buddha first gave his discourse to his ‘first five disciples’ after his enlightenment. 

And this is the day when Mahavira after attaining Kaivalya, made Indrabhuti Gautam, later known as Gautam Swami, a Ganadhara, his first disciple, thus becoming a Guru himself.

Thus, as per any culture or folklore, it is observed that this is the day when the ‘Guru’ initiated his ‘first students’ into his fold of knowledge.

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Beautiful song from the classic film 'Baiju bawra' hero Pradeep kumar's one of the classic movies....expresses beautifully the role of guru and his love for his student.........

No Snowflake ever falls at the wrong place!

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Sun God knew that being an asura and with such powerful boon Dambhodbhava was bound to cause havoc but with no other alternative, he fulfilled Dambhodbhava’s wish. Drunk with power as feared by Sun God Dambhodbhava caused terror in the world, devastating all that were good and pious.

 Lord Vishnu

 

Daksha Prajapathi’s one the daughter Murti wanted to put an end to this asura’s atrocities and did severe penance to please Lord Vishnu. When Lord Vishnu came to fulfill her wish she asked for the power to be given to vanquish the asura. Lord replied “I can’t directly grant you that wish and my desire too is the same and hence will be born as your twin sons – Nara and Narayana who will vanquish that Asura and you thus will be instrumental in ending his life”. She accepted pleased with the boon. She was blessed with Nara and Narayana who were two but were one soul in two bodies. 

 

So Narayana went into forest to do intense tapas when Nara went to fight Dambhodbhava. 

 

Dambhodbhava laughed at young youth who was just a human being who had come to challenge him. But he couldn’t not accept Nara’s challenge for a duel and found that Narayana’s tapas shakthi (power of penance) was indeed being transferred to Nara and hence he even succeeded in breaking his armour. And as per the boon he fell dead immediately. Asura laughed to his heart’s content but was very soon surprised to see Nara running towards him. It took sometime to realize that it was not Nara but Narayana that Nara was talking about who was running towards him. He ridiculed Narayana for having a brother so stupid who wanted to die to break just one of his armour. Narayana simply sat beside him and revived him with his mantra shakthi and Nara went into penance and Narayana continued fight with Dambhodbhava who was also called as Sahasrakavacha (man with 1000 armours). This continued fill both brothers alternatively broke 999 armour.

 

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NOTE : Those who can read Tamil (language) please go through "http://ganesasundaram.blogspot.in" where

 a. Shiva Sthalas address and name of the temple along with where it is is given. 

a.     Each nakshatra person need to chant a nakshatra shloka to heal his planetary positions as per vedic culture...the same is given in this blog......those interested can go through this blog  (non-tamils please don't ask me to translate or do anything of such sort....)