SG Ruminations Vol 2 - Sabari Ganesh (best books to read fiction txt) 📗

அருள் தானாக சிஷ்யனை தேடி வரும். குருவின் கிருபையை அடைய, நாம் செய்ய வேண்டியது என்னவெனில், நம்மை நாமே பக்குவ படுத்தி கொள்ள வேண்டியதே.

பக்குவ பட்ட மனத்தின் வெளிபாடு தான் அடக்கம் எனும் பணிவு எனும் விநயம். நமக்கு பிடித்த ஏதாவது ஒரு தெய்வ உருவத்தை சங்கல்பித்து அதனிடம் முழுமையாக நம்மை அர்பணித்து விட வேண்டும். காரணம் அற்ற நம்பிக்கையே சரணாகதியின் வெளிப்பாடு.

SGR80

Tease and insult are two different and distinct entities. Tease bears out of love. Insult bears out of hate. Ability to differentiate between the two aptly identifies our level of intellectual acumen in reasoning. The best refute to an insult is to ignore and remain silent without reprisal or hatred.

Love and compassion are the two most powerful weapons in the hands of man which when used properly would win over hate and malice. The essential prerequisites to effectively use the weapons - Love and Compassion are detachment and selflessness.            When we are able to remain detached from the fruit of our actions, then our every action becomes worship and penance. Detachment is the key to peace of mind. Simplicity is the expression of detachment.

SGR81

ஆன்மீக பயணத்தின் ஒரு நிலையில், வெட்கம், மானம், ரோஷம் போன்ற உணர்சிகள் போய்விடத்தான் வேண்டும். சந்நியாசிக்கு நியதி ஒரு வேளை உணவு; அதிலும் உணவில் உப்பை விலக்கி அலவனமாக சாப்பிட வேண்டும். சகல விதமான உணர்சிகளை தூண்டிவிட வல்லது உப்பு மட்டுமே.

நாம் நல்ல எண்ணங்களை வளர்த்துக்கொள்ள வேண்டும். நல்லது என்றால், ஈஸ்வரன் தான் நல்லது. இவ்வுலகத்தில் தோன்றும் வேறு எதுவுமே நல்லதில்லை.

பிச்சை எடுக்க அதிகாரம் உள்ள ஒரே பிரிவு பிராமணன் மட்டுமே. காரணம் வேதம் ஓத பணிவு வேண்டும். பிச்சை எடுத்து ஜீவிக்க வேண்டும் என்ற நியதி வகுத்தது பணிவு வளர வேண்டும் என்பதற்கே.

SGR82

No one must commit suicide. It should always be avoided. Suicide is an act of extremism that has a bearing on one's past. Generally, Suicide indicates the colossal loss of hope to live and future is seemingly nullified. I see suicide as an alternate path to life. It should not be seen as an end rather a beginning.

Death is an incident wherein one just sheds the body, because there happens to be no sense in continuing one's activities through this body. I see suicide as an acceptance of the failure of the intellect in its ability to continue successfully in the present body. Though the intellect has accepted its failure, it still possesses its individuality; hence the decision on suicide.

The failure of one's intellect enables us to understand the existence of a supreme being that controls and guides us. The decision on suicide when made, should in fact free the mind, making it calm and composed. The decision on suicide is highly individualistic.

If the decision to suicide is made; then one should look at the future and never the past. Suicide is a voluntary and forceful act of trans-locating ourselves from an undesired past and present to a future of hope and success. Understanding and dwelling in this idea would make us suicide with a positive mind intently fixed on prayers and surrender.

If suicide has been decided as the only option available, then prudence is in executing it with a positive mind, full of hope and prayers on the almighty. Suicide when occurs with a mind full of prayers on almighty, would secure a better life that befits our desires and also elevates us spiritually. The latter part is the point of focus and is most important.

We could relate it to an incident in the epic Mahabharatha. The story of the princess of Kashi, Ms.Amba. She missed to be elevated spiritually. Fate put her in a fix, wherein she can't return to her dad, her lover would not accept her and she cannot marry the prince for whom she was abducted.

She could have spent the entire life-span as 'Amba' in prayers and penance, taking it as the divine will; or she could have committed suicide with mind totally surrendered and fixed intently on the supreme self. In which case, her forthcoming birth could have been in such a manner that satiate her desires and also elevate her spiritually. But her sense of performance made her commit suicide with anger and vengeance over Bheeshm only to be reborn as Shikandi.

The mind of Shikandi was never happy. It was always burning with rage and hatred. Peace was lost in its totality. Bheeshm who knew the history and focus of Shikandi, was in total peace, even when hit by the arrows of Arjuna shielded by Shikandi, and also during shedding his body at the dawn of Uttaraayana. Bheeshm was able to be in peace as he understood that his valour and ability can in no way prevent or change the destined future.

SGR83

Eternal peace can be achieved only when we shed our sense of performance. The moment we shed our sense of performance, the sense of possession also is shed automatically. The sense of performance and possession are the two binding ropes that pull us away from eternal peace.

The moment we shed the sense of performance and possession, we gain ability to witness the inherent impermanency of nature. Experiencing the inherent impermanency of nature, we begin to travel inwards. This is when we begin to become self-centralised in the spiritual sense.

When we gain stability in self-centralising us in the spiritual plane, we stop reacting. we just act, irrespective of external stimuli. When actions are performed with detachment on the results of it; when we stop reacting to the fruit of our so called actions, karma begins to diminish. When karma gets exhausted, awareness lights up. The route to eternal peace.

SGR84

The psychological evolution of a person is marked by one's ability to perceive and comprehend the subtle aspects of life.

A hundred relatives here, a hundred relatives there; relatives ..relatives everywhere.

Smile at one's birth, cry at one's death, laugh, fight, petty feelings over silly matters.

so very similar.

At the end of the show, that alone which remain is eternal truth. Truth is only one. Adwaitham.

SGR85

Spiritual upliftment is characterised by the person being bigger than the professional that one is. The professional engulfs the person in us, when we run after money, authority and false pride. In the eternal war between the person and the professional in every human being, the victor decides the nature of the concerned.

The issue is whether we win over the situation or become a prey to it, decides our nature then. When the professional engulfs the person in us, we limit ourselves to a very small circle of pretence and deceit. When the person engulfs the professional in us, we begin to see and feel our fellowmen and their sentiments as our own.

This is when our selfishness begin to wane and we tend to become expansive with empathy and respect. The most difficult and tricky examination in life is the precise evaluation of the real worth of a person. We succeed in assessing the real worth of a person, only when we become expansive with selflessness and empathy.

The inference is that, every human being is basically good. Spiritual upliftment is our ability to look beneath the facade of pretence and deceit at the real person that one is.

SGR86