Dhirendra playing Holly with friends-1
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Peace and harmony in daily living (1 of 2)
Good morning friends. It’s natural that we encounter hardship in life. The important thing is we should have peace and harmony in our daily living.
There have been moments in almost everyone’s day-to-day living when one has experienced the true joy of living, with calm, peace and tranquility.
What has usually disturbed these moments are memories of guilt and shame, carried by the ego and which resurfaces every now and then, causing discomfort. These feelings could be because of one’s own (mis) deeds or another’s.
What if you can be totally convinced that no action is anyone’s doing, that all action was merely a happening that simply had to happen?
This is what spiritual seeking is all about. Masters may talk about enlightenment or Self-realization, but what it means is to be able to experience the peace and tranquility that the sage enjoys in his day-to-day life.
A sage is considered a sage because he seems to be anchored in peace and tranquility while facing the pains and pleasures of day-to-day living in his chosen field of activity, like any other rdinary person.
'Self-realization’, to the sage, simply means the realization – the absolute, total conviction – that ‘events happen, deeds are done, but there is no individual doer thereof,” as Buddha put it. Both the sage and the ordinary person respond to their respective names being called.
In both cases, therefore, there is identification with body and name as an individual entity separate from all others. The difference is that whereas the sage knows that “events happen, deeds are done, but there is no individual doer thereof,” the ordinary person has the conviction that each individual performs his action and is responsible for it.
Every action is happening according to a Cosmic Law and not because of something ‘done’ by an individual human being. If this is accepted, it also has to be accepted that no one can blame anyone for whatever happens through any body-mind organism. Therefore, he need not blame himself for any action, need not feel guilt or shame for any action; he need not also hate anyone for whatever might hurt him in life.
Peace and harmony in daily living (2 of 2)
The result is that anyone who is able to have this acceptance in his day-to-day living would carry no burden of guilt or shame, nor any burden of hatred and malice, jealousy and envy. In other words, the result is that he is anchored in peace and harmony: he is continuously comfortable with himself and also comfortable with others.
Perceiving in phenomenology is an impersonal, nominal function of the manifestation of the phenomenal universe. Such perceiving is pure perceiving because there is nothing seen, and there is nothing that perceives. We are nothing but illusory dream-figures. All phenomenal existence itself is merely an appearance in Consciousness, and all the characteristics of sentient beings – the form, the perceiving, the knowing, and the feeling – are also nothing but movements in Consciousness as in the dream.
The dream that is the phenomenal manifestation occurs in Consciousness. It is perceived and cognized in Consciousness and is interpreted by Consciousness through the duality that is the basis for all phenomenal manifestation: the subject-object relationship. This duality of subject-object relationship is merely the mechanism or the instrumentation (like space-time itself) through which the manifestation occurs – and is, of course, a concept – with the result that the perceived can be nothing other than the perceiver.
Consciousness is all there is: the subject and the object, inseparably united when unconceived and unmanifested, only appear as dual and separate when conceived in the phenomenal manifestation. – The Times of India
Excerpt from Ramesh S Baklsekar’s ‘Peace and Harmony in Daily Living’.
Monday, February 22, 2010
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Now, liquor permit on arrival at Ahmedabad airport
Good morning friends. Now, tourists coming to Gujarat can say ‘bottoms up’ to this! The state government in its bid to make flow of liquor easier for visitors has started issuing permits at the Ahmedabad airport itself.According to Gujarat tourism department officials, the process of issuing the permits will start from Tuesday from the department’s counter at the airport. Any visitor coming to the city can approach the counter at the domestic arrival terminal and seek the permit.
“We have taken the initiative to ensure liquor is not an impediment in the growth of tourism sector in the state,” Gujarat tourism secretary Vipul Mitra told TOI. This is another step from the forward-looking government to simplify the process of obtaining liquor for visitors, he added.
The permits to buy and consume liquor are issued from various places in Gujarat, including hotels, that have the permission to sell it. The process of obtaining the permit would be the same at the airport. “The visitor will need to show his residence proof, signifying that he lives outside the state and pay nominal charges to obtain the permit,” an official said. Information about the location of liquor shops would also be provided with the permit.
In addition, issuing of liquor permits will start at international arrival terminal quite soon, say tourism department officials. What’s more, though the unprecedented step has started in Ahmedabad airport, it could be replicated across the state. So, other airports in the state too would have similar facilities to issue liquor permits, officials added. – The Times of India
“We have taken the initiative to ensure liquor is not an impediment in the growth of tourism sector in the state,” Gujarat tourism secretary Vipul Mitra told TOI. This is another step from the forward-looking government to simplify the process of obtaining liquor for visitors, he added.
The permits to buy and consume liquor are issued from various places in Gujarat, including hotels, that have the permission to sell it. The process of obtaining the permit would be the same at the airport. “The visitor will need to show his residence proof, signifying that he lives outside the state and pay nominal charges to obtain the permit,” an official said. Information about the location of liquor shops would also be provided with the permit.
In addition, issuing of liquor permits will start at international arrival terminal quite soon, say tourism department officials. What’s more, though the unprecedented step has started in Ahmedabad airport, it could be replicated across the state. So, other airports in the state too would have similar facilities to issue liquor permits, officials added. – The Times of India
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Hara Rama Hara Rama-Dhun by Dharmendu Patel
Hara Rama Hara Rama-Dhun by Dharmendu Patel
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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