Vedantham : ( 07/11/2012. )

The one way to end the shadow in front of us is to turn our gaze towards the Light within. If we cannot all of a sudden do so, let us then do the easier act of Self-Surrender. The taller we are, the longer shall be our shadow. Bend double, the shadow is half. Sit down, the shadow is still smaller. "Fall flat at His feet in love and Surrender," and the shadow is no more. End the shadow in us, this ego, by surrendering unto "HIM," the Atma, the Self in us. Detach the false ego from the true Self. Detach the mind from the memories and hopes. Cleanse your bosom of all desires. Desirelessness is the State of Perfection.. Egolessness is the State of "GOD-HOOD." Attain this Supreme Goal of Life through "KNOWLEDGE and RIGHT LOVING." END. 

All yogas aim at the extinction of the ego-sense in the seeker. When the sense of Jeevatma-hood ends, the sense of God-hood begins. 1. "Recognise! Re-see! Let us come to remember our own Real Nature." 2. Let us stop dreaming with such ideas as "I am poor,"  "I am a mortal,"  "I am rich," "I am wise" etc. Next : The one way to end the shadow in front of us ! : Continues...

Thus by continuously surrendering to His Will  and living as His Instrument we come to forget the false ego in us.  When once the ego  ( the man ) has ended its career, what remains is the intimate personal experience of the divinity in us. Fall flat at His Feet in love and surrender. When the ego-sense is thus offered at His Feet, the mortal limitations end. And the  Bhakta (devotee ) who has done thus a full and complete  Atma-Arpanam ( self-surrender ) becomes the Lord. Next : Yogas aim : Continues...   

But this is not so readily possible unless we have a strong faith in the understanding that Lord is the real conductor and the accomplisher. We are actors in his drama. We are His servants executing His will in the fulfilment of His plans. The 'fruits' are His, and ours, only action. And the more we get aligned with Him, the more shall our actions be in line with His will, and thereby we shall be fulfilling His plans more effectively.   Next : Self Surrender- Continues...

On the other hand, another agent under the same circumstances proves successful for, he is intelligent enough to reject the anxieties for the fruits and not to indulge in futile dreams over them, and acts with ease and poise.  He is jovial and almost cheeky with the business magnate who is attracted and charmed by the young man's dash and smartness. The bargain is struck with hearty hand-shakes and pleasant smiles. If renunciation of attachment to fruits is a guarantee for sure success  in the market-place bargaining, how much more so it must be in all the nobler and great fields of man's social and national activities?  Rejecting the fruits act : Let us not waste our faculties and potentialities in worrying over the unborn future. Act on, Act on, in the living present. Next : Strong faith : Continues.....

Saturday, Oct 05, 2013. Vedantham : This theory in application : Let us examine this theory in application and see if it can be practical:- Suppose we have an agent who has an appointment with an industrial magnate to strike a business deal for crores of rupees, and whereby he stands to gain a substantial commission.  If the day before the appointment, the poor agent allows himself to be hypnotised by his own expectations, if he dreams of the amounts he should be getting, the ways in which he would spend the income in purchasing a house, in marrying the girl of his choice, in living happily ...etc..  ...he would  be indeed a great loser. For, on the appointed day, at the appointed hour, when the agent enters the drawing room of the business magnate, his mental faculties-alertness, cheerfulness, clarity and poise-which are so essential in the make-up of a successful agent, would all be totally dried up in him.  He has by then imagined himself to be already