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Year - 25 Issue 4
Cover Page
The cover page of the Oct 2019 issue of Vedanta Sandesh is one of the
most beautiful bird of India - the Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus).
It is also known as Impeyan pheasant, and is a bird in the pheasant family,
Phasianidae. It is the state bird of Uttarakhand, India. It is also the national
bird of Nepal, where it is known as the Danphe.
It is a relatively large-sized pheasant. The adult male has multicoloured
plumage throughout, while the female, as in other pheasants, is more subdued
in colour. Notable features in the male include a long, metallic green crest,
coppery feathers on the back and neck, and a prominent white rump that
is most visible when the bird is in flight. The tail feathers of the male are
uniformly rufous, becoming darker towards the tips, whereas the lower tail
coverts of females are white, barred with black and red. The female has a
prominent white patch on the throat and a white strip on the tail. Monal is
found in the higher reaches of the Himalayas. This photo has been taken
from our Bird Groups in Facebook and commend the photographer for this
amazing pic.
These amazing fauna help us see & feel the existence of their awesome
creator everywhere. Om Namah Shivaya.
Om Tat Sat
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CONTENTS Vedanta Sandesh
Oct 2019
1. Shloka 5
4. Letter 13-14
7. Jivanmukta 25-27
11. Links 42
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Monthly eMagazine of the International Vedanta Mission
Oct 2019 : Year 25 / Issue 4
Published by
International Vedanta Mission
Vedanta Ashram, E/2948, Sudama Nagar,
Indore-452009 (M.P.) India
http://www.vmission.org.in / vmission@gmail.com
Editor:
Swamini
Samatananda
Saraswati
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wise one, remains ever unconcerned with anything or he may
move about like the wind, perfectly unattached.
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Message
from
Poojya Guruji
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Beauty of man as compared to all the other beings is only in his
potential intelligence. It is with this alone we can thereafter understand
everything else in a much better way, and also be good, efficient and con-
scentious people of the society. There is an old saying that ‘Vidya Dadati
Vinayam’ meaning truly knowledgable people are very humble, thoughtful
and caring. By proper intelligence we can see the truth of everything and
moreso about our own Self. The great Vedic masters discovered that the
truth of every person is the timeless truth of the whole world. That which
helps us to wake up to this fact alone is true education.
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Sadhana
Panchakam
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Sadhana Panchakam
S angati : In this beautiful text of Sadha-
na Panchakam Shankaracharyaji speaks of a journey that begins
from being introduced to the Vedas to realizing the ultimate truth
of the Self. He guides us into this divine journey through 40
steps. These 40 steps are the different sadhanas a sadhaka has to
practise in a manner that one sadhana prepares him for the next
one, helping him evolve spiritually, slowly and steadily. Although
the knowledge of the self as being Brahman is just like lighting
a lamp which is only a matter of realization, but this realization
must precede a practice of a number of sadhanas which actually
prepare our mind and intellect for this phase of knowledge and
realization. Hence the need for this journey.
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Make every action be worship of God
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Sadhana Panchakam
Worship God, and not only worship God in a temple, but
worship God with all those actions prescribed by the Vedas. With
this suggestion here the Acharya is expanding our vision of Puja.
Generally puja is always associated with performing a ritual in
a temple outside or at home. But here the Acharya is expanding
the whole practise of worship spreading it out from our temple
to all the actions that we perform in every moment of our life.
This implies that worship is not just a physical activity but it is an
attitude that must be inculcated in every action that we perform.
It is an attitude which Bhagwan Krishna speaks of in the Gita
as Yagya Bhava. Once this attitude of worship is practised and
inculcated in everything that we do, then every action becomes a
yagya, a pooja. Such is the magnanamous beauty of this attitude.
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Sadhana Panchakam
He is the director of our lives. He has given us this life, an incli-
nation, and various situations as well. One must feel privileged to
make every action as a puja, as we are the chosen ones for what-
ever plan God has given us.
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Mail from
Poojya Guruji
Recently I had a visitor, a smart & highly educated young man who
One of his worries was how the AI is slowly overtaking our various
systems and processes, which may possibily make even the jobs of
gave the example of Cambridge Analytica and how data mining and
Well, we all need to salute the power of human intelligence and see
that it alone has created the AI systems. There are always good
& bad uses of any technology, but just because few people some-
where have been found to use some technology for their own petty
is the proper use of all tech. Like the nuclear tech it can be used
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for the betterment of world and can also become a terrible disas-
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ter when it is in the hands of petty people.
the most of the people of the world are too conditioned and thus
a potential tool to make our lives more efficient & better. It can
manage all in the most intelligent ways. Those who are not intelli-
gent are anyway managed by some people somewhere, and all these
will manage this very AI. So the crux of the issue is to invoke our
Best Wishes.
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Gita Reflections
(Gita 17/14)
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The Threefold Reverance
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Swamini Samatananda
Saatvik people worship the Gods, Rajasik (people) the yakshas and rakshasa,
others tamasik people worship ghosts and bhutaganas.
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Gita Reflections
A Man’s life is driven by his faith or his Shraddha.
As is his Shraddha so is the Man. This is what Bhagwan Sri Kr-
ishna says in the Seventeenth chapter of the Gita. Shraddha can
be defined as that what I consider to be right in my belief and
understanding. A person’s Shraddha can be understood by the
motivations and attitude with which a person performs any kind
of activities or sadhanas. As is the Sraddha so are his inclinations
and so are his priorities. Thus faith is a very important criteria
when we need to inderstand our own mind set or the mind set of
another person. In worldly language we judge someone as ‘good
or bad’ or ‘right or wrong’, but in the language of the Gita the pa-
rameters of understanding a person’s mind set is based upon his
Faith, as Bhagwan in the Seventeen Chapter calls it the ‘Shrad-
dha’ of a person. Such is the significance of this criteria of faith
that an entire Seveteenth chapter of the Gita has been dedicated
to this subject. It is the Shraddha of a person that gives direction
to his life. But this Shraddha is not a general term, Shraddha is
categorized on the basis of the three gunas that is Sattvik, Ra-
jasik and Tamasik Shraddha. In the Seventeenth chapter Sri Kr-
ishna the Lord goes on to reveal different ways and means as to
how one can understand the Shraddha of a person, wheather it is
Sattvik, Rajasik or Tamasik. A person’s goals, his aspirations, his
lifestyle, role model, food habits, all such aspects of life reveal the
Shraddha of a person.
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Gita Reflections
In this sloka Bhagwan reveals one of the most important means
to recognise a person’s Shraddha which is by knowing who is
reverential for a particular person. Who is his diety of worship.
Whom does he look up to for his strength in various situations,
his values, his knowledge, and his inspiration. Who so ever is a
person’s diety of worship, reflects in his Shraddha as being Sat-
tvik, Rajasik or Tamasik.
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that they may appear to be great devotees of Ishvara and will be
visiting temples regularly. They will be offering pujas regularly,
and also doing great tapas but the motivation behind everything
is that they wish to be blessed by material gain in return. Unfor-
tunately their relationship with God is also like a business trans-
action. They will make huge offerings to the Lord only to assure
their happiness and security in return. This is Rajasik Shradha.
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The Art Of Man Making
The Logic of Self-Control
P.P. Gurudev
Swami Chinmayanandaji
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The Art of Man Making
I n every religeon the prophets and seers
and men of wisdom seem to have a unanimous conformity
when they proclaim the need for sense-control in the seeker. In
this age of permissiveness, our youth revolts against this, very
openly and vociferously, and every generation must have felt
this curb as an infringement upon their freedom and liberty.
True. These urges were always with us. Nature gave them to
us. But to conquer and rise above them is to advance to the next
stage of our evolution. The fishes were (and are) swimming in
water, but the evolver fish decided to adventure forth and try
to come out. It became the amphibian, and in its further evo-
lutionary stages, the bird and the mammal. This is the story
of our evolution. If your arguments be true, the adventurous
progenitor of us all, that heroic fish, must have been a fool! No.
These arguments to be heard, and seriously to be considered,
they must have more pith and greater depth.
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The Art of Man Making
Self-control is not practised to kill the indviduality in us, but to
add to its tempo in performance, to its daring in vision, and to
its brilliance in achievement. The energies dissipated through
the senses are conserved in the man of self-control and are
channelised into creative fields of nobler undertakings. His
memory and judgement improve, his powers of willing and de-
ciding are expanded, and his dynamism in the field of activity
is hieghtened.
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The Art of Man Making
through our sense-organs; the eyes see forms and colours; the
tongue tastes, and the skin feels, touches and sensations.
But we also notice that the sense organs cannot register per-
ceptions of their respective objects unless the mind is acting
behind them. For example when your mind is immersed in
study or in work, you may not hear....feel heat or cold... nor
see someone passing by. Or when you are asleep, there is no
perception of objects due to the non-availability of the mind.
So the mind functioning through the sense-organs percieves
sense-objects. At present we have no control over the outgoing
mind and in this extrovertedness we live to exhaust ourselves
in a life of mere sense-grabbing.
Now Krishna says *When man can like a toroise that with-
draws all its limbs, totally withdraw the senses from their ob-
jects, then he is a man of steady wisdom. The example is very
vivid and expressive. A tortoise on its slow move, brings out
its head, its four limbs and tail so long as it feels it is in a safe
place. But when it feels even a suspicion of danger, it immedi-
ately withdraws them into the shelter of its shell-fortress, with
perfect ease and spontaneity.
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The Art of Man Making
They play in the field of sense-objects and at the slightest ap-
prehension of temptation, he can, at will, easily withdraw the
mind and the senses from their objects. Ths ease is not with us
now, so we fall a prey to their enchantments and lengthening
tragedies.
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Jivanmukta
Wandering In
Himalayas
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Trilokinath
Swami Tapovanji
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Jivanmukta
R amapura is a beautiful little town or an
overgrown village. It is the seat of the Raja of Vishire, a small
Himalayan State, as welt as its capital. After travelling two or three
days from Kullu, one has to cross a mountain covered with formi-
dable forests for at least ten miles. In the chill of the early dawn I
entered the forest at a leisurely pace. The tall trees that grew dense
in the region were covered with a luxuriant growth of climbers and
creepers. The whole place was dark and grand, ringing with the
shriU sound of cicalas. The forest did not frighten me ; it filled me
only with a sense of pleasant wonder. A well trained and controlled
mind stands a man in good stead better than armies. It saves him
from cowardice as well as perils. My mind was well disciplined and
fortified by meditation on God, and by the exhilarating enjoyment
of Nature. So it was free from all pranks and caprices. On reaching
the top of the mountain I rested there for a while and entered into
a state of samadhi in the midst of such natural, Divine loveliness
Bears and such fierce wild beasts might have been prowling about
the place, but 1 never met them. As I made my way down the moun-
tain, I came across several villages. Travelling thus for five or six
days I arrived at Ramapura safely. I spent two or three days there
pleasantly, drinking the holy water of the Satadru (Satlej) which
flows out of Lake Manasa, bathing in the sacred river and worship-
ping at various shrines A beautiful Buddhist temple in which a light
was kept perpetually burning, attracted my attention. Attached to
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and worshipped Lord Buddha A Buddhist lama who was the head
of the library, accorded me a friendly welcome and showed me
a number of rare books We discussed many things about Bud-
dhism From Ramapuram a good road leads up to Tibet along the
bank of the Satlcj and so traders with their merchandise, often
travel this way from the plains of Hindustan.
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STORY
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Bhima Shankar
L ocated in the Ghat Region of Sahyadri
Hills near the head of the Bhima River that merged with River
Krishna too, Bhima Shankara Jyotir Linga was stated to have
materialised on its own as Maha Deva killed Demon Bhima the
son of Kumbhakarna, the brother of Ravanasura. Demon Bhi-
ma wished to avenge the killings of his father and King Rava-
na by Shri Rama and secured the boon of invincibility against
Devas and other Beings from Brahma by the dint of extreme
penance. Besides dislodging Indra and Devas from their Seats
of Power, the Demon Bhima provoked Maha Deva as the De-
mon tormented his devotee a staunch Shiva Bhakta named
King Kamarupeshwara insisting that instead of worshipping
Shiva the Demoon should worship him instead. As the Demon
was about to destroy the Shiva Linga worshipped by the King,
Mahadeva appeared and sliced the demon’s head and the sweat
from Shiva’s forehead while killing the demon turned into a
water flow since called Bhima River. The Jyotir Linga manifest-
ed as a powerful representation of ‘Ardha Nareeswara’ bestow-
ing proof of fulfilment of devotees who throng the Temple in
large crowds especially on Mondays and Shiva Ratris. As in re-
spect of Ujjain, the Swayambhu Linga here too is set at a level
lower than the normal Ground. The Bhima Shankar Temple is
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also stated to have ben associated wirh the killing of Tripura-
suras and there was a manifestation of Devi Parvati in a Place
nearby as Kamalaja since Brahma worshipped her.
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