Sunday, February 5, 2012

# 009 The basic problem of human being


All human beings want to be happy. Problem is that each has their own ideas about what is it that is going to make them happy. Swami Dayananda Saraswati says that one will be happy when one is at peace with oneself. This comes by self-validation. Self-adequacy leads to self-validation. Therefore key to happiness is self-adequacy. All basic problems arise due to lack of self-adequacy. How to get rid of self-inadequacy? Read on:

1.    In this universe with life forms, only human beings are self-judging and self-conscious.
2.   Self-judgment leads to self-loathe and self-non acceptance or self-inadequacy.As long there is no self-judging there is no problem (of self-inadequacy).
3.  Self-inadequacy leads to self-non validation leading to the basic human problem of unhappiness.
4.   Every human being is seeking solutions to the basic problem of self- inadequacy.
5.   One has to see oneself as an adequate person through adequate knowledge and thus enjoy being oneself.
6.   Vedas provide the knowledge that one is Purnah (the whole) which provides a basis for one to know that one is adequate.
7.   Solution therefore lies in studying and understanding Vedas.
8.   Vedas being cryptic, one needs to study it under a competent Guru.
9.  How to know whether one is a competent Guru? Competent Guru is one who has studied the Vedas under another Guru who in turn is coming from an unbroken chain of lineage called Guru Shishya Parampara starting from Lord Dhakshinamurthy himself as the first teacher.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

# 007 Levels of beauty

Beauty has 3 levels - indication, expression and exposure.

Spirituality is that indicates or reveals it gently. This is the subtle aspect.

Art expresses beauty and science exposes it.

All theses 3 aspects are to be found in creation. There is beauty in every aspect of nature - Creation, Operation and destruction. Understanding or knowing this makes life Beautiful.

Based on a lecture by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar