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Offline Ramesh Ramnani

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Re: WHAT IS LIFE?????
« Reply #30 on: January 04, 2008, 03:50:08 AM »
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  • Om Sai Ram!

    dear Ramesh Bhai,

    it is very nice what u have written about life...
    is it life, which has no aims ... no dreams.... no idea what one wants of it??
    I am like this ... and i feel very sad that i dont know what i want... i have a nice life a good husband... a good job.... every thing is nice.... but nothing to look forward to... , i mean... no dreams about anything ... is that how life is?

    its just going on... nothing looks special.... there is hardly any joy about anything... be it a new tech car... or a long trip or anything ... why do i feel so neutral to everything?... i feel sad that i dont know what i want... no much feelings atall...

    why am i like this i always ask sai... he has given me everything... and anything i even have a slight need for... i love you Sai...



    JAI SAI RAM!!!

    Shambhaviji Jai Sai Ram and thanks for your liking but why you feel so sad like that?  I don't think anyone can give you an answer for that.  I can only say do meditate on Sai and you will get you your answer!  I don't think at this age the kind of feeling you are having towards life will take you anywhere.  Anyway here is another topic for you concerning life.

    In Zen they say that one should learn painting for at least twelve years and then throw away all the brushes and the paintings and forget all about it. For twelve years one should not touch the brush, should not paint. And then after twelve years one should start painting again. Now the art has been learned and forgotten; now one can paint naturally. The art will be there but it will not be visible; it will be something like a hidden current, something invisible.

    Great art is always invisible; and love is the greatest of arts. No music, no poetry, no painting, can be compared to it.

    It means nothing! It has no meaning. Life has no purpose, it simply is. And that's the beauty of it and the profound depth of it -- that it simply is. You can make anything out of it; it is just pure availability. It is an empty canvas: you can paint anything on it. You can paint a nightmare or a beautiful dream, you can create hell or you create heaven, but life gives you no directions. It simply gives you total freedom to do whatsoever you want.
     
    Life is freedom, hence the great responsibility. If you miss, you cannot make somebody else feel guilty for it; you and only you will be responsible.
     
    And there is no intrinsic meaning in life, so you cannot find any readymade thing. Life is creation. You will find only that which you have created; first create and then you can find it.

    This is the tremendous mystery of life. People ask 'Where is God?' and they have not created God yet; they cannot find him. People ask 'What is beauty?' First create it, and then you will know. First give birth to it, then you will know.

    Life is simply available in all its multi-dimensionality. No meaning is imposed from above; you have to create meaning. Each one has to be a creator, a god in his own right. We live in the world we create, and we live the life we create. So whatsoever meaning you prefer, you can create. The ultimate is to be able to live without any meaning, not to hanker for meaning, not to be obsessed with purpose, not to think in terms of goals; that is the ultimate. Once a man is able to live life for no reason at all, he is a Buddha, he is enlightened.

    Enlightenment means to live life without any hankering for meaning. Then whatsoever is, is good, and whatsoever is not, that too is good. Then each moment becomes so radiant, so luminous, so fun of fragrance, but still there is no meaning.

    Science searches for meaning and finds none. And because people are trained in science, everybody is feeling very disappointed. Art finds no meaning, but creates it -- through poetry, music, painting.

    Religion also finds that there is no meaning, but it starts living the very meaninglessness of it. Art creates an illusion, it creates a beautiful illusion. Art is magic; at least it helps you feel that there is meaning. Science knows the truth, but is incapable of living it: it creates despair. Religion also knows that there is no meaning, but is courageous enough to live that meaninglessness of existence and finds great bliss and joy in it. These are the three approaches possible.

    Science is the lowest approach, religion the highest. So if you ask the scientist he will also say that there is no meaning, but he will say it very sadly -- he wanted there to be a meaning and it is not there. Ask the artist: he will say 'Don't be worried; meaning can be created.' Ask the mystic: he will say ecstatically 'There is no meaning -- and because there is no meaning there is freedom, and because there is no meaning there is no bondage.'
     
    If it is possible, become a mystic. If it is not possible, at least become an artist. Don't fall below that! If you fall below that, you are committing the original sin.

    OM SAI RAM!!!
     
    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

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    Re: WHAT IS LIFE?????
    « Reply #31 on: January 09, 2008, 05:48:43 AM »
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  • Om Sai Ram~~~

    " Life, what is life?

    A newborn baby, a growing child,
    A smiling grandma, or is it you and I,
    Much, much more, I think,
    Greater than merely breathing air,
    Far more than merely living what is there,
    It is exploring, searching and findings all things,
    The vastness of creation,
    Relishing in the sunrise, being part of sunset,
    Feeling it, living it, breathing it,
    Creating life, touching life,
    Loving someone, the glory in being loved,
    Why do you want more, see what is yours,
    Life is appreciation, happiness inside,
    Rescuing the bird with the broken wing,
    Finding the first brilliant spring bloom and
    Leaving it for a butterfly to feed on,
    Life is what you are, make or break,
    To live is to be life, live it!"

    Jai Sai Ram~~~
    "लोका समस्ता सुखिनो भवन्तुः
    ॐ शन्तिः शन्तिः शन्तिः"

    " Loka Samasta Sukino Bhavantu
    Aum ShantiH ShantiH ShantiH"~~~

    May all the worlds be happy. May all the beings be happy.
    May none suffer from grief or sorrow. May peace be to all~~~

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    Re: WHAT IS LIFE?????
    « Reply #32 on: January 11, 2008, 06:47:51 AM »
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  • जय सांई राम।।।

    The very idea of life implies death and the very idea of pleasure implies pain. The lamp is constantly burning out, and that is its life. If you want to have life, you have to die for it every moment. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints. They are the falling and rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole. One looks at the "fall" side and becomes a pessimist, another looks at the "rise" side and becomes an optimist

    अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

    ॐ सांई राम।।।
    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

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    Re: WHAT IS LIFE?????
    « Reply #33 on: January 12, 2008, 06:07:48 AM »
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  • जय सांई राम।।।

    WHO HAS READ EVEN A LITTLE OF THE GITA. Here Gita does not mean only the Shrimad Bhagavadgita, because he who has read even a little of the Koran, he will also attain; he who has read even a little of The Bible, he will also attain. And he who has read neither The Bible nor the Koran nor the Gita, but has read life a little, he will also attain. The whole emphasis is on the awakening of understanding -- he who has not passed his life sleeping, he who has been awakened, has opened his eyes and has recognized life a little.

    If you can realise even a little, then you can realise the whole of heaven. If you grasp one ray, you can get hold of the whole sun. You can get the sun with the help of that one ray. If you are sitting in a dark cottage and you can see one ray peeping through the thatched roof, you can find the whole sun in that ray.

    If you start with that one ray, you will certainly reach the sun. There is no need to have the whole of the sun in your house -- what will you do with so much? You will get indigestion! Do not start accumulating scriptures, they will become your prison. Then your wings will not be able to fly, nor will your heart be able to dance, nor will you be natural.

    It is the scriptures which make people more unnatural than anything else. If you can understand, I would like to tell you that it is the scriptures which have made people irreligious. More people have become irreligious because of scriptures than because of anything else. As the number of scriptures goes on increasing, man is becoming blind because he thinks that the understanding is in the book, and he will be able to get this understanding just by reading it. But if it was so easy to get the understanding, then the whole world would have been very understanding, very intelligent.

    Every house has a Gita or a Koran or a Bible, but there is no understanding. Remember that you give up your effort when the scriptures are easily available. Do not get lost in the jungle of theories.

    अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

    ॐ सांई राम।।।
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    Re: WHAT IS LIFE?????
    « Reply #34 on: January 13, 2008, 06:54:04 AM »
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    Because life is made of contradiction and there is no other way for life to exist. Breath goes out, then goes in -- did you ever ask why it is so? When the breath has to go in then why is it taken out? But if the breath remains in and does not come out then the result will be death and not life. If the breath remains out and does not go in, even then it will be death and not life.

    Life is movement, movement between two opposites. It is like the flowing of a river between two banks. Breath goes out, goes in; comes in then goes out. Every moment it is pranayam and every moment it is pratyahar. When breath goes out it is pranayam; when the breath goes in, it is pratyahar.

    If your consciousness gets used to this type of rhythm, if this type of movement goes on in your consciousness, if like this you expand outwards unlimited, if like this you reach the emptiness inside you -- if there is emptiness within and unlimited expanse outside -- if you flow constantly between these two banks, only then you will become godly, because the divine is like this: empty within, whole outside.

    This whole existence is the divine's pranayam. Creation is pranayam and destruction of the world is pratyahar. When the breath goes out, creation takes place; the breath goes in, the destruction of the world takes place.

    If you can understand it properly then you will see this everywhere in life. Birth is pranayam, death is pratyahar. In birth you expand, in death you shrink, you return, and life is in between the two banks of birth and death. Birth is not life, death is also not life; that which is flowing between birth and death, the unknown which is dancing in the beat, which is engrossed in the rhythm, that is life.

    अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

    ॐ सांई राम।।।
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    « Reply #35 on: January 15, 2008, 04:48:44 AM »
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  • जय सांई राम़।।।

    कहा जाता है कि जीवन चलने का नाम है अत: चलते रहो। चरैवेति, चरैवेति। चलना, निरंतर आगे बढ़ना ही जीवन है, रुकना या पीछे हटना मृत्यु है। लेकिन निंरतर चलते रहने के लिए, आगे बढ़ते रहने के लिए एक चीज और भी है जो अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण है और वो है रुकना। निरंतर चलते रहने के लिए रुकना, विश्राम करना या ठहरना भी अनिवार्य है। ऊपर कहा गया है कि रुकना मृत्यु है तथा बाद में कहा गया है कि आगे बढ़ने के लिए रुकना जरूरी है। थोड़ा विरोधाभास दिखलाई पड़ रहा है पर है नहीं।

    चलना वस्तुत: दो प्रकार का होता है। एक शरीर का चलना या गति करना और दूसरा मन का चलना या गति करना। मन जो शरीर को चलाता है, उसे नियंत्रित करता है आध्यात्मिक दृष्टि से उसकी गति को नियंत्रित करना भी अनिवार्य है। एक रुकने का अर्थ भौतिक शरीर की गति अर्थात् कर्म से मुँह मोड़ना है लेकिन दूसरे रुकने का अर्थ मन की गति को विराम देना है। मन जो अत्यंत चंचल है उसको नियंत्रित करना है। उसको सही दिशा में ले जाने के लिए उसको रोकना अनिवार्य है।

    चलना जीवन है तो रुकना पुनर्जन्म है। जब मन रुक जाता है तो वह शांत-स्थिर होकर पुनर्निर्माण में सहायक होता है। उपयोगी सृजन का कारण बनता है। भौतिक शरीर अथवा स्थूल शरीर को निरंतर चलाने के लिए कारण शरीर अर्थात् मन का ठहराव जरूरी है। भौतिक शरीर कभी नहीं ठहरता। सोते-जागते अथवा आराम की अवस्था में भी गतिशील रहता है शरीर। अत: ठहराव शरीर का नहीं मन का होता है। जब मन तेज भागता है अथवा ग़लत दिशा में दौड़ता है तो ठहराव की जरूरत होती है। नकारात्मक मन शरीर की गति को बाधित करता है, उसका ''ह्रास करता है, उसे जर्जर बनाता है, उसे पीछे ले जाता है तथा अनेक रोगों से भर देता है। सकारात्मक मन शरीर का पोषण करता है, उसे मजबूत बनाता है, उसे आगे ले जाता है तथा उसकी रोगों से रक्षा कर आरोग्य प्रदान करता है। सकारात्मक मन को नहीं अपितु नकारात्मक मन को ठहराना है।

    कीचड़युक्त पानी जब स्थिर हो जाता है तो उसमें घुली मिट्टी नीचे बैठ जाती है और स्वच्छ पानी ऊपर तैरने लगता है। मन को रोकने पर भी यही होता है। विचारों का परिमार्जन होने लगता है। नकारात्मक घातक विचार नीचे बैठने लगते हैं। सकारात्मक उपयोगी विचार प्रभावी होकर पूर्णता को प्राप्त होते है और जीवन को एक सार्थक गति मिलती है। कार्य करता है हमारा शरीर लेकिन उसे चलाता है हमारा मस्तिष्क और मस्तिष्क को चलाने वाला है हमारा मन। मन की उचित गति अर्थात् सकारात्मक भावधरा के अभाव में न तो मस्तिष्क ही सही कार्य करेगा और न शरीर ही। इसलिए शरीर को सही गति प्रदान के लिए मन को रोकना और उसे सकारात्मकता प्रदान करना अनिवार्य है।

    जब बुद्ध और अंगुलिमाल का आमना-सामना होता है तो दोनों तरफ़ से ठहरने की बात होती है। अंगुलिमाल कड़ककर बुद्ध से कहता है, ''ठहर जा।'' बुद्ध अत्यंत शांत भाव से कहते हैं, ''मैं तो ठहर गया हूँ पर तू कब ठहरेगा?'' एक आश्चर्य घटित होता है। बुद्ध की शांत मुद्रा सारे परिवेश को शांत-स्थिर कर देती है। उस असीम शान्ति में अंगुलिमाल भी आप्लावित हो जाता है। वह ठहर जाता है और दस्युवृत्ति त्याग कर बुद्ध की शरण में आ जाता है। मन की हिंसक वृत्ति का विनाश होने का प्रारंभ ही वास्तविक ठहराव है। जब व्यक्ति पूर्ण रूप से ठहर जाता है, उसके मन से उद्विग्नता तथा द्वंद्व मिट जाता है तभी समता का उदय होता है। मन के ठहराव का अर्थ है नकारात्मक भावों के स्थान पर सकारात्मक भावों का उदय। सकारात्मक भावों के उदय के साथ ही व्यक्ति आनंद के साम्राज्य में प्रवेश करता है।

    शरीर और मन की गति में अंतर होना ही सब प्रकार की समस्याओं का मूल है। शरीर और मन की गति में सामंजस्य होना अनिवार्य है। रेलगाड़ी के डिब्बे तभी अपने गंतव्य तक पहुँच पाते हैं जब वे इंजन के साथ-साथ चलते हैं। इंजन और डिब्बों की गति समान होना तथा उनमें एक लय होना जरूरी है। इसी प्रकार शरीर और मन में भी संतुलन और लयात्मकता होना अनिवार्य है। मन भागा जा रहा है लेकिन शरीर उसका साथ नहीं दे पा रहा है तो समस्या खड़ी हो जाएगी। इंजन भागा जा रहा है पर उसकी गति इतनी तेज है कि डिब्बे या तो उछल रहे हैं और पटरी से उतरने की अवस्था आने वाली है या उनके बीच की कड़ी टूटने वाली है। इंजन की गति को नियंत्रित कर इंजन और डिब्बों के बीच की कड़ी को टूटने से बचाना है।

    डिब्बे ही नहीं उनमें बैठे आत्मारूपी यात्रा भी इस गति से प्रभावित होते हैं। क्या तेज गति से दौड़ते इंजन वाली रेलगाड़ी के डिब्बों में बैठे यात्रा सुरक्षित रह सकते हैं? शायद नहीं। इसलिए इंजन तथा इंजन रूपी मन दोनों की गति में ठहराव लाकर नियंत्रण करना जरूरी है। जीवन में भाग-दौड़ का एक ही उद्देश्य है और वो है आनंद की प्राप्ति लेकिन जितना हम भाग-दौड़ करते हैं आनंद से दूर होते चले जाते हैं। आनंद के लिए जीवन की गति तथा विचारों के प्रवाह को नियंत्रित कर उन्हें संतुलित करना जरूरी है। यही आध्यात्मिकता है। आध्यात्मिकता हमें सहज होना सिखाती है। जब हम सहज होते हैं तभी अपने वास्तविक 'स्व' अर्थात् चेतना से जुड़ते हैं। आत्मा में स्थित हो पाते हैं। यही वास्तविक आनंद अथवा परमानंद है।

    अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

    ॐ सांई राम।।।
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    Re: WHAT IS LIFE?????
    « Reply #36 on: January 16, 2008, 07:54:36 AM »
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    जीवन वह शब्द हैं,  जिस शब्द में पूरी दुनिया समाहित है,  आप-मैं,  हमसे जुड़ी हकीकत-सपनें,  अच्छाई-बुराई,  एकता-अनेकता,  सच-झूठ और इस जीवन का सबसे बड़ा सच,  जिसके बारे मे हमने कभी नहीं सोचा होता। जीवन एक ऐसा आईना है जो हमें वही दिखाता है जो हम देखना चाहते है पर हम उस प्रतिबिंब के पीछे छिपी सच्चाई के बारे में कभी नहीं जान पाते।

    जीवन रूपी आईने में हम अपना प्रतिबिंब तो आसानी से देख लेते है,  पर हम उस प्रतिबिंब में छुपी हकीकत के पहलुओं को जैसे कि अच्छाई और बुराई,  सच और झूठ आदि को नही पहचान पाते। मैं तो आपसे सिर्फ यहीं कहना चाहूँगा कि जीवनरूपी इस आईने में स्वयं की हकीकत को पहचानने की कोशिश करिए,  क्योंकि सच तो यह हैं कि हमें कभी वो नही मिलता जो हम चाहते है,  बल्कि हमें तो वह मिलता है जो हमने कभी सपने में भी नहीं सोचा होता।

    किसी ने कहा भी है कि - "अपना सोचा कभी नहीं होता,  बाबा करे सो होय,
    चाहे हो राजा चाहे भिखारी,  ठोकर सभी ने यहाँ खाई रे" ...

    चाहे राजा हो या भिखारी,  दोनों को ही जीवनरूपी आईने की सच्चाई से अभिभूत होना ही पड़ता हैं। यदि हम इस सच को पहचान ले तो समझ लेना कि हमने खुद को पहचान लिया है। हम तो सिर्फ एक प्रतिबिंब है,  सिर्फ एक छाया है,  जिसका कोई अस्तित्व नही है। मैंने जीवन की उस सच्चाई को देखा है, 

    ये जीवन हैं,  इस जीवन का यही हैं.....य़ही हैं, यही हैं रंग-रूप........

    अत: मैं सिर्फ यही कहना चाहूँगा कि आप इस आईने में सिर्फ अपना प्रतिबिंब ही न देंखे,  बल्कि अपने इस प्रतिबिंब (परछाई) के पीछे छुपी सच्चाई (हकीकत) को पहचानने की भी कोशिश करें,  तभी आप खुद को इस जीवनरूपी आईने में साफ-साफ देख पाएंगे और जीवन की सच्चाई से परिचित हो पाएंगे। और आप आम आदमी के बीच अपनी एक अलग पहचान बना पाएंगे। यही है इस "जीवन का सच" ।

    अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

    ॐ सांई राम।।।
    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

    Offline tana

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    Re: WHAT IS LIFE?????
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    "Life is the first gift,
    Love the second,
    And Understanding the third "~~~

    Jai Sai Ram~~~
    "लोका समस्ता सुखिनो भवन्तुः
    ॐ शन्तिः शन्तिः शन्तिः"

    " Loka Samasta Sukino Bhavantu
    Aum ShantiH ShantiH ShantiH"~~~

    May all the worlds be happy. May all the beings be happy.
    May none suffer from grief or sorrow. May peace be to all~~~

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    « Reply #38 on: January 17, 2008, 05:39:29 AM »
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  • Life is a puzzle who one must solve.

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    " Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right. Forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it"~~~

    Jai Sai Ram~~~
    "लोका समस्ता सुखिनो भवन्तुः
    ॐ शन्तिः शन्तिः शन्तिः"

    " Loka Samasta Sukino Bhavantu
    Aum ShantiH ShantiH ShantiH"~~~

    May all the worlds be happy. May all the beings be happy.
    May none suffer from grief or sorrow. May peace be to all~~~

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    « Reply #40 on: January 17, 2008, 08:04:51 AM »
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  • Om Sai Ram~~~

    जय सांई राम।।।

    ज़िन्दगी कितनी खूबसूरत है

    ज़िन्दगी ज़िन्दगी क्या तेरा रूप है
    तू कभी छाँव है और कभी धूप है
    कभी लगती है तू मेरी सहेली,
    कभी लगती है तू मुझको पहेली,
    कभी लगती है भीड़ में गुनगुनाती
    लगती है गुमशुम अकेली
    तू ही मेरी धड़कन तू ही सांसें
    तू ही मेरे दिन है तू ही मेरी रातें
    तुझे देखने को तरसे है आंखें
    तुझे देखना अब मेरी खुशनसीबी है,
    ज़िन्दगी ज़िन्दगी वाह क्या तेरा रूप है
    बाबा सांई ये सब तेरा ही दिया हुआ स्वरूप है।

    अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

    ॐ सांई राम

    Jai Sai Ram~~~
    "लोका समस्ता सुखिनो भवन्तुः
    ॐ शन्तिः शन्तिः शन्तिः"

    " Loka Samasta Sukino Bhavantu
    Aum ShantiH ShantiH ShantiH"~~~

    May all the worlds be happy. May all the beings be happy.
    May none suffer from grief or sorrow. May peace be to all~~~

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    Re: WHAT IS LIFE?????
    « Reply #41 on: January 21, 2008, 08:24:24 AM »
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    Because life is made of contradiction and there is no other way for life to exist.  Breath goes out, then goes in -- did you ever ask why it is so? When the breath has to go in then why is it taken out? But if the breath remains in and does not come out then the result will be death and not life. If the breath remains out and does not go in, even then it will be death and not life.

    Life is movement, movement between two opposites. It is like the flowing of a river between two banks. Breath goes out, goes in; comes in then goes out. Every moment it is pranayam and every moment it is pratyahar. When breath goes out it is pranayam; when the breath goes in, it is pratyahar.

    If your consciousness gets used to this type of rhythm, if this type of movement goes on in your consciousness, if like this you expand outwards unlimited, if like this you reach the emptiness inside you -- if there is emptiness within and unlimited expanse outside -- if you flow constantly between these two banks, only then you will become godly, because the divine is like this: empty within, whole outside.

    This whole existence is the divine's pranayam. Creation is pranayam and destruction of the world is pratyahar. When the breath goes out, creation takes place; the breath goes in, the destruction of the world takes place.

    If you can understand it properly then you will see this everywhere in life. Birth is pranayam, death is pratyahar. In birth you expand, in death you shrink, you return, and life is in between the two banks of birth and death. Birth is not life, death is also not life; that which is flowing between birth and death, the unknown which is dancing in the beat, which is engrossed in the rhythm, that is life.

    अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

    ॐ सांई राम।।।
    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

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    A Dozen Things to Do In LIFE~~~

    ~Remember that some of the world's nicest joys are its most special people, and that you are definitely one of them.

    ~Take care of that special person.

    ~Enjoy the ride.

    ~When the world is too busy, slow it down.

    ~Climb one rung higher on the ladder to your stars.

    ~Imagine what the view will look like when you get where you're going.

    ~Stay in touch with your inner voice; it always speaks the truth.

    ~When you've been working too hard, give your batteries time to recharge.

    ~Remember that you are someone who is thought of - with friendship and with love.

    ~Keep a smile on that wonderful face of yours.

    ~Have a great days.

    ~And be happy!

    Jai sai Ram~~~
    "लोका समस्ता सुखिनो भवन्तुः
    ॐ शन्तिः शन्तिः शन्तिः"

    " Loka Samasta Sukino Bhavantu
    Aum ShantiH ShantiH ShantiH"~~~

    May all the worlds be happy. May all the beings be happy.
    May none suffer from grief or sorrow. May peace be to all~~~

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    BABA SAI is here to help all of us to celebrate life in all possible ways. HE is here to help us to dance deeply with life, to sing the song that is in our heart and to flower to our optimum

    Then there is joy, because there is fulfillment. T hen even death is beautiful, because one has lived, one has known, one has loved, one has suffered, one has felt the moments of great ecstasies. One has lived in all possible ways. One has experienced what life is in its pain, in its pleasure, in its dark moments, and the valleys, and the sunlit peaks. One is ready to die with a great thankfulness in the heart. And to die with gratitude is the only proof that one has lived.

    So BABA taught us how to live and HE taught how to die, but everything is based on one fundamental, and that fundamental is celebration.   Come lets Celebtrate our Life.....

    अपना सांई प्यारा सांई सबसे न्यारा अपना सांई

    ॐ सांई राम।।।
    अपना साँई प्यारा साँई सबसे न्यारा अपना साँई - रमेश रमनानी

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  • Om Sai Ram~~~

    LIFE IS HAPPINESS~~~~  :) RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS~~~

    " I have a little recipe that isn't hard to make
    But you must always start as soon as you awake.
    Take a great big mixing bowl and fill it with a smile
    Mix half a cup of sunshine with good deeds to last a while.
    Add a pinch of work and play, a pinch of thoughtfulness and care
    But don't bake it in the oven, just spread it around everywhere"~~~

    Jai Sai Ram~~~
    "लोका समस्ता सुखिनो भवन्तुः
    ॐ शन्तिः शन्तिः शन्तिः"

    " Loka Samasta Sukino Bhavantu
    Aum ShantiH ShantiH ShantiH"~~~

    May all the worlds be happy. May all the beings be happy.
    May none suffer from grief or sorrow. May peace be to all~~~

     


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