Mind : Its mysteres & Its Control - APPENDIX -I : Swami Sivananda.

Swami Udit Chaithanyaji :

പുണ്യമായ തിരുവാതിര (Jan 6) ദിനത്തിൽ  MUMBAI Shell Colony AYYAPPA TEMPLE  ദർശനം നടത്താനും , 2024 JANUARY 20  shell Colony Ayyappa Temple ൽ വച്ചു നടക്കുന്ന സപ്താഹ യജ്ഞത്തിന്റെ വിപുലമായ ഒരുക്കത്തിന് Committe Meeting ൽ പങ്കെടുക്കാനും സാധിച്ചു. Mumbai shell colony അയ്യപ്പ ക്ഷേത്ര ഭാരവാഹികൾക്കു കോടി കോടി പ്രണാമങ്ങൾ. CHEMBUR Fine Arts Hall ൽ ഇപ്പോൾ  നടന്നു  കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന സപ്താഹ യജ്ഞത്തിൽ  Mumbai High Court Senior Judge Sri Justice KR SRIRAM- ജി പങ്കെടുത്ത് ഭക്തിയുടെ മഹിമ ഭക്തജനങ്ങളുമായി പങ്കു വച്ചു. ദൃഢമായ ഭക്തി മനസിനു തരുന്ന  Confidence and Clarity     ഈ ജീവിതത്തിൽ  മറ്റാർക്കും തരാൻ സാധിക്കാത്തതാണെന്ന് ശ്രീ ശ്രീറാംജി   ഓർമ്മിപ്പിച്ചു. ഭഗവാന്റെ പാദം മുറുകെ പിടിച്ചാൽ ഭഗവാൻ ഭക്തനെ കൈവിടാനെ മുന്നോട്ടു നയിക്കും.

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Was able to visit the MUMBAI Shell Colony AYYAPPA TEMPLE on the holy Thiruvathira (Jan 6) and participate in the Committee Meeting for the extensive preparation of the Sapthaha Yajna to be held at Shell Colony Ayyappa Temple on 2024 JANUARY 20th. Mumbai shell colony Millions of salutes to Ayyappa temple office bearers. Mumbai High Court Senior Judge Sri Justice KR SRIRAM- Ji participated in the Sapthaha Yagna going on now at CHEMBUR Fine Arts Hall and shared the glory of devotion with the devotees. Sri Sriramji reminded that the Confidence and Clarity that strong devotion gives to the mind cannot be given to anyone else in this life. If you hold the feet of God tightly, God will lead the devotee to leave him.

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Sunday,  17  Sep, 2023. 05:30. 

APPENDIX -1

To The Mind:

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Thy Life-History:

O Mind; O Maya’s child!

You always want a form

To lean upon;

You have two forms-

Suddha Manas, pure mind,

Asuddha Manas, impure mind.

Time, space and causation

Are thy categories.

You work through

The law of association;

You think, feel and know.

You are Atma-Sakti.

You are Manomaya Kosha.

You are like a mirror;

Brahman is reflected on you.

You are compared to a tree:

Ego is the seed of this tree,

Sankalpas are the branches,

Buddhi is the first sprout.

You have another three forms

The conscious mind,

The subconscious mind,

And the superconscious mind.

You are made up of

The subtlest form of food.

You are a bundle of habits,

Samskaras and Vasanas.

You are fourfold:

Manas does Sankalpa-Vikalpa,

Buddhi determines,

Chitta executes,

Ahankara self-arrogates.

Chitta comes under mind,

Buddhi comes under Ahankara.

It is all Vritti-Bheda.

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Thy Birth:

Thy father, Supreme Brahman,

Felt loneliness once.

He was alone,

One without a second.

He wanted to multiply;

He thought,

“May I become many.”

There was a vibration or Spandan

In thy mother, Maya,

The undifferentiated,

The unmanifested;

The equilibrium was disturbed.

You were born at once.

Thy body was made of pure Sattva;

You were known by the name ‘Manas’.

The Lord ordained you to do four functions;

So you became fourfold-

Manas, Chitta, Buddhi, Ahankara.

You separated yourself from the Lord

Through self-arrogating ‘I’.

You indulged in sensual objects

In company with the senses

And forgot thy divine origin.

You became attached to sons, wife,

Property, names, titles and honours;

You became quite worldly.

You identified yourself with the body,

Sons, wife, house and property

Through Avidya or ignorance.

This is the cause for your downfall

And all sorts of miseries and sufferings.

This is, in short, your life-history.

Give up attachments

And identification with the body.

Annihilate ignorance

By attaining Brahma-Jnana;

You can become one with Brahman

And regain thy divine nature

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Next

Thy Abode:

To be continued

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