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Name: Chinmaya Yuva Kendra
Interests: discussing philosophy, religion, and spirituality in order to discover the art of happiness
Expertise: providing the maximum happiness to the maximum people for the maximum time.
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5/17/2005
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| One kind word can warm three winter months.
-Japanese proverb | | |
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Art has been one of the paths of realization for many great masters in the past--music, dance, and other pursuits of art can be paths of unfoldment. Many poets pursuing beauty have reached heights of subtle perception without any scriptural study. Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats are some typical examples. When we look upon a certain object and our minds become stilled, we experience a burst of joy. If the mind becomes still, everything is beautiful. That which lies beyond the mind is the Self, the Divine, indicated in our scriptures as the Beauty of the beautiful.
To pursue beauty is risky. However, the beautiful thing is not very far away from Beauty. | | |
| A great saint was smitten by a serpent, he exclaimed, "Ah, a messenger from the Beloved!" Good and evil, pain and pleasure, prosperity and adversity, life and death--all are messages from the Beloved. When we do not see this dual throng of opposites as acceptable or unacceptable, but only as conferring of love from the Beloved, we have tasted bhakti, or devotion.
The proof of God's grace is not in any incident, favorable or unfavorable but in the God-infused strength of the soul, which can accept anything that comes with joy and resignation. It is not in what comes, but how you are given to receive what comes. | | |
| Q) You were an atheist!
A) Of course. Any intelligent, rational man is an atheist.
Until, of course he is initiated into religion. So when you write and attack religious people at times, I sympathize with you because I was also like that. I also thought that religion meant ritualism. I never knew there was a science to it, that ritualism was just a bark. The outer bark of the great tree that shelters the whole community. The bark is necessary for the tree. But the bark is not the tree. (-Swami Chinmayananda)
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