Jñānāgni » guilt http://jnanagni.com The Fire of Wisdom Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:21:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Be a child, be happy http://jnanagni.com/2012/01/be-a-child-be-happy/ http://jnanagni.com/2012/01/be-a-child-be-happy/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 06:27:39 +0000 Srini http://jnanagni.com/?p=747

“I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

— Jesus

“One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear. … Great men have the nature of a child. They are always a child before God; so they are free from pride. All their strength is of God and not their own. It belongs to Him and comes from Him.”

— Ramakrishna

Be a child, free yourself from pride, free yourself from guilt. Free yourself from concepts and opinions you have about yourself. All past, even upto the last second, is gone, good or bad, it’s never going to come back. All those things people said or thought about you, opinions people had about you, good or bad, all is gone. The present moment is the only real time, the universe renews itself every moment. When you free your mind from the past, you give birth to yourself each moment, you join the flow of life, you are alive!

Be a child, be happy :)

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]]> http://jnanagni.com/2012/01/be-a-child-be-happy/feed/ 2 Celebration and service — a message for the new year! http://jnanagni.com/2009/01/celebration-and-service-a-message-for-the-new-year/ http://jnanagni.com/2009/01/celebration-and-service-a-message-for-the-new-year/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:00:50 +0000 Srini http://jnanagni.com/?p=159 2008 is gone. And here comes one more year. New year wishes everywhere, messages for the new year, resolutions, celebrations everywhere. 2008 was as good as any other year, but it also had its woes. Terrorism rising its head, natural calamities, conflicts,… and it doesn’t feel good to see so much of hatred and hopelessness in the minds of people. When you look at so much of suffering, and the truth that all joys (and miseries too) are evanescent staring at our face, shouldn’t we be feeling guilty? How can we celebrate the new year? Shouldn’t we be mourning instead? Does celebration have any meaning?

Well… Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says we should celebrate. He says,

Yes, you will feel guilty when your celebration is aimed at gratifying yourself. But if the intention is to uplift everyone in your area, just do it. Don’t delay it. We will never feel guilty if we our celebration takes people out of their gloomy moods. This celebration becomes service and there is no guilt. And when your service becomes celebration, there is no ego and pride in it.

Get this. When celebration becomes service, there is not guilt. And when service becomes celebration, there is no pride.

Let us celebrate with this one intention that let’s bring home the (Spiritual) Knowledge to everyone — that life, events are impermanent. What is permanent is our spirit, our consciousness. It has no birth and death. Life at a higher plane is eternal and so celebrate every moment knowing that every moment is a gift to us.

And today’s The Hindu comes with a beautiful cartoon from Surendra…
Welcoming 2009 -- A cartoon by Surendra

What an apt way to send off 2008 and welcome 2009!!!

I wish everyone a very happy new year! Let’s serve and celebrate!!! :)

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