August 10, 2012

Five dreams and six kinds of solace

5h - Pragmatix @RisingIndiawins What is missing is a poster in Ramlila maidan with Ramdev between Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda and Paramhans. Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
11h - Rahul Kanwal @rahulkanwal Ramdev's agenda closely mirrors that of BJP/Sangh. Unlike Anna he doesn't deny that RSS backs him. Mobilisation driven by Sangh cadre. Retweeted by Savitri Era Party
7h - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty [For the first time in its history, the Congress split in Surat Session in 1907. The reason being session in Calcutta.] http://marketime.blogspot.in/2007/07/for-first-time-in-its-history-congress.html …
7h - Savitri Era Party @SavitriEraParty [This talk explores & invites participation in the five dreams of Sri Aurobindo in his message on India’s Independence] http://www.atthefeetofthemother.org/2011/10/five-dreams-of-sri-aurobindo-hindi-and.html …
7h [As Dayanand & Sri Aurobindo have rightly pointed out, religious practices have drifted away from their philosophy.] http://rainbowther.blogspot.in/2007/02/religious-practices-have-drifted-away.html …
8h [Some Hindu scriptures are verbose others concise, all in all a mixture of truths & fables. I don’t care much. Sandeep] http://selforum.blogspot.in/2012/08/sanketik-ramdev-and-filmy-anna.html …
3h - @tulsimeer @Good_Bipin [Pretending Everything’s Okay Works: putting up good front for friends makes everything better.] http://auromere.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/when-faced-with-a-serious-decision-how-to-make-the-right-choice/#comment-12699 … -   View summary

Tusar N. Mohapatra says:August 9, 2012 at 11:53 am [Every time a misfortune befell me, says Dastur Adurbad, I derived six kinds of comfort and solace from it. ERVAD MARZBAN HATHIRAM] http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-07-31/edit-page/27301069_1_zoroastrians-misfortune-comfort [the state of excessive happiness or depression is temporary and relative only to our most recent experiences. Puneet Jain] http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2002-07-08/news/27351941_1_happiness-envy-depression

Degrees of Happiness The Hindu R. DINESH MADURAI, August 9, 2012
As always the ancients have made the words esoteric and difficult for us to understand on the face of it how the gradation occurs. Here again Sri Aurobindo’s interpretation and the words he uses are so useful in understanding the intent that one can then match with one’s own experience and link to practical life. The first clarity one needs to have is that any reference to ‘Happiness’ in the spiritual context cannot be linked to the satisfaction of one’s desires…
However, the real striking point in this portion is that every stage of happiness one can achieve, i.e. as a Man or Angel or Gods etc. a clear statement is made that the happiness referred to at that stage is possible to be attained by the person who knows the secret of the Vedas and therefore the desires do not take ownership of him (the words used by Sri Aurobindo is ‘the blight of desire not toucheth’). This comes as a reference at every stage of progress to higher levels of happiness till one reaches the Eternal’s level of ‘Ultimate Bliss’. (To be continued) (The writer is the Joint Managing Director of TVS & Sons Ltd., and MD, TVS Logistics) Feedback and questions may be emailed to joyofbeingrd@gmail.com  

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