February 2024
BANYAN TREE
TEACHING STORY
GOD AND MAN
In the ancient days, when the first quiver of speech came to my lips, I ascended the holy mountain and spoke unto God, saying, “Master, I am thy slave. Thy hidden will is my law, and I shall obey thee for evermore.”
But God made no answer, and like a mighty tempest passed away.
And after a thousand years, I ascended the holy mountain and again spoke unto God, saying, “Creator, I am thy creation. Out of clay hast thou fashioned me, and to thee I owe mine all.”
And God made no answer, but like a thousand swift wings passed away.
And after a thousand years, I climbed the holy mountain and spoke unto God again, saying, “Father, I am thy son. In pity and love, thou hast given me birth, and through love and worship, I shall inherit thy kingdom.”
And God made no answer, and like the mist that veils the distant hills, he passed away.
And after a thousand years, I climbed the sacred mountain and again spoke unto God, saying, “My God, my aim and my fulfilment; I am thy yesterday and thou art my tomorrow. I am thy root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.”
Then God leaned over me, and in my ears whispered words of sweetness, and even as the sea that enfoldeth a brook that runneth down to her, he enfolded me.
And when I descended to the valleys and the plains, God was there also.
— Kahlil Gibran
THIS I KNOW
PAM GROUT
• Scientists tell us that 98 per cent of our 60,000 thoughts are repeats from the day before.
• Once we begin to look for what’s right, our lives begin spinning in unimaginably exciting new directions.
• The universe is limitless, abundant, and strangely accommodating.
• The way I see it, there are just two things we need to know: The universe has our back. Everything is going to turn out okay.
• You can go back time and time again to the shoe store, but it will never sell milk. • The brain is basically a bureaucrat. It looks at the past, applies it to the present, and uses it as a map to predict the future. It literally makes up stories.
• If we simply devote our minds to feeling rich, to being grateful for all the already apparent riches in our lives—say, our families and our wonderful friends—being broke would disappear.
• Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.
INSPIRATION
MIND MATTERS
Mind is maya. Mind is at the root of all activities. It gives strength to desires, fosters fear, and builds castles in the air. It confers force on egoism and stimulates aspirations. Every tendency takes its origin from the mind. It augments passion, gives strength and hope, and awakens a sense of duality. It increases ignorance and plunges the senses into the ocean of sense objects. It separates, divides, and limits. The mind is the seed of all maya. Everyone understands the worth
The mind is a bundle of vasanas. Check the mind, annihilate the desires, and you will not come under the influence of maya. Peace comes only after that. The soul is immortal. Be not afraid of death. You die not. This is truth. Birth and death are two illusory scenes in the drama of the world. This is all maya’s jugglery. Learn to be wise. Learn to be inquisitive. Learn to discriminate. You are
identical with the Supreme Self. Tat Twam Asi. Thou art that. This is Vedanta.
— Swami Sivananda
ONE-MINUTE WISDOM
THE POWER OF AWARENESS
Even though it was the master’s day of silence, a traveller begged for a word of wisdom that would guide him through life’s journey.
The master nodded affably, took a sheet of paper, and wrote a a single word on it: “Awareness.” The visitor was perplexed. “That’s too brief. Could you please expand on it a bit?” The master took the paper back and wrote, “Awareness, awareness, awareness.”
“But what do these words mean?” asked the stranger helplessly.
The master reached out for the paper and wrote, “Awareness, awareness, means AWARENESS.” — Anthony De Mello
QUOTE
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”— Isaac Asimov
JUST FOR LAUGHS
AN ARTIST REMEMBERS
Four men broke into the studio of a famous modernistic painter. They tied up the artist, forced open his wall safe, and fled with all his money, laptop, TV, and all that they could get their hands upon. The next day, the artist was found by his neighbours and released. He immediately called the police.
“Would you be able to identify the robbers?” the detective asked.
“Oh, certainly,” replied the painter. “That’s my business, remembering what things look like. I’ll draw you a picture of them.”
He drew the picture and gave it to the police. The next day they arrested a one-eyed go-go dancer, a buffalo, a garbage truck, and an electric pole!
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