THE TRUTH OF LIFE

Once the Child reaches in the womb of mother,

Then he prays to the Lord to get him out of this bunker.

When he comes to this material world,

He is expected to see a lot further.

Gradually he becomes detached from the real owner (Lord),

And is required to go to school,

Learn a lot and complete his homework a further.

Parents want their child to merit,

Have scholarships and gifts with prizes.

Child go tense due to the pressure,

Created by the expectations of his parents and teachers.

Child in school wants to go to college,

No uniform problem and no homework batches.

But no chance of less hard work in college,

He wants to take the degree the leave the college.

Then he pursues some professional courses,

For better job and healthy mistresses (wife).

After the marriage he too wants to have children,

Cute, smart, healthy and governance.

Here the vicious circle begins again,

Child takes birth again and again.

Parents take care of their child again,

To grow independent and earn well again.

Parents grow old slowly and slowly,

For living their life for material things again.

This is the only lesson they pass on to their child,

To have better and healthy life.

No time is spent on praying the almighty and,

The soul goes further into the 84 Lakh species.

Lesser are the chances of being born as a human being,

But are assured of birth, death, old age and diseases. (vicious circle)

Even the demigods suffer from the same and,

Have to take the shelter of the Supreme.

Now is the time to worship the Lord and,

Get free of lust, anger, envy, illusion and pride.

You are lucky to see the Lord in this birth and,

Free from the material bandages of all.

When you reside with the Lord himself,

You are always assured of bliss and happiness.

DISSOLVE OF DESIRES/ DEMANDS

Dear Readers’

Today Everyone one of us has an assembly of desires for the fulfilment of which each one of use is working very hard. People grow old, ill or meets death but his bodily desires never ends for which he has to take birth in this material world again & again.

Dhruva Maharaja started tapasya of Lord with a desire but gradually with the effects of the tapasya, he disremembered his wish and on the manifestation of Lord himself, when Lord asked for the wish of Dhruva, he refused for any wish but Lord knew even the deepest desire of the Dhruva and he ultimately fulfilled his desire.

In the age of Kaliyuga, everyone wants to have a modern life which each one of us are trying to achieve/ accomplish with every possible means available.

People are forgetting their culture, forgiveness and running more towards the finishing their body, satisfaction of their false egoistic desires and neglecting concentration on soul.

In Satyuga, everyone was a sadhu/ devotee of Lord, no one was atheist & used to spend most of their time in worshipping the Lord (tapasya) and do not had any material desires.

Lord says that material desires are like a nighdream because they neither never ends till we are in this material body nor are ever satisfied. “ The more we try to accomplish our material desires, the more it increases & never ends.”

So people should try to control their senses in order to rest their bodily desires.

When any person’s desires are not fulfilled, he/ she get tensed, depressed and curses Lord that why it happens only with him and what bad karmas had been performed by him in the past.

So readers, if bodily desires/ demands are dissolved/ controlled then more easy the life is and less are the problems, our present & future would be more lightful and we can tell others that we had a good/ satisfied past because then only we can concentrate on the worshipping of the Lord.

TRUE STORY

After the Mahabharata yudh,

Kunti asks Lord Krishna to grant her sorrow (trouble) so that Krishna would always be by her side and she never forgets him ! Kunti compares Krishna with the lotus. She celebrates the lotus stemming from Vishnu’s navel and the garland he wears around his neck. She says his eyes are like lotus petals while his hands and feet are as soft as the flower itself. Krishna’s heart, too, is lotus-like, according to Kunti, for any misfortune experienced by his devotees’ touches him deeply, just as the lotus petal wilts when handled roughly. Kunti recounts the catastrophes she faced along with the Pandavas and how Krishna would always come to their rescue.

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Due to some problem in home this time I am writing this after a long time, I hope you all very curious to read my articles.

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Ekansh Gupta

GRATIFICATION OF SENSES

                                                

Dear Readers’

This article is in regard with to inform everyone “What is the purpose of our life in a body of human being”.

Does anyone has really thought about this?

Everyone is today’s life wants to have lots of money, girlfriend in adolescence age, wants to party everytime. But is this actually for which we are born for. There are 83,00,000 species of life and simply as we change our clothes daily, similarly we are changing our bodies on the basis of our consciousness at the time of death. This is vicious circle of birth and death and we all are trapped in this.

The body is composed of senses, and the senses are always hungry after their objects. The eyes see  a beautiful person and tell us, “Oh, there is a beautiful girl, a beautiful boy. Let’s go see.” The ears are telling us, “Oh, there is very nice music. Let us go hear it.” The tongue is saying, “Oh, there is a very nice restaurant with palatable dishes. Let us go.” In this way senses are dragging us from one place to another, and because of this we are perplexed (confused).

Indriyanam hi caratam

Yan mano nuvidhiyate

Tad asya harati prajnam

Vayur navam ivambhasi

“As a boat on the water is swept away by a strong wind, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man’s intelligence.” (Bg. 2.67)

It is imperative that we learn how to control the senses. The name gosvami is given to someone who has learned how to master the senses. Go means “senses,” and svami means “controller”; so one who can control the senses is to be considered a gosvami.

Adanta-gobhir visatam tamisram punah punas carvita carvananam :

Life after life, people are simply trying to enjoy their senses. Life after life, the same thing over and over again. The same eating, the same sleeping, the same sexual intercourse and the same defending either as a man or dog.

Punah punas carvita carvananam :

Again & again chewing the chewed. Whether you become a demigod or a dog in the material world everyone is given the facilities for these 4 things : eating, sleeping, having sexual intercourse and defending.

Visayah Khalu sarvatah syat

Visayah means the facilities for sense enjoyment.

Our process is visaya chadiya se rase majiya : One has to give up this unsatisfying material enjoyment and relish transcendental bliss, the taste of spiritual enjoyment.

Matir na Krsna paratah svato va :

Those who are befooled by material sensual enjoyment cannot become Krishna consciousness, by their own endeavour or even by instruction from a spiritual master.

Srimad Bhagavatam says, Kandutivam manasijam visahata dhirah :

A man who is dhira, sober and sane, tolerates this itching sensation of sex desire. One who can tolerate this itching sensation of sex desire saves so much trouble, but one who cannot is immediately implicated.

Srimad Bhagavatam says, The consciousness of these rascals and fools cannot be turned towards the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna who acts wonderfully, until they touch their heads to the lotus feet of a devotee of the Lord who is Niskincana, who has nothing to gain in this material world and is simply interested in Krishna. The dust of the lotus feet of a great devotee can help you.

TRUE STORY

Ajamil was the son of a devout devotee of Vishnu. But , unlike his holy father, Ajamil was lazy and wasted his time in sinful activities.

One day, his father sent him to the nearby forest to pluck flowers. There a beautiful tribal woman, accompanied by her lover, saw the handsome Ajamil and fell in love with him. She approached him and expressed her wish to be his wife. Ajamil who was equally charmed by her beauty also agreed to marry her and soon they were married.

Ajmil returned home with his bride. Shocked, his father rejected her saying that she had sinned. A heated argument followed between Ajamil and his father after which he threw the old man on the ground and asked him to leave the house. Many years passed and Ajamil's sins only increased day by day. He drank heavily and gambled in bad company.

Ajamil's wife bore him ten sons. The youngest, called Narayana was the most loved of them all.

Ajamil slowly became poor in health and took to his bed. Frail and ailing, he saw Yama's two messengers by his bedside. Startled, he shouted his son Narayan's name. Vishnu who is called Narayana heard the plea and responded.

He immediately sent his men to tell Yamraj to delay Ajamil's death. Yamraj agreed.

Meanwhile Ajamil thanked Vishnu for saving his life and drowned himself in prayers. He gave up all corrupt activities and became a pious man.

In Nutshell, we should try to make ourselves Krishna conscious in or der to get freedom from the vicious circle of birth, death, old age and disease and renunciation of leaving simply a life who main motive is feeding the body and not the body.

If we become Krishna conscious, then at the time of death we recognize Lord Krishna & we certainly abode in Krishnadham with Krishna and are released from the sufferings of this material world.

DEMIGODS & THE SUPREME BEING

  Dear Reader’s,

 Let’s understand the difference between the demigods and the supreme being.

 All the gods are demigods as the Lord Krishna is the Supreme

 But let’s understand about some of the main demigods who are worshipped by people considering as the   supreme:

       Brahma was born from a lotus which grew from the Navel of Vishnu before the formation of the universe.

That is how Brahma gets one of his names 'Nabhija', which means born from the stomach.

 Brahma is depicted as having four heads, faces and arms. Each of his head chants one of the Vedas (Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, Atharveda). Brahma's vehicle is a Swan, a holy bird which can differentiate good from evil. Brahma is considered to be the Creator of the entire universe

He is represented as an old man to show the never-ending nature.

One day Shiva was not happy with Brahma being smitten by his own creation (hankering after a female girl created by himself) and directed that no one will worship Brahma. Therefore Brahma is not worshipped and also has only one temple in the whole world in Pushkar ji.

         Shiva is called the destroyer,  has four hands, four faces and three eyes in each face. The third eye always        keep power to destroy the creation. 

        In the Vedas, a collection of ancient sacred texts, God Shiva is also called the storm god Rudra. Shiva’s vehicle is Nandi (a bull). Shiva was born from the center of the eyes of Brahma ji. He is the param Vaishnava always  being concentrated on worshippping Lord Krishna.

       Durga Mata (Shera wali Mata), is a devi with eighteen arms, carrying various weapons in each hand and riding a ferocious lion. She is the protection goddess, and is one of the most angry and aggressive forms, who fights and conquers demons wearing red clothes.

   

        she has various names like Kali “the black” , Chandi “the fierce”, Bhairavi, "the terrible."Uma, Gauri; Parvati and Jagatmata, "The-Mother-Of-The-World". Also Mata Vaishno devi, is the collective spiritual strength of Mata Lakshmi, Kali and Saraswati. She is called the Maya deva, and her duty is to keep the prisoners of the material world here only.

 Hanuman Ji is the son of Vayu, the God of Wind. He is humble yet very brave. His divine strength, mental discipline and spiritual purity have made him extremely popular in Hindus all over the world. He is the incarnation of Lord Shiva as a monkey. The birth was by the blessings of God Pavan, who thus became     Hanuman's father and Hanuman is named as PavanPutra.

        

        He was a great devotee as we all know of Lord Rama in Treta yuga and chanted the name of Lord Rama till      Dvapar yuga to meet him again and finally he met Lord Krishna as it is in the Dvapar Yuga. He illustrates the  true example of a great devotee for all of us.

 Shani Dev, is the son of Surya dev (Son of Brahma ji) and Sandna (Daughter of Daksh Prajapati), has three brothers Yamraj ji (Also a great devotee of Lord Krishna himself),  Manu ji and Ashwani ji and two sisters Yamuna ji and Tapti ji, guru of Shani dev is God Shiva. 

             

       Shani dev is a great devotee of Lord Krishna and this duty to punish the people of their misdeeds was given to him by Lord Krishna himself when he appeared to him as it is after being felicitous from his bhakti.

So, this was all about the briefing about the main demigods who are worshipped by people as the supreme. Actually in Kaliyuga, people make a demigod as their supreme if their material wishes are fulfilled. But even the demigods have to worship the Lord to get the sight of him.

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So, let’s read a true story now.

TRUE STORY

Junagad was an ancient Guajarati town, which was culturally advanced.  Narshima Mehta was a Brahmin by birth and was born in Junagad. He lost his parents when he was seven. He was a great devotee of God Shiva.  Narshi went into the temple and embraced the Shivalinga and cried out, ”Shiva,  Shankara, Mahadeva, Neelakanda” and prostrated (bowed down) in front of him. He became totally engrossed (engaged) with the lord that, Narshi started meditating on Lord shiva. Seven days passed. He didn’t eat anything and didn’t feel anything. He kept chanting the Panchakshara mantra “Namashivaya”. Lord shiva on seeing Narshi’s unwavering bhakthi and vairagya revealed himself and said to him, ”My child, I am pleased with your bhakthi. Tell me what your heart desires.”

Narshi embraced the feet of lord and said, ”I am an ignorant child. O’ Shiva, I want to know that in whom worhip you are always so engaged. Lord Shiva gave him Gnana and blessed him with a divine vision by which Narshi saw the river Yamuna in Vrindavan with lord Krishna dancing with the Gopis.

He was thrilled with the vision of the rasaleela, performed by the lord, in which numerous Krishna forms and numerous Gopis took each others hands, dancing in pairs. In his vision Lord Krishna even explains the truths about jeevathma and paramathma and blesses Narshi with the divine ability to compose hymns (anthems) on the lord. Narshima Mehta was always engaged in the bhakti of Lord Krishna. The Lord himself personally helped Narshimsa Mehta to get his daughter and son married comfortably. Finally, Narshima Mehta went back to the godhead.

CONCLUSION:

People worship god and Lord the supreme being because of 4 reasons:

1)   Love (the utmost point)

2)   Duty

3)   Desire

4)   Fear

Demigods are worshipped by people mainly because of their material desires as they are pleased easily but if you ask for anything being material/ immaterial from a demigod that has to be sanctioned by the Lord Krishna because he is the supreme.

So, we should engage ourselves in the bhakti of Lord Krishna, the supreme personality of Godhead, to get rid from the vicious circle of birth, diseases, old age and death because only he can help us to clear this big ocean of the material world (also called as dukhalayam).

KALIYUGA & ATTAINING GOD

KALIYUGA AND ATTAINING GOD

Dear Reader’s

We all are very fortunate that we are having means/ ways to attain God (Lord Krishna) in this Yuga of Kali, (Kali Yuga means "strife, discord, quarrel, or contention ) which is referred as the “Dark Age” or Dharma ending age because in it people are as far away as possible from God. (Kaliyuga is the fourth most consolidated age out of the four yugas i.e. Satyuga, Tretayuga, Dvaparyuga)

Let’s first understand the environment of earth before Kaliyuga:

Sat yuga: This age is also called the Golden age because all the pillars of religion were present in totality. During Satyuga all people engage only in pious, good and sublime deeds and worshipped god most of their time or I should say people were in Sattoguna (Spending most of their time in worshipping Lord Krishna), people were not interested in material sense enjoyment. In this age, people have the bodily strength of ten thousand elephants. The four incarnations of Lord Krishna in this yuga were Matsya avatar (In the form of fish), Kurma Avatar (In the form of turtle), Varaha Avatar (In the form of Boar), Narsimha Avatar (In the form of half man and half human being).

Treta yuga:  This yuga is the second yuga out of the four yugas. In this yuga the fifth, sixth and seventh incarnations of Lord Krishna as Vamana, Parashurama and Ramachandra were construed. In this yuga, human being got the opportunity to grimace (face) the Ram Rajya, the most auspicious rajya led by Lord Rama where no one was poor and everyone was happy in the kingdom of Lord Rama.

Dvapar yuga:  In this yuga, the kings would avail to the advice of the learned scholars and accordingly would maintain law and order in his empire. The king who was addicted to vices (wrong doings) would definitely end up defeated. One or two or all from Sama, Dama, Danda, Bhed and Upeksha would be brought into use and would attain the desired. Kings were diligent in maintaining public decorum and order. In this yuga only, Lord Krishna himself came to the earth to save Dharma and gave the lesson of “Bhagavad Gita” to Arjun. Lord  Krishna.

Kaliyuga:  At the end of the Dvapar Yuga, when Lord Shri Krishna renounced the world and went to Goloka, at that time Kali Yuga, the source of all chaos took birth in the minds of the ignorant. When king Yudhishtir realized the advent of the Kali Yuga that is chaos, greed, violence and lies, he expressed a desire to go to the forest and do penance. Accordingly, he abdicated the throne and coronated (crowned) his grandson Parikshit as the king.

This is the last & worst yuga out of the four yugas, according to the Vishnu Purana, he is a negative manifestation of Vishnu, who along with his extended evil family, perpetually operates as a cause of the destruction of this world. In the Kalki Purana, he is portrayed as a demon and the source of all evil.  

It is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam that in Kali-yuga the heads of government will be plunderers (looter) and thieves. These thieves and plunderers take the money and property of the public by force or connivance (consent ). Therefore it is said in Srimad-Bhagavatam, As Kali-yuga advances, we can see that these characteristics are already visible. We can certainly imagine how deteriorated human civilization will be by the end of Kali-yuga. Indeed, there will no longer be a sane man capable of understanding God and our relationship with Him. In other words, human beings will be just like animals. At that time, in order to reform human society, Lord Krsna will come in the form of the Kalki avatara. His business will be to kill all the atheists because ultimately the real protector is Visnu, or Krsna. 

The modern activities of human society are described in Srimad-Bhagavatam as the activities of go-khara, cows and asses (sa eva go-kharah). Everyone is acting in a bodily concept of life involving society, friendship and love for the improvement of economic and political conditions, and thus all activities are enacted in ignorance. The Supreme Personality therefore comes to teach us how to act according to the Vedic principles. In this age of Kali, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and preached that in this age the Vedic activities cannot be systematically performed because people are so fallen. He gave this recommendation from the sastras:

harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha

“In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.” The Krsna consciousness movement is therefore teaching people all over the world how to chant the Hare Krsna mantra, and this has proved very much effective in all places at all times. The Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in order to teach us Vedic principles intended for understanding Him (vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah). We should always know that when Krsna and Lord Caitanya appeared, They appeared in suddha-sattva bodies. One should not mistake the body of Krsna or Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be a material body like ours, for Krisnna and Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared as needed for the benefit of the entire human society. Out of causeless mercy, the Lord appears in different ages in His original suddha-sattva transcendental body to elevate human society to the spiritual platform upon which they can truly benefit. Unfortunately, modern politicians and other leaders stress the bodily comforts of life (yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri-dhatuke) and concentrate on the activities of this ism (doctrine) and that ism, which they describe in different kinds of flowery language. Essentially such activities are the activities of animals (sa eva go-kharah). We should learn how to act from Bhagavad-gita, which explains everything for human understanding. Thus we can become happy even in this age of Kali. 

In Nutshell, the human form of life is a boon or opportunity for us to go back to Godhead i.e. go back to Krishna, so we should engage ourselves in the bhakti of lotus feet of Sri Krishna who is very merciful and will accept out prayers done without any selfishness and should avoid ourselves from being hankering after sense gratification because of the reason that Kaliyuga is the most consolidated age .