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The Essence of Chapter 11 Volume 2 Om Sri Gurubhyo namaha!!! How much ever effort we put to remove the wicked things from our lives, the same efforts will bounce back and make us to succumb to those ills. Holy people keep on doing good deeds so that they do not have a minute to think of anything foul. A  sanyasi  was asked how he was able to overcome desires, he answered that “whenever a Desire came knocking my door, I was busy in some devotional service and the Desire got fed up and left from the entrance itself”. An idle mind is prone to wasteful conversations and casting aspersions on others. Desires raise their ugly heads and when good deeds are not performed, bad thoughts spring up in the mind.  Satsang ( union with truth or company of good) is the only remedy for the disease of  dussang ( bad company). Constant performance of good deeds is important for the wickedness to be erased along with the roots from one’s heart. Scope should not be given for bad thoughts to e

The Essence of Volume 2 Chapter 6 Om Sri Gurubhyo namaha!!! How should we pray to God?   Why should we pray?   What should we ask him?  If there is anyone who can answer these questions, it is only the self-realized and great spiritual masters. We go to a hospital for treatment, to a rich man for monetary help, to a court for settlement of legal disputes. In the same way, we should take the shelter of great and realized men for  spiritual enlightenment . There is no assurance that all we seek from other humans will be fully attained or resolved. So we should firstly present our trammels and disputes to God and seek his help. There are some who say that “why should we ask God to resolve our worldly problems, we should seek his help only for spiritual gains”. But there are plenty of responsibilities and dependents for a householder, he cannot leave those dependent on him and look for self-interests like salvation until the responsibilities are fulfilled. There are three l

The Essence of Chapter 20, Volume 1 Om Sri Gurubhyo namaha!!! The governments are expected to provide facilities for people to live peacefully but it looks like  deprivation  is progressing day by day. People are jubilant that there is great economic development but where is that growth? One who was having coffee twice earlier has it four times now, one who was living in hut is now living in concrete building, one who had two pairs of clothes has 20 pairs today. It is not proper to think that these are the symbols of economic growth.  If we keep increasing our wants in this manner, we will always be laboring harder . Whatever is required for the basic living should always be in the reach of all. There should be proper laws for that. Everybody should try and lead lives in the same way as much as possible. That is the true meaning of aparigraham. One who wants to attain spiritual heights in life should never accumulate more than required. If some people who are rich live in

The Essence of Volume 1 Chapter 20 Om Sri Gurubhyo namaha!!! Our government can facilitate to develop good qualities like devotion in people. In a scenario filled with devotion, there would be no need for society to say that morality is dead no necessity to use brutal force on public and to waste money on unnecessary law enforcement activities.  We seem to have got freedom even before we realized the real meaning of what freedom is all about . It is the same as holding the tail first, the last part, leaving all other parts. As long as we think that an elected government should not involve in propagation of devotion and delink Constitution from devotion, the governments will continue to face difficulties and also make wasteful expenditure on governance. Why do we say devotion to God is important?  So that every person strives to realize the Reality and become free from rebirth.  Yama  is the first principle in such an effort and  Aparigraha  is the most important aspect whic

The Essence of Volume 1 Chapter 16 Om Sri Gurubhyo namaha!!! Most humans have a feeling of deficiency or lack. All feelings of happiness or beauty or desires are all generated from within. Whatever is inside is what reflects outside. There is nothing outside. Everything is inside. All that is there outside has to merge with what is inside. Lord Krishna said in Bhagavadgita: apuryamanam acala-pratistham   samudram apah pravisanti yadvat   tadvat kama yam pravisanti sarve   sa santim apnoti na kama-kami                                  Chapter 2 Verse 70 (A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires--that enter like rivers into the ocean which is ever being filled but is always still--can alone achieve peace and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires) A desire (Kama) is nothing but a longing or attraction for outside objects. We try to derive happiness from such desires.  How can a person always deriving happiness from outside be at peace? Th

The Essence of Volume 1, Chapter 20  Om Sri Gurubhyo namaha!!! The greatest realizable fruit of human birth is to know the ultimate Reality or Truth. If we observe closely, we can understand that the Truth is nothing but God. The moment realization dawns, usage of words like  I  and  Me  will no longer linger in our minds.  The rivers lose their identity after they merge with the sea.  In the same way, once  Jivatma  merges with  Paramatma , it loses its identity. So,as long as the Jivatma is dwelling in this body, we should aim to realize Paramatma and that is the real meaning of human life. To achieve realization and to understand that philosophy there are certain activities to be compulsorily followed as prescribed in   Ashtangayoga  which consists of eight limbs namely   Yama ( moral codes ),   Niyama ( self-purification and study ),   Asana (   posture ),   Pranayama (  breath control ),   Pratyahara  ( withdrawing of the mind from the senses ),   Dharana  ( concentr

The essence from Volume 1 Chapter 10 Om Sri Gurubhyo Namaha !!! That state which when attained creates a feeling in us that there is nothing greater,that is what is attainable. To attain that state, one needs to have clean mind and concentration.  Desire, anger and lust  are the dirt that is attached to the mind. Once these are removed we can understand the  Reality .  The sign of having achieved  that Reality is when one is  unmoved  and  unfazed  at times of  difficulties  and  miseries . Another sign of highest achievement of yoga is when one is always in  blissful state (ananda).  Understanding the s at  and then rooting one’s  chit  in that  sat  will always lead to  ananda ( bliss). Disciplined  and  regulated  way of life alone will remove the instabilities of the mind and lead to concentration. This state can be attained by  constant practice .  Yoga means Viyog from miseries .  If a dog has to save us from thieves, first the dog has to be taken care of by us

The essence from Volume 1 Chapter 10 Om Sri Gurubhyo Namaha !!! What are Vedas? What is the objective of Vedas? How and why did they come into being? These are some of the doubts that most people have. The Upanishads suggest that all Vedas point towards only one which is the  Supreme Reality( Sat) . We come to know of an subject/object through various sources. That which is realized ultimately through  yoga ,  meditation, tapas, yagna  and  karma  is the core Reality of Vedas. Everything else may change but the core Reality remains forever. To experience that Reality, we need to follow certain rules in life. Every activity has to be performed with the objective of  mind purification  and reaching that Reality  (Sat). We are normally disturbed by even the smallest of a problem. If we have to remain stable in spite of problems we need to follow a disciplined life.  A   body builder   does a lot of hard work and follows a strict regimen of time, diet, etc., to build a muscular b

The essence from Volume 1, Chapter 3 OM Sri Gurubhyo Namaha!! We have to dedicate all our actions to God (Eswar) to receive His divine Grace. It is but natural that we are always doing some activity or the other and can never be free even for a second. There are activities of the body and activities of the mind in the form of thoughts. The very purpose of visiting temples and offering prayers is to offer oneself completely in thought and action to God. Lord Krishna declared in Bhagavadgita:             yat karoshi yad asnaasi yaj juhoshi dadasi yat           yat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kurushva mad-arpanam          Ch 9, V 27 ( whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform – do that, O son of Kunti, as an offering to me) God has given us body. We take food when we feel hungry. We need shelter to protect ourselves from rain, heat and cold. Unlike other animals, we need clothing to cover our bodies.  Food, clot

His Holiness. Sri.ChandraSekharendra Saraswathi OM Sri Gurubhyo Namaha!!! Gururbrahma  Gururvishnu  GuruDevoMaheshvaraha !! GuruSaakshaat ParamBrahma Tasmai Sri Gurave Namaha !! Pranams to Sri Jagadguru Sri Adi Sankaraachaarya and His Holiness Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi. The teachings of His Holiness Sri Adi Sankarachaarya are timeless jewels. They are the floodlights that show path to a Saadhaka( one who strives). They are a medicine for the soul (Atma) that is suffering from the cycle of birth and death. When this medicine is taken in the right way, the Atma is bound to merge with Paramaatma and escape from the cycle of Samsaara. Understanding these teachings helps in leading a peaceful, fruitful and spiritual life. The teachings were propagated by His Holiness Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi on several occasions during his lifetime which were brought out in Telugu in 10 volumes as   Jagadguru Bodhalu   by   Sadhana Grantha Mandali , Tenali, Andhra Prad