Month: March 2024

Holi Wishes 2012

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Mother Divine has gifted us a beautiful world filled with colours. She also made our minds deeply and diversely colour-endowed.

Of these colours we harvest daily, and moment by moment but seldom celebrate.

But then, when we truly come to celebrating, oh what flames of colours light up our lives, minds, hearts.

I wish you a colours-lit whole year and all of the times beyond.

~ Swami Veda Bharati

Editor’s Note:

The Festival of Holi is celebrated on the Full Moon Day in March. In 2024, it will be on 24 & 25 March. You may listen to Swami Veda Bharati’s talk on the origins of this colorful festival at the below link.

Origins of Holi by Swami Veda Bharati (2006)

Draw Yourself to Yourself

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Draw yourself to yourself. Empty your mind of all things from sources outside you and look into your mind for a force that may be entirely yours. A body in meditation is totally relaxed. All muscles are limp, there is no twitching, no movement. The mind has no memories and, therefore, no anxieties. When the mind has no anxieties the breath flows evenly and smoothly. All the hollows of the mind are filled and there are no sharp edges. The brain becomes clear. The thoughts do not arise at random.

That evenness of the mind brings an evenness of emotions, and a quality of equilibrium develops in your personality. That equilibrium may last for a moment or two while in meditation, and initially that is so. But as your meditations prosper they begin to permeate your personality and through all your thoughts, words and physical deeds your natural equilibrium begins to show.

Drain all waters from the Pacific Ocean and fill them with liquid light — these are the unfathomable depths of our mind.

I wish you a dive into the depths of an ocean called consciousness, filled with light.

Editor’s Note

This is an excerpt from The Light of Ten Thousand Suns by Swami Veda Bharati, page 68.

If You Want to Live Positively and Joyfully

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If you want to live positively and joyfully, learn to give the fruits of your actions to others, and determine that you will not allow yourself to be bothered by anything in the exterior world. If you do not learn to give, then you are being selfish and negative. A negative person is selfish; a positive person is generous. You cannot rely on a negative person. There are some people who never come in contact with their positive emotions – they only remain negative all the time. And because of this they are unable to give to others.

So learn to give to your own people, those with whom you live, those who are closest to you. Learn to give spontaneously in your mind, action, and speech. That is your first step to freedom. It is attained when you learn to do your actions with love and learn to give. Love means non-harming, so you should resolve that you will not harm, hurt, or injure your spouse, children, or friends – that means that you love them. The expression of your love is not hurting or harming others. Love does not consist of telling someone that you love them and cannot live without them – that is mere selfishness. If you love someone, then don’t harm or hurt them – that is the real expression of your love.

Editor’s Note

This is an excerpt from The Art of Joyful Living by Swami Rama, published by Himalayan Institute Press.

From the 2010 – 2013 Practice given by Swami Veda Bharati to the AHYMSIN sangha: “Read Swami Rama’s ART OF JOYFUL LIVING. Keep track of what progress you are making in the paths shown there.”