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50 Divine Thoughts

In the unbroken line of preceptors fromAdi Sankara Bhagavatpada, downdardsour beacon light in the SanatanaVaideeka Marga, SriChandrasekharendra Saraswathi, the68th Sankaracharya, shone as bright asAdi Shankara. It was the good fortuneof his devotees and of this century, thatHe was the exemplar for promptingpeoples' knowledge, faith and interestin the Karma-Bhakti-Jnana marga. Forthe learned and the layman, Heexpounded words of wisdom. Theserun into over 4000 pages and are being

published in various languages.Indonesia has been similar to India, intheir way of talk, habits, worship andculture. This has been so for ages. It isa true fact that Sri Mahaswami (Sage of
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Kanchi) had an affection towards thepeople of Indonesia. This book titled"Divine Nectar 50" has been translatedinto the Indonesian language by IBA

NOOR AND STAFF "REALIA"Indonesian language school,Yogyakarta, Indonesia and publishedby P.R. Dandapani of P. T. Ispat Indo,Surabaya, Indonesia, while N. Rajan ofUCO Bank Madras has been the co-ordinator . we bless the families of IBANOOR, STAFF of "REALIA" , P.R.Dandapani, and N. Rajan and pray to

MAHATRIPURASUNDARI SAMETASRI CHANDRAMOULEESWARA thatall Indonesians should read this bookand benefit thereof. May those engagedin this noble task be the recipients of allbounties and we offer our blessings.

The medicine of Grace to wipe out oursorrows is to develop unshakable faith inGod and tolerance is the medicine of


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Grace to wipe out our sorrows. Bhaktialone can give us the capacity to put upwith sorrows. Temples are the agenciesfor developing that Bhakti. Hence, the

need for temples at all places. All offeringsto the deities in the temples are tokens ofour gratitude to God.

That which is within all, which is seen as"This" is the source. He who is within andsees as "This" is God. It is the reality. It isin yourself. What is limited is Sadhana;

what is unlimited is the end.

He alone is an Acharya, who, after clearlyunderstanding the conclusive teachings of theSastras, makes the people of the world gaintheir welfare by making them stick to the pathshown in the Sastras and also himself does

everything according to Sastras and remainsin that experience.


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of the world will vanish.

We know many faults wecommit, even if others do notknow them. Sometimes werealise we are doing so manyevil things and repent bitterlyand feel why we should beborn . Our duty is to pray toGod -"I have committed somany faults. Will you not, 0God, give me the will power

not do like that in future andwill you not purify my mind?"We must note down in adiary every night before wego to bed the faultscommitted by us and pray toGod to give us courage andintelligence not to do so. Thismust be propagated widely.

Parameswara and SrimanNarayana are one and the


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same in reality. They are nottwo. This is the conclusiveview of all the sastras.Names differ, forms are

different, occupations vary,but the reality which is withinThem is one and the same.

What is the purpose of human birth? Toearn, to eat, to undergo misery everydayand finally to die? Instead of earning and

suffering, can we not die now? The purposeof birth is to avoid re-birth. Except man, allanimals grow horizontally. Only man growsvertically. Instead of growing horizontally, itis God's will that he should grow verticallyin order to look up. God has given toanimals devices for self-protection; to manalone He has given intelligence. By doingnothing, we avoid re-birth; By giving upattachment, we avoid sins.

When any object is consumed by fire, it becomes charred. If thatblack residue is burnt again, it becomes white ash. White ash


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continues to remain white even when burnt again. This shows thatwhite is the ultimate and black is proximate to it. Science tells usthat diamond and coal are basically one. White and black are notcolours. The primary colours get separated from the objects to

which they are attached when subjected to the test of fire andultimately white. Similarly, in the mental and spiritual place, theUltimate Reality is Siva, who is white and proximate to Him isParvati, who is dark. When we test everything in the fire of Jnana,or true knowledge, the residue is Siva. Ash in the material planecorresponds to Siva in the spiritual plane. We smear our bodieswith the sacred ash to remind ourselves of Siva and the fact thatthe ultimate goal of life is Siva.

Much is said about the personal God andthe impersonal absolute God withattributes and without attributes. It is onlywhen all the colours in the light mixtogether that we get the colourless raysof the sun. Similarly by the very virtue ofbeing the abode of attributes, Godbecomes Nirguna, attribute-less.

By education we realise Truth. There aremany truths, History is one truth.


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Geography is one truth, Mathematics isone truth. The content of truth is thegreatest in Mathematics. In others, thereis an element of imagination. In

Geography, we come across namesAsia, Africa, Madras, Calcutta, etc.These names were given by us. Byimagination, we have given names"plateau" "valley", etc. By a process ofgradual elimination of all that isimaginary, when we arrive at truth, thatTruth is found to be God. To think of Himwith real devotion is the fruit ofeducation.


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What is the use of education? Its first useis to develop humility (vinaya). In oldendays, the disciple who went to a guru wascalled "vineyan" meaning a person of

humility which is the hall-mark ofInstruction he had from his guru, the fruitof education. Education without humilityis no education. Education is the sametoday as it was before, but methods havechanged. The medicine is the same but ifthe diet is changed, the medicinebecomes poison. Education has todaybecome merely the means of livelihood.For true education, the student should go

to a guru and follow the guru-kulasystem.

Right education should make us know that God is the Truth.Knowledge must fill one with good qualities, through which one canrealise the Truth, that is God. Therefore, the goal of knowledge isthe understanding of the Ultimate Truth. The first fruit of educationmust be humility and self control.

The total surrender to the Lord is ameans of learning our insignificanceand the transcendent grace of the Lord.


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If we engage an inquiry into the Atman,at the end of it, it will be clear that Godis in us as our very self. When thatstage is reached, we have no use for

the devas. Then all karmas will fall awayfrom us. But, until then, we mustobligatorily do the karmas directingthem to the Gods.

Those who are the leaders of a group,society, or state should not neglect theestablished religious customs andusages. For themselves the may mot bein need of Church ceremonies, for

instance, their advance in spiritualitymay not require them. But if they beginto neglect them, the people for whomthe rituals are really helpful, will alsostart neglecting them. This would besetting a bad example. In the words ofthe Bhagavad Gita, the wise one shouldnot unsettle the minds of those who areignorant, and are attached to action: onthe contrary, he should encourage themto perform what they should perform, byhimself doing the appropriate actionswell and with diligence. It is duty castupon the leaders and those that are at


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the top to lead the people from wherethey are, and not to refrain fromparticipation in the traditional ways ofworship.

Of all scriptures, the Gita has acquired aspecialty of its own. Like this, there aremany other books of wisdom. In theMahabharata, there are many chaptersteaching wisdom. Besides, in theSivapurana, Vishnupurana, Skandham,etc., there is Jnanopadesa.So also in agamas. But what is the specialimportance of Gita due to? Not only in ourcountry but in countries like Java, peoplefollow the Gita. My inference is thatbecause it was born in an atmosphereutterly free from attachment - attachmentto life, attachment to body, attachment tokith and kin, but out of attachment only toReality, it has become so famous.

On deep consideration, ahimsa appears to

be good as an ideal or for preaching. Butpractically speaking, it is difficult to followfully. First of all, we must love others. Butif we love anyone too much, the end issorrow. Therefore we should love God


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who always gives happiness and notsorrow. I ask myself if we love God,should we not love anyone else in thisworld? So long as there is false

knowledge which distinguishes God fromthe rest of the world, there will bedifferences. If we attain Jnana that God isall, we will develop the same love for allthat we have for God; This is the sign ofAhimsa.

For the sake of food, clothing and shelter,everyone is toiling and sorrow-stricken. If

sorrow is to be banished and if we are tobe ever happy, we must dedicate all ouractions to God. If we get His grace, thenwe need not do anything and can behappy. God is a good master. By praisingHim always, we cannot please Him. He isindifferent to our praise or dispraise,action or inaction. But all our actions areordained by Him and are meant only topurify our minds.

Why so many Gods? Is it not enough tohave only one? Other religions speak ofone God only and not many. We areassailed by such doubts. We eat to satisfy


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hunger, the stomach becomes full, thereis no trouble or hunger. Then why can'twe take cooked rice alone? Why shouldwe eat so many side dishes? So, if we

eat, it is just not to fill the stomach, but wewant food tasty to the palate and pleasingto the eyes. Whoever is attracted to aparticular God he worships that.

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By multiplying wants, we only increase poverty. What is essential for life and honour should bemade available to all the people of the country. It is for this we want plans. Men of meansshould live like the poor and should not increase their wants beyond necessities. The richshould share their prosperity with the poor. This is punya, leading to salvation. The more weincrease our wants, to that extent, there will be no peace or comfort and it will only producepoverty and sorrow.

Vedanta which is the peak of the Vedas teaches the way for the removal of sorrow. Hatredand desire arise only in respect of the objects other than us. That desire will not arise if thoseobjects are rendered identical with us, if there is nothing other than us, then desire will notarise. If there is no desire, there will be no effort and no sin. When there is no sin, there will beno body and there will be no misery.
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We may get many types of sorrow. What seems to be sorrow to all the people of a place maynot seem sorrowful to us. If we stay always happy, without wanting to attain anythinguntouched by sorrow like the lotus-leaf and the Kalakodi - seed, that is called yoga. "Knowthat to be indicated as yoga which is separation from being united with sorrow, The removal ofassociation with sorrow."

In order to reach one purport, why should the Veda speak of many matters? This questionmay arise in our minds. It is through many matters that it is possible to understand that onepurport which is Reality - yoga, meditation, austerity, sacrifice, performance of karma; whenthese are accomplished, what they indicate is that one Reality. It is that Reality which is thetrue purport of the Veda. Other things are of a changing nature. They become woven into astory and then even that story disappears.

What for is the science of medicine? It is for keeping the body strong and healthy. What if the

body is not strong and healthy? The body will be subject to diseases. What if there is disease?One will not be able to function properly. He who has given this body is the supreme Self. Thisis the truth, we should practice several disciplines. We can practice them only if the body iswell. In order to keep it well, we must prevent it from becoming a prey to disease. The scienceof medicine tells us how to prevent diseases. Thus, Ayurveda helps in the realisation ofAdvaita experience.

Savikapla Samadhi: The mind is steady without any distraction, contemplating its objectwholly absorbed therein.Nirvikalpa Samadhi: This is the goal of yoga. In this, the mind ceases to function and vanishes

once and for all, leaving the self to shine forth alone. In Advaita too, the path of meditation isrecognised; but here the object of meditation is the distinction-less Brahman.Sahaja Samadhi: This is realised through the path of enquiry. It is the natural state of Self -realisation and one of utter unconcern for the fleeting phenomena.


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useless people at useless places, we plead before the Highest and the Omniscient.Otherwise, we have no justification to ask Him to give us this or that.

Everything disintegrates on earth and this earth also will vanish one day. The sun willdisappear and the whole universe will go. Then there must be some powerful substratumresponsible for creation, protection and destruction. We call it God. We have the faculty ofthinking and capacity of doing, in smaller or greater measure. This also merges after ourdeath with the omnipotent. Being, from whom we derive this energy. The stable principlewhich is the cause of creation and destruction of all energy is God, called by any name.

Mother loves her child but later on, an unfaithful son causes her sorrow. We know of caseswhere mother starts litigation against sons or sons against mother. If one loves another, and ifone of them dies, the bereavement causes sorrow. The bank helps people who havedeposited money with them. It is supposed to remove the sorrows of the people in times of

need. But when the bank itself is liquidated or closed, the depositors weep. Their sorrowsonce gave sustenance to the bank. The more we love, the greater the sorrow in consequence.Then, shall we decide that we should not love anyone at all? The object of this birth is tobestow undivided love on someone. The subject of our love should not be quarrelsome orseparable. If we say that we should love only the imperishable God, then the question is: canwe hate others? Let us learn to love all by realising that God is in all. God is eternal and ourlove for him should be eternal.

I am prone to come to the conclusion that there lives none without predominantly selfishmotives. But with years rolling on, an impression, that too a superficial one, true to my nature,

is dawning upon me that there breathe on this globe some souls firmly rooted in morals andethics who live exclusively for others, voluntarily forsaking not only their material gains andcomforts but also their own sadhana towards their spiritual improvements.

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cause of death. What is created by passion is destroyed by time. If passion comes, the seedsprouts. If time comes, the tree dies. Kaalo Jagat Bhakshaka: Even the sun and the moondisintegrate when time comes. If there is no passion, there is no production. If there is no timethen there is no destruction. Therefore we have to conquer Kaala and Kaama. Iswara burntKaama and kicked time. So if we go to Him, there is neither birth nor death for us. Let ustherefore pay to the Universal Father and Mother."Jagatha pitarau Vande Paarvati Parameswarau"

A master has two servants. One always flatters the master, the other just performs his dutieswithout any love for the master. If the master is a fool, he would love the flattering servant. Ifthe master is too clever, he will not love either the man working for wages or the flatterer. Themaster will love more the one who does his job as his own out of devotion. So is the case withthe Good Master, God.

Why do we break coconut before Lord Ganesa's idol? He is the Son of Parameswara andasked His Father to sacrifice His head with three eyes because only then, he thought anyeffort would be crowned with success and without any obstacle. So, instead of the head withthree eyes, we are breaking coconut which has three eyes. Ganesa is so powerful as todemand the head of his own father. Whatever is superior to everything else must be sacrificedto God. Symbolically, we are sacrificing the three - eyed coconuts created by God, asordained by Him. When a sannyasin attains Siddhi, this is done. This practice is in vogue onlyin Tamil Nadu.

Thinking that God is far away from you, you are wandering in search of Him. So long as you

do not know, He is far away. Though you may wander, you cannot see Him, but he is nearyou. He is distant, yet near. The story of a girl wanting to marry the highest among men, aking, ended, after all the travels, in the discovery of an ordinary man her parents had alreadyselected. The bridegroom was so near. She took a long route to arrive at a point so near.


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We see our reflections in a mirror. In a row of mirrors, thousands of reflections are seen. It isonly one person who sees all these reflections. The one who resides within us and who seesall this, is God. The seer is the cause of all the seen. That cause is knowledge which is thebasis of this world. Where is that knowledge? Within you, what is macroscopic is microscopicin you.

Joy comes in the form of status, money, etc. comes from without. We feel isolated. But it is thesmallest fragment of the great joy from within, which is Ananda. Paramatman, the anandawithin is not worried whether any joy comes from outside and mixes with it or not. Watersenter into the sea, which though ever being full, is ever motionless.

If we analyse the teachings of the Gita, there may appear to be many contradictory mattersregarding bhakti, karma and jnana. But the Lord takes the devotee step by step. We mustmeditate on the form of God as described in the scriptures. This bhakti will enable us to

understand the universal nature of God. Spiritual vision will then make it clear that Godwithout form is the Supreme Reality, which hears without ears, moves without legs. Toworship God at the initial stage, metaphysical knowledge is not necessary. The more andmore we meditate, bhakti grows and we automatically realise the universal form. There is nodistinction between the devotee and the object of devotion.

Our minds should automatically seek and cling to God just as iron filings are attracted by themagnet; the heart of the chaste wife seeks her husband; the creeper embraces the tree; therivers go to the sea.

Philosophical truths and ordinary people have nothing much in common. Therefore outwardgarb is useless. The representatives of religion must have real worth, peace - loving nature(shantam), austerity (tapas) and unselfish nature. Hinduism, in spite of its vicissitudes, issurviving even to this day. This is due to the blessings of a succession of saints. If there is onesaint among us, the world will prosper.


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It is natural that man should seek to satisfy his wants like hunger, thirst, and a place to rest.There are duties which an individual has towards himself, the social group and the nation.Ordinarily, the performance of these duties remains on the level of satisfying the creaturelywants. But there is a way of performing these duties which will elevate everyone concernedspiritually. That is dharma. And it is the duty of the king or the state to see that the citizens areprovided every opportunity for spiritual growth and progress. That is the meaning of saying:"Raja Dharmasya Kaaranam".

Upaasana is dhyaana or concentration of meditation. A form is required for concentration.Reality is always the same and changeless. God, as the Ultimate Reality, is Formless. ButUpasana of a Form is done with a purpose, namely, the attainment of a given benefit. Thepurpose to be attained by worshipping or concentrating on a Form differs. The scriptures tellyou how to meditate and on what all Forms and with what results. For Upasana, you have tofollow the Sastras or Scriptures. The different upasanas are all aids in the path to the ultimate

goal, namely, understanding Reality. Scriptures prescribe Upaasana in order to train the mindto concentrate. Upasana is the affair of the individual; there is nothing collective about it.

Neither the raw fruit nor the tree wants to leave each other. But when the fruit becomes ripe,this attachment automatically disappears. Man requires to experience anger, jealousy,passion, etc. just as the fruit had to undergo various stages of growth and taste before itbecame fully ripe so to get automatically detached from the tree. We cannot overcome theseexperiences in the beginning. But we must ponder over the fact why we undergo theseexperiences. Otherwise we will be the losers. We will become slaves of these experiencesand can never achieve fulfillment or contentment.

When adversities overtake us, we blame God and complain that He is blind to ourmisfortunes. But if we indulge in a little introspection, we will realise that our faults are soenormous that we are utterly unworthy of His grace and, in spite of that we are able to getfood, shelter and clothing. It is due to the abundant mercy of God. We must consider the


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difficulties we encounter as a blessing in disguise.

A mother may tie the hands of her child who has the propensity to pick up and eat mud. Thisseeming cruelty of the mother is for the good of the child. Similarly troubles are verily God'sgrace to save us. In the entire picture of life, troubles form but a tiny spot. In our inability to

visualise the past and the future, we complain when we suffer in the present. A properperspective will enable us to understand our present plight in its proper setting.

Whenever any honour is done to a person the recipient must remember the divine sourcefrom which he derived the qualifications to receive that honour, and feel humble and notelated with a feeling of self - importance.

Cultivate Friendly attitude to conquer the minds of men;Look at others as yourself;

Give up war; give up jealousy;Don't commit aggression without reason;Mother earth is like Kamadhenu to fulfil wishes;The Lord God is like father showering mercyPeople of the World !Live with discipline;Live with charity;Live with mercy;May all people attain greater well - being.

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