Spiritual Messages related to Nonduality / Advaita
This site deals with spiritual quotes and messages from various Spiritual Masters like Swami Sivananda , Osho , Eckhart Tolle , Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi , J .Krishnamurthi ,Papaji , Vernon Howard , Byron Katie , Adya Shanti , Nisaradatta Maharaj , Swami Dayananda , Adi Shankara , Kanchi /Sringeri Shankaracharya's , Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, etc .Most of the quotes and teachings here reflect primarily to "non dual /Advaita "teachings .
Friday, November 13, 2009
Escape from all kinds of Unintelligent activities
Escape from all kinds of unintelligent activities. First sharpen your intelligence. Let a great joy arise in you. Become more watchful, so much so that not even a corner in your being is dark anymore. Let your unconscious be transformed into consciousness. Then do whatsoever you want to do. Then if you want to go to hell, go with my blessings, because you will be able to transform hell itself. It is not that meditators go to heaven, no: wherever they go they are in heaven and whatsoever they do is divine.
Man is born only as a potential. If you don’t develop your potential, if you don’t grow spiritually, you are just like an ox. The body will go on becoming bigger and bigger, but that is not growth. Growing old is not growing up, growing physically is not growing spiritually. And unless you grow spiritually you are wasting a precious opportunity. Man is the only being on the earth who can attain to buddhahood. Elephants and lions and tigers can’t become buddhas. Only man can become a buddha, only man can become a thousand-petaled lotus, only man can release the fragrance called God. Don’t waste a single moment in anything else. Do the necessary things, the essential things, but pour more and more energy into watchfulness, awareness. Wake up! Unless you become a buddha you have not lived at all, because you will not know the great poetry of life, the great music of existence. You will not know the celestial celebration that goes on and on, you will not know the dance of the stars. It is for you to become part of this celebration. This bliss is for you! All these flowers and all these songs and all these stars are for you. You are entitled to miracles — but grow up, wake up! Enough for today.
I am a Certified Teacher of Classical Hatha Yoga ( Sivananda Style ) from Chennai ,India .I completed my Yoga Teacher Training Course in 1998 , Advanced Yoga Teachers Training in 2004 ,Sadhana Intensive Course in 2009 and redid it again in 2010 ( all at the Sivanada Yoga Ashrams in Kerala ,Madurai ) . I did a 70 episode Yoga TV show for Vijay TV ( now Star Vijay ) in 2001 and was involved in teaching Yoga to Kids /Adults/Corporates in Chennai .I had visited the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in Quebece ,Canada as a guest in 2006 and 2007 .
Currently I have cut down most of my Yoga Teaching except for some selected dedicated students in private and focussed on developing my own Yoga and spiritual Practice that helps a person develop a safe ,healthy , mindful dedicated spiritual & yoga practice in a systematic way starting from the Basics to Advanced .Apart from Yoga ,I am involved in the serious study of the Advaita Vedanta through the Satsangs of my Vedanta Guru Swami Paramarthananda .