More About Dharma and Duty
After many years of practice of Yoga that Ahave led, and will hopefully go on leading, to inner changes for the good, this writer keeps reflecting over an advice that is over 3000 years old and still most valid. It is an advice given by the ancient sage Vyasa, author of the long epic “Mahabharata”, of which the “Bhagavad Gita” is just a chapter. It runs as follows: “I am screaming at the top of my voice with both arms upraised: Why are you not carrying out your natural duties (Dharma)?
You are bound to get everything in life by doing your natural duties – wealth pleasure and all. Alas! None seems to be listening to me”.
So getting ever clearer about the deeper meaning of “Dharma” seems most important. Most often the writer heard it translated as “duty”. However, German or English-speaking nationals must keep in mind that the German word “Pflicht” as well as the English “duty” are both very much narrower in their meaning than the so many-sided word Dharma. Therefore, misunderstandings seem inevitable. As read, the meaning of Dharma is “something that connects, combines, unites”, meaning the connection of all the doings that are required just for a decent living on one hand with religious acts such as rituals and other devotional practices on the other. And all this has to be carried out daily, from getting up early in the morning to going to bed at night. That would be one‘s quite normal duty and Dharma.
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जीवन में संतुलन और समानता का रहस्य: श्रीकृष्ण का संदेश
आजकल हमें कितने ऐसे लोग मिलते हैं जो छोटी-छोटी बातों पर गुस्सा हो जाते हैं।
Types of Intelligence
Of discernment and decision-making
मानव शरीर रूपी कारखाना
ज्ञानेन्द्रियाँ (आँख, कान, नाक, मुख तथा त्वचा) तथा कर्मेन्द्रियाँ (हाथ, पाँव, उपस्थ, पायु तथा वाणी) इस कारखाने के दस दरवाजे हैं।
Brahma Muhurta
Making use of an auspicious time - with caution
दूसरों पर से ध्यान हटाने पर मिलेगी खुशी
खुश रहना कौन नहीं चाहता, लेकिन इसके लिए दूसरों की थाली में झांकने की आदत छोड़नी होगी। कहते हैं न कि दूसरे की थाली में घी अधिक नजर आता है।
Shankhpushpi
Shankhpushpi also known as Shankhavali, Convolvulus microphyllus and Evolvulus alsinoides (purple colored), is God's blessing for mental health.
Juggling the Ups and Downs of Life
Keeping our balance during good times and bad times
Finding the Urge
Putting in the effort and time required From a Parisamvada by Dr. Jayadeva Yogendra
Why Do We Commit Sinful Acts?
The four kinds of desires
प्रतिपक्ष भावनम् - हिंसा का सम्पूर्ण विश्लेषण
वितर्का हिंसादयः कृतकारितानुमोदिता लोभ क्रोध मोहपूर्वका मृदुमध्याधिमात्रा दुःखाज्ञानन्तफला इति प्रतिपक्ष भावनम् ।।3411
