GRACE OF GOD HINDUISM

GRACE OF GOD IN HINDUISM

wITH grace of guru and GOD ,I am attempting to say what it is to know about and experiance grace of GOD..The grace of GOD is that power of GOD  which is always bestowed  all around us in all directions and is always available to every thing and all living beings but the living being  only gets it only in those quantities for which he makes himself ready to  receive.This grace themethod of GOD;s knowledge and thereby easily recognise theattracts us to feel his presence every where and which gives us faith in HIM. By this grace we get all things which we desire without any effort. This is a magical phenomena of GOD which we cannot understand by reason, action or by estimation.

It is easier to get this by grace of guru who by initiating his disciple in knowledge of GOD removes his ignorance and teaches of truth of oneness of self with GOD. and advocates surrendering himself to GOD in totallity so that he is left to grace of GOD.

In Ramcharitramanas it is said thatwhen GOd gives his grace all doors are opened to us and we meet sant satgutguru who enlightens us to Reality and shows us road to attaining  GOD with all his love and divinity and we get rid of birth, death,decay and pain. in this very life and attain GOD; Jivanmukti..

By total surrender to GOD with love and adoration, we get grace of GOD  and we get ecstasy, enjoyment and all round pleasure and get rid of all worldly, anxieties, troubles,desires and sufferings. As much as man  experiances   grace of GOD  he will feel self satisfied and get peace  and harmony..Maharishi Raman and Maharishi Arvind have studied Grace of GOD in great detail.Raman says grace of GOD and his kindness is every where  present as GOD is and you donot have to wait to receive it but you have to always to make efforts to realise it and absorb it in you. by keeping always pure in body ,mind and soul. but due to ignorence the sex,anger,pride, and greed  we donot recognise it.Therefore we should learn from Guru   the knowledge of GOD and b it recognise the Grace of GOD and absorb it in ourselves to be one with GOD.and enjoy his bliss. Sri Arvind has further taught us  how to absorb this grace of GOD in us and realise the oneness of soul and GOD  This is called devolution In teachings of integral yoga of Arvind ,we not only absob in soul but also in inanimate body,mind and life so that we become comlete in this very life. WE have to always keep our knowledge updated and not bound by old scriptures and love and adpre GOD by our inner most heart and reach GOD by  always having full fath and by othermeans such as worship,prayer attract him towards us and donot leave him till we merge with Him. and besides self als give salvation to others also.

By regular practice and purity of thoughtof mind and body and by complete faith in GOD it becomes easy to get grace of GOD, but one who is lucky gets all of asudden experiances GOD;s grace as if GOD seen him and due to his kindness has  all of a sudden gifted him all his grace and he gets every thing worldly and divine  without  asking and without any effort on his paart.This is the magical side of grace for which we have no explan worship, prayer, satsang, oral chantin, and ation. but due to this we should not wait for such mirracles and do our own efforts to purify us and by having longing,detachment, and astrong sense to possess GOD  , then he will awaken within him flame of light of GOD and by makin and taking it to all parts of his bod he wil be able toidentify each and every part of his mind,body and soul and receive GOD;s grace and merge him or live like a realised i.e.Jivanmukta.

We must remember that  this body of ours is a temple of GOD and there for it nis most appropriate place for tapasya, yagya,prayer, satsung, chanting and worship and by doing this and service to humanity without attachment, and knowing full well our shortcomings and bowing to our guru andGOD we shall be able to get GOD;s direct attention and get his grace inample quantities to please anadore GOD for merger with him.

Can man get Grace of GOD by his actions? Yes,if he exercises above with total surrender to GOD   withlove and adoration without  any wordly attachment or desire, GOD will definitively be attracted towards him and bestow his grace on him and enlighten him and give his bliss andall pleasures to him  and give him those things also for which he never acted upon or desired both wordly,heavenly and ultimate divinity..

Om -shanti-shanti-shanti

Avdhesh Mathur Senior Citizen  ICC Cupertino and Milpitas.

Thursday the 5th Sept.2013.

Bhagwat Gita, Essence Of

BhHAGWAT GITA ,ESSENCE OF

With so many commentries on Bhagwat Gita  ,each expert giving a new meaning to  the verses in Gita it is very difficult to understand true meaning and its application to our life, i have tried to give overview in short to comprehend the truth in short express it to you.

My experiance is that any person  who has read Gita many a times, will agree that he finds  something new every time he reads it. and he can only asaimulate it if he draws his own conclusions after reading a few comments from experts on the subject..

In my considered view Gita  narrates the contradictions and constant struggle between two parts of our mind i.e 1.Pure mind and evil mind which is always there in our mind on each subject we deal or think about, Which is just like Great war called Mahabharat.How to practice and solve this problem is dealt with in Bhagwat Gita in shape of  ad ialogue between Sri Krishna an incarnation of GOD and  Arjun,andwho represents one of us.

In short it is said by Lord Krishna that one should think about the subject with detachment  and then take a decision. He has described and elaborated them into three methods Called  1.Jnan Yoga 2. Karma Yoga 3. Bhakti yoga. which mean Knowledge and intellect , Devotion and love and then work and worship According to Sri Krishna this should be done with     your Vivek ( power of discrimination, Vairagya ( Power of renunciation  ans Sadhna (continuous practice and with detachment ). and in the end Pure mind will prevail over the evil mind and success will be yours..

Itt has been surmoned By Lord Krishna that this Universe is like tree  whose roots are facing upwards  a nd trunk, branches and leave ands are going down and spreading everywhere On this tree God and Living beings are sitting GOD is SEER and Jivaatma (soul) is reaping the fruits of past lives i.e Sanchit Karm ( accumulated fruits), Prarabdh Karm ( self  Chosen fruits to eat in this life ) and Krimarh karm ( Fruites generated in this life, for which Jiva atma (soul) is independent ) The Jivaatma (soul) is  experiances  pleasure or suffering according to these fruits of past actions in this life i.e he gradually surrounded by three qualities of Maya (illusion.).and bounded by these three i.e Satviv (pureor truthful) ,Rajas (Kingly) and Tamas( evil) qualities of ilusion. and due to this he tries to search worldly pleasures in this life which is full of sex,anger,ego and anger whichare said to be gate way to hell butgets only pain and suffering..

The Geeta preaches advice to get releif from this by relenquishing ego of doing actions yourself and by rejecting fruits of actions wheather good or bad  and thus doing actions without attachment and reaping award of fruits of his action doing work in the name of GOD and serving humanity by doing work according to norms, he can rid himself of all fruits of actionsby sacrifing them toAll mighty GOD ,he gets salvation from this and gets extreme satisfaction in himself leading to Nirvan (salvation). He should therefore do porntah samarparh   toGOD iehe should totally give himself to care of GOD and then he will enjoy everlasting pleasure and anand ecstasy in this very life.  and would also help others to follow suite. By this process he gets rid of illusion   by crossing barriors of the three qualities of Maya (ilusion) and become Jeevan Mukta     (Realised person) in this    life  and either preach and enlighten other persons or    by    going in Nirvikala samadhi and not coming out of it realise GOD and merge with him.

The war between pure mind and the evil mind whichi going in our intellect  is     described   as Mahabharat and the above teachings are the teachings of Gita as I have understood and I am sharing this with you for benifit of humanity  .

OM Shanti-shanti- shanti

Avdhesh Mathur ,Senior Citizen  of ICC Cuprtino and Milpitas   .