Baba
This email contains four distinct sections.
1. Posting: Question & Answer on Hard Bedding
2. End Quote: Those Who Keep Animals As Their Pets..
This email contains four distinct sections.
1. Posting: Question & Answer on Hard Bedding
2. End Quote: Those Who Keep Animals As Their Pets..
3. PS #2638: You Have not Come Here For a Long Time
4. Links
QUESTION BY VYASA:
When I try to explain our stance on "hard" bedding to colleagues who are interested in health, those who practice other schools of yoga, or new students I am teaching, I don't really know that to tell them. I know they will not sleep on floor. Perhaps, you can give me some examples of proper hard bedding so I may be more clear?
The question is what is meant by a "hard" bed? Baba has said not to use a soft bed. That is understandable.
In particular I do one of three things:
One, I sleep on floor with rug below me.
Two, I sleep on a board only that is in bed frame (like wooden bed I used in India).
Three, I put 1/2 inch board on box spring or mattress and sleep on it that way.
But how do I advise others? That is a knotty problem for me.
ANSWER:
Best is to sleep on a board only that is in bed frame - similar to that wooden bed used when in India.
QUESTION BY VYASA:
What about sisters? Their anatomies differ from brothers. Their accentuated hip bones would hurt and cause pain (so I have been told from my loakik sister). What would be a reasonable source of hard bedding? Please give explicit examples so I can relay practical advice to colleagues, new margiis, yoga students, patients - both young and old in age.
ANSWER:
On this point of bedding there is no difference between males and females. It is just a matter of habit. Both Dadas and Didis are to use hard bedding - this same rule has been given for all Wts.
If someone has accumulated a lot of fat then that is not a gender issue but an obesity issue.
For making the body habituated, one can use a 1/2 inch or 1 inch cushion or multiple folded blankets on the hard wood - and slowly adjust until one is completely accilimated to hard bedding.
The ideal is to lean towards the hard side.
Sleeping on a carpet is OK but not ideal. Best is to sleep on a thin blanket or cloth on the hard wood.
Baba says, "A monkey is a more developed animal than a dog or a cow, but as it does not live with humans, its development - the speed of its development - is less. Dogs and cows, who live with humans have a speedier evolution. A monkey which lives in the proximity of humans also has a speedier development." (Ananda Vacanamrtam - 5, p.67)
Note: But the reverse happens effect happens in the case of humans. Those people who keep such animals as their pets and live around those animals become that animal in their future life. This happens due to the deep attachment with that animal and overal lack of Brahmabhava. Baba has given countless demonstrations about this.
QUESTION & ANSWER ON HARD
BEDDING
QUESTION BY VYASA:
When I try to explain our stance on "hard" bedding to colleagues who are interested in health, those who practice other schools of yoga, or new students I am teaching, I don't really know that to tell them. I know they will not sleep on floor. Perhaps, you can give me some examples of proper hard bedding so I may be more clear?
The question is what is meant by a "hard" bed? Baba has said not to use a soft bed. That is understandable.
In particular I do one of three things:
One, I sleep on floor with rug below me.
Two, I sleep on a board only that is in bed frame (like wooden bed I used in India).
Three, I put 1/2 inch board on box spring or mattress and sleep on it that way.
But how do I advise others? That is a knotty problem for me.
ANSWER:
Best is to sleep on a board only that is in bed frame - similar to that wooden bed used when in India.
QUESTION BY VYASA:
What about sisters? Their anatomies differ from brothers. Their accentuated hip bones would hurt and cause pain (so I have been told from my loakik sister). What would be a reasonable source of hard bedding? Please give explicit examples so I can relay practical advice to colleagues, new margiis, yoga students, patients - both young and old in age.
ANSWER:
On this point of bedding there is no difference between males and females. It is just a matter of habit. Both Dadas and Didis are to use hard bedding - this same rule has been given for all Wts.
If someone has accumulated a lot of fat then that is not a gender issue but an obesity issue.
For making the body habituated, one can use a 1/2 inch or 1 inch cushion or multiple folded blankets on the hard wood - and slowly adjust until one is completely accilimated to hard bedding.
The ideal is to lean towards the hard side.
Sleeping on a carpet is OK but not ideal. Best is to sleep on a thin blanket or cloth on the hard wood.
== Section 2
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The section below demarcated by asterisks is an entirely different topic,
completely unrelated to the above material. It stands on its own as a point of interest.
The section below demarcated by asterisks is an entirely different topic,
completely unrelated to the above material. It stands on its own as a point of interest.
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Those Who Keep Animals As Their Pets
May Become Animals In Their Next Life If...
Those Who Keep Animals As Their Pets
May Become Animals In Their Next Life If...
Baba says, "A monkey is a more developed animal than a dog or a cow, but as it does not live with humans, its development - the speed of its development - is less. Dogs and cows, who live with humans have a speedier evolution. A monkey which lives in the proximity of humans also has a speedier development." (Ananda Vacanamrtam - 5, p.67)
Note: But the reverse happens effect happens in the case of humans. Those people who keep such animals as their pets and live around those animals become that animal in their future life. This happens due to the deep attachment with that animal and overal lack of Brahmabhava. Baba has given countless demonstrations about this.
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== Section 3
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~ You Have not Come Here For a Long Time ~
"Sandhya' samiir suba'se adhiira kaye gelo more ka'n'e ka'n'e..." (P.S. 2638)
Purport:
O' Parama Purusa, in the form of the sweet, fragrant evening breeze, You came close & graced me and You whispered in my ear very softly: "Do not sit idle. Always involve in various works to please Him (Parama Purusa) - to serve Him. Go on singing the songs of your devotional feeling to your heart's content. Do not waste the time."
O' my Lord, on that same beautiful evening, in the form of the sweet, fragrant evening breeze, You also whispered in my ear, "O' human being, you have not come here on this earth for a long time - but rather for a very short period. Your life will pass away with the rhythm of the movement. You are just like one traveler who stays on the path and continues ahead on the journey. So you should not lose your Goal. Always keep focused on your Goal." And You furthermore whispered: "You should have a loving relation with whom you are meditating on - that Supreme Desideratum, that Divine Entity that is your final destination."
O’ Parama Purusa, O’ Baba, You also gently told me: "Alas, you have come and gone from this world again and again – each time only to return back. Innumerable times your rebirth has happened. This cycle of birth and death, birth and death is countless. But the unique beauty of this path is that Parama Purusa, the Divine Entity, always remains along with you in new and newer forms. He is ever-new. He is incomparable, most sweet & most charming. He is the Entity Who showers His grace on you by His sweet smile in your dhyana."
O' Parama Purusa, You graced me and You whispered in my ear that You love me. Baba, You are mine...
"Sandhya' samiir suba'se adhiira kaye gelo more ka'n'e ka'n'e..." (P.S. 2638)
Purport:
O' Parama Purusa, in the form of the sweet, fragrant evening breeze, You came close & graced me and You whispered in my ear very softly: "Do not sit idle. Always involve in various works to please Him (Parama Purusa) - to serve Him. Go on singing the songs of your devotional feeling to your heart's content. Do not waste the time."
O' my Lord, on that same beautiful evening, in the form of the sweet, fragrant evening breeze, You also whispered in my ear, "O' human being, you have not come here on this earth for a long time - but rather for a very short period. Your life will pass away with the rhythm of the movement. You are just like one traveler who stays on the path and continues ahead on the journey. So you should not lose your Goal. Always keep focused on your Goal." And You furthermore whispered: "You should have a loving relation with whom you are meditating on - that Supreme Desideratum, that Divine Entity that is your final destination."
O’ Parama Purusa, O’ Baba, You also gently told me: "Alas, you have come and gone from this world again and again – each time only to return back. Innumerable times your rebirth has happened. This cycle of birth and death, birth and death is countless. But the unique beauty of this path is that Parama Purusa, the Divine Entity, always remains along with you in new and newer forms. He is ever-new. He is incomparable, most sweet & most charming. He is the Entity Who showers His grace on you by His sweet smile in your dhyana."
O' Parama Purusa, You graced me and You whispered in my ear that You love me. Baba, You are mine...
== Section 4
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Links
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Links
Here are links to hot topics in our Ananda Marga
http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/05/attack-on-bp-system-ranchi-case-study.html
http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/05/maybe-your-jagrti-mu-land-also-to-be.html
