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EDUCATION -the panacea of all evils....

   The word education derived from the Latin word EDUCARE which means to lead i.e the root word. Basically education decodes as to train i.e the teaching or training of people especially in school. According to Martin Luther King jr, a right education is that which developes both intelligence and morality of a child. Education provides a platform for developing the analytical power of mind, the critical thinking abilities, the right/wrong approach, the right decision making power and the most important it developes the emotional intelligence of a person. Without education a society is like a building without foundation and a tree without roots.      Someone rightly said that if you want to destroy a nation peacefully, just make a hole in her education system and the nation will collapsed automatically without any physical force...thats the power of education.  Because always a nation's future depends on her education system and her pupils. It is always true...

JNANA YOGA : the path of wisdom...

   The word JNANA derived from the Sanskrit root Jna ( to know), means knowledge; and the ideal which it holds up before its followers is the realisation of that absolute truth, and which is the one common source of all subjective and objective phenomena in the universe. Basically it teaches the complete oneness and nothing else i.e there is only one life,one being,one reality and there is no distinction and differentiation between the individual and the absolute reality.   What  the Advaita Vedanta philosophy said  there is no dwita ( dualism) in the universe and the entire Jnana Yoga based upon the monistic principles of the Advaita ( non dualistic) system of Vedanta. The main purpose is to show and experience that the subject and object are but the two expressions of one Absolute Being i.e the God and man ,the Creator and the creation are same . A complete Jnana Yogi knows that true knowledge and that is the difference between a common man and a Jnana Yogi. ...

BHAKTI YOGA . The path of pure love and devotion...

    The word Bhakti means devotion, while Yoga in this case signifies union of the individual soul with God. Hence Bhakti yoga is the method of devotion by which the communion of the soul with the supreme Deity is accomplished. It shows what kind of devotion and love for God will bring the soul into the most intimate relation with the divine being and how a ordinary heart feels when it directs toward God ward .     Bhakti yoga teaches that the final end of all religions can be reached through love and worship of the personal God, who is the creator and Governor of the phenomenal universe. It is especially suited for such as are emotional in their nature and have the feeling of love and devotion highly developed. It is for those devotees who, conscious of their own weekness arising from lack of self control and of knowledge, seek help from outside.     A follower of Bhakti yoga ( like Mira Bai ,poet Rash Khan, Dasia Bauri etc ) should feel God as closely rel...

KARMA YOGA: HOW TO BE A KARMA YOGI.

  Before being a karma Yogi one must to understand the meaning of KARMA. The Gita is completely based on Karma yoga . From krishna to Buddha to Vivekananda to Gandhi all are the true examples of karma Yogi , then what is the secret of karma Yoga and what is karma ?    Let's discuss it in depth....  The Sanskrit term Karma derived from the root verb "Kri", which means to act. Therefore Karma signifies action,and refers to all actions wheather of mind or body. Whenever there is activity of any kind, it is Karma. In this sense devotion,love, worship, meditation, discrimination are all Karma.  The secondary meaning of KARMA embraces all reactions or results of action as every action has its reaction. No action can be separated from its result. The chain of cause and sequence, known as the ' Law of causation', is also called Karma.  The third meaning of this term includes the accumulated results of past action or rather the seed forms of future activities. ...

RAJA YOGA : how to be a Raja Yogi.

  As the last post deals about the definition of Raja yoga , this post deals with the process of the same. So let's get started....  .......... Raja yoga maintains that the outer world exists only in relation to the inner nature of each individual and the external is only the reflection of internal......There is nothing mysterious in the system of Raja yoga. The science of Raja yoga unravels the riddles of the universe and directs the individual soul toward the attainment of the final end of all religions. It's principal are highly moral and uplifting. It helps the student to understand the true purpose of life and describes the way by which it may be fulfilled here and now.   Raja yoga tells us that we should not think so much of what will happen after death, but that we should make the best use of the present and unfold the latent powers which we already possess. If we gain certain power before we die , those powers will not be lost, but will remain with us wherever we ...