Sir, You invariably contribute your learning to my armchair write ups and you increase my self esteem,thank you. YM
On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 12:20 PM Rajaram Krishnamurthy < [email protected]> wrote: > Very interesting! Pranam Faith is determinable as per B G. *Bhagavad > Gita, Chapter XVII)* > > "Arjuna said, 'What is the state, O Krishna, of those who abandoning the > ordinance of the scriptures, perform sacrifices endued with faith? It is > one of Goodness, or Passion, or Darkness?' {SATVA, Rajas and Thamasa} > > "The Holy One said, 'The faith of embodied (creatures) is of three kinds. > > It is (also) born of their (individual) natures. > > It is good, passionate, and dark. > > Hear now these. > > The faith of one, O Bharata, is conformable to his own > nature. A being here is full of faith; and whatever is one's faith, one is > even that. They that are of the quality of goodness worship the gods; they > that are of the quality of passion (worship) the *Yakshas* and the > *Rakshasas*; other people that are of the quality of darkness worship > departed spirits and hosts of *Bhutas*. Those people who practise severe > ascetic austerities not ordained by the scriptures, are given up to > hypocrisy and pride, and endued with desire of attachment, and > violence,--those > persons possessed of no discernment, torturing the groups of organs in > (their) bodies and Me also seated within (those) bodies,--should be known > to be of demoniac resolves. > > Food which is dear to all is of three kinds. Sacrifice, penance, and > gifts are likewise (of three kinds). Listen to their distinctions as > follows. > > Those kinds of food that increase life's period, energy, strength, > health, well-being, and joy, which are savoury, oleaginous, nutritive, and > agreeable, are liked by God. Those kinds of food which are bitter, sour, > salted, over-hot, pungent, dry, and burning, and which produce pain, grief > and disease, are desired by the passionate. The food which is cold, > without savour, stinking and corrupt, and which is even refuse, and filthy, > is dear to men of darkness. > > That sacrifice is good which, being prescribed by the ordinance, is > performed by persons, without any longing for the fruit (thereof) and the > mind being determined (to it under the belief) that its performance is a > duty. > > But that which is performed in expectation of fruit and even for the > sake of ostentation, know that sacrifice, O chief of the sons of Bharata, > to be of the quality of passion. > > vidhi-hīnam // asṛṣṭānnaṁ // mantra-hīnam// adakṣiṇam// > śraddhā-virahitaṁ yajñaṁ tāmasaṁ paricakṣate. (B G 17 13) : Any Yagnam > performed without regard for the directions of scripture, without > distribution of prasādam [spiritual food], without chanting of Vedic hymns > and Dhakshina to the worthy performers, , and without faith is considered > to be in the mode of ignorance. (Darkness). > > Reverence to the gods, regenerate ones, preceptors, and men of > knowledge, purity, uprightness, the practices of a *Brahmacharin*, and > abstention from injury, are said to constitute the penance of the body. > > The speech which causeth no agitation, which is true, which is > agreeable and beneficial, and the diligent study of the *Vedas*, are said > to be the penance of speech. > > Serenity of the mind, gentleness, taciturnity, self-restraint, and > purity of the disposition,--these are said to be the penance of the mind. > > This three-fold penance performed with perfect faith, by men without > desire of fruit, and with devotion, is said to be of the quality of > goodness. That penance which is performed for the sake of (gaining) > respect, honour, and reverence, with hypocrisy, (and) which is unstable > and transient is said to be of the quality of passion. > > That penance which is performed under a deluded conviction, with > torture of one's self, and for the destruction of another, is said to be of > the quality of darkness. > > दातव्यमिति यद्दानं दीयतेऽनुपकारिणे । देशे काले च पात्रे च तद्दानं > सात्त्विकं स्मृतम् ॥ २० ॥ dātavyam iti yad dānaṁ dīyate ’nupakāriṇe > deśe kāle ca pātre ca > tad dānaṁ sāttvikaṁ smṛtam Charity given out of duty, without > expectation of return, at the proper time and place, and to a worthy > person is considered to be in the mode of goodness. That gift which is > given because it ought to be given, to one who cannot return any service > for it, in a proper time, and to a proper person, is said to be of the > quality of goodness. That, however, which is given reluctantly, for return > of services (past or expected), or even with an eye to fruit,--that gift is > said to be of the quality of passion. In an unfit place and at an unfit > time, the gift that is made to an unworthy object, without respect, and > with contempt, is said to be of the quality of darkness. > > OM, TAT, SAT, this is said to be the three-fold designation of > *Brahma*. > > By that (*Brahma*), the Brahmanas and the Vedas, and the Yagnams, were > ordained of old. Therefore, uttering the syllable OM, the Yagnam , > Dhakshina , and penances, prescribed by the ordinance, of all utterers of > *Brahma* begin. > > Uttering TAT, the various rites of yagnam, penance, and dhakshina > , without expectation of fruit, are performed by those that are desirous of > deliverance. > > SAT is employed to denote existence and goodness. Likewise, O son > of Pritha, the word SAT is used in any auspicious act. Constancy in yagnas, > in penances and in dhakshinas , is also called *SAT*, and an act, too, > for the sake of *That* is called SAT. 1 > <https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m06/m06041.htm#fn_290> Whatever > oblation is offered (to the fire), whatever is given away, whatever penance > is performed, whatever is done, without faith, is, O son of Pritha, said to > be the opposite of SAT; and that is nought both here and hereafter. ASAT > is nonexistence. KR IRS 10622 > > > > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2022 at 07:10, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> -- >> *Mar**The Growth, Decline and Fall of Belief* >> >> >> >> Evolution was a symbiotic, Ecological Phenomenon. Every organism >> basically functioned as part of nature, a manifestation of >> electromagnetism. Every organism complemented and is still attempting to >> complement another organism, in the symbiotic ecological chain. The air on >> the earth and the electromagnetism of the Universe creates the automatic >> symbiotic coordination. Quantum Entanglement at the particle level, and the >> symbiotic inhalation of smell messages and the automatic exhalation of >> symbiotic smell responses, created the Adi Shakthi, or simply the God. God >> photosynthesized, embedding the photons that energized. God automatically >> became the ‘Belief Energy’. >> >> God automatically energized the one lakh trillion bacteria and the 10,000 >> trillion cells that constituted a person. Every organism radiated belief; >> the collective creation of the symbiotic living of the bacteria in the >> person. The Mitochondria in every cell generated the belief energy. Imagine >> the gigantic flow of the Belief Energy, based on the inhalation of smell >> messages and the automatic exhalation of smell responses, energized by the >> Photon-synthesis from the Sun’s rays, on earth, making her the Goddess Gaia. >> >> The expanding Universe is the expansion of God energy, of belief in the >> Universe or God. One’s understanding ultimately synchronizes with the >> gigantic flow of understanding of the Universe, converting belief as part >> of the hormonal communication among one’s cells. >> >> Thanks to the damning of this basic process of nature, as bias, therefore >> unscientific and championing of the feelings-less mechanical paradigm, the >> very breathing lost its energy content, and today we surrender to >> technology as the substitute for the performance of every organ. Science >> and technology gradually polluted and poisoned the belief energy of nature, >> and at the invisible level we are cyborged, where machines perform the >> biological functions. >> >> Belief grows only when one lives energized by the belief energy. When the >> belief energy itself is made redundant by substituting it at the very base >> with mechanical energy, energy that depends on the air poisoning fuels, the >> basic belief connect of all organisms of the Biosphere, dies/is dead. >> >> YM >> >> >> >> >> > -- *Mar* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHCJ2u-fiC3Nurpv8Jn%2B3h_XFS4mxxwC1Zd4rm-UbEpUjCw%40mail.gmail.com.
