Buddha Jayanti - Vesak 12-05-2025

Buddha Purnima, is observed worldwide

to honour Gautam Buddha's

Birth, Enlightenment, and Demise.

  

புத்த மகான் கருணை ஒளி - போதிசத்துவரின் ஞான ஒளி

• Vesak - Buddha Jayanti Discourse 07.05.2020.
• Vesak 18-05-2019.

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Practicing Buddhism in daily life.
Excerpted from The Path to Happiness

 by Venerable Thubten Chodron

• Upon waking up.
• Finding time to meditate each day.
• Morning meditation.
• Practicing Dharma at the workplace.
• Cultivating mindfulness.
• Being mindful of living in an interdependent world.
• Being mindful of our actions.
• Offering our food.
• Reviewing the day.
• Our life becomes meaningful.

The Four Essential Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna

Samjnana Sukta (Rgveda X.191.2-4)

Walk together in harmony, speak in harmony.
Let your minds be of one accord,
As the gods of old, being of one mind,
Accepted the share of sacrifice (so may you share your belongings).

May your counsel be common, your assembly united,
Common the mind, and the thoughts of these united.
A common purpose do I lay before you,
And worship with your common oblation.

Let your aims be common,
And your hearts of one accord,
And all of you be of one mind,
As you may live well together.

Reference: Hymns from the Vedas by A. C. Bose

ஸ்ரீ ஆதிசங்கரர் அருளிய நிர்வாண ஷட்கம் - தமிழில்

Adi Shankara - Nirvana Shatakam

mano buddhi ahankara chittani naaham

na cha shrotravjihve na cha ghraana netre
na cha vyoma bhumir na tejo na vaayuhu
chidananda rupah shivo’ham shivo’ham

I am not the mind, the intellect, the ego or the memory,
I am not the ears, the skin, the nose or the eyes,
I am not space, not earth, not fire, water or wind,
I am the form of consciousness and bliss,
I am the eternal Shiva…

na cha prana sangyo na vai pancha vayuhu
na va sapta dhatur na va pancha koshah
na vak pani-padam na chopastha payu
chidananda rupah shivo’ham shivo’ham

I am not the breath, nor the five elements,
I am not matter, nor the 5 sheaths of consciousness
Nor am I the speech, the hands, or the feet,
I am the form of consciousness and bliss,
I am the eternal Shiva…

na me dvesha ragau na me lobha mohau
na me vai mado naiva matsarya bhavaha
na dharmo na chartho na kamo na mokshaha
chidananda rupah shivo’ham shivo’ham

There is no like or dislike in me, no greed or delusion,
I know not pride or jealousy,
I have no duty, no desire for wealth, lust or liberation,
I am the form of consciousness and bliss,
I am the eternal Shiva…

na punyam na papam na saukhyam na duhkham
na mantro na tirtham na veda na yajnah
aham bhojanam naiva bhojyam na bhokta
chidananda rupah shivo’ham shivo’ham

No virtue or vice, no pleasure or pain,
I need no mantras, no pilgrimage, no scriptures or rituals,
I am not the experienced, nor the experience itself,
I am the form of consciousness and bliss,
I am the eternal Shiva…

na me mrtyu shanka na mejati bhedaha
pita naiva me naiva mataa na janmaha
na bandhur na mitram gurur naiva shishyaha
chidananda rupah shivo’ham shivo’ham

I have no fear of death, no caste or creed,
I have no father, no mother, for I was never born,
I am not a relative, nor a friend, nor a teacher nor a student,
I am the form of consciousness and bliss,
I am the eternal Shiva…

aham nirvikalpo nirakara rupo
vibhut vatcha sarvatra sarvendriyanam
na cha sangatham naiva muktir na meyaha
chidananda rupah shivo’ham shivo’ham

I am devoid of duality, my form is formlessness,
I exist everywhere, pervading all senses,
I am neither attached, neither free nor captive,
I am the form of consciousness and bliss,
I am the eternal Shiva…
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Hinduism - Basic Books for Students.

Books can be read online in the following links:

PAPER ON HINDUISM
Read at the Parliament on 19th September, 1893
By Swami Vivekananda

Hinduism At a Glance by Swami Nirvedananda

A Primer Of Hinduism Sharma D. S.

Hinduism Through Ages - by D.S.Sharma


Essential Books of Ramakrishna Mission
https://publications.rkmm.org/essential-books


THE COMMON BASES OF HINDUISM

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Arrival of Swami Shivananda in July 1897.
From India to Colombo.

In the early part of July, 1897, a middle-aged ochre-clad sannyasin from far-off Calcutta, India, landed at the Colombo Port. Many prominent Hindus of Colombo were ready at hand with flowers and garlands, expecting eagerly the arrival of the Swami.

The Swami was received, on landing, with oriental greetings and respects due to a sage, and was conducted to Thambyah Mudaliyar Chatram where he was to stay for the next seven or eight months, spreading the message of Sri Ramakrishna. Swami Shivananda, for that was the name of the apostle, was one of the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and brother-disciple of Swami Vivekananda at whose behest he had come to the Island to continue the work of propagating the Master’s Message.

Letter of Swami Vivekananda from Almora

Swami Shivananda started for Sri Lanka with Swamiji’s letter of introduction to Mr Sokanathan of Colombo and stayed there for about seven months and returned to Calcutta on February 1898.

To Mr. Sokanathan, Colombo

ALMORA
30th June 1897.


MY DEAR FRIEND,


The bearer of this note, Swami Shivananda, is [being] sent to Ceylon, as promised by me during my sojourn. He is quite fit for the work entrusted to his care, of course, with your kind help.


I hope you will introduce him to other Ceylon friends.

Yours ever in the Lord,

VIVEKANANDA

The earlier visit of Swami Vivekananda had roused immense enthusiasm in the religious-minded section of the local Hindu Community. They were eager to have his work continued. Devotees at every place requested the Swami to send urgently teachers of the Order to preach the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna in the Island. Seeing their earnestness he had promised them that he, on reaching Calcutta, would consider their request. Swamiji reached Almora at the end of his triumphal march across India sometime in May, 1897. Soon after, he sent Swami Shivananda to Ceylon with the above letter of introduction, Swami Brahmananda, the first President of the Ramakrishna Movement, in his letter to Miss Noble (later Sister Nivedita) to her London address from the Math at Baranagore, Calcutta, on 04-08-1897, writes as follows on the deputation of Swami Shivananda to Ceylon and his work:

“Recently Swami Shivananda has been deputed to start a centre of work in Ceylon. He has interviewed some of the influential  members of the native society of Colombo, who have received him favourably. In a meeting called by the Hon. Coomaraswamy, member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon, it was resolved to help Swami Shivananda in his work. The report of the progress of his work will be communicated to you in due course.”

Swami Shivananda amply fulfilled the confidence the Leader had reposed in him in his capacity to reveal to the people of Ceylon a great message of crucial importance to humanity and to impress on the Hindu public in particular the moral and spiritual grandeur of India’s hoary culture. He greatly succeeded in keeping the flame lit by Swami Vivekananda during his earlier visit to the Island, burning bright. He kept alive the public interest in the work of Swamiji by renewing contact with his friends and admirers through his classes on the scriptures, and personal interviews. Till his departure to India he continued to teach the basic ideals and practices of the Vedanta philosophy and religion interpreting them in the light of the life and teachings of Sri Ramakrishna.

Later, at the Belur Math, Calcutta, reminiscing on his brief stay in the Island some three decades earlier, he spoke thus to one of his disciples: “Yes, I have been to Ceylon. A few months after Swamiji’s return to India, he sent me there to preach Vedanta. I was in Colombo for seven or eight months, living at a Charity house, where I held religious discourses and regular classes on the Gita. Several people attended these. I was quite happy there, and visited the local temples etc. They have a tooth temple, where it is claimed that Buddha’s tooth is preserved. What a grand structure they have raised there! One is struck with wonder at the magnificence of the temple.”

Ramakrishna Movement in Sri Lanka

 

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