Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati’s 2015 New Year Message

  
Happy New Year. Ring in the new. Ring out the old. Past is gone. it is there only in our memory. The future is going to unfold and whatever it is going to unfold, we are ready to receive. We need to be ready.Years of our life help us receive the New Year with a better poise, with a better capacity to understand. We have better perception in short. We want our desires to be fulfilled in the New Year.
 
From our past experience, we know that all our desires do not get fulfilled. In the diary only the first page is written. Desires can be fulfilled. It need not be fulfilled. We work for fulfillment of our desires. Desires constitute one’s life. If they do not get fulfilled, they leave the person unhappy. In the New Year we make a decision to have desires, but learn to manage them.

If fulfilled we are happy. If not, we try to fulfill them. There are so many reasons for the desires not getting fulfilled. In all of them we cannot claim success. Being in the right place at the right time is success. We do not know what is the right place and right time. Therefore we just pray.

Prayer brings about grace as its result. Earn this grace by prayer, by good deeds and reaching out deeds. Keep some grace under your belt.

This year will be meaningful and graceful. May the year give you a lot a grace.

This is my New Year wish.

Happy New Year. Thank you.

THE MEANING OF NĀRĀYANA

There are many ways of looking at the meaning of the word nārāyana , one of which is particularly relevant here . The word nara is used to refer to a human bing . It also means indestructible , that which always remains ( na rīyate , not destroyed ) . Nara , therefore , can only refer to that which pervades everything and is timeless which is ātmā .

Ātmā here refers to the “I” , the essence of the subject who performs various actions and enjoys various forms of experiences . This is an entirely different meaning from what we commonly understand by the word “I” . Therefore , the real meaning of the word nara , human being , is to be understood from the śāstra to be the all-pervasive and timeless ātmā , paramātmā .


That which belongs to the nara is nāram or jagat , the world . The world is born out of all-pervasive , timeless paramātmā , is sustained by paramātmā and goes back to paramātmā .

Nāra , then , is the entire world and the one who knows it (eti) is Nārāyana , the omniscient Lord , Parameśvara , with reference to the world . Therefore , the same ātmā , the nara-ātmā , the human being , is the omniscient paramātmā , Parameśvara , the Lord .

Because this omniscient Nārāyana was the one who was teaching Arjuna , everything that was taught in the Gītā is considered valid . Nārāyana is the one who knows and is also the one to be known through the Veda .

~ By Swami Dayananda Saraswati in "Introduction to Bhagavad-Gita" book

Sri Hanuman Jayanthi 2014

SRI HANUMAN JAYANTHI ( 21.12.2014 )

"Man has been searching for God on earth and in heaven since time immemorial and the search has been fruitless. his search for God represents the human urge for fullness, for inner fulfillment, in an otherwise afflicted existence. This timeless pursuit is beautifully depicted in the great epic Ramayana, in the form of Hanuman's (हनुमान) allegorical search for Sita (सीता) .

Sita represents Santi (शान्ति) or inner quietude, another name for the bliss of fulfillment. Hanuman does not succeed in his search as long as he remains searching in Lanka, the city of Ravana (रावण), which represents world with its myriad sense objects. However, the moment he turns his back on Lanka, he is in the asoka grove (अशोक वाटिका), and finds Sita without any effort. Similarly human heart is asoka grove, wherein abides timeless and boundless quietude, the santi and fulfillment of our prayers; man has only to look within."

By : Swami Tattvavidananda Saraswati