Swami Vivekanandaji MahaSamadhi Divas is today (4th July). Salutations to this great master with unparalleled Austerity, zeal & love for the nation. His vision to awaken materialistic people's conscience through the Universal culture of Hinduism remains vibrant till today. 🙏🕉

​​23. If any person does not meditate on this great all-pervading Void, which is the space of consciousness chidakasa, he will be a samsari a worldly individual forever in bondage to worldly attachments, like the silkworm in its self-made cocoon. Understand this.
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Plant a tree of your choice.
A very good initiative by the Tatas. All you need to do is go to the website and click on the link and they will plant a tree in your name.
All this to save the environment and at no cost to you😊, I have submitted one...you guys also please submit
http://www.tplgreenthumb.com/


Forward as much as you can at least 100 crores trees needs to be planted this year.

I am not mind, nor intellect, nor ego, nor the reflections of inner self. I am not the five senses. I am beyond that. I am not the ether, nor the earth, nor the fire, nor the wind (i.e. the five elements). I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.

Neither can I be termed as energy (Praana), nor five types of breath (Vaayu), nor the seven material essences (dhaatu), nor the five coverings (panca-kosha). Neither am I the five instruments of elimination, procreation, motion, grasping, or speaking. I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.

I have no hatred or dislike, nor affiliation or liking, nor greed, nor delusion, nor pride or haughtiness, nor feelings of envy or jealousy. I have no duty (dharma), nor any money, nor any desire (refer: kama), nor even liberation (refer: moksha). I am indeed, That eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.

Every person who is not totally enlightened and self-realised has a dualistic "ego". By "ego" I mean the illusory (in Buddhism - anatta) or false self, the narcissistic self absorption of attention in its own knot of littleness, that comes about through recoil from or non-realisation of the Supreme, God, the Absolute Reality, or whatever one wishes to call it.

This false ego or false self or "desire soul" (Sri Aurobindo's term) is full of lower emotional poison and darkness (a Christian would say "sinfulness") at its own ugliness and imperfection. But because of the egoic self-reflection of the infinitely degraded light that makes up its consciousness, it cannot acknowledge this ugliness in itself, because to do so would shatter the narcissistic illusion of its own wonderfulness and specialness, and confront it with its true nature. The result would be either madness or a spiritual self-judgment by which the ego is forced to confront its own negativity (this is basically the afterlife "judgement" referred to in Near Death Experiences and in many traditional cultures, religions, and mythologies).
http://www.kheper.net/topics/psychology/projection_of_the_shadow.html

The ego is a veil between what you think you are and what you actually are. You live under the illusion of the mind, totally unaware that you are directed by a great big load of stories! — Isira Sananda


https://lonerwolf.com/what-is-the-ego/

​​24. All living beings, of whatever genus, undergo great misery over and over again. Hear from me. In order to avert all this suffering and sorrow, meditate on the great Void constantly without any break.

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