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A Bi-monthly bulletin of 1 Vivekananda Kendra Vedic Vision From the Editors pen From the Editors pen From the Editors pen From the Editors pen APRIL –MAY 2014 VOLUME 2 - ISSUE 13 PDC I PDC I PDC I PDC I PDC II PDC II PDC II PDC II NURSERY TEACHERS ORIENTATION COURSE NURSERY TEACHERS ORIENTATION COURSE NURSERY TEACHERS ORIENTATION COURSE NURSERY TEACHERS ORIENTATION COURSE REGULAR ACTIVITIES REGULAR ACTIVITIES REGULAR ACTIVITIES REGULAR ACTIVITIES IN THIS ISSUE Vishwa Bhanu Vishwa Bhanu Yagna Varaha Modi From Bhagavata comes the story of Mahavishnu’s annihilaon of the demon Hiranyakasha, brother of Hiranyakaspu. He carried the mother earth to the boom of ocean and challenged Vishnu to fight him and reclaim her. Mahavishnu came out of the nostrils of Brahma as a ny lile boar which soon grew into a giganc form of Yagna Varaha dived to the depths of the ocean, killed the demon, reclaimed her and estab- lished her in all her prisne glory. Presently our great Motherland has been deprived of all her glory by foolish, selfish and ignorant band of Hiranyakasha’s (having their eyes centred only gold, or wealth) through their misrule of decades. Mother had virtually gone to the very rock boom of her glory and dignity. And here comes our Yagna Varaha Modi who is ordained to restore our Motherland to her old glory—as was done by another Narendra more than hundred years back. The present Yagna Varaha has taken upon himself to once again restore our most ancient Mother India to her prisne glory. Herea-er we should all offer our contribuons to the great work undertaken by our beloved Prime Minister by dedicang all our acvies work and service as Mothers Work and execute it to the best of our abilies following the path of Satya and Dharma. That is the only way in which we can make Mother India shining and fulfill the hopes and aspiraons of millions of Indians within the country and outside. Let us not spoil the effect by resorng to popular expressions like India’s para- digm shi-, India modified etc. and thus loose the real implicaons of the change. Let us make the world recognize that “INDIA IS AWAKENING”.

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From the Editors penFrom the Editors penFrom the Editors penFrom the Editors pen

A P R I L – M A Y 2 0 1 4 V O L U M E 2 - I S S U E – 1 3

♦ PDC IPDC IPDC IPDC I

♦ PDC IIPDC IIPDC IIPDC II

♦ NURSERY TEACHERS ORIENTATION COURSENURSERY TEACHERS ORIENTATION COURSENURSERY TEACHERS ORIENTATION COURSENURSERY TEACHERS ORIENTATION COURSE

♦ REGULAR ACTIVITIESREGULAR ACTIVITIESREGULAR ACTIVITIESREGULAR ACTIVITIES

IN THIS ISSUE

Vishwa Bhanu Vishwa Bhanu

Yagna Varaha Modi

From Bhagavata comes the story of Mahavishnu’s annihila�on of the demon

Hiranyakasha, brother of Hiranyakaspu. He carried the mother earth to the bo�om of

ocean and challenged Vishnu to fight him and reclaim her. Mahavishnu came out of the

nostrils of Brahma as a �ny li�le boar which soon grew into a gigan�c form of Yagna

Varaha dived to the depths of the ocean, killed the demon, reclaimed her and estab-

lished her in all her pris�ne glory.

Presently our great Motherland has been deprived of all her glory by foolish,

selfish and ignorant band of Hiranyakasha’s (having their eyes centred only gold, or

wealth) through their misrule of decades. Mother had virtually gone to the very rock

bo�om of her glory and dignity. And here comes our Yagna Varaha Modi who is

ordained to restore our Motherland to her old glory—as was done by another

Narendra more than hundred years back. The present Yagna Varaha has taken upon

himself to once again restore our most ancient Mother India to her pris�ne glory.

Herea-er we should all offer our contribu�ons to the great work undertaken

by our beloved Prime Minister by dedica�ng all our ac�vi�es work and service as

Mothers Work and execute it to the best of our abili�es following the path of Satya

and Dharma. That is the only way in which we can make Mother India shining and

fulfill the hopes and aspira�ons of millions of Indians within the country and outside.

Let us not spoil the effect by resor�ng to popular expressions like India’s para-

digm shi-, India modified etc. and thus loose the real implica�ons of the change. Let

us make the world recognize that “INDIA IS AWAKENING”.

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ATMAVIKAS SHIBIR-I ( KINDLE THE LIGHT WITHIN)

Thirty six participants

from VII to Xth class, took

part in the first Atmavikas

Camp held from 4th April

to 13th April 2014. On

the first day, after inaugu-

ration by Lakshmi Didi and

little Laxmi, Didi spoke to

the children briefing them

about the camp and its

routine. During the fol-

lowing ten days, apart

from yoga classes taken by

the ladies team of Yoga

Varga namely Sakeena,

Prajeela, Padmaja, Saritha

and Jayashree on different

days, there was one lec-

ture session each day.

Main resource persons

were Sri Harishankar and

Dr Muralidharan both of

them being B.Ed. trainers,

Shri Mohanji and Shri

Sudhakarji and Lakshmi

Didi were the other

speakers. A workshop on

communication by Shri

Haridas was also kept dur-

ing one of the days which

the children thoroughly

enjoyed. Afternoons were

kept exclusively for chil-

drens’ performance in

group discussion, skits,

drapery and quiz etc.

After tea break there

was their favourite crea-

tivity classes when they

learnt glass painting, fabric

painting, making of paper

ornaments, paper flowers,

greeting cards and scien-

tific toys. Smt Leena

Murlidharan and her

husband from Anapuzha,

Sri Sujith from Trissur,

and Madhavi Tai from

BE A HERO, ALWAYS SAY ,

‘I HAVE NO FEAR’

Swami Vivekananda

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On 13th evening, being the

concluding day of the camp,

the participants’ parents were

invited for a meeting. Anapu-

zha Murali master, an experi-

enced counselor for children

of this age group, along with

Didi talked to the parents.

The cultural programme

started with Veda chanting by

all the participants together.

Murali Master and Sri

Pavitranji were the guests for

the programme. There were

numerous items chalked out

by the children themselves,

which included patriotic

group songs, skits, dance, dra-

pery presentation and of

course yoga demonstration.

Both Didi and Murali master

talked to the children. Group

wise as well as individual priz-

es were distributed by the

Chief guest. The whole pro-

gramme was beautifully con-

ducted by the children them-

selves.

All differences in this

world are of degree,

and not of kind,

because

oneness is the secret of

everything.”

― Swami Vivekananda

Nasik were the resource per-

sons. Games followed after

that. This time games were

also conducted by Mss. Ran-

jitha, Smitha and Jayashree of

Yoga varga ladies team. Chil-

drens’ grasping power of the

vedic chants and patriotic

group songs was just amazing!

Group activities like serving,

cleaning, decorating the photo

frames of the Holy trio etc.

were done with full enthusi-

asm. Diary writing was must

for each child. Number of

girls exceeded the number of

boys this time. Students from

seven different schools partic-

ipated.

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ATMAVIKAS SHIBIR-2 ( CHITRA SHALABHAM)

This years Atmavikas Shibir II had the enchanting

name of ‘Chitra Shalabham’( Butterfly).The second

shibir for children of classes IV to VI, started on

17th April and continued till 23rd April. Inaugura-

tion of the shibir was done by Smt Madhavi Tai

from Nasik. 40 children registered. Boys outnum-

bered the girls in this camp. They were divided into

five groups after the name of traditional Kerala flora

namely:

Tulasi, Mullapu, Chettipu, Mandaram and Chempa-

kam. Volunteers from the previous shibir were

given the charge of each group. Anandadham

became charged with the loud applause, songs

chants and noises made by the mischievous lot of

children.

There was a lecture session every morning at 10.30

after song and sloka practice. Lakshmi didi and Sri

Sudhakarji conducted classes on Swami Vivekananda

and Personality Development. A class on Sanskrit

speaking was conducted by one of our vidyarthini

inmates, Kum Veena of Kerala Vyasa Sanskrit

Vidyapeetham. Morning session was followed by

Yoga conducted by Smt. Padmaja, which the

children loved. After lunch children listened to

Ramayana from Su. Bindu. Activities on creativity

were conducted by Smt Madhavi Tai. Children

learnt Origami, painting on rexin, preparation of

scientific toys etc sitting in their respective groups

guided by their group leaders. On the day before

concluding, the group leaders conducted a quiz

competition for the participants on whatever they

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ATMAVIKAS SHIBIR-2 ( ( CHITRA SHALABHAM))

On the concluding day, parents of the participants

attended the meeting meant for them. Didi spoke

at the meeting. Function started with Vedic

chants, followed by cultural programme by the

children. Looking at their performance on the

stage, nobody could imagine that these children

each of them who was like a bundle of dynamite

could be so calm and mature on stage as if they

were the best behaved children on earth! All

their items were highly appreciated by the audi-

ence. Kum. Varada from Chennai was adjudged as

the best camper. The creative works were

displayed in the hall and parents could see the

talents in their own little children. The

programme concluded with shanti mantra.

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NURSERY TEACHERS ‘ ORIENTATION COURSE-2014

For the first time a Nursery Teachers’ Orientation

course was conducted at Anandadham, Kodungal-

lur, from 17th April to 3rd May. 24 teachers from

five different schools namely, Sandeepani Sishvhar,

Phoenix Public School, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Sri

Sai Vidya Bhavan and Amrita Vidyalayam enrolled

their names. The programme started with deepa

prajwalan by Sri Sudhakarji and Smt. Madhavi Tai.

After this, ice breaking session followed whereby

teachers came to get acquainted with each other.

Tai then introduced the course to the teachers.

Training started from the day one itself. The daily

routine was from 9.30 am to 12.30 noon with

equal time for practical and theory. The topics for

theory papers were i) Teaching Method of Lan-

guage and Mathematics ii) Child psychology and

iii) Health/Hygiene and Child welfare. Two guest

lecturers, Dr Ramaswamy, pediatrician who took

classes on Health, Hygiene and Child Welfare and

Sri Ramesh, Health Inspector who took class on

Child Psychology. The rest of the topics including

Child psychology and Teaching methods of Lan-

guage and Maths were covered by Smt Madhavi Tai

herself. Crafts and other topics for practical were

also guided by Taiji. All the teachers took keen in-

terest in everything, in spite of language problem,

as the medium of instruction was English. An infor-

mal theory and practical test was kept for all the

teachers on 1st and 2nd of May. On the 1st there

was Theory of 150 marks based on the lectures

and on 2nd May there was practical of 50 marks

based on teaching method and craft. In addition,40

marks were allotted for 4 note books on teaching

methods and crafts which each teacher prepared

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and 10 marks kept for overall performance of each

teacher. Total evaluation was 250 marks.19 teachers

out of 23 attended the tests and all of them came out

successful, thanks to Madhavi Tai’s constant and un-

tiring effort.

On 3rd May was the concluding programme of the

Nursery teachers’ Orientation camp. The chief guest

of the programme was Dr Murlidharan, Director

Hindi Prachar Kendra and two B.Ed. colleges in

Kodungallur. A display of the teachers’ crafts and

notebooks which they enthusiastically completed

within the 17 days of the course was an added attrac-

tion. After the usual prayer and deepa prajwalan by

the invited guest, Dr Murlidharan spoke to the teach-

ers, as to how a primary teacher can mould the life of

a child. Teachers were awarded certificates for their

untiring effort to improve their innovative power. All

the teachers presented Madhavi tai with a lovely to-

ken of their regards and gratitude. All of them re-

quested Kendra to conduct such Orientation courses

every year so that they would be well equipped with

the latest research methods.

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Regular activities Student inmates of Anandadham welcomed “Vishu” by

burning crackers during the night and se�ng up the

Vishakanni in the tradi!onal way.

On Pournami days Ganapathi Homam

and Sricakra puja were performed by dis-

ciples of Dr Vijayan’s Vedic school. It

included Sri Lalitha sahasra nama

chan!ng and ara! at the end followed by

Sunday Samskarvarga started from the first Sunday of May. Nine children regularly a/ended.

On the first Sunday children were lucky as they could learn cra0work from Smt Madhavi tai and

were delighted at this rare opportunity. Yoga varga for ladies had five ladies and Yoga satra had

ten ladies during the month of April and May. For men there were 10-15 for yoga varga and 5

for the satra during the two months. On every second Saturday a two hour class for the yoga

teachers, deputed by Kendra to different schools of Kodungallur and other yoga teachers of

neighbouring schools of Kodungallur was held accordingly. Sri Sudhakarji and Didi handled the

classes. Shri Girishji’s regular class on Sri Lalitha Sahasra Namam con!nued as usual on the last

Saturday and Sunday of April and May

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Karma yoga and management

I am neither a scholar or philosopher nor am I an

expert in management or produc!vity. But I am

deeply concerned with the falling standards in

every sphere of human ac!vity in our country at

the moun!ng frustra!on and dissa!sfac!on

among our work force and above all how we are

perpetua!ng a Western system, the models of

which are far from the true vision of Reality. This is

what has made me venture into a different field of

ac!on, to engage myself in work of a more

profound and vaster dimension at the

Vivekananda Kendra where work has its

key-notes Sacrifice and Service, where Karma yoga

forms the ‘Nishtha’ or discipline in life. I am ven-

turing to place before you a few thoughts which I

hope would urge you experts to search for more

prac!cal and meaningful principles and models to

suite the psyche of our and the changing world

view consequent on modern scien!fic discoveries.

During his wanderings in the country from 1890-92

Swami Vivekananda experienced himself the dete-

riora!on in values and work ethics in our country.

He observed that our people had become slaves in

every sense of the term. The immediate emergen-

cy treatment that Swamiji could think of was to

wake up our people from their centuries old leth-

argy and put them to right ac!on through the !me

tested path of Karma yoga. Today we are in the

last lap of 20th century. No doubt our cons!tu!on

puts it we are a Sovereign Republic . As a na!on

we are free. But as individuals we con!nue to be

slaves. Self oriented work is all that we know of

which as we engage in more and more, only adds

to the bondage, burden and misery instead of giv-

ing the taste of joyous freedom which is the natu-

ral flavor of good work well executed. The sum

total pursuit of excellence is a thing of past hones-

ty, truthfulness and dedica!on to work, so beau!-

fully summed up in the word ‘character efficiency’

are unknown. Understanding and sympathy for

fellow human beings have disappeared from the

na!onal scene. Even ‘social service’ has become a

paid job.

At the na!onal level we are figh!ng for our rights

and privileges. There is no topic of discussion

among the working groups other than pay, promo-

!on, prospects, perks. Nobody is bothered about

Dr. M. Lakshmi Kumari

“…………..the world view implied

by modern physics is inconsistent with our

present society, which does not reflect the

harmonious interrelatedness we observe

in nature. To achieve such a state of dy-

namic balance, a radically different social

and economic structure will be needed: a

cultural revolu(on in the true sense of the

word. The survival of our whole civiliza(on

may depend on whether we can bring out

such a change.”

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duty. The easiest and most prac!cal path for

our na!on’s regenera!on is a reappraisal of

this irrevocable and supremely relevant karma

yoga. To enrich and energize our na!onal

wealth or human resources, which just cannot

be done by crea!ng new ministries and depart-

ments, our people should understand the fun-

damentals of “secret of ac!on” and learn to

suffuse their work with a new idealism of sacri-

fice and service, if not worship.

Management of finance, of resources, of personal

and of produc!vity in a system, etc are ma/ers of

study and discussion among the present day ex-

perts. What do our ancient seers have to say in

this ma/er? A na!on which excelled and created

such marvels in study, philosophy, art architecture

and so on must have certainly evolved a philoso-

phy of work too, for the individual, group and the

na!on. Not many of our experts have bothered to

study this aspect of our great heritage. A country

which was renowned by the name of Punyabhoo-

mi, Tyaga bhoomi, Dharma bhoomi, Karma bhoo-

mi and so on, each epithet a pointer to a great

principle and philosophy, would certainly have

something of a value in this field of work as well.

The world at large is discovering in our Raja yoga –

the royal path to self unfoldment – a science for

total human development; in Bhak! yoga, an ab-

solutely scien!fic incomparable unified vision of

the Whole. We will be failing in our duty if we

don’t bring out the Golden keys hidden in Karma

yoga by which even the commonest among us can

work one’s way to deep sa!sfac!on, discovering in

our daily work an elixir for the growth and expan-

sion of our total personality and to use the same

as instrument for the service of the na!on and our

people.

Every human being must inherit the treasure

which the Cosmic intelligence has made available

to man from !me to !me. Swami Vivekananda

was the foremost ini!ator of this world level in-

terac!on who, with open heart and arms shared

with the world outside as much as he could, of

the invaluable science and technology of living

which we had perfected as part of our spiritual

heritage. His efforts uncovered for the world

(including Indian) not only the great beauty, sci-

en!fic validity of Reality but also made the world

understand that progress, to be real and mean-

ingful has to be achieved at two levels, internal

as well as external, not separately but together.

Science has progressed much since then and eve-

ry one of its discoveries has only underscored

Swamiji’s observa!ons.

There are several defini!ons for Karma yoga.

Karma yoga is the method of a/aining perfec-

!on, freedom, bliss and blessedness through

work. Karma yoga is the union of our lower self

with the higher self through work. In simpler

terms Karma yoga is a purposeful ac!on animat-

ed by a universal mo!ve. But the best and most

comprehensive of defini!ons has been given by

Swami Vivekananda which we find most incorpo-

rated in his famous words.

“Each soul is poten!ally divine. The goal in life is

to manifest this divinity by controlling nature

external and internal. Do it by work or worship;

psychic control or philosophy, by one or more or

all of these- and be free. This is the whole of reli-

gion. Doctrines or dogmas or rituals, or books, or

temples, or forms are but secondary details.”

Each one of us have three facets to our person-

ality- propelled from within by an infinite, eternal

spiritual force. It expresses itself in the intellect

as intelligence ( knowledge , wisdom), in our

mind as emo!ons and the variety of feelings and

at our ac!ons. Our total development should

also be threefold.

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To 1. Achieve the maximum perfec!on and de-

velopment at the individual level,

2. Relate oneself with the whole of crea!on

through our posi!ve interac!ons and

3. Ul!mately pave the way to reach out to

the peak of evolu!on by realizing oneself to be

the part and parcel of that Ul!mate , Truth, Bliss,

Godhood or by whatever name one may opt to

call it.

Swami Vivekananda used the words “ be free”

with special emphasis and caught the a/en!on

of the West at one stroke. The idea was so ap-

pealing to them, all the more because they had

just begun to taste, in a very elementary way,

freedom from bondage, ignorance, wants and so

on. That could indeed be prime mo!va!on to all

of us., as it truly ‘freedom’ that everyone is look-

ing for through knowledge, through love or

through ac!on.

I would presently dwell on one par!cular as-

pect only as it is very per!nent in our na!onal

context, when as men!oned earlier, in spite of

being the ci!zens of a sovereign republic, our

people have not learnt to shake off the shackles

of slavery with the result they remain backward,

weak, ignorant, poor and above all bere0 of hu-

man dignity, plodding along a lack luster life. All

our problems are offshoots of this one.

Second injunc!on calls upon man to give up his

preoccupa!on with the result of the ac!on. Why

should not one get a/ached to the result? Firstly

the real result of a work is subjec!ve, in the reac-

!on it creats in our mental stuff. Desire for a fruit

disturbs the equanimity of the mind and slowly

eats its way into our efficiency. Worries of the

past , excitement in the present , anxiety for the

future, all these side reac!ons are generated in

the mind which gets result oriented. Where

there is desire for a par!cular result mind be-

comes a/ached to that and slowly the act of

working loses its joy and charm and above all

its purifying power. Net result is we are

dragged into monotony, frustra!on and dis-

sa!sfac!on not only with oneself but with the

world around. On the other hand unburdened

from the anxiety for the result of one is able to

express oneself in ac!on more skillfully, sys-

tema!cally and fully. Every ac!on then turns to

be a subjec!ve exercise to gain inner strength,

to grow inward towards the Infinite Self within.

When a/en!on is shi0ed from the result,

which implies ‘taking> to giving and serving-

ac!on becomes a sacrifice, a yajna and our

whole life changes its colour. It adds to itself a

new dignity, power, fulfillment and greatness.

A new dimension is opened up. In fact that is

very purpose of living and working. With quali-

ta!ve

im-

provement in the ‘subjec!ve’, there is a simul-

taneous be/erment at the objec!ve level.

‘Yoga Karmasu Kousalam’. Karma Yoga leads to

a rare all round excellence. Even the most insig-

nificant daily ac!vity becomes an act of wor-

ship, of prayer, of medita!on. Feelings of hap-

“Each soul is poten!ally divine. The

goal in life is to manifest this divinity

by controlling nature external and

internal. Do it by work or worship;

psychic control or philosophy, by one

or more or all of these- and be free.

This is the whole of religion. Doctrines

or dogmas or rituals, or books, or

temples, or forms are but

secondary details.”

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piness, calmness and freedom pervade the mind.

Thus just this one aspect of Karmayoga when prac-

!ced sincerely makes one a Master of ac!on, a

force to be reckoned with a benedic!on to the so-

ciety.

The third point is, what should be the mo!va!on

for work then? Let good ac!ons flow out of us nat-

urally, say the scriptures. Right ac!on should help

us to manifest the best of quali!es in us- or divini-

ty as Swami Vivekananda puts it. An ac!on is good

if it upli0s the doer and produces maximum happi-

ness to great number of people. It automa!cally

becomes a tangible asser!on of Truth. If our

thoughts, words or deeds put awall of narrowness

around us, making us aloof and separate from the

rest of the world we deny our divine self, no

ma/er what that ac!on is. Such ac!ons are de-

struc!ve and unspiritual. Our work should help us

to remove the barrier of egoism, must help us to

realise more and more the fundamental unity, the

Oneness which is behind the apparently diversified

Universe. Swami Vivekananda therefore says,

“Expansion is life, Contrac!on is death”, “Love is

life , Hatred is death”, “Knowledge is life, Igno-

rance is death”.

Selfish mo!va!ons hold within, anxiety and fear

of disappointment,. Fear makes us slaves. It is fear-

lessness, it is selflessness that makes us masters.

Selfishness coupled with egoism have turned us

today into a na!on of cowards, slavish brutes.

The most important is the declara!on with which

the sloka starts, “You have right only to ac!on”. To

understand this statement we have to understand

something of the vedan!c idealism, essen!als of

yogic or scien!fic approach to life.

Yoga helps us to synchronize our spirit, mind and

senses. The idealism and understanding of our in-

tellect should reflect the characteris!cs of the spir-

it on truth. What are these characteris!cs?. At

this point Indian philosophy puts to shame

the discoveries of modern physics by its prec-

edence of more than 5000 years. To men!on

just a few fundamental parallels-

1. Indivisibility of substance- Ekam sat-

The material and efficient cause of the uni-

verse is One, ma/er, energy , mind, con-

sciousness- all stand unified into one.

2. Universality: It is this one that has mani-

fested into the many. Really speaking, there is

no crea!on of anything new. There are only

manifesta!ons- transforma!ons of one into

many. That means anything in this universe is

interrelated.

3. Non objec!ve- Where there exists only

one infinite unbreakable Whole, where is the

ques!on of subject or object. A new Omni

ejec!ve vision must replace the old approach

based on subject/object differences. The word

exploita!on has no place in the dic!onary of

Karma yoga.

These are the characteris!cs of the Truth, of

the Spirit, that should influence the thoughts

of the mind, percep!ons of the senses and

ac!on of our organs. Karmayoga thus be-

comes not only spiritualized ac!vity but a tru-

ly scien!fic approach to work or ac!on which

though directed externally is really a force

opera!ng within. In the fullness of spirit there

is no !me or place for desire. Desires make us

move away from the subject to the world of

objects, which have only a rela!ve existence.

When more and more of our ac!ons conform

to the characteris!cs of the spirit, more and

more we move towards freedom and real

happiness. Thus in Karmayoga we work out-

wardly but grow inwardly. Thus Karma yoga

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becomes a work, a prayer, a medita!on, an yajna,

all rolled into one, where there is neither a giver

nor a receiver. One just excels in work deriving the

joy in the sheer act of working.

It is from this view point that Gita tells us that one

has right only to work. It is just a statement of

Truth, a scien!fic fact. It is the whole that ma/ers.

“ Par!cular” has no separate existence at all. From

this height of awareness is there any thing – mate-

rial or work- that we can claim to be ‘mine’. We

are all- big or small, rich or poor- shareholders of

that one spiritual treasure-Omniscent, omnipotent

eternal and infinite. That is why Upanishads called

mankind as “Amritasya putrah”-children of immor-

tality- a term which Swami Vivekananda used with

so much of effec!veness in the lectures he deliv-

ered in the West.

At the same there is a will in man to choose the

right goal and the right means to achieve it. Thus

every scope is provided for self effort, self unfold-

ment, self realisa!on- thus making human effort

precious and valuable. We can make our mar our

des!ny. No God or extraneous power can interfere

with it really.

Summing up , true reward of work is in the act of

right working, in the act of right willing, in channel-

izing the posi!ve forces in into One- in conformity

with the Truth or Self within. Once one has made

the right choice, fixed the right goal and decided

the right means there remains nothing more to be

done. Educa!on, guidance, upbringing, habits- all

contribute towards this righteous living, in devel-

oping a really posi!ve character.

Thus Karmayoga insists on spiritual orienta!on. By

its close associa!on with ritualis!c religiosity

over the millennia unfortunately spirituality

earned for self a bad name. Buddha released

it from clutches of ritualis!c religion and

made it stand on its own. It was given to Swa-

mi Vivekananda to update it and project it to

the world co-extensive with the modern sci-

en!fic enquiry into the Unity of Existence and

uphold it for one and all as a science for self

management, self unfoldment, leading to

health , happiness and harmony within peace

without.

The mechanis!c world of view of Cartesian-

Newtonian science is giving place to a new

‘paradigm’ of Reality- to a more holis!c con-

cept of Reality. To suite the emerging system

view of life, mind, consciousness and evolu-

!on, a new conceptual frame work is to be

created. This frame work will have to be nec-

essarily spiritual in its ul!mate nature, neces-

sita!ng a restructuring of human personality

and our priori!es

I would like end this talk with the words of

that modern seer Fritgof Capra:

“…………..the world view implied by

modern physics is inconsistent with our pre-

sent society, which does not reflect the har-

monious interrelatedness we observe in na-

ture. To achieve such a state of dynamic bal-

ance, a radically different social and economic

structure will be needed: a cultural revolu!on

in the true sense of the word. The survival of

our whole civiliza!on may depend on whether

we can bring out such a change.”

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the

secret of everything.” ― Swami Vivekananda

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LAKSHMI DIDI’S PROGRAMMES IN THE MONTH’S

OF APRIL AND MAY

8TH APRIL – Release of Ramayana CD - Parur

12th APRIL Kutumba Sammelan - Methala

17th APRIL – Inauguration of Chemmenda Centre Sanskrita

Pratishthan

18th & 22nd APRIL – Gita Class for foreigners at Big Banana Retreat-

Chennamangalam

27th APRIL – Talk at Residential Association Kakkanattukunnu

28th APRIL – Hindu Convention - Chengannur

2ND MAY – Programme at Balika Sadanam – Trichur

2ND MAY – Talk at the temple at Nandikulam

7th MAY – Talk at Vamana Temple – Mitranandapuram

9th-10th – Sri Ramakrishna Bhakta Sammelan – Thiruvalla

15th MAY – Seminar at R.K.Math, Puranattukara

18th MAY NSS Unit – Inauguration of Spiritual class.

20th MAY – Talk at Vinayakapuram temple

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