LET’s ENJOY THE LIFE:

                                       

Lockdown is open now, so Let’s Enjoy The Life again, but with the new vision.

Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rrsg9ow7eifznhi/LET%E2%80%99S%20ENJOY%20THE%20LIFE.m4a?dl=0

By nature, we are pleasure seeking souls. Our senses are constantly searching for enjoyment & entertainment. Our Tongue likes to taste palatable food, Eyes like to see beautiful things, Ears like to hear soothing music, Hands like to touch nice texture, Nose likes to smell pleasant fragrance and Mind like to dream something big beyond our capacity..LOL 😂. Actually speaking, the main reason for our birth is our strong desire to enjoy this world.

There is nothing wrong in enjoying this world because that’s the main reason we are here for. But one truth every one of us should be aware of, is that we all are born empty handed and going to leave this world empty handed. We are not true owner of our wealth; at the end of day we are not the proprietors of this world, but someone else is. The Basic ingredients ( Earth, Water, Fire, Ether & Air ) of any creation, either animate or inanimate, including our foods are not manufactured by Human. 

We should enjoy everything in this world in the mood of creation of Lord for us, not belonging to us. This one thought can lead us toward enlightenment away from entertainment. So let's rock & enjoy this world ( but within our capacity...😂) in the mood of love, kindness, appreciation, generosity.....rather then possessing, demanding or controlling anyone and without exploiting the other living entities & nature. Just like once we understand & know about milk, we come to know that milk is the source of yogurt, cheese, ghee or any other milk products. Similarly once we understand & know the God by hearing and reading the scriptures, we will come to know that God is the proprietor of this world; this is the GOD REALIZATION stage, which leads us toward SELF REALIZATION.

Here God says in Gita:

Bg 7.3 — Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

Bg 7.4 — Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego – all together these eight constitute My separated material energies. 

TEXT 18: Gita 9.18: I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.

It is easy to say, but difficult to follow. I am in the same boat with everyone else, or I may even be behind, but thinking in the right direction will help us to go in the right direction.   

With respect to everyone’s  values & beliefs, whichever GUIDELINES ( Bible, Quran, Torah, Tripitaka-Buddhism, Agama-Jainism, Guru Granth Sahib-Sikhism, Gita or any other...) METHODS or WAYS work for us is good. 

Have a Happy Journey Ahead.

THANK YOU 🙏 .

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MY SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION , SOURCE & THE GURUS:

I am inspired to hear & read the Vedic Scriptures by regularly listening to Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale, also known as Dadaji ( speaks on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and the association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra. 

I also hear and read the discourses & literature on Vedic thoughts from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( HH Bhakti Rasamitra Swami, HH Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Shubha Vilas Prabhu, Vraja Vihari Dasa, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, HH Bhakticharu Swami, HH Urmila Devi Dasi, HH Sivarama Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Romapada Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu (Gujarati & Hindi), Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......). 

FYI: A good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam (SB) is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures. Repeatedly hearing/reading & meditating the Scriptures, Eating Sanctified Pure Food and Chanting or Hearing the Vedic Mantras are nourishing to our heart (Soul), transcendental to our consciousness, purifying to our senses and thus helps us to overcome our weaknesses or deficiencies. Yes, we do have good qualities within us but there is always a room for improvement. 

It is always a good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Thanks to the Facebook & Social media for providing me the platform. Of course I use Smartphone & Google search to collect some data. 

Besides my parents, wife, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE. Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by Grace of the Guru & God (Krishna , Absolute Truth).

NOTE:

Many times a word Hearing is used instead of Listening when it comes to the Scriptures. Because Scriptures are so potent that simply by Hearing them even if you don’t try to interpret or analyze or understand them still there will be passive positive effects on our mind & senses.

We can follow either the Quran, Bible,Torah, Tripitaka-Buddhism, Agama-Jainism, Guru Granth Sahib-Sikhism, Gita or any other Philosophy which makes sense to us, purifies us, elevates our consciousness and qualifies us to understand God and instill the love of God & his creation. (whichever way we can understand God — either Personal with many names or Impersonal as an universal consciousness & energy).

Don’t try to understand God by Name, Religion or Depiction (means image, picture...etc) but try to understand him by the Definition through Scriptures. The Transcendental subject of God & his creation cannot be understood by mental speculation. Some times people ask why God is Supreme? It is just like asking why is the circle circular? Just by definition, the circle is circular. Similarly by definition, God is unborn, complete, unlimited, infinite, eternal, the Absolute Truth the source of everything, cause of all causes. 

I see God, besides the above mentioned qualities, as an eternal living person (not a abstract or some kind of light) known by the name KRISHNA meaning one who attracts everyone has also MANY other NAMES, forms, abodes, incarnations, activities, qualities, associates, is full of wisdom, bliss, and the cause of all causes.

Here Lord says in Gita

Bg 9.17 — I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable oṁ. I am also the Ṛg, the Sāma and the Yajur Vedas.

TEXT 18: Gita 9.18: I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.

Bg:13-12:— Accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth ( God ) – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance. ( Vedabase.com ).

OUR DAILY VISITORS:

                                         

We have so many cute, sweet & talented guests visit us everyday. They sing, fly, jump, hide, run, dive & entertain us. They fill up their gas tank in our backyard.... LOL 😂. Who are these visitors? Let’s see their biographies, see the link below for their pictures and videos. I added few pictures in the album from the other places I visited.

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/WoPMWRu1zmN1p8XF9 

CHIPMUNK 🐿-- A very cute, fast & smart burrowing ground squirrel with cheek pouches. He (or she) comes every day, eats some seeds & then fill up his cheek pouches with lots of seeds to store in the ground burrow. One day we put almonds in birds feeder, he took away almost 6-7 pieces of almond in one trip, came three times..😂, very funny to see him everyday. He is no longer afraid 😱 from us. There is a one very cute closeup video in the album.

ROBINS: Robins are gray-brown color birds with dark heads. They eat ground worms, and I’ve never saw them eating seeds. There are two pictures of three new born robins, born in our backyard maternity home...LOL 😂.

BLUE JAY: A very beautiful, sky blue color, intelligent, noisy but sweet and highly aggressive bird. They dominate over other small birds. Once we witnessed him killing a baby sparrow 😕.

CARDINALS: Male cardinals are bright red color with a reddish kalgi or turban... 😂. Females are pale red color with reddish tinges in the wings & crest. Mostly I see these lovebirds together and have seen them feeding the seeds each other 😊

BLACKBIRD: A black beauty with a red wings.Their soothing songs & cheerful moods are signs of the return of spring. We don’t see them in winter months as they migrate to warm weather.

WOODPECKER: A very pretty bird visits our backyard a few times a year. They have a light gray color with stripes & red cap. We have heard their drumming noise many times while pecking the dead wood or tree in our neighborhood. Woodpecker can repeatedly bang it’s head without any concussion injury.. 😂 

HAWK: They visit us frequently in searching for the birds as their meals. We witnessed them eating sparrow, robin, blue jay & baby rabbit from our back yard....😢. In the album there is a picture & video of big Hawk, taken few days ago while walking at my work place. In the video, the Hawk has captured the Blue jay with its powerful claws & the Blue jay’s friends are attacking the Hawk to rescue him... no success...😞.

TUFTED TITMOUSET: A little gray bird with an echoing voice. They love eating wild red berries from the holly tree in our backyard.

Baby Blue Jay, Baby Tufted Titmouse & Baby Hawk: We found them while walking in our neighborhood. One day I saw a very sharp cute Baby-Hawk while walking at work place, he was looking into my eyes...😆. See their cute pictures in the album.

BROWN-HEADED COWBIRD: A stocky & shrewd dark brown color bird. These birds lay eggs in the nests of other birds. They also visit us everyday except in the winter.

GOLD FLINCH: Gold finch is the Nj state bird. A tiny cute yellow-gold color bird. They visit us 2-3 times a year, mostly in fall season. 

MONARCH BUTTERFLY: Each fall, millions of Monarch butterflies travel 3000 miles from Canada to Mexico. On the way to their long journey they stop by to fill up their honey fuel from the Butterfly Bush in our backyard.. LOL 😂. 

GREAT BLUE HERON: The great blue heron is the largest wading bird in North America. It is 46 inches in length with a wingspan of 72 inches. We see one same bird for the last 5 years in our neighborhood pond. 

GEESE’s FAMILY: We see them in our neighborhood all the time. A few years ago mother Geese laid 12 eggs in our back yard. We used to glance them everyday, one morning they were hatched and gone. A day later we found them in nearby pond with small cute babies. 

BUNNIES: We see them all the time even in winter season. They love eating the green grass, keeping our lawn nicely trimmed... 😂. They live underneath our shed, their new born babies don’t go too far from the shed due to fear of being kidnapped by someone....LOL 😂. Last year, the shrewd Hawk ate two baby rabbits... 😢.

DEER: Once in while our dear Deer also come to visit us.

Sparrows, House finches & Gray doves.... are also our daily visitors.

Deep in the Heart we all love birds, animals & nature. We are happy to feed OUR CUTE & LOVING GUESTS. You guys are also welcome to come. We will feed you delicious home made sweets (Laddu).. instead of bird seeds...LOL 😂. In case if you aren’t able to come due to lockdown then take one Laddu from the album.... 😂.

Be Safe You & Your Family.

THANK YOU.

MAN-MADE DEATH:

                                       

We are not the owner nor we have invented the basic ingredients (earth,water,air,fire & ether) of material creation, but by overuse & misuse of material creations, we have introduced more pollution, disease & death than God Himself...LOL 😂

Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/13uf7r7mtybc8l4/MAN-MADE%20DEATH.m4a?dl=0 

Let’s see some data from Google below.
1. Slaughter house industries: 3 billion animals killed every day. Bird flu, swine flu, mad cow disease, and now COVID-19 which have resulted in deaths of thousands of people all over the world. Have we ever heard about mango flu, strawberry flu, yogurt flu or mad cauliflower disease?.... LOL 😂.  

2. Alcohol industries: Worldwide, 3 million people die from from harmful use of alcohol. The harmful use of alcohol is a causal factor in more than 200 diseases and injury conditions.

3. Oil, gas, chemical & plastic industries: Toxic air, water & soil pollution kills at least 9 million people around the world every year. (Stroke, heart disease, many other diseases, lung and other varieties of cancer due to pollution).

4. Drug industries: Illicit drugs use is responsible for 750,000 death every year.

5. Tobacco industries: Tobacco kills more than 8 million people each year. (7 million of those deaths are the result of direct tobacco use while around 1.2 million are the result of second-hand smoke). 

6. Gambling industries: 15 times higher rate of suicide.

7. Junk food industries: Unhealthily diets are responsible for 11 million preventable deaths globally per year, more even than smoking tobacco. 

8. Weapons industries: 250,000 death per year due to gun violence. Nuclear weapons can kill million people in one shot.

9. Motor vehicle industries: Approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year. An additional 20-50 million suffer non-fatal injuries, often resulting in long-term disabilities.

10. Technological industries: Sedentary lifestyles due to too many comforts, facilities, and luxuries from technological industries are responsible for even more diseases & deaths.

In summary, approximately 3 billion animals & 150,000 people die & many more suffer from these industries every day. If we observe carefully, our hospitals are filled with patients affected from above mentioned industries. If we go back 250 years, how many of these people & other creatures would have died from these industries?, maybe none; there were no above mentioned industries. These industries keep us busy, give us some comfort, excitement and then disease & premature death... 😂. We invented many diseases as a byproduct of these industries & now we are too busy inventing medicines & methods to cure these diseases... LOL 😂. We can save these many lives everyday & also can make this planet pollution free if we LOCKDOWN ourselves at home....LOL 😂 or otherwise we must accept the reality of this rapidly progressing material world. We can’t manufacture the necessities for survival (food, air & water come from the nature) but we can definitely manufacture MAN-MADE DEATH in these industries.

On the contrary, Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Plants & Cow farming industries support the survival of whole world without harming anyone. Just imagine, with simple & healthy lifestyle as recommended in scriptures, how many lives we can save per year? Spiritual knowledge doesn’t kills but rather facilitate the survival of others. I am not against the industrial revolution, research & science, but remember one thing, at the end of a day, any unnecessary material activities, creativities, inventions and interventions work against us. We are now dependent on these industries; it is almost impossible to unwind it, we can try our best to use it safely & wisely. Even in the presence of an unhealthy environment, we can still maintain our health. Spiritual knowledge & practice helps us to slowly detach from the unhealthy materialistic life to a healthy spiritual life. The first wealth is health. Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Bg 6.17 — He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material pains by practicing the yoga system. Vedabase.io

TEXT 7: Bg 14.7: The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kuntī, and because of this the embodied living entity is bound to material fruitive actions. 

TEXT 8: Bg 17.8: Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to the heart.

BE HEALTHY AS A HORSE..... LOL 😂.

THANK YOU. 

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MY SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION , SOURCE & THE GURUS:

I am inspired to hear & read the Vedic Scriptures by regularly listening to Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale, also known as Dadaji ( speaks on Srimad Bhagavad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and the association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra. 

I also hear and read the discourses & literature on Vedic thoughts from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( HH Bhakti Rasamitra Swami, HH Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Shubha Vilas Prabhu, Vraja Vihari Dasa, Sutapa Das, Amarnath Dasa, HH Bhakticharu Swami, HH Urmila Devi Dasi, HH Sivarama Swami, HH Radhanath Swami, HH Romapada Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu (Gujarati & Hindi), Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......). 

FYI: A good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com Srimad Bhagavad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam (SB) is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures. Repeatedly hearing/reading & meditating the Scriptures, Eating Sanctified Pure Food and Chanting or Hearing the Vedic Mantras are nourishing to our heart (Soul), transcendental to our consciousness, purifying to our senses and thus helps us to overcome our weaknesses or deficiencies. Yes, we do have good qualities within us but there is always a room for improvement. 

It is always a good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Thanks to the Facebook & Social media for providing me the platform. Of course I use Smartphone & Google search to collect some data. 

Besides my parents, wife, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE. Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by Grace of the Guru & God (Krishna , Absolute Truth).

NOTE:
Many times a word Hearing is used instead of Listening when it comes to the Scriptures. Because Scriptures are so potent that simply by Hearing them even if you don’t try to interpret or analyze or understand them still there will be passive positive effects on our mind & senses.

We can follow either the Quran, Bible,Torah, Tripitaka-Buddhism, Agama-Jainism, Guru Granth Sahib-Sikhism, Gita or any other Philosophy which makes sense to us, purifies us, elevates our consciousness and qualifies us to understand God and instill the love of God & his creation. (whichever way we can understand God — either Personal with many names or Impersonal as an universal consciousness & energy).

Don’t try to understand God by Name, Religion or Depiction (means image, picture...etc) but try to understand him by the Definition through Scriptures. The Transcendental subject of God & his creation cannot be understood by mental speculation. Some times people ask why God is Supreme? It is just like asking why is the circle circular? Just by definition, the circle is circular. Similarly by definition, God is unborn, complete, unlimited, infinite, eternal, the Absolute Truth the source of everything, cause of all causes. 

I see God, besides the above mentioned qualities, as an eternal living person (not a abstract or some kind of light) known by the name KRISHNA meaning one who attracts everyone has also MANY other NAMES, forms, abodes, incarnations, activities, qualities, associates, is full of wisdom, bliss, and the cause of all causes.

Bg 9.17 — I am the father of this universe, the mother, the support and the grandsire. I am the object of knowledge, the purifier and the syllable oṁ. I am also the Ṛg, the Sāma and the Yajur Vedas.

TEXT 18: Gita 9.18: I am the goal, the sustainer, the master, the witness, the abode, the refuge and the most dear friend. I am the creation and the annihilation, the basis of everything, the resting place and the eternal seed.

Bg:13-12:— Accepting the importance of self-realization; and philosophical search for the Absolute Truth ( God ) – all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance. ( Vedabase.com ).