Monday, November 16, 2009

To Attain Real Benefit on Laabha Panchami

The faith lunar day (panchami) of bright fortnight of kartika is known as Laabha (profit) Panchami. It is called ssaybhay (good fortune) Panchami also. The jains call it Jana (knowledge) panchami. The businessmen initiate undertakings on this day considering it to be an auspicious one. Any such undertaking sanctified by religion if initiated on this day brings in a lot profit. This is the day of resolving to conduct oneself in accordance with saint’s guidance and to extricate oneself with the help of Bhakti from the impact of the five passions deride anger greed delusion and egotism saints exhort us:
‘O man Break free form all worldly passionate relationships.
Forge bonds with him, whom you are eternally related to.”
‘ I belong to the lord and the Lord beings to me with this mind meditated on the Lord pary to the Lord and sing His praise an Thus resolve to save yourself form worldly allurements and passionate thoughts.
1. Remember the five nectarine message of laabha panchami:
The first things to be remembered is I am god and God is mine This belief will kindle love for god the body the home the relations were not there before birth and shall not exist after death but the Lord is always there and is always by me side such thoughts are kike the first draught of nectar on the occasion of laabha Panchami.
Secondly: We should remember the we live in the world created by God. We believe we will get religious merit form going to pilgrim places. (But what can be holier then God abode?) And the land where we all are presently staying is God’s the sun the moon the winds the breath the heart beats all are god’s. Thus we are living in God world God abode. It is my house that is his house and the like. But all this is superficial. The reality is that all of us live in the Lord’s house. Understanding of this king kindles ous fallings of staying in the lord’s house in our heart.
Thirdly: Whatever food you take mentally offers it to the lord and eats with the feeling that you re aerating the food left over by him. This way your heart will be filled with decoction feelings while your stomach gets filled with food.
Fourthly: Render selfless serves to your parents your neighbors poor people and others with the idea that both you and the other one are pairs and parcels of the supreme Lord of the Universe not with the attitude like he is a poor fellow .I am rendering sieves to him what would have happened if I had not come to his rescue Don’t consider yourself to be the doer.
Fifth: Work with yourself body mind and intellect for larger circle. Expand the horizon of your to your family, to your locality, to your village, to your sate to your nation and liven beyond the nation to progressively encompass the whole of the universe. Have the perspective and wish that auspiciousness well being and good may come to all that all may attain happiness and paces my all be happy anther by cultivate large heartedness. For the well being of the family, leave the insistences for you own good for the welfare of the society shun the insistence for the good of your family for the village of society for the state of the village for the country of the state and for the world give up the attachment for the county… All last give up fascination for the ever stinging and transient world and is one with supreme power.
By acting according to the directions of the mind. One shall suffer loss rather then ginning because the mind follows the sense. Which in turn the mind towards sensory pleasure. But if you keep mediating and remembering god there by nourishing your mind then it shall first ponder over the consequences and shall not be take satyr by worldly attractions. This way the mind shall get rest because purified there by paving it way getting established in the Supreme Being. This will in turn ease the supreme Gain Let these five benefits of Laabha panchmi settle in your life.
II. Five other points to be followed.
1. Doing good deeds in life.
2. Purity of food.
3. Control of in by making it follow the routine of japa mediation silence etc for the specified period of time.
4. Be very careful when thoughts of fringes or enemies come to your mind. Steer clear form fear of friends binges displaced or enemies harming you.
5. Let the distinction. You Atman is real the body is unreal. Pleasure and pain respect and disrespect disease and healthiness are all unreal you self the supreme self is real. We should understand this distinction on this day and be careful about our goal.
III. Five things should never be postponed:
1. Doing what is in accord with your duty. Dharma.
2. Giving donation or gift to a deserving person.
3. Availing of satsang and rendering service to a true saint.
4. Reading the scriptures reflecting and contemplating over their purport inducting those inpracices.
5. Fornicating fear if you are fearful. Fix your mind on the Lord who is beyond all fear and eliminate the cause of fear. If the enemy is there in front of you it there is fear of faith or if a deadly attack in aimed at you don’t be afraid to guard yourself against it or to center the attack. The skanda purana sates it passions worries an sinful thoughts too are enemies lose n time in eliminating them.
IV. Five vice should be avoided in actions:
1. Avoid doing things foolishly. Do whatever you do after careful consideration of all its aspects.
2. Do not act with arrogance.
3. Do not get into passionate relationship with any body.
4. Do not act with malice.
5. Do not act out of fear.
If your actions are free form these five vices, they will be like offering five nectarine substances of the lord on the occasion of laabha panchami.
V. There art five good qualities in the intellect: they should be understood and taken advantage of:
1. The intellect has the ability to destroy evil tendencies an promote the good ones.
2. The intellect has the ability also to make emend concentrated. This is done thought canting each and every incoming and outgoing breath and doing Trataka (fixing the gaze) on the Guru idol or swastika mark. Theses techniques not only help in developing concentration they give joy also.
3. Any task done with zeal and enthusiasm certainly leads to success.
4. It is the intellect alone that decides whether or not an action should be done as also whether it is right or wrong good or bad beneficial or harmful. The intellect should therefore be kept pure.
5. The intellect alone has the resolution power. Therefore the more your nourish your intellect the more progress you make in all spheres.
Lord Surya sun god I she gives the intellect. Offer libation to him and play to him to abide in your intellect and illumine it. This will make your intellect full of divine power and dinve knowledge.
VI. There are five means that help in God realization:
1. I am God and God is mine I will realize God in this very birth, No other means fasts observing pious vows pilgrimage and ganjas etc. help so much and so fast in god does. And then render serfs series to all for God sake.’
2. Looking Interlay at the lord idol while praying to Him and consequently being enraptured makes the mind assume the form of god (Bhagavadakar Vritti).
3. When you get up in the morning. Shake hands with the Lord. Assume one your hand to be that of the lord. Gently press each othes’s hand and say to him My Lord I am yours and you are mine‘t you? Sooner rather then later in a matter of day the lord will be pleases with you. And the really will came form him of coureyou are mine and your job is done.
4. Call the in the temple of your heart and love him as the cowhered grits of viridian did. Have from faith in your ability to realize God just as shabri bad.
5. Never nurture feelings hatred and ill will for baby body. If harbor such feelings throw away on the day of laabha panchmi.
One for whom you harbor malice may be eating sweetmeats while your heart burns with animosity towards him. Poisson does no harm to the bottle that contains it but malice ruins the heart it resides in.
Let us with for everybody welfare without any selfish interest in mind. Let us love all for the sake of God. A mother loves her children so she wants their wants their well beings. And she takes no pride in doings so. Similarly if you too make your heart will becomes worthy of divine love.
One should have compassion in heart. If those below you in age wealth or wisdom commit error teach them with kindness with a view to increasing third religious merits and knowkdege One who help others and in the process increases their religious merit becomes exalted and is automatically benefited. These things should be well understood on the occasion of Laadha panchami.
Attaining wealth power of fame is no real gain. The real gain is in learning the art of living form the satsang of self realized sad guru and assimilating it in one’s life thereby attaining equanimity in profit and loss fame and infamy victory and defeat and in consequently realizing the supreme self.

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