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<div align="center">January, 2009<br>
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<td bgcolor="#000099" valign="top"><b><font color="#ffffff">Swami
Vivekananda to Youth<br>
Vivekananda Jayanti ( Jan 12, 2009)<br>
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<p><span style="color: black;"><img alt=""
src="cid:part2.00090904.06070808@divyajivan.org" align="left"
height="167" width="130">"Supreme value of youth period is
incalculable and
indescribable.<span style=""></span> Youth life is the most
precious life.<span style=""></span>Youth is the best
time.<span style=""> </span>The way in which you utilize this
period will decide the nature of coming years that lie ahead of you.<span
style=""></span>Your happiness, your success, your honor and
your good name all depend upon the way in which you live now, in this
present
period. Remember this........."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;">"O fortunate youth, recognize this
great duty. Feel this wonderful privilege.Take up this adventure.God
watches you graciously, ever ready to help and guide. I wish you to be
great.The world has put its faith in you.Your elders keep their
hopes in you. Now youth means to place your firm confidence in yourself
and exercise your hopeful determination and resolution and willing good
intentions in this beautiful task of self-culture. This will truly
bring
supreme satisfaction and fulfillment not only to you, but also to all
concerned. The shaping of your life is indeed in your own hands......."
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color: black;">"Practise virtue, persevere in
virtue. Become
established in virtue. Shine as an embodiment of noblest virtue and
heroic adherence to goodness…..<br>
<a href="http://www.divyajivan.org/Vivekananda/index.htm">"<<
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" </span>Swami Vivekananda's
gospel
was one of hope, faith and strength. He never
succumbed to despair, for he knew that India was capable of expansion
and
growth. His clarion call to the nation was: "Awake, arise, and stop not
till the goal is reached." - Swami Sivananda <br>
<a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/articles/articles/siva/vivekananda.htm"><<
More>>.</a></p>
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Morning Meditation talks from "Ponder These Truths" by<br>
Sri Swami
Chidananda</font></b><b> </b></td>
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<b><img alt="" src="cid:part4.06060208.00030004@divyajivan.org"
align="left" height="155" width="134">The Part of Technique in
Spiritual Life<br>
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<p>The
focusing of the entire attention of the mind in one direction, towards
one goal, in one task—that is Yoga, that is sadhana, that is <i>abhyasa</i>.<i>
</i>It is the key to success. It is the guarantee and assurance
of progress and it is the solution to all problems. And it does not
come in a day.<br>
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<p>This, therefore, is the great thing desirable—to have a goal
and to focus your mind and heart and soul upon it and not to pay
attention to irrelevant details, not allow the mind to distract you
from this total concentration towards your ideal, your principles, your
way of life, your <i>abhyasa</i>,<i> </i>your goal. </p>
<p>Therefore, be absorbed in your practice and try to develop
this inner state of total attention, total focus, complete absorption,
and see the results. Then you will find that there is no longer room
for being frustrated or discontented. If this is not there, then your
whole life will be nothing but murmuring, complaining, grumbling and
dissatisfaction, because these things grow where there is a lack of
this total focusing, attention and concentration. All <i>
abhyasa </i>is for concentration. Concentration overcomes distraction,
and distraction is the bane of all human beings, whether they are
spiritual <i>
sadhaks </i>or whether they are purely worldly, materialistic people.
Therefore, if this focusing is made, if you become ingathered,
one-pointed, integrated, then whatever is to come, it will come in due
course. </p>
<p>This is how spiritual practice should be understood and
spiritual life lived. Life is not to be subordinated or given the less
important place. In a life governed by principle, moving towards an
ideal, technique forms a part of the entire thing called Yoga and <i>sadhana
</i>and spiritual life. God bless you! <a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/ponder_these_truths/index.htm"><<
More>> </a><br>
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Topics from "Yoga & Health" by Swami Adhyatmananda </font></b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;"><u1:p><b><img
alt="" src="cid:part5.07010408.00000300@divyajivan.org" align="right"
height="151" width="100">Memory</b></u1:p><br>
In psychology, memory <span style=""> </span>is an organism's mental
ability to store,
retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in
the
fields of philosophy, including techniques of artificially enhancing
the memory.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;">Is there any
connection of memory with
Yoga? Yes! Form a habit of sitting in Padmasana. If we sit in
Siddhasana or
Swastikasana, Vajrasana or simple cross-legged posture, keeping back
and spinal
column vertically straight, if one starts with five minutes and
gradually
increase practice to sit for three hours, then supply of blood to the
muscles
of the legs and thighs gets reduced. This reduction results in greater
proportion of blood reaching stomach, heart and head. Thereby the
nervous and
information system of the brain get<span style=""> </span><span
style=""></span>stronger. This is equally possible by deep
recitation of “Omkar-Pranava”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span
style="color: black;">It is an indisputable truth that
the practice of Shirshasana and Sarvangasana makes a man highly
intelligent.
In both these Asanas whole body gets into an overturned (inverted)
posture,
thereby with the least efforts heart can pump blood towards the head. <a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/yoga&health/index.htm"><<
More>></a><u1:p></u1:p><u1:p><br>
</u1:p></span><a
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the News</font></b><br>
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<big><br>
Upcoming Mauna Shibir (Spiritual Retreat) (</big><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Feb1, 2009-
Feb 5, 2009)</span><br>
<i><br>
"Silence is always the most real part of your being<br>
When you are alone, you are silent.<br>
When you are alone, you are in God,<br>
and you are aware of God in you."- Swami Chidananda <br>
</i><br>
Come out from your busy life and enjoy being in Silence to
reflect and recharge, to find inner peace and beauty of the Soul. Allow
cleansing power of nature to awaken your inner SELF!<br>
for the details contact Sivananda Ashram, Ahmedabada <a
href="mailto:sivanandaashram@gmail.com">sivananda_ashram@yahoo.com</a>
or # 079-26861234<br>
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<a href="http://www.divyajivan.org/upcoming_events.htm">Mahashivratri
Utsav </a>- February 23, 2009 <br>
<p><a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/News/Newsletters/news_dec2008.htm">Report
of "Tour to Taiwan" of H.H. Sri Swami Adhyatmanandaji Maharaj </a>(
Nov
28, 2008 - Dec 9, 2008)<br>
<a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/News/Newsletters/news_dec2008.htm">News
& Activity Report for the Month of December 2008</a><br>
<a href="http://www.divyajivan.org/divya_jivan/index.htm"> Divya
Jivan
(Gujarati) </a>- <a
href="http://www.divyajivan.org/divya_jivan/dj_jan09_final.pdf">January
2008 Issue<big><br>
</big></a><big><a
href="http://picasaweb.google.com/divya.tour2006/January09_newsletter#slideshow">News
in Slide Shaw</a></big></p>
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of Swami
Vivekananda</b></font> </td>
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<li><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“A
tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean,
carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of
paper we
may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join
the Ocean
of Life and Bliss.”<o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></li>
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<li><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Garamond","serif";"><span
style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"I
do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but
something
higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo
the
mischief that has been done."</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p>
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<li><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">"Seek
ye first the kingdom of God, and everything
shall be added unto you." This is the one great duty, this is
renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for
anything
else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never
fails--our
spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must
struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make
mistakes, but
they may be angels unawares."<o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></li>
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<li><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“All
that is real in me is God; all that is real in God
is I. The gulf between God and human beings is thus bridged. Thus we
find how,
by knowing God, we find the kingdom of heaven within us.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p>"As
long as we believe ourselves to be even the least
different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to
be the
One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?</span><span
style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Garamond","serif";">
</span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As
soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to
protect it,
to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become
separate."</span></li>
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<li><font face="Garamond" size="4"><font face="Verdana" size="2">"Do
not go
for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great
chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the
fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and
you <i>shall</i> reach the highest."</font></font></li>
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<li><font face="Garamond" size="4"><font face="Verdana" size="2">"In
this
external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see
and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which
is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is
within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our
thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite."</font></font></li>
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<li><span
style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><o:p> "</o:p></span><font
face="Garamond" size="4"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Learn to
feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all
other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and
never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off
superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free."</font></font></li>
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<li><font face="Garamond" size="4"><font face="Verdana" size="2">"Meditation
means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the
thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every
time you meditate you will keep your growth."</font></font></li>
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<li><font face="Garamond" size="4"><font face="Verdana" size="2">"Realize
your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you
are—infinite spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is
impractical, for everything else will perish."</font></font></li>
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