Bhishma Pithamaha's Advice to Humanity

Bhismadeva advised for all human beings nine qualifications: 

• Not to become angry 
• Not to lie 
• To equally distribute wealth 
• To forgive 
• To beget children only by one's legitimate wife 
• To be pure in mind and hygienic in body 
• Not to be inimical toward anyone 
• To be simple 
• To support servants or subordinates. 

Bhismadeva also advices this: 

1. To get freedom from anger, one should learn how to forgive. 
2. To be free from unlawful desires one should not make plans. 
3. By spiritual culture one is able to conquer sleep. 
4. By tolerance only can one conquer desires and avarice. 
5. Disturbances from various diseases can be avoided by regulated diets. 
6. By self-control one can be free from false hopes. 
7. Money can be saved by avoiding undesirable association. 
8. By practice of yoga one can control hunger. 
9. Worldliness can be avoided by culturing the knowledge of impermanence. 
10. Dizziness can be conquered by rising up. 
11. False arguments can be conquered by factual ascertainment. 
12. Talkativeness can be avoided by gravity and silence. 
13. By prowess one can avoid fearfulness. 
14. Perfect knowledge can be obtained by self-cultivation.

(Copy from Internet) 

Swami Charles Chaitanya (Whom I met in Chennai 5 years back)

Charles Chaitanya was born in Alwaye. Kerala, Southern India, as son of Lily and Karuveli Pyli Joseph. After his academic education he had different roles in life – Businessman, Politician, Film actor-director, Social worker. Seeking truth he became a wandering monk, traveling around India from ashram to ashram, Guru to Guru. He underwent philosophical studies, yogic practices, spiritual researches with Guru Nitya, an exemplary, well renowned spiritual master in India. Finally God blessed him.

This blessed self at present as the head of Naryana Gurukulam Chennai, as well as the preceptor head of the World peace Center has been extensively traveling around the globe for the last fourteen years, sharing this sacred wisdom thereby giving a friendly hand to number of spiritual aspirants to enter this ever present abode of abundant light, love, life, beauty, joy and peace.

The great spiritual masters at all times all over the world have unanimously proclaimed that the goal of human existence is the realization of the Self, because the Self Itself is the bliss, that is the real meaning and value of life, that all the living beings on earth are directly or indirectly, consciously or unconsciously searching for. However, by the great mistake of identifying oneself with the body they are falsely trying to obtain “That Joy” from the ephemeral objective world and thus get totally enslaved and entrapped in the snares of differences, attachments, selfishness, passions, discontentment, loss of inner balance, fear of the death, etc; and make life a hell and a curse.

On the other hand self-realisation leads one to unity, love, freedom, peace, eternity, great inner relief and fulfilment and makes life Blissful!.

(Extracts from his website: http://www.swamicharles.com)

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UNIVERSAL TEACHINGS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Swami Vivekananda
UNIVERSAL TEACHINGS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

SEE GOD IN ALL

This is the gist of all worship - to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Siva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Siva, and if he sees Siva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Siva in him, without thinking of his cast, creed, or race, or anything, with him Siva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples.

GOD IS WITHIN YOU

It is impossible to find God outside of ourselves. Our own souls contribute all of the divinity that is outside of us. We are the greatest temple. The objectification is only a faint imitation of what we see within ourselves.

PERSEVERE IN YOUR SEARCH FOR GOD

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul, "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.

TRUST COMPLETELY IN GOD

Stand up for God; let the world go. Blessed is the man who trusts in the God and whose trust is in the Lord. For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a steam and will not fear when heat comes. But its leaves will be greenand it will not be anxious in a years of drought nor cease to yield fruit.

LOVE OF GOD IS ESSENTIAL

Giving up all other thoughts, with the whole mind day and night worship God. Thus being worshipped day and night, He reveals himself and makes His worshippers feel His presence.

Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati (1923 - 1999)

Nitya was born November 2, 1923, as the first son of Pandalam Raghava Panicker, a poet and professional teacher in Kerala. After his matriculation, he left home as a wandering mendicant to familiarize himself with the land and people of his country of birth. In those days, India was undivided. His wanderings took him to every nook and cranny of the subcontinent, both cities and villages, of almost all parts of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. He met all the great people of the subcontinent including great leaders like Mohandas Gandhi and poets of high repute. He sat at the feet of several spiritual masters, including Sufi fakirs, Jain munis and Buddhist monks, and Hindu teachers such as Ramana Maharshi and Nityananda.
In 1947 he joined the University College, Alwaye, to continue his academic studies. After specializing in Philosophy and Psychology he taught these subjects in two Indian Universities. He again sat at the feet of highly reputed sannyasis to learn Vedanta, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimamsa, Indian poetics and literature.
In 1951, he accepted Nataraja Guru as his spiritual preceptor and after Nataraja Guru left his body, Guru Nitya functioned as the continuator of Narayana Guru and Nataraja Guru as Guru and Head of Narayana Gurukula. As Narayana Gurukula is a world community, the Guru has to act as a liaison between all members of the Gurukula at an interpersonal level in the teacher-taught context and as the enunciator of programs from time to time to spur the Gurukula community to work in unison, to help everyone to understand his or her integral value vision (svadharma).
Guru Nitya published over 120 books in Malayalam and 80 books in English, as well as countless articles on philosophy, psychology, social ethics and aesthetics. He also functioned as the chairperson of the East-West University, as the Commissioner for World Education and as a committed sponsor of the World Government of World Citizens. He attained his mahasamadhi on May 14, 1999 and his legacy of love and wisdom continues in his writing and in his disciples.

Source: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/4241/Pages/nitya.html