“Non-Killing Vow Is Great Indeed!”

All are of one self-fraternity.
Such being the dictum to avow,
In such a light how can we take life,
And devoid of least pity, go on to eat?

The non-killing vow is great indeed,
And, greater still, not-eating to observe,
All in all, should we not say, O men of righteousness.
Even to this amounts the essence of all religions?

If killing were applied to oneself,
Who, as a favour, would treat such a dire destiny?
As touching all in equality, O ye wise ones,
Should that not be our declaration for a regulated life?

No killer would there be if no other to eat there was
Perforce, himself must eat!
In eating thus abides the cruder ill
In that it killing makes.

Not-killing makes a human good
Else an animal’s equal he becomes.
No refuge has the taker of life,
Although to him all other goods accrue.

“Told by Narayana Guru”

“ The Quest Stops…. In Stillness!”

God, protect us and keep us ever from harm!
Thou art the great captain,
And a mighty steamship on the ocean of being
Is thy foot.

Counting all things here,
Touching them one by one,
We come at last to where,
There is no more left,
They, lo, the quest stops
In stillness in thee,
Like-wise, let the inner self
Attain its rest!

Food and clothes, and all things else we need
Thou gives us unceasingly,
Ever saving us from want.
We thrive on thy bounty, lord!
Our only god thou art.

To sea, and wave and wind and depth compared,
Let us within s see the plan, respectively
Of us ourselves, of Maya,
Thy power and thou thyself!
Thee we find in creation,
The creator, too, thou didst become, and
Creation’s myriad magic,
And the very stuff of all created things.

Truth thou art.
And knowledge and Bliss like-wise.
The present time art Thou,
Past and future merge in unity in thee.
Even the spoken word…
A moment’s thought reveals….
As but of thine own self again.

Victory to thee, Great master!
Ever-watchful saviour,
All-knowing, bliss filled sea of kindness, Hail!

In the deep deep ocean of Thy Glory,
Let us all together immersed be,
For ever and for ever….
There to dwell, everlastingly, In bliss.

“Told by Narayana Guru”

Teachings

It is the one and the same absolute that shines and formulates the universe within and the multiversity without.

There is an un-lit lamp that always shines within witnessing everything that is happening. One should constantly relate oneself with this guiding star of light.

If one cannot stabilize oneself in the knowledge of the self, one should relate oneself to a wise sage who has crossed over the myriads of becoming by discovering for himself the secret of the triple states of the wakeful, the dreaming and the unconscious, without being disturbed from his transcendental point.

It is possible for one, through an act of reasoning, to become devoid of one’s physical ego, but only with grace can one dissolve away one’s social and spiritual egos.

It is the one and only primal reality that is seen here and now as the world. Apart from this there is not a separate reality. To a wise man, this world is a garland strung with the finest values man can conceive of.

The happiness of another is my happiness one’s own joy is another’s joy. This is the guiding principle! That action which is good for one person should bring happiness to another.

Day and night the compassionate man engages himself in action that is beneficial to all, while the self-centered man makes himself miserable by being wholly immersed in necessity, leading to moral failure.

Whatever is good for one person but bringing in misery to another, such actions are opposed to the self.

For the man who offers his mind-flowers to worship god, there is no other work to do.

Even those of good action are caught by nature and whirled round in vicious circles, one should know that non-action does not bring release from perverted action, only the non-desire for the fruit of action.

All beings are making effort in every way, all the time, for the happiness of the self. In the world, this is the one faith. Pondering on this, without becoming subjected to sin, be controlled.

Let him live in his own home, or in the forest, or at the water’s edge. No matter! With mid ever fixed in the absolute, the yogi ever dwells, seeing all here in terms of self-hood.

Grace, love mercy, all the three stand for the same reality life’s star. He who loves is he who really lives!

Like a mirage in a desert land, he enjoys bliss, that silent one, contemplating that absolute supreme which is beyond all compare.

When self-knowledge shrinks, then prevails nescience fearful, ghost-like, taking name and form, in most terrible fashion looms here.

The power of knowledge is endless, the end of all this can be marked as sameness and the other thus, in this way there are two divisions, in this merging the other with sameness one should remain awake to that clear state of being.

Innumerable particles of dust inhere in earth and there is no difference in the earth that constitutes the particles. Just as inert matter exists in consciousness finds its expression here in the body, therefore, when contemplated, this is one.

There is no death, or birth, or existence man, gods and all such are names and forms.

“Told by Narayana Guru”