Greetings

It has been a while before I could post on Gnosis, Gnostics, Gnosticism group. My health does not permit me. 

I wish all of you a belated Happy Diwali and my regrets of not having wished you on several festivals gone by. 

I would also like members to take an active part on this group and make it more lively. Warm regards and Welcome

Viren

Hello Everyone

Diwali is around the corner. As a very special gift am sending a computer desktop animation which you can download (file size < 1 MB) from this link.

http://www.4shared.com/file/26589194/bad730ad/Diwali.html

Unzip the file in a new folder and copy-paste a short cut on your desktop. Double click to execute the animation. Do not forget to click on message envelope that unfolds on your screen for a very special gift!

Tip: Right click on lantern or diya to add more of them. You can change the shape of lantern too. Enjoy!! To exit animation right click on objects for options!

You can share the link with your friends and everyone who is near and dear to you [:)]

Viren

Work hard like a donkey, earn a lot of money,
fill up your belly and go for TV or a movie
Wine, women and party, life seems so jolly,
mobile and laptop so handy,  fly abroad and make merry
Keep yourself busy and 'Be in the present'  don't worry
       Eat out what is tasty and drink a lots of Pepsi
Right or wrong? Don't worry, and do what makes you happy
       Forget Stress and hyper-tension, Is money not honey?

O ! Mr and Mrs  Rat, hear me,  there is a dangerous cat
That will strip away everything in life  and knock you off in a moment
Laptops, mobiles and TVs,   Homes, friends and relatives
Job, money and life cozy,  even your dear dreams rosy
You're not what you see in the mirror,  but a pure spirit soul from eternity
Now encaged in this perishable body, suffering from womb to tomb misery
With a greed to enjoy yourself alone,  you came to this world of rat race
You're driver of this material body, like a pilot is driving a plane

Sufferings from body & mind, from other living beings and nature so dominant
Are the three prongs of Durga's trident,
                       to remind us of our duty to our eternal Friend
Whole world is in a mad rat race,
                       but we remain a rat as if caught up in a maze
Money can neither buy happiness, nor love or trust or peacefulness
Flickering pleasures only come and go,
                       like nectar turning into poison, we know
Youth and fun are temporary phases,  read more »

Hare krishna visit www.mahamantra.it for kirtans

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I recently read a book on the sanctity of married life. Actually I feel that marriage is the biggest paradox of our lives. On one hand we are being asked to overcome all desires in order to attain higher consciousness and on the other hand we are also asked to marry in order to propagate this world. Marriage would obviously bind the person further to this material world. But this book gave a clear idea as to what love is and how marriage can help a person experience a higher consciousness.  Love in its lowest form is lust. Lust is the satisfaction of gross needs. It is nothing but a bodily concept which helps a person satisfy his or her bodily needs. The next stage is love at a more subtle level. In this stage lust is more subdued but it depicts itself in the form of longing for the beloved. Still the bodily concept is very much there.The next stage is love at the mental sphere. In this stage the beloved has its own worth and standing in the eyes of the lover. Here the lover works under the will of the beloved. He acts selflessly and has no desires. In this stage also there is the bodily concept and the condition of divine love is not reached.The last stage is the stage of divine love.  read more »

Recently I read a good book which elucidated the concept of mind. I thought that I should share this with others via this blog. Mind is the most intricate part of the human body. It is the mind only which drives the entire body. Now what actually is mind? Mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts. There is this constant activity going in our mind. This constant activity sometimes makes us happy and sometimes sad but most of the time keeps us in a world which is far away from the actual. What is the real thing? We are not able to realize our true nature because of this mind. It forces us to identify ourselves with the body though we are all actually spiritual beings who are temporarily living in this body. We need to realize that this is not the right place for us. We have to attain our actual state which is spiritual. The mind creates this barrier between our present nature and our actual nature. The constant activity of the mind creates the barrier. Once the thoughts cease to exist the mind loses its identity and we are one with the universe.              Now how to break of from this mould which we are engulfed in?  read more »

Be in the moment. This is what you have, when you identify with your mind then you stay either in your past or your future because the mind ceases to exist in the present. It derives its identity from time. It always stays in the future or the past but you can be happy only if you remain in the present. This moment is what you have at hand. You need to be in the moment to attain peace, joy and happiness.  Emotions are a reflection of the mind in the body. Emotions arise when the mind meets the body. Apart from watching your thought you should also watch your emotions. These can play havoc in our lives if we get attached to them. If we attach ourselves with these emotions and are unconscious of the fact that we are attached then they become a pain. Once we start watching these emotions then we can experience them without getting attached to them. We need to be always present in the moment and watch our current emotional state.  Similarly there is ego, with which we identify ourselves. Since this ego is also a temporary state which attains its identity when we identify with it therefore we experience a constant state of fear.  read more »

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