Anger Management (in Hindi)

गीता मे लिखा है की क्रोध मनुष्य का सबसे बड़ा शत्रु है जानिए क्रोध से जुड़े कुछ महत्त्वपूर्ण तथ्य और इससे होने वाली हानियों को
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1. क्रोध को जीतने में मौन सबसे अधिक सहायक है।
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2- मूर्ख मनुष्य क्रोध को जोर–शोर से प्रकट करता है, किंतु बुद्धिमान शांति से उसे वश में करता है।
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3- क्रोध करने का मतलब है, दूसरों की गलतियों की सजा स्वयं को देना।
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4- जब क्रोध आए तो उसके परिणाम पर विचार करो।
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5- क्रोध से धनी व्यक्ति घृणा और निर्धन तिरस्कार का पात्र होता है।
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6- क्रोध मूर्खता से प्रारम्भ और पश्चाताप पर खत्म होता है।
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7- क्रोध के सिंहासनासीन होने पर बुद्धि वहां से खिसक जाती है।
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8- जो मन की पीड़ा को स्पष्ट रूप में नहीं कह सकता, उसी को क्रोध अधिक आता है।
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9- क्रोध मस्तिष्क के दीपक को बुझा देता है। अतः हमें सदैव शांत व स्थिरचित्त रहना चाहिए।
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10- क्रोध से मूढ़ता उत्पन्न होती है, मूढ़ता से स्मृति भ्रांत हो जाती है, स्मृति भ्रांत हो जाने से बुद्धि का नाश हो जाता है और बुद्धि नष्ट होने पर प्राणी स्वयं नष्ट हो जाता है।
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11- क्रोध यमराज है।
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12- क्रोध एक प्रकार का क्षणिक पागलपन है।
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13-क्रोध में की गयी बातें अक्सर अंत में उलटी निकलती हैं।
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14- जो मनुष्य क्रोधी पर क्रोध नहीं करता और क्षमा करता है वह अपनी और क्रोध करने वाले की महासंकट से रक्षा करता है।
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15- सुबह से शाम तक काम करके आदमी उतना नहीं थकता जितना क्रोध या चिन्ता से पल भर में थक जाता है।
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16- क्रोध में हो तो बोलने से पहले दस तक गिनो, अगर ज़्यादा क्रोध में तो सौ तक।
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17- क्रोध क्या हैं ? क्रोध भयावह हैं, क्रोध भयंकर हैं, क्रोध बहरा हैं, क्रोध गूंगा हैं, क्रोध विकलांग है।
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18- क्रोध की फुफकार अहं पर चोट लगने से उठती है।
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19- क्रोध करना पागलपन हैं, जिससे सत्संकल्पो का विनाश होता है।
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20- क्रोध में विवेक नष्ट हो जाता है।

Kinds of devotion / Bhakti

Source : http://www.thehindu.com/society/faith/kinds-of-devotion/article18788328.ece

There are different kinds of devotion to God and we see examples of both Seshatva and Paratantriya in the Ramayana. Seshatva is to not let anything stand in the way of the desire to serve God. Lakshmana wanted to accompany Lord Rama to the forest. Rama tried His best to make Lakshmana stay back in Ayodhya. But Lakshmana refused to be dissuaded by the Lord.

Lakshmana was keen to be with Rama and serve Him at all times. So he was prepared to refuse to obey the Lord’s request. This is an example of Seshatva, said Kidambi Narayanan in a discourse. Nammazhvar too wanted only to serve the Lord and prayed for this.

But Bharata was in a different category. No doubt he too wanted certain things, namely the return of Rama to Ayodhya and the assumption of kingship by Rama. But when Rama said He would not come back to Ayodhya and ordered Bharata to go back to the city and rule as king, Bharata implicitly obeyed his brother. He did not think of himself. He did not insist that Rama go along with what he (Bharata) wanted. This is an example of Paratantriya.

While other Azhvars prayed for being rid of repeated births and for the chance to serve the Lord, Periazhvar only sang for the Lord’s welfare, thereby demonstrating bhakti, which asks for nothing.

Paratantriya is when a person simply obeys the Lord and does not act on his own or for his pleasure.

Suppose a person possesses a doll, decorates it and looks at it thinking how beautiful it looks. Does this act of decorating give any joy to the doll? If a man who has grown saplings in his field transplants them, it is because they are under his control.

So being controlled by another superior being and not acting volitionally is Paratantriya.

Seeing God in all beings

Source : http://www.thehindu.com/society/faith/seeing-him-in-all-beings/article18619096.ece

Great learning brings great humility, for it exposes the extent of one’s ignorance. That is why Lord Krishna extols the vision of a true bhakta who is endowed with the knowledge of the infinite greatness of the Lord and of His all-pervading presence that inheres in the entire creation, pointed out Sri B. Damodhara Dikshitar in a discourse.

There are as many kinds of devotion as there are individuals. The average devotee is generally compassionate and affectionate to all beings, but feels a sense of differentiation between friends, enemies and so on.

The beginner in the path of devotion worships the Lord in the form of a deity or some form, but fails to accept His presence in other beings. But a true bhakta sees the Lord in all beings and also sees all beings in His Self. This vision is the culmination of jnana and bhakti and a bhakta never slips from this awareness.

It is said that once Saint Eknath, when retuning from Kashi Yatra, was moved to see a donkey almost dying of thirst on the way.

Without any hesitation, he opened a vial of Ganga water and poured it into the parched mouth of the donkey. He saw only the Lord in the soulful eyes and not the donkey.

In the case of Saint Namadev, he once chased a dog that had taken away the bread given to him by his wife, only to offer it the sugar and ghee as well which it had left behind. The dog became the Lord in front of him.

When Lord Shiva is said to have come in the form of a chandala to grace the yagna of Somasi Mara Nayanar, the Adiyar unhesitatingly offered the same hospitality he would offer others.

The Lord wants to show that in the eyes of a true bhakta, where Truth alone is revealed, there is no need for Him to come disguised.

Ode to Shiva – Raji P. Shrivastava

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Organ Donation in India

Almost 1.5 lakh people in India need a kidney; however, only 3000 of them receive one.
Only 1 out of 30 people who need a kidney receive one.
90% of people in the waiting list die without getting an organ.
India’s annual liver transplant requirement is 25,000, but we manage only about 800.
70% liver transplants are taken care of by a live donor, but 30% are dependent on cadaver donations.

Source: Times of India, DNA

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