value of youthness-----artha sastra of chanakya-chapter-17-verse-18

athaha pashyasi kim vruddhe, patitham thava kim bhuvi. re re murkha na janasi gatham tharunya maukthikam.----------an extremely  old woman who walked  with bend  back appearing to be looking down for something, was asked by a youth sarcastically."ancient lady what for you look down? lost something or dropped something down there? the old woman replied."fool, don't you know that  the pearl of my youth years is lost?. well i look for the same. only old people know the value of youthfulness. it is the most precious  stage of  one's life. the full realization of it's value dawns only when it's gone.  the best time for gaining any knowledge is during  youthfulness, when the mind and body is strong. the old age brings in various discomforts which will hinder learning process and therefore make use of  the youthfulness in  a nice way.

dialouges between Rahuguna and jadabaratha---from bagavatham

soldiers of Rahuguna got a peculiar yogi, who was sturdy  and they thought he was without any job. they wanted him to carry the yadu king on the palanquin as the fourth man. he did not object. his mind was always in the supreme reality. there were many twists and turns, and the king was very uncomfortable.he commented in a mocking way to baratha"you are so thin, and walks so fast,it seems u have not eaten for a long time." jadabaratha understood  the arrogance of power.. he replied you insulted a  avadhuta  like me who is not bothered about wealth or power. i am not taking your insult. since i am not the body or mind i  am alpervading atman. but i would like to  remove this differences of raja and bruthya bava. do you think that those who are carrying  you really love you. they love your wealth. do not be carried away by their external behavior. if they really love you , even in sleep and dream state they should respect you. you know well that in  sleep  and dream state there is no difference between a king and a beggar. because of kama and artha they obey you in prajnya avastha(awkening state). but this is only one state.  you intended that i am not walking fast. let it be known that  my body is not walking. my legs are walking the way they want. iam not really walking , since my atma is always not connected with the body or mind.  i am the all pervading atman.there is no raja brithya bava  in other two states of dream and sleep. only in awakening state you see the differences. therefore i am not  your servant.  i am a master unto myself.. the king was astonished from the truth given by jadabaratha. he came down from palanquin and fell down at yogi"s feet.supreme reality does not differentiate servant or emperor.

pain of death

people in the age of kali keep their eyes closed to the truth. one has to do little vichara on the phenomenon called death.the word janma means birth as well as death. ja stands for janma or birth.ma stands for marana or death.so its clear that once you are born death is sure, whether i like it or not.also any created entity has death, since it is within the realms of time and space.if you analyze death its  a matter that cannot be avoided. let me give a few examples in our own life. i was a child when born, i became a youth when i passed eighteen.which means my childhood died. i became a grihastha when i was a youth. i enjoyed my  family life for quite some time and i became old , again a death for my youthfulness. grihasthaashrama ended when i was old. no way i can avoid death. it follows me like my shadow whether i like or not. can i avoid this? yes i can if i leave my attachment to my mind and body.why then  so much fear about death?pl think.if i have attachment i am not ready to loose. if i detach from my thinking processes i am ready to let go.if one can be a witness of both attachments and detachments, then my fear disappears. a detached attitude makes death entirely different experience..meaningless dreams,desires and attachments in the old age will make the last days of such people  miserable and make it worse than hell. that is the reason why one should be contemplative and meditative in life.it will give us a capacity to go deeper into various experiences of life and makes it easier. avoid painful death by transcending attachments and detachments. be a witness of both likes and dislikes like a yogi. one can then avoid painful death or  engage yourself in bhakthi or devotion towards your ishtadevata or favorite lord.cross the world of birth and death through jnayana or bhakthi. adishankara says  bhaja govidham, bhaja govindham, govindham baja mootamathe, samprapthe sannihithe kale, na hi na hi rakshati dukrut karane. pray unto govinda, you fool, grammar will not help you in your last days. only govinda can help you from this smsara of birth and death.

hinduism

hinduism or sanathana dharma is so old that it started even before Aryans settled on the banks of river indus. roughly at least 2500-1500 b.c. Aryans spread their wings from Georgia(Russia) to present India. Aryan means noble. they refered  to aranyakas or forest books they were also ritualists.they refered brahmana portions.these are ritual manuals. the upanishads are meditative,philosophycal texts. vedas were known as shrutis, that which  has to be heard, or listened,these were divinely revealed texts. smritis are our puranas like  ramayana, mahabhratha, bhagavatam, etc. bagavat geetha incidentally is a smrithi, since it appears in mahabaratha which has to be remembered. our law books were dharma shastras Aryans later on settled in madyadesh.(madyapradesh). its to be noted that gita press which started in 1923 to popularize Hinduism has printed 300 million copies of literature, but will not publish vedas on grounds that these divinely revealed texts may not be tampered with by human beings.

caste system( manusmriti)

manu  the  great  king from whom people descended, incidently was  a sage too, formulated the caste system in earlier days with four main categories, differentiating people according to.their characteristics the shudras-those serving society, the vaishyas-those with skills and abilities that enabled them to be engaged in trade,commerce.and business. the kshatriyas-those who administrate and execute projects to protect the community at large, and the brahmins- those who are contemplative,philosophical,impart knowledge and perform religious rites.. its to be noted that a person could rise from lower group to a higher group and through criminal and antisocial behavior, descend groups.. manu said "neither birth nor sacraments study nor ancestry can decide whether a person is a brahmin or not. character and conduct alone can decide.

wealth that cannot be stolen

na chora haryam, na cha rajaharyam, na brathru bhajyam, na cha bharakari. vyaye kruthe  vardhatha,eva nithyam, vidhya dhanam sarva dana pradhanam.   wealth exists in the  form of knowledge . this wealth cannot be stolen by a thief. cannot be divided amongst brothers, and cannot become  burdensome the more one uses this wealth(teaches it) the more it multiplies. therefore wealth in the form of knowledge, is the greatest of all riches.

coming of gopis for rasa lila-canto-65-narayaneeyam

the gopis of vraja looked upon krishna, not as parabrahman, but as their paramour, and yet they attained so soon to that state of liberation, which is the goal of the pramahamsas,through absorption of the mind in the lord. krishna,the embodiment of sat-chit-aananda,through any feeling or attitude(be it sex-love,anger,fear,friendliness, affection,servitude,or adoration) the seven types of bhakthi .here the relationship with paramour is explained.it embodies the  strongest form of affection overlooking all ethical norms in which considerations  of prestige,returns,security and even self-preservation is given up by a woman who goes away with her lover out of genuine and overpowering love,love of god and surrender under unto him should attain to this kind of uninhibited intense love and renunciation of self centeredness giving away everything to him and asking for nothing from him. and that's  the bhakthi of vraja gopikas