Serve Love Give Purify Meditate Realise
Ananda Kutir Ashrama © Chiltern Yoga Trust (Australia)
Om Namah Shivaya
Om Namah Venkatesaya
- Realise
When the part of the globe revolving on its runs turns away from the sun, there is darkness.
This is the greatest message.
I am in darkness, not because the light has gone, but because I have turned away.
- Love
Division and devotion prevail all the way in Bhakti Yoga.
At the very start, the devotee notices that the mind has cleverly divided the whole world into "What I like" and ''What I dislike".
Devotion eliminates this by making the mind no-mind but pure love.
- Give
The very act of the repetition of the mantra - if this act is earnest, sincere and serious, is capable of purifying the mind - which, simply, means "clearing the mind of all other thoughts, concepts and precepts".
If such purification does not happen, obviously sincerity is absent.
- Give
A simple life is one of the prerequisites for charity and any self-sacrificing activity.
If you love luxury, then neither of these is possible.
- Give
It is not what we do or what we offer, but our feeling that matters.
Whatever we give to anyone, if it is given with great affection and love, in that there is God - in that love there is God.