ashishgoodlife

To understand the goal of life, of what we really want to strive for-that is the truth that should be the foundation of our lives.

If there is the desire to learn we can learn many things that happen around us, this is the series where I had tried to capture some of those Lessons from the Moth l Lessons from the Bee.

There were 2 saint valentines. And they were both celibate monks how were preachers of God consciousness. One of them was a catholic priest who lived in Rome and who preached the message of love of God with such enthusiasm and there was so much opposition against him, he lived in the second half of the 3rd century; that means just two and a half hundred years after Jesus Christ. And even though preaching of Christianity was against the law, it was a criminal activity, he was preaching, he was risking his life and he was brahmachari. He was a priest, he sacrificed family life, any relationship with sex, for the sake of preaching the instructions of love for God and he was captured, he was tortured and he was killed. He’s one of the great martyrs of the Catholic Church.
And then the second saint Valentine, he was a bishop in the catholic church. He was also a celibate monk, who dedicated his whole life to God consciousness, and he was a preacher, and he was also captured tortured and killed because he wouldn’t give up preaching devotion to God. Saint valentine, these 2 great personalities, the sacrificed all the pleasures of this world, life itself to serve God.
So you may be wondering, what that has to do with Valentines day in Bombay today. I don’t see any celibate is giving valentines, at least they are not supposed to. But saint valentine was celibate. He respected every woman as his mother. But a little later because the day, both these saint Valentines were killed, were murdered, was February 14th. So in England and France February 14th is the middle of the second month of the year. It’s like the beginning of spring. Yes?
Tomorrow we’re celebrating basant panchami, beginning of spring. Now what people saw is just in this spring is begging, Feb 14th they saw male and female birds meeting in the trees and mating. It’s the mating season. The inauguration of the mating season for the birds and the beasts. So devotees see it for what it is. But romantic materialists they are very attracted to this when theys see a male bird and a female bird biting each other with their beaks and having sex life. This is considered something very nice. So since the middle of Feb. is the day when the birds mate, they were thinking that we should consecrate this day as the day of showing your passionate love to others because that’s what the birds do on this day, And it happened to be the day on which saint valentine was murdered, so it came to be known as saint valentines day. Hare Krishna. So really what saint valentines day is all about for a religious person is giving up everything, being willing to undergo torture and killing in the service of the lord. That’s what Valentines day means to a vaisnava, or to a devotee. But to a materialistic person Saint Valentine’s Day means following in the footsteps of the lusty birds

Can we make our destiny? Then, why do bad things happen to even good people? These topics have been contemplated and debated over millenniums. If God is good, then why does He allow for an apparrent injustice, evil, and pain to come upon people who are innocent?

Currently the love for God in our heart is very external and shallow. We have to sincerely long for that love, and we have to act in such a way that no matter what happens, we are faithful. Then only we experience God's love, and then there is infinite hope and infinite faith, and we become fearless.

Before we could really learn how to find hope in God, we have to realize how everything else is hopeless. That is not a pessimistic thought. That is the most optimistic thought.

Fear arises when we start thinking that i am the controller and i am the owner of so and so things rather then thinking that original controller is the Supreme Lord.

Wishing a very Happy Independence Day

"Through science we have learned to fly in the sky like the birds, we have learned to swim under water like a fish, but we have not learned to walk on the land as human beings," Martin Luther said, "Our society has created guided missiles and misguided men."#peace

Here i come up with the beautiful series Forgive and Forget,Don't be morose when things are not going to go your way because we are not the controllers.

People who are unfamiliar with the Vedic tradition of yoga see it as an exercise program or a way to relieve stress. Yoga does help in this way, but its main purpose is to help one regain their spiritual consciousness and 'link' again with God.

One of the most formidable impulses one needs to tolerate is lust.

The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

Indian culture teaches that we live in a world designed by God.Individuals who are aware of God,don't want to posses,control,or enjoy more than they actually require.

Be in the Association of Good friends. A person who has self confidence and faith is always seeing a positive opportunity in every circumstances that comes upon him and that gives life , enthusiasm and happiness.

Glories of Holy Ganges

Without the quality of forgiveness everything sacred in life must collapse.

The Story of Liquid Beauty

One of the symptoms of faith is patience. In fact how to combine enthusiasm with patience is a great art because if you don't have enthusiasm nothing will ever happen ,but if you don't have faith,you will give up if you do not see immediate results.

Do you know we have Seven Mothers?

Yes, we have Seven Mother According to Vedic Scriptures Let us see who are they :

ātma-mātā guroḥ patnī
brāhmaṇī rāja-patnikā
dhenur dhātrī tathā pṛthvī
saptaitā mātaraḥ smṛtāḥ
So now we know that we have seven mothers so let us celebrate this Mother's day by respecting and serving all these seven mothers. How can we serve and love all these seven mothers is very simple. We can serve all these seven mother if we love our real father the creator of the whole cosmos Sri Krishna. Mother is an embodiment of Real Love so if we want to give back her love then Learn to love Krishna by practicing Krishna consciousness bhakti-yoga. The formula of Real Love is simple Love the Creator you will love whole creation. Happy Mothers Day

Life may be tough at few points, but DESTINY is not created by the Shoes we wear but by the STEPS we take...

When we think calmly and carefully about this wonderful universe , we can see that everything is working under the control of a supreme brain.

The power of positive thinking :What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

There is a wonderful incident in the life of Sir Isaac Newton that goes to show he was a strong believer of GOD