Post No. 12,058
Date uploaded in London – – 29 May , 2023
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Festival days – 2 Vaikasi Visakam in Temples, 21 Yoga Day, 29 Bakrid
New moon Day – 17; Full moon Day– 3; Ekadasi Fasting Days – 13, 29; Auspicious Days – 5, 8, 9, 28
Source book- HINDU DHARMA, M K GANDHI, NAVAJIVAN PUBLISHING HOUSE, AHMEDABAD, 1950, RUPEES FOUR.
June 1 Thursday
I want to live 125 years
I have not talked about wishing to live up to the age of 125 years without thought. It has a deep significance the basis for my wish is the third mantra from Isopanishad, which, literally rendered, means that a man should desire to live for 100 years while serving with detachment. One commentary says that 100 really means 125.
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June 2 Friday
What is Yajna?
Yajna means an act directed to the welfare of others, done without desiring any return for it, whether of a temporal or spiritual nature. ‘Act’ here must be taken in its widest sense, and includes thought, word as well as deed. Others embraces not only humanity, but all life.
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June 3 Saturday
And, therefore, says the Gita, he who eats without offering Yajna, eats stolen food.
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June 4 Sunday
Today’s Hinduism
What we see today is not pure Hinduism, but often a parody of it. Otherwise it requires no pleading from me in its behalf., but would speak for itself.
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June 5 Monday
Our Marvellous Discoveries
Just as in the West they have made wonderful discoveries in things material, similarly Hinduism has made still more marvellous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. But we have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress the western science has made.
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June 6 Tuesday
There is yet another thing I have not mentioned. Max Muller said forty years ago that it was dawning on Europe that transmigration is not a theory, but a fact. Well, it is entirely the contribution of Hinduism.
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June 7 Wednesday
Wrong teaching by English
The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and it will require centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India.
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June 8 Thursday
God is not seen but felt
There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything. I feel it, though I do not see it. It is this unseen Power which makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that I perceive through my senses. It transcends the senses.
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June 9 Friday
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Thanks to the marvellous researches of Sir J C Bose it can now be proved that even matter is life.
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June 10 Saturday
A temple to Gandhiji
Under the strange heading I read a newspaper cutting sent by a correspondent to the effect that a temple has been erected where my image is worshipped. This I consider a gross form of idolatry the person who erected the temple has wasted his resources by misusing them, the villagers who are drawn there are misled and I am insulted in that the whole of my life has been caricatured in that temple.
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June 11 Sunday
Brahmin’s Sacred Thread
As for the Upanayanam ceremony, though I have discarded it myself, it has, there is no doubt, a deep meaning. The sacred thread is a sign of new birth, a regeneration. Before the adoption of the thread, there is but one birth, that is physical. The adoption of the thread is a sign of the second birth, that is the spiritual.
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June 12 Monday
Fasting
This is a hoary institution. A genuine fast cleanses body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
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June 13 Tuesday
Prayer
A sincere prayer can work wonders. It is an intense longing of the soul for its even greater purity. Purity thus gained when it is utilised for a noble purpose becomes prayer
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June 14 Wednesday
Learn Sanskrit
I believe in the great power which Vivekananda used to ascribe to Sanskrit . We are unnecessarily frightened by the difficulty of learning Sanskrit. For a persevering student it is no more difficult than any of the other languages.
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June 15 Thursday
Gayatri Mantra
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer. When the same Gayatri Japa is performed with a humble and concentrated mind in an intelligent manner in times of national calamities and difficulties, it becomes a most potent instrument for warding off danger.
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June 16 Friday
Hindus fast for anything
Hindu religious literature is replete with instances of fasting, and thousands of Hindus fast even today on the slightest pretext. It is the one that does the least harm.
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June 17 Saturday
Christians don’t like Fasting
My real difficulty is with my Christian Protestant friends, of whom I have so many, and whose friendship I value beyond measure. Let me confess to them that though from my very first contact with them I have known their dislike for fasts, I have never been able to understand it.
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June 18 Sunday
God ‘s Voice
My claim to hear the Voice of God is no new claim. Unfortunately there is no way that I know of proving the claim except through results.
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June 19 Monday
God has never forsaken me in my darkest hour. He has saved me often against myself and left me not a vestige of independence. The greater the surrender to Him, the greater has been my joy.
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June 20 Tuesday
Vaishnava Janatao
God seeks for His seat the heart of him who serves his fellow men. That is why Narasimha Mehta who saw and knew sang He is a true Vaishnava who knows to melt at others’ woe. Such was Abu Ben Adhem. He served his fellowmen, and therefore his name topped the list of those who served God.
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June 21 Wednesday
Fasting and Gambling – no use
A man who fasts and gambles away the whole of the day as do so many on Janmashtami Day, naturally, not only obtains no result from the fast in the greater purity but such a dissolute fast leaves him on the contrary degraded.
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June 22 Thursday
Muslims should not object to Rama Nama
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasaratha, the king of Ayodhya. He is the eternal, the unborn, the one without a second. Him alone I worship. His aid alone I seek and so should you. He belongs equally to all. I, therefore see no reason why a Mussulman or anybody should object to taking His name. but he is in no way bound to recognise God as Ramanama. He may utter to himself Allah or Khuda so as not to mar the harmony of the sound.
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June 23 Friday
Hindu Dharma is a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive, the more treasures you find.
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June 24 Saturday
Rama- Ravana Yuddha
Dusserah was the celebration of Ram’s victory over Ravana but his victory was not achieved by violence. When Vibhishana asked Sri Ramachandra how unarmed, unshod, without any armour, he is going to defeat the heavily armed and mighty Ravana with his chariots, Rama’s reply was that it was faith and purity that were going to win the battle.
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June 25 Sunday
Rama’s bow was his self control. His victory was the victory of good over evil.
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June 26 Monday
Destroy rabid dogs
Imperfect, erring mortals as we are, there is no course open to us but the destruction of rabid dogs. At times we may be faced with the unavoidable duty of killing a man who is found in the act of killing people.
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June 27 Tuesday
If we persist in keeping stray dogs undisturbed, we shall soon be faced with the duty of either castrating them or killing them. A third alternative is that of having a pinjrapole (animal shelter) for dogs.
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June 28 Wednesday
Mahabharata
The question refers to the eternal duel that is so graphically described in the Mahabharata under the cloak of history and that is everyday going on in millions of breasts. Man’s destined purpose is to conquer old habits, to overcome the evil in him and to restore good its rightful place.
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June 29 Thursday
Don’t encourage beggars
We cast a morsel at the beggar come to our door, and feel that we’ve earned some merit (Punya), but we really thereby add to the number of beggars, aggravate the evil of beggary, encourage idleness and consequently promote irreligion.
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June 30 Friday
This doesn’t mean that we should starve the really deserving beggars. It is the duty of society to support the blind and infirm, but everyone may not take the task upon himself. The state or the head of society should undertake the task. Philanthropists should subscribe funds to such an institution.
—-subham—
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Athmanathan Seetharaman
/ May 29, 2023Gandhi has never supported Hindus during communal flare-ups. Always asked us to be submissive as part of his ahimsa way of life misunderstood by him. Kshatriyas are not supposed to follow the ahimsa principle. He was the man behind the final decision to partition with consequent massacre of Hindus in large number. I have read from an authoritative source that he was brought up and educated by a muslim family in his younger days and was educated in London with their help. That must be the reason for his bias and partisan approach. He favoured Nehru over Patel though the latter was overwhelmingly voted to be the PM. He preached self-control but under the garb of old age he was physically in contact with two nubile young girls. Yet he was not vilified due to his stature. When Clement Atlee visited Calcutta after independence he was asked a specific question whether Gandhi was the reason for the British to grant freedom. Atlee replied, NO! It was Netaji. Nehru and Gandhi duo ensured Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose remained outside India. Nehru even wrote to the England PM to arrest Netaji as he was a wanted criminal who took refuge in the Nazi Germany. We are taught Gandhi got us freedom but why we waited for 40 years! After the British learnt there’s nothing left to exploit they decided to leave. Tagore gave the title mahatma on the spur of the moment only to regret later having discovered Gandhi’s fondness for muslims and their violent behaviour.