LIFE COMPASSIONATE (JEEVA KARUNYA)

LIFE COMPASSIONATE (JEEVA KARUNYA)

Nowadays people talk about the word life-compassionate (Jeeva Karunya). But many do not know what exactly it means. Also no one either thinks about it or practices it. Further they do not give due respect to their jeeva even worth for a single coin. The necessity of money is to live happily. It is true that the life cannot be enjoyed without jeeva. If we have a coin we keep it under safe custody with lock and key. But the jeeva which is completely responsible for earning that money is being wasted always be going out.

Not only that, but also we do harms to our blemishless jeeva in many ways which gives us no harms. For example, there is a rat in a hole. Some play boys set fire at the entrance of the hole, send smoke inside and close it. That moment the rat struggles as it is neither able to be inside nor come out. Like that we disturb our Jeeva by smoking Beedi, Cigar and Ganja. So our life force destroys and many diseases also appear. When we smoke, the smoke enters into our lungs and creates deadly diseases like tuberculosis and cancer. Through the nostrils where the jeeva comes in and goes out, we stuff with snuff and block the passage of jeeva. This produces diseases such as headache, cold etc., as the nostrils get obstructed it becomes impossible to speak and breathe properly. As a result we have to suffocate, suffer and die.

Ordinary people use the liquor prepared by tapping and smashing the flower-clusters of coconut tree, palm tree etc., by drinking that liquor people lose the power of thinking and become lunatic. Our body is madeup of both nectar (sat) and poison (asat). As soon as the nectar removes from the body there is only poison. So dead bodies are the greatest poison in the world. The egg containing embryo has less nectar and more poison. Hence egg is too much poisonous. Those who love their jeeva, will not use the above-mentioned things which destroy our life-force. Thus compassionate means without destroying our jeeva we should keep it fixed within out body.

Discourse of His Holiness Swami Sivananda Paramahamsa.

KARMA

KARMA

From the book of “SIDDHAVEDAM” chapter 8

A spider weaves its web. That web is intended as a habitation for it and also as a contrivance to catch its prey. We know that the web is woven by a fine thread. That thread is one Sakthi within it. That Sakthi is one kind of glue. That glue, the Sakthi is drawn into a fine thread. With the aid of this thread the spider weaves a web which is a world of its own and sits in a corner there. If any insect gets into this web it pounces and prey upon it. But it unties and takes in the world tied as above said and keep quiet. Then it again takes out the thread and ties the world.

Thus it goes on tying and untying its web in the course of its existence and in these processes, the thread snaps at the place from where it was drawn. Consequently it falls down and meets with its doom in the very world of its own creation. If only the thread had broken at a distance the spider would have clung to the broken end and repaired the web. But since the thread snapped at its very start it fell down and met with its doom.

It is like this: just as the above said spider leaves out the glue, its sakthi within it, makes it into thread and ties and unties the world of web, likewise we also leave out the thread which is Karma, the Vayu, the Jeevasakthi within us, and tie and untie the world. At last just as the thread gets cut off from the place of origin of the thread which is the Sakthi of the spider and the spider dies out, likewise, the thread, the Vayu, the Karma, the Jeevasakthi of us, gets cut off from the place above the nose but below the Bhrumadhyam which is the place of origin of the thread and we also die out. That is why when one dies out it is said that his karma is cut off.

By

HIS HOLINESS

SWAMI SIVANANDA PARAMAHAMSA

(Founder of Siddha Samaj)