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Guyanese Annette Arjoon, joint winner of the award for Excellence in
Public and Civic Contributions, accepts her award from Chairman of the
awards Regional Eminent Persons Selection Panel, Sir Ellis Clarke.
Chairman of the ANSA McAL Foundation, Dr Anthony Sabga, right,
presents 2008 laureate, David Dabydeen with his Gold Medal for
Excellence in Arts and Letters.
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bigan selling cheap
Communists in power on the other side of a long and porous border, say
elections are the only way to give the country a real shot at peace by bringing the
Maoists under the parliamentary tent. “It does not solve Nepal’s problems at all; it
is a door opener,” Shiv Mukherjee, the Indian ambassador to Nepal said in an
interview.“Mainstreaming the Maoists is one of the major achievements of these
political party leaders,” he added. “There was a realization that eliminating the
Maoists was not the way to go.”
Chanderpaul shows his class again
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CARICOM AGRICULTURAL FORUM, GUYANA, June 6-7
Agriculture key to regional food crisis
– Agri Forum set for early June
Against the backdrop of a looming food crisis and a general threat to food security facing the region and the world at large, along with a bludgeoning food import bill, agriculture is being seen as the key in the CARICOM region.
President Bharrat Jagdeo along with, from left, CARICOM Secretary General, Edwin Carrington and Chairman of the RAIF Task Force, Mr. James Moss-Solomon, next to him, admires the poster promoting the June 6-7 Regional Agriculture Investment Forum, which they unveiled at the CARICOM Secretariat yesterday.
To this end, the CARICOM Region is signalling its intention that it is ready to do business with its renewed focus on the agriculture sector, as is emphasised in the Jagdeo Initiative which has been embraced by political leaders of the Caribbean Community.
A further heightening of this focus will be on June 6 and 7 next, when Guyana hosts a Regional Agriculture Investment Forum (RAIF), which aims at promoting agriculture business as an area for good investment and facilitating match-making between potential investors and agriculture entrepreneurs and promoters… MORE AT:
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SURINAME: Long Memories May Ensnare a Dictator
Suriname’s 470,000 people know Mr. Bouterse well. At 62, he is a former military dictator, a fugitive from Interpol, convicted in absentia in the Netherlands in 1999 on cocaine-trafficking charges. With immunity from extradition, he is also a member of Suriname’s Parliament and a leader of Suriname’s largest political party.
But these days, Suriname’s courts are finally staring hard at the bloody start of his political career. He is in the opening phases of a trial in the killings of 15 opponents of his regime on Dec. 8, 1982.
Fifteen dead may seem a small total when compared to the deaths and disappearances of thousands who opposed far more powerful dictatorships and far more destructive revolutionaries elsewhere in South America in those years.
But 15 executions was a searing experience for a tiny new nation perched between jungle and sea, its population the size of Omaha’s. Its multiethnic citizenry was already trying hard to reconcile the bitter legacy of Dutch colonial rule with a faith in Dutch democratic ideals.
What makes Suriname stand apart is the stolid patience with which it and its legal system have, ever so slowly, been catching up with Mr. Bouterse.
MORE AT….
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/weekinreview/13romero.html
Chinmaya Mission of Trinidad and Tobago Inc. will be hosting a VIOLIN CONCERT on Saturady 17th May, 2008. The star performer is Ms. Aarti Shankar from Chennai, India. In addition to her, some of our local artistes will also be performing including Mr. Neval Chatelal.
Tickets are priced at a mere cost of $50.00.
The concert will be held at the Chinmaya Ashram, #1, Swami Chinmayananda Drive, Calcutta Rd#1, Mc Bean, Couva during the hours of 4:00p.m. to 7:00p.m.
Swamiji’s famous massala chai and other delicacies will be on sale.
Please call the office at 1-868-679-3652 for early purchasing of tickets.
This promises to be an evening of superb entertainment. Please pass the word on to all your friends and family.
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Back in November, Passport noted that urban Indian hospitals were developing their telemedicine capabilities in order to cater to the country’s rural citizens. Now, that expertise is set to benefit patients all across Africa. As the first India-Africa summit kicks off in Delhi, India’s efforts build and expand its ties across the African continent are already underway.
Last July, the Indian government — working with the African Union — launched the 542 crore ($135.6 million) Pan-African E-network project. The initiative has been called Africa’s largest infrastructure project in history, and is designed to develop Africa’s information and satellite communications technologies. It aims to connect 53 African countries to a satellite and fiber-optic network. Telemedicine is just one component of this broader scheme, and African countries are already seeing the results. MORE AT:
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SATYAGRAHA:
Opera About a Giant’s Life, Complete With Giant Puppets
Puppets backstage at “Satyagraha, ” at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Metropolitan Opera: The Force of Truth
Nearly three decades after the premiere of Satyagraha, Philip Glass’s seminal work from 1979 is re-imagined in a powerful new staging that conveys the timelessness of Gandhi’s message. Performances begin at the Met April 11.
The idea for Philip Glass’s Satyagraha is deceptively simple: depict Gandhi’s formative years in South Africa (1893–1914) when he mobilized the oppressed Indian minority and developed the nonviolent civil disobedience movement known as “satyagraha” (Sanskrit for “truth force”). But the opera, which unfolds in seven pivotal scenes, is anything but a straightforward recounting of historic events. Unlike a traditional narrative, the story exists seemingly out of time, with a structural framework in which past, present, and future converge.
MORE AT:
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CARICOM AGRICULTURAL FORUM, GUYANA, June 6-7
Agriculture key to regional food crisis
– Agri Forum set for early June
Against the backdrop of a looming food crisis and a general threat to food security facing the region and the world at large, along with a bludgeoning food import bill, agriculture is being seen as the key in the CARICOM region.
President Bharrat Jagdeo along with, from left, CARICOM Secretary General, Edwin Carrington and Chairman of the RAIF Task Force, Mr. James Moss-Solomon, next to him, admires the poster promoting the June 6-7 Regional Agriculture Investment Forum, which they unveiled at the CARICOM Secretariat yesterday.
To this end, the CARICOM Region is signalling its intention that it is ready to do business with its renewed focus on the agriculture sector, as is emphasised in the Jagdeo Initiative which has been embraced by political leaders of the Caribbean Community.
A further heightening of this focus will be on June 6 and 7 next, when Guyana hosts a Regional Agriculture Investment Forum (RAIF), which aims at promoting agriculture business as an area for good investment and facilitating match-making between potential investors and agriculture entrepreneurs and promoters… MORE AT:
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SURINAME: Long Memories May Ensnare a Dictator
Suriname’s 470,000 people know Mr. Bouterse well. At 62, he is a former military dictator, a fugitive from Interpol, convicted in absentia in the Netherlands in 1999 on cocaine-trafficking charges. With immunity from extradition, he is also a member of Suriname’s Parliament and a leader of Suriname’s largest political party.
But these days, Suriname’s courts are finally staring hard at the bloody start of his political career. He is in the opening phases of a trial in the killings of 15 opponents of his regime on Dec. 8, 1982.
Fifteen dead may seem a small total when compared to the deaths and disappearances of thousands who opposed far more powerful dictatorships and far more destructive revolutionaries elsewhere in South America in those years.
But 15 executions was a searing experience for a tiny new nation perched between jungle and sea, its population the size of Omaha’s. Its multiethnic citizenry was already trying hard to reconcile the bitter legacy of Dutch colonial rule with a faith in Dutch democratic ideals.
What makes Suriname stand apart is the stolid patience with which it and its legal system have, ever so slowly, been catching up with Mr. Bouterse.
MORE AT….
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/weekinreview/13romero.html
Chinmaya Mission of Trinidad and Tobago Inc. will be hosting a VIOLIN CONCERT on Saturady 17th May, 2008. The star performer is Ms. Aarti Shankar from Chennai, India. In addition to her, some of our local artistes will also be performing including Mr. Neval Chatelal.
Tickets are priced at a mere cost of $50.00.
The concert will be held at the Chinmaya Ashram, #1, Swami Chinmayananda Drive, Calcutta Rd#1, Mc Bean, Couva during the hours of 4:00p.m. to 7:00p.m.
Swamiji’s famous massala chai and other delicacies will be on sale.
Please call the office at 1-868-679-3652 for early purchasing of tickets.
This promises to be an evening of superb entertainment. Please pass the word on to all your friends and family.
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India’s virtual path into Africa
INDOCARIBBEAN TIMES – Current issue is available here:
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SATYAGRAHA:
Opera About a Giant’s Life, Complete With Giant Puppets
The idea for Philip Glass’s Satyagraha is deceptively simple: depict Gandhi’s formative years in South Africa (1893–1914) when he mobilized the oppressed Indian minority and developed the nonviolent civil disobedience movement known as “satyagraha” (Sanskrit for “truth force”). But the opera, which unfolds in seven pivotal scenes, is anything but a straightforward recounting of historic events. Unlike a traditional narrative, the story exists seemingly out of time, with a structural framework in which past, present, and future converge.
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Washington, DC. The Hindu American Foundation Director of Public Policy, Ishani Chowdhury, testified on recent events in Malaysia at a briefing held by the Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom (TIRF) today on Capitol Hill. Entitled “Matters of Life and Death in Malaysia: Does the Recent Election Point to a Trend Toward Religious Tolerance?,” prominent panelists included Dr. Bridget Welsh, Assistant Professor in the Southeast Asia Studies Program at Johns Hopkins
At the briefing attended by representatives of the U.S. Department of State, staffers of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Malaysian Embassy, Chowdhury flayed the Malaysian government on its record of persecution and discrimination of the country’s substantial Hindu minority, constituting 7% of the population. “With a 40% minority population, Malaysia needs to include the minority population in dialogue and address grievances such as the violent responses to peaceful protests, judicial onslaughts against faith, and destruction of temples,” stated Chowdhury…. MORE AT:
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| Spreading Indian Flavor in Samba Land – Brazil |
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| by Florine Roche, Mangalore |
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The South American country of Brazil is no doubt famous for its soccer, beaches, coffee, volleyball, carnival and those hot women who sashay the international modeling scene with aplomb. This former Portugese colony no doubt boasts of a unique and flamboyant culture of its own as its carnival festivities are famous across the world attracting thousands of people. Despite the distance that separates But Indian dance, yoga art and culture is finding its flavour in Brazil thanks to the efforts of a few Indian missionaries and other smitten Brazilians who have been instrumental in spreading Indian flavour in this coffee land.
 Today about 5 million Brazilians are practicing regular yoga and several dance and art schools have mushroomed all over Brazil, says Fr Joachim Andrade, a Mangalorean Svd priest who has been working in Brazil for the last 17 years. “Major Hindu influence began in Brazil to be exact was in 1953, when yoga was taken by a French man, who took the Indian name as Shivananda, who started a yoga academy in one of the towns of Brazil. Later, many other forms have entered such as Hare Krishna Movement, Vedanta Philosophy, Indian classical music and finally Indian classical dance. The Brazilians got hooked to Indian music, vegetarianism, food and culture and there has been no stopping its popularity”, Fr Andrade declares.
Indian way of live has penetrated deeply among the people and some of the Brazilians have great admiration towards Indian culture. Many have ventured out to take a trip to India visiting several ashrams and gurus. They have taken back to Brazil a kind of Indian culture which has created a deep rooted impact among Brazilians.
This receptiveness among Brazilians prompted Fr Andrade to make a deeper study on the phenomenon of the diffusion of Hinduism in Brazil. Born in Vamada Padavu in Bantwal taluk, he joined seminary and was initiated to Bharathanatyam during his college days in Mysore. Fr Andrade gave a public stage entrance in Pune in 1991 in Bharathanatyam and left for Brazil in 1992 after his ordination. He continued his passion in Brazil and did his masters in Anthropology choosing the topic “Dance as a ritual: a case study of Indian Dance” for his dissertation. For his doctorate he chose the topic of “diffusion of Hinduism in Brazil and used Bharathanatyam as the medium for diffusion.
As Fr Andrade worked in southern part of Brazil where the church activity is mostly pastoral and was compelled to make a slight shift in his missionary work and concentrate on ecumenical as well as inter-religious dialogue activity. Because of his close involvement in inter-religious dialogue activities, he has been appointed as the coordinator of the Ecumenical and Inter-religious dialogue dimension of the arch diocese of Curitiba.
Responding to public enthusiasm Fr Andrade has opened an academy of dance in Brazil recently where Brazilians learn the Indian dance and propagate it to the Brazilian people. “My motive behind this is to utilize the art form to diffuse Christian themes and combine the art and spirituality to the Brazilian culture” he says modestly. Recently his pupil Ivanilda Maria Moreira Da Silva, a yoga teacher for the last 20 year hailing from Curitiba in Brazil was in Mangalore to add perfection to her Bharatanatyam dance which she has been learning in Brazil from Fr Andrade for the last four years. Ivanilda spent two months at Sandesha College of Fine Arts fine-tuning her skills in Bharathanatyam and left back for Brazil with a promise to come back against next year with her 13 year old daughter Yane to learn more about Indian dance.
“I learnt the techniques and perfection of the movements of the Indian classical dance. I am greatly impressed by the visuals, the grace, the music and the expressions of Bharathanatyam. Having stayed here for two months and learning dance I feel dance comes from within and it is very satisfying to make the movements, articulations and gestures. It is made me what I am”, Ivanilda confesses.
Ivanilda came to be associated with yoga just by fluke. Her husband wanted to learn martial arts and yoga formed a part of martial arts. She had accompanied her husband to the university and when her husband got specialized in Martial arts Ivanilda got a tryst with yoga and since then as the cliché goes there has been no looking back for Ivanilda.
A few years back she was exposed to Indian dance and got enamored by it prompting her to join the academy as Fr Andrade’s student. Apart from learning dance Ivanilda toured around Dakshina KannadaBrazil last week with the promise to propagate Indian dance in the samba land. savouring Indian cuisine and the diverse culture of the land. A strict vegetarian she was fascinated by the colourful clothes people wear, and liked the six-yard wonder – the saree. She greatly relished the coastal cuisine especially the crunchy papads and the pickle. She left for
No doubt Indian culture has crossed the seven shores to find routes in the distant land of Brazil. It only goes to prove that art and spirituality makes a great combo to make a striking impact.
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HINDU WISDOM
–Bhagavad Gita 7:19-20
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Second Annual
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INDO-CARIBBEAN WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT SUMMIT
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~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~
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Indo-Caribbean Artist and Activist
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speak to both the ethnic and gender issues facing
Indo-Caribbean women.”
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On Hindu Weddings: Points to Ponder
by Tiberman Sajiwan Ramyead
I reread the earlier issues of Mauritius Times now and then, especially those dating back to the fifties and sixties. They are always refreshing and bring a constant amazement — much had already been thought of and written before by those self-made stalwarts. They also provide those sparks of invaluable glimpses in the context of one’s research. Their extraordinary dimensions half a century later thrills in a way best understood by the inquisitive researcher. A young impressionable researcher may pore over them today and take them at face value; till he learns to question them later. But sometimes those first impressions can be long lasting or they can be cruelly misleading. Written history abounds with that. As we plod along, truer truths emerge, until we reach that sublime stage: la vérité n’existe pas!
Let’s ponder on last week’s article, ‘Hindu Weddings’, of my contributor colleague. It was written in a jocular context and meant no aspersion to the Hindu religion. Indeed the writer’s articles display a healthy penchant for the spiritual. But his ‘Hindu Weddings’ triggers other points to ponder. Some young researcher will certainly be perusing it in fifty years’ time and he might be amazed too, to read of his forebears washing down rich food with ‘beer, rum or whisky’. This remark is unfair, unduly generalised and lacks exactness.
‘Beer, rum and whisky… the unrestricted consumption of alcohol by those present’ is not the scenario for the majority of Hindu weddings in Mauritius. Is the number of divorces among Hindus really increasing every year? Or is it that those divorces that do occur are now perceived faster and become the talk of the town at lightning speed?
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Fiji’s military leader casts doubt on election promise
SUVA, Fiji: Fiji’s military ruler said Friday he would change the Pacific Island nation’s electoral laws and constitution if that would ensure a genuine democracy.
Commodore Frank Bainimarama’s vow was viewed as throwing further doubt on his promise to hold elections by April next year to return Fiji to democracy following his military takeover in 2006.
Under international pressure led by Australia, New Zealand and the United States, Bainimarama assured Pacific leaders last year he would hold elections under Fiji’s existing constitution.
But Bainimarama has consistently described the present communal voting system, which allocates more seats in Parliament to indigenous Fijians than to ethnic Indians, as institutionalized racism.
In a statement Friday, Bainimarama said he was responding to comments by U.S. Ambassador Larry Dinger and other critics who are demanding he honor his pledge to hold elections quickly under the current electoral laws and constitution… MORE AT:
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GUYANA: Broadcasters are held to a high standard of
public responsibility
Dear Editor,
In 2005 when the licence of CN Sharma’s television CNS
TV6 was suspended at the time of the flood disaster by
the Prime Minister, who was then the Minister
responsible for telecommunications, for what appeared
to be a deliberate attempt to make the President
appear contemptuous of the conditions of the flood
victims, I wrote at some length endeavouring to
provide information and explain what we should expect
of a licensed broadcaster.
It seems appropriate, given the suspension of CNS TV6
licence, to, once more, repeat much of what I said
then.
In every case the constitutional protection offered to
every citizen of freedom of expression has been
invoked on behalf of Mr Sharma. However, what we are
yet to understand, far less accept, in Guyana is that
the broadcaster is held to a much higher standard of
public responsibility in exercising freedom of
expression granted by his licence than is a newspaper,
printed publications or the ordinary citizen.
A broadcaster is granted a licence, in a democracy, on
the condition that he uses it to serve, to use the
language of the USA’s Federal Communication Commission
(FCC), “the public interest, convenience and
necessity”.
The broadcaster, in essence, is granted the privilege
of using the broadcast spectrum, to serve as a “public
trustee”, while benefiting from its commercial use
because he is being allowed the use of a limited
public resource, the broadcast spectrum.
The conditions under which the broadcaster must
function as a “public trustee”, are spelt out in the
licence and are governed by the regulations under
which the licence is issued.
In effect, the broadcaster who is granted a licence to
use the electromagnetic spectrum for commercial
purposes, is granted exclusive free speech rights
denied to others and, to justify this privilege, is
constrained to serve as a “public trustee” of the
airwaves.
Unlike the rest of the media, the broadcaster is bound
by statutory and regulatory obligations to serve the
public interest in a defined way which would abridge
the constitutional right of free speech which other
media and published speech enjoy.
There is no constitutional right to hold a broadcast
licence and monopolise a broadcast frequency to the
exclusion of others as some in Guyana seem to believe.
Where there are adequate broadcasting regulations, a
potential licencee must first justify at public
hearings by the regulating authority, his or her
qualification to be granted the right to a broadcast
licence.
In Guyana licenced broadcasters were, unfortunately,
given licences without hearings, without having to
establish their qualifications for a licence, without
any public justification for being granted the
privilege. Our broadcasters were granted licences
simply because they either first squatted illegally on
the frequency, or the government was persuaded to
grant them the licence…. MORE AT:
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GUYANA: Broadcasters are held to a high standard of
public responsibility
Dear Editor,
In 2005 when the licence of CN Sharma’s television CNS
TV6 was suspended at the time of the flood disaster by
the Prime Minister, who was then the Minister
responsible for telecommunications, for what appeared
to be a deliberate attempt to make the President
appear contemptuous of the conditions of the flood
victims, I wrote at some length endeavouring to
provide information and explain what we should expect
of a licensed broadcaster.
It seems appropriate, given the suspension of CNS TV6
licence, to, once more, repeat much of what I said
then.
In every case the constitutional protection offered to
every citizen of freedom of expression has been
invoked on behalf of Mr Sharma. However, what we are
yet to understand, far less accept, in Guyana is that
the broadcaster is held to a much higher standard of
public responsibility in exercising freedom of
expression granted by his licence than is a newspaper,
printed publications or the ordinary citizen.
A broadcaster is granted a licence, in a democracy, on
the condition that he uses it to serve, to use the
language of the USA’s Federal Communication Commission
(FCC), “the public interest, convenience and
necessity”.
The broadcaster, in essence, is granted the privilege
of using the broadcast spectrum, to serve as a “public
trustee”, while benefiting from its commercial use
because he is being allowed the use of a limited
public resource, the broadcast spectrum.
The conditions under which the broadcaster must
function as a “public trustee”, are spelt out in the
licence and are governed by the regulations under
which the licence is issued.
In effect, the broadcaster who is granted a licence to
use the electromagnetic spectrum for commercial
purposes, is granted exclusive free speech rights
denied to others and, to justify this privilege, is
constrained to serve as a “public trustee” of the
airwaves.
Unlike the rest of the media, the broadcaster is bound
by statutory and regulatory obligations to serve the
public interest in a defined way which would abridge
the constitutional right of free speech which other
media and published speech enjoy.
There is no constitutional right to hold a broadcast
licence and monopolise a broadcast frequency to the
exclusion of others as some in Guyana seem to believe.
Where there are adequate broadcasting regulations, a
potential licencee must first justify at public
hearings by the regulating authority, his or her
qualification to be granted the right to a broadcast
licence.
In Guyana licenced broadcasters were, unfortunately,
given licences without hearings, without having to
establish their qualifications for a licence, without
any public justification for being granted the
privilege. Our broadcasters were granted licences
simply because they either first squatted illegally on
the frequency, or the government was persuaded to
grant them the licence…. MORE AT:
http://guyanaforever.blogspot.com/
http://guyana2.blogspot.com/
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Worldly people are generally elated by success and depressed by
failure. Elation and depression are the attributes of the mind. If
you want to become a real karma yogi in the right sense of the term,
you will have to keep a balanced mind at all times, in all conditions
and under all circumstances. This is no doubt very difficult. But you
will have to do it anyhow. Then only will you have peace of mind and
real lasting happiness. He who keeps a balanced mind is a jnani.
Karma yoga prepares the mind for the attainment of jnana. That is the
beauty of karma yoga. That is the secret and essence of karma yoga.
There must not be the least attachment to any kind of work. You must
be ready to leave any work at any time. There may be a divine call
upon you for certain work. You will have to take it up at once
without grumbling, whatever the nature of the work may be, whether
you are willing or not. You will have to stop it also, if conditions
and circumstances demand you to do so. This is yoga. There is no
attachment to the work here.
Keep the reason rooted in the self. Have a poised mind amidst the
changes of the world. Work for the fulfilment of purposes divine. Do
not expect any fruit. Do everything as isvararpana (offering to God).
Work in unison with the divine will for the welfare of the world.
Allow the divine energy to work unhampered through you. The moment
your egoism comes in, there will be immediate blocking of the free
flow of the divine energy. Make your indriya (senses) perfect
instruments for his lila (work, play). Keep the body-flute hollow by
emptying it of your egoism. Then the flute-bearer of Brindavan
(Krishna) will play freely through this body-flute. He will work
through you. Then you will feel the lightness of the work. You will
feel that God works through you. You will be washed of all the
responsibilities. You will be as free as a bird. You will feel that
you are quite a changed being. Your egoism will try to re-enter. Be
careful. Be on the alert. By gradual practice and purification of the
mind you will become an expert in karma yoga. All your actions will
be perfect and selfless. All actions will eventually culminate in
jnana. This is the yoga of equanimity.
— SWAMI SIVANANDA readings
Word of the Week
Whatever happened to passion and vision and the divine afflatus in poetry?
— Clive Hicks, “From ‘Green Man’ (Ronsdale)”, Toronto Star, November 21, 1999
Aristophanes must have eclipsed them . . . by the exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual afflatus.
— John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek Poets
The miraculous spring that nourished Homer’s afflatus seems out of reach of today’s writers, whose desperate yearning for inspiration only indicates the coming of an age of “exhaustion.
— Benzi Zhang, “Paradox of origin(ality)”, Studies in Short Fiction, March 22, 1995
from 21st to 26th July 2008 at the Chinmaya Ashram
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