Monday, March 22, 2010

What is the World's Powerful Sacrifice?

Sacrifice or service of knowledge is the greatest sacrifice in the world. Examples of Sacrifice of Knowledge is the Gift of knowledge and education, donation of books to kids and libraries. When you gift knowledge it is passed from generation to generation. Knowledge helps get rid of poverty in the World. All the greatest civilizations in the World have placed tremendous effort and emphasis on Knowledge and Education.

Charities in the Order of importance to perform service to the World.
1) Charity of Knowledge or Education. Charity to Schools and books.
2) Charity of food to fight World's hunger.
3) Charity of Health to take care of Elders, Old people and People with disabilities.
4) Charity of money to the needy and homeless people.

Sacrifice of Knowledge

Sacrifices performed in knowledge lead one to higher platforms of transcendental knowledge. Sacrifices sometimes take different forms according to the particular faith of the performer. When one's faith reaches the stage of transcendental knowledge, the performer of sacrifices should be considered more advanced than those who simply sacrifice material possessions without such knowledge, for without attainment of knowledge, sacrifices remain on the material platform and bestow no spiritual benefit.

Sacrifice of desires

Sacrifice the desires is the greatest sacrifice for the spiritual growth. Renounce the results of both the good and evil. When there is no desire, there is no anger or fear. Meditation and self control helps in detachment from material, people and nature. Self control and meditation helps in right discrimination which gives eternal peace.

Withdraw your senses and be detached from the illusions on nature. When you withdraw your senses from the objects on nature, attraction and desire goes away. When you stay detached from the objects of desire, there is no pride, no jealousy and you realize you possess nothing.

The work of the nature is to create Attraction and desire which creates anger, delusion, memory loss and aversion which corrupts the senses, mind and reason. Perform actions as a sacrifice to the Almighty God. Perform your duties disinterestedly without expecting results.

Controlling the senses helps in slaying the desire and helps attaining wisdom. Beyond senses is mind, beyond mind is intellect, beyond intellect is GOD.

Sacrifice your actions, senses, powers, wealth and wisdom in the altar of the almighty. The hero whose soul is unmoved by circumstance, who accepts pleasure and pain with equanimity, only he is fit for immortality.

You only have the right to work, but none to the fruit thereof. Let not then the fruit of your action be your motive; nor yet be thou enamored of inaction. Perform all your actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.

Physical action is far inferior to an intellect concentrated on the Divine. Have recourse then to Pure Intelligence. It is only the petty-minded who work for reward.
When a man attains to Pure Reason, he renounces in this world the results of good and evil alike. Cling thou to Right Action. Spirituality is the real art of living.

He who wherever he goes is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other – take him to be one who is merged in the Infinite.

He who can withdraw his senses from the attraction of their objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within its shell – take it that such a one has attained Perfection.
When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger. Anger induces delusion; delusion, loss of memory; through loss of memory, reason is shattered; and loss of reason leads to destruction.

But the self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace. Having attained Peace, he becomes free from misery; for when the mind gains peace, right discrimination follows. He who is happy within his Self and has found Its peace, and in whom the inner light
shines, he attains Eternal Bliss and realizes the Spirit Itself.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
OM Namoh Narayanaya
OM Namoh Satya Narayanaya