Gurudev Video 3 Q and A on Mind

Swami Vishwananda
Three Questions on Mind in Satsang
Via Video (April 14 2010)
& "I'm giving you this butterfly..."

Three Questions on Mind
Swami Vishwananda


I'm Giving You This Butterfly:
Someone sent me this morning the poem given below. Remembering that Swamiji and devotees are outside at Shree Peetha Nilaya today and the next two days with Bhu Devi Yagna, I wish that they, and you, see beautiful butterflies this weekend:

Gurudev at Bhu Devi Yagna 2009

The Butterfly
by R. Lee Walsch

I'm giving you this butterfly
because of what it means;
the amazing things
about butterflies
is the way
they get their wings;

See, butterflies start out
as very different things;
each one enduring hardships,
but to this hope
it clings;

One day it will become
despite setbacks from the start;
no longer a nothing creature
-but the love inside its heart;

If, by chance, you see one
-for that one brief moment pause,
and watch it floating by,
remembering this, because;

You too are like the butterfly,
having endured so many things,
making beauty out of heartache,
turning obstacles into wings;

You truly are a miracle
and I think that you should know -
It's not the things that happen
but, how we learn to grow; because

In the end what makes
beautiful and why
-is not the way we started,
but in how we learned to fly.

(Thank you Achala)

GURUDEV and MAHAVATAR on PRAYER

Swami Vishwananda Arati to Babaji
In Babaji Cave Shree Peetha Nilaya

Mahavatar Kriya Babaji: Prayer to the Divine can be a major stumbling block or a phenomenal step forward in your progression toward the eventual Divine merging with the Formless. How can this be, you may think, as the Himalayan sages have stressed japam as the fastest avenue to the Divine in the Kali Age? Japam and prayer are synonymous, my friends.

This is how it is for instance: A man once went to the grocery store for his wife and she had given him a grocery list with specific items listed. The man, being a dutiful husband, placed the list on the seat of his car where he would be sure to see it when he arrived at the grocery store. On arrival, and as he was parking, a friend honked his horn from the next car parking just beside him. Both men got out of their cars and walked into the grocery store together.

Once inside the store, the man realized that he had left the grocery list on the seat of his car. Thinking he would remember what was written on the list, he quickly purchased the items and returned to his home. Nine food items had been listed and the man had remembered that number in the store. For her guests that night the man’s wife was planning to make a dish called potato dumplings. The ninth item the man had purchased was not potatoes, but tomatoes!

It is like that with prayer! It is best to be specific with the words of your prayer. There is an accurate saying: ‘Be careful what you pray for as God may grant your prayer.’ And when you pray, remember to be grateful for the life you have been given and the planet you call home. Take the best care of both as they have been given to you in sacred trust.

Swami Vishwananda: We do our prayers in quantity by burning lots of candles and lots of lights and saying to God, ‘Here, this is my prayer to You, God!’ But what God really wants is the quality of your prayer. God wants our prayers to come from the heart without any doubt or negativity.

Every prayer, every thought, every action vibrates on a certain level. Raise the frequency of vibration; raise it in your consciousness. You are an instrument of the Divine. Let us show that we are this instrument, not just by saying it, also by our actions, how we welcome everything.

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PREPARATIONS for Bhu Devi Yagna with Sri Swami Vishwananda at Shree Peetha Nilaya this weekend, April 30-May 2. LINK (in German) http://vishwananda-de.blogspot.com/2010/04/zelt-fur-bhu-devi.html

Seeing Possibility: "Where there is a will, there is a way!
HMMMMMMMM . . .

PRESTO ! GURU MAGIC !

LOVE Is ALL THAT IS

Swami Vishwananda

My mission is to spread love, Divine love.The main base of my mission is to open up the hearts of people.You see, the word 'Love' itself has so many meanings nowadays that people have forgotten the true aspect of Love, the unconditional Love, and that is what will change the world. All the other forms of Love have expectations. But when one feels this real Love inside one’s heart, it’s beyond all expectations. And only with this Love peace can be restored.

If Love is given, Love has always to flow. But what happens, what people do always is: When they receive love, they feel it, but they close themselves. They want to keep this love. They think that they will always feel the same Love, but know Love makes you sick after some time.This is because if you try to keep it always inside of you all the time, pride and arrogance will awaken and try to control all this feeling because you want to have more, but yet you don’t want to give. -Swami Vishwananda

BHAKTI HEART (Swami Vishwananda Exemplifying
Unconditional Love)