Suryanamaskaram

THE PHYSIOLOGY OF AIM by N.C.Surya

2011-10-09T16:23:00.000+05:30

“It is said that we walk with our legs. No, sir, first you have a desire or need or aim to walk," says a renowned psychologist as he helps assess ourselves anew in this small but significant essay.I walk along the road. A piece of paper slips from my hand and falls on the road. The paper is not important, and I walk by. The paper is somewhat important: I bend down and pick it up with my right

5/2/1992

2011-09-18T13:34:00.000+05:30

Always from above down-like a GoddessGet out of the stupid destructive habit of treating self/others as fixed-a changing view1. Like a vegetable cutter cut people this way and that and take what you like2. Now-you have one second3. Every man/woman must come to terms with the woman/man inside him/her4. Always note the damage done and not who did it

29/1/1992 On Sleep

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You can sleep and not feel refreshed. Practice being awake. Being awake=being rested Belief –motivation-he walked without his walking stick-he believed he was God. Collective human behaviour always tangles with yesterday, tomorrow. Then there is difficulty in jumping. Especially towards night... Demon one minute and ten minutes guilty!

26/1/1992

2011-08-31T13:26:00.001+05:30

Each one of us will do exactly what she/he has to do at a given moment. No two persons can occupy the same place at the same time.

25/1/1992

2011-08-29T17:18:00.002+05:30

You can, at each second, only do what you do.So don’t criticise yourself or others for anything that is done.

24/1/1992

2011-08-25T13:41:00.002+05:30

The problem is to explore the mechanism of energy of your body and watch the travesty of the present civilization which fixes times, places, quantities for energy.8 o’clock-school, food3 o’clock rest, etc.Childhood is cut short.Slowly cooperate and learn from children how not to quarrel.

22/1/1992

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You are not a rigid body. Perceptions. Different inputs. Inside, separate again-then you have the “reality” of a tree (say). A dog sees another thing. Colour blind people, people with right brain lesion. Sometimes a man is convinced his right arm is in another room! So how are you a whole connected body?!So if you want to escape ills-see reality as it is. Today, become aware of and constantly

23/1/92

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Why should a car run differently in a village or a town?The road is rough-must be extra careful.Is it common sense to make the road responsible for driving?You make the roads on which you drive-in this particular vehicle it is the reverse.If you are natural Nature will kill you.Don’t be natural.Go on enlarging the uses of the machinery.

22/1/1992

2011-07-26T16:04:00.001+05:30

Frustration, self-will, anger.First you do not feel well.You are not a rigid body. Then, you can keep a stomach ache, insult, eating pulav in one plane, one spectrum. It prevents you from doing nice things.Laugh with the Lord-use it, hone it. It is a weapon, energy, key.If you are acting one drama, shift to another drama.The world is a playground. What a thing prevents you from doing, do a little

20/1/1992

2011-07-20T11:33:00.001+05:30

A virus is the least bit of ill will.

19/1/1992

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Instead of limiting my desires, I can explore the various possibilities. Simply say what you have seen and shut up.

15/1/1992

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Silence is disturbed by the friction caused by rejection. Whatever is coming in. That interval is Sadhana. All that happens to you is necessary. Ageing is caused by this barrier which you secrete. Fixing the mind: "I must be alone"Today is a day of great progress-unevenness only.No definite plans. Your so-called non-verbal non visual life is 90% of your life in which you are apparently peaceful,

14/1/1992

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K was feeling cold-like an iceberg, saw eyes looking at her. What you see or hear or feel or touch can be explained in many ways depending on the information available and the authority of the informer (If the Guru says it is this, you will do. If the jailor?) And the relative interaction of all these in the instrument of the observer and then what you do with all this is again subject to so

2011-06-13T16:41:00.002+05:30

This second is all that is given you. To express yourself ecstatically each second. Express yourself through the machine which is your shadow. All the troubles of the machine come from planning.Use the machine to express delight.

10/01/1992

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Look after your own comfort and the total amount of comfort in the world will increase.Always act in the interest of your immediate comfort. Because you don’t exist at all except as an illusion.Bigger books are needed to support arguments-of the existence of this illusion.

2011-06-06T14:36:00.000+05:30

All these methods are to be used for a fraction of a second.Speed of movement-practiceLight does not hurt you because of its speed.Similarly if a movement is so fast….The body is the shadow of the soul.Between intent and action, time should be reduced to zero.

2011-05-27T20:05:00.000+05:30

No cause or numerous causes which result in impact.So see, hear feel, etc. what the impact is, not why it is. See what it is preventing you from doing and make corrections in your behaviour. See what it is, not why it is.If the impact is too big, if a meteor falls into your house, enlarge the background. If you have a little headache, think that the house has a headache or put a tablecloth and

All or None Law

2011-05-25T16:15:00.000+05:30

See each other as fields of forces-as a person enters, with a mental knife scrape away what you don’t likeFor the Autopilot to develop shock absorbersFrom morning to evening, impacts coming at you like bullets-both pleasure and pain.Usually pain. Registering pain is considered fashionable.You’ll see that wanting to avoid the office is already in the mind and that invites the fever. So always

How to avoid shock of impacts

2011-05-18T14:46:00.001+05:30

All these enter your craft through skin, hair, eyes, ears, etc. Enter-do not belong!This sight, thought comes to me-not I see, think, etc.This cuts out a good deal of impact.Do not give them direction, history.Last night, pain in legs, etc. Nonsense! Now I have no pain.Accurate and operationally useful observation.Fragmentation-memoryKnow what the thing entering you is preventing you from

8/01/1992

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Everything: thoughts, feelings, come to you. Why own them? Like a pet dog, you whistle and anger comes. Then you can also say: Go

7/01/1992

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If any so-called physical illness, injury or other comes, first see what it is that it is preventing you from doing, e.g. I have a little headache. Tomorrow I will not be able to go to the office. This at once shows that the desire not to go to the office was already there. Chain reactions become submerged. So next morning you say: Alright don’t go to the office but want to see the doctor.

6/01/1992

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First exercise when waking up: Just as you open windows, fly out of the body. Then you will be free. Feeling of poison is body. Memory remnants act like constipation. Ferment and ruin the whole body.A stone is the most reactive chemical on earth. It receives every vibration from the universe and retains nothing. It reflects, receives, transmits, refracts but never retains anything.Remain as an

5/1/92

2011-04-28T12:53:00.000+05:30

The way is for the man. Man is not for the way.Only new sensations-no diseases-take medicines, also, not to get rid of but to add a vibration of comfort.Millions of sensations flowing into the body. One should not scold the instrument for speaking a new truth. Don’t reject-add something new to it. If you begin rejecting, it becomes bigger. It is like getting a letter-you have to receive it.

04/01/1992

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Not to make “x” (a child of whom Surya was very fond) fit in with the kindergarten but they should fit in with him.Apparently the Chinese, when asked what they do with their delinquents, replied that they make them future jailors.

3/01/1991

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There is no observer or observed. Only observation. The observer is the observed. The word “I” according to this is only the historical narrator-a very biased narrator. So all these narrators enter into mutual conflict. Very potent or only burden on body-the stupid parasitic commentator.Become the whole tree, then the branch, then the leaf-relaxedly-no tension.As soon as you say “I” and take

31/12/1991

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To feel love and oneness is to live. This combination is new. “And this the magic of our golden change,Is all the truth I need or seek, O sage.”Born with a gasp and go off in the end with a gaspMost human speech is curses in a polite way.

29/12/1991

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We are not for or against any method.Question: Who are you and who do you want to be?We have come on earth to be happy. So be happy.Ramana: Even a robber robs for happiness.The soul’s nature is happiness.Breathing to be happy?The Mother on learning:Learning is continuous.Learning is not verbal alone. It is total body learning.The usual way: Teaching not mathematics but how to be afraid. No

28/12/1991

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First discovery-Man is first of all a physical being.Great show of trying for righteousness… Trying to be good and burning each other.Watch the baby crow flying, as a child learning to walk, cannot walk for long- when you learn to fly, you tend to fall down. Like that, Prof. Surya sees that he has his head down, observing feet.Each second you must dissociate yourself.Buddha says all realizations

27/12/1991

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With regard to one thing, for a specific time, involve your body in expressing your belief.For each of us we are alternately the sun and moon to each other.Sufi story: Moon says only complaint is Sun. If Sun not there, I would be the brightest star.Attitude of hero warrior-Sri AurobindoAttitude of conqueror-MotherAttitude of colonizer-Surya

26/12/91

2011-03-21T09:44:00.000+05:30

Don’t “ing” –be!You are, from moment to moment, a totally different being. Your stupid inertia of mind gives continuity to a ghost.Laughter is the new avatar-the new being. It is a collective, a tree, a stone…Say and be.Between intent and doing there is a long interval filled with negativity-the cause of old age. Supramental is nowThird cause of old age: Every act has two streams What others

25/12/1991

2011-03-18T11:25:00.000+05:30

Intent is like a horse.Aging is stopping.Speed is ecstasy.N.C. Surya-N.C. stands for “No comment”First you are an instrument.Praise your body-yourselfFor stopping smoking-smoke nowYou are a result or product of world movement. The world is not a product of your movement.E.g. Breathing is a part of world breathing.Brain wave is continuity of sea waves.Humility to think you are being walked.With

18/06/1991

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If you have a mixi, you empty it. Same with body. As it is subtler it is faster (like air)For health, empty of as many things as possible.If angry suddenly laugh.Cooking is cooking-not cooking for husband.Secret of Gita-Karma not leave residue.Eternally young, you stupid rascals, bashi bazouks!

17/06/1991

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To be more mechanically perfect. All troubles end. First mind gets disturbed. Then it falls on the body. Intrusion of time into human activities. Can do a thing or cannot do. Not pinpointing another. What is the use of making ourselves responsible for an act?Speech: unconsciously we say doing a house wife’s chores (it is boiling water, etc.). With this we create men. Man and woman are mental

2011-02-20T10:19:00.003+05:30

Every principle is violent First principle is to be hundreds of bodies

2011-02-13T14:47:00.000+05:30

1. Who am I? Asking this first thing in the morning is puja-Ramana. 2. One little change in the day-a blessing to the body just to remove the burden of I and it becomes a collective, a lawsuit, a religion, polite forms! That is why Kali will destroy ashrams and temples.Investigate properties of I-I is already there, body is there, evolution.Laugh, see the other person laughing.A point is

2011-02-12T13:20:00.000+05:30

This second I am a point, a rapidly shifting point. Therefore I feel no lack, no distance, no separation.You are not going from A to Z. You are here. You are there. The “ing” in going is abolished. To liberate your corporal illusory body from wear and tear, don’t say: I now want to go and see x, y, z”. Go and see.No space and no time. Which is a fact already. That superior I is yourself.

11/6/1991

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You are a prisoner of your perceptions. Who am I? A perception. So, for a second, shift the perception.Becoming young does not mean becoming like yesterday. It may be the skin of a rhino! Be as you want to be.

2011-02-01T14:38:00.002+05:30

Anything, Time is involved there is a lie.There is a lot of skill required in dealing with next year as if it is now. The realized man also uses time. But does what is right.Someone lent me Rs. 1000 to pay within a year. Realized man straightaway pays the 100 he has in hand.Certainty, stability is an illusion.Do now correctly.Can’t put bad seed and hope for good result.

An answer to my question about how to deal with my son

2011-01-19T18:03:00.000+05:30

1. Learning all the time. No lessons. 2. Say what is true for that second or even don't say that. Not to bother whether feelings are hurt. Act for spur of the moment. No confrontation. Quote from the Mother: I will say you are wrong.You bloody well are not upbringing anybody. Becoming responsible for another's behaviour projected into the future.

10/6/1991

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Ramakrishna asked by Vidyasagar: What is Brahman?Ramakrishna answers: Brahman is Jhoota (contaminated).As soon as you utter a truth it becomes a lie. Truth is a sugar mountain.Vyasa is an ant-Ramakrishna said.

9/6/1991

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Your worth on earth is self transformation. Each day you are new.

8/6/1991

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Human beings are machines operating on physical principles-light, heat, etc. of which talk, etc. is so small but exaggerated.

4/6/1991

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Pramodawhymrutyuhu-Inattention is death

3/6/1991

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If I see something or somebody, I don’t want to see Krishna in it or them. I see it as it is and feel very happy and make it as I like it. People saying: I see the divine in you! What is wrong with me as I am?!

2/6/1991

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1. Once you learn always to talk to the Divine, your voice becomes automatically polite, firm-with a smile watch what is going on.Experiment with the effectiveness of what you are doing. Say once. Don’t go on like a brainless fish.2. TM-first utter the mantram. At some point begin listening to OM, Uttering the mantram or listening to the mantram. Listening is the best concentration. As if Om is

2010-12-05T16:17:00.000+05:30

Yoga is not moderation. It is union with Self.You are a constantly shifting electrical point.1. Even the worst sinner…The Gita-from childhood Dr. Surya…(He was talking to me about his experiences with the Gita)2. 1960-“Why did the Gita not serve me?” Dr. Surya asked. It gave him practical wisdom but did not remove sorrow. (The reference is to the death of his beloved mother)Your duty is to stand

1/06/1991

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Extreme changes.May be very angry but manage a smile.Looking tired.Sweating.Hypocrisy is controlling what is easy.Krishna said: Who controls his senses but in the mind…..”But Dr. Surya says, ref. Sri Aurobindo (Dr. Surya came to Sri Aurobindo since Sri Aurobindo said it is better to control what can be controlled)

31/05/1991

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Habits you must get rid of…Laughter-not even nouns-Be Laughter, Joy, Peace-one of the Deva qualities.A woman is a prostitute because each day she sleeps with a different man.All sensations are interchangeable and the central vibration is joy.Subliminal –that which you are not seeing fullyLook at the tree in a certain way and it shrivels-that is what we do o each other all the time.

30/5/1919

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This body is an instrumentFirst thing in driving the car is to1. Put the key2. Press the button (before that check if water is in, brake alright-the background is not facing downhill, clutch is in).With the human body it is the same. When energy is falling down by depression, anger, etc., press the key again.How to know key is in? By peace and laughter.You are yourself laughter, happiness,

2010-11-18T12:32:00.000+05:30

Wherever you are be aware of what you are. You are already radiating. Just be aware. As if a lighthouse-fierce light. If bad company. Without being noticed. As if you are a star radiating.All or none law should be given up. Say one or two words and stop. Then conversation also becomes a game.Wherever you are just be a light, a fragrant tree or a sound and that you are already. You are reinforcing

28/5/1991

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Each second you are either growing old or you are growing young. Each second you are receiving signals, whether verbal internal or external which will make you open to decay, each second in this living world which will make you squirm, withdraw. Opposite of it will make you open, ecstasy.Naturally, the tendency to react to the old, to the decay, is vast like a great downwards gutter of reaction

27/5/1991

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Practice being looked at. That stone is looking at you

26/5/91

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Stop frequently and note what you are doing1. Dharmasadhana Verify: this body is the instrument of harmony2. You are created by what you see/hear. You forget you are the creator.All that is old is death, disease, smell… The Divine is a constant child. No Self-importance.3. Like all instruments: inputsEvery instrument has inputs. Inputs are really outputs in human beings. Sight, etc. not

Imagination

2010-10-29T14:23:00.001+05:30

This is the first thing to develop You are not a single person in a single body –Practice being different personalities at different places and times. Example: Being in Madras, driving… Being in kitchen while sitting here Practice only for a few seconds This opens many possibilitiesI is the only muscle to develop. Society is your imagination.Practice fragmentation of body. Body is not one.

22/5/1991

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suggested book: Reshad Field –The last barrierAs soon as you treat yourself as a person-disasterWhat is fashionable, what is approved, what causes fatigue?All that is in this universe is the resultant of your imagination Beware not to let it flow into you and use positive imagination Rajayoga-sanyama-to be water, etc.Practice imagination which you are already using anyway.23/5/1991To bring a more

21/5/1991

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Remember past five minutes and erase.Nama Rupa is Kalyuga.Corruption is yesterday.Give up name and form.Pit of unwisdom.Technique: treat the same way.The goal of behaviour is harmonyNon-self harmonyNight/day Inner/outer Occult/open Rest/movement Past/present This life/next lifeBad thoughts-don’t pay attention. Learn to pay attention with kindness.Book: according to Finnegan by editor of

20/5/1991

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In transactions cut off as soon as possible completely. Not I should next time say this-no sequence or consequence.Theory =DevilThere is no next time.Human occupation is analyzing yesterday. Not even “yesterday I should not have done” Correct way of speaking comes-or incorrect may be right.Withdraw hackles.Streamline yourself.Thorny bushes-fathers, mothers, etc.Don’t put hands out at 100m/hEgo

2010-10-12T15:40:00.002+05:30

Pain only comes when you say: “I am walking, etc.Things are going on.Human level: friendly/unfriendlyScientific: hurts/not hurtsIf very small, if surface exposed very small-less hurt-so streamline

Imagination

2010-10-07T15:39:00.001+05:30

Without tension, 3 times a day 1. Laughing become whole room and dissolve 2. Flying-make flying movement-whole room flying-like an eagle in convection currents 3. Room 4. Road 5. Skin-beautiful, gold-no flesh-only surface Sarva Soundarya Varieties of our being –finger –move it-not muscles-light flowing 6. Day to day needs-supposing one wants to eat uppama… 7. One photo electron microscope –see

19/5/1991

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The world as a carpet maker-Varma making a toilet for a unit 5 years before it was actually made.Even a patch of black-if you weave a particular carpet, a house, whole…Don’t tell people you are making…See Dr. Surya walking, flying…Always there is only one second.Last four days, I was depressed-not true.All that you are aware of is yours.

2010-10-05T10:43:00.000+05:30

The only sin is not to use this machineWhy should evolution make you if it is only to marry, make house, etc.?You are the mansionSeeing models of yourself outside…

17/5/91

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The goal of health is to be like 4 days back, ten years back … (for a human being) Rejecting/disliking –root is wanting to be like yesterdayReplace organs with centres of consciousness-replace heart with the work the heart does)I want to walk-first walking comes then legsThe only sin is to grow oldNothing should accumulateThat is why: be a point. No space for things to settle on a point“Doing for

2010-09-30T14:38:00.003+05:30

Acts on the moment without postponingGandhi never cared for followingSardar Patel… The universe is a system of mutual resonancesIf a man is unsteady, you become unsteady and amplify

2010-09-28T12:29:00.002+05:30

There are no nouns!There are only verbsThere is no beauty-only acting beautifully!

2010-09-27T12:49:00.000+05:30

Asura The source of energy is different for others and it is this which determines the species. Dharma Yuga

Sundry notes dictated by Surya

2010-08-09T16:44:00.000+05:30

Posture of the swimmer. One second back is gone. Buttocks of yesterday. Wake made by ship. Should not guide it. Practice has corrective influence. You walk on the roads you make. Use all workers at your disposal: I, etc. Heart, lungs, etc. inferential. “I” can be zero or infinity. Imagination is Akash. Space is made up of imagination. A second of consideration. Don’t divide life. Most

ॐ

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ॐ A UM Check points for the agent:1. Your duty is to be at the listening post – communication centre2. Your duty is not to understand or interpret or assess 3. Your duty is to put all that comes from the first base before the communication centre4. Your sole company in midst of all company is the communication centre. Wherever you are you will be at the communication centre.5. Your sole

Secret Agent contd.

2010-05-07T10:23:00.003+05:30

PAGE 10 MISSING The agent must convince the mental surface that it is not a question of right or wrong, moral or immoral, essential or inessential, but that the agent or the race he represents has no interest in it – that sex is not a means of gratification or creation for his race. The guides illustrate it by their lives and words. However, here again, the method of training the first base is

I. (a) Oneness

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This compassion – literally meaning to vibrate with – Anukampa – makes the agent soon realise that he is not just in one body, but that he is many bodies at once. The resulting confusion is created by and made use of by the mental occupant. Examples of Compassion: The agent sees a person who is hungry. The vibration of hunger is felt and responded to at once by the best

3 (a). The Make –Believe Agent:

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The characteristic is the pronounced concern for the uplift of or the reformation of mankind. The characteristic is also the pronounced lack of concrete compassion. Often in the name of some guide or other they can commit or condone or unleash any degree and amount of cruelty. In the name of some unknown God or something they become right arm, the hidden power behind man’s laws

SECTION – I THE AGENT

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A. 1. This is a matter of self-discovery or self-revolution or self-realisation which is immediate. 2. You are an agent or you are not an agent. There are no gradations. An agent may remain for long confused as to his identity. A non-agent may for varying periods, succeed in believing or making others believe he is an agent. But the distinction is clear. 3. Your area of operation

The Secret Agent

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ॐ 1st January, 1976Auto cyberneticsorThe AGENT'S MANUALORPart I The Secret AGENTAUMOM ॐ 5th January 197614th January 1976Part I I. 2. 10. 1976 Vijaya DasamiFrom reverse of page 9 ॐ 1. You are an agent in an alien territory.2. The objective is preparation of base for occupation by the advance force.3. Means & Methods will be provided as you

20/02/1996

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All realisation is only one word. Read the Gita. When you go home say thank you to your legs. Never move from a place when you are angry. Stay a few seconds. Make yourself happy first. Always be at home -Swastha When brushing your teeth, say "You see, Lord". Days pass through you-you don't pass through days. Everybody leans on yesterday's excreta. As a whole they are flying but they want to

2009-12-03T10:53:00.003+05:30

Atman Pashyathi Atman Thushyathi. I see myself. I enjoy myself. “I” sees “I” and sees happinessAlways at home. What is your food-Divine Energy.Ther is one person to please and that is yourself.Don’t get driven out of y our home-your home is your body.Where you are is your home.Always act at home.If you are unhappy, stop –make yourself happy and then do whatever it is.Those who can provoke

Switches

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Vasudevam Sarvam Iti (Seeing God in all) Mother, You see (Ask the Deity to see all that you are seeing) Om Namo Bhagavathe Take X (One of the children of whom Surya was very fond) in one hand and Y (the other child of whom he was very fond) and direct them here and there like laser guns. Cut off the (person's head-in your imagination) and fill with Light. Look first below that person's feet,

2009-11-30T13:11:00.000+05:30

Infinitesimal changes-next one minute I will/will not do/not do something or the other We are all moved-synchronicity. One leaf hits the other and saying "Why are you hitting me?" You are a physical system first and then only a social system Making a statue of oneself-people worship the sawdust The Devil's clothes are sawdust Your Dharma is your harmony. I am uncomfortable since I am worrying

2009-11-29T09:50:00.001+05:30

A true Hindu looks after his/her own affairs. Don't bother discussing scriptures. Why be kind? Hurts you less-can be verified. See what can be applied. Do not utter an argument more than once. Speak politely. See that it (old ways of speech) is ruining the body. We don't seem to care about this since we got the body free. Worshipping the body. No conclusive arguments. Paralysing oneself with

Exercises to be done on getting up

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1. Close eyes and see that stars are still in the sky1. 2. See that the room is inside you2. 3. Sensory perception training3. 4. Shifting the "I" 4. 5. Feel how full the room is. Float in it5. Unconsciously you are trained to think day begins in the morning and that that is real. You say: "Last night I slept very well." Where is last night? See how much can be done without uttering these

WHAT SRI AUROBINDO MEANS TO ME

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Once the Mother said that the root cause for anything is the whole universe at the given moment. The reasons given by a person for his being at a given place doing a given thing rather than at another place doing another thing, are merely a presentation of material that permits itself to be converted into the currency of words and logic valid for the time and place. I have been a physician and

THE PIONEERS OF INDIAN PSYCHIATRY-I DR. N.C.SURYA-The Lone Rider N.N.Wig-Part 1

2009-10-13T08:31:00.008+05:30

I first became aware of Dr. Surya in 1961 while preparing for my DPM Examination in London.I saw his name in the acknowledgements section of the famous textbook, Clinical Psychiatry by Mayergross, Slater & Roth. It was not common in those days to find an Indian being acknowledged by English authors. I was naturally curious to know more about this person. I had my first meeting with him in 1964

THE PIONEERS OF INDIAN PSYCHIATRY-I DR. N.C.SURYA-The Lone Rider N.N.Wig-Part 2

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Medical Career of Dr. Surya Dr. Surya was born in 1916. After passing his B.Sc. from Madras University he completed MBBS from Andhra University in 1940. He was in Indian army form 1947 to 1952 as a medical specialist. In 1952 he went to UK where he worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and at Leeds University where he did his DPM in 1955. During this period, he also learnt the Russian

THE PIONEERS OF INDIAN PSYCHIATRY-I DR. N.C.SURYA-The Lone Rider N.N.Wig-Part 3

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Contributions of Dr. Surya to Indian Psychiatry In a short span of 10 years at AIIMH1, Dr. Surya made significant contribution in psychiatric research. During 1950, there was growing international interest in the field of psychiatric epidemiology. At that time the only notable work in psychiatric epidemiology in Asian countries was the pioneering study by Tsung-Yi Lin conducted in Formosa (

THE PIONEERS OF INDIAN PSYCHIATRY-I DR. N.C.SURYA-The Lone Rider N.N.Wig-Part 4

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Out of all his writings, if I were asked to choose only two papers which I consider as the most relevant for any student of Indian psychiatry I would name the following two. In my opinion, these two papers should be essential reading for any postgraduate student of psychiatry in India. These are: 1. "Some observations on the field of transcultural psychiatry" and "The structure in the Hindu

THE PIONEERS OF INDIAN PSYCHIATRY-I DR. N.C.SURYA-The Lone Rider N.N.Wig-Part 5

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Surya's views on the Ego Structure in Hindu family In this related paper, Dr. Surya begins by arguing that a psychological concept originated in one culture cannot be just transposed to another culture without being distorted. It is often the beginning of subsequent difficulties. He writes: "I cannot enough emphasise this point. For example, even the word 'Ego' is too much in current

THE PIONEERS OF INDIAN PSYCHIATRY-I DR. N.C.SURYA-The Lone Rider N.N.Wig-Part 6

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Perhaps one of the most original and significant parts of this paper is Dr. Surya's observations on the concept of ‘dependence’ which is an integral part of psychoanalytical theory. To the best of my information, Dr. Surya was the first Indian author who openly questioned the relevance of the concept of 'dependence' in Indian setting. After Surya, there have been others who have written more

THE PIONEERS OF INDIAN PSYCHIATRY-I DR. N.C.SURYA-The Lone Rider N.N.Wig-Part 7

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Surya's views on the concept of mental health The gist of Dr Surya’s views on mental health is contained in a series of six lectures, which he delivered at Mysore University in 1965 and again in 1967 (already referred to above).Here we find Surya, at his best - original, forthright and devastating in his sarcasm, about the current Western concepts on the subject. When he talks about Indian