Sadhu Paksha: A Meditation on Nature's Beauty

With the aadheenam coming close to a change of seasons, leaving the meditative Moksha Ritau for the budding life of the Nartana Ritau, our monks take to their two-week dicipline of Sadhu Paksha. Here we enjoy the gardens and paths in the early morning, and meditate to the rising sun. The monastery's flowers are beginning to bloom wildly again and birds and honey bees are enjoying the abundance of necter. Nature and its rythms are a great aid to the human mind. Maybe this slideshow will encourage you to adventure outside today along with your monks. Aum Namah Sivaya

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\"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.\" Ralph Waldo Emerson

\"Love is seeing and feeling life everywhere. When your heart is full of love, you sense life pulsating through all creation.\" Mata Amritanandamayi Ma

\"Important things are not things.\" Swami Tejomayananda

\"Eternal, pure, groundless, death-and-birth free, pervasive, ever immaculate, distant, near, enveloping effulgence of void, the support of all, the fullness of bliss, the consciousness-form beyond thought and speech, That which thus stood, the expanse vast that generates bliss, let us contemplate.\" Tayumanavar

\"The food of the soul is silence. If we don t practice silence, we are starving ourselves\" Dada JP Vaswani

\"There\

s no scripture that surpasses what you\'ll find inside yourself\" Bodhinatha'

\"You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself. You love the discipline, because it brings more love.\" Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

\"As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life.\" Dhammapada

\"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.\" Albert Einstein

\"You must all live like God, in unity and peace\" Yogaswami

\"Water is sufficient to cleanse the body, but truthfulness alone can purify the mind.\" Tirukkural 298

\"It was all settled long ago\" Chellappaswami

\"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.\" Chinese proverb

\"Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.\" Swedish proverb

\"To define God is grinding what is already ground; for He is the only being we know.\" Swami Vivekananda

\"Speak little. Speak sweetly. Speak the truth at all costs.\" Swami Sivananda

\"See yourself everywhere. You are the whole world.\" Satguru Yogaswami

\"The fragrance of the flower is never borne against the breeze, but the fragrance of human virtues diffuses itself everywhere.\" Ramayana

Love says, \"I am everything.\" Wisdom says, \"I am nothing.\" Between the two, my life flows. I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both. Nisargadatta Maharaj

\"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.\" Nikos Kazantzakis

Silence is not the absence of communication. It is saying everything without words.

\"The great soul of India will topple our material world.\" Romain Rolland

\"An imperfect world goads us to improve.\" Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami

\"Nothing is lost, nothing is gained. There is nothing.\" Satguru Siva Yogaswami

\"With a smile I faced all hardships.\" Swami Sivananda

\"Hinduism is ultimately about experiencing things yourself. Understanding another person\

s wisdom does not make one wise.\" Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami'

\"In death the many become one; in life the one becomes many.\" Rabindranath Tagore

People think that what they don\

t know gets them into trouble. Actually, it is what they think they know that causes problems.'

\"If an earthquake does you harm, do you try to harm it in return? Just keep quiet. Let everyone mind their own business.\" Satguru Siva Yogaswami

\"Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.\" Sri Ramakrishna

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