fear is the shadow of ignorance..

Fear is the shadow of ignorance .Don`t fear resign everything to God.-------------------------DR. RAM SHARMA

the purest of the pure...

O! God make me the loveliest of lovely and the purest of the pure with Thy silken touch.------------------DR. RAM SHARMA

Happy Diwali to all... spread the light..

HAPPY DEEPAWALI TO ALL
Celebrating Deepawali is not just to spread the light outside but we should try to search the inner darkness and try to drive away that darkness. During this festival I felt the growing selfishness--greed only for the self ----come out of the cocoon and let`s enjoy this Deepawali for all ---not for self only.
Dr. Ram Sharma

Happy Diwali to All...

LET`S LIGHT THE LAMP
A POEM BY DR. RAM SHARMA
Let`s light the lamp of love
let`s drive away the darkness of malice
let`s fill our heart with compassion
let  there be peace in the world
let`s light the lamp of divine humanism
let there be no demon of negativitism
let`s light the lamp of love
HAPPY DEEPAWALI 2 ALL

Song of the Soul...

SONG OF THE SOUL

BY DR. RAM SHARMA, MEERUT, INDIA

O! all my near and dear

Why do you fear, hear the voice, I'm here

Listen to the voice of your soul`s commotion

And behold with rapt devotion

Think, we get what we give

Remember , we die as we live

Be pure at heart , you`re richly insured

Soon all your diseases , grief, will get cured

Love is the universal language...

Love is the universal language ---this is the only language understood by even animals .LOVE ----LOVE -------LOVE ALL------------------Dr. Ram Sharma

Lets live love...

Wonderful to be in India with Dr Ram Sharma and his students at Janta Vedic College  (December 2010)

Lets live love...

Lets breathe love, lets live love, lets play love, lets read love. LOVE ---LOVE----LOVE
ONLY LOVE
----Dr. Ram Sharma and Dr. Carolyn Heising  (photo:  taken at Sri Badrinath temple in the high Himalayas, Uttarakhand, India, June 24, 2011)

Living is an art...

LIVING IS AN ART. LIVING IN THIS MATERIALISTIC SELFISH WORLD WITHOUT LETTING THE MATERIALISTIC SELFISH WORLD LIVE IN YOU.LOVE ALL
Dr. Ram Sharma

I remember you, my village...

I REMEMBER YOU ! MY VILLAGE
A POEM BY DR. RAM SHARMA
I still remember you , my village
Two big ponds at its entrance
Mingling of three ways
... Like Ganga, Yamuna , Saraswati
Orchards of fragrant mangoes
Cool, serene Ganges Canal
Chirping of birds, dancing of peacocks
Swinging on the boughs of trees
Loving and playing with trees
Going with our bags to school
Through the dusty , muddy ways
Shinning of sun, moon rays
Celeberation of festivals
Singing of girls` group before Holi
Diwali crackers, Holi fervor
I still remember you, my village

meditate... every day...

meditate♥ .... every day...

 Dr Carolyn D. Heising

Shepherd...

SHEPHERD
A POEM BY Dr. Ram Sharma, Meerut, India
We are all sheep
Thou guides us by your myriad ways
We are all asleep
... Thou awakes us by your lulled hays
We are all mortal seeds
Thou first puts us under earth
Helps us to germinate and blossom by your spiritual rays

more devotion...

To fulfill their ambitions men always do the injustice to others compelled by their selfishness and greed. They only think about themselves.LESSER AMBITIONS----LESSER GREED ---MORE DEVOTION -----MORE INCLINATION--------------Dr. Ram Sharma

Be free like a butterfly....

Be free like a  butterfly and  enjoy the  divine nectar of spiritual knowledge from flower to flower.  Rise from this mundane world.—Dr. Ram Sharma

Happy Rakshabandhan to all... festival of brother and sister.

We are celebrating Rakshabandhan[ bond of safety] a festival of brother and sister in which sister ties a holy knot on the hand of her  brother.
SARVROGOPASHAMANAM SARVASHUBHVINASHANAM
SAKRIKRATENASHABDMEKAM YEN RAKSHA KRATAH BHAVET--------BHAVISHYA PURAM

MEANS—The thread which will be tied by the sister will destroy all diseases and evil works .After wearing this thread the man becomes safe for the whole year.----HAPPY RAKSHABANDHAN TO ALL
--------------Dr. Ram Sharma

 

(Photo: Dr. Carolyn Heising visiting her brother  Dr. Ram Sharma and students at  Janta Vedic College, Baraut, India)

develop patience, tolerance, mercy and love...

Develop patience , tolerance, mercy and love.Patience for pure thoughts .Enquire why I have come in this world ? LOVE ALL ---SERVE ALL---Dr. Ram Sharma

the sense of "I am" is your own...

The sense of ‘I am’ is your own. You cannot part with it, but you can impart it to anything, as in saying, I am young, I am rich, and so on. But such self-identifications are patently false and the cause of bondage. -- Dr. Ram Sharma, Meerut, India

to know the self as the only reality...

To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought ‘I am’ is the polishing cloth. Use it.

Bliss...

...Bliss is not something to be got.
On the other hand you are always Bliss.
This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness.
To whom is this sense of incompleteness?
Enquire. In deep sleep you were blissful.
Now you are not so.
What has interposed between that Bliss and this non-bliss?
It is the ego.
Seek its source and find you are Bliss

you cannot find stars when the sun rises...

Ram Sharma

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore
say that there are no stars in the heavens during day? O man because you cannot find God
in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

I am Thine...

I AM THINE
BY DR. RAM SHARMA , MEERUT, INDIA
I have drank
The cup of love
Of thine
I have become mad
In the love of thine
I am part of thou
I have forgotten all
I have plunged in thou
Because
I am Thine
I am Thine

Love is the song of the soul... singing to God...

• Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.--  Dr. Ram Sharma

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

• Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
o Ch. 48 - At Encinitas In California
----PARAMHANS YOGANANDA

the power of love...

Love for all should be the touchstone .Emit love.Whoever come to you with hatred -----transform that hatred into love that should be your power of love.---------Ram Sharma

Maa Bharata... Maa India... Mother is Great...Devi Maa..

MOTHER IS GREAT
BY DR. RAM SHARMA, MEERUT, INDIA
Mother is creator of life,
mother is happiness of insight,
mother is stream of the Ganges,
mother is language of love,
mother is the teacher of rituals,
mother is the soul of God,
mother, thou are great

mysterious are the zigzag ways of life..

Mysterious are the zigzag ways of life.So many meet so many departed but we carry on our journey from mortality to immortality.-------------------Ram Sharma

Welcome to Spiritual Odyssey India....

NAMASTE !!  Welcome to Spiritual Odyssey India.... our blog of our joint spiritual journeys on the Grand Odyssey... in Maa Bharata... Spiritual India.... our spiritual home.....

Dr. Ram Sharma, Meerut, India

Dr. Carolyn D. Heising, Ames, Iowa USA

surf the cosmic wave...

Catch the wave and ride on it... surf the cosmic wave --- Dr. Carolyn Heising

to be happy... rest like a giant tree....

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree, in the midst of them all. Amidst all the turmoil don`t loose your balance. Balance of mind is all important. -- Dr. Ram Sharma, Meerut, Indi

Life is NOW.... not in the doing...

When your life situation is all you know about yourself then you miss life. You may be very good at dealing with your life situation, but you miss life. You never really get anywhere. Life is now, not in the doing. -- Eckhart Tolle present moment reminders, May 19, 2011


(photo:  Dev prayag, Uttarakhand, India... confluence of rivers forming Ganga Maiyya)

my soul thirsts for these ethereal waters.... GANGA MAIYYA. calls....

my soul thirts for these ethereal waters.. GANGA MAIYYA calls.... -- Dr. Carolyn D. Heising, Ames, Iowa USA

Dreams of the Himalayas... the roaring waters of the Ganga..

DREAMS OF THE HIMALAYAS...  the roaring waters of the Ganga... at Rudraprayag.. river confluence... I am dreaming every night of these roaring rivers storming out of the Himalayan peaks... from the 10,000 foot high Gumulk glacier.. source of the Ganga... utter magnificence... my soul thirsts for these waters... -- Dr. Carolyn D. Heising, Ames, Iowa USA

when some Divine power will blow the conch shell from afar...

All our ornaments , all our achievements will go away far,
When some Divine power will blow the conch shell from afar.-----------Ram Sharma

the whole of life... is the soul..

“Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE.  And this deep power in which we exist, and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one.  We see the world by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole of life, of which these are the shining parts, is the soul.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

chant Lord Krishna... come before me by playing the flute..

CHANT LORD KRISHNA

BY DR. RAM SHARMA, MEERUT, INDIA

O! Lord Krishna, Lord Krishna

Chant Him day and night

You will overcome turmoil by his help

...Love, love , life and no fight

O! Krishna, Krishna my Krishna

Craving crying for your help

Come before me by playing upon the flute

Divine Attraction...

  DIVINE  ATTRACTION

BY DR. RAM SHARMA , MEERUT, INDIA

Enticing attraction,

A mute invitation,

I got myself from you,

Till I came near you,

You have provided me,

A new address every time,

I couldn`t became sad,

Till I  remain with you,

You have devoted everything,

to love,

Your magic eyes,

providing me the attraction,

Your uncontrolled laughter,

How much pure it is! ,

Arises everytime,

A new ray of hope,

of attraction

shield of words...

SHIELD OF WORDS
BY DR. RAM SHARMA , MEERUT, INDIA
When the weight of sufferings,
Become unbearable,
When the wall of patience,
Starts collapsing,
When there are continuous attacks,
Of pains,
Feelings start crying silently,
These words became the shield,
Poured the words,
In place of tears,
In the poem

in arati offering of my heart...

I GIFTED MY LIFE
Poem by Irena Jovanovic

Serbia

I gifted my life
to You, my Lord
to loving You
to tending to You
and it is so natural
so logical
so definite
because there is
no other path
or purpose
because loving You
is essential lifegiving force
pure substance of existance
so I gifted my life to You
in arati offering
of my heart

there lies a green field... should the poet cross it, he becomes a prophet..

“There lies a green field between the scholar and the poet; should the scholar cross it he becomes a wise man; should the poet cross it, he becomes a prophet.”
- Kahlil Gibran

always look to the light...

ALWAYS LOOK TO THE LIGHT 

A room may be in darkness for thousands of years, but if a light is brought into it, in that very instant the darkness vanishes. So is it with sin. You cannot drive sin out of the mind any more than you can beat darkness out of a room with a stick. By concentration on delusion, indeed, you may only increase its hold on your mind. Bring in the light of God, however, through deep meditation and devotion, and the darkness will vanish as though it had never been.

If one thinks of sin as breaking God's commandments, the thought then arises of God's anger and stern judgment. But the Lord is our very own! We are His children. Why should He judge us? It is we, rather, who judge ourselves when we imagine that anything we do is beyond forgiveness. But if we understand sin as error, we realize that our errors can be rectified.

Never be afraid of God. Tell Him the things you've done wrong. Remind Him that you are His child. That is much better than whining, 'Lord, I am a sinner! I am a sinner!' You are made in His image. Pray, then, 'Well, Lord, I have made mistakes, but once I know You, there can be no more temptation for me.'

Give to God not only the good that you do, but also the bad. I do not mean that you should deliberately do things that are wrong. But when you cannot help yourself, because of habits that are too strong, tell your mind that God is performing those actions through you.

It is He, after all, who has dreamed your existence. You have merely hypnotized yourself with the thought of your weaknesses. If you make the Lord responsible for them, it will help you to break the false hold they have on your imagination. You'll find it easier, then, to recognize in yourself the perfect image of God. ( Excerpted from The Essence of Self-Realization by Paramahansa Yogananda )

we are always getting ready to live... but never living...

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

the unfolding flower... you are THAT...

the unfolding flower... you are THAT. -- Dr. Carolyn D. Heising, Ames, Iowa USA