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open-angle glaucoma (OAG). Notably, the risk of OAG was modestly lower among patients with DM relative to demographically matched controls.

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PSHO - EMBRYOLOGY IS COMPRESSED EVOLUTION IN 9 MONTHS 

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) "You think you are free, but there probably isn’t a gesture, a thought, an emotion, an attitude, or a belief in you that isn’t coming from someone else. Isn’t that horrible? And you don’t know it. A mechanical life has been stamped into you. 

You feel pretty strongly about certain things, and you think it is you who are feeling strongly about them, but are you really? It’s going to take a lot of awareness for you to understand that perhaps this thing you call 'I' is simply a conglomeration of your past experiences, your conditioning, and your programming. 

That’s painful. In fact, when you’re beginning to awaken, you experience a great deal of pain. It’s painful to see your illusions being shattered. Everything that you thought you had built up crumbles—and that’s painful."

#Anthony_de_Mello

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"The ego is the only evil in the world. There is no other."

#Irina_Tweedie

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When you ask for forgiveness or you forgive somebody else, it's the big ego that does that because you think you are good. You say, 'Now I have forgiven that person. I have asked that person to forgive me.' It's like saying, 'I can do it again and again.' Forget about that, but go within yourself and ask the question, 'Who needs forgiveness?' 

And you will realize that forgiveness and your ego are synonymous. When there is no ego there is no idea of forgiveness. There is just loving kindness and compassion and everything is reconciled. And things take care of themselves."

#Robert_Adams

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"It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, 

that lies at the core of all human suffering."

#Paramahansa_Yogananda

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Desires that are not fulfilled are the ones that are going to trouble you. Desires that land in the memory are going to cause problems. They will always be pushing themselves forward, saying, ‘I must have this, I must have this’. Pressure to fulfil unfulfilled desires brings about manifestation. It is samsara [the reason for reincarnation]. 

This is why we are all here again, in yet another birth. If there was no desire, you would not have manifested at all. This desire is bringing you into a body again and again. Desire is attachment, and attachment causes us endless problems. It is better to forget desires completely. Don’t let them lodge in the memory."

#Papaji

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"When you awaken, you will not react any longer to the television, to the newspaper, to the people, what they say or think.

When you awaken, you will know that all is well!"

#Robert_Adams

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"I triply divorced the world and alone proceeded to the Alone. I stood before the Presence and cried, 'Lord God, I desire none but You. If I possess you, I possess all.' When God recognized my sincerity, the first grace that He accorded me was that he removed the chaff of the self from before me."

#Abu_Yazid_al_Bastami

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देहदृष्ट्या तु दासोऽहं जीवदृष्ट्या त्वदंशकः।

वस्तुतस्तु त्वमेवाहमिति मे निश्चिता मतिः।।

(हनुमान्जी ने कहा कि हे राम!) देहदृष्टि से मैं आपका दास हूँ, जीवरूप से आपका अंश हूँ तथा परमार्थदृष्टि से तो आप और मैं एक ही हूँ, यह मेरा निश्चित मत हैं ॥

[Hanuman Ji said , Oh Ram!] From the perspective of body , I am your servant. From the viewpoint of Jeeva , I am a part of you. And , from Absolute point of view [Paramarthika Drishti] , You and me are one [non-dual] only. This is my definite opinion.

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A verse in Shree Hanumat Sukti , From "Sukti Sudhakar" 

[Published By Gitapress Gorakhpur]

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PLYTHEISTIC MONISM 

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I ALONE EXIST AS EVERYTHING

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SAB JAG OISHWAR ROOP

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[In reply to Aaslista Sen Chakravarti]

Nirguna Brahman = Unidentified All Pervasive Awareness. 

Saguna Brahman = Awareness identified with Karan Sharir/Causal Body.

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SRK - CHETAN 

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What are the best examples of reverse psychology?

A wife borrows hubby’s brand new car. She dents the front bumper. She knows he’ll go mad, if she says that she has dented the front bumper.

So, instead, she tells him she has SMASHED the car to pieces, and it’s a write-off.

As he starts to get pissed off, she says, “ I’m only kidding. It’s just a dent in the front bumper”.

He sighs with relief, and says, happily, “Thank God for that!”.

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How deep are skyscrapers in the ground?

For example, let's take the tallest building in the world at the moment - Burj Khalifa, located in the UAE (828 m)

The foundation of Burj Khalifa was designed as a pile-and-slab foundation. The 3.7 m thick slab is something like a flower with three petals. The slab rests on 192 so-called "hanging" piles with a diameter of 1.5 m and a length of 43 m, which are not fixed in the rock because the Emirates are located in the desert. Even at a depth of 50 meters, the soil there is relatively soft.

So, the depth of the foundation of a Burj Khalifa skyscraper is about 50 meters.

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BG8.14 

Iam easily attainable by that even steadfast yogi who remembers Me daily and constantly, with a single mind, O son of Pritha. (Bhagavad Gita Chapter 8,14)

He who thinks of Me, the supreme Truth (Bhagavan or God), daily and constantly, not for a few days or a few weeks, but uninterruptedly throughout life, to that yogi who is ever steadfast in thought, I am easily accessible.

Therefore we must always be at it, if we want to succeed. We must always call Bhagavan to mind and not allow other thoughts to interfere.

We must always try to live in the presence of God. It is not sufficient to think of God on Sundays and then forget Him all the rest of the week. To attain God, to reach Him, to enjoy His blessed company, we must be steadfast in our devotion and with a pure and single mind we must call on Him as often as possible. And for the successful yogi it is possible to think of God at all times. Nothing can interfere with that state of communion between God and His devotee. But how to reach that state?

There is a song by the Hindu poet Ramprasad, where the mind is called upon to worship always the Divine Mother of the universe:

Worship the Mother, O my mind, in whatever way you like. Never forget to sing Her praise. When you lie down to rest, think that you are prostrating before the Mother. And when you lie down to sleep, think that you are meditating on Her. When you eat, offer the food to Her. Whatever sound you hear, think that it comes from Her. Recognize Her as the Soul of all beings. If we live thus, we will always remember God.

But we may ask, is it after all worthwhile to go through so much trouble, for, indeed, it is no small matter to think of God always. Yes, the reward is the very highest that can come to man. It means freedom from samsara, liberation from all bondage.

Source - Reflections on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Atulananda – Prabuddha Bharata December 2003 issue.

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Only the perfect man can transcend the limits of the human and yet not withdraw from the world, live in accord with mankind and yet suffer no injury himself. Of the worlds teaching he learns nothing. He has that within which makes him independent of others. If the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. If the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. If the nose is unobstructed, the result is smell. If the mouth is unobstructed, the result is taste. If the mind is unobstructed, the result is wisdom.

Chuang Tzu, Chap 26

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SHIRDI SAI BABA

Love is the essence of our spiritual journey ,

—and the silence provides it the best setting.

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QUANTUM POMO 

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"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you."

~ Lao Tzu

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Then Gurujii explained the 14th - 16th Tenets of "Trikamukhyamatāni (Main tenets of Trika Shaivism)":

Just as a king does not find happiness in sitting on an inadequate seat, so the mind cannot definitely find happiness in enjoying objects||14||

For that very reason, the mind can find Supreme Joy only when it is dissolved in Paramaśiva. In Trika Shaivism, that (is) truly Liberation or Emancipation||15||

From the emergence of vikalpa-s -mental fluctuations-, did appear bondage full of infinite pain; from the total disappearance of vikalpa-s, will appear Liberation full of infinite Joy||16||

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SIVA ADVAITA VEDANTA

आत्मा केवलः स्वच्छः शुद्धः सूक्ष्मः सनातनः अस्ति सर्वान्तरः साक्षाचिन्मात्रस्तमसः परः सोऽन्तयामास पुरुषः स प्राणः स महेश्वरः स कालोऽत्र तदव्यक्तं स च वेद इदि श्रुति: Determination of the nature of the soul atma yah kevalal svasthals santah suksmah sanitanah asti sarväntara säkṣaccinmitrastamasah parab so 'ntaryami sa punusal sa pranah sa maheivarah sa kalo gnistadavyaktam sa evedamiti srutib The soul or Atma is absolute, self reliant, calm, subtle and ancient. It is present inside every one, it is knowledge itself. It is pure intelligence, and beyond darkness: it is Antaryami (one which is present inside everything). It is Purusha or soul. He is the great god, He is time, and He is fire. He is the one who is not revealed. This is how Stuti or vedas describe the (soul) Atma (485) अस्माद्विजायते विभ्रमत्रैव प्रविलीय समायाँ मायया बद्धः करोति विविधास्तनुः asmad vijayate viśvamatraiva praviliyate sa may mayaya baddhab karoti vividhästan From him, the world is born, and in him it (world) disappears. He is Mayi, (one who possesses (Maya) illusion by virtue, of which one considers unreal universe as really existent and as distinct from Supreme truth) with the association of Maya or illusion, he creates various bodies .

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Some say that these 3 schools cater to different stages of realization that the seeker may be at. Dvaita - To make the seeker understand that it's not all randomness. There is divinity. Vishishta Advaita - To make a seeker see the divinity within himself, but still strive to understand the ultimate divinity and move towards it. Advaita - When a seeker finally realizes himself as that divine, and all this illusion is just him experiencing from a limited perspective due to avidya. It is best not to consider these as higher or lower undestanding, as they will hurt the progress of the seeker, and ultimately this is everyone's own personal journey, not a comparitive one.

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WAVES ON OCEAN OF MATTER

Namaste Swamiji, A conflict of Daitya and Adaitya position of BRAHMA In Hindu philosophy is eternal but my simple take is that; before my birth I was invisible and also had no shape (NIRAKAR). But after my birth I got a shape (SWAKAR) and eventually visible. And every living thing has the same position. So, I am sometimes visible and sometimes invisible (BAKTYA & OBAKTYA) as well, of course as per BRAHMA'S decisions. Again, BRAHMA being supreme conscious power (Sat, Chit, Anand) he is capable of taking any shape according to his wishes. So, the BRAHMA as well as ourselves are all DAITYA and ODAITYA. But BRAHMA takes shape according to his wish but we got shaped according to our karma by the BRAHMA. BRAHMA has no karma so doesn't get guided by the result of karma. I think, this simple theory of mine help resolve the conflict between Daitya and Odaitya theory of BRAHMA and brings both the groups in same platform of ANANDA.

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According to H H Nisharga Dutta “All knowledge is conceptual hence False”Thinking means creating objects in mind (coneptualisation)comparable hence False. Getting rid of conceptulisation is Realisation/Elightenment.Words are dualistic hence Bondage

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Unlike Dvaitins and Visishtradvaitins, the Advaitins never look at the other two scornfully. Advaita very much recognises "adhikari bheda" (the degree of spiritual evolution or, say, eligibility differential) among multifarious seekers! To draw an analogy, a Post-Graduate does not condemn either Primary education or Secondary education!!!

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The Advaitin does not deny that he can see a wave and that it is part of the ocean but, he says, with the knowledge that the ocean or the wave is but a name and form, the substance being water and in that knowledge enjoy the ocean and wave and bubble and foam and glacier and ice...without any delusion or fear...

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As a Catholic I find this explanation is close to Meister Eckhart, St Maximus the Confessor, and St Palamas. It's interesting to find that while our religions vastly different. Hinduism and Christianity. Both affirm that there is no other ground of our existence than the one beyond anything. St Aquinas as an example famously refuted a popular belief among Christians of his time that God is the highest being as if He is the first chain in being. He argued that can't be correct because it'll make God a member of the class of being, albeit as the first. Instead God must be beyond being, neither being nor non being. Beyond any classification and completely unknowable. St Palamas even argue beyond God, hypertheos. We can know His energies said St Basil to Eunomius. The illustration on ocean, waves, and water also fit with Eckhart. While human nature is created and different than uncreated divine nature but our nature only exists in the ground of existence which is God Himself. Fourth Lateran Council declared that the hyperousia beyond essence is neither begetting the Son, nor begotten by the Father, nor proceeds. This pure existence has no hypostatic property, just is. St John Paul II at Assisi Prayer invited Buddhists and Hindu monks to pray together for peace in the world. Pope Francis in joint declaration with Grand Imam wrote that it's God's will to have plurality of religions. We can certainly learn from one another.

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Buddhism was dominent religion when Shankara came. Is it safe to assume that to maintain some continuity Shankara willingly decided to make Advahita as a small evolutionary philosophical step away from Budhism. Once Vedhic Marga got established then Ramanuja took next step, and than Madhav took another step. It would have been a giant leap for society to go from Buddhism to Madhva Philosophy.

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