Anger and its forms

"Anger is a negative Vritti, or whirpool in the mind-lake. It is born of ignorance. (...) Anger is often accompanied by a desire to take vengeance, or to obtain satisfaction from the offending party.

It begins in folly and ends in repentance.

The fire you kindle for your enemy burns yourself.

When anger arises, think of the consequences. It will soon subside.

You think of objects of senses. Attachment to these objects develops. From attachment desire is born. From desire anger comes forth. From anger proceeds delusion; from delusion confused memory; from confused memory the destruction of reason; from destruction of reason you perish"

Swami Sivananada  "Conquest of Anger"

Hari Om Tat Sat

Devotional music- Krishna Das

Its've been a long time I was in the concert of american singer Krishna Das. He is known for his indian devotional music. For a long time he studied with Neem Karoli Baba, and now he is singing the kirtans and he released the CDs.
His voice is amazing, peaceful and deep.
I recommend his music for verybody who likes kirtans, or Indian music, or music for relax or just for everyone who wants leasten something new.

There you can leasten some albums of Krishna Das.

http://www.musicme.com/Krishna-Das/albums/

And there is his official website

http://www.krishnadas.com/

Om shanti!

"Wisdom in Humour"

There is one new book in my yoga-library writen by Swami Sivananda- "Wisdom in Humour".
There is a set of short stories, poems that give us a spiritual lessons. Numerous metaphors help to the reader easily learn the lesson.
There what Dr Frederick Spiegelberg (professor of Stanford University) said  after he heard some stories during the Satsang at Ananda Kutir: "Swamiji, this is just the thing wanted by people today. They would love the humour, but would unconsciously learn the spiritual lesson. The impression made by such teaching would be profound and lasting".

Tere is one of the stories.

An old lady and the needle

One old lady lost the needle in the house.
But she was searching for it outside
In the moon light.
One man asked her,
"O lady, what are you searching here?
She replied, "I lost a needle in the house;
There is a darkness in the house;
I am searching for it here
Because there is good moonlight here"
Wordly people are like this old lady.
They are searching for happiness in outside objects.
O man, look within; control the mind;
You will find bliss in your own Atman.

OM