Spiritual message of the day: Spirituality and Life by
Swami Krishnananda
(A Message issued
on the occasion of Swamiji's 54th Birthday in April, 1976.)
The
philosophy and culture of India is one of Ananda or Bliss. "From
Bliss-Absolute we have come; in Bliss-Absolute we are rooted; and to
Bliss-Absolute are we destined," says the Taittiriya Upanishad. It is not
a message of pain, agony and distress. Pessimism is unknown to India's culture.
It is a culture of exuberant positivity of approach, an approximation to God in
the end, who is the greatest of positivities. Life is held to be a movement
from joy to joy, and it is this that we call the evolutionary process of the
soul. It is movement from a lesser truth to a higher truth.
Everything
is as a relative representation of God's perfection and so everywhere, even in
the so-called erroneous movements of material, psychological and social forces,
there is an element of God present, urging all these processes towards
Perfection. To our culture, which is the culture of God, the culture of
Perfection, all the duties of life become a manifestation of happiness. The
glorious gospel of the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita, which may be
regarded as the tripod of India's message to mankind, provides us with the
hopeful exhortation that we can never be helpless at any moment of our life.
Our culture is the blossoming full-moon, the real 'Purnima' of hope after hope;
aspiration after aspiration. May we recall to our minds, once again, the
message of the saints and sages of all times and climes, who have plumbed into
the depths of the Great Reality of the universe, that we exist in God, live in
God, breathe in God, move in God and perform the functions of our life in the
Kingdom of God.
The whole cosmos is vibrating within
every cell of our personalities. Everything that is everywhere is also within
us and is inseparable from us. This was the foundation of the doctrine of God's
supreme perfection given to us by Acharya Sankara also, on the basis of the
Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita and the Brahma Sutras. Everything we
need is in us. Everything required by us for our existence, every movement in
evolution towards perfection, is implanted in our being. When we were born we
brought with us everything that is necessary for us and we carry all these
necessities with us wherever we move in this world. We cannot be separated from
these needs or standing necessities; they are inseparable from our vital
existence. The
cosmic consciousness realises that the cosmos is itself.
This is the spirit of true spirituality.
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Swami Sivananda, Divine Life Society, Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India
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