Some Rare Truths – God First; World Next;
Yourself Last.
- One is born alone, and one dies
alone. Hence one should live also alone. This art of living alone is yoga.
Life is the process of the flight of the ‘alone’ to the ‘Alone’.
- You are alone with your God, and
there is no one around you. This is the truth. Rest your mind on this, and
attain peace.
- The thought of an object intensely
entertained causes a proportionate stimulation in the body of the object
by means of certain affection for its psychic substance. There is, thus, a
reciprocal action set up by the generation of any sustained thought of the
object. The various things thought in various incarnations create a
network of experiences which is called Samsara.
- The rivers do not flow for their
own benefits; trees do not eat their own fruits; cows part with their milk
for others’ good; the life of a saint is not for himself alone.
- Evil sets in the moment we forget
the Presence of God everywhere. This is the beginning of the real kaliyuga,
and kritayuga reigns when the consciousness of His Presence is
vigilantly maintained.
- Narayana and Nara meditate
together and are inseparables; which means that God and man coalesce in
every action and form a union in which karma becomes Karma Yoga,
and that spiritual meditation is not merely a human effort but involves
Divine interference. Though we may lift our arms to touch a magnetic
field, when once we raise it near it is pulled by the force of the field,
and here our effort ceases and we are under the influence of another power
altogether.
- If omnipresence, omniscience and
omnipotence are to be pressed into one being and this being is to be focused
into a jet of action, what will be the result? This is what happened when
Sri Krishna lived as a Person in this world. This is also the difficulty
which people feel in writing a biography of Krishna, for to be
all-comprehensive is a difficult thing for the mind to think.
- The more does one become fit for
the practice of Advaita Vedanta, the less is the consciousness of the body
and world around. Advaita and body-consciousness do not go together.
- God’s Grace is a powerful tonic
which can correct the heart, lungs, stomach and the general condition of
the body. This Divine Grace is drawn through meditation on God.
- The fact that consciousness knows
the existence of matter in experience should unavoidably stumble upon
there being something in matter itself akin to consciousness without which
objective knowledge would not be feasible. The position that matter should
have a character of consicousness inherent in it would automatically land
one in the conslusion that matter is also a state of consciousness, though
incipient and not actually manifest openly. Matter is Spirit discerned
through the senses.
- There are no five koshas
covering the Atman like five boxes inverted one over the other hiding a
flame within. The koshas are not compartmentalised boxes, but are
the graded density in which the desires of the mind obscure the vision
spiritual.
- All that we read and think does
not get assimilated into the feeling of the heart. That is why a
post-graduate scholar who is dead is not reborn with the same amount of
knowledge. That which has gone deep into the heart becomes a part of our
life. The rest is only a wind that blows over the surface of our minds.
- Whether man is different from God,
a part of God, or one with God can be known from the relation of the
dreaming individual to the waking individual. The relation is similar.
- God first; the world next;
yourself last; follow this sequence in the development of the
thought-process so that God’s Power and existence may be affirmed in
everything.
Continue to read:
If you would like to purchase the print edition, visit:
http://www.dlshq.org/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?
http://www.dlshq.org/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?
If you would
like to contribute to the dissemination of spiritual knowledge please contact
the General Secretary at:
generalsecretary@sivanandaonline.org
No comments:
Post a Comment