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Svadyaya for January 19, 2014
Practice Awareness of God
A Hindi bhajan says:
“Listen, O man, I am by your side. I am not somewhere for you to search and
find. Until and unless you practise My presence, all your search is in vain.
You put Me far away, while the fact is that there is nothing more immediate,
more close, more near to you than Me.” The truth Lord Krishna uttered for
everyone’s benefit for all time is: “Aham atmaa gudakesha
sarvabhootaashayasthitah, Aham adishcha madhyam cha bhootaanaamanta eva cha –
I am the Self, O Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the
beginning, the middle and also the end of all beings” [Gita 10-20]
How many of you try
to practise this truth? How many live in this fact and base your thoughts,
words and actions upon this fact, guided by the light of this awareness?
Remembrance of God is life; forgetfulness of God is death. Remembrance of God
is to live spiritually, to live in dharma. Dharma departs the
moment the awareness of God departs. The basis of dharma is the truth of
the immediacy of God, the here-ness and now-ness of God. Therefore, if God is
forgotten, dharma departs. If God is remembered , immediately dharma is
there. You cannot separate your highest welfare and supreme good from God and dharma.
Dharma and God constitute the one and only way to your highest good, your
supreme blessedness, your eternal welfare. Dharma is the supreme good. Dharma
is your greatest treasure and friend, well-wisher. Dharma is the
greatest guarantee to ensure that your spiritual striving will not be in vain.
It shall yield fruit of immortality, everlasting Bliss and Peace.
You must keenly and
eagerly long to make your entire life righteousness-oriented, day by day, each
moment, in each thought, word and deed. Then your life will move in the
direction of God –realization. Your life will move towards God through the very
living of your life in a dharmic and righteous manner.
Be aware of God –
that He is now and here – and dharma will spontaneously be your way of
life. Your life will be the good life, the divine life. This is the truth.
Ponder this truth, accept dharma into your life and live with awareness.
Choose dharma for your life, and God will choose you to make His own. He
will confer upon you the highest blessedness.
God Bless You!
Swami Chidananda
Additional Reading:
God’s Cosmic
Aspects By Swami Krishnananda
The First Step of
The Aspirant By Swami Krishnananda
The
Trident of The Sadhana Process By Swami Krishnananda
Towards Absorption
By Swami Krishnananda
Is It Possible to Be In The
World Yet Dwell in God! By Swami Chidananda
The Subtle Awareness By
Swami Atmaswarupananda
