Life 48 (Feb 25 - Dec 26)

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Postby winston » Sat May 17, 2025 2:55 pm

What is the message we must inscribe in our hearts and live by?

There are four modes of writing, dependent on the material on which the text is inscribed.

The first is writing on the water; it is washed out even while the finger moves.

The next is writing on sand. It is legible until the wind blows it into mere flatness.

The third is the inscription on rocks; it lasts for centuries, but it too is corroded by the claws of Time.

The inscription on steel can withstand the wasting touch of Time.

Have this so inscribed on your heart – the axiom that ‘serving others is meritorious, that harming others or remaining unaffected and idle while others suffer, is a sin.’

He is Love and can be won only through the cultivation and exercise of Love. He cannot be trapped by any trick; He yields grace only when His commands are followed – commands to love all, to serve all.

When you love all and serve all, you are serving yourself most, yourself whom you love most!

For His grace envelops you then and you are strengthened beyond all previous experience.

- Divine Discourse, Jun 26, 1969

Service broadens your vision. Widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

Postby winston » Sun May 18, 2025 7:35 am

What is the essential quality for one who wishes to serve society and how does one develop that quality?

Heads bloat only through ignorance; if the Truth be known, all men will become as humble as Bhartrihari.

He was a mighty emperor who ruled from sea to sea; his decree was unquestioned; his will prevailed over vast multitudes of men. Yet, when he realised in a flash that life is but a short sojourn here below, he renounced his wealth and power, and assumed the ochre robes of the wandering monk.

His countries and vassal princes shed genuine tears, for they loved and adored him. They lamented that he had donned the tattered robe of the penniless penitent and lived on alms.

‘What a precious possession you have thrown away? And, what a sad bargain you have made?’, they wailed. But, Bhartrihari replied, ‘Friends, I have made a very profitable bargain. This robe is so precious that even my empire is poor payment in exchange.’

That is the measure of the grandeur of the spiritual path that leads to Him. The spirit of sacrifice is the basic equipment of the sevak. Without the inspiration of the sense of sacrifice, your seva (selfless service) will be hypocrisy, a hollow ritual.

- Divine Discourse, Jun 26, 1969

Only through sacrifice can there be real enjoyment of what you acquire. What you earn with one hand, give away with the other.

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

Postby winston » Mon May 19, 2025 8:04 am

Why do we not experience inner peace at all times? What should we do to live in love and peace?

There is the flow of water underneath the ground. But how can we benefit from it unless efforts are made to dig down into that source?

A good deal of 'desire-for-sense-satisfaction' must be removed before that inner spring of peace and joy can be tapped.

Your lives are essentially of the nature of Peace; your Nature is essentially Love; your hearts are saturated with Truth.

Rid yourselves of the impediments that prevent their manifestation; you do not make any attempt towards this, and so, there is no peace or love or truth in the home, community, nation and the world.

The husband and the wife do not live in concord; the father and his sons are involved in factions; even friends do not see eye to eye!

Twins take different paths. For they live in a competitive, warring world of passions and emotions.

It is only when the Divine is the Goal and Guide that there can be real peace, love and truth.

The Divine must be revered at all times; what pleases the Divine must be understood and followed!

- Divine Discourse, Feb 21, 1974

Though Peace is the very nature of man, desire and anger succeed in suppressing it. When they are removed, Peace shines in its own effulgence.

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

Postby winston » Tue May 20, 2025 8:51 am

What are the three veils that cover the Atma (Inner-Self), and how do we remove them?

When asked, “Who are you?”, Each one of you gives out the name someone gave you years ago or which you gave yourself!

You don’t give the name associated with your life after life, that survived many deaths and births, the Atma you really are!

That name you forgot; it’s enveloped by three thick veils— mala, vikshepa and avarana.

Mala is the dirt of vice, wickedness and passion!

Vikshepa is the veil of ignorance which hides truth and makes falsehood attractive and desirable.

Avarana is the superimposition on the eternal of the transitory, on the Universal, of the boundaries of individuality.

Now, how is man to wash off or remove these three layers of dirt? By soap and water, certainly.

The soap of penitence and water of conscious action will remove all taint of mala. The wavering mind that causes a frantic search for happiness from sense objects and external appurtenances will be transformed by upasana (steady worship).

The Avarana veil can be torn off by acquisition of jnana (wisdom) which reveals Atmic essence of man, Atmic Unity of all creation.

Mala is therefore removable by karma (action), vikshepa by bhakti (devotion) and avarana by jnana (knowledge).

That is why Indian sages have laid down these three paths for aspirants.

- Divine Discourse, Sep 30, 1968

Remove the cataract and you get back your sight. Remove the mind and the self-knowledge stands revealed automatically.

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

Postby winston » Wed May 21, 2025 12:00 pm

How should a devotee face challenges and troubles on the path of Sadhana (spiritual practice)?

What can the evil effects of Kali Age do to a man whose heart is full of compassion, whose speech is suffused with truth and whose body is dedicated to the service of others?

However much you may grind sandalwood, it will give only fragrance, nothing else.

Similarly, you may crush sugarcane as hard as you can, it will give only sweet juice.

When the gold is put on fire, it shines with added brilliance.

Similarly, a true devotee may face all problems, difficulties, blames and troubles, yet he will never leave the Divine. He will follow Him with total surrender.

He will test His devotees in several ways. All these tests are the steps which lead him to a higher level.

A true devotee leads a sacred life, demonstrating the sanctity of his conduct and depth of his faith.

He will march ahead unmindful of all the troubles, difficulties and problems and achieve the objective of his life.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 14, 1993

Disappointments and distress are like the skin of the plantain, to protect the taste and allow the sweetness to fill the fruit.

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

Postby winston » Thu May 22, 2025 10:21 am

What is the Sadhana (spiritual advice) we must all do?

No one can know the origin of anything.

For example, there is a green gram seed. Who can trace its genealogy? But one can recognise its future.

The moment it is placed in the mouth and munched, that will be its end. Its origin is not known but its end is in our hands.

This is the reason why man is enjoined to concern himself about his end. Do not worry about rebirth because that is not in your power. Strive only to ensure that your end is pure and sacred. That calls for sadhana (spiritual practice).

Many imagine that the quest for the Divine is sadhana. There is no need to search for Him. When He's all-pervading, inside and outside, where is the need to search for Him?

The only sadhana one has to practice is to get rid of the the identification of the self with the body. Anatma is that which is impermanent.

When you give up the impermanent, you realise what is permanent and eternal.

- Divine Discourse, Jan 14, 1993

For the sorrows of birth and of death, which accompany you in this world, His name is the only solution.

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

Postby winston » Fri May 23, 2025 9:16 am

Why does happiness elude us and what must we do to achieve it?

One who earns His grace will be happy in all circumstances. But man today, struggles for worldly happiness, worldly comforts and worldly possessions.

He works continuously, makes all kinds of efforts to possess all that he does not deserve. But when he cannot fulfil all his desires, he gets disillusioned and disappointed.

In this ocean of life, He is the only lighthouse of hope for man. This lighthouse is eternal and will never fail. It will always be there with great brilliance to illumine your path.

So, you should engage yourself in holy activities. He is omnipresent. Therefore, you need not search for Him. "With hands, feet, eyes, head, mouth and ears pervading everything, He permeates the entire universe".

Why should you search for Him? If He is present only at one place, you need to search. But He has His feet all over, He has got ears everywhere, He installs Himself everywhere.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 14, 1993

His grace is like a bank. You can draw money from that bank only to the extent to which you have built up deposits through sacrifice. Earn His grace through love and sacrifice.

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

Postby winston » Sat May 24, 2025 7:13 am

Why is meditation an essential training for the mind?

To lead a happy life, man needs peace of mind.

The mind is like the turbulent Ganga. It has to be restrained by the use of brakes, as in a fast-moving vehicle.

Dhyana (meditation) is the brake devised for the control of the mind. Dhyana means one-pointed concentration.

All the diseases which afflict man are the result of agitation in the mind. The enormous growth of disease in the world today is due to the loss of peace of mind.

To get rid of illness and to lead a calm, healthy life, man has to cultivate mental peace.

Man’s mind has three kinds of capabilities. One is Anekagrata (a wandering mind). Another is Shunyata (vacancy, emptiness). The third is Ekagrata (single-pointed concentration).

What is Shunyata? It is the state in which the mind goes to sleep when something edifying is being said. The mind is unresponsive to what is good and beneficial. Such a state of mind is called Tamasic. It is the blindness of ignorance.

Anekagrata (the wandering mind) is an equally undesirable mental state. It also degrades man.

Then there is one-pointed concentration of mind (Ekagrata). This is what everyone needs most today.

- Divine Discourse, Jan 14, 1988

The sweetness of the experience of inner tranquility is derived from the fruits of dhyana (Meditation).

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Re: Life 47 (May 24 - Dec 25)

Postby winston » Sun May 25, 2025 8:11 am

Why is it necessary to train the mind to focus on the conscience and the life principle within?

The nature of the mind is very peculiar. It has no qualities of its own.

Here is a newspaper. A newspaper has no special qualities, no smell of its own.

When you wrap jasmine flowers in it, it will get the fragrance of jasmine flowers. The newspaper, without any smell before, will acquire the smell of pakodas (a fried snack), if you wrap pakodas in it. Similarly, if you pack dry fish in it, the paper will also have the smell of dry fish.

The paper has no separate smell of its own; it acquires the smell of items associated with it.

Likewise, the human mind, which is pure and sacred by nature, becomes impure and unsacred due to body consciousness and material attachments.

When you think of a material object, it will assume the form of that object. If you turn the mind towards the world, it binds you to the world.

But if you turn the mind towards the life principle (prana), it will make your life sacred.

When the same mind is diverted towards prajna (conscience), which is Brahman, you become Brahman!

It is the mind of man which is responsible for his bondage as well as liberation.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 14, 1993

Keep the Name of the Divine always radiant on your tongue and mind. That will keep the antics of the mind under control.

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