by winston » Sun Dec 06, 2020 8:14 am
How is the contemplation we should start the day with and define our life by?
Every morning, as soon as you sit up in bed, ask yourself this question: "For what purpose have I come into this world? What is the task set for me? What is the triumph for which this struggle is preparing me? Which is the grand victory for which I have to strive?"
You must’ve witnessed chariot festivals in famous pilgrimage centres. The colossal chariots will be gorgeously decorated; stalwart bands of men draw them along broad roads to the music of blowpipes and conches; acrobats, dancers, chanters, minstrels - all precede it and add to the exhilaration of the occasion.
Thousands crowd around and their attention is naturally drawn towards entertainments provided, but they feel happiest only when they fold their palms and bow before the Idol installed in the chariot. The rest is all subsidiary, even irrelevant!
So too in the process of life, body is the chariot, Atma (Inner-Self) is the Idol installed therein.
Earning, spending, laughing, weeping, hurting, healing and all the various acrobatics of daily life are but subsidiary to the adoration of the Divine, the attainment of Atma (Inner-Self)!
- Divine Discourse, Jan 13, 1969.
The realisation of the Divine is the goal and destiny of human life.
Source: radiosai.org
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