Life 30 (Jun 18 - Oct 18)

Life 30 (Jun 18 - Oct 18)

Postby winston » Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:13 am

Love is not cultivated

Love is not to be cultivated. Love cannot be divided into divine and physical; it is only love—not that you love many or the one. That again is an absurd question to ask: “Do you love all?” You know, a flower that has perfume is not concerned who comes to smell it, or who turns his back upon it. So is love.

Love is not a memory. Love is not a thing of the mind or the intellect. But it comes into being naturally as compassion, when this whole problem of existence—as fear, greed, envy, despair, hope—has been understood and resolved.

An ambitious man cannot love. A man who is attached to his family has no love. Nor has jealousy anything to do with love. When you say, “I love my wife,” you really do not mean it, because the next moment you are jealous of her.

Love implies great freedom—not to do what you like. But love comes only when the mind is very quiet, disinterested, not self-centered. These are not ideals. If you have no love, do what you will—go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems—you are a dead human being.

And without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly. And with love, do what you will, there is no risk; there is no conflict. Then love is the essence of virtue. And a mind that is not in a state of love, is not a religious mind at all. And it is only the religious mind that is freed from problems, and that knows the beauty of love and truth.

The Book of Life, November 23, HarperSanFrancisco, 1995
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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:38 pm

What impedes our spiritual progress?

There are two obstacles which prevents spiritual progress despite your valuable efforts.

The first is the tendency to compare yourself with others. This is very wrong. No two individuals are identical. Even identical twins grow in distinct ways.

Billions of human beings are on the earth, but which is the press which has given each of them a novel imprint? This is the Divine’s glory.

He creates every individual, with their distinct nature, quality, potentiality and destiny. How then can anyone compare themselves with another and either exult or despair? How can you be proud that you are better than others?

Second obstacle is, we are in the habit of justifying our faults, rationalising our errors and avoiding the responsibility of facing them squarely and correcting them.

These two attitudes thicken one’s ignorance and breed further failings. Everyone has the Divine as the Source. Remember that all are kith and kin, through Him from Whom we have come!

- Divine Discourse, Mar 3, 1983.

All that you are, you owe to society and you must show your gratitude to society by rendering service.

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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Tue Jun 26, 2018 8:09 am

What do we need to do, to truly earn that spiritual guidance from the Divine?

A spiritual aspirant became entitled to spiritual guidance because he evinced despondency, renunciation, surrender and one-pointedness, that is essential to assimilate the great message.

When your yearning for liberation becomes truly intense, you earn the right to set aside all social conventions, worldly norms and codes of conduct, that do not subserve that high purpose.

Ask earnestly if you have reached that stage. Develop that taste for liberation. Chanting the Divine's name is the best course; it can be practised at all times and places by all, irrespective of creed, gender, caste, age or economic and social status.

It will keep you in constant touch with the Infinite and so, it will transmit to you the wisdom and power of the Infinite.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 16, 1966.

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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Tue Jun 26, 2018 8:12 am

Understanding what is

Surely, a man who is understanding life does not want beliefs. A man who loves, has no beliefs—he loves.

It is the man who is consumed by the intellect who has beliefs, because intellect is always seeking security, protection; it is always avoiding danger, and therefore it builds ideas, beliefs, ideals, behind which it can take shelter.

What would happen if you dealt with violence directly, now? You would be a danger to society; and because the mind foresees the danger, it says "I will achieve the ideal of non-violence ten years later which is such a fictitious, false process...”

To understand what is, is more important than to create and follow ideals because ideals are false, and what is, is the real.

To understand what is, requires an enormous capacity, a swift and unprejudiced mind. It is because we don’t want to face and understand what is, that we invent the many ways of escape and give them lovely names as the ideal, the belief, God.

Surely, it is only when I see the false as the false, that my mind is capable of perceiving what is true. A mind that is confused in the false, can never find the truth. Therefore, I must understand what is false in my relationships, in my ideas, in the things about me because to perceive the truth requires the understanding of the false.

Without removing the causes of ignorance, there cannot be enlightenment; and to seek enlightenment when the mind is unenlightened is utterly empty, meaningless.

Therefore, I must begin to see the false in my relationships with ideas, with people, with things. When the mind sees that which is false, then that which is true comes into being and then there is ecstasy, there is happiness.

The Book of Life, February 8, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:47 am

How can we insulate ourselves from the pulls of sorrow and joy?

The process of living is the swinging of a pendulum from smile to tear.

Childhood is too tender and innocent, youth is too full of folly and faults, middle age is muddled with problems and possible remedies, and old age is spent in regret over past failings. When can you taste some real happiness?

Joys and sorrows are the results of the mind's involvement in the transient and the trivial. The inner core of each living being is the Divine.

The Sun is not tarnished by its rays falling upon anything harmful. The Self too, is unaffected by the effects of the mind pursuing the senses wherever they lead it.

When one becomes aware that the Self is the Divine, there can be no fear of death haunting him.

Faith is life; absence of faith is death. Only the body dies; the Divine Self (Atma) is beyond birth and death. Aware of this, one is soaked in Divine Bliss.

- Divine Discourse, Jan 08, 1983.

Nature is the vesture of the Divine. It images the Supreme.

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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:56 am

The one who is alone is innocent

One of the factors of sorrow, is the extraordinary loneliness of man.

You may have companions, you may have gods, you may have a great deal of knowledge, you may be extraordinarily active socially, talking endless gossip about politics—and most politicians gossip anyhow—and still this loneliness remains.

Therefore, man seeks to find significance in life and invents a significance, a meaning. But the loneliness still remains.

So can you look at it without any comparison, just see it as it is, without trying to run away from it, without trying to cover it up, or to escape from it? Then you will see that loneliness becomes something entirely different.

We are not alone. We are the result of a thousand influences, a thousand conditionings, psychological inheritances, propaganda, culture.

We are not alone, and therefore we are secondhand human beings. When one is alone, totally alone, neither belonging to any family though one may have a family, nor belonging to any nation, to any culture, to any particular commitment, there is the sense of being an outsider—outsider to every form of thought, action, family, nation.

And it is only the one who is completely alone who is innocent. It is this innocency that frees the mind from sorrow.

The Book of Life, December 5, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:46 am

Can anything we ‘do’ give us peace?

People are bound by action (karma) and sustained by action. They can achieve anything through action. Their accomplishment lies in their skill in performing actions.

The actions performed will have their appropriate consequences, and no one can escape consequences of their actions.

So do good actions, develop good thoughts, and join good company to get good rewards in future.

As is the seed, so is the tree and its fruits. Hence engage in good actions from an early age.

What are good actions? The actions that please the Divine. When you perform actions that please Him, you will also have the reward that will please you. Hence, scriptures teach us to perform all actions to please the Divine.

When you offer all your actions to the Divine, your heart becomes sacred, you can then lead a peaceful life.

To keep your heart sacred, with strong determination practice three P’s - Purity, Patience, and Perseverance.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 22, 1993.

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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:49 am

Cessation of anger


We have all, I am sure, tried to subdue anger but somehow that does not seem to dissolve it. Is there a different approach to dissipate anger?...

Anger may spring from physical or psychological causes. One is angry, perhaps, because one is thwarted, one’s defensive reactions are being broken down, or one’s security which has been carefully built up is being threatened, and so on.

We are all familiar with anger. How is one to understand and dissolve anger? If you consider that your beliefs, concepts, opinions, are of the greatest importance, then you are bound to react violently when questioned. Instead of clinging to beliefs, opinions, if you begin to question whether they are essential to one’s comprehension of life, then through the understanding of its causes there is the cessation of anger.

Thus, one begins to dissolve one’s own resistances which cause conflict and pain. This again requires earnestness. We are used to controlling ourselves for sociological or religious reasons or for convenience, but to uproot anger requires deep awareness...

You say you are angry when you hear of injustice. Is it because you love humanity, because you are compassionate? Do compassion and anger dwell together? Can there be justice when there is anger, hatred?

You are perhaps angry at the thought of general injustice, cruelty, but your anger does not alter injustice or cruelty; it can only do harm.

To bring about order, you yourself have to be thoughtful, compassionate. Action born of hatred can only create further hatred. There can be no righteousness where there is anger. Righteousness and anger cannot dwell together.

The Book of Life, July 19, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:23 am

Why is introspection of what goes on in the mind important?

Cultivation of good thoughts is good conduct (dharma).

When we protect good conduct, it will protect us in turn. If you hurt good conduct, you will be hurt in return.

When our own mind generates good thoughts, it protects us. Our own mind can harm us as well. How? It harms us through its bad thoughts.

Hence, our mind is responsible for all our difficulties, troubles, and miseries. So, keep your mind pure and free from bad thoughts.

The moment a thought arises in your mind, use your discrimination to know: is it good or bad? When you begin such analysis, the speed of your thoughts will decrease. If on the other hand, you immediately act as per your thoughts, their speed will increase.

Therefore, take the time to control the thought process through thorough enquiry. First enquire, then act. Start early, drive slowly, reach safely. If you slow down your thoughts, you will definitely arrive safely.

- Divine Discourse, Apr 7, 1993.

Command the mind, regulate your conduct, and keep your heart straight and clear, then you will get the grace of the Divine.

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Re: Life 29 (Nov 17 - Aug 18)

Postby winston » Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:25 am

Going beyond words

To understand each other, I think it is necessary that we should not be caught in words; because, a word like God, for example, may have a particular meaning for you, while for me it may represent a totally different formulation, or no formulation at all.

So it is almost impossible to communicate with each other, unless both of us have the intention of understanding and going beyond mere words.

The word freedom generally implies being free from something, does it not? It ordinarily means being free from greed, from envy, from nationalism, from anger, from this or that. Whereas, freedom may have quite another meaning, which is a sense of being free; and I think it is very important to understand this meaning.

... After all, the mind is made up of words, amongst other things. Now, can the mind be free of the word “envy”? Experiment with this and you will see that words like God, truth, hate, envy, have a profound effect on the mind. And can the mind be both neurologically and psychologically free of these words? If it is not free of them, it is incapable of facing the fact of envy.

When the mind can look directly at the fact which it calls “envy”, then the fact itself acts much more swiftly than the mind’s endeavor to do something about the fact.

As long as the mind is thinking of getting rid of envy through the ideal of non-envy, and so on, it is distracted, it is not facing the fact; and the very word envy is a distraction from the fact.

The process of recognition is through the word; and the moment I recognize the feeling through the word, I give continuity to that feeling.

The Book of Life, May 18, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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