Life 23 (Jul 14 - Jan 15)

[winston]

How should we play our role in the game of life?

The whole world is a stage and every individual is an actor.

The Divine Lord is the Director of the Cosmic Drama. The primary goal of every actor doing a particular role is to carry out their duty, setting aside their individuality.

In a school drama, a boy may play the role of a director. While acting, he must exhibit the behavior of a director and not behave like he would in his normal daily routine; those traits must be given a back seat.

Your birth as a human being is a Divine given gift which must be used with due care.

Fill your life with righteous acts and do not misuse your talents for unholy purposes.

Your life will have a mixture of good and bad, discriminate and select to play your role in a good manner wherein you manifest humanness, and thus conduct yourself worthily.

Realise that every human birth is a manifestation of the Divine will.

- My Dear Students, Vol 5, Ch 3, Feb 15, 1998.

The Divine is the director of the play; He is also the actor. The Lord is both the lover and the beloved. Serve all with Love.

Source: radiosai.org

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What is the attitude with which we must evaluate our thoughts, attitudes and actions daily?

In the drama of life, some act on the basis that nothing belongs to them and that, whatever words one utters or whatever action one does, all belong to Divine and nothing is their own. They play their role in this spirit, ascribing nothing to oneself.

The other category are those that are like the actors who are conscious of the role they are playing and do not forget their individuality in their actions. They do not consider themselves as merely acting a part but as the doer.

The difference between the two is that while the former realises the temporary nature of the part being played and is not attached to the things connected with the role, the other develops attachment to the role and does not wish to part with things connected with the role.

Presently, most people suffer from the possessive attitude. The reason is the failure to use the senses properly and enslavement to the desires prompted by them.

Train your sense organs only to perceive sacred things and abstain from indiscriminate enjoyment.

Reining in your senses is the sign of growing in wisdom.

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

What is Liberation? When and how can we achieve it?

Do not see, speak or hear what is evil. You must only see what is good, hear and speak what is sacred. These may seem simple maxims but are full of profound significance.

Constantly discriminate between negative and positive actions. All bad and unwholesome actions are negative in character, eschew them altogether.

Your mind must be filled with good thoughts, your hearts should be filled with compassion, and your hands must be engaged in selfless service.

You will be caught up in negative behavior, as long as you identify yourself with the body. The moment you consider yourself as the master of the senses, your actions will be positive.

Mastery of the senses leads to liberation. Liberation is not something to be achieved after life. Striving for liberation must start early in life and proceed continuously, until you are free from the bondage to the senses.

Carry on all duties without attachment to the fruits thereof.

- My Dear Students, Vol 5, Ch 3, Feb 15, 1998.

Fill your heart with the light of Love so that the evil qualities of hate, greed and conceit find no place therein

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Life is like shaving..

No matter how many times you do it well, you still have to do it again tomorrow.

- Adam Rasmussen

[winston]

What is the fundamental truth that we must not mistake, in our daily lives?

You are wasting your precious time thinking that all that you see in this objective world is true. No! None of these objects is real.

Truth is eternal and is beyond the three periods of time - past, present and future. That Truth is Divinity.

The Divine is only one, now and forever. How foolish it is to think that the worldly vision which is subject to change from time to time is real.

You are a student today. Tomorrow you will become an officer in an Organization and few years later you will be a retired officer. Then, which is true? Is it the life as a student or as an officer or as a retired official?

Thus, all that you see in this objective world and all the relationships between individuals are only temporary, never real and permanent.

Divinity is not like that. Recognise the Truth that the Divine is omnipresent - yesterday, today and tomorrow.

- Divine Discourse, Sep 27, 2006.

You are a fragment of the Divine. This is the greatest truth all of you must realize fully.

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

What is liberation?

Be unmoved by duality”. Let not defeat or success affect your inner calm and inner joy.

See yourself as your Self unrelated to others or the objective world. When you know your real Self, you are liberated! That is Moksha.

Liberation (Moksha) is not a five-star hotel or a deluxe resort. It is just the awareness of your reality and the rejection of all contrary conceptions.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 6, 1970.

When the mind and the intellect unite, humanness reaches a state of freedom, which is referred to as Moksha (liberation).

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Pain & Pleasure

People experience pleasure and pain, sorrow and difficulties in this world.

When they experience pleasure, they say it is due to their deservedness. When they undergo difficulties, they attribute it to their destiny.

Really speaking, both pleasure and pain are the result of one's own actions (karma).

As are the feelings that drive action, so is the result.

Every human being in this world has to perform some kind of karma. Hence let the actions (karma) performed by people be sacred.

- Divine Discourse, 9 Oct, 2008

Pray to the Divine and draw from Him the magnet of His grace and offer to the world, the power of His electrical energy.

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Fill your heart with the light of Love so that the evil qualities of hate, greed and conceit, find no place therein.

- Baba

[winston]

Freedom from Conditioning

The desire to free oneself from conditioning only furthers conditioning. But if, instead of trying to suppress desire, one understands the whole process of desire, in that very understanding there comes freedom from conditioning.

Freedom from conditioning is not a direct result. Do you understand?

If I set about deliberately to free myself from my conditioning, that desire creates its own conditioning. I may destroy one form of conditioning, but I am caught in another.

Whereas, if there is an understanding of desire itself, which includes the desire to be free, then that very understanding destroys all conditioning.

Freedom from conditioning is a byproduct; it is not important. The important thing is to understand what it is that creates conditioning.

- J. Krishnamurti, The Book of Life

Source: www.jkrishnamurti.com

[winston]

What is the source of all human values and what is the culmination?

Those who struggle to uphold Truth are the real devotees. The essence of all scriptures lies in establishing this truth.

Unfortunately, today people who recognize such an eternal truth are not to be found anywhere. You must never forsake Truth.

When truth and righteousness come together, there will be peace and Love. In fact, Truth is the basis for all other human values, namely, Righteousness, Peace, Love, and Non-Violence.

Love does not descend from outside. It emerges only from within, from the hearts of people. No human being can live without love.

True and real life is one that is suffused with love. All virtues merge in love. Where there is love, there will be unity that permeates all barriers.

Where there is love, people regardless of caste, culture, and country will unite naturally.

- Divine Discourse, 6 Mar 2008

Your heart is like a vessel. Fill it with qualities of Truth, Love and Sacrifice.

Source: radiosai.org