Life 31 (Oct 18 - Jan 19)

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Postby winston » Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:31 am

Who are the true kinsmen we should hold dear to ourselves?

Revere Knowledge as you revere your father, adore Love as you adore your mother, bond fondly with Dharma (righteousness) as if it is your own brother, confide in Daya (compassion) as if it is your dearest friend, have Shantam (calmness) as your better half, and treat Sahana (fortitude) as if it is your own beloved son.

These are your genuine kith and kin. Move with them, live with them, do not forsake or neglect them.

Living with these kinsmen is the best recipe. That is the best atmosphere to ensure the discipline and detachment needed for mind control. Mere prayer will not do.

You will have to swallow and digest the morsel that is put into the mouth; repetition of the name of the dish is of no use.

The mother feeds lovingly, but the child must take it in with avidity and relish. When an earthly mother has so much love, who can estimate the love of the Mother of all beings?

- Divine Discourse, Oct 09, 1964.

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

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Thu Nov 01, 2018 10:33 am

Conscious sorrow and unconscious sorrow

Sorrow is ... grief, uncertainty, the feeling of complete loneliness.

There is the sorrow of death, the sorrow of not being able to fulfil oneself, the sorrow of not being recognized, the sorrow of loving and not being loved in return.

There are innumerable forms of sorrow, and it seems to me that without understanding sorrow, there is no end to conflict, to misery, to the everyday travail of corruption and deterioration...

There is conscious sorrow, and there is also unconscious sorrow, the sorrow that seems to have no basis, no immediate cause.

Most of us know conscious sorrow, and we also know how to deal with it. Either we run away from it through religious belief or we rationalize it, or we take some kind of drug, whether intellectual or physical; or we bemuse ourselves with words, with amusements, with superficial entertainment. We do all this, and yet we cannot get away from conscious sorrow.

Then there is the unconscious sorrow that we have inherited through the centuries. Man has always sought to overcome this extraordinary thing called sorrow, grief, misery; but even when we are superficially happy and have everything we want, deep down in the unconscious there are still the roots of sorrow.

So when we talk about the ending of sorrow, we mean the ending of all sorrow, both conscious and unconscious. To end sorrow one must have a very clear, very simple mind. Simplicity is not a mere idea. To be simple demands a great deal of intelligence and sensitivity.

The Book of Life, July 14, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Fri Nov 02, 2018 4:27 am

Look with intensity

It seems to me that learning is astonishingly difficult, as is listening also.

We never actually listen to anything because our mind is not free; our ears are stuffed up with those things that we already know, so listening becomes extraordinarily difficult.

I think—or rather, it is a fact—that if one can listen to something with all of one’s being, with vigor, with vitality, then the very act of listening is a liberative factor, but unfortunately you never do listen, as you have never learned about it.

After all, you only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics, you learn; but when you are in a state of contradiction, when you do not want to learn but are forced to learn, then it becomes merely a process of accumulation.

To learn is like reading a novel with innumerable characters; it requires your full attention, not contradictory attention. If you want to learn about a leaf—a leaf of the spring or a leaf of the summer—you must really look at it, see the symmetry of it, the texture of it, the quality of the living leaf.

There is beauty, there is vigor, there is vitality in a single leaf. So to learn about the leaf, the flower, the cloud, the sunset, or a human being, you must look with all intensity.

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

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Fri Nov 02, 2018 7:50 am

Why should we practice sharing selfless love with one and all?

Truly speaking, you are the very embodiments of love. Let the stream of love flow from one heart to another.

Consider love as your life. This is your foremost duty. You may search anywhere in the world. You cannot find anything greater than love.

Love is the divine magnetic power present in the human being. All the sacred epics have love as the undercurrent.

Love is the magnetic power that can transform even your bitter enemy into a dearest friend. Develop love. This is more important than your worldly education.

Love is life. Not merely that, Love is light. It illumines your path and helps you reach the goal.
Your journey of life will be safe and secure when you carry the light of love with you. You will never find darkness.

Fill your heart with love. Love is the Divine. Live in love.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 17, 2003.

Your journey of life will be safe and secure when you carry the light of love with you.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Sat Nov 03, 2018 7:53 am

What is the importance of love and unity?

You should treat your fellowmen as your own brothers. You deserve to be called a human being only when you cultivate the spirit of unity.

Where there is no unity, there you will find enmity and hatred. Subsequently, the principle of love is lost altogether.

There should be unity and love not only among brothers but also between the husband and wife, and all relationships within the family.

Your foremost duty is to share His love with others. Only then can you realise the significance of the noble dictum: “Brotherhood of man and fatherhood of the Divine”. But, unfortunately, such idealism is not found today.

Even if you do not believe in the fatherhood of the Divine, but you must have faith in the brotherhood of man; practice it and experience bliss therefrom.

Our country will regain its pristine glory only when we achieve such unity.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 17, 2003.

Unity is divinity, purity is enlightenment.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:22 am

The function of relationship

Relationship is inevitably painful, which is shown in our every day existence.

If in relationship, there is no tension, it ceases to be relationship and merely becomes a comfortable sleep-state, an opiate—which most people want and prefer.

Conflict is between this craving for comfort and the factual, between illusion and actuality. If you recognize the illusion then you can, by putting it aside, give your attention to the understanding of relationship.

But if you seek security in relationship, it becomes an investment in comfort, in illusion and the greatness of relationship is its very insecurity.

By seeking security in relationship you are hindering its function, which brings its own peculiar actions and misfortunes.

Surely, the function of relationship is to reveal the state of one’s whole being. Relationship is a process of self-revelation, of self-knowledge.

This self-revelation is painful, demanding constant adjustment, pliability of thought-emotion. It is a painful struggle, with periods of enlightened peace...

But most of us avoid or put aside the tension in relationship, preferring the ease and comfort of satisfying dependency, an unchallenged security, a safe anchorage. Then family and other relationships become a refuge, the refuge of the thoughtless.

When insecurity creeps into dependency, as it inevitably does, then that particular relationship is cast aside and a new one taken on in the hope of finding lasting security; but there is no security in relationship, and dependency only breeds fear.

Without understanding the process of security and fear, relationship becomes a binding hindrance, a way of ignorance. Then all existence is struggle and pain, and there is no way out of it save in right thinking, which comes through self-knowledge.

The Book of Life, March 16, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Sun Nov 04, 2018 7:47 am

At times we may speak sweetly to suit the occasion, without reflecting it from within our hearts. Is that acceptable?

There is no point in talking sweetly if there is no sweetness in your heart. Sweetness in speech and bitterness in heart is not the quality of a human being.

There should be sweetness in your thought, word and deed. This is the true sign of a human being.

There is love in you but you are not able to express it in the proper way. You should fill your life with selfless love. There is nothing superior to love in this world.

Human beings are considered to be most sacred because they have the unique quality of love in them. But you are not able to realize the value of human birth.

The Divine incarnates in human form, in order to spread the message of selfless love. Once you have selfless love in your heart, you can conquer the whole world.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 17, 2003.

Cultivate Purity, Love and Compassion.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Mon Nov 05, 2018 7:34 am

Where from can immense strength and wisdom be drawn, wherever we may be?

You may acquire various types of knowledge and travel across the globe. But, in spite of all your worldly achievements, you are not able to understand the principle of love.

Once you have the taste of selfless love, you will see the world in its real form. Therefore, truly become embodiments of love.

Let love flow incessantly from your heart. Immerse yourself in the flow of love. Out of love, emerges truth and righteousness.

Speak the truth, practice righteousness. Truth and righteousness are the two pillars on which the mansion of human life rests. Adore love. Live in love. There is no greater education than this.

Traverse the path of love. Partake of the food of love. It is not enough if you merely partake of love, you should also assimilate and digest it. Only then the essence of love will spread to every cell of your body giving you immense strength and wisdom.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 17, 2003.

To proceed from being human to Divine, pure Love is the only means. All other means are of no avail.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Mon Nov 05, 2018 7:34 am

Where from can immense strength and wisdom be drawn, wherever we may be?

You may acquire various types of knowledge and travel across the globe. But, in spite of all your worldly achievements, you are not able to understand the principle of love.

Once you have the taste of selfless love, you will see the world in its real form. Therefore, truly become embodiments of love.

Let love flow incessantly from your heart. Immerse yourself in the flow of love. Out of love, emerges truth and righteousness.

Speak the truth, practice righteousness. Truth and righteousness are the two pillars on which the mansion of human life rests. Adore love. Live in love. There is no greater education than this.

Traverse the path of love. Partake of the food of love. It is not enough if you merely partake of love, you should also assimilate and digest it. Only then the essence of love will spread to every cell of your body giving you immense strength and wisdom.

- Divine Discourse, Oct 17, 2003.

To proceed from being human to Divine, pure Love is the only means. All other means are of no avail.

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Re: Life 30 (Jun 18 - Nov 18)

Postby winston » Mon Nov 05, 2018 7:37 am

Time provides no solution

All religions have maintained that time is necessary, the psychological time we are talking about.

Heaven is very far away, and one can only come to it through the gradual process of evolution, through suppression, through growth, or through identification with an object, with something superior.

Our question is whether it is possible to be free of fear immediately. Otherwise fear breeds disorder; psychological time invariably does breed extraordinary disorder within one.

I am questioning the whole idea of evolution, not of the physical being, but of thought which has identified itself with a particular form of existence in time.

The brain has obviously evolved to come to this present stage, and it may evolve still further, expand still more. But as a human being, I have lived for forty or fifty years in a world made up of all kinds of theories, conflicts, and concepts; in a society in which greed, envy, and competition have bred wars. I am a part of all that.

To a man who is in sorrow, there is no significance in looking to time for a solution, in evolving slowly for the next two million years as a human being. Constituted as we are, is it possible to be free from fear and from psychological time?

Physical time must exist; you can’t get away from that. The question is whether psychological time can bring not only order within the individual but also social order.

We are part of society; we are not separate. Where there is order in a human being, there will inevitably be social order outwardly.

The Book of Life, October 1, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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