MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1104

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1104

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

SELFLESS SERVICE Swami Sivananda To live truth is Karma Yoga. It is easy to speak truth but very difficult to abide by truth, or the principle of truth. The fruit of good action is both happiness and knowledge. Merit and demerit will not touch that Karma Yogi who works without attachment and egoism. But a Karma Yogi never does anything to cause demerit. Be balanced in pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, heat and cold, censure and praise. This is the Yoga of Equanimity or doctrine of poise in action. Self-surrender to the Lord brings His grace. That is how the Karma Yogi, who offers all his thoughts, desires and actions to the Lord, gets purity of mind and attains Knowledge of Atma. He who is devoted to the path of action, whose mind is quite pure, who has conquered the lower self, who has subdued his senses, who meditates on the Atma, realizes himself as the Self in all beings. Devotion is the sap of life. Build it through Japa, Kirtan, meditation, study of scriptures and association with pious and the devout. - Swami Sivananda Here are some of the methods of thinning out the Vasanas (desires). (1) Self-denial: Curtail all unnecessary wants, activities and mixing. Too much of contacts with friends and promiscuous mixing stimulate the old habits, previous Samskaras (latent impressions). Hence worldly contacts should be reduced as far as possible. Exert a little pure will. Deny then and there and say, “No, I don’t want it, since it is not going to help my spiritual well-being. Seek the counsel from the pure intellect and it will give you sure protection at the required moment. Slowly you will develop an attitude of looking at sense-objects as poison and delusive, a clever entrapment of Maya and then you will naturally deny them for your spiritual welfare. Swami Chidananda. Chant the Maha Mantra Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare BE HAPPY. https://sekhar789.blogspot.com/2017/03/swami-chidananda-performs-sivapuja-at.html