MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1158
Radhe krishna,
Have a blessed day,
WORDS OF WISDOM
Swami SivanandaThink rightly, talk sweetly, act righteously, bear cheerfully, and act bravely. Follow the way of sympathy, co-operation and love. Understand the truth of the Law of the Lord. Be like a rose, and waft the fragrance of cosmic love everywhere. My message to humanity is of courage, hope effort, cheerfulness, perseverance, nobility of aspiration, spiritual awareness, restraint, illumination and Self-realization. God is the basis of right ideas, right thinking, right action, right application and wisdom. Through thought of God all defects of mind will vanish, all doubts will be cleared and all Karmic bonds will break.
Sit less, serve more. Hate less, love more. Take less, give more. Talk less, think more. Preach less, practise more. Worry less, laugh more. Rest less, work more. Sleep less, meditate more.
- Swami Sivananda
Secondly that universal quality which characterises 999 out of 1,000 of all mankind is
egoism. People are proud. Everyone has his own ego. Man feels “I am something,” and he does not
like to be disregarded. He wants others to recognise him as something, and he wants to assert
himself and this principle of ego, this feeling of one’s own superiority, is found to be totally absent
in all saints. They were humble. They were meek in spirit. They were lowly in spirit.
“Blessed are the lowly in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.” The “lowly” not from
the point of money. He may have everything, but in spite of that he feels that he is a speck of dust at
the feet of the Lord. “Lord is everything. I am nothing. Thou art everything my Lord.” This is the
attitude of all holy people, and this total absence of egoism, and the resultant humility—this is also a
universal characteristic of all saints.
Even as egoism is the universal characteristic of the ordinary man in his unregenerate days,
the man who is in the grip of delusion, Maya, even so, the universal characteristic of all saints has
been perfect humility. Blessed are the meek. And the spirit of the same verse is re-echoed by one of
the greatest saints India has produced. He was Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabbu. He says, “Trinadapi
Suneechena—one should consider oneself lower than a blade of grass.”
The man of egoism (Ahankara) has not yet learnt this great secret, this truth that Ahankara is
the great bar to true refinement and progress of man. He will argue that if a man does not feel
himself to be something, he will attain nothing and so too much of humility simply spoils one’s life.
But the saints knew better. They knew what was the worth of achievement in this world and
what was the truly worthwhile achievement. And they knew that the ego was the greatest obstacle
for the attainment of all good things which are of lasting worth, and therefore they were humble,
forbearing and forgiving. The lives of saints were full of trials and tribulations. They were
persecuted. They had to bear too much hardship. The Lord put them in the furnace of hardship and
tribulation, suffering and persecution.
Just as gold is put in the furnace to be purified of all dross and to shine as purified metal,
even so, saints are put to much tribulation and suffering, and through all these they manifested three
important qualities.
Swami Chidananda.
egoism. People are proud. Everyone has his own ego. Man feels “I am something,” and he does not
like to be disregarded. He wants others to recognise him as something, and he wants to assert
himself and this principle of ego, this feeling of one’s own superiority, is found to be totally absent
in all saints. They were humble. They were meek in spirit. They were lowly in spirit.
“Blessed are the lowly in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.” The “lowly” not from
the point of money. He may have everything, but in spite of that he feels that he is a speck of dust at
the feet of the Lord. “Lord is everything. I am nothing. Thou art everything my Lord.” This is the
attitude of all holy people, and this total absence of egoism, and the resultant humility—this is also a
universal characteristic of all saints.
Even as egoism is the universal characteristic of the ordinary man in his unregenerate days,
the man who is in the grip of delusion, Maya, even so, the universal characteristic of all saints has
been perfect humility. Blessed are the meek. And the spirit of the same verse is re-echoed by one of
the greatest saints India has produced. He was Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabbu. He says, “Trinadapi
Suneechena—one should consider oneself lower than a blade of grass.”
The man of egoism (Ahankara) has not yet learnt this great secret, this truth that Ahankara is
the great bar to true refinement and progress of man. He will argue that if a man does not feel
himself to be something, he will attain nothing and so too much of humility simply spoils one’s life.
But the saints knew better. They knew what was the worth of achievement in this world and
what was the truly worthwhile achievement. And they knew that the ego was the greatest obstacle
for the attainment of all good things which are of lasting worth, and therefore they were humble,
forbearing and forgiving. The lives of saints were full of trials and tribulations. They were
persecuted. They had to bear too much hardship. The Lord put them in the furnace of hardship and
tribulation, suffering and persecution.
Just as gold is put in the furnace to be purified of all dross and to shine as purified metal,
even so, saints are put to much tribulation and suffering, and through all these they manifested three
important qualities.
Swami Chidananda.
Chant the Maha Mantra
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
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