MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1193
Radhe krishna,
Have a blessed day,
THE FRUITS OF A RELIGIOUS LIFE
Swami SivanandaNo materialistic force can annihilate the religious urge in man, though for a time a certain kind of propaganda may serve as a deterrent. Whenever any important truth of religion was suppressed by the arrogance and selfishness of the priestly class, or forgotten through the ignorance of the people, there appeared a great saint, or prophet, or religious teacher. He emphasised that truth, removed the dross which had concealed or obscured it, and made it shine in its original brilliance, purity, splendour, and glory.
The World is neither good, nor bad. It is the mind that creates good and evil. Thinking makes it so.
- Swami Sivananda
DESTRUCTION PRECEDES CONSTRUCTION
The phenomenon of destruction necessarily preceding a new birth is found in every aspect
of creation and evolution upon this earth. Similarly, in the realm of the spirit, when the seeker has
set himself to rise into the transcendental state of Paripoornata, or perfection, fullness, bliss, eternal
life and infinite peace, light and joy, when he starts upon this process, he finds that he is bound
down by many things which do not allow him to rise up to that desired state of spiritual felicity and
bliss. Numerous elements of this old human self, many undesirable factors of the lower aspect of
mundane life, hold him down, trying perpetually to keep him bound to ignorance, darkness,
delusion and Anatmic (not Self) tendencies. This lower aspect of the individual soul in the form of
the various weaknesses and defects of the flesh is known by the name of Papa Purusha or the
Pasu—which need be destroyed and given as Pasu-Bali on the altar of Daivi Shakti (the Divine
The phenomenon of destruction necessarily preceding a new birth is found in every aspect
of creation and evolution upon this earth. Similarly, in the realm of the spirit, when the seeker has
set himself to rise into the transcendental state of Paripoornata, or perfection, fullness, bliss, eternal
life and infinite peace, light and joy, when he starts upon this process, he finds that he is bound
down by many things which do not allow him to rise up to that desired state of spiritual felicity and
bliss. Numerous elements of this old human self, many undesirable factors of the lower aspect of
mundane life, hold him down, trying perpetually to keep him bound to ignorance, darkness,
delusion and Anatmic (not Self) tendencies. This lower aspect of the individual soul in the form of
the various weaknesses and defects of the flesh is known by the name of Papa Purusha or the
Pasu—which need be destroyed and given as Pasu-Bali on the altar of Daivi Shakti (the Divine
Mother of Power).
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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