MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1131

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1131

Radhe krishna.

Have a blessed day,

ESSENCE OF VIRTUE

Swami Sivananda

Knowledge of God is the sweet fruit born of the beautiful flower of virtue. Asceticism, forgiveness, mercy, truth, self-control and pure love are different forms of virtue. To fulfil a promise is a great vow. It is a great virtue. Justice, temperance, courage and purity are the four great virtues. The very root and core of all moral discipline is mental purification through refraining from all evil actions, and the active practice of virtue. Knowledge of the Supreme Lord is the best acquisition. Contentment is the best happiness. Mercy is the virtue of virtues.

The spirit of Sannyasa has been misunderstood to be a sort of retreat to the quiescent and a
sort of escapism which arises out of inability to face life. That sort of Sannyasa stands
self-condemned. Sannyasa is infinite strength. By escaping from active struggle of earthly life, an
individual cannot escape his Prarabdha (destiny). This is an illusion which people who do not know
the law of Karma hold on to. He who understands would not dare to enter this fiery order of
Sannyasa in order to escape from the struggle of life. Fate will show that he is woefully mistaken.
Those very Karmas which he has sought to escape in secular life will stand before him, ruthless and
pitiless, and he will have to work them out with compound interest.
Swami Chidananda 

The only example of an intuitively comprehended object is our own centre, our own truth, ourselves.

- Swami Krishnananda 

Chant the Maha Mantra

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

BE HAPPY.

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