MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1156

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1156

Radhe krishna,

Have a blessed day,

PRE-REQUISITE TO GOD-REALIZATION Swami Sivananda A pure heart is necessary to know the Will of God. If you wish to be strong, be pure. Mere bodily purity without the purity of the heart is absolutely useless. Mental purity is of paramount importance for God-realization. Purity is freedom from desire. Purity is the passport to the foreign land of Eternal Bliss. Purity is the best jewel of a spiritual aspirant. It is the greatest treasure of a sage. It is the best wealth of a devotee of the Lord. Only the pure in heart can attain God-realization. For instance, if you see a doctor, immediately the thought of dispensary, thought of hospital, thought of medicine come. If you see a soldier in military uniform, the thought of warfare, thought of tanks, guns, the thought of soldiers charging, all these things come to the mind. If you see a lawyer, thought of courts, brief, clients, criminal procedure, judge, sentence and jail—all these come. There are two things involved in this process. One is: we find out a law that any object perceived by the human mind through the avenues of any one of the five senses immediately sets up a train of thought which is of the same nature as the object perceived. And then one thought sets about raising in the mind other thoughts associated with it. It is called the law of association. And therefore this law even dispenses with the necessity of having an object present before your eye for setting up a thought. Just from memory you think of something. Immediately that also sets into motion a train of thoughts associated with the object conjured up in the mind through memory, and they found that the law of association is there operating in the realm of mind and directing our thoughts. Also another very interesting law was found out. That is they found that mind has got a peculiar, I may call it a very dangerous and nasty habit. It is a headache for all seekers. It has got this pernicious habit of making a lightning record of whatever sense contact that a human being makes. In passing you may speak some words, see some persons, you may undergo some experience; immediately a lightning record leaves a Samskara; and why it is very important to the Yogin is due to the very peculiar nature of this Samskara. Samskara is not merely a dead-line drawn upon a canvas, but it is a live record, and I shall explain to you what a live record means. Swami Chidananda It is essential to arrange the pattern of our thinking in such a way that we centre it in itself, so that thought thinks itself rather than it thinks something outside. - Swami Krishnananda 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/2017/05/the-god-of-mercy-sri-swami-sivananda-ji.html