MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 749
Radhhe krishna,
Good morning & have a blessed day, THE GOAL OF LIFE Swami Sivananda They are searching—they want something else—they are searching for something else; but, what that something is, they do not know. They feel that they are in need of something, but the nature of which they do not exactly comprehend. O Man! Wealth, vehicles, sons, women, dominions, property are worthless! They are all perishable. Seek the Lotus feet of the Lord and attain Immortality, Eternal Bliss and Supreme Peace! This is why you are born in this world! Serve one another, cooperate with one another, understand one another, have good will each other, change the angle of vision from self-interest to common interest, from materialism to spirituality realising the presence of God in all. - Swami Sivananda Therefore, it is with greater earnestness, with a greater seriousness of purpose and with a greater sense of urgency that we should do what is still left for us to do before our time runs out. I cannot afford to look this way and that way, misdirect my energies, misdirect my minutes and hours, misdirect my forenoons and afternoons in channels other than that one most important channel or path to the attainment of God-realization, which is the one true and most important goal of human existence, as all the great saints and sages ancient, mediaeval and modern have reiterated again and again. They said: “O man, wake up! You have not come here merely to exist for a little while and be snuffed out in death. O man, wake up! You have not come here merely for physical functioning or mental activity or intellectual processes. No. You have come here for attaining God-realization, for attaining Self-realization. That is the main purpose for which you have been given this human life. Come, arise, awake and attain illumination! Life is short, time is fleeting. Many are the obstacles. Therefore, apply yourself diligently, wholeheartedly, perseveringly to the attainment of this one great goal”. Likewise the Upanishads exhort, the Bible exhorts, the New Testament exhorts: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, all these shall be added unto you”. The Koran exhorts, the Buddhistic scriptures exhort: “O man! Life is short, time flies away. Come, apply yourself wholeheartedly to spiritual striving. Move in the direction of this great, grand consummation of your life, the fulfillment of your divine destiny, the attainment of immortality, the attainment of divine perfection, illumination, liberation”. Again and again, all the great scriptures, all the great prophets and the messengers of God that have ever been there since ancient times, have been calling upon mankind not to slumber in spiritual forgetfulness, but to awake, not to remain stagnating, but to arise and move forward. They have been calling upon mankind to move forward day after day, to move forward, upward and Godward. “Claim your birthright, fulfil your destiny and be free” this has been the exhortation. swami chidananda 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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