MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 821

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 821

Radhe krishna, Good morning & have a blessed day SELF-RESTRAINT AND SERENITY Swami Sivananda You will attain this sublime virtue gradually. It is easy to do evil for evil, to do good for good; but It is difficult and sublime to do good for evil. The downward path to evil is very easy, but the upward path to good is very difficult, thorny, and precipitous. Those who are endowed with strength and wisdom in order to do good for evil are, indeed, blessed people. They are veritable gods on earth. Let  the coming year be to you a year of such light, a year of such luminous consciousness, a year of a constant affirmation of your true nature. Mano Buddhyahankara Chittani Naham Chidananda Rupah Sivoham Sivoham Let that be your ever-recurring note. Assert, affirm, live this. This is the heart of Yoga- Vedanta. This is the heart of Bhakti and Bhajan. This is the heart of Sadhana. This is the truth to proclaim which Gurudev came into this world. “I am this body. I am so-and-so. I am such and such. That person did not give me respect. This person abused me.” Thus to think is falsehood; it is a negation of your truth, a negation of your reality. Raga, Dvesha, Kama, Krodha...envy, jealousy all the things that operate upon the little confined sphere of your false consciousness that is false. That is Mithya. That is a contradiction of your nature. “ Ahamatma Nirakarah Sarvavyapi Svabhavatah. I am the Self without name and form, all-pervading by my very nature. I am that glorious Satchidananda-consciousness.” That is truth. , live to affirm truth, live to assert truth, live to ever abide in, and function from, this centre of truth. And this truth will make you free, not anything else. Nothing in this world, nothing in this universe, nothing in this Ashram, nothing in your room, nothing in your mind or intellect can make you free, but this Truth ... Truth. If you constantly live in this state of Truth awareness, that alone can make you free not ringing of bells, not anything. Truth alone can make you free. And you are that Truth. swami chidananda Ishvara, Jiva and Jagat are not three entities standing apart like father, son and their house. They are three presentations of reality or view-points of the Absolute from the level of the Jiva. - Swami Krishnananda Chant the Maha Mantra Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare BE HAPPY.