MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 830
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Tue, 25 Apr 2017, 09:47
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Radhe krishna,
Good morning & have a blessed day,
STUDIES IN THOUGHT
Swami Sivananda
Thought is a vital living force—the most vital, subtle and
irresistible force that exists in the universe. Thoughts are living
things; they move; they have form, shape, colour, quality, substance,
power and weight. You may cease to be, but thoughts can never die. A
thought is as much solid as a piece of stone. Thought is the real
action; it is a dynamic force. A thought of joy creates
sympathetically a thought of joy in others
Your body may be
functioning, the physical world may be functioning upon the surface
India, the apparent India, the
visible India of good and bad, of light and darkness, which prevail
everywhere in this whole
world. Physically you may be in this visible India. Mentally you may
be in a world of your own.
Mentally you are neither of India nor of anywhere. Mentally you are in
a world of your own.
You are in a universe of your own. Each one lives in a universe of
oneself where there is neither
India nor Japan nor America nor Russia. It is a no-man’s land. It has
no name, no nationality. It
is your own realm, full of your own Vasanas, Samskaras, imaginations,
memories and concepts,
your own opinions, your own coloured view of things. It is a realm in
which each individual soul
is caught and in which each individual soul lives, running round in
circles day after day, thinking
the same thoughts, imagining the same imaginations, having the same
sentiments, going up and
down, like a rat on a tread-mill, day after day, week after week,
month after month. Unless you
take a determined stand and make up your mind to break this vicious
circle, this monotonous
going round and round in this accustomed thought-trap of yours and
say, “No, I shall not be in
this cage created by myself. I shall smash it and come out into the
open, into the limitless,
boundless outer space of spiritual consciousness”, unless you do that,
you will always be there in
this little petty inner cage of your mental world.
swami chidananda
The test of spiritual advancement is a gradual attainment of freedom
from doubts of all kinds and a conviction of having reached a settled
understanding in regard to one’s true aim of life. It is this
conviction that brings inner strength and power to face all
opposition.
- Swami Krishnananda
Chant the Maha Mantra
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
BE HAPPY
Good morning & have a blessed day,
STUDIES IN THOUGHT
Swami Sivananda
Thought is a vital living force—the most vital, subtle and
irresistible force that exists in the universe. Thoughts are living
things; they move; they have form, shape, colour, quality, substance,
power and weight. You may cease to be, but thoughts can never die. A
thought is as much solid as a piece of stone. Thought is the real
action; it is a dynamic force. A thought of joy creates
sympathetically a thought of joy in others
Your body may be
functioning, the physical world may be functioning upon the surface
India, the apparent India, the
visible India of good and bad, of light and darkness, which prevail
everywhere in this whole
world. Physically you may be in this visible India. Mentally you may
be in a world of your own.
Mentally you are neither of India nor of anywhere. Mentally you are in
a world of your own.
You are in a universe of your own. Each one lives in a universe of
oneself where there is neither
India nor Japan nor America nor Russia. It is a no-man’s land. It has
no name, no nationality. It
is your own realm, full of your own Vasanas, Samskaras, imaginations,
memories and concepts,
your own opinions, your own coloured view of things. It is a realm in
which each individual soul
is caught and in which each individual soul lives, running round in
circles day after day, thinking
the same thoughts, imagining the same imaginations, having the same
sentiments, going up and
down, like a rat on a tread-mill, day after day, week after week,
month after month. Unless you
take a determined stand and make up your mind to break this vicious
circle, this monotonous
going round and round in this accustomed thought-trap of yours and
say, “No, I shall not be in
this cage created by myself. I shall smash it and come out into the
open, into the limitless,
boundless outer space of spiritual consciousness”, unless you do that,
you will always be there in
this little petty inner cage of your mental world.
swami chidananda
The test of spiritual advancement is a gradual attainment of freedom
from doubts of all kinds and a conviction of having reached a settled
understanding in regard to one’s true aim of life. It is this
conviction that brings inner strength and power to face all
opposition.
- 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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