MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1153
Radhe krishna,
Have a blessed day,
NATURE OF PURITY
Swami SivanandaSlavery to mind and senses, and their indulgence is impurity. Regain your freedom through constant enquiry, right thinking, through seeking the grace of the Lord, through purity of food, by associating with the wise and study of Holy Scriptures. Without purity no spiritual progress is possible. God is Purity itself. Only by becoming pure yourself can you attain God. Pray: "O Adorable Lord! Make my mind pure. Free me from all impure thoughts. Make my mind as transparent as crystal, as pure as the Himalayan snow, as brilliant as the shining mirror." What greater undertaking lies before you than purifying your life of all enmity, impurity, hatred and lust, and filling it with love, purity, peace and goodness?
Feel the Lord′s existence first in you and all around. Be unattached to things of the world. Grow in devotion supreme. Then alone you will clearly see His hand working behind this worldly show.
- Swami Sivananda
HINTS ON PRACTICAL SADHANA
What Is Divine Living
What is Yoga-Vedanta? What is divine living? Yoga-Vedanta is the concern of divine life.
Divine life is a life based upon Yoga and pervaded by the spirit of Vedanta. This is divine life, and it
is made up of selflessness, service, Sadhana and self-realisation. So Yoga and Vedanta form the
very fabric of divine life, or the stuff out of which divine life is made. Naturally, therefore, the more
we know about it, the more we are reminded about its important aspects, the better equipped we will
be in order to live the divine life, because the most important thing about divine life is in the living
of it, not so much in the knowing of it. But the importance of knowing lies in the plain fact that if
you have to live it, you must know something of it, so that with this knowledge you will be able to
live it more effectively. So knowledge also is necessary, but the most important thing is the living of
it. In the living of a life of Yoga, a life of practical Vedanta, we come across several hurdles, and we
are faced many times with situations which we have to manage with intelligence, with knowledge.
Therefore, discussion of these matters and thorough knowledge about the intricacies, the inner
subtleties of these things, will put us in a very good position so that we may be able to deal with
these situations which crop up before us in our life of Yoga and Vedanta during the course of our
leading the divine life.
Swami Chidananda
What Is Divine Living
What is Yoga-Vedanta? What is divine living? Yoga-Vedanta is the concern of divine life.
Divine life is a life based upon Yoga and pervaded by the spirit of Vedanta. This is divine life, and it
is made up of selflessness, service, Sadhana and self-realisation. So Yoga and Vedanta form the
very fabric of divine life, or the stuff out of which divine life is made. Naturally, therefore, the more
we know about it, the more we are reminded about its important aspects, the better equipped we will
be in order to live the divine life, because the most important thing about divine life is in the living
of it, not so much in the knowing of it. But the importance of knowing lies in the plain fact that if
you have to live it, you must know something of it, so that with this knowledge you will be able to
live it more effectively. So knowledge also is necessary, but the most important thing is the living of
it. In the living of a life of Yoga, a life of practical Vedanta, we come across several hurdles, and we
are faced many times with situations which we have to manage with intelligence, with knowledge.
Therefore, discussion of these matters and thorough knowledge about the intricacies, the inner
subtleties of these things, will put us in a very good position so that we may be able to deal with
these situations which crop up before us in our life of Yoga and Vedanta during the course of our
leading the divine life.
Swami Chidananda
Chant the Maha Mantra
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
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