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Thursday, April 25, 2024

MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1208

 MESSAGE FOR CONTEMPLATION 1208'

Radhe krishna,
Have A blessed day,

SELF-SACRIFICE

Swami Sivananda
Self-sacrifice is the act of yielding up one's interests, or whatever one has for others. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Self-sacrifice is the highest rule of grace. Self-sacrifice is self-abnegation. It is the sacrifice, surrender or subordination of one's own self or one's personal happiness, or comfort, for the sake of duty or to advance the interests of others. Self-sacrifice kills egoism and leads to the descent of divine grace and divine light. A selfless worker annihilates his ego through self-sacrifice.

Where there is no wavering and wandering of the mind, there is serenity. In serenity there is neither attachment nor fear. In a serene mind, the Light of God descends.

- Swami Sivananda
Moderation In Everything
You must sleep only a little. You must talk only a little. You should not be a patient of
lingual diarrhoea. Move a little. This means that you should move a little, and not waste your energy
and time by moving about always. The instinctive life of eating, drinking, talking etc., should be
kept to the minimum. The other portion, wherein Gurudev says, “Do Japa a little. Do Asana a little.
Do Kirtan a little,”—means not that they should not be done too much, but here it is the other way
round. Here, Gurudev says that everyone of these items is essential, and all these items should find a
place in your daily programme. Asana, Pranayama, Japa, Kirtana, Meditation, Vichara, all these
things must find a place in your daily life. They are indispensable items which should find a place in
your daily routine, and the more you increase them, the better. And those things of your animal
nature, that life which is purely physical, sensual and bodily, such as, eating, drinking etc.—you
should keep within the rational minimum. All gross things that merely pertain to the body should be
kept to the minimum, and all these higher aspects of Sadhana should be given proper place in yourdaily programme. Therefore, this is the broad general outline of divine life or spiritual living for
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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