Monday, 15
July 2019
Quote from
the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Law of
our Destiny
It
is useless to expect to have a life of perfect happiness and attain the highest
heavenly region after we pass out of this life, unless we have something to
show that we deserve these things. If we do not deserve Heaven and are given a
place there, we shall not be able to keep it. This is something which often we
do not remember. If today our life is moulded by our ordinary vision, if our association
is vulgar and unclean then certainly we shall not be able to appreciate anything
heavenly, pure and full of the fragrance of holiness. If our mind our heart our
conduct and associations are of a lower nature and we are forced to go up, we
shall find ourselves out of place and unhappy
Heaven is Heaven only when our heart feels in tunes with it; otherwise
it become unbearable. We can never keep or enjoy anything which we do not deserve.
There
are certain happening in this world which may seem accidental or unjust – an innocent
person suffering, a criminal enjoying great prosperity; but they can always be
explained as the working of some law. How long des a criminal prosper? Is his
happiness lasting or only temporary? We cannot explain our life by looking upon
this little span only. We have to connect it with all that has gone before. This
existence had another existence prior to it, and that one still another and so
on. Only when we connect these broken links of the chain of life, and we
explain what seems inexplicable to-day. The light of wisdom reveals to us that
in the cosmic universe there is no injustice. Ours is to abide by the law and
to make our life rich with wisdom and with power doing. Thus we can enlarge the
whole human harvest field. Other people seeing how fruitful we have made our life
will profit by us noble suggestions from our life will help others. Thus it is
that we help each other by helping ourselves in the right way. Courtesy reincarnation and immortality
Keep fear
at bay
The
Speaking Tree | ET
BY-
Janina Gomes
God is
perpetually mowing His lawns,” says FB Meyer. The musical tinkle of the
whetstone on the scythe portends the cutting down of myriads of green blades
and flowers. Beautiful as they were in the morning, within an hour or two they
lie, faded and spent.
There is
no method of obtaining a velvety lawn but by repeated mowing; and there is no
way of developing tenderness, evenness, sympathy, but by the passing of God’s
scythe.
When
grass is mown and all the tender shoots are bleeding, when desolation reigns
where flowers were bursting, the time is ripe for showers of rain to fall soft
and warm.
When
circumstances circumscribe us and we feel we are in captivity, for instance,
rebelling against the situation does not help. If we have to turn it to the
best account possible, we have to make the best of the situation.
God is
often compared to the refiner and purifier of silver. It is with the most
precious metals that the assayer takes the most pains and subjects them to the
hot fire, because such fires melt the metal, and only the molten mass releases
its alloy to take perfectly its new form in the mould. We see this process
repeated in life.
God
chastises those He wants to purify. The heat of opposition and
misunderstanding, of being reviled and forsaken, purifies us of all the dross
in our lives so that we can reflect more perfectly the divine image within us.
DISCLAIMER
: Views expressed above are the author's own.
But, if
He exists?
I
drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and
evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed
at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on
something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well,
if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He
exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten
minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy
that I derive 4m.
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