Monday, 09 March 2020
Quote from the True
Charm and Power of Vedanta
Peace and
Blessedness.
Every good act inspires one for another. Things
constantly change in this world, but the memory remains; and the memory of an unselfish,
noble act brings great strength and consolation to the soul. A true devotee
really enjoys pain when he can relieve someone by taking it on himself. He is
only afraid to give pain to others; but he loves to take pain on himself, if by
so doing he can bring peace and happiness to another. This is the way the
sincere devotee always feels and always tries to act.
Let your earnest prayer be that all your
association and contact with life may bring you strength and inspiration for
your work, and that you may find peace even in the midst of great difficulties.
Difficulties and danger are bound to come to all, but those who meet them
calmly and bravely, they grow stronger for them; while those who give way and
succumb to them, they are always miserable .
No work was ever accomplished without meeting
with opposition, and it is indeed a great blessing when we receive blows. If
there is anything real in a man, he cannot help but bring it out then; for a
noble soul is noble under all circumstances. Unless we can absolutely give up
all our feelings and opinions, we are bound to meet with opposition. Where is
the remedy? The remedy is in ourselves; it is in our own sincere conviction and
purity of life. Nothing else can give us
the fearlessness which comes through the practice of unselfishness. Let us there
fore try to serve truly, knowing that all power comes through time service. Let
us make it our constant prayer at life . divine feet that we may prove
ourselves exemplary characters and a blessing to all those who come near us.
Overcome Suffering
The Speaking Tree | Lifestyle | ET
By Swami Sukhabodhananda
I am often asked how to end suffering. You are
so focused on action that you don’t realise that action born out of ignorance
is an extension of ignorance. We have to enlighten our action with
understanding.
You are the creator of your suffering. This
understanding will help you dissolve suffering. An unhappy person in heaven
will convert even heaven into hell; ahappy person can convert hell into heaven.
So, change is not required anywhere except within you. If you have an unhappy
mind, even if you are in heaven, you will ‘stink’. So, to overcome suffering,
you have to understand that your unhappy mind is the cause.
There are two types of sufferings.
Legitimate and illegitimate.
Legitimate suffering is sorrow that is
proportionate to the situation. For example, your loved one dies. This sorrow
is valid.
But if you continue worrying for more than one
or two years, then there is a psychological aspect to it. To handle legitimate
sufferings, you should understand that such suffering is the result of your past
deeds.
Illegitimate suffering is suffering that is not
proportionate to the situation.
Surrender is real growth. Growth involves no
suffering. Resistance to suffering creates suffering.
Very often, we suffer because we are not open
to the vastness of life. We are bound by our knowledge. We are dead to
something that is beyond our knowledge.
What we know is finite and what we do not know
is infinite.
To be alive and limited to what we know, and
dead to what we do not know, is a deep cause for suffering.
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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