Life is never irksome or arduous to us when we gain this larger view-point. We are no longer afraid of living , nor are we afraid of dying. All fear springs from the narrow side of our nature. Egotism, selfish greed and ignorance, these are what cause fear. The large-minded, selfless man is never afraid. There can be no fear in our heart except when we are selfish. If a man walks with God and feels his heart a part of God’s heart, nothing can frighten him. There are certain orthodox teachings which declare it to be sacrilegious to claim that we are a part of the Divine, but did not Christ teach this? Did He not say; “Be ye perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect”? Also in the Upanishads we read; “Thou art That”-thou art in essence one with infinite and unalterable being. is not this the theme sounding through all spiritual the theme sounding through all spiritual teachings-that unless we become God like, we cannot enter into conscious union with God; Unless we become truly living we cannot conquer death?
MondQuote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Reincarnation and Immortality
Over coming fear of Deathay, 6 June 2020
Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Reincarnation and Immortality
Over coming fear of Death
We all have the power to conquer death but not
in the physical sense. The material man would like to prolong his earthly life indefinitely.
That is not possible. The combination of material elements whish make up this
physical body must dissolve sooner or later, but within this combination there
is something finer, less destructible-the causal body, which will out last with
gross body. Our thoughts , our aspiration , our desires and feelings , our
thirst for martial things and our yearning for the spiritual are all contained
in this and according to the measure of the spiritual or the material do we
obtain what are deserve. Our future destiny is wholly moulded by ourselves. You
may say. It we mould our own destiny, which does God do? But even granted that
He moulds it, we still supply the material out of which He shapes it, He is not
an arbitrary, partial, revengeful Deity.
You are the Supreme Self
The Speaking Tree India,
Lifestyle, Roots & Wings | ET
By Dada J P Vaswani
Within each one of us, there are two selves:
the lower self and the higher Self. The lower self is the self of passion and
pride, lust and hatred, greed, resentment and ill-will, jealousy and envy.
All these base passions go to make up the lower
self. May I tell you what our problem is? It is that many of us have identified
ourselves with this lower self of the passions. We think of it as our own true
Self. We allow it to dominate our thoughts and actions.
We go to it again and again, and submit to its
dictates. We follow its impulses like obedient servants; that is why we have
amongst us, thieves, frauds, forgers, fakes, criminals, liars and murderers.
That is why the world today is rocked by wars, violence, hatred, strife,
intolerance and prejudice.
All these negativities are the outcome of the
baser emotions, of man’s lower self in ascendancy. Let me say to you, this
lower self may dominate us often; but it is a tiny pathetic thing. This lower
self is only a part of the story of man — in fact, it is less than a fraction.
For, within each one of us is a higher Self —
the true Self that the Gita refers to as the Atman. Each one of us is the Atman
— the indestructible, eternal Self, the Self of utter truth and bliss that we
call ‘sat chit ananda’.
There have been, and are, people who have
realised their Oneness with the Supreme Self. This is what we are in reality,
the highest self, which is a spark of the Supreme Self.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the
author's own.
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