Peace and Blessedness. The Path to the Spirit

 

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Peace and Blessedness. The Path to the Spirit

 

The Bhagavad-Gita says; “The well-resolved mind is single and one pointed”, So it is with a seeker of Truth. He thinks of nothing else. He moves in that, he lives to that, his whole being is based on that, and he becomes that. You may ask; what happens to his ordinary life? Does a wise man eat, sleep work? Yes; he eats, sleeps and performs all his functions but he knows that his soul is immortal and he lives with that consciousness. An ordinary mortal recognizes diseases, bondage, suffering; but one who has soul-consciousness, he does not recognize these; he recognizes God. He lives like other man; but he is free, while the other is bound. You may put him in a dark dungeon; there he finds an effulgent light within himself. You cannot rob him of his light. You do not need to help him; he finds all his help in the Supreme. You say the most condemning tings; they do not touch him,

Who is the stronger? The one who is not touched. He lives in an atmosphere which no one can break through. He lives on an island so isolated, no one can reach him. He dwells in a state which can never be disturbed. His inner consciousness is peace and that inner bliss he possesses is his own. You may have a beautiful room, decorate it with flowers and do everything to have space there; but it is not so safe as when you have peace and bliss within yourself. You may have to leave that special place; but the inner shrine you can carry with you wherever you go. That sanctuary which you create within yourself by your thoughts, words and actions, nothing can take away.

 

Pure love is emptying the mind of all fear

 

By Anup Taneja

 

Over the last two years, the world has been passing through a critical phase owing to the Covid-19 pandemic that has not spared even the most affluent nations. The main reason for the untold misery being inflicted on the inhabitants of earth, according to Albert Einstein, is the failure of humanity to use and harness the various forces of the universe in the right direction.

 

It was through a flash of intuition that Einstein realised that there was an extremely powerful force that governed every phenomenon operating in the universe about which science could not find any formal explanation. This universal force, he said, is love. The positive energy of love, he believed, is so very powerful that it has the capacity to heal the entire world.

 

While making efforts to develop a unified theory of the universe, explains Einstein, scientists completely overlooked the presence of this positive energy. Love is light that enlightens those who give and receive it; love is gravity because it works like a magnet, attracting people towards one another; love is power, because it extinguishes blind selfishness and ensures that humanity is not governed by a parochial attitude.  Indeed, it is for love we live and for love we die – love is God and God is love.

 

 

Paramhansa Yogananda, an ardent votary of the lofty ideal of Divine Love, writes   that love is the divine power of attraction in creation that harmonises, unites and binds together. It is opposed by the force of repulsion, which is the outgoing cosmic energy that materialises creation from the cosmic consciousness of God. Repulsion keeps all forms in the manifested state through ‘maya’, the power of delusion that divides, differentiates and disharmonises. The attractive force of love counteracts cosmic repulsion to harmonise all creation and ultimately draw it back to God. Those who live in tune with the attractive force of love, achieve harmony with nature and their fellow beings, and are attracted to blissful reunion with God.

 

Mata Amritanandmayi, the very embodiment of love and compassion, says that the root cause of all problems, from personal to global, is the absence of love in the hearts of people. Love is the binding factor, the unifying factor that creates the feeling of oneness among people. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of masks of all.

 

In present times where nations are spending millions of dollars in accumulating weapons and bombs of mass destruction, it is all the more important that mankind creates another type of bomb, a love-bomb, which is powerful enough to annihilate hatred, selfishness and greed that have devastated our planet. Suffering has made us realise that the transitory life on earth is too precious to be frittered away in nurturing thoughts of hatred and ill-will towards fellow humans. Einstein rightly said: “If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.”

 

IF HE EXIST

 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 7 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 7 minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste 7 minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 7minutes joy that I derive 4m.-

 

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