The practice of Religion

 Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

 

The practice of Religion

We read many books and many scriptures; We get various ideas from our childhood and change them every now and then. We understand what is meant by theoretical religion. we think we understand what is meant by practical religion. Now I am going to present to you my idea of practical religion.

            We hear all around us about practical religion and analyzing that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception. – charity to our fellow beings. is that all of the religion? Every day we hear in this country about practical Christianity –that a man has done some good to his fellow beings. Is that all?

What is the goal of life? Is this world the goal of life? Nothing more? Are we to just what we are nothing more?

The highest dream of many religions is the world… The vast majority of people are dreaming of a time when there will be no more disease, sickness, poverty or misery of any kind. They will have a good time all around. Practical religion, therefore, simply means Clean the streets! Make it nice! We see how all enjoy it.

            Is enjoyment the goal of life? Where it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat? Got to a menagerie and see the wild animal tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird!... What a mistake than to become a man! Vain have been my years –hundreds of years-if struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyment… curtsey practice of religion

 

Nothing is more difficult than being successful

By The Mother

 

There are innumerable categories of ‘successful’ people; these categories are determined by the greater or lesser breadth, nobility, complexity, purity and luminosity of their ideal. One may ‘succeed’ as a rag-picker or ‘succeed’ as master of the world or even as a perfect ascetic; in all three cases, although on very different levels, it is one’s more or less integral and extensive self-mastery which makes the ‘success’ possible.

 

On the other hand, there is only one way of being a ‘failure’; and that happens to the greatest, to the most sovereign intelligence, as well as to the smallest, the most limited, to all those who are unable to subordinate the sensation of the present moment to the ideal they wish to achieve, but without having the strength to take up the path  that leads to this achievement.

 

At any level, from the most modest to the most transcendent, one rarely finds a perfect balance between the sum of self-control, the power of sacrifice available to the individual who has chosen a goal, and the sum of renunciations of every kind and nature which the goal requires.

 

When the constitution of an individual permits this perfect balance, then his earthly existence yields its utmost possible result.

 

 

As soon as you think that you have succeeded in a certain thing, the adverse forces make it a point to attack and spoil it. Moreover, when you think of success, you relax your aspiration and the slightest relaxation is sufficient to spoil the game. The best thing is not to think of it but to go on doing your duty. But sometimes when you go on thinking of your shortcomings and failures and you get depressed, then you have to put the success before your nose and say,  ‘Look at this’.

 

One must never try for the sake of succeeding.

 

Success depends entirely on the sincerity.

 

To judge from appearances and apparent success is precisely an act of complete ignorance. Even for the most hardened man, for whom everything has apparently been successful, even for him there is always a counterpart. And this kind of hardening of the being which is produced, this veil which is formed between the outer consciousness and the inner truth, becomes one day altogether intolerable. It is usually paid for very dearly — outer success.

 

One must be very great, pure, and have a very high and disinterested spiritual consciousness in order to be successful without being affected by it. Nothing is more difficult than being successful. This, indeed, is the true test of life!  Courtesy: aurosociety.org

 

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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