SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 15 OCTOBER
THE RIDDLE OF THE WORLD
You yourself have made your life complex. You have entangled yourself
in this quagmire. You have multiplied your wants and desires. Every
day you are forging new links in the chain of bondage. Simplicity has
vanished. Luxurious habits are daily developed. People are dying of
starvation; there is depression and unrest everywhere. There is
devastation by earthquake. The divorce courts are increasing. One
nation is afraid of another nation. Life has become a matter of
uncertainty. It has become a mass of confusion and bewilderment; it
has become stormy and boisterous.
You can escape from these troubles and difficulties if you lead a
life of dispassion, selfrestraint, purity and selfless service, if
you develop cosmic love, if you make a habit of developing the right
point of view, right thinking, right feeling, right action, with the
right mental attitude and if you practise meditation and devotion.
If you have no sustained vai ragya (dispassion) you will find no
improvement or progress in spirituality. Vows, energy, austerities
and meditation will leak out like water from a cracked pot. You have
spent eight hours in sleep and the rest in idle gossiping, telling
lies and deceiving others. How can you expect spiritual good or
immortality if you do not spend even half an hour in the service of
God, in singing his name and in divine contemplation?
Is there pain or pleasure in this world? If there is pleasure, then
why do young educated men retire into the forests? If there is pain,
why do young men run after wealth, position and women? Mysterious is
maya (illusion)! Mysterious is moha (delusion)! Try to understand the
riddle of life and the riddle of the universe. Acquire viveka
(wisdom). Have satsanga (holy company). Enquire into the nature of
the atman. Study the Yoga Vasishta and the Upanishads. Then you will
have a comprehensive understanding of the problems of life. There is
not one iota of happiness in this world.
Real freedom is from birth and death. Real freedom is freedom from
the trammels of flesh and mind. Real freedom - is freedom from the
bonds of karma. Real freedom is freedom from attachment to the body,
etc. Real freedom is freedom from desires and from egoism.
You yourself have made your life complex. You have entangled yourself
in this quagmire. You have multiplied your wants and desires. Every
day you are forging new links in the chain of bondage. Simplicity has
vanished. Luxurious habits are daily developed. People are dying of
starvation; there is depression and unrest everywhere. There is
devastation by earthquake. The divorce courts are increasing. One
nation is afraid of another nation. Life has become a matter of
uncertainty. It has become a mass of confusion and bewilderment; it
has become stormy and boisterous.
You can escape from these troubles and difficulties if you lead a
life of dispassion, selfrestraint, purity and selfless service, if
you develop cosmic love, if you make a habit of developing the right
point of view, right thinking, right feeling, right action, with the
right mental attitude and if you practise meditation and devotion.
If you have no sustained vai ragya (dispassion) you will find no
improvement or progress in spirituality. Vows, energy, austerities
and meditation will leak out like water from a cracked pot. You have
spent eight hours in sleep and the rest in idle gossiping, telling
lies and deceiving others. How can you expect spiritual good or
immortality if you do not spend even half an hour in the service of
God, in singing his name and in divine contemplation?
Is there pain or pleasure in this world? If there is pleasure, then
why do young educated men retire into the forests? If there is pain,
why do young men run after wealth, position and women? Mysterious is
maya (illusion)! Mysterious is moha (delusion)! Try to understand the
riddle of life and the riddle of the universe. Acquire viveka
(wisdom). Have satsanga (holy company). Enquire into the nature of
the atman. Study the Yoga Vasishta and the Upanishads. Then you will
have a comprehensive understanding of the problems of life. There is
not one iota of happiness in this world.
Real freedom is from birth and death. Real freedom is freedom from
the trammels of flesh and mind. Real freedom - is freedom from the
bonds of karma. Real freedom is freedom from attachment to the body,
etc. Real freedom is freedom from desires and from egoism.
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