Sivananda Daily Reading for 19 October
SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 19 OCTOBER
THE ONENESS OF ALL EXISTENCE
Realise the totality and allinclusiveness of your life. Your being is
cosmic. You inhabit all the worlds - all the worlds are your
spontaneous expression. One's love for friends, sons, etc. is not for
the sake of others, but for one's own self. Therefore love for self
is the highest and hence full of supreme happiness. The more you give
up your hankerings for objects and try to realise your identity with
the true self or Atman, the more you will realise your true happiness.
The path of evolution is from unconsciousness to life; from life to
consciousness; from consciousness to selfconsciousness; and from self
consciousness to superconsciousness. Mysticism is the art of union
with the reality. A mystic is a person who has attained that union
with the reality, or who is aiming for that attainment.
What is this ego; what is this little `I'? Is it your foot or flesh
or hand or blood - or any part of your body? Reflect well. You will
know that there is no such thing as `I'. The `I' will vanish into
nothingness. What is left is the pure, infinite atman. When the ego
perishes, the supreme soul reveals itself in all its pristine glory
and splendour.
Do not seek to satisfy the ego - offer all your life and actions as
sacred sacrifice to the supreme divine. You yourself are passing a
death sentence on yourself - you are creating a hell by your own evil
thoughts. It is useless to look up to the skies to find the divine.
Turn inwards. In your own heart dwells the eternal.
COSMIC POWER HOUSE
Individual souls are like electric light bulbs. The bulbs get their
light from the power house. The jivas (souls) get their power from
Brahman, the infinite cosmic power house. The bulb imagines that it
is independent and boasts of its effulgence and power. It has no idea
of its source. When the current fails it hangs its head in shame and
weeps. Even so, the jiva drags out his egoism. O fool, O dunce, know
the source through purity, devotion, tapas, meditation and enjoy
supreme peace and eternal bliss.
THE ONENESS OF ALL EXISTENCE
Realise the totality and allinclusiveness of your life. Your being is
cosmic. You inhabit all the worlds - all the worlds are your
spontaneous expression. One's love for friends, sons, etc. is not for
the sake of others, but for one's own self. Therefore love for self
is the highest and hence full of supreme happiness. The more you give
up your hankerings for objects and try to realise your identity with
the true self or Atman, the more you will realise your true happiness.
The path of evolution is from unconsciousness to life; from life to
consciousness; from consciousness to selfconsciousness; and from self
consciousness to superconsciousness. Mysticism is the art of union
with the reality. A mystic is a person who has attained that union
with the reality, or who is aiming for that attainment.
What is this ego; what is this little `I'? Is it your foot or flesh
or hand or blood - or any part of your body? Reflect well. You will
know that there is no such thing as `I'. The `I' will vanish into
nothingness. What is left is the pure, infinite atman. When the ego
perishes, the supreme soul reveals itself in all its pristine glory
and splendour.
Do not seek to satisfy the ego - offer all your life and actions as
sacred sacrifice to the supreme divine. You yourself are passing a
death sentence on yourself - you are creating a hell by your own evil
thoughts. It is useless to look up to the skies to find the divine.
Turn inwards. In your own heart dwells the eternal.
COSMIC POWER HOUSE
Individual souls are like electric light bulbs. The bulbs get their
light from the power house. The jivas (souls) get their power from
Brahman, the infinite cosmic power house. The bulb imagines that it
is independent and boasts of its effulgence and power. It has no idea
of its source. When the current fails it hangs its head in shame and
weeps. Even so, the jiva drags out his egoism. O fool, O dunce, know
the source through purity, devotion, tapas, meditation and enjoy
supreme peace and eternal bliss.
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