Very often when we get a thing, we find that we never really wanted it. We may have been seeking it, but when we get it we may actually find that the desire has vanished, and some other desire has taken its place. Many people mistake the true nature of their yearnings and giver them worldly direction, whereas in reality no human yearning can ever find satisfaction in anything that is not permanent and unchanging, however much people may try to deceive themselves on this point. The old void haunts them again and again and mostly in a more terrible and relentless form than before. People seek happiness outside in external objects, in the physical aspects of men and women. But true happiness lies within ourselves; it is our inalienable heritage. External things can never bring time. We commit the mistake of looking at a certain span of time instead of looking at the whole of our lifetime. Temporary happiness there is, no doubt, in worldly relations, in human love and human affections. But temporary happiness can never mean real happiness, rather it is the opposite of it. True happiness is the intrinsic nature of the inner Self. Let us Have the desire to know our nature, to know our true Self. In Self-realization alone lies real blessedness.
Even though the higher Self of man is a part of the Divine and is actually inseparable from it, still the devotee gives more importance to God than to his own soul. To him God alone is the repository of all peace and blessedness. We should try to look within and find Him seated within our own hearts. This body of ours is the living temple of God. This is a conception we find stressed again and again in all the scriptures. The best temples of the Divine are, however, the great prophets and seers. That is why they exert the greatest influence. Those who have realized the Truth in their own souls alone can teach others the way to realization. The Lord is always at the back of our minds, at the back of our personality, and only if we can pray with a fervent heart will the prayer be heard, otherwise not. We should never think in terms of worldly understood, is no real index of spiritual life, no proof whatever of spiritual progress or realization. Spiritual happiness is of a different kind, it is the ‘peace of God which passeth all understanding.
We should not ask God for the things of the world. Suppose He grants them. The material things may bring troubles too. When we approach this great boon-giver we should never ask Him for worldly things connected with personal wishes and desires. We may approach the Lord just for saving our souls from getting drowned in the ocean of worldliness and infatuation for material things. Ordinarily, if we feel unhappy, we would rather adjust ourselves to our unhappiness and cling to our desires and fancies than change our ways and come to Truth and Bliss. We are so body-bound that we stress physical enjoyment more than anything else and are not prepared to renounce it. Rather we go on clinging desperately to its different forms although we get nothing but kicks and blows again and again. Such is the tremendous power of Maya or ignorance.
The Great Father or the Great Mother is witnessing the children at play. It only when the child gets tired of its toys and childish occupations that the Lord really comes to it and draws it away from the play-land of illusion. Children play with sweets, with dolls, with toy-soldiers, with toy-houses, with toy-cars, and nothing can be done by the Lord until they get tired of these and turn away from them in utter disgust. God takes it as great fun. And then, one day, the child has become a little grown-up and cries, ‘What have I done with my life?, and the Lord says, ‘Yes, what have you done, my child? Who asked you to do it? Who asked you to get hurt and get entangled with your toys? Who did it all?’ And then very often it is already too late, and the child sits in the ruins of its shattered life and wails.
Swami Yatiswarananda A monk from Ramakrishna monastic
Collected from a compiled book
Even though the higher Self of man is a part of the Divine and is actually inseparable from it, still the devotee gives more importance to God than to his own soul. To him God alone is the repository of all peace and blessedness. We should try to look within and find Him seated within our own hearts. This body of ours is the living temple of God. This is a conception we find stressed again and again in all the scriptures. The best temples of the Divine are, however, the great prophets and seers. That is why they exert the greatest influence. Those who have realized the Truth in their own souls alone can teach others the way to realization. The Lord is always at the back of our minds, at the back of our personality, and only if we can pray with a fervent heart will the prayer be heard, otherwise not. We should never think in terms of worldly understood, is no real index of spiritual life, no proof whatever of spiritual progress or realization. Spiritual happiness is of a different kind, it is the ‘peace of God which passeth all understanding.
We should not ask God for the things of the world. Suppose He grants them. The material things may bring troubles too. When we approach this great boon-giver we should never ask Him for worldly things connected with personal wishes and desires. We may approach the Lord just for saving our souls from getting drowned in the ocean of worldliness and infatuation for material things. Ordinarily, if we feel unhappy, we would rather adjust ourselves to our unhappiness and cling to our desires and fancies than change our ways and come to Truth and Bliss. We are so body-bound that we stress physical enjoyment more than anything else and are not prepared to renounce it. Rather we go on clinging desperately to its different forms although we get nothing but kicks and blows again and again. Such is the tremendous power of Maya or ignorance.
The Great Father or the Great Mother is witnessing the children at play. It only when the child gets tired of its toys and childish occupations that the Lord really comes to it and draws it away from the play-land of illusion. Children play with sweets, with dolls, with toy-soldiers, with toy-houses, with toy-cars, and nothing can be done by the Lord until they get tired of these and turn away from them in utter disgust. God takes it as great fun. And then, one day, the child has become a little grown-up and cries, ‘What have I done with my life?, and the Lord says, ‘Yes, what have you done, my child? Who asked you to do it? Who asked you to get hurt and get entangled with your toys? Who did it all?’ And then very often it is already too late, and the child sits in the ruins of its shattered life and wails.
Swami Yatiswarananda A monk from Ramakrishna monastic
Collected from a compiled book
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