What an illusion
Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one
claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot
understand this simple truth.
---Sarada Devi
A person
may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and
thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!
---Sarada Devi
As long as
a man has desires there is no end to his transmigration. It is the
desires along that make him take one body after another. There will be
rebirth for a man if he has even the desire to eat a piece of candy ....
Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree
growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot. Rebirth is
inevitable so long as one has desires. It is like taking the soul from
one pillow-case and putting it into another. Only one or two out of many
men can be found who are free from all desires.
---Sarada Devi
In one
word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire along is at
the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births deaths. It
is the obstacle in the way of liberation.
---Sarada Devi
There is
no happiness while living in this body. This world is full of sorrow.
Happiness is only an empty word. Only those who have received the grace
of the Master can recognize him as God, and that is there real joy.
---Sarada Devi
What is
there in the world? Tell me what is good in this life? That was why in
the end the Master took only bitter things. I would try to give him
sandesh(sweet) and he would say, "What is there in sandesh? It is just
the same as clay".
---Sarada Devi
However
spiritual a man may be, he must pay the tax for the use of the body to
the last farthing (i.e. undergo suffering and death incidental to the
embodied stat). But the difference between a great soul and an ordinary
man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the
former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.
---Sarada Devi
Everything
- husband, wife, or even the body - is only illusory. These are all
shackles of illusion. Unless you can free yourself from these bondages,
you will never be able to go to the other shore of the world. Even this
attachment to the body, the identification of the self with the body,
must go. What is this body, my darling? It is nothing but three pounds
of ashes when it is cremated. Why so much vanity about it? However
strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three
pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to
God.
---Sarada Devi
The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.
---Sarada Devi
If you
love any human being you will have to suffer for it. He is blessed,
indeed, who can love God alone. There is no suffering in loving God.
---Sarada Devi
Always do your duty to others, but love you must give to God alone. Worldly love always brings in its wake untold misery.
---Sarada Devi
These
earthly ties are transitory. Today they seem to be the be-all and the
end- all of life, and tomorrow they vanish. Your real tie is with God.
---Sarada Devi
Sri
Ramakrishna would say, 'Musk forms in the navel of the deer. Being
fascinated with its smell, the deer run hither and thither. They do not
know where the fragrance comes from. Likewise, God resides in the human
body, but man does not know it. Therefore he searches everywhere for
bliss, not knowing that it is already in him.' God alone is real. All
else is false.
---Sarada Devi
Everything
depends on one's mind. Nothing can be achieved without purity of mind.
It is said, 'The aspirant may have received the grace of the Guru, the
Lord, and the Vaishnava; but he comes to grief without the grace of
'one'. That 'one' is the mind. The mind of the aspirant should be
gracious to him.
---Sarada Devi
Don't
worry! Restlessness is the nature of the mind, as it is of the eyes and
ears. Practise regularly. The name of God is more powerful than the
senses. Always think of the Master, who is looking after you. Don't be
troubled about your lapses.
---Sarada Devi
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