[FONT=garamond, serif]Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”[/FONT]
“Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.” Ramana Maharshi
[FONT=garamond, serif]You have a clean slate every day you wake up. You have a chance every single morning to make that change and be the person you want to be. You just have to decide to do it. Decide today’s the day. Say it: this is going to be my day.[/FONT]
Two windows are there: one looks on to space,
The other on the world, both blurred by thought
Of I and mine. This stopped; now not a trace
Through that first window still was seen of ought,
And none to see, no seeker and no sought.
And yet no blankness this,
But unimagined bliss,
Its gateway not through terror but through Grace. The world and dissolution, day and night,
Both are eternally. All things join hand
In cosmic dance, all things now seen aright
The gnarled and sombre northern pine-trees stand,
And star-shaped jasmine of this sun-baked land
Through the breached ego-wall
Pure love flows out to all,
Even a stray dog draws love as a child might. Is and Is not both at once are true,
Although to sight they seem to alternate.
Life, death, pass over, but they are not you
Fate fashions life, while you, immaculate,
Remain unchanged beyond life, death and fate.
You feel love outward flow
Towards others, while you know
All otherness a dream, the Truth not-two.
To be happy always is something which is difficult to achieve. That is to say, happiness and sorrow alternate in one’s life and there cannot be uninterrupted happiness alone.
[Context: Rama’s words to Kaikeyi when he saw his father deep in sorrow and in tears at the prospect of Rama going into the forest for 14 years.]
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