Fwd: SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 3 AUGUST

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dlsmd , kvashisht wrote:

SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 3 AUGUST

SUPREME PEACE IS YOUR GOAL

 

Every man in the world is restless and is striving after something.

What it is he does not know. In the accomplishment of ambitious

projects he seeks the rest that he feels he is in need of - but he

finds that worldly greatness, when secured, is a snare and a

delusion. He does not find any real happiness or peace in it. He gets

degrees, titles, honours, power, name, and fame. He marries, he

begets children, he gets all he had supposed would give him

happiness. But he finds no rest. Pious men, saints, sages declare

that this restlessness of every man, this state of discontent,

dissatisfaction and uncomfortableness, of being ill at ease with

himself and his surroundings, is solely due to the loss of the

companionship of the partner of his soul, God.

 

Peace is absolute serenity and tranquility, wherein all the mental

modifications, thoughts, imagination, whims, fancies, moods, impulses

and emotions, instincts etc., cease entirely and the individual soul

rests in his own native, pristine glory, in an unruffled state. It is

not, of course, the temporary condition of mental quietude which

worldly people speak of in common parlance, when they retire for a

short time to a solitary bungalow in a forest for a short rest. Peace

is the fourth state of superconsciousness. It is the realm of supreme

bliss, eternal life and eternal sunshine, where cares, worries,

anxieties and fears which torment the soul here, dare not enter;

where all distinctions of caste, creed and colour vanish altogether

in the one embrace of the divine love and where desires and cravings

find their full satiety.

 

Peace is within. Search for it in the chambers of your heart through

one-pointed concentration and meditation. If you do not find peace

there, you will not find it anywhere else. Remember, dear friends,

that the goal of life is attainment of peace and not the achievement

of power, fame and wealth.

 

Desire is the greatest enemy of peace. There is no peace for him who

has no concentration. There can be no happiness for the unpeaceful.

In that supreme peace all pains, all sorrows, miseries, tribulations

vanish forever.

 

The peace of the eternal lies near those who know themselves, who are

disjoined from desire and passion, subdued in nature and of subdued

thoughts. The man who is endowed with supreme faith and who has

mastery over his senses, quickly gets supreme peace.

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