SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 29 FEBRUARY

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SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 29 FEBRUARY

EPISTLE OF SWAMI SIVANANDA – 9

This is the way to spiritualise all your actions (CONTINUED)

 

 

Jnana yoga is the yoga of wisdom. It is vedanta. It is the

culmination of all the other yogas. It teaches that the individual

soul is in essence identical with the supreme Soul. When avidya

(ignorance) is destroyed the individual soul merges in the supreme

soul.

 

The aspirant should equip himself with the four means of salvation -

study the scriptures (Upanishad) under a guru and meditate. He will

attain self-realisation.

 

The mind alone is the universe. The body with its organs, etc., is no

other than mind.

 

The slayer of atman (self) is the mind only. The actions of the mind

alone are, indeed actions, but not so those of the body.

 

The mind contemplating upon the body becomes the body itself and

then, enmeshed in it, is afflicted by it.

 

Slay the mind and attain eternal bliss.

 

He who has a guru knows Brahman. A guru alone can remove doubts,

pitfalls and snares. Guru is God Himself.

 

All that a guru can do is to tell his disciple the method of knowing

the truth or the path that leads to the disclosure of the intuitional

faculty.

 

He will clear your doubts, remove pitfalls and snares and inspire

you. He cannot give you samadhi (superconscious state). You will have

to place each step yourself on the rung of the ladder of yoga. Do not

expect a miracle from your guru, to put you into samadhi.

 

Every man wants everlasting happiness. This is his innate feeling.

This indicates that his soul is an embodiment of bliss.

 

Everybody wants full knowledge of everything. This gives the clue

that atman is a mass of knowledge.

 

Every man wants freedom. It gives the clue that his atman is ever

free.

 

Search within and attain the ever-blissful and ever free atman.