SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 3 NOVEMBER

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praNAms

Hare Krishna

 

This is a forwarded mesg. from Swamy Sivananda Daily Reading dated 3rd

Nov.2005...thought relevant to the discussion on *kAla*.

 

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!

bhaskar

 

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SIVANANDA DAILY READING FOR 3 NOVEMBER

TIME IS A TRICK

 

Time is the mode of the mind. It is a mental creation. Time is a

trick of the mind. It is an illusion. Brahman is beyond time. It is

eternity. Go beyond time and rest in the timeless, eternal,

imperishable Brahman.

 

'Up and down', 'within and without', 'high and low', 'big and

small', 'thin and stout', 'virtue and vice', 'good and

bad', 'pleasure and pain', 'here and there', are all relative terms.

They are mental creations only. Up will become down and down will

become up. This stick is small when compared to that big stick, but

that big stick will become small when compared with an even bigger

stick! Within will become without and without will become within.

 

What is good at one time is bad at another time. What is good for one

man is bad for another man. What is dharma for one is adharma for

another and, what is dharma at one time is not dharma at another time.

 

Brahman is neither thin nor stout, neither big nor small. In Brahman

there is neither within nor without, neither virtue nor vice, neither

pleasure nor pain, good nor bad. It is a homogeneous essence of bliss

and knowledge where there is no play of the mind, neither time nor

space, east nor west, past nor future, Thursday nor Friday.

 

Tomorrow becomes today and today becomes yesterday. Future becomes

present and present becomes the past. What is all this? This is a

creation or trick of the mind only. In God, everything is in the

present only; it is here only.

 

There is neither night nor day, yesterday nor tomorrow in the sun. It

is the mind that has created time and space. When you are happy time

passes quickly. When you are unhappy time hangs heavily. All this is

only a relative world.

 

Life is not a question of creeds but of deeds well done. No life is

free from difficulties ­ it is a series of conflicts. Face them boldly

through the grace of the Lord and the power of his name.

Change is the law of life. Truth is the law of life. Love is the

fulfilling of the law of life. Death is the gate to another life.

Life is endless.

 

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