Guest guest Posted February 18, 2002 Report Share Posted February 18, 2002 Jaya Guru Datta, Here is today's saying: "As long as man has a body, he cannot escape from work. However much he may try to remain inactive or actionless, he cannot do so. His svabhaava or vaasanaas or the tendencies inherent in him, drive him to the field of action. Works are such that some yield fruits instantaneously. Some works yield fruits after some time. There are others which yield fruits after quite a long time. But there are works which yield results after the expiry of the present life. To experience those fruits, man has to be born again. Again he performs new works, to enjoy the fruits of which he will have to take birth again. Thus this cycle of birth and death - the journey from the womb to the tomb - never stops. If man is content with this merry-go-round, well and good. But if a man wants to escape from this wheel of birth and death and is earnest about it, then he should approach a Master who knows the secret and has freed himself from the bonds. He will instruct the student appropriately. He will show him the way to remain actionless even while performing actions. That way is the way of always chanting the divine names of the Lord while working. Such chanting and remembrance of God's names will divinise every work as a result of which work loses its binding force, and becomes dedicated work." Sri Swamiji Nirvana Satka of Adi Sankara, back inside cover Sri Guru Datta, Swamiji Says Suggest a quote for this week's Swamiji Says! Send a quote to: swamiji-says Check out Cupid School where you will learn from Matchmaker's best and brightest. Good Luck! http://ecard.matchmaker.com/cupid0202/cupid0202.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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