Satyopanisad

[Guest guest]

Swami! How are we to believe all this is happening everyday in Kodaikanal? Can

we estimate our good luck that is responsible for the golden opportunity of

sitting at your lotus feet and listening to five discourses a day? How are we to

retain this privilege?

 

As you rightly deserve, you get this opportunity. But you need to note one

important point. The Bhagavadg i ta says, ks in e pun ye martyalokam vis'anti ,

which means that the merit accrued is exhausted with the passage of time. You

will have to return to the earth even from the highest of heavens.

 

One example. You know that some of your representatives are elected as

legislators and some as members of the parliament. How long does their term

last? Only five years. Does it not? Their term is for five years after which

they have to go back to their constituencies. But as legislators,

parliamentarians and people's representatives, if they frequently visit their

constituencies, meet the electorate and render service to the voters who elected

them to those positions, they can contest elections again and return to the

assembly or parliament as the case may be for another term. Similarly, while

enjoying the present golden opportunity you can still work for its continuity by

satkarma, doing good deeds, sadalo cana , entertaining good thoughts and

satsang, joining good company.