PATH TO PERFECTION

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GOD CONSCIOUSNESS AS A GOAL

 

Four things are absolutely necessary for the purification of the

heart and for conquering the animal nature.

 

1. Self Control, which includes the control of senses and the

control of mind by the practice of concentration;

2. truthfulness;

3. Disinterested love for all;

4. Unselfish works.

 

In one of the Upanishads we read:

" He shall not attain to spiritual perfection who has not ceased to

follow wicked ways, who has not subdued his senses, who has not

controlled his mind by concentration, and who is not truthful and

kind to all. "

 

These lines contain the whole of ethics and essence of all the

scriptures of the world. The secret of spiritual progress lies in

the practice of these four.

 

Whether we believe in God or not, whether we have faith in any

prophet or not, if we have self-control, concentration, truthfulness

and disinterested love for all, the we are on the way to spiritual

perfection.

 

Swami Abhedananda