Guest guest Posted March 4, 2001 Report Share Posted March 4, 2001 Inspired Talks 6 In our miseries and struggles the world seems to us a very dreadful place. But as when we watch two puppies playing and biting we do not concern ourselves at all, realizing that it is only fun and that even a sharp nip now and then will do no actual harm,; so our struggles are but play in God's eyes. This world is all for play and only amuses God; nothing in it can make God angry. Mother! In the sea of life my bark is sinking, The whirlwind of illusion the storm of attachment is growing every moment, my five oarsmen (senses) are foolish, and the helmsman (mind) is weak. My beings are lost, my boat is sinking. O Mother! Save me! 'Mother, Thy light stops not for the saint or the sinner; it animates the lover and the murderer'. Mother is ever manifesting through all. The light is not polluted by what it shines on, nor benefited by it. The light is ever pure, ever changeless. Behind every creature is the 'Mother, pure, lovely, never changing. 'Mother! manifested as light in all beings, we bow down to Thee!' She is equally in suffering, hunger, pleasure, sublimity. 'When the bee sucks honey, the Lord is eating.' Knowing that the Lord is everywhere, the sages give up praising and blaming. Know that nothing can hurt you. How? Are you not free? Are you not Atman? He is the Life of your lives, the hearing of your ears, the sight of your eyes. We go through the world like a man pursued by a policeman and see the barest glimpses of the beauty of it. All this fear that pursues us comes from believing in matter. Matter gets its whole existence from the presence of mind behind it. What we see is God percolating through nature--- Continued... Inspired Talks 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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