Guest guest Posted April 16, 2002 Report Share Posted April 16, 2002 Extract from Swami Ashokananda's " How to cultivate love for God " It is generally said that those who live in the world performing their duties relative to their position in life - pleasure is not the only motive but also duty, at least both are equally present - gradually overcome sense desires. <snip> There is a way way by which worldliness can be gradually changed into a real desire for spiritual knowledge, but until that desire has come, you cannot practice religion seriously, no matter what path you may follow. How are you to know that this condition has come to you? You know it by the state of your own mind. You will find that from time to time your mind moves away from all things of the world. It wants to become quiet, as if in that quietness it will find something; and from time to time the mind does acquire an inner quietness. Just as on a stormy day when the wind is blustery, from time to time there are quiet moments, in the same way the stormy mind, as it were, reaches these points of quietness. When that condition has come to you and you try to increase that quietness of time, you cultivate religion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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