One more from Swami Sivananda

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Dear Divine Lovers of Divinity in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone....

 

Here is one more from the Lion in Spirituality, Swami Sivananda.

Enjoy, enrich and enlighten. Hari Om. Love and Love alone....

 

P. Gopi Krishna.

 

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SUPREME LOVE OF GOD

 

Life is complex nowadays. The struggle is very keen.

 

Here is an easy way of worshipping the Lord. Consider your house as

the temple of the Lord. Your wife and children and others as the

holy company of the bhaktas (devotees). Consider every word you

speak as the japa (repetition) of the Lord's name and as praise of

him. Consider every action as service of the Lord. And your lying in

bed as prostrations before the Lord. And your daily walk and moving

about, as perambulations of the Lord. Consider the lights you burn

in the evening as the waving of lights to the Lord. Consider sleep

as samadhi (superconscious state). Give food and drink as offering

to the Lord, then take it as his prasad (gift). This is an easy way

to worship the Lord.

 

" How shall I wash thy feet with holy water, O Lord, when the very

Ganges flows from thy feet? How shall I give thee a seat O Lord?

Thou art all pervading: How shall I wave lights for thee O Lord? The

sun and the moon are thy eyes: Shall I offer flowers to thee? Thou

art the very essence of the flowers. "

 

This attitude is called para puja (highest worship).

 

Feel the presence of the Lord everywhere. He dwells in the chambers

of your heart too. He glitters in your eyes. He is the breath in

your nostrils. He is nearer to you than your jugular vein. Behold

Him in every face. You will attain happiness here and hereafter if

you worship God in this way. Life is short and time is fleeting.

Start doing this right now.

 

Why should you roam hither and thither to find God, the supreme

being? Why should you go in vain to the forests? Why? Even as in the

flower, fragrance resides, even as in the fire, heat dwells even so

doth the Lord abide. Seek Him within, my friend. Seek Him earnestly

too.

 

Gopi Krishna <gopi