Spiritual way of Life.

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Message of the Day.

 

Dear friends and devotees,

 

Bhakti is eternal.

 

Share the wisdom from His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji.

 

DISPASSION.

 

1. The Divine can come only in deep rest, not in doing. All your

activities help you to become silent, and not enjoying bliss and peace

can take you even further. If existence wants to give you these

†" fine. Accept them. But enjoying bliss and peace can cause

cravings. It takes courage to say, “I am.†Your true

nature is bliss but when you try to enjoy the bliss, you step down from

“ I am †to “ I am peaceful, â€

“ I am blissful. †And that is followed by

“ I am miserable â€

 

“ I am †is dispassion. Dispassion welcomes

everything. Centeredness brings energy, a spark. But enjoying bliss

brings inertia. If you are dispassionate, the bliss is still there.

Dispassion takes away the sense of scarcity. Passion is a sense of

lacking abundance. When everything is abundant, dispassion happens and

when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.

 

2. Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance

in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when

to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each

other †" activity in rest and rest in activity -- is the ultimate

freedom.

 

More tiring than the work itself is the memory of hard work. Just

thinking you have worked hard interferes with the quality of rest. Some

people take pride in working hard without any results. And there are

others who crave for a long rest without knowing that true rest is in

non-doer ship.

 

Thinking you need rest make you restless.

 

Thinking you have to work hard makes you tired.

 

Thinking you have worked hard brings self-pity.

 

It is the quality of rest, even if it is short, that helps you to

recuperate. When rest is needed, your body will automatically take it.

Resting, without thinking about the need for it, is more restful. Lack

of desire, dispassion and Samadhi are the deepest forms of rest.

 

3. Hide your dispassion and express your love. Expressing dispassion

may bring ego. By expressing dispassion you lose enthusiasm in life and

by not expressing love you feel stifled. Hide dispassion in your heart

like the roots of a tree and express love like a ripe fruit.

 

4. When you are in the grip of feverishness over the results of your

actions, what should you do?

 

Have faith and confidence that the results will be much better than you

can ever imagine. With faith you can rid your self of the feverishness

of action and achievement. Feverishness can be a residue from

over-activity. Sleeping, listening to flute music and bathing in cold

water can help.

 

When you are doing something very important, take a moment to do

something totally unrelated, irrelevant and insignificant. This

enhances your creativity. Relevant action keeps you bound to the

action. Irrelevant action makes life a game.

 

5. Have dispassion. Know that everything passes one way or the other,

and that it does not matter. Meditation and breathing can calm you

down.

 

To be continued. . . .

 

With love and regards,

 

Sastry.