Swami Sivananda Vani

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Peace of the Inner Self

 

Peace is absolute serenity and tranquillity, wherein all the whims and

fancies, day-dreaming and imaginations, moods and impulses, emotions

and instincts cease to operate entirely and the individual soul rests

in its own native, pristine glory in an unruffled state. It is not, of

course, the temporary condition of mental quietude which worldly people

speak of in common parlance when they retire for a short time to a

solitary bungalow in a forest for a little rest. Peace is the realm of

infinite bliss and eternal sunshine, where cares, worries, anxieties

and fears which torment the soul, dare not enter, where all

distinctions of caste, creed and colour vanish altogether in the one

embrace of Divine Love and where desires and cravings find their full

satiety.