Look Within – Talks on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Venkatesananda.

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I have a wooden plaque with this motto written on it; " Today is the

tomorrow that you worried about yesterday " .

 

You find that things have gone on fairly well – of course, it could

have been better but it might have been worse!

 

We have been able to manage today fairly satisfactorily, and now we are

worried about tomorrow, about the next day – they will also take

care of themselves, when they come along.

 

People often say " oh, it has never happened to me before " .

 

Of course it has never happened before. Every day and moment is

happening for the first time! The evening of 1st March 1974 has never

happened before; it goes on smoothly; and even so, the 2nd of March also

will go on smoothly.

 

Something might happen – something has to happen one of these days,

just as in a couple of hours, instead of sitting up, you will lie flat.

 

One of these days I will lie flat and may not want to get up for a few

more days – also alright, part of the game – as long as I

don't call it a dangerous illness and think " oh this

shouldn't happen to me – it can happen to everybody else, but

not me, I am so important you know " .

 

So again I must know that what I call my (my body, my life) also kills

me, destroys me.

 

I don't want my friends to fall ill; and then I don't mind as

long as I and my immediate family don't fall ill; and then I say

" I must not fall ill " – the bug may bite my wife or husband

as long as I don't get bitten.

 

Why not me? I am also formed of the same potatoes as others.

To be continued..