The One alone is concealed within all beings

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--- On Mon, 18/1/10, Swami Sadasivananda <sadasivananda wrote:

 

 

WISDOM FROM SRI ANANDAMAYI MA

 

 

 

All the time you have the desire to find; the acute feeling of lacking something. Just persist in your sadhana, and He will fulfill what is left undone. By the fullness of grace comes full illumination. In the measure that you exert yourself you will receive. The One alone is concealed within all beings. So as to get first-hand knowledge of this, one devotes oneself to spiritual exercises—to one’s japa and meditation. To practice concentration for the sake of finding God is incumbent on man. In whatever direction one causes the mind to move, in that direction it becomes engrossed. Therefore, if one tries again and again to turn the mind towards the Supreme Being, if one persistently aspires to realize that one is eternally united with Him, then there is hope of finding the way that leads to His touch. Man appears to be all want; it is by contemplating want that want is earned.

Therefore, to contemplate his real nature is man’s duty. Otherwise there will be want, wrong action, frustration, misfortune and death. The Self is reposing within Itself. In coming and going as well as in true Being is He alone. “I am indeed the blissful Self. I have to become established in Knowledge.†Thinking thus, see that in the infinite many there is He alone. One should make an effort to practice sadhana—in other words, to go to one’s real Home. If the mind is not turned in that direction, there will be foolishness, misery—so much suffering! As if by compulsion the mind runs after the gratification of desires that bring suffering. The mind has become almost uncontrollable. By the repetition of a Divine Name or mantra and by meditation, this illness can be cured. All without exception are actually embodiments of bliss. Having found one’s true Self, it is natural to experience the bliss of the Self.

*__________________* From Matri Vani, volume II-- Spiritual Teachings of the Masters from the East and West web site: http://www.spiritual-teaching.com