Take No Pride In Your Possessions
when you achieve something, W you need not feel proud about such achievements. A true spiritual person is one who feels grateful of his successes or achievements. If you are successful, it is duet Divine laws and nothing to do with your egoistic will. If you are a good speaker, you are blessed by the laws of nature. If you can remember and quote many things during a speech, it is the work of a brain you are endowed with by existence... which is nothing but the work of the Lord. Indeed, one has to be grateful to all that one is endowed with rather than feeling proud about it. Pride is a result of being egoistic. Arrogance is an expression of a symptom where energies within you are disorganised. You have to be aware of the games of ego. Its ways can be gross or subtle. A spiritual seeker should catch it right and not allow the ego to rule your life. If you throw it out from one door, it enters through another. Its ways are subtle and manipulative. Beware of its presence. Its presence is the absence of goodness. The foolish idea of renunciation, sanyas, is leaving the world but the true meaning is renouncing one's ego and its arrogance. If you are truly living a conscious life and not a life of sleep-fullness, you will realise that, 'time snatches away all these... money, youth, power and people in a second', as Adi Shankar Acharya pointed out. f all these are changing, there must be a changeless principle and Adi Shankar Acharya invites us to enter into this world of enlightenment. Life's higher purpose is to search for that state of 'Being'-enlightenment. 'See the illusory nature of the world': The world is not an illusion as such but the way you see the world is an illusion. You see the world filled with your desires, expectations, upsets and unhappy memories. Then you superimpose onthe objective world your subjective garbage and thus live in subjective creation -jiva shrishtiand not in the Lord's world-Ishwar Shrestha. 'Realise the state of Brahmn and enter into it': Man's journey appears to be in the following order: From onstage of unhappi ness to another state of unhappiness like one getting into wrong habits of smoking, drinking. Second stage is from state of unhappiness to state of happiness seeking right ways to be happy. The third stage is from state of happiness to state of happiness. Heats into another trap of seeking happiness and gets lost in wanting happiness. The last and wise stage is, from state of happiness to no ego and thof Brahmn... that of Brahmapadawhere one can stand face-to-face wroth and that too as an inner expеce. Such an experience where the subject but pure experience. The not just words but a content which cannot be contained by any wordsPridestrengthens the ego and drop this pride is to weaken these the world as it is and not influeby Thiago is being onthe right pat enlightenment.
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The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Sukhabodhananda views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Swami Sukhabodhananda and Speaking Tree,Times of India
Take No Pride In Your Possessions
when you achieve something, W you need not feel proud about such achievements. A true spiritual person is one who feels grateful of his successes or achievements. If you are successful, it is duet Divine laws and nothing to do with your egoistic will. If you are a good speaker, you are blessed by the laws of nature. If you can remember and quote many things during a speech, it is the work of a brain you are endowed with by existence... which is nothing but the work of the Lord. Indeed, one has to be grateful to all that one is endowed with rather than feeling proud about it. Pride is a result of being egoistic. Arrogance is an expression of a symptom where energies within you are disorganised. You have to be aware of the games of ego. Its ways can be gross or subtle. A spiritual seeker should catch it right and not allow the ego to rule your life. If you throw it out from one door, it enters through another. Its ways are subtle and manipulative. Beware of its presence. Its presence is the absence of goodness. The foolish idea of renunciation, sanyas, is leaving the world but the true meaning is renouncing one's ego and its arrogance. If you are truly living a conscious life and not a life of sleep-fullness, you will realise that, 'time snatches away all these... money, youth, power and people in a second', as Adi Shankar Acharya pointed out. f all these are changing, there must be a changeless principle and Adi Shankar Acharya invites us to enter into this world of enlightenment. Life's higher purpose is to search for that state of 'Being'-enlightenment. 'See the illusory nature of the world': The world is not an illusion as such but the way you see the world is an illusion. You see the world filled with your desires, expectations, upsets and unhappy memories. Then you superimpose onthe objective world your subjective garbage and thus live in subjective creation -jiva shrishtiand not in the Lord's world-Ishwar Shrestha. 'Realise the state of Brahmn and enter into it': Man's journey appears to be in the following order: From onstage of unhappi ness to another state of unhappiness like one getting into wrong habits of smoking, drinking. Second stage is from state of unhappiness to state of happiness seeking right ways to be happy. The third stage is from state of happiness to state of happiness. Heats into another trap of seeking happiness and gets lost in wanting happiness. The last and wise stage is, from state of happiness to no ego and thof Brahmn... that of Brahmapadawhere one can stand face-to-face wroth and that too as an inner expеce. Such an experience where the subject but pure experience. The not just words but a content which cannot be contained by any wordsPridestrengthens the ego and drop this pride is to weaken these the world as it is and not influeby Thiago is being onthe right pat enlightenment.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Swami Sukhabodhananda views and kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Swami Sukhabodhananda and Speaking Tree,Times of India