Gurudev Uvacha

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 01/10/2019. Strive : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Essentially, each seeker should know "What am I aspiring for? Is my aspiration being fouled by the occasional reverse gear—if not frequent reverse gears or a permanent inbuilt reverse gear—or am I totally out of gear?" All the calls of the Gita to Arjuna are to stand up and shake off weakness. "Strive" is what all the scriptures say.” *** ======================================================================

======================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01/10/2019. Spiritual Balance : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No saint has been able to maintain the spiritual balance throughout his life. There have been occasional reversals though these might not have left any impression on their minds any more than the mark left by a stick drawn on water. But the mark is there when it appears. Such is the difficulty of leading the spiritual life.The case of immature seekers is much more precarious, indeed." *** =======================================================================

 ========================================================================= ========================================================================= 20/08/2019 Mind : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does." ========================================================================

 =========================================================================  ======================================================================= 20/08/2019. Life : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching" ========================================================================

 =========================================================================  ======================================================================= 20/08/2019. Discrimination : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  "The faculty of discrimination, this power of judgment, this ability to discern what is right and what is wrong, what is to be done and what is not to be done, is the function of the intellect. The dignity and culture of mankind lie in the exercise of this faculty and when this wondrous equipment is left neglected, man is bound to deteriorate to the status of an animal and suffer the consequences thereof." =========================================================================

 =========================================================================   ========================================================================== 20/08/2019 Practical Wisdom ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "That is wisdom which can reconcile itself with actual life. When the realities of practical life conflict with or stare at the knowledge we possess, it should be remembered that such knowledge is immature and is a mere theory. Moreover, it is not knowledge ‘of’ life that we need; we require knowledge which ‘is’ life, and is inseparable from its daily vexations. We have to view ourselves in a universal context and then live life, not look upon ourselves as individuals who have to be at war with the world in our everyday life."  =========================================================================

06/07/2019 It may be that we try to remember God when we are comfortably placed. But the test as to whether He has really entered our hearts is whether we remember Him in sickness, suffering, opposition and times of temptation. To be able to realise God, you have first to want God. It is almost a question of supply and demand. To want God is not merely to ‘think’ but to ‘feel’ through your ‘whole being’ that you cannot exist without Him. The entire personality vibrates with a longing that cannot be satisfied by the beauty and the grandeur of the world. There is a want for ‘That’ alone, and nothing short of it. world is rooted in the belief in its existence. The form of the world changes when the consciousness reaches the different relative planes of the various degrees of reality. When consciousness expands into the truth of Pure Being, the world discloses its eternal nature of Pure Consciousness alone. Consciousness is the most positive of facts, the datum of all experience. ...