Human life is beset with ups and downs, joys and sorrows. These experiences are intended to serve as guideposts for man. Life would be bland without trials and tribulations. Problems in life bring out the human values from within man. You cannot get the juice of the sugarcane without crushing it; you cannot enhance the brilliance of a diamond without cutting it and making many facets. One must shed pettiness and develop broad-mindedness through the cultivation of love. Only when you endure various difficulties, can you experience the sweet bliss of Self-realization. Hence, difficulties must be welcomed and overcome to experience.
Purity of the mind calls for total elimination of attachments and aversions from the mind. Hatred and envy should have no place...Today people are filled with hatred and envy. They cannot bear to see others happy or prosperous. This is a sign of a polluted mind. One should cultivate the large-heartedness to return good for evil and not to cause pain to anyone in any circumstance. This is a mark of a pure mind.
You must have contentment, be it gain or loss. This is essential. For the contented mind, life becomes a celebration, whereas a mind worried by desires will be ever restless. In such a state of mind, concentration is impossible. Desires are like a fire in your body, which can burn you up from within and contentment is the effective drug to destroy it. Just as a bath in the cool waters of a stream refreshes an exhausted traveller, perspiring in the burning heat of the day, one suffering from the scorching fires of desire, will be refreshed by the pellucid waters of contentment. Contentment will grant you joy and expand your happiness.
The heart has to be the precious treasure of joy. Normally, one does not know the key to open its lock. That key is repetition of the Name of the Lord, with a pure heart. Purify the heart with Truth, Right Action, Peace and Non-Violence. Always endeavor to do good to others, to think well of them and to speak well of others. This endeavour will wear away your egoism and attachment to things that cater to your pleasures. Do not behave like birds and beasts always engaged in earning a living or rearing a family. Struggle for higher things, use the higher talents with which you are endowed.
Swami Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“I have descended from the level of God
to the level of man in order to uplift man.
Others are humans trying to raise themselves up to the level of God.”
Swami Sri Sathya Sai Baba
The Healing Chant of the Dalai Lama
The Healing Mantra
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