PACING SHIFTS WITH TIME ON PAPER

 

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY AS WRITTEN IN PRASANTHI NILAYAM - NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Why is it important to lead a conscientious life? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today.

Those who are pure in their heart will always succeed. Whatever work you undertake, do it conscientiously. Develop purity of mind. If you undertake the work with that purity of mind and then pray to God, surely you will achieve the result. The Gita says, Mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva bhutah sanatanah (All individual beings in this material world are fragments of My eternal Self). You are all part of My Divinity. Hence, you all should follow Me. My love is divine and sacred. So shall be your love. If you follow this principle, you will automatically achieve purity. Where there is purity, there Divinity is. Everything is reflection, reaction and resound. Since ancient times, you all are My very own amsa (part). Do not ever forget this truth! If only you develop faith in this Truth, it will amount to reading the entire Bhagavad Gita.

- Divine Discourse, Nov 13, 2007.

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“We’ve barely begun to understand our place in the cosmos. As we continue to look out from our planet and contemplate the nature of reality, we should remember that there is a mystery right here where we stand.”

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“Any live mind today is of the very same stuff as Plato’s & Euripides,” the young Virginia Woolf meditated in her diary two millennia later. “It is this common mind that binds the whole world together; & all the world is mind.”

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SELF AWAY FROM BODY 

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Harris writes:

The idea that “I” am the ultimate source of my desires and actions begins to crumble [and] it’s hard to see how our behavior, preferences, and even choices could be under the control of our conscious will in any real sense. It seems much more accurate to say that consciousness is along for the ride — watching the show, rather than creating or controlling it. In theory, we can go as far as to say that few (if any) of our behaviors need consciousness in order to be carried out. But at an intuitive level, we assume that because human beings act in certain ways and are conscious — and because experiences such as fear, love, and pain feel like such powerful motivators within consciousness — our behaviors are driven by our awareness of them and otherwise would not occur.

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