The Secret of Being Happy-12.

(Spoken on October 19, 1972)
12.

There is something very interesting behind us, something impossible of abolition and destruction.

However much we may deny, there is something behind every kind of denial.

Even if we think we are dead, there is a thought of being dead which cannot die.

So there is a deathless, un-abolishable, conscious meaning behind the transitory values of earthly quantities.

When everything goes, something will remain. That is our friend. When all friends desert us, one friend will not leave us. Who is that friend?

If the whole world goes, naturally human beings also go, and we cannot have human friends.

Then who is that friend that is left?

It is that thing which remains as the conscious contemplator of all these sources of everything.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ...

Swami Krishnananda with his Mother & Swami Chidananda