The Master Said ...3.
(Speech delivered by Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj on the 26th December 1954, at Sivanandashram, Rishikesh, for the celebration of the 34th birthday of Sri Swami Venkatesanandaji.)
Jyotishaamapi tat jyotih tamasah paramuchyate
Jnaanan Jneyam Jnaanagamyam hridi sarvasya vishthitam
(That, the Light of all lights, is said to be beyond darkness; knowledge, the knowable and the goal of knowledge, seated in the hearts of all.)
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These things of the world do not attract them, because they have got the spiritual wealth of good Samskaras, through enquiry and reflection.
You must possess Vairagya which will lead you to the attainment of the Atma, the inexhaustible spiritual wealth.
But you do not have aspiration! The mind is full of evil tendencies.
You may be endowed with a little talent; and you will be puffed up.
The mind is veiled.
There is In spite of your intellectual faculties and talents, you will not be able to understand and realise the Universal, Cosmic, Supreme Being, whose nature is Satchidananda.
You can get many Oxford University graduates, but not many Jivanmuktas who have realised the Self—that is the supreme veiling power of Maya.
You know; yet you will not be able to understand it!
There is something beyond these senses, mind and intellect; the Supreme Soul, full of Bliss, the only Reality!
How many educated people have understood this, and are trying to realise it?
How many have got even an aspiration to realise it?
That aspiration is the real wealth.
Swami Sivananda
To be continued ...
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