The Master Said ...13. - Swami Sivananda

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(Speech delivered by Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj on the 26th December 1954, at Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh, for the celebration of the 34th birthday of Sri Swami Venkatesananda.)

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 It is your important duty to try to realise the Self in this life itself. This is your foremost duty. This only can remove your worries, cares, anxieties and make you blissful at all times, under all conditions, and all kinds of environments.

    Meditation is very difficult. Before attempting to meditate really, you should equip yourself with the virtues enumerated under Yama-Niyama. Be truthful. Practise non-injury. Practise Brahmacharya. These are all the things that you will have to cultivate, little by little. If you are earnest and sincere, everything will become easy.

    Have a programme of life. Know what is the real goal. Do not imagine, “When I retire, I will be able to do Japa and meditation.” When all your energy is squeezed out, you will not, in your old age, be able to sit even in Padmasan for a few minutes. When you are young, you must meditate, and practise enquiry.

Study Yoga-Vasishtha, Viveka-Chudamani. Yoga-Vasishtha will raise you to supreme Brahmanhood and make you the real king of kings. He who is full of desires is a beggar of beggars; he is a slave of the senses, slave of the Indriyas, slave of emotions.

Try to rise above all these and then you can attain to the realisation of oneness or unity, and realise the fearless Atman.

Swami Sivananda Asramam
To be continued  ..


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