HIS HOLY WORDS - SWARUPANANDA PARAMHANSHA
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HIS HOLY WORDS
(21)
Your confessions have not startled me. Such is the history of thousands of young men of India today and I assure you that there are sure means of safety against these evils and rescue from their bad effects. You can once again become a m1n, a man virile and strong enough both in body and mind to combat successfully against innumerable odds. You can once again stand erect and claim the world's best presents by steadiness and perseverance. Don"t despair, my son, of success, be not despondent. Hang not down your head in utter hopelessness.
"Whatever may you have lost through mistake and unwisdom, the secret of regaining them is PRAYER. Accept a life of PRAYER,
prayer while at work and at rest and this will raise you to the glorious heights of the worthy man who has nothing to fear on earth. PRAYER will make you the master of yourself.
"Do not fear your wife in the least though she is young and charming. Do not believe her to be your foe. All her youth is to lend you help, all her charms are to give you strength. She is here not to suck your blood. She is neither a source of eternal evil nor a spring of poisonous draughts. Her bosom is not the abode of venomous snakes. Her sweet voice is not the Siren's song nor is she the doors of eternal hell. Conquer fear by earnest prayer and convert her into your helping hand. Energise her with your own faith and inspire her with your spiritual urge. Falter not in your noble task and believe not yourself to be a weakling. "
Akhanda Samhita, 8th part( Bengali Ed. )
(22)
What is a woman? The gates of hell? A witch? An enchantress? Or is she an angel leading you to freedom of will and freedom from the servility to the senses? Is she the fetters on your feet, the rope of the gallows on your neck? Or is she the giver of the best blessings on earth? These questions have tormented many and it is no wonder that they are tormenting you t00. I will be plain and clear. She is nothing but herself. She has nothing to do to you save and except showing you where you are. She is the thermometer of your own heat, the barometer of your own pressure, she is the compass of your own directions. Gauge yourself by your attitude towards her. Don't try to name her according to the influence you feel of her. What can she do if she is to your left? What can she not do if she is to your right? She is as wonderful as a zero, and carries no value if she is to your left but makes everything tenfold if she is to your right. If you are wicked and she is to your left, she will make a havoc of your life. If you are divine and she is to your right, she will bring down paradise in you, will energise every atom of your body, will glorify every act and thought of yours by her magnifying power. She has proved her worth in thousands of places as a great transmitter of strength and vigour. But everything primarily depends upon you. If the creeper vine around a poison-tree, it will offer you only venom.
( 23 )
Stick to your own principles but refrain from being fanatic. Steadfast aim and thorough application are the two essentials of spiritual progress, but false zeal and superstitious foolishness lead you nowhere at all. Intolerant at others' customs, inconsiderate of others' affections, indelicate to others' short-comings, you fail to make time for your own business. Those that are busy at poking others find but little opportunity for working for themselves.
( 24 )
The world is simultaneously full of gloom and light. Look at the radiant object on earth and be radiant yourself. Sins, vices and crimes of the weaklings are not fit objects for your meditation. Many have talked and written much about the failings of man, but who knows the history of man's conquest over the senses? Though once weak and cowardly, man has mustered courage to master the senses and has thus become the conqueror of the world. The flickering flaws of the faulty mind have given admittance to the adamantine ardors of deathless love, -lust has lowered down its head in awe and reverence under the feet of love divine.
( 25 )
A house without a roof, a tree without a trunk, a palace without a foundation may well be compared with a life without prayer. Believe it or not it does not matter. Prayer gives you a shelter, makes you solid and strong. Correctly or incorrectly, don't forget to pray.
( 26 )
You want to fight out your enemies to complete annihilation! Or you rather give them opportunities to train themselves up for attacking you more and more vigorously and on newly acquired cleverer tricks! Don't fight as long as it is possible to stay neutral,. But neutrality does not mean to lie on bed and enjoy deep and sound sleep. Keep your eyes open. See with scrutiny what your enemies really aim. at. Allow them to divest themselves of all potency by their exertions at harming you. Keep alert that they can't inflict a real damage upon you. Stand straight on your mighty feet to trample them down just the moment they are really dangerous. If you go on fighting with the propensities of our mind at each of their provocations, when will you find time to look to your onward march? Though blood be flowing from all the wounds, a soldier never minds them. He steps on forward caring for no thing but winning the day . You must win and that again at the minimum of loss.
( 27 )
While opening the eyes of many, you are keeping yourself completely blind. This is the most deplorable thing in being a preacher. While the whole world is looking up to the beautiful rising Sun, you are drooping down in the depths of gloom. Open your own eyes, see the beauties of creation inside and out as well as the Creator Himself in His splendor and glory. Eyes are worth having only for seeing Him.
( 28 )
What are sorrows but the wounds to cure Mind's diseases brought by carnal lure ? 'What is death but wearing garment pure, making journey fresh to bliss ensure? What is grief, affliction, and midnight gloom? 'This to sweep unholy minds with broom,
( 29 )
We are here to bequeath a heritage to the ever coming generations of men and women. We can, if we so do like, leave for them an ever lasting memory of noble ancestors. We can leave for them the examples of prosperous character, creative institutions and lives divine. We can very easily make them the successors to an estate which flourishes in its bounteous benevolence. We can make preparations to ensure an atmosphere in which they will be able to live like men and not like beasts, to develop their manhood into divinity, to find, know and see God in themselves.
( 30 )
You do not know how great you are. That is the reason why you delight in empty parades of words and in meaningless occupations. Your innate greatness demands great performances of you. It is really a very puzzling thing that you should not do what you easily can. You can raise to the heights of true manhood by utilising your latent powers. You can help hundreds of stray wayfarers in showing them the real road to realisation by yourself knowing the Truth. You can prompt thousands of souls to love the whole creation by yourself learning to love the Lovable of all Lovables.
( 31)
Love is courage, Love is strength.
Love in life's eternal length.
Why do seek for distant heaven,
Make this world Divine;
These, the short-lived men and women
Each a diamond-mine.
Seek you God? Then try to feel,
God resides in Man;
Love His children deep in zeal,
Eternise life's span.
(32)
What in reality you are is but you have what your character is. Others may like or dislike you knowing or unknowing a lot about you, but you know almost in full what is your real picture. Worshipped by people just as a saint or seer, you may really be only a voluptuous bluffer or a blind man with no function of the eyes. Abhorred by people just as a contemptible wretch, you may really be a blooming rose beaming with your own beauty of soul. Men may misunderstand but you know what you are. Shape and re-shape, make and re-make build and rebuild yourself in the light in which you have seen your visage. It matters little what other people have thought or said of you. Be and become, don’t pretend.
(33)
Think aloud and speak silent while speaking, speak only what you think and what you realise as truth in your deep meditations. While silent, be eloquent through your thought-vibrations radiating through out heaven and earth so that all in need of strength and energy may have them to their entire fullness.
( 34 )
Dive deep into yourself, for this is the way which leads you to the knowledge of all soul and to the love of all beings.
( 35 )
The modest beauty of a maiden is an object of worship. If you see a maiden, bow down your head in reverence to her purity and chastity. The divine beauty of a mother is the beauty of God Himself. Sit on your knees in prayers and praises when you see a mother. The loving beauty of a faithful wife is the holy shrine which preserves the innocence of the husband intact against the enchantresses outside. Honour her and respect her just as you would do a deliverer from death.
( 36 )
Why do you hanker after popularity? A popular man can seldom march ahead of popular follies and fancies. If you are out for doing anything great, have popularity at your back and not in your front. As to spiritual gains, popularity has nothing to offer you. Do not hate the populace because they cherish any particular opinion or nourish a peculiar dogma, nor do yield to them. Know your own way distinctly and do not allow ovations to lead you astray.
( 37 )
All the good and ills of life are to make you perfect. Know yourself to be an instrument in the hands of God and obey His decree in prosperity and misfortune alike. He will work out your failings into achievements of weight and trans form your heart-breakings into ever smiling roses.
( 38 )
To know yourself is to know God as He is within you. To know yourself is to know everything out-side you too. He is within and without all universes and in order that you may have the privilege of knowing Him, He has centered Himself in you. Once you know the centre, everything in the circumference is also known. "Know thyself" was the ancient wise man's counsel and "Know thyself" is the everlasting Counsel for all new-comers too.
( 39 )
Silence is sublimating. Silence is serene. Silence is the bestowed of unresisted peace. The practice of silence every day, every week, every month or every year for some certain period helps you to calculate your own spiritual progress in its pros and cons. Silence helps to the sedimentation of all the unclean materials mixed up with your mind and thus is a great helper to obtaining a calm, quiet and tranquil temperament for making a greater headway onwards. But during your silence try your best to remain outside the contact of such persons or beyond such environment as naturally heats up anger or lust. Hot temper or lust fullness during silence harms you much more than while you are not on the vow.
( 40 )
Man is Mortal. Man must die one day,
While the Sun is shining, make your hay.':
Though the world is jolly. youthful, gay--
Death is rushing launching fatal fray.
'Tis an inn for short-timed guest to stay.
Hope for little gain but much to pay.
If you lose in bargain, none to say
Single word in comfort but to lay
Blames on you for spending time on play.
Man is mortal. Lose not vital time.
Do the best in life's resurgent prime.
( 41 )
How can you say that you shall hate people for their so-called inferiority while you know perfectly well that birth in a particular house does neither credit one nor discredit another? It is your work that gives you merit. It is your work that makes you absorbable. You know in your inmost heart that by claiming superiority to others you are only claiming for what you are not at all entitled to. Your meritorious deeds of the last birth have only paved your way to being born in a favourable atmosphere, in the house of a highly honoured Brahmin, on
the laps of prosperous parents, or in the family of a proud exploiter. But being born in a particular country, caste or family does really mean nothing more than that you have been rewarded with a very high starting-point for your having done things for such a reward. Now you are to start again, just as all others will have to. do. You may spoil the chances of going first by your pride, hate and foolishness while the sons and daughters of the poor or the pariah shall be making their progress steadily with meekness and modesty. By having a lift in the shape of a superior birth you are rather in an unfavourable circumstance. You are despising people because you are in a place of vantage while others are not so favourably placed. But the struggles onward are equally cruel to all. It is mere vanity and self-deception to think that gaining a point after a score of tennis is winning and finishing the play. You know all these clearly at heart and still you are so fondly thinking of your superiority! Be superior in the living present by your better work and greater service, by your profound love and ceaseless Sadhana. Pride befits a very inferior man and hate befits only a brute.
( 42 )
Man tops the creation by his intellect. but lies below all the animals by his wanton misuse of instincts. Love is a wonderful thing and the animal responds to it in a particular period of its existence and for the rest of its life it is quite neutral in the affairs of physical satisfaction of it. But man has misused the most wonderful of his instruments by ceaseless handling of the subtlest thing in the grossest way by endless application of the tenderest thing in the roughest manner. How can man claim to remain at the top, while he is more slavish to his instincts than the animals? Be your master, know how to control,-and surely this is the method of ascending up.
( 43 )
While the advocates of Nature are quarrel1ing with the advocates of God over the real cause of creation and the laws governing it, I insist. upon you always to keep yourself away from these physical and metaphysical debates and seek within yourself the secrets of an that remains unexplained. You do not know how great you are, how vast is the Ocean within you, how deep its waters and how the gems underwater far excel the gems regained by philosophical speculations and researches. Everything is in you and nothing outside. Or, more correctly, whatever is outside is but a faint reflection of what you have within, an indistinct echo of what harmonious songs are constantly being sung there, an imperfect copy of the wonderful picture in reality. Without, you have only a part of the effect but within, you find both the cause and the effect in their multifarious diversities as well as in their intertwined unity. Realisation should be your aim and not vociferations.
( 44 )
Drinking wildly at the cup of pleasures makes you mad, unreasonable and lost to all self-control. But you have not gathered strength enough to abstain from them when they approach you with the most alluring invitation. Your question is what to do. The plain answer is,-do nothing but sit completely at ease, watch the temptation with the historian's eye, see how it progresses and how it recedes, how it advances and how it slopes backward, how it suddenly becomes vivid and gradually becomes lost to view. Look to the guillotine not as its victim but as its controller. Once, twice and thrice and that is sufficient to make you the master. So long you have sought pleasures but really tasted nothing. The pleasures tested you and left you a worthless being. Now taste the pleasures keeping fully awake and knowing that they are more worthless than you have so long been, give them up with the conviction of an experienced man.
( 45 )
My path is right,
my faith is true,
My conscience bright,
my sky is blue, My love embraces all on earth –
Be small or big-each heart and
hearth.
( 46 )
LOVE FOR ALL,
GREAT AND SMALL.