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The Right Relationship with the Mind
by Sri Swami Chidananda

Let us consider this supreme faculty of thinking with which God has endowed us. If trained and purified, this faculty will become the means of attaining the highest experience that will bestow illumination and liberation. However, if it is untrained and impure, it binds the individual to this earth life and drags him down through endless experiences of sorrow, pain and suffering. It is at once the highest endowment and the greatest liability. It can be your greatest friend and helper, but it can also be your greatest enemy. The entire matter depends upon how you are able to relate yourself to the mind, what your understanding of its place in your life is, and what role it plays in your life.

The correct understanding of its place in your life can only be acquired if you have grasped the true purpose of your life on this earth. It is in this light that you must understand the ways of the mind and the part it is to play in the process of life and in the right unfoldment of your life. The mind is your instrument and the power that enables you to overcome all that stands between you and your divine destiny. Your divine destiny is to conquer sorrow, pain and suffering and to ascend to a state of perfect bliss. It is a state of liberated consciousness and total fearlessness. It is a state that is eternal, where there is no fear of reverting to any lesser state. This divine destiny is the goal of your life. Your life on earth here is meant to be a process of progressing onward to this glorious divine destiny that is your birthright. Your true inner identity is divinity, and hence the divine experience is your birthright. Claiming this birthright is the central significance of your life.

To make life such a process, the fullest cooperation of your inner being is essential. No matter how much God has graced you, if your own mind stands against you, then your aspirations will all be in vain. The mind is the most important subject of study, because it is the key factor in deciding whether your life will be a glorious success or a miserable failure. It decides whether your life is a thing of satisfaction, contentment and joy or one of great dissatisfaction, frustration and failure. Hence it is that the great masters of wisdom bestowed great attention on unravelling the mysteries of the mind, understanding its strengths and weaknesses, and seeing how the mind could become our greatest ally. They have bestowed unto posterity the fruits of their study, and we are richer for their quest.

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The following article has been posted at Sri Swami Krishnanandaji's site:

• Swami Krishnananda in Conversation - 21: Through Strength of Yoga

Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

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BOOK SYNOPSIS

Bhagavad Gita for the Blind
by Sri Swami Sivananda

With great joy, we are bringing out second edition of ‘Bhagavad Gita for the Blind’ by Worshipful Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj. This most inspiring book, first published in 1957, contains the quintessence of Srimad Bhagavad Gita.

The Compassionate Master, out of his great love for his visually challenged brethren, has specially written it in his inimitable lucid style, in a manner suitable to them. The two editions of the book have already been published in Braille as well to enable our visually challenged brethren to illumine their hearts with the divine wisdom of this sublime scripture.

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REAL WORSHIP: On the evening of November 25, 1949, R. Anantakrishna Sastri, a well-known Oriental scholar, arranged to perform ceremonial worship of the Ganga at the Ashram ghat. The ghat was nicely washed and the Ashramites and visitors seated themselves comfortably on the clean steps. The Master also was there. Sastriji and his wife began the worship.

The Master watched it all intently and then commented, “One year of daily ceremonial worship of the Ganges like this is equal to one week of whole-hearted service of a typhoid patient—washing his clothes and cleaning his bedpan. Such service will at once purify the heart and bring about inner illumination.”

And after a little reflection he added, “Nurses serve patients in the hospitals, but there is no inner purification for them because they do not have the proper feeling when they serve.”

The Master then noticed that some Ashram inmates, too, had joined in the Ganga worship and were offering bael leaves to the holy river.

“Each person is offering only his own bael leaves to the Ganges. What a grand thing it would be if one had the real feeling that he alone offered the worship through all hands! How much more effective that worship would be!” he remarked.

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“God is ever by your side to help, and teachers are not lacking. Teachers are there even if they may not be as plentiful as they were once upon a time, but true discipleship is something that is very rare. Let us always look to the divine and pray for light and guidance. Where there is the readiness and real demand for the spiritual life, the guru will provide it. That is the law of God, a law of spiritual life. May you all find a true guru in your life and thereby help you to progress steadily in the spiritual path.” – Swami Chidananda

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