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RIDDLE OF LIFE

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Suppose you are on the top of a hill and view at a distance, shooting up from the edge of a cliff, the branches of a tree. They appear to you to be suspended and growing in the air. You wonder at the sight. You question yourself as to how a tree could grow and appear in the air without a prop to stand upon. You do not stop at that. You proceed towards the strange sight with great eagerness to solve the mystery. You approach the very brink of the cliff where the branches were seen. Now you peep down and what do you behold? You find that the branches belong to a tall tree having its root far down at the base of a deep precipice. Now your wonder has ceased. You have discovered the root of the illusive appearance and everything is clear to you. Your riddle is solved. So it is with life. For you it proves to be a perplexing riddle, so long as you have not seen the Source of it. The appearances delude you and you are asking yourself: “Where did I come from? Who am I? Whence is this universe...
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USE OF SUFFERING

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Adversity and misfortune and the resultant sorrow and suffering are the common lot of mankind. Some notable men of philosophic turn of mind have questioned the utility of suffering in the world, and have not only denied the goodness of God but have also flung Him out of human calculations as unworthy of belief. But men of true wisdom and perfected experience, who have probed deep into the mysteries of life, acclaim with no uncertain voice the invaluable uses of adversity. Surely, if there were no suffering in the world, there could be no evolution of man towards the highest destiny of life — the knowledge of immortality. It is through sorrow alone a soul understands the real foundation and purpose of existence. M isery, pain and suffering open the portals of his life to the comprehension of the supreme value and power of life. Progress towards the subtle and spiritual realms of existence is possible only along the path of pain and suffering. The fullest grandeur and beauty of life can...
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ARISE FROM THE VALE OF MISERY

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Misery has fallen to the lot of man, because of his wilful forgetfulness of the Supreme Truth of his being. He allows himself so much to be involved in the passing phases and affairs of life that he neglects to turn his thought to the Eternal Source of his existence. He struggles to find peace and contentment in the external adjustment and attainment of the things of life; but in no circumstance does he get the peace he strives for. On the other hand, he moves in an endless circle of ever-increasing cares and sorrows. In fact, he jumps from one fire into the other — from one pit into the other — from one sorrow into the other. He gropes in a self-created darkness and stumbles at every step, and his aches are many. Rest and peace are nowhere for him; this is the result of man’s running away from the all-blissful centre of his being — God. Forget this Centre, and you have a crop of misery. Tune your remembrance with the Lord and Master of your life, and you have endless joy. You have now...
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SUMMIT OF LIFE

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Human life stands at the apex of creation because it is greater than that of all other creatures, nay, it bears a loftier significance than the life of the very gods. The possibilities which human life is capable of achieving are unique and colossal. Principally, it is made up of three main aspects, viz. physical, mental and spiritual. If this magnificent life is lived merely in the body without the cultivation of its finer and higher aspects, it assumes a position lower even than the animal life. The mental life, when it has risen above the physical, is of a more expanded sphere, partially awakened to the subtler depths of it. But, when life transcends both the lower planes, it ascends to a state which is of the Supreme Spirit in which all the narrowness and limitations of the lower aspects are dissolved into the infinite vastness of an exalted and all-embracing spiritual consciousness. In this supreme consciousness lies the root of the universal manifestation comprising the innumera...
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BLISS OF THE ATMAN

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Everyone who is in the grip of struggle for the attainment of the eternal values of life knows that life’s fulfilment and its ultimate fruition depends upon the immortal bliss and peace of the Atman. He further knows that this unchanging Truth can be his, only when the mind is withdrawn from the external attractions of the world, only when he has conceived a revulsion of feeling towards the pleasures of the senses, only when the false cravings of his soul for the unstable and ephemeral things of life have ceased and disappeared. These are the necessary conditions for the realisation of the immortal peace and joy of the Atman.  The Sages have declared: There is no higher gain in this existence than the bliss of the Atman. When you have once found it, you are utterly free from the clutches of mental turmoil and the fetters of death and misery. Suppose a man has come by a perennial spring of nectar at which he can quaff to his heart’s content and thus satisfy the thirst that parches ...
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