A Master Message of the Ancient Rishis : Thinking the Cosmic Totality- 2 : Swami Krishnananda.

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Monday, February 07, 2022. 20:00.

(Spoken on April 25, 1972 during night satsang on Swamiji's 50th birthday.)

Post-2.

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This is also to be good in oneself. To be honest is, at the same time, to be good because goodness is only an outer temporal expression of, once again, the law of this divinity within us. When we are honest to ourselves, we are, therefore, honest to everyone automatically. But when we regard the kshetrajna in us as different from the kshetrajna in other persons and things, we begin to trade with other people, carry on a commercial activity with other forms of life, and try to make profit out of them. We want to amass capital out of other persons and other things in the world. This is impossible.

Life is such, the world is constituted in such a manner, creation is of such a character that we cannot make capital out of any other person or thing in this world. We cannot profit in the sense of gaining over the losses of other people in the world. This is absolutely impossible on the very face of it, and anyone who tries to manipulate his activities in such a manner as to violate this essential law of life shall be the loser first, while he imagines that others shall be losers for his own profit or gain.

It is impossible to ultimately defeat any person in the world. We will be defeated in this attempt because such an idea is ostensibly contrary to the law of righteousness, or dharma. This righteousness is only a name that we give to the manner in which God Himself manifests His Being in this world. In the Vedas we have two terms, satya and rita. Rita rules this world as the lustre of satya, or the eternal Reality. What we call justice, equanimity, goodness, honesty, principle, is how God appears as this world and in this world. As God is unitary being, the law also is a tendency to the experience of this unitariness. As long as we offer our obeisance to this mighty principle of God working in this world, we shall be a success in every field of activity. 

Why should we fail? Why should there be such a thing as fall, suffering, and loss in life? All this is an outcome of the movement of ignorance in ourselves, which often takes atrocious forms and rises up as what we know in our Puranas as Hiranyakashipu's or Ravanas. These violent personalities who try to demolish the law of God in the world are only configurations of a peculiar situation which it is difficult for us to describe in language, a situation in which we go contrary to the law of our own nature. Therefore, it would be really worth the while attempting every day of our life to be clear in our own conscience, and not hurl it into a pit or violate its personality.

What speaks from the recesses of your being is the law of your being. For a few seconds, just contemplate on how you direct your thought and feelings throughout the day. Are your thoughts honest to themselves? Do you feel in consonance with the purpose of these feelings? Often it appears, without our knowing actually what is happening to us, that we, at the very outset, oppose ourselves and then try to work our success through the fields and activity in life.

To be continued ....

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