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| INSPIRATION V: Strength And Inner Peace |
Sudhir Parikh
07/06/2017
STRENGTH From Thus Spake Vivekananda
• Your country requires heroes; be heroes. Stand firm like a rock. Truth always triumphs. What India needs is a new electric fire to stir up a fresh vigor in the national veins. Be brave, man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards. I hate cowardice, keep up the deepest mental poise; take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you. Indifference! Indifference! Indifference! Bear in mind the eyes are two in number, and so the ears, but the mouth is one. All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Put forth your manly efforts. Wretched people under the grip of lust and gold deserve to be looked upon with indifference.
• What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up all your powerful nature, Oh, mighty one! And this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the self alone which predominates and not the matter. It is those foolish people who identify themselves with bodies that piteously cry, "Weak, weak, we are weak". What the nation wants is pluck and scientific genius. We want great spirit, tremendous energy and boundless enthusiasm; no womanishness will do. It is the man of action, the lion-heart that the goddess of wealth resorts to.
INNNER PEACE By Paramhansa YOGANANDA (continued):
I. Where can I find Peace ? (Continued)
Title: Calmness is the breath of Immortality:
A. Those who deeply meditate feel a wonderful Inner quite.
B. Calmness is one of the attributes of the Immortality within you. ... When you worry, there is a static, coming thru your Mind's Radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness the static, calmness is the voice of God speaking to you thru your Soul.
Nervousness is the handmaiden of change and death. When you calm, even death cannot frighten you, for you know you are God!
Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.
C. The more you feel peace in Meditation, the closer you are to God. He moves nearer and nearer to you, the deeper you enter into Meditation. The peace of Meditation is the language and embracing comfort of God.
D. Learn to live in that eternal happiness and peace, which is God!
Title: Take an Honest Look at your Life .....
A. Looking at the Vast Panorama of this world, at the crowd of humanity rushing hot-haste through their life span, one cannot but wonder what it is all about. Where are we going? What is our motive? What is the best and surest way to reach our destination?
B. Most of us rush aimlessly, like runaway automobile, without any plan. Dashing heedlessly along the road of life, we fail to realize the purpose of our travel; we seldom notice if we are on winding devious way that lead nowhere or on straight path that leads directly to our Goal. How can we find our Goal, if we never think of it?
C. Have you permitted your life to become warped by forces seemingly stronger than your own? Is your life under your control? Do not sink into art of Mediocrity. Rise above the crowd. Step out of the chocking monotony of ordinary existence into a finer, more colorful life of achievement of ever new peace.
D. Ask yourself, what is the purpose of your life. You have been made in the image of God; that is your real self. Realizing the image of God within you is the ultimate success – infinite Joy, fulfillment of every desire, victory over all the difficulties of the body and incursions of the world.
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