Your life should be marked by discipline and morality, wherever you live. Lead your life in consonance with the command of your conscience. Your actions should remain the same, whether observed or unobserved, noticed or unnoticed. Though it is hard to restrain your mind, it can be diverted. When the mind steeped in the secular world is diverted toward Divinity, it gains in moral strength. The mind steeped in the worldly matters makes you a prisoner of the world, whereas a mind steeped in God liberates you. Your heart is the lock and your mind is the key. When you turn the key to the left, it locks. But if you turn it right, it unlocks. It is the turning of the key that makes the difference. Hence your mind is the cause for your liberation and bondage. What then is liberation (moksha)? It is not an air-conditioned mansion, but a state devoid of delusion (moha).
- Summer Showers 1996, Ch 1. |
