To get happiness and peace, you must develop a pure and unsullied mind, free from egoism and its progenies – lust, greed, anger, hatred, envy and the rest. For this, you must seek noble company (satsanga), perform good deeds (satkarma), entertain only good thoughts (sat alochana) and read only noble and elevating books (sat granthas). You may see a thousand good things or listen to a thousand inspirational speeches or read a thousand good books, but unless you put at least one of their teachings into practice, the blemishes in the mirror of your heart will not be wiped off! The Lord cannot be reflected if the mirror of the heart is not clean. Remember, you are but a wave of the sea. Know this, and you are free. Constant practice with full faith will transmute a human (Nara) into God (Narayana), for Divinity is your real nature, your real essence!
- Divine Discourse, Mar 17, 1966. |
