March, Thursday 5th., 2020
Today's Thought for the Day
As true spiritual aspirants, how should we refine ourselves in the journey of life? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today.
Today's Thought for the Day
As true spiritual aspirants, how should we refine ourselves in the journey of life? Bhagawan lovingly reminds us today.
Rice
in its natural state, and boiled rice — can these two be the same? The
hardness of natural rice is absent in the boiled one. The boiled grain
is soft, harmless, and sweet. The unboiled grain is hard, conceited, and
full of delusion. Similarly both types of human beings (worldly and
spiritual) are souls (jivis), but those immersed in external illusions (avidya-maya)
are ‘people’, while those immersed in internal illusions (vidya-maya)
are ‘spiritual aspirants’. God is immersed in neither external nor
internal illusions. He is devoid of both. He who has no external
illusions becomes a spiritual aspirant, and when he is devoid of even
internal illusions, he can be termed a God. Such a person’s heart
becomes the seat of God. Though the Lord is situated in every heart,
spiritual practice is necessary so that they may discover it for
themselves, right? It isn’t possible for us to see our own face! We need
a mirror to show us its image. So too, a basic path (marga), a spiritual practice, is necessary to become devoid of qualities (gunas).
- Prema Vahini, Ch 59.