Along with the believe that the shivalinga is God, we should understand through satsang that God abides in it but it is the deep slumber state of consciousness. If one wants to disbelieve through reasoning, then even if God Himself appears before a person like Duryodhan-a non-believer, he will proclaim God as a sorcerer, a magician. When Duryodhan orders his soldiers to arrest Sri Krishna, the Lord levitates in the sky in the four-armed form, but the unfortunate duryodhan callls Hm a magician. Duryodhan and Shakuni mumble rubbish about God but arjun gets benefited by Sri Krishna’s presence. Gita was instructed to him and we are benefiting from it. Faithless people won’t be rid of their mean mentality even after having darshan of Sri Krishna or the four armed Lord Narayana. There is no dearth of such duryodhans in the society. However, the noble ones endowed with faith and understanding, do make the consciousness manifest in their intellects and lives by nurturing faith and beholding divinity in a shalagrama, shivalinga or an idol. A person who has God sense, who respects his or her own life, will respects great souls, scriptures ant the Vedas. The intellect of drunkards and meat-eaters becomes unfit for God realization. Such people degrade themselves. It is said in ‘Gurubaani’, ‘When a cloth stained by blood becomes impure, how can the mind of one who drinks blood remain pure?’ It is said in Sri Ramacharit Manas’, ‘Liquor and meat deprave a pure mind.’
How shameful that man, who has the ability to realize his Self, eats and drinks such things and entertains such thoughts as would deprive him of this ability, and imagines God to be in some foreign land or in heaven, forgetting his Self-God! What is wretched thinking! How base a mentality!
How can a person who does not respect his or her own life, respect great men and our scriptures? Such a person will fritter away his or her own life if you respect your own life, your Creator, your scriptures, your parents who have worked so hard to educate and rear you, then perform such actions by which seven generations in your clan would obtain salvation. If we become sad in adverse circumstances and happy in favorable circumstance, what is the difference between us and dog? Know happiness to be a dream and sorrow to be evanescent like a bubble. Both are guests…. Why do you become subservient to them? You get a promotion and you become elated; you get a transfer and you shrink! Why do you lead such as helpless life? Seek refuge in a Guru. Someone rebukes you and your happiness disappears! Someone flatters you and you become elated! Then you are like a German toy, what else? You get a notice from the income tax department and your tension increases. An income tax raid takes place somewhere and you trouble yourself. You establish contact with a high-ranking official and you feel proud of that. Why are you getting entangled in the world by mistaking these toys for real? At least try and make some progress on the path of knowing your own Self. Contemplate Him, with love and reverence, who is your Supreme friend and well-wisher. Remain blissful, tranquil and reposed in Him.
How shameful that man, who has the ability to realize his Self, eats and drinks such things and entertains such thoughts as would deprive him of this ability, and imagines God to be in some foreign land or in heaven, forgetting his Self-God! What is wretched thinking! How base a mentality!
How can a person who does not respect his or her own life, respect great men and our scriptures? Such a person will fritter away his or her own life if you respect your own life, your Creator, your scriptures, your parents who have worked so hard to educate and rear you, then perform such actions by which seven generations in your clan would obtain salvation. If we become sad in adverse circumstances and happy in favorable circumstance, what is the difference between us and dog? Know happiness to be a dream and sorrow to be evanescent like a bubble. Both are guests…. Why do you become subservient to them? You get a promotion and you become elated; you get a transfer and you shrink! Why do you lead such as helpless life? Seek refuge in a Guru. Someone rebukes you and your happiness disappears! Someone flatters you and you become elated! Then you are like a German toy, what else? You get a notice from the income tax department and your tension increases. An income tax raid takes place somewhere and you trouble yourself. You establish contact with a high-ranking official and you feel proud of that. Why are you getting entangled in the world by mistaking these toys for real? At least try and make some progress on the path of knowing your own Self. Contemplate Him, with love and reverence, who is your Supreme friend and well-wisher. Remain blissful, tranquil and reposed in Him.
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