PRACTICAL STEPS TO INNER PEACE - 1.2. Sri Swami Chidananda.

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Friday, June, 25, 2021. 7:42.AM.
1. PEACE IS EVER-PRESENT -2.
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The total evaluation of our life is by trying to make ourselves fit instruments for doing maximum good to the maximum number of creatures in the maximum number of ways that we can, at all times, at all places and until the very last breath. This is the good life, and we should not postpone. Gurudev, who was a very modern saint, gave us the dictum: D.I.N. Do it Now. More than anything, the desire of modern man in this concluding decade of the 20th century is for Peace. People are tired of war, violence, hatred. All want Peace. Everyone is intensely hankering for Peace. When people are too much tormented by the environment with its pressure and all that, they want to go away somewhere. They go and spend the whole day in Dakshineswar Temple and come back. Of course, this is an external method to enter into a state of temporary quiet. When they come back, they are in the same situation.

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Sri Ramakrishna told a funny story, when someone asked him, “Thakur! If a bath in Gangaji absolves one from all sins, then everyone who takes bath would become freed from sin and he must be qualified for heaven?” Sri Ramakrishna said, ”You see, it is true. But then, just as you are intelligent, the other side also is intelligent. All the sins that are within a person become alert, ‘Oh! This man is going to take a dip in mother Ganga, we will all be destroyed.’ So as he starts going down the Ghat, they all get off and sit on a tree near the Ganga Ghat. They don’t want to be destroyed. So this man thinks he is destroying all the sins by taking his bath, doing some Mantra and Arghya. But he is in a fool’s paradise. After everything is over, cloth washed and squeezed and he comes back, as he goes under the tree all the sins once again get on his back and within him. So the sins do not leave him and therefore, Gangaji is not able to do anything because the sins are very clever.” Therefore, we have to try to take such practical steps that are not of a temporary nature. It should be like homoeopathy or naturopathy or even better.

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This great country has had two supreme ideals for which it has always lived and worked. Unwritten history, beyond known human historical times, proves it. Written history also will prove it. The unwritten history is the spiritual history of Mother India. And written history knows in how many periods great rulers of India have come to realise that war and violence only lead to greater violence, and greater hostility and enmity are no solution to any human problem. On the contrary, they keep the problem intact and worsen it. More than 2500 years ago, the enlightened world teacher Tathagata Buddha declared, ‘Not by hatred is hatred overcome, but by love hatred is overcome’. And the realisation in a very terrible sanguinary form came to the great Emperor Ashoka who was like any other king, very ambitious, wanting to conquer and expand his territory. 

To be continued ....


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