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A Slide Presentation
For Satchidananda Ashram
M m r
By Koosraj
April 2005
SCAS: contact President-6255349, [email protected],
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A Selection of Holy Flowers
from the Spiritual Garlandmade for Devotional
Expansion and Spiritual
Upliftment
by Shri Veervasanta
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4. The cause of every actionperformed is desire. Things
happen not according to mansdesire but according to the
Lords Desire. Even the worldsand the things in them are the
Desire of God.
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Desires are of two types: thelower and the higher. The loweris the desire of man and bindshim to hanker after all sorts of
things; but the higher is that ofGod and, unlike the former, it
liberates man.
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So long as the lower desiresspring from the heart, liberation
is not attained. When the heartsdesire has withdrawn and that
,man is controlled by the Self andis freed from the clutches of
ignorance.
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When desire arises, it annoys,it troubles, it angers and leads
one to do various things. Weshould do our utmost to curb it
each time it arises; he whocontrols his desire is a master
of himself.
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The seeker has to struggleto master his senses and his
ego and, until they arem r r n rcontrol by the Self, his
power will remain dormant
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One must discard all desires andcontrol the senses by which the
body is governed in order tobecome pure and to attain the
,must completely eliminate them
to attain the eternal abode.
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One who can control all thesenses with the help of the Self
is a master of himself. Hence,the Self controls the man who
surrenders himself to His Willthrough silence, meditation
and devotion.
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Just as the lake has manychannels through which it loses
water and cannot be filled,likewise our body loses energy
are controlled, we can gather ourinner potentials and acquire any
power we look for.
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When we allow our thoughts todwell continuously upon materialthings, we lose energy through the
channels of thought; when we speakcontinuously about material things,
we ose energy t roug spea ng;when we desire something, we lose
energy through desire.
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Similarly, we lose energy throughpassion, hate, jealousy, gambling...
So one who controls all the sensesof the body and reaches a state ofsilence within himself is sure to
attain spiritual development andcan plunge into the depth of inner
learning.
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The lower thoughts, whichtake all forms of desire, come
from the satanic force calledignorance, which is the root of
all our sorrow, grief, misery,trouble, sin and also death.
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The moment the soul enters awomans womb to take a body,
Satan who is infinite darknessveils the ego or the human self
.This ignorance prevails in himas long as he does not seek to
know the truth.
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Satan has various appellations suchas world, matter, body, form,
darkness, ignorance, lowerthought, visible, finite, something,known, ego, evil actions, duality,
separation, impurity, all thedifferent evil qualities of theintellectual, actional, sensual
senses, and death.
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Satan in the worldly men keepsthem in ignorance; Satan in the
spiritual men forces them towardsquick progress. Since ignorance
,Satan tires the seeker constantly
until he brings him to the goal
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Thus Satan, too, is helpingthe seeker. Hence, Satan and
God become two
whereas in the worldly manSatan ever remains an
enemy.
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Satan and the Lord are ego andSoul. As the ego has to question
and the Soul to answer, hence,Satan is the questioner and the
their roles in all fields ofactivities where birth and death
co-exist.
