Who Are You to Offer Help to Others?
Your Useless Way of Life
Swami Muktananda: "Everyone in this world has a tale of woe. Everyone is troubled by suffering, whether it is self-inflicted or comes from outside. For this reason, a person searches for happiness day and night. So absorbing is this search that he forgets his true Self. As his search for happiness takes him through endless troubles, he sighs and weeps. Yielding often to temptations and then repenting, burning with desires, harassed by suffering, a human being has a difficult life. In spite of all these, he does not give up his useless way of life. Nor does he look for some way to transform it. Nor does he seek a mantra from a liberated being who has transcended all these. How strange! This is true ignorance.
Your Days on Earth Are Numbered
"Day after day, the sun rises in the east, and sets in the west, then travels to the east again. With one complete cycle, a day is gone. Seven days make a week, and four weeks a month. In twelve months, a year is gone. In this way, a person's life is spent, and then it disappears. Along with his birth, a person brings his death into the world with him. Like a round-trip ticket, death comes with birth. A human being is born in this diverse world, experiences happiness and unhappiness, and then, weeping, returns the same way he came, with his desires unfulfilled.
Who Are You to Offer Help to Others?
"Who knows how much time is left? O dear one, why are you not more conscious? Just as you are moving now irrevocably towards death, many other souls have travelled that same road. Although you have seen others die unsatisfied, there is no transformation in your own life. Even though you are being swept away by the river of illusion, you regard yourself a quite clever. You offer help to others, and yet you yourself are utterly helpless! Could anything be more astonishing than this? O dear soul, are you awake or asleep?
"Only when a person truly awakens does he realise his foolishness."
Source: pgs. 45-46, Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri by Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa
Swami Muktananda: "Everyone in this world has a tale of woe. Everyone is troubled by suffering, whether it is self-inflicted or comes from outside. For this reason, a person searches for happiness day and night. So absorbing is this search that he forgets his true Self. As his search for happiness takes him through endless troubles, he sighs and weeps. Yielding often to temptations and then repenting, burning with desires, harassed by suffering, a human being has a difficult life. In spite of all these, he does not give up his useless way of life. Nor does he look for some way to transform it. Nor does he seek a mantra from a liberated being who has transcended all these. How strange! This is true ignorance.
Your Days on Earth Are Numbered
Who Are You to Offer Help to Others?
"Who knows how much time is left? O dear one, why are you not more conscious? Just as you are moving now irrevocably towards death, many other souls have travelled that same road. Although you have seen others die unsatisfied, there is no transformation in your own life. Even though you are being swept away by the river of illusion, you regard yourself a quite clever. You offer help to others, and yet you yourself are utterly helpless! Could anything be more astonishing than this? O dear soul, are you awake or asleep?
"Only when a person truly awakens does he realise his foolishness."
Source: pgs. 45-46, Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri by Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa
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