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Love
SWAMI CHINMAYANANDA
(CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS ISSUE)
ccording to our Vedantic nourishes you at every step
Aliterature, the goal is to with freshness and renewed
become one with God. Brahma- inner satisfaction. Thus, having
mayam jagat – the entire world set up a goal, live dedicated to
is nothing but God. It may not that goal uncompromisingly.
be possible to reach in this life. That heroism, that inner grit is
Never mind. It is a program for what makes you a human being.
five lives. Not a five-year plan, Without it, one is merely a
but a five-life plan! Strive on. purchasable commodity, which
So long as you are striving to has unfortunately got the
reach something high, you are anatomical structure of the
rising in stature every moment. sacred creature called man, but
If you say, “This will do, I have nothing more. Anatomically
no desire at all,” that very human, but mentally animals!
moment you begin to rot. When However much you may look
you say, “I can’t do it,” it means after your dog, if I give him
you do not know your own meat on the roadside, he will
capacities. Strive on. The very come behind me. In the same
striving is a joy. It gives you way, they are purchasable
satisfaction. people with no ideals. They hop
from one political party to
Dedicate Yourself another, from one part of the
to the Goal world to another; you can
Not only does love enliven purchase them.
Develop a love for the ideal.
and lift you up to the higher,
but it also nurtures and Then uncompromisingly hold
on to the ideal. It is one-way
traffic thereafter, progress to
From a talk given by Swami Chinmaya- progress. So, whether it is
nanda at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan on
October 28, 1984, published originally in devotion to the Lord, to your
Tapovan Prasad, April and May 1985. profession or your art or
Tapovan Prasad 11 April 2018