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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


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