Powerful Mesage not be sidetracked by the pleasant side of things

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WOW! almost missed the forest for the trees.

Thank you Tom for these quotes; NAMASTE to the light and love within

you!

amma's blessings,

amarnath

 

Ammachi, "Tom" <tomgull wrote:

>From "On the Road to Freedom" by Swami Paramatmananda :

 

"It soon became second nature not to mind the way I was treated by

others. In fact, I even started to take a kind of delight in being

abused. I would note clearly whether or not my mind was affected by

the words and try to remain as a witness within, unchanging and calm.

Ratnamji had once told me, "As a devotee, others may praise you and put

you on a pedastal. You may think that you are unaffected by their

praise and even say that it is God in their form who is praising. But

you will know if you are really unaffected by praises only when you

receive the opposite, blame. If one cares not for pain, pleasure also

cannot hold one bound. One should always test onself and be sure that

one is not fooling oneself thinking that pleasant things do not affect

one.

 

"Only if you are indifferent to the painful side of life and take

it as God's or Guru's Sweet will, will you not be sidetracked by the

pleasant side of things."