Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

Attachments make you lose your freedom. You can move freely, when you are not encumbered with burdens. Less luggage, more comfort, is a slogan for the journey of life. Reduce desires, loosen attachments; you win your freedom. The end of wisdom is freedom; the end of education is character; the end of culture is perfection; the end of knowledge is Love. Self-confidence is the basis of faith in God also. People who do not know who they are and who have no confidence in their strength and power assert that there is no God. But how can they declare that the God in whom you believe and who exists for you, does not exist? They are free to assert that God does not exist for them; but that assertion cannot make God Himself non-existent!

 

There is a story about a Hindu Pandit in Benaras. He used to pray for five minutes every morning and for five minutes every evening, thus spending ten minutes a day in meditation on God. His colleagues laughed at him for wasting ten precious minutes on this silly, wasteful habit. He replied, "Sirs! If really there is no God, I concede that ten minutes of my time are being wasted each day; but if God exists, imagine, you are wasting twenty-four hours each day, without recognizing Him and praying to Him! I feel that I am using these ten minutes in something in which I have full faith. I am deriving great joy therefrom."

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol. XI, Chapter 40.