The Highest Consolation

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May the grace of Divine and the choicest benedictions of Gurudev

grant unto alla deeper understanding of life, a higher vision of all

things as a comprehensive whole and not as fragmentary parts of a

puzzle. There is no puzzle in this universe if we look at it in a

comprehensive manner, as a complete whole.

 

May the Lord grant us a higher vision, deeper understanding and the

inner power and strength to take all things as they are. We can

change ourselves from within, but we cannot change the universe. We

cannot change the world. We cannot change the cycle of the seasons.

We cannot change the cold of winter or the heat of summer. And that

which cannot be changed has to be accepted and endured and

experienced. And we can enrich ourselves with that experience. We

can also help others to understand.

 

The famous admonition of the wisdom teachings of the Bhagavad Gita

is: " tamstitikshasva bharata -- O Arjuna, endure them bravely and go

on forward, fulfil thy purpose, do thy duty, endure. " Because this

world, constituted as it is by ever-changing and temporary things,

is never stable and it never endures. All things change; all things

suddenly terminate. This is the world. Matrasparsastu kauteya

sitoshna sukhadukhadah agamapayino'nityas tamstitikshasva bharata

(The contacts of the senses with the objects, O son of Kunti, which

cause heat and cold, pleasure and pain, have a beginning and an end;

they are impermanent; endure them bravely, O Arjuna).

 

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