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Mind can be known by Mind & Divinity can be known by Divinity
2. Bh.Devasena
Dear Brothers and sisters, Hearty Pranams.
Revered Master in his message at Chennapatna on 20-02-1972 gives an advice to the seekers that Mind can be known by mind and Divinity can be known by Divinity. Or in other words we should use the Divine power for the sake of the Divinity.
In the above message, Master mentions that the present question before the world is how to lead a happy life? The general understanding of the people is that materialistic success gives happiness in life which is not true. Here the meaning of success is not clear. Eg., when we take any family, a person wants to become either a Doctor, Engineer, Dancer, Actor, Musician etc. Then he seeks for a good job to earn money. Then he wants to have a good family life. Then children, their education, their career etc. The cycle of success in life goes on in this way and it does not end till the end of the life. Lot of disappointments and despair are also there in life. Life ends without contentment or taste of the Real happiness. Every person can introspect on this point and all will definitely agree to the point mentioned by our Master that “When we move forward backing towards the sun the intellectuality work in its own sphere “. By this I understand that the sun that is the God or the Light which we have to face and take support. This is ignored and instead we are moving backward towards the darker side i.e materialistic side totally. That is the reason why any amount of materialistic success i.e money, name, fame etc. does not give us real happiness because it is not having the light. In this context our Master always stresses the point that everyone should maintain a
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