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for others are the dominant motives which ensure a peaceful and happy life.
Man’s individuality is not his highest truth; there is that in him which is universal. If he were made to live in a world where his own self was the only factor to consider, then that would be the worst prison imaginable to him, for man’s deepest joy is in growing greater and greater by more and more union with all, which is bound to be a happy and joyous life.
Existence is a strange bargain. We owe to life everything. The only true happiness comes from dedicating ourselves for a spiritual purpose.
As a matter of fact everything in life is for our ultimate good. We have to learn their proper utilization so as to turn them to our advantage.
Dire distress, misfortune, sorrow, calamity- nothing can overwhelm the man who has tasted the joy which comes from transcending all sorrow by spiritual consciousness. It is indeed a cloudy dark day for the soul when man loses sight of Divinity and forgets thro’ doubt and self pity that he is of God, that his life is absolutely in God’s hands. No calculation or thought can bring this higher happiness. That rises only in the heart that is full of faith and selflessness.
Revered Brother K.C.Narayana Garu observes in Bodhayanti Parasparam V ol.IV , page 142, that “the problem of life is not just seeking pleasure or even happiness during our life time, but to seek permanent happiness that is attainable only thro’ freedom from our desires and wishes. Until we find this freedom, even as Swami Vivekananda put it, we do not know the joy of freedom itself. For this, one needs to be free or liberated
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