Life 48 (Feb 25 - Dec 26)

[winston]

Why and how should we control our attachments in life?

What is the reason for anger and loss of discrimination? It is only attachment!

Yes, you may have an attachment for your wife and children. But keep it within limits.

Not only must you limit your attachment but limit its duration also. Your householder life is only till the age of fifty. By sixty years, you must enter Vanaprastha (the stage after the householder phase).

You should snap ties with wife and children and be free of all responsibilities. The age of seventy years is the time for complete renunciation (Sanyasa).

Instead of cultivating such sacrifice, men today refuse to renounce attachments till death. Only hell can result for such people.

Help your family and others to the extent possible. Discharge your duties towards everyone.

And remember that every person is independent, governed by their individual karma.

Everyone is responsible for themselves. Don’t cultivate attachment, which is the root cause of sorrow.

- Summer Showers, May 25, 1995

Do not attach yourselves too much with the world, for it is ever-changing fast and furiously.

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

How can we live in joy and become near and dear, to the Divine?

Cleanse your instruments of Consciousness, devote yourselves to service, so that you might weaken the forces of ego and strengthen the forces of unity.

Cultivate Japa and Dhyana (Repetition of the Divine’s Name and Meditation), so that you might rise towards Divinehood — these are the steps by which you can earn and establish yourselves in Ananda.

Engage yourselves in your duties as intelligently and as devotedly as you can; but carry out your duties as if they are acts of worship offered to Him, leaving the fruit of those acts to His will, His grace, His compassion.

Do not be affected when the results you anticipate are not produced; do not anticipate at all, simply leave it to Him!

He gave you the time, the space, the cause, the material, the idea, the skill, the chance, the fortune and you did but little of your own.

So, why should you feel as if you are the doer? Do your duty, as sincere Sadhana (spiritual practice)!

- Divine Discourse, Mar 24, 1973

Source: radiosai.org