Post by wayne on Jul 22, 2012 5:27:01 GMT
Here’s something I just found hidden in the back of my filing cabinet, though it’s how I found it that makes it seem suspicious – was I meant to find this?
May this message spread everywhere throughout the world today when there is anxiety and anguish in the heart of every person even in regard to the morrow. The political atmosphere and the social conditions prevailing at this hour, in this world, have created such difficulties in the psyche of man that one cannot say what will happen to the mentality of people.
There is no saying what will happen tomorrow. Have we come to this world to live in this state of anxiety? Are we actually living, or are we dying?
This anguish-born, anxiety-ridden, tension-torn life is veritable death indeed; and to infuse the real life into this impending deathlike existence, these great masters have come to us. And we contemplate this great master today who silently, without adumbration, without announcement, proclamation or without even being known much to the public, worked for the solidarity, integration and the welfare of the whole country, and blessed the whole earth.
Today there is possibly no country in the world which has not heard his name, though he himself physically did not go outside his country. Every nation in the world knows who Swami Sivananda was.
As very few can there be in this world who do not know the name of Mahatma Gandhi, such a great personality lived with us, and I take this opportunity of communicating my heartfelt feelings to all, not merely in this country but the world over – my feelings that we have an obligation to these great servants of humanity, which obligation we can fulfill only by our becoming servants. And may we be the servants of this Great servant of God Almighty.
We shall be blessed. Unless we invoke this great spirit of final blessing and peace to the world, we shall not see the light of peace anywhere. To reiterate, again, it was the message of immense cooperation with everything and every person, a spirit of sharing what one has with others, to see humanity in human beings as one sees humanity in one’s own self.
To keep in mind that to be human is to rise above the animal level of competition and the law of the jungle, the saint lives for others. The animal lives for itself. The animal cares not for the world; it cares only for itself. The saint cares not for himself; he cares for the whole world. Here is the difference between a saint and an animal. And even a human being, who is just a steppingstone to the sainthood and the sagehood of humanity, the superhuman ideal of humanity is to be expected as something above the animal indeed.
The animal considers another animal as its exploited stuff – it can be even a diet which it can gobble up – but man cannot eat another man. Humanity – human quality – is represented by the capacity to see in others what oneself is. Another person cannot be my diet, which means to say we cannot convert any person into a utilitarian, exploited stuff. No man is a servant in this world. Everyone is an independent status and a selfhood in himself. I would not like to be exploited, and I would not like to be a servant, I would not wish to be utilized as a tool under the pressure of somebody’s thumb, how would anyone else expect that?
What I am, that others are. To be able to feel like this in this expected charitableness of vision is to be human. And the human alone can become the divine. From matter there is evolution above the kingdom of life in vegetables, plants and trees. Above is the animal which works on instinct. Still above is man who works on reason, and beyond man is the superman, the Godman, the sage who represents the Ultimate Reality.
So while evolution has brought humanity today to this level of rationality and an ability to think and form judgements systematically with consideration of pros and cons, evolution has not stopped. The impulse in man, the urge within us to be better, to expand more and to become more perfect, is an indication that human life or the state of humanity is not the end of evolution. We have to rise to Godhood, which is to embrace all space and time in a blend of eternity. Swami Sivananda – the great master, I should say from the bottom of my heart – stood, lived, worked for the Great God of the cosmos.
We owe our duty to him, and what is the manner in which we can express our dutifulness, obedience, affection and gratitude to him except by living in the manner that he lived and to communicate his message, din this knowledge into the ears of all people so that mankind be in peace, the world be blessed and the kingdom of God may descend on this earth for the immortal glory of this whole creation.
This is the message of Swami Sivananda and this is the message of peace of mankind. This is God’s message for the well-being of All. May Peace be to the whole world.
May this message spread everywhere throughout the world today when there is anxiety and anguish in the heart of every person even in regard to the morrow. The political atmosphere and the social conditions prevailing at this hour, in this world, have created such difficulties in the psyche of man that one cannot say what will happen to the mentality of people.
There is no saying what will happen tomorrow. Have we come to this world to live in this state of anxiety? Are we actually living, or are we dying?
This anguish-born, anxiety-ridden, tension-torn life is veritable death indeed; and to infuse the real life into this impending deathlike existence, these great masters have come to us. And we contemplate this great master today who silently, without adumbration, without announcement, proclamation or without even being known much to the public, worked for the solidarity, integration and the welfare of the whole country, and blessed the whole earth.
Today there is possibly no country in the world which has not heard his name, though he himself physically did not go outside his country. Every nation in the world knows who Swami Sivananda was.
As very few can there be in this world who do not know the name of Mahatma Gandhi, such a great personality lived with us, and I take this opportunity of communicating my heartfelt feelings to all, not merely in this country but the world over – my feelings that we have an obligation to these great servants of humanity, which obligation we can fulfill only by our becoming servants. And may we be the servants of this Great servant of God Almighty.
We shall be blessed. Unless we invoke this great spirit of final blessing and peace to the world, we shall not see the light of peace anywhere. To reiterate, again, it was the message of immense cooperation with everything and every person, a spirit of sharing what one has with others, to see humanity in human beings as one sees humanity in one’s own self.
To keep in mind that to be human is to rise above the animal level of competition and the law of the jungle, the saint lives for others. The animal lives for itself. The animal cares not for the world; it cares only for itself. The saint cares not for himself; he cares for the whole world. Here is the difference between a saint and an animal. And even a human being, who is just a steppingstone to the sainthood and the sagehood of humanity, the superhuman ideal of humanity is to be expected as something above the animal indeed.
The animal considers another animal as its exploited stuff – it can be even a diet which it can gobble up – but man cannot eat another man. Humanity – human quality – is represented by the capacity to see in others what oneself is. Another person cannot be my diet, which means to say we cannot convert any person into a utilitarian, exploited stuff. No man is a servant in this world. Everyone is an independent status and a selfhood in himself. I would not like to be exploited, and I would not like to be a servant, I would not wish to be utilized as a tool under the pressure of somebody’s thumb, how would anyone else expect that?
What I am, that others are. To be able to feel like this in this expected charitableness of vision is to be human. And the human alone can become the divine. From matter there is evolution above the kingdom of life in vegetables, plants and trees. Above is the animal which works on instinct. Still above is man who works on reason, and beyond man is the superman, the Godman, the sage who represents the Ultimate Reality.
So while evolution has brought humanity today to this level of rationality and an ability to think and form judgements systematically with consideration of pros and cons, evolution has not stopped. The impulse in man, the urge within us to be better, to expand more and to become more perfect, is an indication that human life or the state of humanity is not the end of evolution. We have to rise to Godhood, which is to embrace all space and time in a blend of eternity. Swami Sivananda – the great master, I should say from the bottom of my heart – stood, lived, worked for the Great God of the cosmos.
We owe our duty to him, and what is the manner in which we can express our dutifulness, obedience, affection and gratitude to him except by living in the manner that he lived and to communicate his message, din this knowledge into the ears of all people so that mankind be in peace, the world be blessed and the kingdom of God may descend on this earth for the immortal glory of this whole creation.
This is the message of Swami Sivananda and this is the message of peace of mankind. This is God’s message for the well-being of All. May Peace be to the whole world.
