Sunday, August 23, 2009

Your Inner and Outer Lives

This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his or her own little domain. Peace and harmony may reign in one person’s world, strife and war in another’s. But whatever be the circumstances of one’s environment, it consists of both an inner world and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of your determines your happiness or unhappiness.
To exist without peace of mind in this world is to dwell in a kind of hell. But the man of divine perceptions finds the earth a blissful abode.
Only those who partake of the harmony within their souls know the harmony that runs through nature. Whosoever lacks this inner harmony feels also a lack of it in the world. The mind in chaos finds chaos all around…. But he who has inner peace can abide in this state even in the midst of outer discord.
SO try to quite the outgoing mental restlessness and turn to the mind within. Harmonise your thoughts and desires with the all-fulfilling realities you already possess in your soul. Then you will see the underlying harmony in your life and in all nature. If you harmonies your own hopes and expectations with this inert harmony, you will float through life on buoyant wings of peace. The beauty and depth of yoga lies in its bestowal of this invariable tranquility.
Practice even-minded calmness all the time. Become a king, an absolute monarch, of your own mental realm of calmness…Let nothing disturb your peaceable kingdom of calmness. Night and day carry with you the joy of “the peace of God, which passeth all understanding.” By sacrifice yoga meditation, establish your palace of peace on the rock of the ages, the indestructible inner peace of God.

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