Amar Vani

Author(s): Amarmuni
Publisher: Sanmati Gyan Pith Agra

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AMAR VANI
compassion and kindness begin to flow out from his heart. “The sorrow of the world is my sorrow, and the joy of the world is my joy”-this is the realization of the expanded Self which is all-good and all-beneficent, and which may confer immortality on man in the otherwise transient world.
"I' and 'We'
'I' leads to hell, while We shows the way to heaven. Man will bring heavenly blessings to society in proportion as the sense of 'I' decreases and that of We' increases in the human heart. Where there is "I', there is pride, there is vanity, there is cowardice, there is envy, jealousy, greed, 'temptation and discontentment. Where there is 'We', there is humility, there is innocence, there is love, there is uniiy, liberality, sacrifice and renunciation. 'I' is narrow and confined: We'is universal and unconfined.
Be Ocean and not a Drop
There is danger all around for a small drop of water. *The dry earth seeks to absorb it ; the gust of wind tries to waft it away ; the scorching rays of the sun are out to evaporate it and the thirsty bird is eager to swallow it. In brief, there is death all around it. If the drop of water 'has to preserve its identity, it must merge its small entity with the ocean. It must change itself from its small size of the drop to the large size of the ocean. The ocean has no fear, no danger. Storms and tempests may blow; millions of animals and birds may drink water in it, the burning rays of the sun may scorch it, and lightning and thunder may seek to thwart it, but the ocean has no fear from any of them. This is because the ocean is large; it is immense. There is no fear to its existence. This analogy