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THE WAY OF LIFE
mental peace and happiness. With the help of the beautiful images of the Lord enshrined in those places develop and establish a deep relationship with the principles of the Paramatma.
LIFE AND THE SOUL
Spiritual endeavours are the means by which the human life can attain its objectives. It will be a great blunder on your part if you spend all your life in your feverish and fretful endeavours to attain wealth and worldly enjoyments. The punishment for that blunder will have to be experienced through many lives. Think of this seriously. Money and lust; materialistic prosperity and physical enjoyments are momentary and they bring ruin and sorrow. Do not run madly after them. Do not be lost in the pursuit of those things that destroy the potentialities of your mind, voice and body. Carry out the noble endeavour of attaining those sublime objectives which bring you permanent felicity and which do not harm you. Love your soul more than life. In case you have to experience sorrows and difficulties in order to attain spiritual purity and elevation, welcome those sorrows and difficulties and experience them. Do not ignore your soul in your endeavour to make your life happy in the materialistic sense. Life is transient but the soul is permanent. Life is mutable but the soul is immutable. Endeavour to attain spiritual elevation. Make your life a means to attain spiritual elevation. Life is not an end but only a means to an end. The recollection, the seeing and the glorification of the Paramatma will inspire in us a desire naturally to perceive the Paramatma by means of touching. When we recollect the Paramatma; when we see him and when we cannot remain peaceful without seeing him and when we sing his glories, our hearts naturally long to touch him, to perceive him.
HOW DO YOU WORSHIP THE PARAMATMA ?
Some of you worship the Paramatma, every day. I ask them, "In what manner, do you worship the Paramatma ? Do you worship the Paramatma in a conventional and imitative manner
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