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SUMMARY Paramahamsa Niranjanananda
The first mantra of the fortieth Samhita of the Rig Veda is,
Om e: havaasya idam sarvam yatkinchajagatyaam jagat
tenatyaktena bhunjethaa maa gridhah kasyasviddhanam: God resides in everything in this manifest world. God resides within every material benediction, bhoga. Therefore, you keep enjoying all the pleasures that are created by God. But we accept the benedictions and gratifications and forget God. Having accepted the bhoga, we make money the ultimate aim of our lives. As long as we have bank notes in our pockets, we go to hotels, buy bottles and empty them totally. This is the lifestyle of today.
But we need to transform this lifestyle because if we adopt the principles of yoga in our lifestyle, then life begins to blossom like a flower. To make life beautiful, to enable it to blossom like a flower, we need to adopt yoga which is a path of biological engineering. And this biological engineering awakens a different awareness, a different energy within us which gives birth to a spiritual principle in the place of principles based on money. That is how, in the end, life is made worthwhile. This was the message of Bhikshananda, the swami from South Africa.
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