WISE WORDS VII

Live is to give not to take.
Swami Rama Tihtha proclaims: The way to gain anything is to lose it. The more you run after wealth , the more it recedes. You crave for it, and it eludes you. Leave it alone, and it will follow you. Work earnestly dispassionately, the reward of the work shall court you.

From Swami Parthasarathy in Indian Times see also http://sprituallity.indiatimes.com

WISE WORDS III

The day you stop seeking for happiness in the outside world that is the day were you become truly contended. Then you won’t wander hither thither looking for happiness in different places because your thirst for happiness gets quenched in prayer, in meditation. Truly speaking that is the day when you become a spiritual - dharmic person, in the true sense of the word.
All that you desire is there right within you, it is with you but you don't have that will to seek. The work of sages is not to give you knowledge; the work of mystics is to light that fire within, to inculcate a longing, a feeling of restlessness inside you.
This longing makes you spiritual or dharmic in the use sense of the word. This longing makes you sing, cry, dance in the remembrance of God.

Excerpt from the Speaking Tree.- The Times of India

WISE WORDS III

Letting Go of the Past

It is good to know that mere facts never burden us. The memory of our name or phone number is not a burden but a psychological memory or an insult or even a felicitation can become a hang up. Interestingly, many of us tend to forget facts but we tend to remember and dwell upon psychological memories.
Osho points out, “Memory has technical uses. You have to know how you drive, you have to know where your home is and you have to recognize your wife and your children. But those are not the psychological hang-ups Factual memories are useful. It enhances life, facilitates it.
But if you come home and you look at your wife and think of all your past experiences with her then this is a psychological hang-up. If she was angry with you in the recent past, then that memory can cloud your eyes. If she was nasty or sad, then it too can color your perception. Psychological impressions change your way of looking and perceiving her as she is standing in the front of you at this moment You are not longer looking at her but at someone who doesn’t exist. You are looking at a ghost, not at your wife. And she may also be looking at you at the same way.
Drop the past each moment … Just as you clean your house, clean your inner house of the past. All psychological memories have to be dropped. Just keep the factual things and you mind will be very clean and clear
Soon n you will find there is a new light in your life – the light of here- now the PRESENT.
OSHO, citations from timesfoundation@timesgroup.com

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