👉 *Personality, personality, personality*

🔷 *This body is begotten and born of parents. There is really nothing different about the process of human birth. It is the same as in other animals. But on the other hand a personality has to be birthed with great care and resourcefulness.*

🔶 *Everyone, from a scientist to a philosopher has held human life in high regards. They sing praises to its greatness. The object of this praise is not a person, but a persona - the personality.*

🔷 *Yes, we do hear of someone inheriting a huge fortune, but its quite impossible to inherit - a great personality.*

🔶 *To make a personality is to relentlessly fight the battle of self-improvement with firm determination.*

🔷 *When a person becomes great, becomes extraordinary, outwardly he appears to be the same - but something does change, which makes him extraordinary from ordinary and that is - his personality.*

✍🏻 *Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya*

👉 *Embrace Forgiveness*

🔶 *Fire burns everything that comes into its contact. But the heat of anger of a person burns only himself. It you hit the earth by your hand; it’s only your hand that will suffer the pains. Your annoyance or irritation upon someone might disturb or hurt him, but it will certainly and firstly do more harm to you. Even if you feel justified in taking revenge against someone’s misdeeds and even if you are mightier and capable of retaliating, you should better forgive. Because, your anger and arrogance would be worse (for you also) than whatever wrong one might have done (to you). As you might have experienced on several occasions, if one controls the wrath and maintains mental stability, most disputes or problems could be resolved peacefully and give you the content of mind, which you are dying for.*

🔷 *So what if you take revenge against someone’s wrong against you? Every animal has this beastly instinct. Even a tiny ant can do that. Greater is the one who can forgive his enemies. Why don’t you learn, something form the earth? You dig it, plough it, but in return, it blesses you with crops, water, minerals and what not! Look at the piece of sugarcane! You cut it, press it, chew it, but it reacts by filling your mouth with sweet juice.*

🔶 *Those who have harmed you or committed crime against you are coward, weak, ignorant, because only those having a dormant conscience can do so. Why should you belittle yourself by responding back at their level? It does not suit an intrepid warrior to use weapons against the blinds or the slept ones. Your act of revenge might sometimes, give temporary ‘satisfaction’ to your ego, but the joy induced by your act of forgiving would last for long…*

📖 *Akhand Jyoti, Jan. 1943*

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👉 *In the Shrine of the Heart*

🔶 *Whenever you feel woeful, distressed or helpless in tragic circumstances or adversities around, whenever you feel demoralized by failures, whenever you see despair and darkness all around and are anxious about your future, whenever you are trapped in a dilemma and unable to think discreetly – don’t astray anymore in negativity. Remember, when a fox is surrounded by wild dogs
and sees no rescue, it runs swiftly back in to its den and feels relaxed and safe.*

🔷 *You should also throw away all thoughts and worries of your mind instantly and take shelter in the depths of your heart (the inner core of emotions, the inner self). Take a deep breath and just forget about everything; think as though nothing, not even your existence is there. As you would leave out these things at its doorsteps and enter deeper into the ‘shrine’ or your heart, you would realize that all the burden, all the worries and sufferings that were troubling you have evaporated. You have become light and floating like a thin piece of cotton. The calmness of your heart will sooth you like a moonlight shadow or a snow chamber to someone dying of heat in the sun of summer.*

🔶 *The purity of inner self is an edifice of peace and spiritual light. It is the source of ultimate realization and is therefore likened with “Brahmaloka”. God has graciously endowed us with this paradise to experience divine bliss. But we remain unaware of it and astray externally because of our ignorance.*

📖 *Akhand Jyoti, March. 1941*

👉 Two powers influencing human life...

🔶 *Religion and politics are the two main factors influencing human life at large. One offers zeal and the other awes with authority. One influences the outer worldly life of the masses while the other have an effect on the very depth of their inner being thus giving them vision and direction. Both are immensely powerful having an extraordinary influence in their own respective field. The aforesaid comparison is not meant to prove or disprove which one of them is weak or strong, useful or useless. Both are in fact complementary to each other. Each one of them can facilitate the success of the other even though they work in their own discreet fields.*

🔷 *Humanity suffers when one is at loggerheads or at odds with the other. Religion and politics can indeed do wonder to humanity. Unfortunately, such harmony is lacking these days.*

🔶 *Even though both are complementary to each other, religion remains to be of greater importance as it influences the inner core of human being which then produces corresponding results outside physical situations. Therefore, we should rely on dharma to educate and bring worthy changes in the hearts and minds of the masses rather than pleading help from the government administration which should be better left alone to get on with its duty of serving people in the physical field. We should utilise dharma more than ever to educate mind of the masses to rouse, guide, improve and excel their thoughts and feelings. The great luminaries who have been able to transform the world actually came from the world of dharma.*

✍🏻 *Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya*

👉 Learn to Share...

🔷 You are really fortunate if God has endowed you with vigour, brilliance, knowledge, power, prosperity, glory & qualities like these. Then your life must be progressive and joyful in the worldly sense. But this success or joy would be momentary and won’t be fulfilling if you keep your resources and belongings closed to your chest and use them only for your selfish interests. Your joy, your satisfaction would expand exponentially if you learn to distribute them and share whatever you have with others.

🔶 Try to spend at least a fraction of your wealth, your resources for the needy ones. Your help will not only give them support to rise and progress, more importantly, it will bestow the spiritual benefits of being kind and altruistic. This will augment your happiness manifold. Those being helped by you will also be happy and thus the stock of joy in the world will also expand.

🔷 Distributing and sharing with a sight of altruistic wisdom and a feel of compassion provide the golden key to unalloyed joy. God has been so kind to you, you should also be kind to others. God is defined as the eternal source of infinite bliss because HIS mercy pervades everywhere for all creatures, for everything. HIS divine powers are omnipresent. Every impulse of joy is an expression of HIS beatitude.

🔶 You should see the dignity of HIS divine creation in this world. God has also given you an opportunity to glorify your life by selflessly spreading HIS auspicious grace.

👉 When is a Prayer Granted?

🔶 Our prayers deserve to be heard by the Almighty only when we take care of making use of the potentials he has already bestowed upon us. Accumulation of negative tendencies of lethargy, dullness, escapism from duties, ignorance, etcetra make one hazardous for his/her own life like a balloon full of concentrated acid which is most likely to explode anytime or ruin due to the acidic burning.

🔷 The rules in the system of God work like a vigilant gardener who uproots the useless and harmful wild growth and carefully nurses the saplings of the useful vegetation. If a field is not ploughed and is full of useless grass or shrubs etcetra. Then, how can it yield a crop even if the soil is fertile? Who will praise a farmer who lets his field be destroyed without bothering to clean it? The system of God certainly can’t allow its field of Nature to be left unguarded. The rules of the Omnipresent are such that the vices, the evils, the futile, get eliminated continuously so that the perfection and eternal beauty of HIS creation remains unperturbed. If you expect your calls to be heard, you will also have to constantly strive for self-refinement.

🔶 The best way to get the response to your prayers is to awaken your self confidence and follow the path of duties. Then alone your inner self will awake.

🔷 The opening to the path to the Light Divine lies deep within the realm of soul and enlightened inner self provides the only bridge to reach this sublime source. Those who don’t have faith in the dignity of their own souls and those who keep ignoring the inner voice and hunt in the external world to fulfill their wishes are lost in the smog of passions and confusions and invite adversities for themselves. Those who scorn their own inner selves are also rebuked by god and their prayers evaporate in the void.

👉 Generous Like the Clouds...

🔷 Stingy fellows, who keep their resources only to themselves and remain apathetic to the sufferings & pains are infact accumulating sins for their future destiny. Those who have stocked heaps of wealth in their possession but never use it for the good of others are mere guards of money. Such fellows are burden on this earth that can do nothing for anyone. Even materialistically, they don’t enjoy anything; the thirst of gaining more, the worries and tensions of safeguarding the possession and the miserly attitude do not let them live in peace; they neither eat well nor can give anything to others. Despite having millions & billions of dollars remain poor beggars… Thirst for more and more of selfish possession does not even let one see what is right and what is wrong. They follow unfair means of piling up the stocks of wealth. Prosperity earned by unfair means cannot let one prosper… One dies empty handed and later on all that ‘dead property’ possessed by him does no good to even those who grab it afterwards.

🔶 On the contrary those who earn honestly and spend magnanimously and wisely in good, constructive and auspicious activities are always prospering. They are like clouds which enshower generously even if emptied today, the clouds are filled again and return back tomorrow with same dignity.

🔷 Integrity, benevolence, caring and helping socially are the virtues of greatness which can make the entire world your own. No one can forget the warmth of meeting such amicable personalities. But, the selfish fellows howsoever talented and affluent they might be remain aloof and virtually isolated. Their state is like that of milk kept in a dirty pot which is thrown without use.