Surge Twenty (Advanced)
Live Rightly-There is No Other Way
Live rightly. There is no other way to true happiness.
Be true to your conscience. Stop fooling yourself. That way you will not deceive anybody. You cannot hurt anyone when the flame of your inner voice is burning brightly, without the smoke of indulgent compromise. Nobody can cause fear in you when you have decisively abandoned all selfish seeking.
Living rightly is living with intelligence. It is not just following mechanically any precept or formula, no matter how well conceived it is. Life defies any rigid formula or law, for its spirit of love and freedom longs to touch eternity and to feel infinity. All laws, clever verbalizations, are limited by time and context. What is right for you may not be so for another. What is right for you today may not be so for you tomorrow. That does not however mean that you take the law into your hands without rhyme or reason. Do not play with fire without understanding its ways. When you know fire and its ways thoroughly, it is your friend and your relation has dimensions not seen before.
Eat rightly in quantity and quality. Let not your tongue – the little one that often demands a lot – hijack your whole body. Enjoy life and its rich variety of sounds and colors. Let not your soul be caught in the cage of pleasure for even a moment.
Live rightly. Live long. Be ready to go any moment.
If you eat excessively, you fall from the state of yoga; if you eat too less, you again slip from right living. Lying on bed for too long denies you the joy of the right consciousness; denying to yourself adequate rest also takes away the peace and strength of yoga. Geeta 6:16 (slightly adapted)
Swami Chidananda
Monday, September 29, 2003