Embodiments of Love - 14.07.2016

Embodiments of Love - 14.07.2016

Know yourself in the first instance. When you know yourself, you will know everything else. It is very essential that youth understand this truth. 

You cannot call yourself youth on the basis of your age and physical strength. Who is a youth? A youth is one who is endowed with love, truth and bliss. 

When you realise your true Self, you will be full of bliss. hen you will be free from all worries. If you are devoid of bliss and haunted by worries, it only means that you do not know who you really are. 

You are the reflection of God. Whatever you see is reflection, whatever you hear is resound and whatever you experience is reaction. Such being the case, why should you worry?

Once upon a time, a cowherd boy took some cows for grazing to a nearby hill. As the cows were grazing, he started singing a song. He heard the echo of his own singing and was perplexed. 

He thought another person was trying to imitate him and ridicule him. He was very angry. He shouted, "Who are you? Why do you sing the song I sing?" He at once heard the echo of all that he said. 

He felt humiliated and wanted to know the person who was imitating and insulting him. When he returned home in the evening, he narrated all that had happened to his mother. The next day, his mother accompanied him to the hill and asked him to sing again. 

Again the echo was heard. The mother smiled and said, "Son, what you hear is the echo of your song from the hills." The boy was amazed. Till then he was ignorant of such a phenomenon. 

He was never again upset when he heard his song echoing in the hills, for he knew it was merely a resound. Man's lack of knowledge of truth is the cause of anger, hatred and jealousy in him. 

When he realises that the whole world is but a resound and reflection of his own feelings then he will not develop anger, hatred, jealousy, etc., against others. 

Saint Thyagaraja sang, Telisi Rama Chintana Cheyave Manasa (Oh mind! Know the truth and contemplate on Lord Rama). There is no point in chanting the Name of Rama without realising its efficacy.

Whatever you hear outside is only a resound of what you utter. It is not coming from elsewhere. As I am speaking to you, all of you are able to hear My voice. 

If I do not speak at all, how can there be resound? Reaction, reflection and resound emerge from within. Happiness and sorrow arise from within. We are the cause of our own sorrow. 

No one else can pass on sorrow to us. We will not take it if others want to give it to us. It comes from within us. Whatever you experience outside is your own reaction, reflection and resound. 

When you understand this truth and conduct yourself accordingly, you will be full of bliss. If you want to understand the principle of Divinity, try to understand who you are.