Cultivate inward purity through self-realization

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Netya Sharma

27 September, 2010

Faith in soul force, firm belief in the strength of the primary means of tearing off the sheet of delusion. Delusion and ignorance can be destroyed immediately by the shining light of faith.

IT IS part of daily routine for every individual. We style our hair, file our nails and exercise religiously to make us more beautiful on the outside. Inner beauty requires similar types of care and cultivation. Vow to groom your spirit daily by exhibiting your compassion, awareness, enthusiasm, optimism, grace, charm, intelligence and creativity. And remember, if you don't honour your own inner beauty, it will be hard for you to honour the inner beauty of those around you.

Because every time, as the proverbial teachings go, "Clothes don't make the man.", "All that glitters is not gold." and "Never judge a book by its cover." There's a reason these adages have been around for eons: They're right on about appearances being misleading and true beauty being about more than looks.

The soul possesses infinite strengths; it is only covered by the thick shroud of delusion. That is why you find yourself under the control of the mind and the senses; that is why worldly desires and worldly attachments have pitched their tents within you; that is why you are oppressed by the aggression of sin and woe. If we, by any means tear off that covering sheet, then there is nothing which can withstand the infinite strength of your soul and can oppress or trouble you by any sort of infliction whatsoever.

Faith in soul force, firm belief in the strength of the primary means of tearing off the sheet of delusion. Delusion and ignorance can be destroyed immediately by the shining light of faith. Have this faith; know it for certain that there is infinite strength within you. The mind and the senses-all become our servants. Without our consent they have not the power to make the least movement.

Those, who are filthy within and seek to cover up the filth and external ornamentation, their filth does not lessen, on the contrary it increases, nor can they save themselves from the evil effects of the internal filth. True good is derived only when the internal filth is eradicated.

If outwardly people fail to detect any merit in you but your heart is faultless and pure, you are truly pure. Indeed he alone is pure and good. Oprah Winfrey once said, "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."

Whatever words you utter about devotion, love and knowledge are indeed, valueless, if your heart lacks attachment to devotion, the nectarean and disinterested sweetness of love and the transcendent light of knowledge. Be a devotee of your heart, feel the spring of love within you, and kindle the light of knowledge within. Then alone you will derive true benefit from them.

A teacher’s teaching should be first addressed to himself. Whatever good notion or ideas you desire to propagate, or actually preach apply them first to yourself, and if you sincerely believe them to be good, realize them in your own life. To sacrifice one’s own good for another’s good is no doubt a virtue; but he who does not regard the good to be good in his own case and preaches it like an actor of a stage, as good for others can never expect to sacrifice his own good. He does not know what constitutes good for him; he is only playing the role of hypocrite in order to cheat others.

Do not censure anybody; neither be a critic, nor attribute fault to another. One thing which we should have to remember that the world is constituted of good and evil. If you go on searching for and detecting evil in it you will find nothing but evil. Whatever thoughts you will get in return will be corresponding to them. He who entertains hatred, fear, jealousy, enmity, and malice for another receives these very sentiments from another in return.

Do not feel irritated, agitated, vexed or angry; do not allow haughtiness to take possession on your mind, nor allow expression of haughtiness to escape your lips. If you get success to practice this, much of your sorrow and trouble will automatically disappear, have patience, be cool and as far as possible enduring, abstain from glorify your own personality, Correct yourself.

I remember another well said quote by Benjamin Franklin;
“While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us”.

So do not be afraid of any man; be afraid of our own evil conduct, of the impurities of the heart. When you have rendered any services to anybody, forget it; but when you have received any service from anybody remember it. Forget when you go through any suffering yourself; but remember when you are yourself the cause of suffering to another. Forget whenever you do any good; but remember when you are the recipient of good. Forget when any evil is inflicted you; but remember when you do any evil yourself.

Do not advertise the evils of others and neither discuss them nor remember them. Our supreme welfare lies in this. God is the knower of all hearts. He knows why and under what circumstances an individual has performed a certain act, it is he who will deal out the fruit of that action. Why do we interrupt in the middle and give an exhibition of the bankruptcy of our intellect, and through our fancies whether true or false go on gathering evils in our heart.