Patanjali “The only worthwhile accomplishments are not
those we achieve outwardly, but the victories we win over ourselves.”
The
only true victory of a man is when he conquers himself. Patanjali has
proclaimed this to mankind already a few thousand years ago and in the last
century it is repeated in the west by Paramahansa Yogananda, the great Eastern
yogi who has enriched the West with his eastern acquired knowledge and
insights.
Man is a marvelous creature, full of dreams and insights and talents.
Specially wealthy countries in the world have become masters of the matter, of
technique, of science, of human knowledge, of democratic developments.
This is a true achievement. The successes of mankind on practical, social and
economic fields, made mankind recently believe the world was manageable.
The
persistence of poverty in the world, unrest in a lot of countries, the
environmental crisis and the economic crisis show mankind there is still a long
way to go. Mankind could be helped by this ancient wisdom of Patanjali.
"The only worthwhile accomplishments are not those we
achieve outwardly, but the victories we win over ourselves"
It is
a spiritual law that the outer world more or less corresponds with the inner
world.
God says simply this to you: when you should tackle the turmoil and chaos and
confusion and limitations in your inner world, the outer world would certainly
respond. Of course not directly because the relationship between the spiritual
world and the material world, between the inner and outer world, between mind
and body is a complex one and is depending on many factors.
Victory
of the inner world? What can that be?
Why don’t you look around: people are generally spoken well dressed,
well fed, well educated, well housed and well informed.
But
at the same time you all are very much struggling with your attachments and
addictions.
- Seniors who drink too much
- Children who have overweight
- Smokers who can not stop
- TV viewers going to bed tired after 6 hours a day watching passively,
cluttered with advertisements and moderate programs
- Parents of children with two jobs, two cars, two holidays a year, who “are
loosing oneselves”
- Overcrowded shopping centers and empty churches
- Economic growth as the only foundation of society
- The environment as the victim of this growth.
This rich and saturated outer world, silted up with luxury which has captured
your heart, at the expense of the inner man, has had of course its day. We, in
the spirit, are already seeing the dawning of a new day, but for you people the
night is still ahead and to overcome.
Our advice is consider your inner self and look around and see the desperation of the vulnerable, the turmoil of the elderly, the powerlessness of the youth. The attachments, addictions and the despair resulting from this are controlling you more than you want to admit.
Create for yourself inner calm and silence and space and wisdom.
I would love to tell you "how much hope and future and happiness" is lying in this ancient wisdom of Patanjali, more relevant and necessary than ever.
My blessings to you all
Nr. 45
"You all do wander through life superficially. Look around, see
your fellow man? Do not pretend as if you're alone on the earth"
This tweet from You is fascinating.
Would You like to comment on it?
Many people are denying the uncertain and dynamic world by behavior on the run.
That is the subject of this tweet, and it relates to many people, not just to
young ones, not just to you in the west, but to the rich in the rest of the
world as well.
Know,
that you all are exhibiting the same behavior as the rich did in the past,
through out the centuries up until ancient times. But you are with so many now!
You exhibit behavior on the run, which is characterized by indifference,
selfishness and losing oneselves in the pleasures of materialism. And when one
flights, one walks away from something, and that is the suffering of others,
both people and all of nature.
The
great, unspeakable suffering of others, people with a confused mind, the lonely
elderly, in eldery homes as well, the starving people in the world, the slum
dwellers, refugees, workers and peasants exploited by large corporations, the
congested nature, the infinite tiling of your poor soil, the use of your cars
as if they aren’t at the same time devouring and contaminating everything, the
noise you’re causing in the poor world.
"You all do wander through life superficially.
Look around, see your fellow man? Do not pretend as if you're alone on the
earth"
How
long do you shut yours eyes to the exploitation and negligence of the poor and
the nature in the whole world?
Don’t
you know then how
- The fruit
from the third world is smeared with blood money of poor farmers
- The cheap meat in supermarkets cries
about the suffering of her animals
- The cheap textile usually is made by low paid
workers or child labor, and burdens seriously the environment
- You gasoline, and the ease using your
car, is at the expense of the environment, the clean earth, the clean air
- Any
toys, bicycle light with batteries, each blackberry, each luxury gadgets
seriously contribute to the pollution of the earth
- Your holiday behavior with gasoline-guzzling planes contributes as well to the
extinction of species
- Your
children perish in the plastic toy crap
- The nature and its flora and fauna may
have reached its limits for a century ago
- You all together have chosen a dead end
?
This is how We observe it.
And God does not want to scare you, but warn you, wake you up, and is asking you: don’t you have
a bond with your environment, your fellow man, with nature, with the plants and
animals?
You are a householder, who only cleans up his living room and neglects
everything else in the house, so everything is dilapidating, rotting, decaying
and the moment is coming even the clean and tidy living room will suffer the
consequences of leaks , clogged ducts, short-circuit and tiles blown away by
the storm.
"You all do wander through life superficially. Look around, see your fellow man? Do not pretend as if you're alone on the earth"
God tells you: you are closing your eyes, you behave yourselves as ostriches, you are running knowingly to the abyss.
And God tells you: the abyss will come absolutely, because even a child can realize this is not the right way.
Consult yourselves, because God has given you brains and a conscience and compassion and responsibility. Use it!
My blessings to you all
Nr. 44
“They say young people are too busy with their iPhones and twitter, but they
opt for full-time link with their loved ones, the large family revisited!”
Would you like to explain Your tweet about
young people and their smartphones?
Of course.
Young people, especially in the West, have a name for being individualistic and
only concerned with their own pleasures. I see it differently.
Young
people today are growing up in an exciting and changing environment. Everything
is open, there are endless possibilities, they are free to choose for all kind
of education and work and some even have money to travel a while. This is all
nice and fun and better than the possibilities of their parents and
grandparents. That is a fact. From this point of view they have more
opportunities, more wealth, more choices.
At
the same time the world has never been so pessimistic about the future, the
environment, and the opportunities for mankind to overcome this all.
Environmental disasters, earthquakes, forest fires, wars, potential conflicts
and all the bad news worldwide, waving into any "living room",
suggest young people have no future.
And of course young people do respond on this humanely: gloomy, perhaps
resigned, despondent, boisterous, sometimes aggressive.
They respond as well in a individualistic way, sometimes selfishly and
indifferently.
But
they are extremely concerned, in every case deep down inside. That's what I
observe.
"The youth of today" with their selfishness and their aggression and
materialism, that picture is a one-sided and unjust image of the youth,
especially cherished by older people.
"They say young people are too busy with their iPhones
and twitter, but they opt for full-time link with their loved ones, large
family revisited!"
But
people who have regular contact with young people know better.
And God knows better, because God sees them in their hearts.
And even though I also see their attachments and modern addictions and their
shortcomings, this all I let to pass. Her and know We do the positive
perspective.
And one aspect of the heart
feelings I want to discuss here.
With their smartphones young people have created a new social world, with their
friends: the new large family, a youth village, where one is available for each
other day and night, where one communicates with each other, joining each
other, having fun, celebrating life and supporting and helping each other out
of problems.
A wonderful new world of group power, group dynamics, new norms and values, a
social control, which consists of respect, freedom, communication, openness and
permanently available friendship.
Who wouldn’t like this?
My blessings to you all
Nr. 43
