These are a selection of spiritual teachings offered by Shri Veervasantha to his disciples and through them to seekers of spiritual knowledge. These teachings are derived from the guru's first published book: The Book of Knowledge, compiled by disciples of the Sat-chid-ananda Society of Surinam, Mauritius.
These are a selection of spiritual teachings offered by Shri Veervasantha to his disciples and through them to seekers of spiritual knowledge. These teachings are derived from the guru's first published book: The Book of Knowledge, compiled by disciples of the Sat-chid-ananda Society of Surinam, Mauritius.
These are a selection of spiritual teachings offered by Shri Veervasantha to his disciples and through them to seekers of spiritual knowledge. These teachings are derived from the guru's first published book: The Book of Knowledge, compiled by disciples of the Sat-chid-ananda Society of Surinam, Mauritius.
Members By Koosraj April 2005 SCAS: contact President-6255349, c.canakiah@gmail.com, 108scas@gmail.com A Selection of Holy Flowers from the Spiritual Garland made for Devotional Expansion and Spiritual Upliftment by Shri Veervasanta 4. The cause of every action performed is desire. Things happen not according to man’s desire but according to the Lord’s Desire. Even the worlds and the things in them are the Desire of God. Desires are of two types: the lower and the higher. The lower is the desire of man and binds him to hanker after all sorts of things; but the higher is that of God and, unlike the former, it liberates man. So long as the lower desires spring from the heart, liberation is not attained. When the heart’s desire has withdrawn and that of the Self is established, then man is controlled by the Self and is freed from the clutches of ignorance. When desire arises, it annoys, it troubles, it angers and leads one to do various things. We should do our utmost to curb it each time it arises; he who controls his desire is a master of himself. The seeker has to struggle to master his senses and his ego and, until they are mastered or put under control by the Self, his power will remain dormant One must discard all desires and control the senses by which the body is governed in order to become pure and to attain the saintly abode; however, one must completely eliminate them to attain the eternal abode. One who can control all the senses with the help of the Self is a master of himself. Hence, the Self controls the man who surrenders himself to His Will through silence, meditation and devotion. Just as the lake has many channels through which it loses water and cannot be filled, likewise our body loses energy through our senses; if our senses are controlled, we can gather our inner potentials and acquire any power we look for. When we allow our thoughts to dwell continuously upon material things, we lose energy through the channels of thought; when we speak continuously about material things, we lose energy through speaking; when we desire something, we lose energy through desire. Similarly, we lose energy through passion, hate, jealousy, gambling... So one who controls all the senses of the body and reaches a state of silence within himself is sure to attain spiritual development and can plunge into the depth of inner learning. The lower thoughts, which take all forms of desire, come from the satanic force called ignorance, which is the root of all our sorrow, grief, misery, trouble, sin and also death. The moment the soul enters a woman’s womb to take a body, Satan who is infinite darkness veils the ego or the human self and causes him to be ignorant. This ignorance prevails in him as long as he does not seek to know the truth. Satan has various appellations such as world, matter, body, form, darkness, ignorance, lower thought, visible, finite, something, known, ego, evil actions, duality, separation, impurity, all the different evil qualities of the intellectual, actional, sensual senses, and death. Satan in the worldly men keeps them in ignorance; Satan in the spiritual men forces them towards quick progress. Since ignorance cannot be dispelled in one day, Satan tires the seeker constantly until he brings him to the goal Thus Satan, too, is helping the seeker. Hence, Satan and God become two companions in the seeker whereas in the worldly man Satan ever remains an enemy. Satan and the Lord are ego and Soul. As the ego has to question and the Soul to answer, hence, Satan is the questioner and the Lord is the replier; both have their roles in all fields of activities where birth and death co-exist.