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Excerpts from ‘7 Divine Laws To Awaken Your Best Self’ by Swami Mukundananda
The Law of Happiness – True happiness comes by growing from within to become a better person.
The way to be happier is not by accumulating possessions, but by becoming a better person.
The sequence for success is that ‘being’ must precede ‘doing’. We must be genuinely good before we can truly do something worthwhile.
We are more interested in changing our environment, while God is more interested in changing us.
You can literally know if a thought is holy or unholy by the feeling it generates.
Desire is the primary culprit in this triad of desire, anger and greed. It leads to contemplation of the object of our desire which in turn increases our attachment.
What happens when we try to fulfil desire? The result is greed for even more. Conversely, what happens when desire is thwarted? It gives rise to anger.
This it he unholy nexus – contemplation, attachment, desire, anger, greed – that contaminates and defiles our mind.
Trying to suppress undesirable thoughts does not work as well; rather, it backfires with more of the same.
As a spiritual practice, the goal of stopping the mind from thinking is a difficult one.
In bhakti, we dovetail our mind towards the Divine. Consequently, detrimental material desires and attachments are replaced by divine love for God.
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