Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world - so make the acquaintanceship of God now.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the idea of detachment and the importance of a spiritual connection with God.
This quote from Lahiri Mahasaya suggests that our attachments in life are temporary and ultimately fleeting, and no one truly owns another person or can claim belonging to them. It encourages readers to cultivate a relationship with the divine, as this connection will endure beyond the physical world and can provide comfort during the inevitable changes and losses in life.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of spiritual connections in life.
Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of KRIYA, learn to escape into Spirit.
Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit.
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Through man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.
To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.
fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul.
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