Life – A Process and Karmam ( activity ):3

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Every action, viewed in this light, becomes a symptom of the restlessness of the relative consciousness in any of the human sheaths in which it is enclosed. 

 There is an unceasing attempt on its part to break boundaries, to overcome all limitations and to transcend itself at every step. 

 The environment called life in which it finds itself is only an opportunity provided to it to seek and find what it wishes to have in order to exceed itself in experience in the different stages of evolution.

  The universe is a vast field of psychological experience of multitudinous centres of individuality for working out their deserts by way of objective experience. 

 The universe is another name for experience by a cosmic mind, of which the relative minds are refractive aspects and parts. 

 The desirable and the undesirable in life are nothing but certain consequences which logically follow the whimsical and unmethodical desires of the ignorant individuals who know not their own ultimate destination.

  What is desirable today need not be so tomorrow, and today's painful experience may be a blessing for the future. 

 It does not mean that all that we want is always the good. We often grope in darkness and find a cup of poison which we avidly drink, while we are really in search of some soothing food to appease our hunger. 

 There is no error in the world or the objects; it is in the painful fact that we have no knowledge of what is really good for us. 

 It is not enough if a physician knows merely that a particular drug has the power to suppress a particular ailment, he has also to know what other reactions the drug will produce in the living organism.

 In our life, the mind has to act as its own physician, and in this work it has to exercise great vigilance born of right perception.

 No thought, feeling or willing can be said to be healthy when it is not in consonance with the health and peace of the universe as a whole. 

 That we are members of a single undivided family demands that we have to be mutually cooperative, and think and act in terms of mutual welfare, which, in the end, is the welfare of the whole.

 When this knowledge is not given to the mind, it acts blindly and errs with the idea that what appears to bring a temporary sensation of pleasure to it is the true and the good.

 When it does not learn the lesson of life by enlightened reason, it has to learn it by pain.
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