All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. No more ups and downs, but bliss, joy, silence and gratitude.
Direct the mind resolutely towards God, restraining the senses in their various seats, and looking on the state of the body as a matter of indifference. Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature…for what use is there in other, empty things?
One, who earns leadership of the people by working ceaselessly for their welfare, finally realises that he has been rewarded with many added advantages.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.
The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
