TWO STEPPING STONES by SWAMI SIVANANDA SARASWATI

TWO STEPPING STONES

By:- SWAMI SIVANANDA SARASWATI

SWAMI SIVANANDA SAYS :

 "If you help someone, never remember it and if someone helps you, never forget it." READ ON....

Learn this great secret: Put yourself in the place of others. What

you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. How

can one who knows that each and every being is his own self

harm anyone? No one tries to harm himself.

You are not the doer. Do not think of the good deeds you

have done and do not expect any thanks for what you do. If

you help someone, never remember it and if someone helps

you, never forget it.

Failures

The world is for your education. You learn many lessons daily.

If you learn all the lessons you can, if you use all opportunities 

to the best advantage, in the spirit of yoga, your capacities and

willpower will develop. You grow, you evolve and you expand.

There is eternal development and you are moving forward

towards the goal. You receive more and more divine light,

knowledge, peace and spiritual strength.

Difficulties exist so that you may become strong by

overcoming them. Therefore, overcome all difficulties, one

by one, patiently. If you fail ten times, do not despair. If you

fail a hundred times, do not be disheartened. If you fail a

thousand times, rise up and march on boldly. Failures are

indeed stepping stones to success.

. . . Shall I fall on bended knees

And wait for someone to bless me

With happiness and a life of golden dreams?

No. I shall run into the desert of life with my arms open,

Sometimes falling, sometimes stumbling,

But always picking myself up, a thousand times if necessary,

Love

Love God with all your heart and your neighbour as yourself.

Love breaks down all barriers. Feel that another’s difficulty

is yours and relieve him of his difficulty. Then alone will you

grow in cosmic love. Love is an actual substance that you can

use with confidence. Love is a positive, concrete thing.

Love vibrates in the form of service, generosity and

benevolence. Love of one’s nation, one’s own race, one’s own

religion is but a limited kind of love. Human love is but the

stepping stone to universal love.

Love knows no fear. Love is the divine force of this universe.

The purer you make your heart, the greater will be the power

of your love. Be kind, humble, tolerant, just and natural. Love

the eternal in every being. Make no distinctions between one

being and another. Love is the dew drop of divine grace.⁠⁠⁠⁠