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Spirit is the purpose of life Stratford, London (England)
Public Program, “The purpose of life,Spirit is the purpose of life”. Stratford (UK), 13 November 1980. She [Maureen] has already told you, how it works out. Now what are we living for? You have to think about. Is it just for earning money, earning more, putting some money in the bank, or for the insurance? Are we working for that? If money was everything, then you would have been the happiest people here because even if you are not working, you can get money in England, no problem. But that’s not the last thing. Those people who have less money could be much happier than the people who have money. Sometimes money can give you a headache, you see, and a kind of a intoxication. Then what is it that makes human beings happy? When I walk on the streets, say, in the West End if I walk, I find the people in West End are not at all happy, while in East End they are happier people, no doubt, because perhaps they know how to live with little less than what is required. And all the West End people want to always have more and more than what they require. Perhaps, they are more worried how to get more things. East End I’ve been always visiting and somehow, I have a great faith that here in East End, one day it will come that lots of seekers will be born in this part. As it is, I feel that Read More …
Seeking That Which Lies Beyond Stratford, London (England)
Public Program. Stratford, East London, London (UK), 13 June 1980 They could not have been false. They could not have lied to us. For example let us take the case of Socrates. Socrates has told us that we have to leave our body for the second life and that when we live on this world, when we live as human beings on this earth, we have to keep ourselves in such a way that we do not spoil our being. That we have a sustenance within us, a quality which makes us human beings, by which we can be called as human beings. What is the difference between human beings and animals? As so many others also have said the same thing, that we are human beings, because we are human beings we have to maintain a certain amount of sustenance. After Socrates we had people like Abraham and Moses, they also said the same thing. There isn’t much difference in what they said and Socrates had said. Socrates had said one more thing, that there are Deities within us and we have to look after those deities, we have to keep them pleased. Moses, when he found Ten Commandments, actually he found those ten methods by which he was telling us that we should be able to keep our existence as human beings by following those Ten Commandments. Sustenance means the one we sustain within us. In Sanskrit language, it is called as ‘dharma‘. “Dharayeti sa dharma”: the one Read More …