Live a Balance Life — Play Your Part Well

16. Live a Balance Life — Play Your Part Well

— Control your senses.
— Control your habits and behavior.

That is, live in harmony with the divine laws governing material and spiritual duty (let not one responsibility contradict other important duties); health (millions need a greater consciousness of health, for diseases are not created by God but by man's breaking God's laws); prosperity (include others in your own well-being); and human relationships. Do not leave anybody out of your love. Keep everyone in your heart, and they will keep you in theirs. You will be a king on the throne of all hearts, commanding their love and influencing them to goodness, not by force, but by your love. (dr)

Do not be bound by this earth. This is just a place where for a time you are to act your part. Do not give undue importance to it. Balance material and spiritual duties in your life; that will bring you supreme happiness. Be ambitious for God , which will help you to play your part well. (dr)

People lose their balance and suffer from money madness and business mania only because they never had the opportunity of culturing habits of a balanced life. It is not our passing thoughts or brilliant ideas but our everyday habits that control our lives. (jt)

Self-Realization is a philosophy of living:
— right meditation
— right thinking
— right living.

Control Your Senses

Turn those five searchlights inward in meditation. In that inner silence, you will know the Beauty and Bliss—beyond material imagination—that is God. The senses do not keep their promises of happiness. If you have everything in this world, you will find you still want something else; and your happiness will be a slave to your possessions. To be supremely happy and free, you must be a man of renunciation— one who is master of the senses and is nonattached to possessions. True renunciation means to renounce material consciousness for spiritual consciousness. It is not exclusive, but inclusive, for to have spiritual consciousness is to possess everything that will make you truly and lastingly happy.

The true master is one who controls his senses. When he says no to temptations, he means no. And when he says yes to right action, he means yes. (jt)

Control Your Habits and Behavior

A life of spiritual harmony— whether lived in the context of the individual, the ashram, the family, the nation, or the world—requires willing cooperation with the rules of right behavior, and a loving understanding and cooperation with others. The standards and rules of spiritual harmony are higher than those of material harmony. Follow them strictly. Be your own judge, and court-martial yourself. If the verdict is that you have done wrong, correct yourself. Otherwise, your bad habits and wrong behavior will act against you like a boomerang. Better still, guide all your actions by the inner voice of spiritual consciousness, so that you will do no wrong.

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Play Your Part Well

This drama of God's is going on constantly. We, the actors of many races, play in it life after life on the stage of space and time. We should understand the purpose of this drama. We were put here in this world to play our parts well, but not to become enmeshed in and identified with our roles.

So on earth it doesn't matter whether we scrub floors or whether we are leaders of great organizations. Unless man knows that he is playing on the stage of time, he is going to suffer from the consciousness of these differences in station and condition. When stage actors play different parts, they remember that they are only acting, and knowing that, they do not bemoan their occasional unattractive roles, but play them all to the best of their ability.

Learn how to play the various parts of your life-movie without identifying your role with your Self. It is important to remember, whenever pain or anger or any kind of mental or physical suffering comes, to look upon them as would a spectator. Dissociate yourself from your experiences. Looking upon them as though they were happening to another person is the best way. (os)

"Oh, life is sweet, and death a dream
When Thy Song flows through me.
Then praise is sweet, and blame a dream
When Thy Song flows through me.
Then health is sweet, and sickness a dream
When Thy Song flows through me.
Then life is sweet, and death a dream
When Thy Song flows through me."*

* From "Cosmic Chants"

Nobody is Like You

You are a part of the Lord's creation; He needs everybody to carry on this drama. Never compare yourself with anybody else.

You are what you are.
Nobody is like you.
Nobody can act your part as you can.

Similarly, you should not try to play somebody else's part. What is important is to do the will of Him who sent you; that is what you want. While you do your part, think all the time that God is working through you. (jt)

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