Message #31628

[guest88]

Thanks Steve,

it is true, I am grateful not every impulsive desire is rewarded in kind.

Funny you would mention Sri Yukteswar the day after I read this about him... Here's to hoping the wisdom lives on.

He is full with contentment who absorbs all desires within, as the brimful ocean remains unmoved (unchanged) by waters entering into it- not he who lusts after desires.

"This stanza was a favorite with my great master, Swami Sri Yukteswarji, and was oft quoted by him. He would experience some new manifestation arising from his vast inner ocean of peace (and infinite sea informed and fed by absorbing, transmuting, the inflowing rivers of all material desires); then he would express in a sonorous voice the realizations he was feeling within. His very face shone with a great inward light. At such times, those around him who were spiritually sensitive could feel my Master's overflowing perception of peace being transferred to them. I often inwardly hear him reciting this Gita verse in Sanskrit, just as I used to in years gone by." ~PY