Message #33635

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Cosmic creation and man’s place within it is a great revolving wheel of activity descending from spirit and reascending to liberation. The benighted man—having to descended and become intoxicated with the wine of sense pleasures, and failing to climb aboard the ascending cycle of the wheel with its lawful disciplinarian activities of life—remains in the pit of sinful misery rendering useless the purpose of his God-given life.

He who does not heed the liberating laws laid down by his creator this is the sole point of earthly existence He who identifies himself with his senses is rooted in the soil of materialism.  As a person who mounts a Ferris wheel can climb high and see a beautiful panorama, or can climb down again, so person who, instead of remaining stationary on the ground of materialism, climbs on the wheel of uplifting action can reach the high points and evolution; he is free to go to any world, whether the lower plane of earth or the rarefied regions of the Devas.

The man who performs higher and higher duties rises steadily in the scale of evolution. The sense identified person walks dully on the lowly levels of material consciousness. His sorrow producing error lies in not acquiring a standard of comparison, which can only be found by mounting the rotating wheel of the right actions. Such men never know the purpose of life; the search for the Holy Grail, the chalice of supreme Bliss!

~ Paramahansa Yogananda