Message #36256

[Jitendra Hydonus]

There a many opposite types of people in the world - - good and evil, restless and meditative, ingnorant and wise, happy and sad. Tell the evil person to be good and the restless person to be meditative and they will make you feel that they do not like to follow your instructions or that they cannot do so. This is due to previous habits and not to the desires of the heart. Hence, never put aside good habits; cultivate them, and develop a taste for their superior, lasting happiness. You love the outward pleasures of the senses because you happen to be held up by them at first, and then you remained their prisoner. Even as a person gets used to jail, so we mortals like our pleasures, shutting off the joys from within.

To evolve to a saintly state while clinging  to evil companions would be most difficult. It is most important to know that sinners or saints are largely made through the company they keep. If a sinner is willing to mend his ways and lives in the company of Saints, he is bound to change, while the careless spiritual man will deteriorate in the company of wicked people.

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