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Title: Bhaktananda: Simplicity Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Feb 29, 2012 01:03 pm Bhaktananda Simplicity LDG 5/28/98 SRF Monastics fourfold-vow: 1. Simplicity 2. Obedience 3. Chastity 4. Loyalty What does it mean to live a life of simplicity? Desires - God should be first, supreme Possessions It is easier to be content with less things. Activities Be efficient to have more time to meditate. Thinking Does not mean daydreaming or thinking of the past or future. Be efficient in your thinking. Concentrate on your planning at a certain time, set aside a time; otherwise think of God. This is how householder saints are made. There have been many. Dont think and plan and introspect all day wasted! Does no good. Plain living high thinking. More and more. Renounce the material life to have God. It is like investing $5000 to get a million. |