Knowledge Sheet of H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Sunday, May 17, 2015
   
Mastery Over Oneself


 You know, people who are on the spiritual path, they feel young and alive all the time. They overcome senility. This is one thing for sure. People who meditate, who engage in seva, who have a goal in their life and who live for others and not only themselves, you will see that they have a glow in their life, and on their face.


 If you look at Mahatma Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela, you see that there is a glow in them. That is because their life is dedicated to something bigger. So Lord Krishna says in Bhavad Gita, 'One who comes to me will never have this (jara) old age. There is no death for them and they feel liberated'.


 Coming to the master is not being bound but feeling the inner freedom. It is not slavery, it is mastery over oneself. It is freedom from our own mind. Freedom from craving and aversions. Freedom from feeling of 'I can do this' and 'I cannot do this'. So those who take refuge in me, strive for liberation.


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