This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. No more ups and downs, but bliss, joy, silence and gratitude.
The gods and demons were rivals of each other. The demons, swollen with pride, said, “In what, pray, should we place the oblation?” And they proceeded to place it in their own mouths.
The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.
The sun, symbolising wisdom, divine knowledge and spiritual light, which receded from you when you revelled in the darkness of ignorance, delusion and sensuality, now joyously turns on its northward course and moves towards you to shed its light and warmth in greater abundance, and to infuse into you more life and energy.
