Parables of Rama
by Swami Rama Tirtha | 102,836 words
Stories in English used by Swami Rama to illustrate the highest teaching of Vedanta. The most difficult and intricate problems of philosophy and abstract truths, which may very well tax the brains of the most intellectual, are thus made not only simple and easy to understand but also brought home to us in a concrete form in such an interesting and ...
Story 255 - Sacrificing of worldly desires to attaining peace and god-hood
When a man enters water, the water pressure presses him down. But the dead body is thrown-up, as if the water up thrust raises it to its head.
Similarly, if you become dead to world, you are helped by Nature to gain the wholesome and strength-giving life of godliness and spiritualism. So, why not willingly die the internal death by destroying your ego, now and here, so that the external death of your gross body may not be painful and grief-stricken to you and so that you may live peacefully and also die peacefully.