Pleasure isn't the goal of man, its knowledge. Pleasure and happiness arrived at an end. It is an error to assume that pleasure is the goal. The reason for all the torments we have in the world is that men absurdly think pleasure to be the ideal to take a stab at. After a time man finds that it isn't happiness, yet knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are incredible educators, and that he gains as much from evil as from good.
Good and evil have an equivalent offer in trim character, and in a few occasions misery is a more prominent instructor than happiness. In concentrate the considerable characters the world has delivered, in by far most of cases, it would be discovered that it was misery that showed more than happiness, it was poverty that showed more than wealth, it was blows that drew out their internal fire more than praise.
Happiness isn't the goal of humanity. Wisdom is the goal of all life. We find that man makes the most of his judgment more than a creature makes the most of its senses, and we see that man makes the most of his spiritual nature significantly more than this rational nature. So the most astounding wisdom must be this spiritual knowledge. With this knowledge will come rapture. All these things of this world are yet the shadows, the manifestations in the third or fourth degree of the real knowledge and joy.
It is anything but difficult to live in the senses. It is less demanding to keep running in the old notch, eating and drinking; yet what these cutting edge philosophers need to let you know is to take these agreeable ideas and put the stamp of religion on them. Such a convention is unsafe. Death lies in the senses. Life on the plane of the spirit is the main life, life on some other plane is negligible death, the whole of this life can be just depicted as an exercise room. We should go past it to appreciate real life.
Each work that we do, each movement of the body, each thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff, and notwithstanding when such impressions are not clear at first glance, they are adequately solid to work underneath the surface, subliminally. What we are each moment is dictated by the sum of these impressions on the mind.
What I am exactly as of now is the impact of the sum of all the impressions of my past life. This is really what is implied by character, each man's character is controlled by the sum of these impressions. In the event that good impressions win, the character turns out to be good, assuming bad, it turns out to be bad. On the off chance that a man persistently hears bad words, thinks bad thoughts, does bad actions, his mind will be loaded with bad impressions, and they will impact his thought and work without his being aware of the reality.
Actually, these bad impressions are continually working, and their resultant must be evil, and that man will be a bad man. The sum of these impressions in him will make the solid motive power for doing bad actions. He will resemble a machine in the hands of his impressions, and they will constrain him to do evil. Also, if a man thinks good thoughts and does good works, the sum of these impressions will be good, and they, in a comparable manner, will drive him to do good even disregarding himself.
At the point when a man has done so much good work and thought so many good thoughts that there is a powerful tendency in him to do good, disregarding himself and regardless of the possibility that he wishes to do evil, his mind, as the sum of his tendencies, will not allow him to do as such, the tendencies will turn him back, he is totally affected by the good tendencies. At the point when such is the case, a man's good character is said to be built up.
On the off chance that you really need to judge of the character of a man, look not at his incredible performances. Each trick may turn into a legend at one time or another. Watch a man do his most regular actions, those are surely the things which will disclose to you the real character of an extraordinary man. Awesome events energize even the most minimal of human beings to some sort of significance, however he alone is the really extraordinary man whose character is incredible dependably, the same wherever he be.
All the actions that we find in the world, all the movements in human culture, all the works that we have around us, are essentially the show of thought, the manifestation of the will of man. Machines or instruments, cities, boats, or men-of-war, all these are just the manifestation of the will of man, and this will is caused by character, and character is manufactured by Karma. As is Karma, so is the manifestation of the will.
The men of strong will the world has delivered have all been tremendous laborers, immense souls, with wills sufficiently powerful to topple worlds, wills they got by tireless work, through ages We are what our thoughts have made us, so deal with what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they go far. Each thought we think is tinged with our own character, so that for the unadulterated and sacred man, even his jokes or manhandle will have the bit of his own adoration and immaculateness and do good.
Extraordinary work requires awesome and tenacious exertion for quite a while. Neither one of the trouble ourselves if a couple of come up short. It is in the nature of things that many should fall, that troubles should come, that tremendous challenges ought to emerge, that self-centeredness and all alternate devils in the human heart should battle hard when they are going to be driven out by the fire of spirituality. The street to the good is the roughest and steepest in the universe.
It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. Character must be set up through a thousand lurches. The mind, to have non-attachment, must be clear, good, and rational. For what reason would it be advisable for us to rehearse? Since each action resembles the throbs shuddering over the surface of the lake. The vibration ceases to exist, and what is left? The samskaras, the impressions.
At the point when a substantial number of these impressions are left on the mind, they mix and turn into a habit. It is stated, "Habit is second nature", it is first nature likewise, and the whole nature of man, everything that we are is the aftereffect of habit. That gives us comfort, in light of the fact that, on the off chance that it is just habit, we can make and unmake it whenever. The samskaras are left by these vibrations going insane, every single one of them leaving its outcome.
Our character is the sum of these imprints, and to the extent that some specific wave wins one takes that tone. On the off chance that good wins, one turns out to be good, if mischievousness, one winds up plainly insidious, if delight, one ends up noticeably happy. The main solution for bad habits is counter habits, all the bad habits that have left their impressions are to be controlled by good habits. Continue doing good, thinking sacred thoughts constantly, that is the best way to stifle base impressions.
Never say any man is miserable, in light of the fact that he just speaks to a character, a heap of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is rehashed habits, and rehashed habits alone can change character. Surrender, repudiate the world. Presently we resemble canines strayed into a kitchen and eating a bit of meat, looking round in fear keeping in mind that at any moment someone may come and drive them out.
Rather than that, be a ruler and know you possess the world. This never comes until the point when you surrender it and it stops to tie. Surrender mentally, in the event that you don't physically. Surrender from the heart of your hearts. Have renunciation. This is the real give up, and without it, it is difficult to accomplish spirituality. Try not to want, for what you want you get, and with it comes horrendous servitude.
