Swim Through Life

When a person thirsts to evolve into his divine self, taming his mind and senses, the journey into the depths of the self involves more dangers of temptations and vices than the normal human would ever encounter.

As long as you are on the beach sand, watching the ocean from a distance, everything seems so heavenly — the horizon, the frolicking waves, the pleasant breeze, all these add to the bliss of serenity. When you step into the water, and start moving deeper, life size waves will start vying with each other to pull you deeper. Do not pause swimming just because there are lurking currents and pounding waves in the ocean.

Despite all the dangers that the sea holds, fish do not leave the water, do they? Once the fish steps out of the water, it is dead! That is the lesson life offers you.

If you want to swim across the Samsara Sagara (ocean of life), do not run away from life. Keep swimming nonchalantly like the fish do.

Presently, we are like Siddharthas, unaware that the Buddha inside us is just waiting to be discovered; we are ignorant of the Vivekananda within the Narendra we think we are.