One has to say no. No! - to the lower nature and:
Yes! - to spiritual activity.
Every time - again. Never is there a time when we’ve done it, when we are successful.
“Now I’ve done it, now I’ve conquered my lower nature. Now I’ve conquered the material energy.”
No! Again and again one has to conquer. Again and again.
And as soon as we stop, the material energy takes over again.
Just like the jungle: The plants, they just take over and you have to cut and to trim again and again, and they then grow back.
Or like the beard, or like the hair, every time again you have to shave – didn’t shave this morning... It just never stops. It never stops. It keeps on growing'
"It's too much, this shaving."
Again and again - that’s the nature of spiritual life!
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, Australia, March 2011)
Yes! - to spiritual activity.
Every time - again. Never is there a time when we’ve done it, when we are successful.
“Now I’ve done it, now I’ve conquered my lower nature. Now I’ve conquered the material energy.”
No! Again and again one has to conquer. Again and again.
And as soon as we stop, the material energy takes over again.
Just like the jungle: The plants, they just take over and you have to cut and to trim again and again, and they then grow back.
Or like the beard, or like the hair, every time again you have to shave – didn’t shave this morning... It just never stops. It never stops. It keeps on growing'
"It's too much, this shaving."
Again and again - that’s the nature of spiritual life!
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, Australia, March 2011)
