day by day.pdf

(i.e., They won’t be afraid even if guileful enemies stab
their chest or they are surrounded by fire or bitten by a cobra,
all will be bliss for them). This is found in Ponnambala Swami’s
commentary on Bhagavad Gita in Tamil stanzas, Chapter VI
Verse 17 (Page 150 of the Asramam book). Continuing this
topic, I said, “It is true such things are said in the books. But we
see that the jnani feels pain. Even one like Sri Ramakrishna
Paramahamsa felt pain when he had cancer of the throat and
cried out, ‘Why has mother sent this pain to me?’”
Bhagavan: It may be like that in the beginning, due to
long association or habit. But afterwards it will pass off.
In this connection I must record that long ago, once when
Bhagavan was suffering from some illness and I expressed
concern, Bhagavan was pleased to explain to me that he felt
the pain as in a dream and no more.
10-1 0-1 0-10-45 0-1 0-45 Mor Morning Mor ning
I came across the following on pages 110 and 111 in
Letters to my friends by Gilbert Henry Gedge in the September
1945 issue of Science of Thought Review.
“Again, people sometimes say that when they are at work
there is no time to be thinking about God; their mind has to
be ‘on the job’.
“Now, friend, I say to you once again that for all these different
matters the remedy is the same. Seek first the kingdom of God.
When that is done all things fall into their proper place and their
proper perspective in our mind. God is in you and in all your
circumstances now, and you and your own individual little world
are in God now. Realisation of that fact involves also the realisation
that all things in your life are in their right place and order, that the
law of God rules your whole life and circumstances. Nothing
whatever can be excluded from the rule of that law when we realise
that our life is actually lived in God. Even when we are engaged in
24