How can we reduce our attachment yet live in the world joyfully? Swami teaches us a valuable lesson to us today from the life of Edison, the Scientist.
You must endeavor to become Divine, from where you have come. Lessen the attachment to the world, not by cutting yourself off, but by being in it as an instrument in God's Hands. Subdue all tendencies towards egoism that raise their heads in you through single-minded attention to the dictates of God called Dharma (Righteousness). Edison, the scientist concentrated so much on the solution of the problems that worried him, such that he left untouched, for days together, the food and drink that was pushed in through the doors of his laboratory. You must have the same concentration and shraddha (steady dedication) while engaged in sadhana (spiritual discipline).
- Divine Discourse, 10 July 1980 .
He who is content is the richest. - Baba
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