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 Thursday 05 March 2026

O TRAVELLER, LISTEN

Swami Sivananda

Listen, O traveller. You are a way-farer here. The world is not your permanent home. You have come here only for a brief sojourn. Do not get attached to mundane objects. Work out your karmas, and free yourself from the bonds of samsara, or the earthly existence, through viveka or right discernment, vairagya or dispassion, and mumukshuttwa or burning desire for liberation. Your eternal abode is Brahman. Prom Brahman you have come; to Brahman you shall return. Since you cannot think of an impersonal Reality, or have a sense of belonging to it, saints and sages have given you the personal, causal, sustaining and reabsorbing aspect of this supreme Reality, which we call God or the Father in Heaven. Contd…


Control the senses. Be balanced in pleasure and pain, heat and cold, praise and censure. Have unshakable faith and unflinching devotion towards God.

- Swami Sivananda

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