No power in circumstances

The light of the sun falls on everybody alike without ever

taking the limitations of the different things it falls on.

The all-pervading ether or air or whatever you wish to call it, takes the shape of this room, the shape of different jars, the shape of different persons, carries the different smells along, good and bad, but it is neither limited nor contaminated by them in its real substance.

There is badness, evil, dirt, in the world, but why should you be contaminated?

If you are, it is your own fault. If you feel affected, it is your fault, not the fault of other persons, not the fault of circumstances. It is just your own evil desire, your own attachment, your own weakness.

So, go and change that, and everything will be changed for you.

Destroy your own miserable clinging to the unrealities of life, to the dolls and puppets and limitations of life, and Reality will come, will be unveiled.

It is so silly to go on complaining endlessly about things and people

instead of rising to another plane yourselves!

Swami yatiswarananda

Readings Of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Wiesbaden, Germany May 4, 1934 -- (Vol.I 85-93)