Know Yourself

 

“Life is short.  
Time is fleeting.
Realize the Self.
Purity of the heart is the gateway to God.
Aspire. Renounce. Meditate.
Be good; do good.
Be kind; be compassionate.
Inquire, know Thyself.” ~  Swami Sivananda

Aspire. Renounce. Meditate.
Be good; do good.
Be kind; be compassionate.
Inquire, know Thyself.
Aspire: Direct one’s hopes or ambitions
towards achieving something.
Renounce: relinquish, resign, step aside from.
Be good; do good. Being good is an abstraction,
an idea about yourself or others.
Doing good is an action,
towards yourself or others.
Be kind; be compassionate.
Kind is love; love is kind.
Inquire, know yourself.
to understand yourself fully
understand your own emotions,
desires, abilities….
Can you get there by understanding
your own emotions, desires and abilities?
etc. I was so young then. I really didn’t know myself
When I was a child, I talked like a child,
I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a [wo]man,
I put the ways of childhood behind me.*

*1 Corinthians 13:11 NIV

Sri Swami Sivananda