ACT NOW LEST THE HOUR PASS BY
Time is flying and those that are misspending it, pursuing the vain frivolities of life, will remain to rue later, perhaps in the evening of their ill-directed lives, that it was an opportunity lost, an occasion wasted when the divine could have been made the focus of their lives for fruition to be in the fullness of time.
Which way shall you go, friend, when the call of the wild beckons you to revert to your primitive trappings and the deep divine hearkens you to listen to the soft murmurings of the soul? One tugs backward and outward unto the realm of matter, the other pulls deep within where you truly belong and must one day for sure seek residence for good. The dual tugs constitute life in its tension between the preferable and the pleasurable, the electable and the delectable, and resolve eventually to mark the fate of man in his terrestrial sojourn.
Now is the time, my friend, now no hour to rest. Set aside all worldly priorities knowing death to be the sweeping end of it all and relocate your life and living in the Spirit that shall never fail to see you through in the final moments of your life when all will be dark and you will stand alone bereft of company. Then the Spirit alone shall bear you the light that never fades and will see you through this earthly habitat to the one that awaits hereafter. Or, perhaps, with a fair bit of grace divine, you shall see the end of it all and in the final analysis stand supreme as the witness to your own Self in a reflexive vision of non-dual subjectivity. Or, if even luckier still, you may emerge as the eternal devotee of the Lord in constant communion with Him in ecstatic blissfulness.
Blessed are you, friend, when such possibilities await you. Must you fail to respond? Must you give up this singular chance of attaining freedom from a universe of cross-linked ceaseless bondage? Upon you lies the choice and upon you lies the burden, too, to unlock the knots of life unto freedom.
Written by Sugata Bose
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