Monday, June 7, 2010

One will feel that there is nothing as sweet as the splendor of the LORD..

The infant does not know the taste of milk. 
By taking it daily, it develops an attachment 
for it which is so deep that when milk is to be
given up and rice substituted, it starts to protest.

But the mother does not despair.
She persuades the child to take small 
quantities of cooked rice daily and by this process
it starts liking rice and it gives up milk. 

Milk was once its natural food
By practice, rice became its natural food,
so natural that if no rice is available for a single day, 
it becomes miserable.
So too, though sense-pleasures 
are “natural” at first, by means of practice 
and training and listening to the commendation 
of the wise, slowly the greater and more lasting
pleasure derivable from the glories of the Lord 
and their recapitulation is grasped. 

Thereafter, one cannot exist without 
that atmosphere even for a minute. 
One feels that there is nothing as sweet 
as the experience of listening to the splendor of the Lord. 

The company of the worldly who chatter 
about the senses and the sense-objects 
will no longer attract. 

The company which exults 
in praising the Lord will draw and hold.