SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 5 Text 25
labhante brahma-nirvanam
rsayah ksina-kalmasah
chinna-dvaidha yatatmanah
sarva-bhuta- hite ratah

labhante--achieve; brahma-nirvanam- -liberation in the Supreme; rsayah--those who are active within; ksina-kalmasah- -who are devoid of all sins; chinna--having torn off; dvaidhah--duality; yata-atmanah- -engaged in self-realization; sarva-bhuta- -for all living entities; hite--in welfare work; ratah--engaged.

TRANSLATION

Those who are beyond the dualities that arise from doubts, whose minds are engaged within, who are always busy working for the welfare of all living beings, and who are free from all sins achieve liberation in the Supreme.

JOURNAL:

It has been a long week. There is nothing like a work marathon to make you aware of the dualities of life. I have been binding thesis papers all week for graduating students from a most prestigious collage. On my breaks I would sit in a small grove of oak trees with the squirrels and chant the Holy Names while all around me the students would relax and celebrate the end of their school careers.

Here is success in all its glory. Thesis papers on every subject imaginable and yet not one that I saw dealing with the issue of who is God, or who am I. All that money spent to gain an education that cannot be taken with you when you die.