Swami Sivananda taught Swami Satyananda that one must identify with the mind of a thief, a liar and one who spoke ill of him. One must put oneself in their position and then one will understand them better. Continue reading
Through your ears to hear, to listen and to understand
Is to make gold of grain and golden grain of sand.
Only when what’s to be got from listening has been got
May one turn to what from eating may be brought.
Offerings turn stone to Gods
Listening makes humans of gastropods.
Learn by listening if from reading you cannot
That’ll be the staff from which your grip on life is got.