One day, explaining to Cath about leading a “simple” life, Baba observed:
People always make a mistake when they talk of leading a simple life. To live such a life is infinitely difficult. Outwardly, a person may wear plain garments and have a simple diet, but this is not living a simple life! The spiritual life is lived when a person is free of all desires, thus becoming completely open and guileless.
What is the use of only outwardly living simply? The elaborate dress of desires and longings is there, side by side with a feasting ego! The real meaning of leading a simple life is to be totally desireless, and to become desireless is impossible without a feeling of love for God.
-www.lordmeher.org, p1305
Nov, 1931; Harmon Retreat
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“Man is constantly feeling thwarted and limited, and he is ever in the clutches of unrelieved agony or suffering because, not knowing his own true nature, he identifies himself with the body or the desires or the limited individual mind, and thereby becomes a victim to their respective limitations and sufferings.” (www.lordmeher.org, p2448)