Geeta Bytes- Chapter 6, Verse 44

Geeta Bytes- Chapter 6, Verse 44

At any given moment, our bank balance is the balance to our credit shown in our statement of account. No banker can give us more, nor can he cheat us with a smaller amount.

Almost in the same fashion, in the cultural growth of a given mind and intellect, no God can either take away any or give some more, but can only hand over to each one of us his own exact balance.

Each birth has a logical continuity with its own past, as strictly as we experience in day-to-day life. Today is but an extension of yesterday. An individual who has been in Yoga in his past life, will be, BY THAT VERY FORMER PRACTICE, BORNE ON IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. This is true even in our life here.

An educated man will, IN SPITE OF HIMSELF, be carried away in his behaviour and conversation to exhibit his cultivated mental and disciplined physical habits. No cultured man can successfully imitate an idiot for a long time; so too, no rascal can act the part of a noble-born for any length of time.

Both will, sooner or later, be compelled, IN SPITE OF THEMSELVES, to exhibit unconsciously their true nature through their words, ideas, and actions.

Similarly, a man who had in the past lived the life of self-control, study, and practice gathers unto himself those cultural traits.

He, in this life, IN SPITE OF HIMSELF and in spite of all his adverse circumstances, environments and conditions of life, cannot but instinctively come to exhibit in his attitudes to life, and in his behaviour towards the things and beings in the world a tranquillity and a balance, which are a surprise even to himself.