The Lord Has Set A Limit On The Term of Mortal Life, Did you know that? If you didn’t read on. The car of your life is running even though their wheels are spinning uselessly and that’s when your car gets bogged down in the mud or sand, and you step on the accelerator, making the wheels spin rapidly, but the car remains in the same place, that is the condition of many persons. First, ask yourself what kind of road you are driving on. Are you traveling a smooth, bright highway that will take you surely to your life’s destination? Or are you traveling the hazardous, muddy back roads of evil or wrong behavior?
If you are moving along a good path of right actions, maybe the car of your life will not get caught in ruts. Yet even then there is a chance that you are not steering properly. If you are too sure of yourself and carelessly take your eyes off the road, you can veer off course and into a rut by the wayside.
On any pathway in mortal life one can get mired in ruts; they are present everywhere to catch man’s consciousness. The progress and growth of such persons is negligible. They think they have grown up because their body has matured, but their brain, their mind, their attitudes remain stationary-psychologically and spiritually immature. There are so many detrimental habits that hold you back. Anytime you are compelled against your will to do something evil or harmful, remember, you are in one of the mental ruts of mortal delusion. How to get out of them?
Analyze yourself. Introspect to see if you have progressed in any undertaking that you have set your mind upon. Ask yourself in what ways you are in ruts. Practice this review at least once a week, keeping a mental diary. The best way to see yourself is to look through the eyes of conscience. “Have I become more peaceful? Have I become more understanding? Have I become more tolerant: Have I become more loving toward others?”
You will be surprised to see how life can be changed for the better if you develop the will-to-accomplish attitude. Mental ruts are fearsome enemies of progress. Man becomes”hard-boiled,” absolutely fixed, in his accustomed ruts. He becomes so bound by them that he cannot move onward. That is one reason the Lord has set a limit on the term of mortal life.
When one’s car of life has become completely bogged down with disease or the disillusionments of old age, so that no further progress can be made, that is when God says it is time to walk away from that no-longer-useful bodily vehicle; so death comes as a blessing. No matter how ossified the mind has become in limiting mental ruts, at the end of life God says to everyone, “Come on, I will give you a fresh start in a new body.”
Every hundred years all humanity is taken from the earth. But the inevitability of death should not make us feel hopeless—a mental rut into which most people fall. To them, life often seems so meaningless. They do not see the silver lining behind the cloud. From the teachings of P. Yogananda
