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Missing home

Im staying in a hare krshna community in belgium and i kinda want to leave :( Nobody hugs or kisses or shakes hands, men wont look at me in the eye nor smile at me, im stuck hanging out with only boys who complain about everything and you cannot drink, smoke, eat sugar, etc. I want weed so bad!! I wanna hug my friends and give them piggy back rides and kiss my boy and buy a gomichela :''(

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What Is Real Never Ceases -- Bhagavad Gita Says Maharshi Mehi Paramhans: "Truth is always triumphant; non-truth is conquered.The literal and essential meaning of Truth is 'that which always is, is permanent, is eternal, and which never lacks.' In the Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna explains the nature of Truth to Arjuna (2:16): 'The unreal [that which does not exist] never is. The Real [that which truly exists] never ceases to be. The conclusion concerning these two is truly perceived by the seers of Truth.' Truth (Sat) is always triumphant; non-truth is conquered." (Philosophy Of Liberation/Moksha Darshan) The Self dwells in the house of the body, Which passes through childhood, youth, and old age. So passes the Self at the time of death Into another body. The wise know this truth And are not deceived by it. When the senses come in contact with sense-objects They give rise to feelings of heat and cold, Pleasure and pain, which come and go. Accept them calmly, as do the wise. The wise, who live free from pleasure and pain, Are worthy of immortality. What is real never ceases to be. The unreal never is. The sages Who realize the Self know the secret Of what is and what is not. Know that the Self, the ground of existence, Can never be destroyed or diminished. For the changeless cannot be changed. Bodies die, not the Self that dwells therein. Know the Self to be beyond change and death. Therefore strive to realize this Self. Those who look upon the Self as slayer Or as slain have not realized the Self. How can the Self be killed or kill When there is only One? Never was the Self born; never shall it Cease to be. Without beginning or end, Free from birth, free from death, and free from time, How can the Self die when the body dies? Who knows the Self to be birthless, deathless, Not subject to the tyranny of time, How can the Self slay or cause to be slain? Even as we cast off worn-out garments And put on new ones, so casts off the Self A worn-out body and enters into Another that is new. Not pierced by arrows nor burnt by fire, Affected by neither water nor wind, The Self is not a physical creature. Not wounded, not burnt, not wetted, not dried, The Self is ever and everywhere, Immovable and everlasting. The Self cannot be known by the senses, Nor thought by the mind, nor caught by time. If you know this, you will not grieve. Even if you mistake the Self to be Subject to birth and death, you must not grieve. For death is certain for those who are born, As rebirth is certain for those who die. Why grieve over what cannot be avoided? We perceive creatures only after birth, And after they die we perceive them not. They are manifest only between birth And death. In this there is no cause for grief. Some there are who have realized the Self In all its wonder. Others can speak of it As wonderful. But there are many Who don't understand even when they hear. Deathless is the Self in every creature. Know this truth, and leave all sorrow behind. -- Lord Krishna, Bhagavad Gita, (Eknath Easwaran translation)