{"id":1280,"date":"2025-09-03T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:04:23","slug":"gain-gods-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/featured\/gain-gods-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Gain God\u2019s Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The moment you turn your mind to God, you will gain immense strength and peace.<\/em> &#8211; Swami Sivananda<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect the world to rush to your rescue in every bad situation. It will just not happen. Few people are interested in your drama or capable of understanding your soul.<\/p>\n<p>God is watching and ready to support you. Be up and doing, with faith in God. Remember this point well.<\/p>\n<p>If God supports you and all the world opposes you, you will still succeed. But if you lose God and gain all the World\u2019s support, there will be failure.<\/p>\n<p>Gain God\u2019s friendship.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s friendship is the greatest wealth. Once you have God\u2019s friendship, peace of mind is yours. You now have everything. Fear has fled. Anxiety has disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>See God in all. Feel unified in spirit with <em>everyone<\/em> and <em>everything<\/em>. You are not separate from the rest of creation. God is just another name for that mysterious life principle within you. Call it Life, call it Consciousness, call it Existence. This mysterious principle is all pervading, eternal and one without cause and effect.<\/p>\n<p>Feel happy. Think, talk and walk in a manner befitting the God within you. Shed all meanness, crookedness, untruths, cunning-ness, selfishness which are the hallmarks of a degraded person. Feel one with all, in spirit. Your life will begin to move along the right lines. Your spiritual evolution will be rapid.<\/p>\n<p>With God at your side you will have peace of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment you turn your mind to God, you will gain immense strength and peace. &#8211; Swami Sivananda Don\u2019t expect the world to rush to your rescue in every bad situation. It will just not happen. Few people are interested in your drama or capable of understanding your soul. God is watching and ready to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[23,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-1280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-5-points-of-yoga","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-sri-n-ananthanarayanan","10":"tag-swami-sivananda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandesha.sivanandayoga.org\/teachings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}