CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Faith in the Invisible, not as real only, but as the only Reality. Time through every meanest moment of it resting on Eternity. If we see into anything and not merely dismiss it with a name, there is wonder for us at every turn. The green flowery rock-built Earth, the...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
“You do not believe,” said Coleridge, “you only believe that you believe.” * * * * * The spiritual will always body itself forth in the temporal history of men; the spiritual is the beginning of the temporal. * * * * * The merit of originality...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
The divine Idea that lies at the bottom of Appearance; open to all, seen by almost none. World = realized Thought of God. This sacred mystery while others forget it, the prophet or poet knows it, he has been driven to know it, he finds himself living, in it, bound to...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
What care I for caste or creed? It is the deed, it is the deed. What for class or what for clan? It is the man, it is the man; Heirs of love, and joy, and woe, Who is high and who is low? Mountain, valley, sky and sea, Are for all humanity. What care I for robe or...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
HEROES “They were men of such magnitude that they could not live on unrealities, – clouds, froth and all inanity gave way under them; there was no footing for them but on firm Earth;’ no rest or regular motion for them, if they got not footing...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Not the question about God, and not the origin and inquiry into the origin and the purpose of the world is religion, but the question about Man. All religious views of life are anthropocentric. Religion = that activity of the human impulse towards self-preservation by...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
All invasive moral states and passionate enthusiasms make one feelingless to evil in some direction. The common penalties cease to deter the heroic patriot, the usual prudences are flung by the lover to the winds. When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
“I have done wrong things enough in my life, and do them now; I miss the mark, draw the bow, and try again. But I cannot sit down and whine and groan against not-existent evil.” MARIE BASHKIRTOEFF “I enjoy weeping, I enjoy my despair; I enjoy being...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
“If we look on man’s whole mental life as it exists, on the life of men that lies in them apart from their learning and Science, and that they inwardly and privately follow, we have to confess that the part of which “Rationalism can give an account...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
The whole world must move with one who lives as one with the whole world. -Rama. * * * * * Om Ram [Religion] The Unseen Brahmasatyam Jaganmithya * * * * * Life is based on the fact that material sensations actually present may have a weaker influence on our action...
