CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Maricha’s argument – “If, assuming the shape of a golden deer I am shot by Rama (=Truth) and die, I attain instant emancipation, otherwise I meet death at the hands of Ravana. I can never hope for escape from Maya.” Let me die at the hands of Truth....
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
“The orthodox is apt to tread the round of his own past eternally. The unorthodox is as apt to harness himself to the foreign present, with an equal blindness. In suicidal desperation the would-be patriotic reiterate the war-cries of antagonistic sects or moan...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Oh Mother Earth, Father sky, Brother water, Sister wind, Sweetheart light. Here take my last salutation with folded hands! For today I am melting away into the Supreme. Because my heart become pure, And all delusions vanished Through the power of your good company....
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Synthesis Through co-ordination, yet letting the Vedanta light shine on all alike. Let them assimilate according to their capacity. The temporary experience in which the subject becomes unconceived of bodily sensation is called Samadhi. The process by which he comes...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
(Lukewarmness) 1. Henceforth the supreme crime for the follower of any Indian sect shall be the criticism of any other as if it were without the bounds of “The Eternal Faith.” 2. Man proceeds from truth to truth and not from error to truth.” 3. Let...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
It is a fact that if one states the Truth, no one can T help believing what he says if only he make himself understood. If I issue an order in truth, there is no question but it will be both understood and obeyed. Suppose I issue an edict that every person should...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
1. A hermit living among boulders, taking but water alone. A tiger ate him. 2. A man lived in great state highly respected and honoured. Fever killed him. The one should not have shunned society, the other should not have sought it. Neither of them lashed up the lazy...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
It is not that blasphemy is offensive to God. He is used to it, for He has met it under many conditions. But it is insulting to the atmosphere and destructive of him who uses it. * * * * The man of purpose says No to all lesser calls, all minor opportunities. In other...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
In a picture gallery at Brussels there is a painting by Weirk. A naturalist holds in his right hand a magnifying glass and in the other a handful of Napoleon and his marshals, guns and battle-flags tiny objects, swelling with meaningless glory. He examines these...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
To steal or be stolen from is to be equally of a thieving mind. To be killed is to have a murderous mind. Mercy and Love is the might of the righteous. * * * * Does not the air breathe as kindly and as willingly into the lungs of the criminal as of the saint? * * * *...
