CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
He hunts a lion, Hays him, sews the skin on the body of an ass. Sends the donkey to the town. People run away in fear. The donkey brays on seeing other donkeys. People discover the cheat and kill the animal. Upadesha – If ye want to wear the sinha garb, you must...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Love (Prema, Bhakti):— in Beauty that frees, that is, dazzling snows and sunset, such as we want to enjoy with others. Cupidity (Moha, sneha): —appreciate Beauty that enslaves; that is, in wife (or woman etc.); such as we want to engross or possess exclusively. Bhakti...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
“Do as you would be done by,” i.e. Put yourself in the place of the man towards whom your action is directed. Could you put yourself in the place of the robber and apply the Golden Rule? It is the refusal to continue the struggle for existence. The...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
During the ages of Evolution, as the nature of man grew from the solitary into the social, his social dependence constantly increased. With this increase of social dependence, increased his fear of the loS3 of social help, until the fear became instinctive. Now it...
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...
