CWSV Volume 1
You know every religion has got three aspects. Every religion has got its philosophy, its mythology and its ritual. No religion without philosophy can stand. In order that it may appeal to the learned, the wise, the reasoning class of people, it ought to have a philosophy, and in order that it may recommend itself to the people of sentimental emotions, of emotional nature, it ought to have a mythology, and in order that it may appeal to the common folk, it ought to have a ritual.
CWSV Volume 1
One day Rama was passing through the streets. A gentleman came up and said, “What do you mean by wearing this dress? Why do you wear this? Why do you attract our attention?” Rama always smiles and laughs. If you enjoy the dress of Indian monks, Rama enjoys your enjoyment. If this dress can make you filled with cheerfulness and make you smile, we derive happiness from your smiles. Your smiles are our smiles.
CWSV Volume 1
“I am the mote in the sunbeam, and I am the burning Sun, Rest here? I whisper the atom, I call to the orb, “Roll on!” I am the blush of the morning, and I am the evening breeze; I am the leaf’s low murmur, the swell of the terrible seas. The lover’s passionate pleading, the maiden’s whispered fears; The warrior, the blade that strikes him, his mother’s heart wrung fear. The rose, her poet nightingale, the songs from the throat that rise, The flint, the sparks, the taper, the moth that about it flies. I am intoxication, grapes, winepress and musk, and wine, The guest, the host, the traveller, the goblet of crystal fine.
