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The downfall, the decline of India, is explained by the Vedanta philosophy. It is a matter of Karma. Karma means something brought about by our own doings. The literal meaning of the word Karma is action, our own doing. What they are reaping is what they sowed for themselves the other day. As the Hindus ill treated the aborigines of India, so they m their turn are being treated by the conquering nations. As everybody who falls sick is responsible for his sickness, brings about his sickness by ignorance, by over – eating or violating the laws of health, so the Indians are sick, diseased by their own doing or through ignorance.
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Real, genuine socialism is today actually in existence among the Swamis in the Himalayas. Edward Carpenter of England obtained his socialism from the Hindus. So all your new thought is the old, antiquated thought of the Hindus. In order to get to the genuine centre, the whole truth and all the new thought, Blessed ones, you have yet to wait a little and get more knowledge from India. Most of those wonderful writings have not yet been translated into your language, such as the Yoga Vasishtha which deals with all the new thought of America. This work is clear, comprehensive, logical and is written in real true poetry. Such is the manner in which our Mathematical works are written, and thus Mathematics is made a pleasure, instead of the bug-bear it is to most students.
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” Wherefrom all speech and all thought turns back like a ball flung against the wall, jumps back”, When you reach that state, it is the word Amen that introduces you into the whole world, Amen is only a distorted expression of Ohm, Ohm, Ohm. So Ohm is the most natural name for God, the most natural name for the Holy of Holies.
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Deva in the Vedantic language means the power – giving life and light to the different faculties; and the deva or devata of a faculty, indriya or sense, implies that faculty, indriya or sense taken cosmically. (Cf. Adhyatmik and Adhidaivik) The devata of chakshu (or sight) is the sight of all beings, called Aditya and only symbolized by the material Sun or the world’s eye. The devata of hands is the power in all hands and is named Indra. The devata of feet is the power in all feet styled Vishnu, and so on. Thus true yajna or sacrifice to the devas means offering or dedicating my individual faculties and senses to the corresponding cosmic powers. Offering to Indra would mean working for the good of all hands in the land. Offering to Aditya would mean realizing the presence of God in all eyes; honouring and respecting all eyes; offering no eyes by unworthy conduct; presenting smiles, blessings, love and kindness to whatsoever eyes may turn upon you; and offering your eyes 10 the All – Sight with such a devotion that the egoistic claim being entirely given up, the All – Light Himself may shine through your eyes. Sacrifice to Brihaspati is dedicating my intellect (thoughts) to all the intellects in the land or thinking for the good of the land as if myself were none else than my countrymen, merging my interests in the interests of the people and exulting in their joy.
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Purity! Purity! At bayonet’s point you have to acquire Purity. The merciless wheel of Evolutionary struggle will utterly annihilate you, if you do not acquire Purity. Your only hope lies in Purity today. Just as the Process of Evolution forced chaste conduct between near relations among the savages, so does survival today imperatively demand clean minds and chaste behaviour on your part. O people of India, you cannot live if you lack that. Let it be hard or easy, you have to acquire it, for the sake of India, for your bodies’ sake, for your brains’ sake, for religion’s sake, for this world or that, you have to be thoroughly pure. No heroism without purity, no union without purity, no peace without purity.
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If we are born in critical times of Indian History, let us be thankful, for our opportunities for service are more abundant. The work for us is more unique, more poetic and dynamic. It is said they who sleep well wake well. India has had a long sleep, her wakeful – ness is going to be more remarkable for that. All that we have to arouse among the Indian people is “A spirit of appreciation and not criticism, the sentiment of fraternity, the instinct of synthesis, the coordination of functions and aristocracy of labour.”
