CWSV Volume 3
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.”
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The desire to be original and popular or conspicuous often enough keeps people away from the path of Truth. Waiving that kind of desire and keeping the head level – neither crest-fallen in gloom nor flying in the clouds of self-flattery – if we face the problem of the Present Needs of India, we are confronted with the sore phenomenon in the country of practically utter disregard of any relationship or bond founded on the living together in the same holy land, which means a deplorable absence of neighbourly love. Religious sectarianism has clouded manhood in the people and eclipsed the sense of common nationality.
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Realize what Atma is – to see gold you need not break it. When you think of man, woman, eddies, waves, cloth and gold, you do not think of the reality behind.
