CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
When a student, after his usual excessively hard working late hours falls asleep; in the vision Neptune appears to him and offers to convey all the knowledge of the universe to him. But the student refuses and asks the boon of being provided with oil for his midnight...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Was made to drink a substitute for coffee for preaching “The Gods are on high Olympus, Let them stay there; but you and I are here.” * * * * Man is the noblest work of Art – but nobody ever said so but man. Troubles are not really troubles unless you...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
In Greenacre. M. Malloy, a great personal friend of Emerson, told Rama as to how Emerson had strongly recommended to him the study of Bhagavad Gita and lent him a copy for just three weeks, claiming that that was the first copy brought into America. It cost Emerson a...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Senseless with fear down fall the robbers flat on the floor, taking the voice to be the voice of Plague. * * * * Ali: No arguing with the fool. * * * * Swimming impossible where there is no water. “Not having anything to do, to be doing something is Vedanta”. In...
CWSV Volume 4, In Woods of God-Realisation
Truth for authority and no authority for Truth. Children will naturally behave if the inevitable results of their doing are clearly shown to them. But when we force them to do or not to do certain things on our authority, we insult the higher nature of the rational...