We are always drawn to a familiar thing in a strange garb or abnormal position: Cf our own men in a strange country; familiar ideas in foreign books etc. What we actually demand is the thing itself and not the way to obtain it, and of ways the most direct is the best; the less … Read the article »

Carlyle to Emerson: Do not disturb yourself about turning better; write as it is given you, and not till it be given you, and never mind a whit. He that cannot keep himself quiet is of a morbid nature. “I write to implore you to be careful of your health. You are the property of … Read the article »

“The stronger fishes, after their kind, prey upon the weaker fish.” This is ever our means of living, appointed to us eternally. Space is merely the order in which we look out piecemeal on True Sat (Being). * * * * Space is a mere How. It is not a What. It is a method … Read the article »

Maricha’s argument – “If, assuming the shape of a golden deer I am shot by Rama (=Truth) and die, I attain instant emancipation, otherwise I meet death at the hands of Ravana. I can never hope for escape from Maya.” Let me die at the hands of Truth. Truth is that which persists the same … Read the article »

“The orthodox is apt to tread the round of his own past eternally. The unorthodox is as apt to harness himself to the foreign present, with an equal blindness. In suicidal desperation the would-be patriotic reiterate the war-cries of antagonistic sects or moan for the advent of a new religion as if by introducing a … Read the article »

Oh Mother Earth, Father sky, Brother water, Sister wind, Sweetheart light. Here take my last salutation with folded hands! For today I am melting away into the Supreme. Because my heart become pure, And all delusions vanished Through the power of your good company. Tomorrow’s occurrence has no relation of cause and effect with today’s … Read the article »

Synthesis Through co-ordination, yet letting the Vedanta light shine on all alike. Let them assimilate according to their capacity. The temporary experience in which the subject becomes unconceived of bodily sensation is called Samadhi. The process by which he comes out of Samadhi time after time, to work its volume of force, into his daily … Read the article »

(Lukewarmness) 1. Henceforth the supreme crime for the follower of any Indian sect shall be the criticism of any other as if it were without the bounds of “The Eternal Faith.” 2. Man proceeds from truth to truth and not from error to truth.” 3. Let us allow full play to the doctrine of Isht-dev. … Read the article »

It is a fact that if one states the Truth, no one can T help believing what he says if only he make himself understood. If I issue an order in truth, there is no question but it will be both understood and obeyed. Suppose I issue an edict that every person should dress up … Read the article »

1. A hermit living among boulders, taking but water alone. A tiger ate him. 2. A man lived in great state highly respected and honoured. Fever killed him. The one should not have shunned society, the other should not have sought it. Neither of them lashed up the lazy sheep. Bottles around me on my … Read the article »