Message of the East, Volume 12Vedanta Centre., 1922 |
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Ananda Ashrama angel art Thou August and September beauty become Bhagavad-Gita blessing body Boston Brahman Buddha Buddhism C. F. Andrews called CENTRE 1 Queensberry cents Christ Christian comes consciousness desire devotion divine East eternal everything evil faith father feel friends give happiness healing heart heaven Hermes Trismegistus Hindu holy human idea ideals India Infinite inner inspiration June 17 La Crescenta light live Lord matter meditation mental mind Mother Mother Heart nature never noble ourselves outer peace person pleasure poems possess Postage 10 cts prayer Published monthly pure Queensberry St Rabindranath Tagore Ramakrishna realize religion seek silence Sister Daya soul Soul's Secret Door spiritual Sri Ramakrishna surrender Swami Paramananda Swami Vivekananda teaching Thee things Thou art thou shalt thought thyself tion to-day true truth understand UNIVERSAL MESSAGE unto VEDANTA CENTRE vision wisdom words worship Yudhishthira
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Page 175 - ALL that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
Page 216 - These sayings are true at all times, and equally true that " a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Page 122 - But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Page 50 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Page 49 - Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east : and, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters : and the earth shined with his glory.
Page 62 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Page 213 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 8 - Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquillity which others give. A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
Page 182 - What hast thou now in thy thoughts ? with perfect openness thou mightest immediately answer, This or That...
Page 106 - We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. I cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to-day in this mortal frame, shall ever re-assemble in equal activity in a similar frame, or whether they have before had a natural history like that of this body you see before you; but this one thing I know, that these qualities did not now begin to exist, cannot be sick with my sickness, nor buried in any grave; but that they circulate through the Universe...