Message of the East, Volume 9Vedanta Centre., 1920 |
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Alwar asked Atman attain August and September become Bhagavad-Gita blessing bodily body Brahman Cadoc called CENTRE 1 Queensberry Centre of Boston Confucius consciousness consecration cosmic death desire devotion Divine East faith feel fire gain Gautama Buddha give God's Gopala happiness heart heaven holy human Ideal ignorance immortal India Indo-Aryan infinite inner Jiva Katha-Upanishad knowledge lecture light living Lord manifestation matter meditation mind MUNDAKA MUNDAKA-UPANISHAD Translated nature never ourselves peace perfect Plato practice Prana prayer Published monthly pure Raginees Ramakrishna Mission realize religion REPORT Swami Paramananda sacrifice sage Sannyasins Scriptures selfish sense serve Sister Devamata soul spiritual Sri Ramakrishna subtle body Sunday Supreme Swami Vivekananda teaching Thee things thou thought Thursday 8 P. M. tion true Truth unity universe unto Upanishads Vedanta Centre Vedic vision whole wisdom worship Yen Yuan Yoga
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Page 49 - As the different streams having their sources in different places all mingle their water in the sea so, O Lord, the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee!
Page 74 - ... either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or, if at all, after death. For then, and not till then, the soul will be in herself alone and without the body.
Page 108 - And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inward self, Thou being my Guide: and able I was, for Thou wert become my Helper. And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul, (such as it was,) above the same eye of my soul, above my mind, the Light Unchangeable.
Page 74 - For the body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food...
Page 78 - Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are about to go away to the god whose ministers they are.
Page 60 - Sultans : i 0 Servant, where dost thou seek Me ? Lo ! I am beside thee. 1 am neither in temple nor in mosque ; I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash : Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation. If thou art a true seeker, thou slrnlt at once see Me : thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time. Kabir says, ' O Sadhu ! God is the breath of all breath.
Page 16 - Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.
Page 75 - And thought is best when the mind is gathered into herself and none of these things trouble her — neither sounds nor sights nor pain nor any pleasure — when she has as little as possible to do with the body, and has no bodily sense or feeling, but is aspiring after being?
Page 227 - For there is a joy which is not given to the ungodly* but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art.
Page 74 - Whence come wars, and fightings, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lusts of the body?