Message of the East, Volume 5

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Vedanta Centre., 1916
 

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Page 34 - and perverting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error; and to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without. . . . Therefore set free the soul alike in all, Discovering the true laws by which the flesh Accloys the spirit
Page 34 - Paracelsus": "Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in. This perfect, clear conception which is truth. A
Page 30 - into thee, That was, is, and shall be: Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure. He fixed thee 'mid this dance Of plastic circumstance. This present, thou, forsooth, wouldst fain arrest: Machinery just meant To give thy soul its bent, Try thee and turn thee forth, sufficiently impressed.
Page 172 - 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. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Page 263 - there is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or one
Page 269 - I stood in the midst of the world, and in the flesh was I seen of them, and I found all men drunken, and none found I athirst among them, and my soul grieveth over the sons of men, because they are blind in heart.
Page 1 - And behold the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the East" Ezekiel. "Light shall come again from the East
Page 179 - and an infraction of those rights rarely or never takes place. In such a community all are nearly equal. There are none of those wide distinctions of education and ignorance, wealth and poverty, master and servant, which are the product of our civilization; there is none of that widespread division of labour, which, while it increases wealth, produces also conflicting interests.
Page 148 - I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty: You do not see that the Real is in your home, and you wander from forest to forest listlessly! Here is the truth! Go where you will, to Benares or to Mathura; if you do not find your soul, the world is unreal to you.
Page 249 - He is the one Ruler of many who (seem to act, but really do) not act; He makes the one seed manifold. The wise who perceive Him within their self, to them belongs eternal happiness, not to others. He is the Eternal among eternals, the Thinker among thinkers, who though one fulfils the desires of many. He who has known that Cause

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