Eat bitter fruit and hop.....swami vivekananda - 2

Tue,July 30th,1895,
Afternoon

The reason of the harmony between thought and matter is that they are two sides of  one thing,  call it X, which divides itself into, internal and the external.

The English word" Paradise" comes from the sanskrit Para-desa, which was taken over into Persian language and means literally" The land beyond", or the other world. The old Aryans always believed in a Soul; never that mean was the body,Their heavens and hells were all temporary, because no effect can outlast its cause and no cause is external; therefore all effects must come to an end.

The whole of the Vedanta Philosophy is in this story; Two birds of Golden plumage sat on the same tree.The one above, serene, majestic, immersed in his own glory; the below was restless and eating the fruits of the tree, how sweet, how bitter, Once he ate exceptionally bitter fruit, then he paused and look up at the majestic bird above;But he soon forget about the other bird and went on eating the fruits of the tree as before. Again he ate a bitter fruit and this time he hopped up few boughs nearer to the bird at the top.This happened many times until at last the lower bird came to the place that there  had never been two birds , but that he was all the time that upper bird, serene, majestic and immersed in his own glory.

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Friday, Aug 2nd 1895

Nistha(devotion to one ideal) is the beginning of realisation" Take the honey out of all flowers" sit and be friendly with all, pay reverence at all, say to all" yes  brother, yes brother but keep firm in your own way", A higher stage is actually to take the position of the other. If i am all, why can i not really and actively sympathise with my brother and see with his eyes? while I am weak, I must stick to one course(Nistha), but when I am strong, I can feel with every other and perfectly sympathise with his ideas.

The old idea was;"Develop on idea at the expense of all the rest" .A third way is to "develop the mind and control it", then put it where you will; the result will come quickly.This is developing yourself in the truest way. Learn concentration and use it in any direction. Thus you lose nothing. He who get the whole must have the parts too.Dualism is included in Adviatism(monism)

"I first saw him and he saw me"

there was a flash of eye from me to him and from him to me

This went on until the two souls became so closely united that they actually become one.