While driving in the day time Swami vivekananda knocked the door of my thought, As soon as, when i returned home in the evening , I got busy to find an old book of Swami ji, though i never read it fully, but when ever mind waver i read it random chapters, Swamiji was the one who poked my mind with lots of questions, besides my mentor 12 years back.still inspires to awake! arise!! and know the truth. when turning the pages I got stoped on this chapter ;called inspired talks..here by I reproduced a talk which was given by him on -
Sat ,July 20 1895,
Perception is our only real knowledge or religion.Talking about it for ages will never makes us know our real soul. There is no differance between theories and atheism. In fact the atheist is the true man. Every step I take in the light is mine for ever. When you go to a country and see it, Then it is yours.We have each to see ourselves.Teachers can only" bring the food" we must eat it to be nourished. Argument can never prove God save as a logical conclusion.
It is imposible to find God outside of ourselves. Our own souls contribute all the divinity that is outside of us. We are the greatest temple. The objectification is only a faint imitation of what we see within ourselves.
Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrumental to help us see God. If you know one soul (your own) .you know all souls, past, present and to come.The will concentrates the mind; certain things excite and control this will, such as reason, love, devotion, breathing. The concentrated mind is a Lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.
No one method can suit all. These different methods are not steps necessary to be taken one after another, cermonials are the lowest form; next God external and after that God internal. In some cases gradation may be needed, but in many only one way is required.It would be the height of folly to say to every one."you must pass through karma and bhakti before you can reach jnana"
stick to your reason untill you reach something higher and you will know it to be higher because it will not jar with reason.
The stage beyond consciousness is inspiration(samadhi) but never mistake hysterical trances for the real thing. It is a terrrible thing to claim this inspiration falsely, to mistake instinct for inspiration. There is no external test for inspiration, we know it ourselves, our guardian against mistake is negative_The voice of reason. All religion is giving beyond reason, but reason is the only guide to get there.
Instinct is like ice, reason is the water and inspiration is the subtlest form or vapour; one follows the other, Every where is this external sequence - Unconsciousness, consciousness, intelligence_ matter,body, mind and to us it seems as if the chain began with the particular link we first lay hold of. Arguments on both sides are of equal weight and both are true. We msut reach beyond both, to where there is neither the one nor the other.There sucessions are all Maya.
Religion is above reason, supernatural. Faith is not belief, it is the group on the ultimate, an illumination, First hear, then reason and find out all that reason can give about the Atman; let the flood of reason flow over it, then take what remains. If nothing remains, Thank God, you have escaped a superstion. When you have determined that nothing can take away the Atman, that it stands every test, hold fast to this and teach it to all.Truth cannot be partial, it is for the good of all .Finally, in perfect rest and peace meditate upon it, concentrate your mind upon it make yourself one with it.
Then no speech is needed, silence will carry the truth.Do not spend your energy in talking , but meditate in silence, and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state , you are unconscious of it, Accumalate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. What can a beggar give? only a king can give, and he only when he wants nothing himself.
Hold your money merely as coustodian for what is God's, have no attachment for it. let name and fame and money go, they are a terrible bondage. Feel the wonderful atmosphere of freedom. You are free, free! oh blessed am I ! Freedom am I! I am the infinite! , In my soul I can find no begening and no end. All is myself, say this unceasingly.
Sat ,July 20 1895,
Perception is our only real knowledge or religion.Talking about it for ages will never makes us know our real soul. There is no differance between theories and atheism. In fact the atheist is the true man. Every step I take in the light is mine for ever. When you go to a country and see it, Then it is yours.We have each to see ourselves.Teachers can only" bring the food" we must eat it to be nourished. Argument can never prove God save as a logical conclusion.
It is imposible to find God outside of ourselves. Our own souls contribute all the divinity that is outside of us. We are the greatest temple. The objectification is only a faint imitation of what we see within ourselves.
Concentration of the powers of the mind is our only instrumental to help us see God. If you know one soul (your own) .you know all souls, past, present and to come.The will concentrates the mind; certain things excite and control this will, such as reason, love, devotion, breathing. The concentrated mind is a Lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.
No one method can suit all. These different methods are not steps necessary to be taken one after another, cermonials are the lowest form; next God external and after that God internal. In some cases gradation may be needed, but in many only one way is required.It would be the height of folly to say to every one."you must pass through karma and bhakti before you can reach jnana"
stick to your reason untill you reach something higher and you will know it to be higher because it will not jar with reason.
The stage beyond consciousness is inspiration(samadhi) but never mistake hysterical trances for the real thing. It is a terrrible thing to claim this inspiration falsely, to mistake instinct for inspiration. There is no external test for inspiration, we know it ourselves, our guardian against mistake is negative_The voice of reason. All religion is giving beyond reason, but reason is the only guide to get there.
Instinct is like ice, reason is the water and inspiration is the subtlest form or vapour; one follows the other, Every where is this external sequence - Unconsciousness, consciousness, intelligence_ matter,body, mind and to us it seems as if the chain began with the particular link we first lay hold of. Arguments on both sides are of equal weight and both are true. We msut reach beyond both, to where there is neither the one nor the other.There sucessions are all Maya.
Religion is above reason, supernatural. Faith is not belief, it is the group on the ultimate, an illumination, First hear, then reason and find out all that reason can give about the Atman; let the flood of reason flow over it, then take what remains. If nothing remains, Thank God, you have escaped a superstion. When you have determined that nothing can take away the Atman, that it stands every test, hold fast to this and teach it to all.Truth cannot be partial, it is for the good of all .Finally, in perfect rest and peace meditate upon it, concentrate your mind upon it make yourself one with it.
Then no speech is needed, silence will carry the truth.Do not spend your energy in talking , but meditate in silence, and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state , you are unconscious of it, Accumalate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality. What can a beggar give? only a king can give, and he only when he wants nothing himself.
Hold your money merely as coustodian for what is God's, have no attachment for it. let name and fame and money go, they are a terrible bondage. Feel the wonderful atmosphere of freedom. You are free, free! oh blessed am I ! Freedom am I! I am the infinite! , In my soul I can find no begening and no end. All is myself, say this unceasingly.
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