Dear Friends,
Let us remember what the illustrious Swamiji Vivekananda once spoke on life.
Life is but momentary whether you are a toiler in the streets, or an Emperor ruling millions.
Life is but momentary, whether you have the best of health or the worst. There is but one solution of life, says the Hindu, and that solution is what they call God and Religion. If these be true, life becomes explained, life becomes bearable, becomes enjoyable. Otherwise, life is but a useless burden.
That is our idea, but no amount of reasoning can demonstrate it; it can only make it probable, and there it rests.
Facts are only in the senses and we have to sense Religion to demonstrate it to ourselves.
We have to sense God to be convinced that there is a God.
Nothing but our own perceptions can make these things real to us.
This idea took possession of Swami Ramakrishna Parmahamsa as a boy and his whole life became concentrated upon that. Day after day he would weep and say:
"Mother, is it true that Thou existest, or is it all poetry?
Is the Blissful Mother an imagination of poets and misguided people, or is there such a reality.?
Such was the devotion of great saints of this holy nation.
J K SIVAN
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