SWAMIJI'S TIME; j.k. sivan
Books are useless to us until our own
book opens; then all other books are good so far as they confirm our book. It
is the strong that understand strength, it is the elephant that understands the
lion, not the rat. How can we understand Jesus until we are his equals? It is
all in the dream to feed five thousand with two loaves, or to feed two with
five loaves; neither is real and neither affects the other. Only grandeur
appreciates grandeur, only God realises God. The dream is only the dreamer, it
has no other basis. It is not one thing and the dreamer another. The keynote
running through the music is — "I am He, I am He", all other notes
are but variations and do not affect the real theme. We are the living books
and books are but the words we have spoken. Everything is the living God, see it as such. Read man, he is the living
poem. We are the light that illumines all the Bibles and Christs and Buddhas
that ever were. Without that, these would be dead to us, not living.
Stand on your own Self.
The dead body resents nothing; let us
make our bodies dead and cease to identify ourselves with them.
Individuals who are to get freedom in
this life have to live thousands of years in one lifetime. They have to be
ahead of their times, but the masses can only crawl. Thus we have Christs and
Buddhas. . . .
Only by the wave falling back into the
sea can it become unlimited, never as a wave can it be so. Then after it has
become the sea, it can become the wave again and as big a one as it pleases.
Break the identification of yourself with the current and know that you are
free.
True philosophy is the systematising of certain
perceptions. Intellect ends where religion begins. Inspiration is much higher
than reason, but it must not contradict it. Reason is the rough tool to do the
hard work; inspiration is the bright light which shows us all truth. The will
to do a thing is not necessarily inspiration.
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