Vivekananda Teachings.......Just Beautiful

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Dear Friends,

 

I read this while surfing.

 

"All the misery we have is of our own choosing; such is our nature.

The old Chinaman, who having been kept in prison for sixty years was

released on the coronation of a new emperor, exclaimed, when he came

out, that he could not live; he must go back to his horrible dungeon

among the rats and mice; he could not bear the light. So he asked

them to kill him or send him back to the prison, and he was sent

back. Exactly similar is the condition of all men. We run headlong

after all sorts of misery, and are unwilling to be freed from them.

Every day we run after pleasure, and before we reach it, we find it

is gone, it has slipped through our fingers. Still we do not cease

from our mad pursuit, but on and on we go, blinded fools that we

are. "

 

"It is not at all necessary to be educated or learned to get to God.

A sage once told me, "To kill others one must be equipped with

swords and shields, but to commit suicide a needle is sufficient; so

to teach others, much intellect and learning are necessary, but not

so for your own self-illumination." Are on pure? If you are pure,

you will reach God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall

see God." If you are not pure, and you know all the sciences in the

world, that will not help you at all; you may be buried in all the

books you read, but that will not be of much use. It is the heart

that reaches the goal. Follow the heart. A pure heart sees beyond

the intellect; it gets inspired; it knows things that reason can

never know, and whenever there is conflict between the pure heart

and the intellect, always side with the pure heart, even if you

think what your heart is doing is unreasonable. When it is desirous

of doing good to others, your brain may tell you that it is not

politic to do so, but follow your heart, and you will find that you

make less mistakes than by following your intellect. The pure heart

is the best mirror for the reflection of truth, so all these

disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it

is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the

universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure."

 

"We cannot sense God. Nobody has seen God with his eyes or ever

will see; nobody has God in his consciousness. I am not conscious of

God, nor you, nor anybody. Where is God? Where is the field of

religion? It is beyond the senses, beyond consciousness.

Consciousness is only one of the many planes in which we work; you

will have to transcend the field of consciousness, to go beyond the

senses, approach nearer and nearer to your own centre, and as you do

that, you will approach nearer and nearer to God. What is the proof

of God? Direct perception, Pratyaksha. The proof of this wall is

that I perceive it. God has been perceived that way by thousands

before, and will be perceived by all who want to perceive Him."

----Swami Vivekananda

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Highly Enlightening.

 

Raghu.

 

, "khallopapa"

<khallopapa> wrote:

> Dear Friends,

>

> I read this while surfing.

>

> "All the misery we have is of our own choosing; such is our nature.

> The old Chinaman, who having been kept in prison for sixty years

was

> released on the coronation of a new emperor, exclaimed, when he

came

> out, that he could not live; he must go back to his horrible

dungeon

> among the rats and mice; he could not bear the light. So he asked

> them to kill him or send him back to the prison, and he was sent

> back. Exactly similar is the condition of all men. We run headlong

> after all sorts of misery, and are unwilling to be freed from them.

> Every day we run after pleasure, and before we reach it, we find it

> is gone, it has slipped through our fingers. Still we do not cease

> from our mad pursuit, but on and on we go, blinded fools that we

> are. "

>

> "It is not at all necessary to be educated or learned to get to

God.

> A sage once told me, "To kill others one must be equipped with

> swords and shields, but to commit suicide a needle is sufficient;

so

> to teach others, much intellect and learning are necessary, but not

> so for your own self-illumination." Are on pure? If you are pure,

> you will reach God. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall

> see God." If you are not pure, and you know all the sciences in the

> world, that will not help you at all; you may be buried in all the

> books you read, but that will not be of much use. It is the heart

> that reaches the goal. Follow the heart. A pure heart sees beyond

> the intellect; it gets inspired; it knows things that reason can

> never know, and whenever there is conflict between the pure heart

> and the intellect, always side with the pure heart, even if you

> think what your heart is doing is unreasonable. When it is desirous

> of doing good to others, your brain may tell you that it is not

> politic to do so, but follow your heart, and you will find that you

> make less mistakes than by following your intellect. The pure heart

> is the best mirror for the reflection of truth, so all these

> disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as

it

> is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the

> universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure."

>

> "We cannot sense God. Nobody has seen God with his eyes or ever

> will see; nobody has God in his consciousness. I am not conscious

of

> God, nor you, nor anybody. Where is God? Where is the field of

> religion? It is beyond the senses, beyond consciousness.

> Consciousness is only one of the many planes in which we work; you

> will have to transcend the field of consciousness, to go beyond the

> senses, approach nearer and nearer to your own centre, and as you

do

> that, you will approach nearer and nearer to God. What is the proof

> of God? Direct perception, Pratyaksha. The proof of this wall is

> that I perceive it. God has been perceived that way by thousands

> before, and will be perceived by all who want to perceive Him."

> ----Swami Vivekananda