God in Everything

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" This Self is first to be heard, then to be thought upon, and then

meditated upon. " Everyone can see the sky, even the very worm

crawling upon the earth sees the blue sky, but how very far away it

is! So it is with our ideal. It is far away, no doubt, but at the

same time, we know that we must have it. We must even have the

highest ideal. Unfortunately in this life, the vast majority of

persons are groping through this dark life without any ideal at all.

If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the

man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. Therefore, it is better to

have an ideal. And this ideal we must hear about as much as we can,

till it enters into our hearts, into our brains, into our very veins,

until it tingles in every drop of our blood and permeates every pore

in our body. We must meditate upon it. " Out of the fullness of the

heart the mouth speaketh, " and out of the fullness of the heart the

hand works too.

 

It is thought which is the propelling force in us. Fill the mind with

the highest thoughts, hear them day after day, think them month after

month. Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the

beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It

would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would

be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I

never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow--never a man. So

never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal

a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt

once more. The ideal of man is to see God in everything. But if you

cannot see Him in everything, see Him in one thing, in that thing

which you like best, and then see Him in another. So on you can go.

There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will

achieve your end.

 

" He, the One, who vibrates more quickly than mind, who attains to

more speed than mind can ever do, whom even the gods reach not, nor

thought grasps, He moving, everything moves. In Him all exists. He is

moving. He is also immovable. He is near and He is far. He is inside

everything. He is outside everything, interpenetrating everything.

Whoever sees in every being that same Atman, and whoever sees

everything in that Atman, he never goes far from that Atman. When all

life and the whole universe are seen in this Atman, then alone man

has attained the secret. There is no more delusion for him. Where is

any more misery for him who sees this Oneness in the universe? "

 

- Swami Vivekananda

 

.... to be continued