“Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone is opened the way to God

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shriadishakti , " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org> wrote:

>

> Dear All,

>

> i just came to know that it only costs $50,000 for a full page

> advert in the New York Times. One day in the future when all is

> ready that is all that will be required to tell the whole world

> that the Last Judgment and Resurrection has begun, and that Shri

> Mataji has laid all the groundwork and established the SYs

> necessary to propogate this Great Event ordained for humanity.

> Just a single major announcement is all that is needed. Any doubt

> this will not be undertaken?

>

> Jai Shri Mataji,

>

>

 

" What we need today is to know that there is a God, and that we

can see and feel Him here and now. We want everything but God,

because our ordinary desires are fulfilled by the external world. So

long as our needs are confined within the limits of the physical

universe, it is only when we have had hard blows in our lives and

are disappointed with everything here that we feel the need for

something higher; then we seek God.

 

Religion can be relished. Are you ready? Do you want it? You will

get realization if you do, and then you will be truly religious.

Until you have attained realization, there is no difference between

you and atheists. The atheists are sincere, but the man who says

that he believes in religion and never attempts to realize it is not

sincere.

 

Religion deals with the truths of the metaphysical world, just as

chemistry and the other natural sciences deal with the truths of the

physical world. Each soul is a star, and all stars are set in that

infinite azure, that eternal sky, the Lord. There is the root, the

reality, the real individuality of each and all. Religion began with

the search after some of these stars that had passed beyond you

horizon, and ended in finding them in God, and ourselves in the same

place....

 

Take religion from human society and what will remain? Nothing but a

forest of brutes. Sense-happiness is not the goal of humanity;

wisdom is the goal of all life.

 

Can religion really accomplish anything? It can. It brings to man

eternal life. It has made man what he is and will make of this human

animal, a God. That is what religion can do. The ideal of all

religions, all sects, is the same-the attaining of liberty, the

cessation of misery.

 

Not a drop will be in the ocean, not a twig in the deepest forest,

not a crumb in the house of the god of wealth, if the Lord is not

merciful. Streams will be in the desert and the beggar will have

plenty if He wills it. He seeth the sparrow's fall. Are these but

words or literal, actual life?

 

These prophets were not unique; they were men as you or I. They were

great Yogis. They had gained this super-consciousness, and you and I

can get the same. They very fact that one man ever reached that

state, proves that it is possible for every man to do so. Not only

is it possible, but every man must, eventually, get to that state,

and that is religion.

 

Religions of the world have become lifeless mockeries. What the

world wants is character. The world is in need fro those whose life

is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell

like thunderbolt....

 

If there is ever to be a universal religion, it must be one which

will have no location in place or time; which will be infinite like

the God it will preach, and whose sun will shine upon the followers

of Krishna and of Christ, on saints and sinners alike; which will

not be Brahminic or Buddhistic, Christian or Mohammedan, but the sum

total of all these, and still have infinite space fro development;

which in its catholicity will embrace in its infinite arms, and find

a place for, every human being, from the lowest groveling savage not

far removed from the brute, to the highest man towering by virtues

of his head and heart almost above humanity, making society stand in

awe of him and doubt his human nature. It will be a religion which

will have no place for persecution or intolerance in its polity,

which will recognize divinity in every man and woman, and whose

whole scope, whose whole force, will be centered in aiding humanity

to realize its own true, divine nature.

 

What I want to propagate is a religion that will be equally

acceptable to all minds; it must be equally philosophic, equally

emotional, equally mystic, and equally conducive to action. And this

combination will be the ideal of the nearest approach to a universal

religion. Would to God that all men were so constituted that in

their minds all these elements of philosophy, mysticism, emotion,

and of work were equally present in full! That is the ideal, my

ideal of a perfect man. Everyone who has only one or two of these

elements of character, I consider " one-sided " ; and this world

is almost full of such " one-sided " men, with knowledge of that

one road only in which they move; and anything else is dangerous and

horrible to them. To become harmoniously balanced in all these four

directions is my ideal of religion....

 

Hindus accept every religion, praying in the mosque of the

Mohammedans, worshipping before the fire of the Zoroastrians, and

kneeling before the cross of the Christians, knowing that all the

religions, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean

so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the

infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and

associations, and each of them marking a stage of progress. We

gather all these flowers and bind them with the twine of love,

making a wonderful bouquet of worship.

 

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories,

however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing

or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming changed into what it

believes.

 

This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but

they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than

alive.

 

Be you holy and, above all, sincere and do not for a moment give up

your trust in the Lord and you will see the light. Whatever is truth

will remain for ever; whatever is not, none can preserve. Whatever

others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality, and

love of God. No one who loves God need fear any jugglery. Holiness

is the highest and divinest power in earth and in heaven. " Truth

alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone is opened the way

to God. " Do not care for a moment who joins hands with you or

not, be sure that you touch the hand of the Lord. "

 

Swami Vivekananda