One Existence Appearing As Many

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One Existence Appearing As Many

 

 

Delivered in New York, 1896

 

We are the Infinite Being of the universe and have become materialised into

these little beings, men and women, depending upon the sweet word of one man, or

the angry word of another, and so forth. What a terrible dependence, what a

teribble slavery! I who am beyond all pleasure and pain, whose reflection is the

whole universe, little bits of whose life are the suns and moons and stars - I

am held down as a terrible slave! If you pinch my body, I feel pain. If one says

a kind word, I begin to rejoice. See my condition - slave of the body, slave of

the mind, slave of the world, slave of a good word, slave of a bad word, slave

of passion, slave of happiness, slave of life, slave of death, slave of

everything! This slavery has to be broken. How? " This Atman has to be first

heard, then reasoned upon, and then meditated upon. " This is the method of

Advaita Jnani. The truth has to be heard, then reflceted upon, and then to be

constantly asserted. Think always, " I am Brahman. " Every other

though must be cast aside as weakening. Cast aside every though that says you

are men or women. Let body go, and mind go, and god go, and ghosts go. Let

everything go but that One Existence. " Where one hears another, where one sees

another, that is small; where one does not hear another, where one does not see

another, that is Infinite. " That is the highest when the subject and the object

become one. When I am the listener and I am the speaker, when I am the teacher

and I am the taught, when I am the creator and I am the created - then alone

fear ceases; there is not another to make us afraid. There is nothing but

myself, what can frighten me?

 

This is to be heard day after day. Get rid of all other thoughts. Everything

else must be thrown aside, and this is to be repeated continually, poured

through the ears unyil it reaches the heart, until every nerve and muscle, every

drop of the blood tingles with the idea that I am He, I am He. Even at the gate

of death say, " I am He. " There was man in India, a Sannyasin, who used to

repeat " Shovoham " - " I am Bliss Eternal " ; and a tiger jumped on him one day and

dragged him away and killed him; but so long as he was living, the sound came,

" Shivoham, Shivoham. "

 

Even at the gate of death, at the bottom of the ocean, on the top of the highest

mountains, in the thickest of the forest, call yourself, " I am He, I am He " . Day

and night say, " I am He " . It is the greatest strength; it is religion.

 

Never say, " O Lord, I am amiserable sinner. " Who will help you. You are the help

of the universe. What in this universe can help you? What can prevail over you?

You are the God of you? What can prevail over you?

 

There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the

universe. Like the silk worm you have built a cocoon around yourself. Who will

save you? Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the

free soul. Then alone you will see the Truth. Ever tell yourself, I am He. "

These are the words that will burn up the dross that is in the mind,wprds that

will bring out the tremendous energy which is within you already, the infinite

power which is sleeping in your heart. This is to be brought out by constantly

hearing the truth and nothing else. Wherever there is thought of weakness,

approach not the place. Avoid all the weakness of you want to be a Jnani.

 

 

-- Vikshuk

 

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