Soul Sameness

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Thank you James for sending those beautiful poems of Kabir and Dadu.

I cut out some parts of the lecture by Swami Krishnananda from their

Website (given by him on Swami Sivananda's birthday).....Harsha

 

 

GURUDEV SIVANANDA--PHYSICIAN OF THE SOUL

By

 

SRI SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

snip.....

 

 

Everybody has a sorrow in his heart. We have radios and televisions; we

have jet planes and motor cars; we have the best food to eat and most

attractive dress to put on; we have got social status and position; we

have got money to spend and to burn. There is nothing that we lack,

materially speaking. But we are unhappy, we are sorrow-stricken and we

have a grief at the bottom of our heart. This is the essence of the

whole matter. This grief is present in every human being,--you, me and

everyone--in spite of the fact that we have all comforts conceivable

that can be bestowed upon us by science and industry. The purpose of the

incarnation of these Masters is to point out where the crux of the whole

problem lies. They are the physicians of the soul and they come to

diagnose the illness of the spirit in man.

 

We are dissimilar in every respect. We speak different languages and we

have different ideals in social life. We eat different kinds of food and

we have differences in every respect. But, there is one thing which

keeps us together, and that is what we call the soul of man. Bodies are

different, languages are different, houses are different, everything may

be different, but the soul cannot be different. My soul and your soul

are the same and they speak the same language. Though verbally I may be

speaking a vernacular of India or the English language, somebody else

may be speaking in French or German, the soul in all speaks in a single

language. The language of the soul in the West is the same as the

language of the soul in the East. The language of the soul of a man is

the same as the language of the soul of a woman or that of a child, for

the matter of that, because the soul is indistinguishable in its

characteristic. While the characteristics of personalities may differ,

the characteristics of the structure of the soul do not differ. So, here

is a common ground for a real unity among all people.

 

 

You do not 'have' a soul. You yourself 'are' the soul. So, do not say,

'I have a soul inside me.' As I just mentioned, this is a peculiar

baby's idea of the soul. What you yourself are, that is the soul. So,

minus you what is the soul, and minus the soul what are you? They are

identical. You are the soul; the soul is you.

 

SWAMI KRISHNANANDA

 

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Absolute Awareness dawns with Perfect Clarity when the mind subsides

into the Total Silence of the Self. The Unlimited Nature of "Now"

becomes Fully Self-Evident. The Self Sees IT Self by It Self and Through

It Self.

 

Harsha

 

 

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