WALTER RUSSELL 1927
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Swami Rama Tirtha
“Sit still, chant Om’ and then think Who is within you. All the Vedanta, nay all the philosophy of the Hindus is simply an exposition of this syllable Om.’ Om’ has a charm about it, an efficiency, a virtue in it which directly brings all feelings and all thoughts into a state of harmony, brings peace and rest to the soul and puts the mind in a state where it is one with God. Science may not be able to explain this, but this is a fact which can be verified by experiment. Woe unto science if it goes against the truth connected with the efficiency of the sacred syllable Om.’ The real Self which is knowledge absolute and power absolute is the only stern Reality, before which the apparent reality of the world melts away! Om’ is the name of this Reality.
A Question...
If all of the people on planet Earth disappeared tomorrow and only the plants and animals were left to share the Earth, would good and evil still exist?
Paul Brunton
Meditation, if successful, accomplishes two main purposes: it draws the mind inward, releasing it from the physical imprisonment, and it elevates the mind to a heavenly state of union with the Overself.
The Upanishads, Prabhavananda
The Self resides within the lotus of the heart. Knowing this, consecrated to the Self, the sage enters daily that holy sanctuary. Absorbed in the Self, the sage is freed from identity with the body and lives in blissful consciousness. Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad 8.3.34
DAILY HUKKAM FROM THE GOLDEN TEMPLE
One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:
I am just a poor beggar of Yours; You are Your Own Lord Master, You are the Great Giver.Be Merciful, and bless me, a humble beggar, with Your Name, so that I may forever remain imbued with Your Love. ||1||
I am a sacrifice to Your Name, O True Lord.The One Lord is the Cause of causes; there is no other at all. ||1||Pause||
I was wretched; I wandered through so many cycles of reincarnation. Now, Lord, please bless me with Your Grace.Be merciful, and grant me the Blessed Vision of Your Darshan; please grant me such a gift. ||2||
Prays Nanak, the shutters of doubt have been opened wide; by Guru's Grace, I have come to know the Lord.I am filled to overflowing with true love; my mind is pleased and appeased by the True Guru.
No dualities, no differentiation. Only Atman exists
Gita: 4: 22------
".....who has gone beyond the conflicting dualities like good (happiness) and bad (sorrow)....."
Gita: 4: 42-----
".....cut all such conflicting dualities (doubts) by the sword (weapon) of knowledge. ....."
Gita: 5: 18-----
"The learned men [who have come out of delusions (māyā), got rid of avidyā] see no differentiation have equal vision for a reverred Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog and a cāndāla (outcaste, rogue, mleccha, demonic person etc)"
Gita: 5: 19-----
"Those who have achieved the true knowledge i.e. the 'Self-Knowledge' or the 'knowledge of Ātman' and see no difference, are free from conflicting dualities have merged in Brahman"
Gita: 5: 20-----
"One who does not get excited out of happiness on getting good and does not get depressed on getting bad is situated in Brahman i.e. is merged in Brahman"
Gita: 6: 9-----
"The one who has equal vision for a selfless do gooder, a friend, a foe, an unbiased, a well wisher, a depressed and jealous man, relatives, a righteous and a sinner is the best [as he sees no duality and differentiation but sees everything as Ātman]"
Gita: 6: 32-----
".....as one seeks and treats oneself with equal vision, the same way one who has equal vision for good and evil, for everybody is the best of all"
Gita: 6: 8-----
"For whom soil, a pebble and gold are alike, he is merged in Brahman"
Gita: 7: 27-----
".....people are getting entangled in the primordial ignorance (avidyā) of the conflicting dualities like good and evil, happiness and sorrow caused due to attachments, desires and hatred....."
Gita: 6: 28-----
".....who have cut-off conflicting dualities [like good and evil] is determinedly in my service. ...."
Only Ātman exists. There exists nothing except Ātman.
Gita: 7: 19-----
"Such a man who has attained true knowledge, the knowledge of Self, the knowledge of Ātman, in the last birth in the series of many births worships Me as-----Ātman alone exists-----everything is VĀSUDEV (Ātman/Brahman), there exists nothing except Vāsudev. Such a man is extremely rare"
In the beginning, God
There is but one God.
There is but one universe.
God is the universe.
God is not one and the universe another. The universe is not a separate creation of God's. It is God.
There is no created-universe.
Nothing is which has not always been.
All created things are from the beginning. They have no beginning. They do not come into being.
They are and always have been and always will be.
Creation means to man the coming into existence of something which was not before in existence.
Man's concept of creation is the coming into being of a physical, visible universe heretofore nonexistent.
The Creator is to man's mind a Sublime Being, separate and apart from man, who created the
physical universe of matter, causing to come into being that which had not been.
Man holds the concept of two universes; a spiritual and a physical. God is presumed to be of the
spiritual universe, perfect. Matter is of the physical universe, imperfect. God supposedly created the
imperfect physical universe separate and apart from Himself.
Man conceives a perfect and omnipotent God. A perfect and omnipotent God could not create
imperfection.
He could not create a lesser than Himself.
He could not create a greater than Himself.
God could not create other than Himself.
God did not create other than Himself, nor greater, nor lesser than Himself.
In the sense generally understood by man God did not create anything.
Nothing has been "created."
This is a "creating" universe, not a "created" one.
Man's concept of the sublime Being as the Creator of a material universe different in substance from
the spiritual universe is a misconcept.
God is all there is.
THE UNIVERSAL ONE
WALTER RUSSELL 1927
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