tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55961196512881746862024-02-20T21:17:50.321+05:30Religionfree333http://www.blogger.com/profile/07472921528961614010noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596119651288174686.post-74001026541389477432008-09-07T02:21:00.000+05:302008-09-07T02:22:34.116+05:30Realisation<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Do not fight over methods. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="color:red">Look only for realisation </span></b>and choose the best method you can find to suit you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#FF6600">The essential truth</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> is realisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">We are all brothers, and we shall be truly moral when we have realised religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">My religion means expansion, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">expansion means realisation and perception in the highest sense</b>-------------------no mumbling words or genuflections.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">God is merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">When a man realises he gives up everything.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in; margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">What we experience in the depths of our souls is realisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>free333http://www.blogger.com/profile/07472921528961614010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596119651288174686.post-22385876394431029152008-08-28T21:03:00.001+05:302008-08-28T21:06:21.648+05:30Spirituality<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. "Neither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached," say the Vedas. "Sell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me," says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Spirituality can be communicated <span style="color: fuchsia;">just as really as I can give you a flower</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Spiritual vitality <b style="">can be given</b> from one mind to another.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">No other ideal can put into us the same mass of energy as the spiritual.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you want to be spiritual, <b style="">you must</b> renounce.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Spiritual knowledge can only be given in silence like the dew that falls unseen and unheard, yet bringing into bloom masses of roses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Spirituality is the true basis of all our activities in life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="center"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 16pt; color: fuchsia; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 16pt; color: fuchsia; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">The Secret of Spirituality<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Men and women of today! If there be among you any pure, fresh flower, let it be laid on the alter of God. If there are among you any who, being young, <b style="">do not desire to return into the world,</b> let them give up! Let them renounce! <b style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);">This is the one secret of spirituality, renunciation.</span></b> <span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 255);">Dare to do this. Be brave enough to do it. Such great sacrifices are necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(204, 153, 255);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>First form character, first earn spirituality and results will come of themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Guru-Bhakti is the foundation of all spiritual development.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>A man should be free to think, especially spiritual thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>We want spiritual ideals before us, we want enthusiastically to gather round grand spiritual names.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Spirituality must conquer the West.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>He who has more of this unselfishness is more spiritual and nearer to Shiva.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span><b style="">Do not spend your energy in talking</b>, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. WHEN YOUR MIND IS IN THE HIGHEST STATE, YOU ARE UNCONSCIOUS OF IT. Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>The object of life is to learn the laws of spiritual progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Complete self-surrender <b style="">is the only way</b> to spiritual illumination.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">20.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Spiritual things are told not in the language of matter, but in the language of the SPIRIT; THE SUPERFINE IN THE LANGUAGE OF SUPERFINE.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">21.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual.<o:p></o:p></span></p>free333http://www.blogger.com/profile/07472921528961614010noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596119651288174686.post-24131166707418878102008-03-01T22:39:00.002+05:302008-08-28T21:08:27.766+05:30Religion<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(111, 111, 111);"><span style="">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Repeating the name of God, meditation, worship, offering libations in sacred fire, penance--all these are for bringing forth renunciation. The efforts of those who have not attained renunciation are like those of a man who is pulling at oars all the while that the boat is at anchor.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(111, 111, 111);"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">Conversation with Priya Nath Sinha. Recorded in Bengali. Complete Works, 5: 395</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(111, 111, 111);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;"><span style="">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">The only God to worship is the human soul in the human body.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Realise religion. That is all there is to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Real religion is one, but we quarrel with the forms, the symbols, the illustrations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Thinking of God, some weep, some sings, some laugh, some dance, some say wonderful things, but all speak of nothing but God.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Morality exits first; later religion codifies it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do not criticize others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no matter of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realization.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Only those who have seen it will understand this; but such spirituality can be given to others, even though they be unconscious of the gift.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Only those who have attained to this power are amongst the great teachers of mankind. They are the powers of light.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>God is in everything, where else shall we go to find Him?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Do not disturb the faith of any.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> For you must know that religion is not in doctrines.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>He is in everything, He is everything.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><span style="">15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><span style=""> </span>None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls," and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>How can religion or <b style=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">morality</span></b> begin without renunciation itself?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">20.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>It is impossible to find God outside of ourselves. <b style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Our own souls contribute all the divinity that is outside of us.</span></b> We are the greatest temple. The objectification is only a faint imitation of what we see within ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">21.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>God comes to you in the blind, in the halt, in the poor, in the weak, in the diabolical.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">22.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>The basis of all religions is the same, wherever they are; <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 204);">try to help them all you can</span>, <span style="color: purple;">teach them all you can</span>, <b style=""><span style="color: red;">but do not try to injure them</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">23.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>The whole universe is a symbol, and God is the essence behind.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">24.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Brahman, this Reality, is unknown and unknowable, not in the sense of agnostic, but because to know Him would be a blasphemy, because you are He already.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">25.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>To be good and to do good-------------------that is the whole of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">26.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">27.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">28.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Realise religion, no talking will do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">29.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Try to be pure and unselfish------------------that is the whole of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">30.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Do not bother your head with religious theories.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">31.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Do not talk religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">32.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Enter not the door of any organised religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">33.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Seek not, and that is God.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">34.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>As you began in God, you must go back to God.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">35.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>See God in your children.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">36.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Do not limit God anywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">37.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">38.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>There is one thing which is the world and another which is God; and this distinction is very true.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">39.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">40.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Unselfishness is God.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">41.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Everywhere is He.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">42.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>He is all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">43.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Truth is my God.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">44.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Be one with the universe, be one with Him.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">45.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion is the realisation of spirit as spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">46.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Where there is love, it is He.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">47.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion is the manifestation of the soul nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 204);"><span style="">48.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 204);"><span style=""> </span>Religion is not a thing of imagination but of direct perception.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">49.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>This realisation alone is the soul of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">50.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>The Vedanta says, <b style="">there is nothing that is not God</b>…………………….The living God is within you, and yet you are building churches and temples and believing all sorts of imaginary nonsense. The only God to worship is the human soul, in the human body. Of course, all animals are temples too, but man is the highest, the Taj Mahal of temples. If I can not worship in that no other temples will be of any advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">51.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>It was the same God, and the different realisations were only degrees and differences of vision.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">52.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>No two persons have the same religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">53.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>The religious ideals of the future must embrace all that exists in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">54.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Talking, talking religion is but little good.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">55.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>A Sannyasi cannot belong to any religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">56.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Do not fight over methods.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 204);">Look only for realisation</span> and choose the best method you can find to suit you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="">57.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style=""> </span>Religion is the search after the highest ideal.</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="">58.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style=""> </span>Know that service to these (poor, illiterate, ignorant, and afflicted) </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: fuchsia;">alone</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> is the highest religion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="center"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="background: aqua none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; color: fuchsia; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="">59.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="background: aqua none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; color: fuchsia; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">What is Religion?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Stand upon the Self, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world. It is but baby’s play, <b style="">and we know that</b>, so cannot be disturbed by it. If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame. <b style=""><span style="color: fuchsia;">All pleasures of the senses or even of the mind are evanescent,</span></b> but within ourselves is the one true unrelated pleasure, <b style="">dependent upon nothing</b>. It is perfectly free, it is bliss. The more our bliss is within, the more spiritual we are. <b style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);">The pleasure of the Self is what the world calls religion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">60.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You can not help anyone; you can only serve; serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege. If the Lord grants that you can help anyone of His children, blessed you are; <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">do not think too much of yourselves</span>. <b style="">Blessed you are that that privilege was given to you when others had it not. Do it only as a worship.</b> The poor and the miserable are for our salvation, so that we may serve the Lord coming in the shape of the diseased, coming in the shape of the lunatic, the leper, <b style="">and the sinner</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">61.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>We have wept long enough; no more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is a man-making religion that we want. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want. <b style=""><span style="color: red;">And here is the test of truth</span></b>-------------------anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject as poison; <b style="">there is no life in it, it cannot be true</b>. <span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">Truth is strengthening</span>, <span style="color: blue;">Truth is purity</span>, <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 204);">Truth is all knowledge</span>. Truth must be strengthening, must be enlightening, must be invigorating.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">62.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>To him who has nothing in the universe the Lord comes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><span style="">63.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 204, 255);"><span style=""> </span>God is love, and only he who has known God as love can be a teacher of godliness and God to man.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">64.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Do not search for God in obscure places, for God is there in front of you in millions forms. He who loves creation is serving God…………….Throw away the paraphernalia of worship! Go out and worship man, for God has appeared in the form of man, and to worship man is to serve man and to serve is to toil and labour.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="background: red none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; color: blue; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="">65.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="background: red none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; color: blue; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">The Most Joyful Thing in the World<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="background: black none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(153, 204, 0); -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">The Best</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(153, 204, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">RELIGION SHOULD BE THE MOST JOYFUL THING IN THE WORLD, BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">66.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span style=""> </span>The field of religion is beyond our senses, beyond even our consciousness.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> We cannot <i>sense</i> God. Nobody has seen God with his eyes or ever will see; nobody has God in his consciousness. I am not conscious of God, nor you, nor anybody. Where is God? Where is the field of religion? It is beyond the senses, beyond consciousness. Consciousness is only one of the many planes in which we work; you will have to transcend the field of consciousness, to go beyond the senses, approach nearer and nearer to your own centre, and as you do that, you will approach nearer and nearer to God. What is the proof of God? Direct perception, Pratyaksha. The proof of this wall is that I perceive it. God has been perceived that way by thousands before, and will be perceived by all who want to perceive Him. But this perception is no sense-perception at all; it is supersensuous, superconscious, and all this training is needed to take us beyond the senses. <b style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">By means of all sorts of past work and bondages we are being dragged downwards; these preparations will make us pure and light. Bondages will fall off by themselves, and we shall be buoyed up beyond this plane of sense-perception to which we are tied down, </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 204);">and then we shall see, and hear</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">, and feel things which men in the three ordinary states (viz waking, dream, and sleep) neither feel, nor see, nor hear.</span></b> <b style=""><span style="color: fuchsia;">Then we shall speak a strange language, as it were, and the world will not understand us, because it does not know anything but the senses.</span></b> <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 204);">True religion is <b style="">entirely</b> transcendental.</span> Every being that is in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses; even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. <b style=""><span style="color: blue;">No life will be a failure</span></b>; there is no such thing as failure in the universe. <b style=""><span style="color: blue;">A hundred times man will hurt himself, a thousand times he will tumble, but in the end he will realise that he is God. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 255);">We know there is no progress in a straight line. </span>Every soul moves, as it were, in a circle, and will have to complete it, and no soul can go so low but there will come a time when it will have to go upwards. No one will be lost.</b> We are all projected from one common centre, which is God. The highest as well as the lowest life God ever projected, will come back to the Father of all lives. "From whom all beings are projected, in whom all live, and unto whom they all return; that is God.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">67.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><span style="">68.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><span style=""> </span>It is not much use to talk about religion until one has felt it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;"><span style="">69.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: red;"><span style=""> </span>Religion is the highest motive power.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">70.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion begins where philosophy ends.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">71.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span style=""> </span>The greatest name man ever gave to God is Truth.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">72.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>After so much austerity, I have understood this as the real truth, God is present in every Jiva; <b style="">there is no other God besides that</b>. ‘Who serves Jiva, serves God indeed’.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">73.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each soul is potentially divine.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy----------------by one, or more, or all of these------------------and be free.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">74.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">75.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>The greatest name man ever gave to God is Truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">76.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>All weakness, all bondage is imagination………. Do not weaken! ...stand up and be strong! That is all the religion I know.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">77.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Even he who has seen only a spook is more spiritual than book-learned pundits.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">78.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">79.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion gives you nothing new; it only takes off obstacles and lets you see your Self.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">80.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Don’t bother your head with religious theories.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">81.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion is experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">82.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>You must see God. The spirit must be realized, and that is practical religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">83.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion goes to the root of matter. If it is right, all is right.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">84.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>A religion does not depend upon knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">85.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>All religions lead to God.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">86.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Realisation is real religion, all the rest is only preparation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">87.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion is a growth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">88.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion is philosophy concretized through rituals and symbols.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: red;"><span style="">89.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="background: green none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 16pt; color: red; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">The Secret of Religion</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">90.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 204, 0);">Learning has no place in religion</span>; <b style="">for the majority learning is a block in the way</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">91.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion comes with intense self-sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">92.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Doing good to others <span style="color: red;">is one great universal religion</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">93.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion is the manifestation of the natural strength that is in man.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">94.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Religion is the tie, unity of humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">95.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion... <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">96.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>The whole of religion is our own inner perception.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">97.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Every religion <b style="">is an expression</b>, <span style="color: fuchsia;">a language to express the same truth</span>, <b style="">and we must speak to each in his own language</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">98.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span>Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">99.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style=""> </span><b style="">Purity in thought, speech, and act is absolutely necessary</b> for any one to be religious.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">100.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Altruistic service only is religion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">101.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Intellect ends where religion begins.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.25in;" align="center"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 16pt; color: fuchsia; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span style="">102.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="background: lime none repeat scroll 0% 50%; font-size: 16pt; color: fuchsia; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Think of this when you see religion anywhere…….<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Religion is of the soul</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and finds expression through various nations, languages, and customs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);"><span style="">103.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">All religions and all methods of work and worship </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);">lead us to one and the same goal.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">104.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Religion is one, but its application <b style="">must be</b> various.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);"><span style="">105.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);">Religion </span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 153, 102);">alone</span></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);"> is all that we have and mean to have.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="">106.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Religion is its own end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>free333http://www.blogger.com/profile/07472921528961614010noreply@blogger.com0