MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (23)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (23)

Swami Ashokananda

 

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Implied in Swami Vivekananda's teachings of karma yoga is a different

view of God and man. As most of you know, in the summer of 1895 he and

about twelve students spent six or seven weeks in a place called Thousand

Island Park on an island in the Saint Lawrence River. And there he used to

give most inspiring talks; it was a beautiful time. Some of those talks were

recorded in longhand by one of the students and were published under the title

INSPIRED TALKS. When I was in high school I became very much enamoured of that

book; I cannot tell you the delight I derived from it. It is so terse and

condensed that every sentence provides immense scope for thinking and

contemplation; there is no end to the depth of those sentences. And in that

book there is the sentence 'Do not seek for Him, just see Him.' When I came

upon that sentence it was as though a great light flashed before me. Do not

seek for Him, just see Him. That's the essence of it. God is everywhere; what

is the sense of seeking Him ? God is real. He is the only reality. He is here

in this form. All I have to do is to rub my eyes and see clearly. When we don't

see clearly, then we see men and women; and when we do see clearly, we see God.

 

(to be continued)

 

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