MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (25)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (25)

Swami Ashokananda

 

Well, you see, when Swami Vivekananda said,'Do not seek Him,

just see Him', that struck me as the very essence of the truth.

Why should I seek him ? If I find this world to be real, then it

must be God. Of course, if I don't recognize it as real, if I

don't perceive it at all, or find it shadowlike, then I shall seek

for God. Whatever is real is God; whatever is existent is divine.

So it is not a matter of seeking Him, it is a question of just

seeing Him clearly. This is the same as the Swami's teaching that

this is the age of the worship of the Virat, the visible God. And

having said this, he wanted us to continually reach towards God.

The finite vision of this world is nothing but a representation of

our ignorance; it has no place anywhere. And so there is a continual

urge in us to transcend this finitude, this ignorance that is

obsessing us, until we come to the clear atmosphere of true vision.

That human urge is one thing Swami Vivekananda never forgot. He

never forgot, further, that man is vast, he is the infinte Being.

Every person is such; therefore all are one. It is this view of man

which is behind his doctrine that we should serve God in all these

visible forms.

 

 

 

 

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