MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK (28)

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MEDITATE WHILE YOU WORK : A NEW PATH FOR A NEW AGE (28)

Swami Ashokananda

 

If you say, 'That is a rather high philosphy for the common

man to understand', his answer was that man is divine and so when

you call him God he responds. He does not have to go through learned

tomes of philosophy to be convinced of his divinity. If he were not

divine, all these learned tomes would only mislead him; but if he is

divine, he doesn't have to be given any argument. He has only to be

told the truth with a sincere voice - not from the lips alone, but

from the heart. That is what is wanted. If I have not experienced the

truth within myself, my voice would not carry conviction to anybody

else. But if I have felt this truth of the eternity, the immortality,

the vastness, the wonderfulness of my own being, if I have felt I am

the fearless one, the free one and that whatever the external conditions

might be, nothing in the entire universe, gods, or men or devils, would

be ever able to affect me - if I have felt this truth, then my voice will

have a ring which will awaken the echo of the same truth in the hearts

of others. And Swami Vivekananda wanted us to go with that truth from door

to door and tell it to everyone.