Source Within

                             (Tags: Sum, Total, Knowledge, Manifested, Source, Within)

Man - The Highest

Man is the highest being that exists, and 
this is the greatest world.
We can have no conception of God higher than man, 
so our God is man, and man is God.

When we rise and go beyond and find something higher, 
we have to jump out of the mind,out of body and the imagination and leave this world; when we rise to be the Absolute, we are no longer in this world. 
Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know.

All we know of animals is only by analogy, we judge them by what we do and feel ourselves.

                                    - Swami Vivekananda

Blasphemy in Hindus

Knowledge exists eternally and is co-existent with God. 
The man who discovers a spiritual law is inspired, and what he brings is revelation; but revelation too is eternal, not to be crystallized as final and then blindly followed. 

The Hindus have been criticized so many years by their conquerors that they (the Hindus) dare to criticize their religion themselves, and this makes them free. 
Their foreign rulers struck off their fetters without knowing it. 

The most religious people of earth, the Hindus have actually no sense of blasphemy; to speak of holy things in any way is to them in itself a sanctification. Nor have they any artificial respect for prophets or books, or for hypocritical piety.

                                          - Swami Vivekananda

Absolute and Manifestation

The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation, such a one as has our nature. Jesus had our nature; he became the Christ; so can we, and so must we. Christ and Buddha were the names of a state to be attained; Jesus and Gautama were the persons to manifest it. 
         - Swami Vivekananda

God is Love

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Self and self

 (Tags: Love, God, Two, Self, Image, Master, Servant, Equality, Freedom, Hair, Breadth, Eternal, One, Fear)

Love

               (Tags: World, Love, Criticism, Good, Thousands, Years, Condemnation, Vedantist, Sympathy)

Inside Outside

    (Tags: Grow, Love, Virtue, Holiness, Condemnation, Adjust, Microcosm, Macrocosm, Hydrostatic, Paradox, Drop, Water, Universe, Huge, Engine, Trouble)