Collection of Thoughts from Hindu Mystics - Part II (standard:non fiction, 1090 words) [2/4] show all parts
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Collection of Swami Vivekananda thoughts.

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In Advaita, Om, this is Brahman. Om is the greatest reality. He who
knows the secret out of Om, whatever he desires that he gets, therefore 
first know the secret of the Om (self), and then you are the Om. The 
secret of Advaita is believe in yourself (one can see this philosophy 
is hard to understand and not for everybody and not for the masses as 
they prefer hymns and rituals.) 

What does the Advaita teaches? It dethrones all the gods that ever
existed, or even will exist in the universe, and place on the throne, 
the self of man “the Atman” greater than universe itself. No books, no 
scriptures, no science can even imagine the glory of the self that as a 
man, the most glorious God the ever was, the only god that ever 
existed, exists or ever will exist. I am to worship therefore none but 
myself. “I worship myself” says Advaitist. 

These are the salient points of the three (3) steps which Indian
religious thought has taken in regard to “God.” It began with the 
personal, the extra-cosmic God. It went from the external to the 
internal cosmic body, God immanent in the universe, and ended in 
identifying the soul itself with the God, and making one soul, a unit 
of all these manifestations in the universe. This is the last word of 
the Vedas. It begins with Dualism, goes through a qualified Monism and 
end in a perfect Monism. 

Now, as society exists at the present time, all these three stages
(dualism, qualified monism and perfect monism) are necessary, the one 
does not deny the other, one is simply the fulfillment of the other. 
The Advaitist does not say the dualism is wrong; it is a right view but 
a lower level. 

Most Upanishads were written by Kshyatriyas while the ritualistic
portions of the Vedas were written by Brahmins. Most teachers 
throughout India over the ages were Kshyatriyas as they were always 
universal in teaching. Rama, Krishna and Buddha worshiped as 
incarnations of God were Kshyatriyas. 

Vivekananda on Self Realization: Realization is the soul, the very
essence of religion. You will get the realization; if you do then you 
will be truly religious. Until you have attained realization there is 
no difference between you and atheists. The atheists are sincere but 
the man who says that he believes religion and never attempts to 
realize it is not sincere. 

A true Vendantist finds that he who, he thought, was standing outside,
is he himself and is in reality within. He is the one who is free, but 
through limitation of the thought, he was bound. 

Why realization is good for the world? 

On attaining (self) realization, man will love the greatest enemy who
knows that the very enemy is god himself, such a man (ex., Mahatma 
Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and 
others) becomes a world mover for whom his little self is dead and God 
stands in its place. The whole universe will become transfigured to 
him. Pain and misery will vanish. The universe will be beautiful place. 
Such a man alone has the right to stand up and say how beautiful is 
world. He alone has the right to say that it all God. 


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