PRACTICAL VEDANTAM-1.17.


18/01/2019
17.
Do you not know from the history of the world where the power of the prophets lay? Where was it? In the intellect? Did any of them write a fine book on philosophy, on the most intricate ratiocinations of logic? Not one of them. They only spoke a few words.

Feel like Rishi and you will be a Rishi; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. Intellect is like limbs without the power of locomotion. It is only when feeling enters and gives them motion that they move and work on others.


That is so all over the world, and it is a thing which you must always remember. It is one of the most practical things in Vedantic morality, for it is the teaching of the Vedanta that you are all prophets, and all must be prophets. The book is not the proof of your conduct, but you are the proof of the book. How do you know that a book teaches truth?

Because you are truth and feel it. That is what the Vedanta says. What is the proof of the Great Brahmarishi-s and Buddhas of the world? That you and I feel like them. That is how you and I understand that they were true. Our Jivatma is the proof of the Divine Paramatma. Your godhead is the proof of God Himself.


If you are not a REALISED PERSON, there never has been anything true of God. If you are not God, there never was any God, and never will be.

This, says the Vedanta, is the ideal to follow. Every one of us will have to become a DIVINE JIVATMA, and you are that already. Only know it. Never think there is anything impossible for the ATMA. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin — to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

THE END


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