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A Series of Lessons on the Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India1334
Special Message X.
For this month, we invite you to taste of the spiritual confections
compounded by the skilled hands of the Hindu maker of Spiritual
Confections, which bring delight to the soul of the spiritually minded:
“As the eagle of the mountains, having soared high in the air above the earth, wings
its way back to its resting-place, being fatigued by its long flight—so does the soul,
having experienced the life of the phenomenal, relative, and mortal, return finally
unto Itself, where it can sleep beyond all desires, and beyond all dreams.”
“As the lump of salt melted in the water cannot be experienced by the eye, but may
readily be detected by the tongue, so indeed the ever-existent, and ever-effulgent
Truth, shining in the depths of the heart, cannot be realized by the external senses,
but only by the light of that sympathetic awakening which comes from the word of
the teacher of the Truth. In the vessel of water, which thou callest thyself, there is ever
present that flavor of the salt of Truth which, while undetected by the eye, may yet
ever be tasted by the spiritual sense.”
“Truth is not realizable by study alone, nay, not even by intelligence or by much
learning, alone. Truth unfolds its full essence to him alone who applies his whole
soul to Truth. He who has not given up the ways of sense; he who has not acquired
self-control; he who hath not gained inward peace; he whose mind is not at rest; can
never realize the Truth, even though he be filled with the learning of the world.”
“Talk learnedly of the philosophies; worship devoutly at the altars of the gods;
carefully observe the minute details of the ceremonies and rituals; sing loudly the
favorite hymns of the deities;—do all these things, if you will, yet shall you not gain
merit, or wisdom, or freedom, even at the end of a thousand kalpas, unless you
realize the Oneness of Truth.”
“He who hath grasped the Secret of Oneness of the Truth, passes beyond the gates
of Death, and enters into the realms of Immortality.”
Our Meditation for the coming month is: