Week 457
Call the highest principle the Atman or Brahman as you please, the real business of the spiritual aspirant is to apprehend that principle in actual experience. It is quality- less, and yet it fills every nook and cranny of the universe. It is a principle which remains eternal in the midst of change and destruction......It is a principle which is beyond all imagination, and which is untouched by any illusion whatsoever. What comes to be and what passes out of existence must never be confounded with what can never become or pass away......It is indeed a principle which is open to spiritual insight, and one who attains it should remain alone to himself, and thus assimilate himself to the Divine. It is beyond what the eye sees and what the mind imagines. It is both beyond the physical and the mental. That principle is both inside and outside. It is infinite. It is distant and near......As to our knowledge of this principle, we should depend upon our own spiritual experience. We must not be under compunction of another man's opinion; because another man's opinion is incompetent to lead us to God.
(Chapter XIX, Page 386, Mysticism in Maharashtra, Indian Mysticism, R D Ranade)
Week 456
Life indeed is transient, and you must not allow it to waste.
(Chapter V, Page 176, Mysticism in Maharashtra, Indian Mysticism, R D Ranade)
Week 455
...as the trees in a forest become fragrant by a sandal tree, which is in the midst of them, similarly, people begin to love God when there is a devotee in the midst of them.
(Chapter V, Page 176, Mysticism in Maharashtra, Indian Mysticism, R D Ranade)
Week 454
The only sacred thing in this world is God, and the most non-sacred thing is the mind of the unbeliever
(Chapter V, Page 176, Mysticism in Maharashtra, Indian Mysticism, R D Ranade)
Week 453
The Saints indeed take on a body when the path of religion vanishes, and when religion reigns.
(Chapter XI, Page 225, Mysticism in Maharashtra, Indian Mysticism, R D Ranade)
Week 452
It is a matter of shame to God that His devotee should look piteous in the eyes of men. God regards His life as useless, if the words of the devotee come untrue.
(Chapter XI, Page 225, Mysticism in Maharashtra, Indian Mysticism, R D Ranade)
Week 451
If we place our burden on God, God shall certainly support us in the midst of difficulties. He serves His devotees, as Krishna served Arjuna by being his charioteer.
(Chapter XI, Page 224, Mysticism in Maharashtra, Indian Mysticism, R D Ranade)
