This book is dedicated to – Dorothy Kazel, Ita Ford, Maura Clark, Jean Donovan.
They lost their lives sustaining the poor and the oppressed.
INTRO –
Try Ch 19. Christine’s ‘If we had missed this!’
Vedanta’s one great question – Why are people so afraid?
What is it that frightens you? Only ignorance and delusion. The delusion that death should be feared.
The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it and they go on their way, but those with sails furled do not catch the wind.
That is the goal, the infinite realm of the super-conscious.
The one who desires a nice comfortable life is a fool.
Since eternity, millions have been taught that they are helpless, miserable creatures, by the priests.
Love matter and you become matter.
One condition for progress is chastity. It is the corner-stone to build upon.
Neither teachers nor scriptures nor Gods exist.
Say: ‘Never was there any delusion. I stand alone! Who cares? I want to be Free!’
You can build hospitals for every fly and flea that ever lived but it will never get you salvation.
I do not see what you call progress, is other than the multip-lication of desires, this longing for more.
Sad to say, these babies of the world pass for the learned, the most intelligent crowd ever seen.
In place of the old popes of religion they have placed the modern popes of science.
There is no value in anything except experience. When it teaches. And our hardships give better experience than our enjoyments.
My path is down here, and your path is way up there and I’m always tempted to give up my path to join you up there.
There is a higher, keener enjoyment in the intellect than there is in the senses.
All the depression in the world is in the senses.
In India, spirituality means Realisation, nothing else. For Christians and Muslims, the problem is how to escape the wrath of the terrible God.
Loss is not as bad as wanting more. Toaist saying. 550BC.
CONTENTS –
LA=Los Angeles. SF=San Francisco.
It is likely that Ida Ansell recorded most of the SF lectures.
All NY lectures in 1896 are recorded by J.J. Goodwin.
This bending the knee to delusion, this selling yourself out to your own mind does not befit you, My Soul!
