Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Having attained to the world of the righteous and dwelling there for everlasting years one fallen from Yoga reincarnates himself in the home of the pure and the prosperous.' In the Chhandogya Upanishad we have in the teacing of Sanatkumara to Narada the develoment of the idea of the working of the principles of cause and effect in determining the rewards of our actions. [...] For the Upanishad says Those who depart from hence without having dicovered the Self and those true desires for them there is no freedom in all the worlds.' Thus a man who has got the knowledge of the Self and is endowed with the powers born of Brahmacharya can at will command the world of the fathers the mothers the brothers the sisters the friends women food and drink and other enj [...] Some went to the world of gods some to the world of Brahma the creator some to the world of Kubera and some to the world of the sun. [...] It has also been declared that all the worlds are the result of Sankalpa as in " the earth and the sky willed." In all the Shrutis the birth growth and maintenance and destruction of the Pratyagatman is there itself as is declared by " As spokes to the nave of the wheel." Therefore there is natural cause and effect relation between mental and external things like the seed and its sprout. [...] A sltudy of its sixty chapters convinced scholars that it was the original of the second and fourth Books of the The Imitation of Christ also that its author was Gerard Grodte the courgeous and devoted founder of the Renaisance order known as the Brethren of the Common Life and its counterpart for women and the father of the teaching known as the `Modern Devotion.' Further research made