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Vedanta Monthly Message of the East July 1926

1926

A man closes all the doors and windows of his house pulls down all the shutters and shades and says There is no sunlight." the only way he will have sunlight in his hou.se is to rouse himself and open the doors and windows. [...] The fowls of theTHE MESSAGE OF THE EAST 181 air and all the beasts that are under the earth or upon the earth and the fishes of the sea. [...] For with this latter we begin with the universal and primary and pass through the intermediate and secondary to the particular and ultmate attributes; but now we ascend from the particular to the universal conceptions abstracting all attributes in order that without veil we may begin to contemplate the Superessential Darkness which is hidden by all the light that is in existing things. [...] It defines with admirable clarity the various fields of human consciousness and leads the reader to the inevitable conclusion that the one goal worthy of the seeing M that supreme state transcending the limitations of the ego where we are born again into the life of Spirit the one universal Self. [...] Mitra does not deny but proceeds to point out the difference between the scientific pessimison of the West "which holds out no hope to mortals" and the philosophic pessimism the logical oucome' of which is complete renunciation and final libertion or moksha —the pessimism of the Buddha the Christ and of all other great religious teacher.s.—S.
philosophy religion
Pages
31
Published in
United States
SARF Document ID
sarf.120096
Segment Pages Author Actions
Divine Miracles
169-180 Paramananda view
New Parables of Jesus
180-181 unknown view
The Fourth Prohibition From the “Gospel of Buddha”
181-182 unknown view
My Neighbour and Myself
183-184 C.F. Andrews view
The Divine Darkness
184-188 Dionysius the Areopagite view
Gopala and the Cowherd
189-194 Nivedita view
Report
195-195 unknown view
Book Reviews
196-196 unknown view

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