THE GLORIOUS PRESENCE
Ernest E. Wood
An explanation of the Vedanta Philosophy, including Shankara's Ode to the South-facing Form.
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"I see that when souls reach a certain clearness of perfection, they accept a knowledge and motive above selfishness." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The Vedanta Philosophy has as its basis the belief that the universe of our experience is only one reality and it can be known."
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"God or the One Reality is the material cause of all things…the substance of all things is that One."
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"We are brothers; sons of one sweet mother."
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"This belief that our world is one indivisible thing is held by modern scientists today, and they come very near to proving it also – at least nothing ever happens to create a doubt of its truth….the world of our experience is in some way one."
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"We cannot get away from one ultimate enveloping cause, present in all causes and constituting their essential nature."
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"The aim is direct knowledge of the One Reality, and the process begins with the hearing of testimony, goes on to reasoning, and ends with direct vision of the truth of the statement or experience being pondered on."
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"Being IS unity."
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"From the unreal to the real is not from one thing to another, but from the complexity of duality and multiplicity to the simplicity of unity."
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"In that fullness of unity the whole is fully present in the part."
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"Knowledge depends principally on a mental act of unity. The advance of knowledge is the discovery of unity."
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"That the whole world is constituted of the One Reality is one of the essential principles of Vedantic thought."
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"Everything depends upon everything else, and, in fact, IS everything else as well as itself."
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"The three mental steps towards knowledge of the One Reality are: 1. Listening, 2. Reflecting, 3. Contemplating. Listening means paying attention to the statements of the Scriptures with reference to the One Reality, and also to the words of seers and sages on the subject."
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"Everything is in intimate touch with other things….with no empty space between. This is a dance in which the partners are holding each other closely."
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"Being is one, though named variously."
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"The whole reflects into every part."
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"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere."
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"Greece, Rome, Chaldea, Peru, Egypt and all live now in us. Their material triumphs have turned to dust, their old languages are dead, but the gain of character that was achieved by those ancient labors is ours now and forever."
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"The One Reality can be known by exploring the I, the self – the true, not the false self."
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"There is no complete error, no complete ignorance – ever. In the world what resists us helps us, as the ground which obstructs our feet, but is necessary in walking. There is no escape from the self."
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"The earth is honey for all beings; all beings are honey for the earth also -…It is the self, the immortal, Brahman, all. Just as all the spokes of a cartwheel are fixed in the nave and the circumference, so are all beings fitted in the self, which is without before or after, or inside or outside, the knower of all." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, II, 5
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"Man CAN KNOW that one reality – men have known it in the past and can do so now."
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"There is an entelechy or active operation of form-building in Nature, and therefore a teleological purpose or design showing progress in Nature."
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"A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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