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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"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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"That the whole world is constituted of the One Reality is one of the essential principles of Vedantic thought."
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"The world is of one piece, the same spirit which is in the saddle in the globe is also in the atom."
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"A man does not understand anything unless he loves it." Goethe
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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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"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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"We are brothers; sons of one sweet mother."
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"Being is one, though named variously."
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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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"Somehow everything is Brahman. We have constantly to remind ourselves of this piece of knowledge and then we shall value our present experience."
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"The one cause – which is the Whole – is what existence is and what we are."
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"My I and every I is that one I, the Glorious Presence….the mystery of mysteries, the joy of joys, the presence of all in each…variety mysteriously governed by unity. This is the principle of the whole – the ultimate self-existent power – which governs evolution from within."
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"Things are not independent, clear-cut, definite-boundaried objects….Each one is what it is because there is a principle of oneness which is the essential cause and basis of all. Each is in some way all. That is the nature of being. Nothing IS that is not essentially all."
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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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"One thing is sure – all is one; the world, mind and all."
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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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"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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"In that fullness of unity the whole is fully present in the part."
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"Everything that occurs is worthy of our most appreciative attention, since it is in some way Brahman."
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"The whole universe is in a flow of universal in-fluence in which everything is in some degree potent in everything else."
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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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"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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"If I were to try to name the new era, I would say it is characterized, whether consciously or not, by an inward-rising feeling of sympathy and companionship with other men and all things."
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"Anyone who is intent upon knowing the One Reality finds the One Reality everywhere."
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