Saddhana, The Realisation Of Life [1916]
| Author's Preface |
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Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject-matter of the papers published in this book has not been philosophically treated, nor has it been approached from the scholar's point of view.
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| II : Soul Consciousness |
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We have seen that it was the aspiration of ancient India to live and move and have its joy in Brahma, the all-conscious and all- pervading Spirit, by extending its field of consciousness over all the world.
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| III : The Problem Of Evil |
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The question why there is evil in existence is the same as why there is imperfection, or, in other words, why there is creation at all.
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| IV : The Problem Of Self |
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At one pole of my being I am one with stocks and stones. There I have to acknowledge the rule of universal law. That is where the foundation of my existence lies, deep down below.
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| V : Realisation In Love |
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We come now to the eternal problem of co-existence of the infinite and the finite, of the supreme being and our soul. There is a sublime paradox that lies at the root of existence.
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| VI : Realisation In Action |
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It is only those who have known that joy expresses itself through law who have learnt to transcend the law. Not that the bonds of law have ceased to exist for them--but that the bonds have become to them as the form of freedom incarnate.
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| VII : The Realisation Of Beauty |
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Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us ....
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