The sages, being filled with universal love for all beings,
did not want to keep their enlightenment to themselves.
They declared to all: “O mortals, striving and struggling
upon this Earth plane, weeping, wailing, buffeted by the vicissitudes of life:
we have come upon a great discovery.”
“ There is something beyond these appearances, these
vanishing names and forms that go to make up this universe.”
“There is something beyond which is the very source and
support of all these objects of the phenomenal world.”
Why do you search in vain for happiness outside? Come, come,
happiness resides within.”
Swami Chidananda (1916-2008) president of Divine Life
Society