When we have subdued our passions and freed ourselves from
all doubts and prejudice, the light of Truth will burst on our hearts in all
its divine effulgence and purity.
He who knows the Ultimate Reality, after having become
quiet, subdued, satisfied, patient and collected, sees himself in God, sees all
in God.
Evil does not overcome him, he overcomes all evil.
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| Murudeshwara Temple, Karnataka |
Free from evil, free from stain, free from doubt, he becomes
a true God-knower.
He then penetrates into the illimitable realm of truth and
realizes the supreme fact that to know God is not only possible for the spirit
of man, but is its consummation and eternal life.
The sphere of religion then becomes, to quote the lofty
words of Hegel: “A region in which the spirit rids itself of its finiteness and
relates itself to that which is unlimited and infinite; where its attitude is
no longer that of dependence but of freedom; and where the individual has no
longer to do with himself, his interest, his vanity but only with absolute
truth. All anxiety and doubt, all petty cares and troubles, all narrow and
selfish interest, are left behind on the sandbank of time. In this pure region
we penetrate beyond the outward deceitful shows and semblances of the world and
behold all things revealed to us, transfigured in the pure light of truth and
softened in its halo of eternal rest and peace.
Source – Magazine – Message of the East, March 1916