added unto you. Do not sell the Christ of your real Self, the Lord of Lords, for the deluding pleasures of this world. Who would have remembered Christ by this time, but for what immediately followed after that false kiss ? Christ can be produced to-day, if you like. Adam, poor Adam, in the magnificent grand garden of Eden, would never have thought of eating the fruit of a particular tree in a neglected quarter, had not the Biblical God distinguished it as “forbidden”. All the Bibles can do little good unless wives and husbaads undertake to be each other’s saviours or Christs. The first law of Moses means “Thou shalt have no other God but Love.” God alone is real and all else unreal: “La illah il liltah.” Prayer does not mean repeating certain words. Prayer means feeling and realizing Divinity. Instead of praying “Thy will be done, 0 Lord,” let your joy be “My will is being done”, “My will is being done.” Be not hypnotized through the opinions of others and the more a man stands above this weakness of being hypnotized by others, the more free he Is. As a rule, churches, temples, gatherings and meetings are different methods of prolonging the hypnotic world-sleep. Can authority establish Truth? Does the Sun require a little lamp to be made visible ? Does a simple mathematical truth gain a whit more weight if Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Zoraster, Vedas and all come and come and bear testimony to it ? 0 living man; it is worth while to live as Love yourself. Be not clouded by the imperfect examples of Buddhas, Christs, Swamins and other idols of the past. In this twentieth century it is high time for us to wake up to a sense of discrimination (viveka) and not mix up personalities with preachings. Shall we reject a beautiful lotus because
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