Enjoyment of work as against tedious drudgery; Peace of mind and no canker of suspicion; Organization and no desegregations; Appropriate reform and no conservative custom; Solid real feeling as against flowery talk; The poetry of facts as against speculative fiction; The logic of events as against the authority of departed authors; Living Realization and no mere dead quotations, Constitute Practical Vedanta. Vedanta, printed in books and placed on shelves to be eaten up by worms, won’t do. You must live it. If Vedan at does not remove your chill; if it does not make you happy; if it does not cast off your burdens, then kick it aside. According to Vedanta, all pity is weakness. Vedanta appeals to, the masses simply because it is the teachings of their Bible, and it appeals to the educated Hindu because there is no philosophy worth the name under the Sun which does not support the Vedantic Monism, and no science which does not uphold and advance the cause of Vedanta or Truth. The very best method of spreading the Vedantic Philosophy is to live it, there is no other royal road. It is only when you cast yourself in a strange, indescribable sentiment, which is higher than both of us, that you find Me. This is what Vedanta tells you. If you want to realize an object, if you want to get anything, do not hunt after the shadow. Touch your own head. Go within you. Realize this and you will see that the stars are your handiwork; you will see that all objects of love, all the bewitching and fascinating things are simply your own reflection or shadow. You have the Heaven within you, the paradise, the home of bliss within you, and yet you are searching for pleasures in objects in the streets, searching for that thing outside, outside in the objects of the
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