Sublime

If we thus find this ‘I’ to be non-existent, we will find the four defects also to be ever non-existent. Our real experience will then be the ever-shining defectless ātman alone.

practise japa and meditation in the same manner. In place of the former thought, ‘I am a man or jīva’, aspirants now have a different notion, ‘I am brahman’, which is nothing but replacing one thought with another!

The man or woman who practices the teachings of these great scriptures will become aware of the unity of life, and this awareness will give constant strength and inspiration to those who seek to turn anger into compassion, fear into courage, and selfishness into self-forgetfulness in the joy of the whole.

Work done with unselfish motive purifies the mind and enables man to perceive his undying nature. From this he gains inevitably a knowledge of God, because the Soul and God are one and inseparable; and when he knows himself to be one with the Supreme and Indestructible Whole, he realizes his immortality.