The Wisdom Of The Hindus

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BRAHMANIC WISDOM Humility Unites Man With God J. HERE is nothing stronger than an humble man, because an humble man, renouncing self, yields to God. Beautiful are the words of the prayer: "Come and dwell in us." All is comprised in these words. Man has all that he requires if God comes to dwell in him. So that God may dwell in us, we must do only one thing: diminish ourselves in order to give place to God. As soon as man has diminished himself, God enters and dwells in him. Therefore in order to have all that is needful to him, man must first humble himself. The more deeply man penetrates hito self, and the more insignificant he appears to himself, the higher he rises towards God. He who worships the All-Highest pride flees from his heart even as the light of a camp fire before the rays of the sun. He whose heart is pure and in whom there is no pride, he who is humble, constant and simple, who looks upon every creature as upon his friend and loves every soul as his own, he who treats every creature withequal tenderness and love, he who would do good and has abandoned vanity - in his heart dwelleth the lord of life. Even as the earth is adorned with beautiful plants which she brings forth, even so is he adorned in whose soul dwelleth the Lord of life. Delusion Of Personality 1VJ.ANY imagine that if we eliminate personality and the love of it out of our life nothing will remain. They imagine that there is no life without personality. But this seems so only to people who have never experienced the joys of self-renunciation. Eliminate personality from life, renounce it and that will remain which forms the substance of life - love which yields positive happiness. The more man recognizes his spiritual "I," and the more he renounces his material personality, th...

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