Now, owing to our present impurities, the reflection in us

does not reveal the direction from which the light is really coming.

This is what muddles everything up.

Vedanta says:

"Follow the path, have the experience yourself, verify it again and again; take no one on trust".

Create the instrument and then realize the Truth yourselves. Take

no creed, no teachings, no Holy Scripture on trust, but only as

sign-posts to help you to your own realization of Truth.

Our great sage Sankaracharya says somewhere:

“Everybody feels he is, never that he is not or that he has ceased to be.”

The principle of verification is the greatest thing in Vedanta.

To the extent in which you yourselves will be able to raise your center of consciousness, higher and higher, you will get at

least a glimpse of the Infinite.

The mind must move. Movement is its very nature.

If you consciously and deliberately stop its downward course to the lower, physical body-centers, it must move upwards.

But if you stop its downward course and at the same time make it consciously move upwards, with an effort of the will, the process is much swifter.

“The wise should always think with great care of the invisible,

the visible and everything else, as his own SELF, which is con-

sciousness itself.

Having reduced the visible to the invisible, the wise should

think of the universe as one with Brahman. Thus alone will he

abide in eternal felicity with the mind full of consciousness and

bliss.” —(Aparoksha anubhuti 141-142)

Swami Yatiswarananda

Readings Of The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Wiesbaden, Germany

July 4, 1934 -- (Vol.I 345-348)[CG 240-242]