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Why should what happens be explicable? The very fact of it happening is explanation enough.
It was found that Sanskrit, Persian, Greek and Latin, and also the Celtic, Germanic and Slavonic languages come from a primitive unwritten language called Aryan.
Greece and India give us complementary views of the world. In the Greek temple we find the clear perfection of beauty: in the Indian temple we find the sublime sense of Infinity. Greece gives us the joy of eternal beauty in the outer world; and India gives us the joy of the Infinite in the inner world.
Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.
‘And when a man sees that the God in himself is the same God in all that is, he hurts not himself by hurting others: then he goes indeed to the highest Path’ 13.28.
When thy mind leaves behind its dark forest of delusion, thou shalt go beyond the scriptures of times past and still to come.
14 From the world of the senses, Arjuna, comes heat and comes cold, and pleasure and pain. They come and they go: they are transient. Arise above them, strong soul. 15 The man whom these cannot move, whose soul is one, beyond pleasure and pain, is worthy of life in Eternity.
19 If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die.
47 Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward. Work not for a reward; but never cease to do thy work.
53 When thy mind, that may be wavering in the contradictions of many scriptures, shall rest unshaken in divine contemplation, then the goal of Yoga is thine.
62 When a man dwells on the pleasures of sense, attraction for them arises in him. From attraction arises desire, the lust of possession, and this leads to passion, to anger.
70 Even as all waters flow into the ocean, but the ocean never overflows, even so the sage feels desires, but he is ever one in his infinite peace. 71 For the man who forsakes all desires and abandons all pride of possession and of self reaches the goal of peace supreme. 72 This is the Eternal in man, O Arjuna. Reaching him all delusion is gone. Even in the last hour of his life upon earth, man can reach the Nirvana of Brahman – man can find peace in the peace of his God.
6 He who withdraws himself from actions, but ponders on their pleasures in his heart, he is under a delusion and is a false follower of the Path.
34 Hate and lust for things of nature have their roots in man’s lower nature. Let him not fall under their power: they are the two enemies in his path.
35 And do thy duty, even if it be humble, rather than another’s, even if it be great. To die in one’s duty is life: to live in another’s is death.
42 They say that the power of the senses is great. But greater than the senses is the mind. Greater than the mind is Buddhi, reason; and greater than reason is He – the Spirit in man and in all. 43 Know Him therefore who is above reason; and let his peace give thee peace. Be a warrior and kill desire, the powerful enemy of the soul.
18 The man who in his work finds silence, and who sees that silence is work, this man in truth sees the Light and in all his works finds peace.
16 Yoga is a harmony. Not for him who eats too much, or for him who eats too little; not for him who sleeps too little, or for him who sleeps too much. 17 A harmony in eating and resting, in sleeping and keeping awake: a perfection in whatever one does. This is the Yoga that gives peace from all pain.
30 And when he sees me in all and he sees all in me, then I never leave him and he never leaves me. 31 He who in this oneness of love, loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth this man lives in me. 32 And he is the greatest Yogi he whose vision is ever one: when the pleasure and pain of others is his own pleasure and pain.
22 But to those who adore me with a pure oneness of soul, to those who are ever in harmony, I increase what they have and I give them what they have not.
26 He who offers to me with devotion only a leaf, or a flower, or a fruit, or even a little water, this I accept from that yearning soul, because with a pure heart it was offered with love.
38 I am the sceptre of the rulers of men; and I am the wise policy of those who seek victory. I am the silence of hidden mysteries; and I am the knowledge of those who know.
Set thy heart on me alone, and give to me thy understanding: thou shalt in truth live in me hereafter. 9 But if thou art unable to rest thy mind on me, then seek to reach me by the practice of Yoga concentration. 10 If thou art not able to practise concentration, consecrate all thy work to me. By merely doing actions in my service thou shalt attain perfection.
19 He who with a clear vision sees me as the Spirit Supreme he knows all there is to be known, and he adores me with all his soul. 20 I have revealed to thee the most secret doctrine, Arjuna. He who sees it has seen light, and his task in this world is done.
21 Three are the gates to this hell, the death of the soul: the gate of lust, the gate of wrath, and the gate of greed. Let a man shun the three.
If one thinks that his infinite Spirit does the finite work which nature does, he is a man of clouded vision and he does not see the truth.
