You are the Whole, the Infinite, the All

Swami Rama Tirtha

Realization is not a thing to be achieved, you have not to do anything to gain God vision, you have simply to undo what you have already done in the way of forming dark cocoons of desires around you. Assert your Godhead, fling into utter oblivion the little self, as if it had never existed. When the little bubble bursts, it finds itself the whole ocean. You are the Whole, the Infinite, the All.

Realization frees you from outside influences and makes you stand by yourself. The only way to escape from all sins, to stand above all temptations, is to realize the true Self. You will never be able to withstand animal passions, unless you do away with all this splendor and glory that bewitches you, that attracts you. When you realize that you stand above all passions and at the same time are perfectly free and full of bliss, that is heaven.

Shine in your pristine glory. For you, O perfect One! there is no duty, no action, nothing to be done; all nature waits on you with bated breath.

If human or rather animal feelings are washed out, Divine feelings begin to overflow instead. If you want to realize Vedanta, realize it even in the midst of all sorts of noise, even in the heat of all sorts of troubles. In this world you can never, never get yourself in a state where there will be no noise or no botheration from without.

In fact, the harder the circumstances, the more trying the environments, the stronger are the men who come out of those circumstances. So welcome all these outside troubles and anxieties. Live Vedanta even in these surroundings, and when you live Vedanta, you will see that the surroundings and circumstances will succumb to you. They will become subservient to you and you will become their master.       

Stand on your feet whether you are great or small, whether you are highly placed or very low, care not a straw for that.

Realize your Divinity, your Godhead. Look at anything in the face, shrink not. Look not at yourself with the eyes of others but within your own Self. Your own Self will always tell you that you are the greatest Self in all the world.

Divinity! respect your Self, and everybody will respect you. When you rise to that height of Divine love; when you rise to such a degree that in your father, in your mother, in everybody, you see nothing but God; when you see, in the wife no wife, but the beloved One, God; then, indeed you do become God, then, indeed are you in the presence of God. Rise above the body, burn up this personality of yours, singe it, consume it, burn it up, then and then only will you see your desires fulfilled. In other words, “Deny yourself.”

All the attractiveness you see in this world is nothing else but the true Divinity, the same which appears to you in the body of a beloved one, puts on a different dress in trees, in mountains and hills. Realize this, for this is how you can rise above all worldly passions and desires. This is the way to make spiritual use of worldly desires and to make use of them for their own sake.

Realize your Divinity and everything is done. Excerpted from ‘The Woods of God Realization.’ The 149^th birth anniversary of Swami Rama Tirtha was observed on October 22