That man alone can live in this world, he alone can say, "I enjoy this life, and I am happy in this life", who has seen the Truth, and the Truth in everything.
Vivekananda, Complete Works, 2.6 Practical Vedanta and other Lectures
What is truth?
It means recognizing neither good or bad, but knowing all as coming from the Self; Self is in everything. It means denying the universe; shutting your eyes to it; seeing the Lord in hell as well as in heaven; seeing the Lord in death as well as in Life....the earth is a symbol of the Lord, the sky is the Lord, the place we fill is the Lord, everything is Brahman. And this is to be seen, realized, not simply talked about or thought about....Neither good nor bad, neither life nor death-only the one infinite Brahman exists.
As Michael Singer would say, we are so busy focusing on the nontruths...what we created in terms of thought and identy as a little me that we do not see Truth. We do not see God. We do not see Self. If we would simply turn away and around from this very personalized thought stream what we are staring at and identifying as, we would see what is here and always was....the Impersonal.
We are so busy creating more thoughts about our thoughts so we can be screwed up about our thoughts.
We created an ego and a drama for ego but that is not truth. It is all just thought. As long as we personalize life we are not seeing Life. As long as there is a focus on 'self', we are not seeing Self. We even personalized Something so great, thinking it into a tiny personalized form.
The impersonal God is a living God, a principle. The difference between personal and impersoanl is this, that the personal is only a man, and the impersonal idea is that. He is the angel, the man, the animal, and yet, something more which we cannot see, because impersonality includes all personalities, is the sum total of everything in the universe, and infinitely more besides. "As the one fire coming into the world is manifesting itself in so many forms, and yet is infinitely more besides', so is the impersonal.
Truth is impersonal. Can you handle that?
The soul is perfect it is just getting identified with something that isn't.Singer
Michael A. Singer (November 4, 2024) Finding Peace Through Truth and Acceptance.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1il3fkITR8&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=1
Swami Vivekananda (n.d.) The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. 2.6 Practical Vednanta and Other Lectures. Kindle Edition
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