For some slow reading (Thank you Ralph!):
Swami Rama Tirtha was a Hindu spiritual teacher and philosopher known for “Practical Vedanta,” a teaching style that emphasized direct experience, inner realization, and seeing the divine in everyday life. He was born in 1873, taught mathematics for a time, traveled to Japan and the United States, and died in 1906.
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Fun info…… Rama Tirtha was Papaji’s uncle.
Love means practically realising your Oneness and Identity with your neighbours, with all those who come in contact with you.
Love is an art as well as a science.
Scientific discoveries are only sparks and scintillations from the grand Sun, Fire of Love, or the Oneness-feeling.
The only lawful Law is love.
To live in love is to live true to your Self.
True love, like the sun, expands the Self.
Attachment like the frost congests and contracts the Soul.
Confound not love with attachment.
Love is no crying, begging, negative condition.
It is an indescribable sense of equality, beaming sweetness and Divine recklessness.
It is the seeing of All in all we see.
It is seeing your own Self in where your eyes fall.
It is to realise that All is beauty, and I am That.
Tat Tvam Asi, or That Thou Art.
Love divested of all carnality is spiritual illumination.
Love, or the feeling of Oneness, when brought into play between two persons, dispels the illusion of division.
What wins in the struggle for existence?
Love.
Love means perception of beauty.
Love is the only Divine Law.
Other laws are organised robbery.
Love alone has the right to break those laws.
Love is misunderstood to such a degree, that the very mention of the word “love” suggests to the dear people, the idea of cupidity and stupidity, instead of the Divine flame.
Love inspires; head expounds.
Feeling always precedes thinking, as the body precedes clothes.
All desire is love, and love is God, and that God you are.
There is no great and no small; no low and no high where love is.
When you are centred in love, all miracles become possible.
A man who has never loved can never realise God; that is a fact.
Fear is only congested love.
How else could love conquer fear?
Feigned love, false feelings and assumed sentimentalism is an insult to God.
Deprived of case, afflicted by disease you are when you stagnate in the slough of separation and division. You are perfect and whole when you realise your Self to be the Whole and the All.
What is disease?
Contradiction due to lack of love; shuddering at the flutter of shadows; crying at the day dreams of danger.
When anything is apparently going wrong, to quarrel with the surrounding, instead of setting us right with the Law of Love, is like breaking the telephone receiver for hearing the bad news from the friends at the invisible end.
It is true that there is nothing so poisonous as the company of gossips, believers in appearances, shameless slaves of shameful “respectability”, but where the Lord Love encamps, no impertinent tramps can loaf around.
O man! you yourself make all objects attractive by your looks.
Looking at it with those eyes, you yourself shed your lustre upon the subject, and then you fall in love with it.
Time is bound to keep pace with love instincts.
First win the heart; then appeal to reason.
Love might hope where reason would despair.
How blessed is he whose property is stolen away!
Thrice blessed is he whose wife runs away, provided by such means he is brought in direct touch with the All love.
Take my life and let it be consecrated to Thee.
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