subject: What Is Soul? By Alex Walia [print this page] The soul was never born and will never die, and all these ideas that we are going to die and are afraid to die are mere super-stitions. And all such ideas as we can do this or cannot do that are superstitions. We can do this or cannot do that are superstitions. We can do every-thing. The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first Not believing the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism. To many this is, no doubt, a terrible idea; and most of us think that this ideal can never be reached; but the Vedanta insists that it can be realized by everyone.
Always talk and hear and reason about this Atman. By continuing to practice in this way, you will find in time that the Lion (Brahman) will wake up in you too.
The self within is always shining forth resplendent. Turning away from that people say,I, I,I, with their attention held up by this material body, this queer cage of flesh and bones. This is the root cause of all weakness said by swami Vivekananda ji.
Hear Day and Night that you are that Soul. Repeat it to yourselves day and night till it enters into your very veins, till it tingles in every drop of blood, till it is in your flesh and bone. Let the whole body be full of that one ideal, I am the birthless, the deathless, the blissful, the Omnipotent, ever-glorious Sul. Think on it day and night; think on it till it becomes part and parcel of your life. Meditate upon it all your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought of your almightiness, your majesty and your glory.
Alex praises-The conceptions of Vedanta must come out, must remain not only in the forest, not only in the cave, but they must come out to work at the bar and the bench, in the cottage of the poor man, with the fisherman that are catching fish, and with the students that are studying.. If the fisherman thinks that he is the Spirit , he will be a better fisherman; if the student thinks that he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thins that he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on
You have now to make the character of Mahavira (Hanuman) your ideal. He was a perfect master of his senses and wonderfully sagacious. You have now to build your life on this great ideal of personal service. Through that, all the other ideals will gradually manifest in life. Obedience to the guru without questioning, and strict observance of Brahmacharya- this is the secret of success. As on the other hand Hanuman represents the ideal of service, so on the other he represents leonine courage, striking the whole world with awe.
These all teachings of Swami Vivekananda Ji makes Alex and other Follower strong. So Alex request all those who want a ray out from dark should go through Swami Vivekananda Teachings.
