So what good will it do you to think all your
lives, 'Oh, I have done evil, I have made many mistakes'? It
requires no ghost to tell us that. Bring in the light, and the
evil goes in a moment. Strengthen the real nature, build up
yourselves, the effulgent, the resplendent, the ever pure, call
that up in every one whom you see. I wish that every one of us
had come to such a state that even when we see the vilest of
human beings we can see the God within, and instead of
condemning, say, 'Rise, thou effulgent One, rise thou who art
always pure, rise thou birthless and deathless, rise almighty,
and manifest your nature.' . . . This is the highest prayer that
the Advaita teaches. This is the one prayer: remembering our
nature.". . . "Why does man go out to look for a God? . . . It is
your own heart beating, and you did not know, you were mistaking
it for something external. He, nearest of the near, my own self,
the reality of my own life, my body and my soul.--I am Thee and
Thou art Me. That is your own nature. Assert it, manifest it.
Not to become pure, you are pure already.
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