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From “In woods of God Realization” Granth – The Sacred Syllable OM (Lecture delivered at the Hermetic, Brotherhood Hall, San Francisco, on December 22, 1902) My Alter Egos, My Other Selves, According to a well-established Law of Psychology, in order to be conscious of one thing we must have something different beside it. When there is no duality in the mind, then all object-consciousness is at rest and thus the point of inspiration is reached. When Tennyson is Beyond all […]

From “In woods of God Realization” Granth – The Sacred Syllable OM (Lecture delivered at the Hermetic, Brotherhood Hall, San Francisco, on December 22, 1902) My Alter Egos, My Other Selves, Americans and Europeans determine everything from the stand-point of majority. Well then, the dreaming state as well as the deep sleep state are also to have a vote. If on the authority of wakeful experience the dreaming experience is unreal, no is the wakeful experience non-real on the authority […]

From “In woods of God Realization” Granth – The Sacred Syllable OM (Lecture delivered at the Hermetic, Brotherhood Hall, San Francisco, on December 22, 1902) The Hindus define reality as that which persists in all circumstances. That which appears to be at one time and like a shadow disappears after a while must be a delusive phenomenon. The same definition of reality is given by Herbert Spencer. Why do you say that the dreamland is unreal? Because when you are […]

From “In woods of God Realization” Granth – The Sacred Syllable OM (Lecture delivered at the Hermetic, Brotherhood Hall, San Francisco, on December 22, 1902) My Alter Egos, My Other Selves, Sensation is the primary cause of all perception, intellection, etc. Sensation is not limited to your wakeful state. In your wakeful state, your senses are in the gross form, but do you not sense and perceive in your dreams, have you not sense organs peculiar to that state? The […]

From “In woods of God Realization” Granth – The Sacred Syllable OM (Lecture delivered at the Hermetic, Brotherhood Hall, San Francisco, on December 22, 1902) My Alter Egos, My Other Selves, All the philosophy of the Europe and America is based on the experience in the wakeful state and takes little or no notice of the experience of the reaming or deep sleep state. The Hindu says, ― You start with imperfect data. How can your solution to the problem […]