25 January :
25 Jan 1895 : Lecture: "The Upanishads and the doctrine of the soul"
25 Jan 1896 : Lectures in NY: Morn - "Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms"
Eve - "Dhyana and Samadhi" - That part of mind-work which is
unaccompanied with the feeling of egoism is unconscious work, and that
part which is accompanied with the feeling of egoism is conscious work.
...It can go beyond consciousness. Just as unconscious
work is beneath consciousness, so there is another work which is above
consciousness, and which also is not accompanied with the feeling of
egoism. The feeling of egoism is only on the middle plane. When the mind
is above or below that line, there is no feeling of "I", and yet the
mind works. When the mind goes beyond this line of self-consciousness,
it is called Samadhi or superconsciousness.
Letter: Mrs. Ole Bull - "If you have known the Atman as the one existence and that nothing else exists, for whom, for what desire, do you trouble yourself?" Through Maya all this doing good etc. came into my brain--now they are leaving me. I get more and more convinced that there is no other object in work except the purification of the soul--to make it fit for knowledge. This world with its good and evil will go on in various forms. Only the evil and good will take new names and new seats. My soul is hankering after peace and rest eternal undisturbed.
Letter: Mrs. Ole Bull - "If you have known the Atman as the one existence and that nothing else exists, for whom, for what desire, do you trouble yourself?" Through Maya all this doing good etc. came into my brain--now they are leaving me. I get more and more convinced that there is no other object in work except the purification of the soul--to make it fit for knowledge. This world with its good and evil will go on in various forms. Only the evil and good will take new names and new seats. My soul is hankering after peace and rest eternal undisturbed.
"Live alone,
live alone. He who is alone never comes into conflict with
others--never disturbs others, is never disturbed by others." I long,
oh! I long for my rags, my shaven head, my sleep under the trees, and my
food from begging! India is the only place where, with all its faults,
the soul finds its freedom, its God. All this Western pomp is only
vanity, only bondage of the soul. Never more in my life I realised more
forcibly the vanity of the world. May the Lord break the bondage of
all--may all come out of Maya--is the constant prayer.
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