We know by now the lucky people in whose house Swamiji stayed as a guest during His travels. But the most lucky were the Hales whose home was His headquarter for almost entire year of 1894. Some papers of Mr. George W. Hale came to light during the research period of Marie Louise Burke. Swamiji had jotted down some series of notes by pencil on the letter head bearing Mr. Hales name. The date of the manuscript is not known but let read the notes in their original form -
" Reason - has its limits its base -
its degeneration. The walls round it -
Agnosticism. Atheism. But must not stop
The beyond is acting upon influencing us every
moment - the sky the stars acting upon us - even
those not seen. Therefore must go beyond - reason
alone can't go - finite can not get at the infinite
Faith its degeneration when alone - bigotry
fanaticism - sectarianism. Narrowing
finite:. can not get to the infinite
Sometimes gain in intensity but looses [sic] in
extensity - and in bigots & fanatics become
worship of his own pride & vanity
Is there no other way - there is Love
it never degenerates - peaceful softening
ever - widening - the universe is too small
for its expansiveness.
We can not define it we can only trace
it through its development and describe its
surroundings
It is at first - what the gravitation
is to the external world - atendency to unification
forms and conventionalities are its death.
Worship through forms - methods - services
forms - up to then no love.
When love comes method dies.
Human language and human forms
God as father, God as mother, God as
the lover - surata - vardhanam etc. Solomon's Song of Songs - dependence and independence
Love Love -
Love the chaste wife Anasuya Sita -
not as hard dry duty but as ever pleasing
love - sita worship -
The madness of Love - god intoxicated man
The allegory of Radha - misunderstood
The restriction more increase -
Lust is the death of love
Self is the death of love
individual to general
Concrete to abstract - to absolute
The praying Mahomedan and the girl
The Sympathy - Kavir
the Christian nun from whose hands blood came
The Mahomedan Saint
Every particle seeking its own complement
When it finds that it is at rest
Every man seeking - happiness -& stability
The search is real but the objects are themselves
but happiness is coming to them momentary at least through the
search of these objects.
The only object unchangeable and the only
complement of character and aspirations of the
human Soul is God
Love is struggle of a human Soul to find its
complement, its stable equilibrium its infinite rest."
As i was reading these notes now, and i read this sentence - 'The praying Mahomedan and the girl' i immediately remember the story which comes in the 3rd volume, when He is in London. May be tomorrow i will tell that story to you my dear Atmajas.
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