The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-26


needle between tho nail and flesh of his thumb.
Ing and talking to his friends. After some min.
ates he was requested to relax his mind. or
most oxcruciating pain and blood began to run
I'm India one Of, our great sage,. CHAT
anEe' went to another sage for instruction.
asked. Test me-, no replied. Tho sage then
so%sp sS"' HOLD RSGd L shos sSF ior d SRon mi 1 y and I I
VIII believe YOU Chaitanga held It ten min
ntss and blew IT Of as dry as over.
But this Is only tho frat step TO the state OF
tho mind Christ reached when crucliicd. An
incident In tho life OF one OF our great sages In
Ing along the rond outside OF a city. fell into
INC hands Of band Of robbers; The robbers
back toward tho city, the blood pouring from
the stub. Ho met a kind. hearted Brahmin on
fell at his feet and bandagcd tho wound. But
inc ssge wns hardly aware that he had been
withdrawn bis senses, but he had shut HE soul
entirely in from his mind. otner saRcs have
ali Tho Will" that ia pt they could Ssafi' NOT be be killed..
the M SrnSt c 0sr,it sn Sptri ~ made \ f aI, ,s,tippo with VII.
that Christ has altered the nature Of misfor.
tune q putting an entirely new construction
crush II and destroy It even in this life. No
y yon T ks senses eas 0y Will fS aouSt m shis. dS9isteado Ss,
has gone, on for eighteen centuries calling this
sublime hcrcism the work Of God. and It was.
later be able TO do for himself. a..
Christ said He came to save mems souls and
a tled that they might DO saved. This 10 literally
mental concentration and meditation He real
lied that His own soul was q part Of God. He
minds of other men upon Him, and this very
Soncentration Of their own mind, upon Him
Els MIND ! pf H. s sasHess COD. he fsf thinks ha'P his s savioar
Christ and His good life and heroic death have
only helped him to eoncentrote his mind and
moves them. What takes place when tho spir.
own spirit has shed the mind and stand; out
alone a beautiful, pure, and sublime conscious
ness, echoing to the voice OF that greater intel
breath Of flowers, and felt in the glad hand Of
along with Buddha, Krlshna, and other great
sage5, for we know that such O sublimely un-
s eliza lifs as His must serve to concentrate our
Yes, Christ, was a great spirit and yogi. Ho
healed the sick, opened the eyes Of the blind,
the. secret thoughts OF His disciples. know ex.
actly what Judas was going to do. but there
was nothing supernatural In Himanothins
through the Vedanta philosophy. Without We.
preciated. Material science which now SCOTS
through vedantn, No devout Christian need
undermine tho work Of Christ, for vedanta is
here to sustain Him.. It was here before He was
tian will become a real Christian. q genuine
Christ. 1t is through Nedanta that we Hin
dus know how to glorify Christ, and 1t is through
such men as Krishna and Buddha. for as we
learn to realize the soul in ourselves, we learn
the world; Sin is only another name for igno-
rance, and punishment and reward are nothing
hut reactions Of our action. Realize your
spIFlt soul and connect 1t with the great '0Smi'
The Swami was asked why, Christ did not
tel his disciples ana Others how to- practice
the universal soul. II He were a yogi.
No one can say that he ever praeticed yoga.
"stiii,e when a person Is enjoined to love, 20
pray, to mediate and tx his mind on saliva
a siSf' AGAIN he Is re en}sstnpe sa'1 his fo ySgS; Christ To r sts ssits
these yogas. It all simply amounts, to the re.
suit that is able to separate his soul from his
the bondage of matter. Very intense love
amounts to very intense concentration of the
s %'1d process Sn s0. sUon 0s Ssras OUT If t hi t GS,i imp is eo be
sires Of the mind, the soul shines through the
mind, the universal self shines through a man
as a pure white light shines through a clear
glass. Love comes through mental concentra-
ton, and 1t is by mental concentration that the
consciousness in US is subtracted from the
mind. But Christ was a man Of wonderful
psychic powers, as has already been shown.
A the great spiri ual leaders and all the
great g%eniuscs have to q certain extent been
yogts, and many of them without knowing the
fact. From what | have heard, / believe your
own great President Lincoln was to a consider.
able extent a yogi. He acted very much at
times like an inspired man. and has been called
so. He must have known how to commune
with the cosnic spirit. And SO there have been
many others. and 30 many of US can become
to-day with practice"