Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-06
SENTIMENT IS
A HEART SALVE
so DECLARES THE APOSTLE
OF KRISHNA
5sbs 5hsratl Declares That the Benz
efsetor Of the Human Race Is the
Man Who soothes a Deep
Sorrow

Baba Bharati delivered a sermon last
night In the Temple Of the Krishna
home He took for his subject Fact
and Sentiment" He said in part.
I'm these degenerate DAYS of general
ignorance OF inner life, the word fact
is held In higher value than 'senti-
ment,' which. bv some Is assigned
almost no value from the viewpoint Of
practical life.
"Fact Is considered more valuable
because It is more useful. they say,
TO our daily life. while sentiment Is
considered almost akin to foolishness.
People now demand facts from an
author when reading his books, and
facts from a lecturer when listening
to his discussion Of any subject, mate
rial, metaphysical or spiritual.
They want facts, but facts of what?
Facts belong to all plnaes of conscious
ness. and facts of one plane of con-
sciousness differ from those of another
plane.
what does fact mean? It means
truth. What are called facts by the
generality of people are the truths of
the material world. Their conscious
ness dwells entirely on the material
plane. Hence they cognize the truths
of the material, matter-of fact world
things cognized by their matter-medi-
tatng mind. the experiences of their
physical senses.
Mind Is Consciousness
Sentiments are the facts of the
moral and spiritual planes of our con-
sciousness. They are greater truths,
more potent truths more useful truths
| than material truths. Even the truths
discovered by modern material science
are less valuable to our real life than
moral or spiritual truths which are
clothed in forms Of sentiment.
"The average man Is nothing but his
mind, and mans mind is nothing but
| its consciousness. That consciousness
lives upon sentiment entirely, not at
all on material facts, scientific or other.
Material facts serve only the mate
rial (physicaD encasement of his real
practical life-his minds conscious
ness.
| "Good food nourishes the physical
| body but the sentiment of its good
ness delight is enjoyed by the mind
1.-THE same is the case with the de-
| light of wearing good dress and of, the
possession of wealth-the mind alone
enjoys the delights in the form of SEN
| timents. But If the mind is unhappy
or disturbed through the sway of a
greater or more powerful sentiment,
such as grief on account of the loss of
one dearly loved, or on account of dis
appointment caused by unrequited love
or blasted hope, even material luxuries
and wealth are not enjoyed by the
mind.
Sympathy Works Wonders
Greater than the sentiments Of
grief and disappointment are soul
thrilling thoughts and sentiments
which lift the mind out of the mire
of material woes into the realms Of
peace and harmony which constitute
the essence of our greatest happiness.
Therefore, such uplifting moral and
spiritual sentiments are more potent
and useful, and. therefore. more valu-
able facts than the facts of material
| life. Contemplating the greatest dis
coveries of material science or the
surface laws of nature revealed by it
never can console the grief-stricken
heart; but one sincere. sympathetic or
soulful sentiment is capable of soothing
deep sorrow or taking away the pang
| from a disappointed heart.
"It is the man Of sentiment who has
been the best friend and benefactor of
| the world, greater friend and benefac-
tor to the real being of humanity than
the man who deals with material facts.
however prodigious his matter-fed
mind and brain.
Jesus Christ, the greatest man that
the Western world knows. was man
of sentiment. and from Jesus Christ
downward all friends and benefactors
of the western world have been men
of sentiment"