Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30


his recent farewell reception speeches
of regret at departure were made. Rev
B. Fay Mills presided over the meet
ing.
In reply to a memorial presented the
Hindoo teacher by his friends, follow
ers and pupils, Baba Bharati said:
'If had not realized, by the grace OF
my spiritual guide, that it is God who
lives in us as our soul, which is oul
real self, and who alone is the teach
e. of spiritual lessons, and that
it is that very part of God in
the student that grasps the lessons; ii
I had not realized through twelve years
q: dscet:c meditation in India that the
real luster of mans worth is in what
he reflects of the God in him; If 1 had
not realized that all praise for human
achievement for the good of mankind
belongs only to the God-part of man, ]
would have been very proud indeed of
the unstinted appreciation which my
loving and beloved students have ac-
corded to me in the magnanimous ad-
dress Just read before you. AS it is, l
pass it on to my Lord, Krishna. my
Beloved, to whom alone it belongs,
while l accept for myself, with deep
gratitude, their magnanimity and love
by which it is inspired. 1 will treasure
this document next to my soul as pre-
cious testimony of appreciation of my
humble services to American souls.
will share that appreciation, however,
with other Hindoo teachers who pre-
ceded me and cleared the soil of Amer
lean mentality for my Lords work
through me. Great among these were
Protab, Chunder Mozoordar and Swami
1n in ma
lea, to which 1 bow. No less do 1 ap-
preciate the labors of the theosophical
leaders who familiarized the American
mind with Hindoo spiritual concepts be-
fore a single Hindoo lecturer stepped
upon your benign shores. Nevertheless,
l claim for my part of the services this
one fact, that have for the first time
presented to the American consciousness
pure ideals of Hindoo religious thought
in their own native dress, even as they
are followed in India today.
Believes in American Mind
'My efforts in these expositions have
been backed by my absolute belief in
their goodness and usefulness for the
American mind, belief further
strengthened by the support of the be-
liefs of all the illuminated saints of all
ages and of all climes. And the re-
wards of my labors. inspired by that
belief, have been startling. 1 have
found true what every sincere worker
for human good has said. that whatever
you say from the bottom of the heart
finds lodging in the hearts of those to
whom you say it; whatever you say
from out the depths of your soul can
not fail to enter into and find welcome
abode with other souls. Thus what
hitherto had been known in this land
as Hindoo superstitions 1 have been
able to demonstrate them to some ex-
tent to be founded upon luminous in
ner truths of life,
And coming to teach the Americans.
what knowledge I have been blessed
with! I have not only learned much
from them, but have stumbled upon
grand, new truths in trying to make my
views understandable to the American
mind: truths 1 did not know of in India.
But the grandest of them all consists in
the fact have disoovered that the hu-
man soul and intelligence are the same
the world over. 1 have found that alb
solute truths, when presented in their
own light through a clear grasp of
them, are absorbed, appreciated and as
simulated by all minds in whatever
flesh they may be encased, white or
black, brown or yellow.
Luxury of Spiritual Life
"My students have said in that ad-
dress that 1 have lived here life of
when luxury might have been
mine. I join issue with the latter part
of that statement I say 1 have lived
a life of luxury, sir, in this your blessed
land, life of greater luxury than all
the multimillionaires live. What greater,
richer luxury is there in life than the
luxury of living upon the highest spirit
ual thoughts-thoughts of God; God,
who is the embodiment of love, peace
and harmony, of bliss unbroken? Man
is nothing but his mind, his mind is
nothing but his thoughts. When his
thoughts are inharmonious he is I'M
happy, when they are harmonious he is
happy. Thoughts derived from material
means are harmonious and inharmoni-
Gus by turns, and so, even an emperor,
because his mind dwells mostly on ma
terial things, is happy and unhappy by
turns. But the mind that constantly
dwells on God, the home of absolute
harmony, is absolutely happy at all
times. My mind, sir, has dwelt upon
the thoughts of. God, by the grace of
my Gooroo, for the last seventeen years
l have come to your land from India s
blessed realms of renunciation; the lux
ury of the most luxurious thoughts
which I enjoyed for twelve years in In
dia, 1 have brought over and enjoyed
here. None can rob me of it, nothing
can cloud it. Fleecy clouds may have
hovered over it now and then-1eecy
clouds that are but the reflections of
the strenuous life of your community,
but they are gone the next moment,
leaving the sun of my soul shining as
brightly as ever, filling my conscious
Eess with a sense of comfort and a
world-large happiness not even dreamed
of by the man of world-large material
possessions.
Has Been Happy Here
''Yes, sir have lived that life of un-
broken happiness even in your land,
convulsed though that land is by the
din and noise of making the almighty
dollars, and this is the message l came
from the soul of the east to deliver to
you-the message that there is such
a thing as unbroken happiness, and
have discovered it, and that it can be
developed and enjoyed amidst the
earthquakes and cataclysms of material
surroundings, for the mind is within
you and the fountain Of that unbroken