Inspired Talks: Friday, July 5

(RECORDED BY MISS S. E. WALDO, A DISCIPLE)

Until you are ready to change any minute, you can never see the truth; but you must hold fast and be steady in the search for truth. …

Chārvākas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists. They have died out now, and most of their books are lost. They claimed that the soul, being the product of the body and its forces, died with it; that there was no proof of its further existence. They denied inferential knowledge accepting only perception by the senses.

Samādhi is when the Divine and human are in one, or it is “bringing sameness”. …

Materialism says, the voice of freedom is a delusion. Idealism says, the voice that tells of bondage is delusion. Vedānta says, you are free and not free at the same time—never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual.

Be beyond both freedom and bondage.

We are Shiva, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses.

Infinite power is at the back of everyone; pray to Mother, and it will come to you.

“O Mother, giver of Vāk (eloquence), Thou self-existent, come as the Vāk upon my lips,” (Hindu invocation).

“That Mother whose voice is in the thunder, come Thou in me! Kāli, Thou time eternal, Thou force irresistible, Shakti, Power!”