The idea of God!!!!
Swami Vivekanada describes the idea of God as so,
What is death?What are the terrors?Do you not see the Lord's face in them?Fly from evil and terror and misery, and they will follow you. Face them and they will flee. The whole world worships ease and pleasure, and very few dare to worship that which is painful. To rise above both is the idea of freedom.Unless man passes through this gate he cannot be free. We all have to face these. We strive to worship the lord but the body rises between Him and us and blinds our vision.We must learn how to worship Him and love Him in the thunderbolt,in shame,in sorrow,in sin.All the world has ever been preaching the God of virtue. I preach a God of virtue and a God of sin in one. Take Him if you dare - that is the one way to salvation;then alone will come to us the Truth Ultimate which comes from the idea of oneness. Then will be lost the idea that one is greater than another. The nearer we approach the law of freedom,the more we shall come under the Lord, and troubles will vanish.Then we shall not differentiate the door of hell from the gate of heaven, nor differentiate between men and say,'I am greater than any being in the universe.' Until we see nothing in the world but the Lord Himself,all these evils will beset us and we shall make all these distinctions;because it is only in the Lord,in the spirit we are all one;and until we see God everywhere,this unity will not exist for us.
What is death?What are the terrors?Do you not see the Lord's face in them?Fly from evil and terror and misery, and they will follow you. Face them and they will flee. The whole world worships ease and pleasure, and very few dare to worship that which is painful. To rise above both is the idea of freedom.Unless man passes through this gate he cannot be free. We all have to face these. We strive to worship the lord but the body rises between Him and us and blinds our vision.We must learn how to worship Him and love Him in the thunderbolt,in shame,in sorrow,in sin.All the world has ever been preaching the God of virtue. I preach a God of virtue and a God of sin in one. Take Him if you dare - that is the one way to salvation;then alone will come to us the Truth Ultimate which comes from the idea of oneness. Then will be lost the idea that one is greater than another. The nearer we approach the law of freedom,the more we shall come under the Lord, and troubles will vanish.Then we shall not differentiate the door of hell from the gate of heaven, nor differentiate between men and say,'I am greater than any being in the universe.' Until we see nothing in the world but the Lord Himself,all these evils will beset us and we shall make all these distinctions;because it is only in the Lord,in the spirit we are all one;and until we see God everywhere,this unity will not exist for us.
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