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7) Religion and Ethics : ......................... This is the second part VIRTUE is that which tends to our IMPROVEMENT, and VICE to our DEGENERATION. Man is made up of three qualities- brutal, human, and godly. That which tends to increase the divinity in you is virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice. You must kill the brutal nature and become human, that is, loving and charitable. You must transcend that too and become pure bliss, SATCHIDANANDA, fire without burning, wonderfully loving, but without the weakness of human love, without the feeling of misery. ............................................................................... Unselfishness is GOD. One may live on a throne; in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world. ............................................................................... In one word, the ideal of vedanta is to know man as he really is, and this is its message, that if you cannot worship your brother man, the MANIFESTED GOD, how can you worship a GOD who is UNMANIFESTED? ................................................................................ If you are really PURE, how do you see the IMPURE? For what is WITHIN, is WITHOUT. We cannot see impurity without having it inside ourselves. This is one of the practical sides of vedanta, and I hope that we shall all try to carry it into our lives. ................................................................................ The secret of religion lies not in theories but in PRACTICE. To be good and do good-that is the whole of religion. `not he that crieth "Lord", "Lord", but he that doeth the will of the father? .............................................................................. If you have any suggestions please reply with an e-mail to singanallur@mbcl.rutgers.edu. with love Jaishankar
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