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FAITH AND SURRENDER
Divine, then this natural tendency to talk about Divine starts.
So that is the stage when you cease to exist for yourself and that is the beginning of your ‘Yatra’ in ‘Brahmanda’. Till that time there is no question of ‘Yatra’ at all. The concern for others starts not so much as concern out of pity for another but as a service to the Divine, as a Love to the Divine. That you know the Divine makes you to talk about the Divine rather than, the need for another man to know about the Divine. That is a ‘Yogi’ is a person who talks out of Love for the Divine about the Divine. A person who talks about the Divine to another person because he thinks that man is an ignorant fellow is what a ‘Vedantin’ is. That is the difference between a ‘vedantin’ and a ‘Yogi’. The ‘Yogi’ will never talk about God unless a stage comes where he says “yes I have felt Him”. That is the assurance with which Ramakrishna talked about it. That is the assurance with which we talk about it. Those of you who read Swamy Vivekananda’s literature a bit know that in the first instance Vivekananda asked “Tell me how do you know that you have seen God”? Then he says “you come near me” and he puts his hand on Vivekananda’s heart and then says “just keep quiet for
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