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MYSTICISM IN INDIA
If man wants at all to understand his place in nature and to be happy and progressing, he must aim at that physical, psychological and moral development which can enable him to pry into the depths of nature. He must observe, think and act; he must live, love and progress. His development must be simultaneous on all the three planes. The law of correspondence rules supreme in nature; and the physical corresponds as much to the mental, as both in their turn correspond to the moral. Unless man arrives at this stage of corresponding and simultaneous development on all the three planes, he is not able to understand the meaning and importance of his existence or existence in general ; nor even to grasp the idea of happiness or progress. To that man of high aim whose body, mind and soul act in correspondence, the higher, nay even all secrets of nature become revealed. He feels within himself, as everywhere, that universal life wherein there is no distinction, no sense of separateness, but therefore all bliss, unity and peace.
This peace is the peace of spiritual bliss (Moksha). The course of nature never ceases, action always compels even the peaceful to act; but the individual being already lost in the individual the all, there is nothing unpleasant to disturb. The peace of spiritual development is indescribable and so are its powers indescribably vast. As you go on forgetting yourself, just in the same proportion do spiritual peace and spiritual powers flow in towards you. When one consciously suppresses individuality by proper physical,
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