Cosmic Flashes

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Item Code: IDG918
Author: S.P. Ruhela
Publisher: Regency Publications
Edition: 1998
ISBN: 8186030735
Pages: 156
Cover: Paperback
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The present book was written by Sri Swami Omkar in 1950 during a fast which lasted for 40 days.

Swami Omkar is mystic. I do not now wish to discuss the value and validity of mystic consciousness. But I must point out that swami Omkar's mysticism is virile and rationalistic-to the extent mysticism could be rationalistic. He does not claim to have had any peculiar visions or weird dreams. He of course, has realized the unity of the whole world in the one things Real the Spirit. He has no attachment of any sort to dogmas and creeds, nor is his love and friendship limited to one country or nation. His is a global view- a view which embraces Man as such. In like way he worships God- not the God Revealed in this religion or that but God who is claimed to be revealed in every religion, but who is fully and perfectly revealed in none.

Prof. K. Satchidanandamurty
Dept. of Philosophy, Andhra University, Waltair

Introduction

The following pages were written by Sri Swami Omkar in 1950 during a fast which lasted for 40 days.

Swami Omkar is a mystic, I do not now wish to discuss the value and validity of mystic consciousness. But I must point out that swami Omkar's mysticism is virile and rationalistic-to the extent mysticism could be rationalistic. He does not claim to have had any peculiar visions or weird dreams. He of course, has realized the unity of the whole world in the one things Real the Spirit. He has no attachment of any sort to dogmas and creeds, nor is his love and friendship limited to one country or nation. His is a global view- a view which embraces Man as such. In like way he worships God- not the God Revealed in this religion or that but God who is claimed to be revealed in every religion, but who is fully and perfectly revealed in none.

Obviously those who are imprisoned within their own parochial grooves mistake him. The Jews of his day excommunicated Spinoza. And when Hegelian theologians like Troeltsch declared that Christainity is not the absolute religion, critics were not wanting. I am sure followers of other religions also would react in the same way, if they are told that their scriptures too do not contain the last word of wisdom. This is inevitable. If one wants to rally a following and command an influence, he must take shelter under a banner, adopt a slogan and then sound the drum. Brave as he is to the core, Swami Omkar refuses to become a slave of anybody or any "ism". He stands by himself and that only in Truth for him, which he has discovered or which he has assimilated. He is literally atmani sthithah. It is for this I admire him and it is this in his admirable personality that has attracted me.

I have been intimate with many religious men both Christian and Hindu. But no where do I find freedom form servility to a particular tradition and dogma. It is all right if one has entered into the tradition-whether it is Biblical or Vedic-and understood and appropriated the truth it contains. But that is lacking. Often one adopts Advaita because Sankara taught it and one hails Realism because Saint Aquinas advocated it. But have we no duty to understand and rationally assimilate what Sankara and Aquinas said and ought we not reject whatever refuses to be rationally assimilated? Intellectual integrity, I am sure, must have a place everywhere including religion. In Swami Omkar I find this.

Many in India and overseas know Swami Omkar. He has extensively traveled in Europe and America. His Ashramas at Totapalli and Waltair are famous. For over three decades his Ashrama has toiled for the spread of the concepts of Human brotherhood and peace among all nations. Through talks and writings, through Pamphlets and journals he has done this. Some branches of his Ashram have been opened on the other side of the Atlantic and also in the land of Goethe and Hegel. All this is good but the results are not spectacular. That is as it must be; for the labourers are few and the vineyard is so unwieldy and weedy.

And now about this book: I must say I find it wonderful. Made up of one hundred and eight chapters, it presents to us as many meditations. It is something like Pascel's Pensees. No doubt we miss that splendid literary elegance and also that razor-edged keenness of the great Frenchman. But can that Janenist Catholic thinker claim as much width and as much real Catholicity as Sri Swami Omkar shows in this brief but memorable book?

I aver that the following pages are full of sustaining inspiration and deep meaning.

Prof. K. Satchidanandamurty
Dept. of Philosophy, Andhra University
Waltair

About the Author

Prof. S.P. Ruhela is an eminent sociologist of education, he holds the degrees of M.A. (Sociology), PhD (Sociology), D.Litt. (Sociology) and M.Ed. and has also Certificate in commonwealth Education. He has contributed more than 30 books and over 100 papers and articles. He has been head and Dean of Education at the Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Presently, he is Professor of Education in the Institute of Advanced studies in Education in the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

CONTENTS
Foreword to First Edition v
Editor's Note vii
Introduction ix
SECTION I /td>
I Nameless Realm of Bliss 3
II National Code of Conduct for the Citizens of India 7
III The Spiritual Philosophy of Sri Swami Omkar 10
IV Significance of Swami Omkar's Peace Prayer 27
SECTION II
1 Inhale and Exhale peace 33
2 Religion and life are one 35
3 Existence, Knowledge and Bliss Absolute 36
4 Delusion of the Snake and Rope 37
5 All is God 38
6 Sunday, the Day of Sunshine 39
7 Freedom from Foreign Matter 40
8 Charge your Battery with God-Hood 41
9 Cosmic consciousness 42
10 Let the Sun of Suns Dispel the Clouds 43
11 Come out the Cage of Body 44
12 The whole world in imagination 45
13 The Richest Treasure-Myself 46
14 You are Eternally in God 47
15 Vitality of Three Kinds 48
16 Self is Witness of All 49
17 Thoughts are the Rays of the Sun of suns 50
18 No Forgetfulness in god 51
19 Individual Samadhi is Selfish 52
20 Breath is the String of Life 53
21 Nothing Can be Added to or taken from Completeness 54
22 Holy Breath Destroys the Ego 55
23 Certain things you have to do yourself 56
24 The one Universal Energy 57
25 The soul is Above Thought 58
26 A thousand mile journey starts with the First step 59
27 As last Sahaja Samadhi-God Consciousness 60
28 The Atman is the ocean 61
29 The indivisible Breath 62
30 Out of the Depths fresh Strength 63
31 Egoism 64
32 All the world is Brahman 65
33 You are the Intelligence 66
34 Amidst the Clouds of Stumbling Blocks 67
35 Be Sweet 68
36 The Present Moment 69
37 Love is the Unfailing Remedy 70
38 Impossible to forget god 71
39 The Lower and the higher self 72
40 The presence is above forgetfulness 73
41 Let the Centre be within 74
42 The Cause is within 75
43 Be Natural 76
44 No more Forgetfulness 77
45 In the World of God-Consciousness 78
46 God-Realization now and Here 79
47 Religion is Realization of Cheerfulness 80
48 The restless child 81
49 Behold the one in thought 83
50 Void can make and unmake 84
51 The vision of Completeness 85
52 Why don't you laugh when Troubles come? 86
53 Pray for stronger shoulders 87
54 Peace is within 89
55 Feeling the Presence 90
56 Infinite in the Finite 91
57 Moments of Elevation and Depression 92
58 Work Drives Away all worry 94
59 Happiness is in Union with God 95
60 The Real Adjustment is within 96
61 Man is a lion, by nature 97
62 Imagination a mere Reed 98
63 Afraid of Shadows 99
64 Good Luck 100
65 Make the Blessed Moment Permanent 101
66 I cannot Forget My Self 102
67 Vision Universal 103
68 Light is Free of Finite Plans 104
69 Good Friday-The Singing Birds 105
70 Blessed Easter 106
71 God has no other Body on Earth Except Yours 107
72 The Risen Christ 108
73 Love God for the Sake of Love 109
74 Be above praise and Blame 110
75 Love God Selflessly 111
76 All comes from within 112
77 Every moment is Precious 113
78 Easter Sunday 114
79 Do not Complain 115
80 Silence is Gold and speech is Silver 116
81 Self Reliance 117
82 He who Admits Defeat, is Beaten 118
83 Sunrise From Within 119
84 Oneness with Nature 120
85 Who is the Richest Man 121
86 The Fast is Complete 122
87 Exaggeration 123
88 History Repeats itself 124
89 God alone never Disappoints 126
90 Infinite Power in within You 127
91 I am the Richest Man 128
92 Quarrel of Birds with ocean 130
93 The Power of Thought 132
94 The little Tempest 134
95 Lemon Tree 135
96 Attachment of infinite Objects 136
97 The Two Sacred Birds 137
98 God is Both Active and Inactive 138
99 My thunders and Lightning 140
100 Messages from the Totapalli Hermitage 141
101 Face the God Even in the Ugly 142
102 Who is your Best Friend 143
103 Keep the upper Hand in doing Good 144
104 The path of truth is Rugged 145
105 Story of the Bleeding Frog 146
106 What is it you want 148
107 You are the Friend of yourself 149
108 Somebody 150
Somebody 151
Glossary 152
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