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Spiritual Conversations with Swami Shankarananda Swami Tejasananda English Translation by Swami Satyapriyananda (Continued from the Previous Issue) 2 THE ROAD TO WISDOM Swami Vivekananda on Significance of Symbols—III n the heart of all these ritualisms, there Istands one idea prominent above all the rest—the worship of a name. Those of you who have studied the older forms of Christianity, those of you who have studied the other religions of the world, perhaps have marked that there is this idea with them all, the worship of a name. A name is said to be very sacred. In the Bible we read that the holy name of God was considered sacred beyond compare, holy consciously or unconsciously, man found beyond everything. It was the holiest of all the glory of names. names, and it was thought that this very Again, we find that in many different Word was God. This is quite true. What is religions, holy personages have been this universe but name and form? Can you worshipped. They worship Krishna, they think without words? Word and thought worship Buddha, they worship Jesus, and so are inseparable. Try if anyone of you can forth. Then, there is the worship of saints; separate them. Whenever you think, you hundreds of them have been worshipped all are doing so through word forms. The one over the world, and why not? The vibration brings the other; thought brings the word, of light is everywhere. The owl sees it in the and the word brings the thought. Thus the dark. That shows it is there, though man whole universe is, as it were, the external cannot see it. To man, that vibration is only symbol of God, and behind that stands visible in the lamp, in the sun, in the moon, His grand name. Each particular body is etc. God is omnipresent, He is manifesting a form, and behind that particular body Himself in every being; but for men, He is is its name. As soon as you think of our only visible, recognisable, in man. When friend So-and-so, there comes the idea of His light, His presence, His spirit, shines his body, and as soon as you think of your through the human face, then and then friend’s body, you get the idea of his name. alone, can man understand Him. Thus, man This is in the constitution of man. That is has been worshipping God through men all to say, psychologically, in the mind-stuff of the time, and must do so as long as he is a man, there cannot come the idea of name man. He may cry against it, struggle against without the idea of form, and there cannot it, but as soon as he attempts to realise God, come the idea of form without the idea of he will find the constitutional necessity of name. They are inseparable; they are the thinking of God as a man. external and the internal sides of the same wave. As such, names have been exalted rom The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, and worshipped all over the world— F(Kolkata: Advaita Ashrama, 2016), 2.41-2. Vol. 125, No. 9 RABUDDHA 3 September 2020 P HARATA B or AWAKENED INDIA A monthly journal of the Ramakrishna Order Managing Editor started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896 Swami Shuddhidananda Editor Swami Vireshananda Contents Associate Editor and Design Swami Shantachittananda Traditional Wisdom 631 This Month 632 Production Editor Swami Chidekananda Editorial: Advaita Bhakti—Is It Possible? 633 Cover Design Spiritual Talks 638 Subhabrata Chandra Notes and Comments: Imagining the World 640 Internet Edition Coordination after ovidC Swami Jnanishananda Sri Ramakrishna’s Dynamism 641 Circulation Swami Gambhirananda Indrajit Sinha ‘My Place is in the Himalayas’— 644 Tapas Jana Conservation Project at Mayavati Editorial Office Kiran Kalamdani Prabuddha Bharata Introduction to Tattvānusandhānam, 651 Advaita Ashrama PO Mayavati, Via Lohaghat an Advaitic Text Dt Champawat · 262 524 Dr Sita Sundar Ram Uttarakhand, India ‘भवत्啃 ते गानमे्ं गीयतेऽद्य मयाु गरो’ 658 Tel: 91 · 96909 98179 ‘A Song I Sing to Thee!’ (Whatsapp call only) [email protected] Dr K V Vasudevan Reminiscences and Reflections: 663 Printed and Published by Memoirs of Swami Vireshwarananda Swami Vedavratananda Swami Sukhatmananda Publication Office Swami Vivekananda and Louisville 664 Advaita Ashrama 5 Dehi Entally Road Meera Alagaraja Kolkata · 700 014 Prabuddha Bharata—125 Years Ago 669 West Bengal, India Traditional Tales: Savitri-Satyavan 670 Tel: 91 · 33 · 2289 0898 / 2286 6450 [email protected] Reviews 673 Internet Edition Manana 676 www.advaitaashrama.org Reports 677 —No bleed here— 4 Subscribe to Prabuddha Bharata 5 Become a Patron Subscriber and support the rich legacy left to all of us by Swami Vivekananda; patrons’ names are published in Prabuddha Bharata. 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