A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

""336 GOD IN EVERYTHING.heart the mouth speaketh,"and out of the fulness of theheartthe hand works too.It is thought which is the propelling force in us. tfillthe mind with the highest thoughts, hear them day afterday,think of them month after month. Never mind failures,they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, thesefailures. What would life be without these failures ? Itwould not be worth havingif it were not for th# struggle.Where would be the poetry of life ? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it isa cow never a man. So never mind these failures, theselittle backsliding*, have the ideal a thousand times, and ifyou fail a thousand times make the attempt once more.This is the ideal of a man to see God in everything. If youcannot see Him in everything see Him in one, in that thingwhich you like best, and then see Him in another. So onyou can go. There is infinite life before the soul. Takeyour time and you will achieve your desire.He that One who vibrates quicker than mind, attainsto more speed than mind can ever attain, to whom even thegods attain not or thought grasps.moves. He is also standingHe moving everythingstill. In Him this all exists. Heis moving, He also is the immoveable. He is near and Heis far. He is inside everything. He is the outside of everything, interpenetrating everything. Whoever sees in everybeing that same Atman, and whoever sees everything inthat Atman, he never goes far from that Atman. Whenall life and the whole Universe are seen in this Atman,then he also has attained the secret. There is no moredelusion for him. Where isany more misery for him whosees this Oneness in the Universe ?That is another great theme of the Vedanta, this Oneness of life, Oneness of everything. We will see how it