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Часть текста: only call this One by different names. Veddas. God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him. 1 Ep. John. Chap. 4. God is one Whole; we are the parts. Exposition of the teaching of the Veddas by Vivekananda. I Do not seek rest in that plane where the earthly gives birth to thoughts and desires, for if thou dost, thou wilt be dragged through the rough wilderness of life, which is not of Me. Whenever thou feelest that thy feet are becoming entangled in the interlaced roots of life, know then that thou hast strayed from the path to which I beckon thee, for I have placed thee in broad smooth paths which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light before thee, which thou can’st follow and thus run without stumbling. Krishna P. 212. I received your letter and the two issues of the magazine. Both were intensely interesting to me; indeed, the oppression of a majority by the minority of a people and the corruption which flows from it, is a phenomenon which has always occupied my mind and at present is entirely occupying my attention. I will endeavour to convey to you what I think, both in a particular and a general way, about those causes from which those dreadful calamities have arisen and do arise, of which you write in your letter and which are also mentioned in...

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Часть текста: in man, and that Love, which is God and therefore infinite, being enclosed in man, tends to expand itself, and that is the motion of life, which we feel in ourselves, and that the unique means for Love to manifest itself and to expand is Truth. Falsehood, and especially falsehood against oneself, hinders Love to manifest itself and to expand. Therefore truth is so necessary and is the first of our duties; therefore also all the so often hypocritically used admonitions to love one’s neighbour are false and vain. Love is God and God is infinite, and man cannot augment God. All what a man can and must do, is to put aside all hindrances for the manifestation of God, i. e. Love, which is in him. And there is only one thing, that hinders this manifestation: that is falsehood. And not to think and to speak lies, when a man knows, that what he thinks and what he says is not true, is in the power of man. Therefore the first duty of man, who wishes to live a real life, is to be truthful in thoughts, words and deeds. And to this every man can tend and attain this «but». To be truthful in reference to your article, I must say, that I expected it stronger and shorter, especially the first part. You can write much better. You notice, that I always criticize your writings, it is because I love and esteem you and feel myself obliged to be so strict and severe in my judgements of you, as I try to be on myself. I hope, that notwithstanding my bad English and my faults you will understand, what I wished to say. My article on Vanderveer has been published in French Journal des Débats, I hope, that that shall not be an obstacle for the English...

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Часть текста: П. 7 Oct. 1909. I have just received your most interesting letter which has given me great pleasure. God helps our dear brothers and coworkers in the Transvaal. That some strugle of the tender against the harsh, of meekness and love against pride and violence, is every year making itself more and more felt here among us also, especially, in one of the very sharpest of the conflicts of the religious law with the wordly laws — in refusals of military service. Such refusals are becoming ever more and more frequent. The letter to a Hindu was written by me, 1 and the translation is a very good one. The title of the book about Krishna shall bo sent you from Moscow. 2 As to the word reincarnation, 3 I should not myself like to omit it, for, in my opinion, belief in reincarnation can never be as firm as belief in the soul's immortality and in God's justice and love. You may, however, do as you like about omitting it. The translation into, and circulation of my letter in the Hindoo language, can only be a pleasure for me. A competition, 4 i. e. an offer of a monetary inducement, in connection with a religious matter, would, I think, be out of place. If I can assist your publication, I shall be very glad. 5 I greet you fraternally, and am glad to have intercourse with you. [7 окт. 1909.] Сейчас получил ваше в высшей степени и интересное и доставившее мне большую радость письмо. Помогай бог нашим дорогим братьям и сотрудникам в Трансваале. Та же борьба мягкого против жесткого, смирения и...

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Часть текста: and Bouddism and have the greatest respect for the religious and metaphysical principles of those doctrines, which are the same as the fundamental principles of Christianity. There is only one religion which manifests itself by different sides to different nations, and should very much like to know the Japanese view of the fundamental religious principles. In European littеrature I could not find any vestige of it. If you can help me in this matter, if only by stating your religious views, I will be very thankful. By religious views I understand the answer to the chief and most important question for man, what is the meaning of the life that he is obliged to live. You speak in your letter of the Russian revolution and the reforms that are to be in Japan. I think that there is only one revolution and one reform impending everywhere in the world: it is the destruction of not only all great states, but of all kind of states, the liberation of men from obedience to human power. I have written a book about it (the last) which has for title «The end of the age». It has been translated into english 3 and I will ask my friend in England 4 to send you a copy, but may be you can get one in your libraries. Please let me have your opinion on the ideas expressed in that book. I thank you heartily for your letter, your books and your sympathy to me. Give please my regards to your wife and ask her, if it is not presuming too much, to write me, if it is possible in a few words her religious belief: what does she live for and what is the highest...

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Часть текста: backed by menaces of war. And I think that armaments and menaces of war are as bad as war itself. Therefore I am very sorry not to be able to comply with your wishes. Считаю, что добрые услуги Америки могут <быть получены лишь в виде угроз> состоять <в войне. Потому не могу исполнить вашего желания> в дипломатическом вмешательстве, поддержанном угрозами войны. А я считаю вооружение и угрозы войны <которые я считаю> столь же дурными, как и самую войну. Потому <не могу исполнить> очень сожалею, что не могу исполнить вашего желания. Примечания Печатается по тексту, опубликованному в газете «Курьер» 1900, № 131 от 12 мая. Телеграмма. Черновик печатается по автографу, написанному на обороте телеграммы американскаго телеграфнаго агентства «American Cable News», хранящейся в АТБ. Датируется по времени получения этой телеграммы: 27 апреля 1900 г. Черновик публикуется впервые. Ответ на телеграфный запрос американскаго телеграфнаго агентства от 27? апреля 1900 г. (оплачен ответ в 30 слов): » «Boer delegates reach New York Saturday, fully believe that sympathetic message from prominent personages expressing good wishes will materially assist boer delegates in securing America’s good offices. Will you kindly forward strongest expressions possible which shall be immediately presented[to] delegates on arrival in America. Reply American Cable News 5 New Bridge Street, London» [«Бурские делегаты прибудут в Нью-Йорк в субботу. Твердо уверены, что сочувственный привет от выдающихся лиц с выражением добрых пожеланий существенно поможет бурским делегатам заручиться добрыми услугами Америки. Не будете ли любезны высказаться в возможно сильных выражениях, которые будут переданы делегатам немедленно по их приезде в Америку. Отвечайте [американскому телеграфному агентству]...

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Часть текста: great pleasure and profit some of them. The non-resistant catechism I have translated and will circulate it among our friends. It is remarkably well put in such a compacte, form the chief truths of our faith. What are your relations to the declaration of sentiments of the non-resistance society started by Garrison? 2 Were you a member of it at the time? I quite agree with you that Christianity will never enter its promised land till the divine truth of the non-resistance principle shall be recognized, but not the nominal church will recognize it. I am fully convinced that the churches are and have always been the worst enemies of Christ’s work. They have always led humanity not in the way of Christ, but out of it. I think that all we can say and wish about church is to try to be a member of Christ’s church, but we never can define the church itself, its limits, and affirm, that we are members of the sole, true church. With true brotherly love and highest respect, I remain your friend and brother Leo Tolstoy. Дорогой друг и брат, я редко испытывал такое истинное и большое удовольствие, как при чтении вашего истинно братского и христианского письма. Очень благодарю вас за книги и брошюры, которые вы мне прислали. 1 Я получил их благополучно и некоторые из них прочел с большим удовольствием и пользой. Катехизис непротивляющихся я перевел и буду распространять его среди наших друзей. В нем замечательно хорошо изложены в такой...

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Часть текста: organization of communities seems to such a man the only means of delivering himself from these contradictions. But this is an illusion. Every community is a small island in the mist of an ocean of unchristian conditions of life, so that the christian relations exist only between members of the colony but outside that must remain unchristian, otherwise the colony would not exist for a moment. And therefore to live in community cannot save a christian from the contradiction between his conscience and his life. I do not mean to say that I do not approve of communities such as your commonwealth, or that I do not think them to be a good thing. On the contrary, I approve of them with all my heart and am very interested in your commonwealth and wish it the greatest success. I think that every man who can free himself from the conditions of wordly life without breaking the ties of love — love the main principle in the name of which he seeks new forms of life — I think such a man not only must, but naturally join people who have the same beliefs and who try to live up to them. If I were free I would immediately even at my age join such a colony. I only wished to say that the mere forming of communities is not a solution for the christian problem, but is only one of the means of its solution. The revolution that is going on for the attainment of the christian ideal is so enormous, our life is so different from what it ought to be, that for the perfect success of this revolution, for the concordance of conscience and life, is needed the work of all men — men...

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Часть текста: he arranged a hostelry with comfortable rooms, good stoves, fuel, lighting, store-rooms full of every kind of provisions, vegetables and all sorts of refreshment, also beds, every kind of clothes, underwear and boots in such quantities as to suffice for a great quantity of people. Having arranged all this the benefactor wrate very distingly a direction how to use his hostelry and all the thing that where gathered in it. This decretion the benefactor nailed on the entrance door so that every man should see it. In the direction it was writen that every man who entered the hostelry might stay in it as long as it was good for him and might eate and drink at his heart content and use all what was gathered in the inn clothes or boots or kind of provisions. The sole condition which was required from the travelers was that they schould take only what they needed presently and that they should help each other and leaving the hostelry made things tidy as before their arrival. Having arranged all this and written and hanged on the door this direction the benefactor himself retired. But it came to pass that when people came ent the hostelry...

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Часть текста: principles, voluntarily accepted by all. Such a state can be attained only by the development of true religion. By the words «true religion» I mean the fundamental principles of all religions which are 1) the consciousness of the divine essence of human soul and 2) respect for its manifestation — human life. Your religion is very old and very profound in its metaphysical definition of the relation of man to the spiritual All — the Atman; but I think it was maimed in its moral, i. e. practical application to life; by the existence of caste. This practical application to life, so far as I know, has been made only by Jainism, 1 Buddhism and some of your sects, such as Kabir Panchis 2 in which the fundamental principle is the sacredness of life and consequently the prohibition to take the life of any living being, especially of man. All the evils that you experience — the famine and chat is still more important, the depravement of your people by factory life — will last as long as your people consent to kill their fellowmen and to be soldiers (Sepoys). Parasites feed only on unclean bodies. Your people must try to be morally clean and in so far as they are clean from murder or readiness to do it they will be free from the regime under which they labour now. I quite agree with you thet you ought to be thankful for all that has been done by the English — for your well being — and should help them in all things tending to the civilization of your people; but you should not help the English in their government by force, and never on any account take service in an organisation based on violence. Therefore, I think, the duty of all civilized Indians is to try to destroy all old superstitions, which...

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Часть текста: secondly and chiefly, because in the Gospels this error is plainly pointed out and it is there definitely said (Math. VI), that one should not pray in public places, but in solitude, which is corroborated both by the reason and the experience of every man, who has ever sincerely prayed to God, as the assembly of people only distracts, makes one’s thoughts wander and diverts them. I think that Sunday rest and dedication of this day to spiritual exercise may take place in the most various forms. One may suggest, that men of the same spirit, meeting together on Sunday, should bring to their meeting such religious books or articles which they find in ancient and modern literature and read and discuss them together; one may suggest, that meeting together on Sunday men of the same spirit should arrange dinners for the poor and themselves serve those dinners; one may suggest, that meeting together men of the same spirit should confess their sins to each other and discuss them. In short one can think of a hundred different forms of worship, which should all have for their aim a mutual spiritual help and should not be mechanical, but sensible. 2) Do I believe in the resurrection and that there is a hereafter? I believe in true, i. e. indestructible life which Christ has disclosed to us and for the which death does not exist. But this life should in no-wise be understood as a resurrection to future life, as a hereafter. One cannot be too cautious in the use of terms for the definition of the true, indestructible, eternal life. If we were to say, that it will be a personal life, that we shall pass into other bodies or beings, as the Buddhists understand it in their metam-psychosis, we should be making a gratuitous assertion. If, on the other hand, we were to assert, that death destroys all that which composes our «ego», it would be a yet more gratuitous assertion altogether contrary to reason,...

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