| y Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting | | | | There have been omniscient men, and, I believe, there |
| anywhere in a corner waiting for him? It was in his | | | | will be yet; and that there will be myriads of them in the |
| own mind; the time came and he found it out. All | | | | cycles to come. |
| knowledge that the world has ever received comes | | | | Like fire in a piece of flint,knowledge exists in the mind; |
| from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in | | | | suggestion is the friction which brings it out. So with all |
| your own mind. The external world is simply the | | | | our feelings and actions -- our tears and our smiles, our |
| suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your | | | | joys and our griefs, our weeping and our laughter, our |
| own mind, but the object of your study is always your | | | | curses and our blessings, our praises and our blames -- |
| own mind. The falling of an apple gave the suggestion | | | | every one of these we may find, if we calmly study |
| to Newton, and he studied his own mind. He | | | | our own selves, to have been brought out from within |
| rearranged all the previous links of thought in his mind | | | | ourselves by so many blows. The result is what we |
| and discovered a new link among them, which we call | | | | are. All these blows taken together are called Karma |
| the law of gravitation. It was not in the apple nor in | | | | -- work, action. |
| anything in the centre of the earth. | | | | Every mental and physical blow that is given to the |
| All knowledge, therefore,secular or spiritual,is in the | | | | soul, by which, as it were, fire is struck from it, and by |
| human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but | | | | which its own power and knowledge are discovered, |
| remains covered, and when the covering is being | | | | is Karma, this word being used in its widest sense. |
| slowly taken off, we say, "We are learning," and the | | | | Thus we are all doing Karma all the time. I am talking to |
| advance of knowledge is made by the advance of | | | | you: that is Karma. You are listening: that is Karma. We |
| this process of uncovering. The man from whom this | | | | breathe: that is Karma. We walk: Karma. Everything |
| veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man | | | | we do, physical or mental, is Karma, and it leaves its |
| upon whom it lies thick is ignorant,and the man from | | | | marks on us. |
| whom it has entirely gone is all- knowing, omniscient. | | | | |