Parables of Rama

by Swami Rama Tirtha | 102,836 words

Stories in English used by Swami Rama to illustrate the highest teaching of Vedanta. The most difficult and intricate problems of philosophy and abstract truths, which may very well tax the brains of the most intellectual, are thus made not only simple and easy to understand but also brought home to us in a concrete form in such an interesting and ...

Story 65 - The Middle Stage of Love, "I am Thine"

The Angelic Face in the Museum of Naples

In a grand museum in Naples, there is a beautiful angelic face on the roof, and at whatever part of the museum you may happen to be, whatever part you may happen to visit, you may go to the roof, you may go to the basement, wherever you may be, the bright, dazzling, pure eyes of the angel look you straight in the eyes.

People who are in the middle state of spiritual development, if true to themselves, live constantly under the eye of the Master. They feel and realize that where ever they may go, in the innermost chamber of the house, in the most secluded caves of the forest, they find themselves under the eyes of God, seen by Him, fed by light, nourished by His grace.

MORAL: The middle stage of love is that in which God's presence is felt and realized everywhere.

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