SOUL AFFINITIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14503, 21 April 1909, Page 2

SOUL AFFINITIES.

There was a large audience at the Victoria Nail on Sunday night to hear Sistc-r Avabamiu's lecture on "Soul AHiiiity." - The lecturer went into detail, relating the A'edatita views o„ the subject, and said that Yedauta neither believed in death nor parliii", but unity in all things. She said in part: ' \edanta. docs not recognise many .mds as other teachings might do, but it, teaches us that there is but one God, the author of all Umigs. Nor does Vedania recognise souls as purled from God, but all are one in Him. What are called many souls in other beliefs are to Vedanta one and the same soul (the oversold), and what liian regards as &. dillerent. thing is but the same thing in a dillerent expression. The higher sell in man is but the emanation from the great God, and not. a different, thin..saparafc from God. It, is Hie sumo power" Jute lect, and spirituality, which is expressed m dillerent forms, in different bein-s and that is the life, the will, of the God which some call Father, others call Mother, ele hut whatever He is called that, He is id that Minul, and wo iniisl; learn Unit; it is 1-lik same life from the great God-soul, and tins is the reason why it i s (he divine law that all shall strive to become like Him and wander onward towards Him, (he source ~f all things. Hid we Understand fins we shall not. become sad or lonely as we do, for it. is in our lonelv moments we ask if wo have soul affinities, where I hoy are, and when we shall meet them. We have parted ourselves in our own mind from the great whole, and we look upon the word soul like a being much like ourselves and we think that they are somewhere alone bv themselves (io many lost for ever)"; but when we. can see the truth in j|.- right |j fcr i l(; Wfi will see llwt there is but on great God-soul 11. all, Irani which all emanations of divine virtues springs, ami is expressed in various v=«ys in in;,,, i, m | { ] t i n „ s nmm \i n , 0 i(s quickened strength, and all work in unity live in unity love in unity, and there 'is ''one left behind, but till partake of I his lite and receive of it love, tenderness, and power in proportion as it is recognised bv the outer mind. You who long for love recognise Iho oneness with and in God ami there shall be nothing missing, but' votl will experience the completion wiH-„, yourself and you will soe "that everything i s affinity and hat we always have communion «ilb the whole, and we will realise that, W.„7 ,n ! " Ul °! a " ll,i,, W. ""'I I'""''" is blending rest and peace."