The text below was taken from the pages of the book “Ídolos ou Ideal?” by Huberto Rohden, which is a collection of random thoughts about God, Man, the Universe. It is a world of heterogeneous writings, multiform and multicoloured fragments of all kinds, without a logical sequence, which can be opened on any page and savoured the message, simple, easy, without erudite pretensions ... but of profound wisdom!
The title and content of this book place us in an existential impasse, answering the question: are we going to worship idols or an ideal? The idol can become extinct ... an ephemeral figure, which can and must be replaced ... while the ideal is concrete and eternalized; materializing at the end of the journey in self-realization for a man without an ideal does not live, just wanders around in a world created by the illusions of his mental, physical and emotional ego. To the man was given the chance to develop from his potentialities, a greater one, because despite being complete, he is a work in progress, unfinished business to become a better version of himself; free to sow according to his free will, however, obliged to reap what he sowed. The choice is everyone's responsibility. This is the Cosmic Law that governs the harmony of the Universe.
“Yesterday, September 3, 1950, between 4 and 5 pm, when I was sitting in the woods reading Paramahansa Yogananda's “Autobiography of a Yogi”, just in the chapter where the author talks about the brilliant mystical scientist Luther Burbank, they came flying around me, suddenly, three house wrens amid an extraordinary party of calls, songs and flapping wings, when there was no other bird in the vicinity, and to my greatest surprise, one of they came to land softly on my left knee, looking at me seeming to be reading my thoughts, while the other two were perched on the nearby fence.
Why such friendship, freedom and confidence? Is it because I was immersed in that chapter about a mystic who talked to nature, like Francis of Assisi and found myself enveloped in auras of cosmic sympathy? ...
When a man lives in God, all creatures, who also live in God, fraternize with him in communion. The hostility created by the Luciferlike intellect disappears and the friendship which arises from the Christlike reason appears; all distant transcendences merge into close immanence ...
The dualism of separation disappears, and cosmic monism awakens ... the Universe and I are one ...
Often, at night, while reading, little moths dressed in white silk, which I call “little brides”, come to dance on the book’s pages; they rest on it remaining quiet, static, vibrating only the tiny antennae. The light places them in a kind of divine ecstasy, and they, mystically intoxicated with it, feel themselves in the “third heaven”. I talk to the delicate little creatures with the silky outfit, giving them my message to the Father of all light, life and love ...
That's what I also did with the three house wrens.”
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“Autobiography of a Yogi”, by Paramahansa Yogananda ... a great book written by a great spirit!
At the centre of a fragmented world constantly hurt by wars and divisions, controversies, political ideologies, different churches, luxury and lust, cowardice, mediocrities, lies and greed, extreme inversion of values, simple and practical intellectual scholarship, and abandonment of spiritual experience appears a book which shows a different perspective to man. The careful reading of it will leave permanent effects on the reader’s soul who seeks the raison d'être of its existence. It is not only daily bread that plays an important role in the perpetuation of life but without searching for the divine root that inspires this existence, the human journey becomes insipid and worthless. Just as the fire leaves indelible scars on the burned skin, so is this book by Yogananda - incomparable and restorative - which leaves its indelible mark on the “thirsty men”, of whom all the sacred scriptures speak.
From his autobiography and many other books written by this mystic Hindu, the inevitable “mystical experience of the first commandment along with the ethical living of the second” will awake in man.
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