' The poor gods
were at their wits' end what to do. After a time they decided to come
now and again and slay one of the little pigs and then another, until
they had slain all the pigs and the sow, too. When all were dead Indra
began to weep and mourn. Then the gods ripped his pig body open and he
come out of it, and began to laugh. What a hideous dream he had had. He,
the king of gods, to have become a pig and to think that pig life was
the only life. Not only so but to have wanted the whole universe to come
into the pig life.

[Footnote 2: Vivekananda in Raja Voga.]

"The soul when it identifies itself with nature forgets that it is pure
and Infinite. The soul does not live, it is life itself. It does not
exist, it is existence itself. The soul does not know, it is knowledge
itself. It is an entire mistake to say the soul lives, or knows, or
loves. Love and existence are not the qualities of the soul, but its
essence. When they get reflected on that something you may call them the
qualities of that something. Remember what you read in Hindu philosophy,
that the finer body, and what is called in Christian theology the
spiritual body, is not the soul. The soul is beyond them all. It is this
soul which is Divine.

"Now let us follow out this thought that all of you are Divine and that
each one of you looks upon himself as being Divine, and that you look
upon all others as being Divine also. What is the result? Let's see. The
Divine nature is one of love, one of purity, one of justice, one of
harmony, one of peace. As a Divine being you are looking within for all
your happiness and are not dependent on things outside of yourself to
make you happy. As a Divine being you are not grasping and wanting
things that don't belong to you, and making yourself and others
miserable by wishing you were where you cannot go, or you want things
you cannot have. As a Divine being your conduct towards others under all
circumstances is one of love. Therefore you are not stirring up
contentions and strifes and you are trying, as far as possible, to make
those around you happy, and are yourself striving to be the same under
all circumstances. All things which disturb you keep you from realizing
the Divine. Therefore you have control over your temper and are
manifesting peace and harmony. As you are Divine, you should do your
work in the world without attachment to things of the world. You should
not be owned by the external world, for all f