Jayita Bhattacharjee

 "Mandalas are a cosmos in miniature, the deep dance of impermanence. It is the deep mirror of the journey of transformation of the psyche."

"Mandala Exercises for Wholeness"...Excerpt

Shakti Advaita BY Ananda Lahari

 

The supreme master of logic, Adi Shankara- the founder of Advaita Vedanta- had to be humbled into the truth of Shakti. Legend tells that while traveling, the brilliant ascetic fell gravely ill and was left completely paralysed, stripped of all physical strength.

When he claimed he lacked the power to even stand, the Divine Mother appeared before him, piercing his cold intellectualism with a radical truth: because he had spent his life preaching a formless, static absolute while dismissing the dynamic Goddess, he now had no Shakti (energy) left to move.

Stunned by this sudden realisation, Shankara fell to his knees in total surrender, watching the universe shift from a cold illusion into the blazing, vibrant reality of the Goddess.

Out of that ecstatic rapture, he penned the opening lines of the Ananda Lahari— declaring that Shiva is only capable of manifesting when united with Shakti- without Her, the masculine is a corpse, incapable of making even a single vibration.

Zhuangzi

 “When there is no more separation between ‘this’ and ‘that,’ it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.”

Center Of Eternity

BY Talon Abraxas

Om Tat Sat

 

Nondual awareness, also known as non-duality, refers to a state of consciousness where the perceived separation between subject and object, self and other, dissolves. It's a state of unified, immutable, and often blissful awareness, sometimes described as the ground of being or pure consciousness. This perspective is central to various contemplative traditions, including Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, and Kashmiri Shaivism.

Buddha (Udānavarga 2)

 "Even if the Himalayas were turned into gold, it would still not be enough to satisfy the desires of a single person. Human desires are boundless. Realising this, one should maintain a peaceful mind."

Wu Hsin

 You are dreaming

My child:

Dreaming that you are asleep

Dreaming that you are awake.

All the while

Life is being lived.

My dear children,

You are not

What you think you are

This what-you-think-you-are is

A shadow of

What you are,

Just as the moon

Reflecting on the lake water is

Not the moon.

Hearing with the ears is

Inferior to listening

With the heart.

RUMI

Maha-subhashita-samgraha

 “As the rising sun immediately dissipates all the world’s darkness, which is deep like an ocean, so the holy name of the Lord, if chanted once without offenses, dissipates all the reactions of a living being's sinful life. All glories to that holy name of the Lord, which is auspicious for the entire world.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

 Walking along the fields and climbing over a stile you came to a grove of many trees and several redwoods. As you entered it you were suddenly aware of its absolute silence. There wasn’t a leaf moving, it was as though a spell had been cast upon it. The grass was greener, brighter with the slanting sun upon it and you felt all of a sudden a great feeling of sacredness. You walked through it almost holding your breath, hesitating to step. There were great blooms of hydrangeas and rhododendrons which would flower in several months, but none of these things mattered, or rather they gave a benediction to this spot. You realized when you came out of the grove that your mind was completely empty without a single thought. There was only that and nothing else. When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Nataraja - Cosmic Dancer Talon Abraxas

 "Om Namah Shivaya"

The dance of Shiva, known as Ananda Tandava (the Dance of Bliss), is the cosmic dance of the Hindu god Shiva performed as Nataraja (Lord of the Dance), representing creation, preservation, and destruction.