"Waking up" "everyday" is an illusion. The sole thing that "exists" never sleeps nor wakes up, it is permanently there. This permanent, unchanging, boundless being is Self. Not your Self, not my Self (because duplicity is an illusion) but just SELF.
God/Brahman is the Ocean of Love and Consciousness (Divinity_IS)
Esoteric Spirituality
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Monday, March 18, 2024
Rumi
Silence is the root
Of everything . If you spiral into its void, A hundred voices Will thunder messages You long to hear.
Osho
It is a misnomer to say that one enters the fold of Nirvana, liberation or the spirit. One cannot enter a place which one has never relinquished. What happens then ?
There is, of course, no entrance in Nirvana, but the world, in which we had entered, dissolves like a dream and we find us settled in the self.
Does any one gradually rise from a dream. Well, either there is a dream, or there is not. There cannot be any middle stage.
The practice—Sadhana—may take a long time, but the realisation takes place like a flash of lightning—in a moment, and complete. In fact, no time is consumed in its attainment for whatever takes place within the time-limit is gradual.
Sadhana—the practice—depends upon the time-factor, but the realisation does not. It is beyond time.
Ram Nath Kovind
"Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness."
Adyashanti
True meditation is the acceptance of no past or future.. There are only moments upon moments to be lived.. And again being present means absence of past or future. Bringing the mind into the present is the only link to eternity..
Rumi
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
I don't know
With a word we destroy a dream with a word. we heal a wound with a word we lose a person and with a word we win a heart...
SHAKTISM - WORSHIP OF THE SUPREME MOTHER
SHAKTISM IS ACTUALLY A DISTINCT INDIAN RELIGION, LIKE VAISHAVANISM, SHAIVISM, ETC; ALL THESE RELIGIONS BEING LUMPED IN THE WEST UNDER THE HEADING "HINDUISM". SHAKTISM IS BASED ON WORSHIP OF THE DIVINE IN THE FORM OF THE SUPREME MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE, USUALLY CALLED DEVI ("GODDESS"), KALI, SHAKTI, ETC. WORSHIP OF THE DIVINE AS FEMALE IS STILL PROMINENT IN INDIA TODAY, JUST AS IT WAS IN EUROPE BEFORE THE TAKE OVER BY THE PATRIARCHAL CREED KNOWN AS CHRISTIANITY. A RECENT WESTERN RELIGIOUS REVIVAL WITH STRONG MATRIARCHIAL TENDENCIES IS NEO-PAGANISM, ESPECIALLY WICCA
The religion in its present form developed in the period from the 4th to 7th centuries, and produced a mass of literature known as the Tantras [D. S. Sarma, Hinduism Through the Ages, p.29], from which term of course the word "Tantra" is derived. The Tantras were for the most part ritualistic and magical nature, in contrast to the mythological VaishvanitePuranas, or the philosophical and metaphysical Sutras. Although most Tantras are, metaphysically and occultly, of rather poor quality, it is from this body of material much of Indian Tantra developed.
The works of; John Woodroffe (pseudonym: Arthur Avalon) gove an important overview of Bengali Tantra. Perhaps his most influential work is The Serpent Power, which is on the subject of the so-called Kundalini-Shakti, the latent psycho-spiritual power which according to Tantric philosophy lies dormant at the base of the spine but can be awakened through specific Hatha Yoga exercises.
Just as there are Vaishnuite and Shaivite Guru-sects, so there are Shaktic ones.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Rumi
The lamps are different,
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“As the sun, revealer of all objects to the seer, is not harmed by the sinful eye, nor by the impurities of the objects it gazes on, so th...
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"The teachings of Jesus and his followers correspond closely with the practices of Sant Mat (The Path of the Masters). From the point...