“THE REVEALED AND MYSTIC LITERATURE OF MANKIND BEARS AMPLE TESTIMONY TO THE FACT THAT RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN TOO ENDURING AND DOMINANT IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND TO BE REJECTED AS MERE ILLUSION. THERE SEEMS TO BE NO REASON, THEN, TO ACCEPT THE NORMAL LEVEL OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE AS FACT AND REJECT ITS OTHER LEVELS AS MYSTICAL AND EMOTIONAL.”
The intellect and the senses…are the crutches of the material world. These tools need to be dropped when you enter the ocean of consciousness, as they will only drag you down when you need to float.
"I have existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
"For one who sees with the eyes of the heart, rather than the senses, the world looks different; the blades of grass, the song of the birds, the drops of dew, all are seen to be none other than the One Life that surrounds us in every moment.They see the One in every creature and every creature in the One… they see everything with an equal eye.“
Brahman = Ultimate Reality
The Hindu tradition encourages Hindus to seek spiritual and moral truth wherever it might be found, while acknowledging that no creed can contain such truth in its fullness and that each individual must realize this truth through his or her own systematic effort. Our experience, our reason, and our dialogue with others—especially with enlightened individuals—provide various means of testing our understanding of spiritual and moral truth. And Hindu scripture, based on the insights of Hindu sages and seers, serves primarily as a guidebook. But ultimately truth comes to us through direct consciousness of the divine or the ultimate reality. In other religions this ultimate reality is known as God. Hindus refer to it by many names, but the most common name is Brahman. SAT-CHIT-ANANDA
“That state which is beyond speech and thoughts is silence.Words arise from silence and thoughts disappear into silence.”
“THE FINAL THOUGHT BEFORE THE BREAKTHROUGH WAS THE VERY CLEAR REALIZATION THAT THERE WAS NOTHING TO BE ATTAINED. FOR ATTAINMENT IMPLIED ACQUISITION AND THAT IMPLIED CHANGE IN CONTENT OF CONSCIOUSNESS. BUT THE GOAL IS NOT CHANGE BUT DETACHMENT FROM CONTENT. THUS I AM ALREADY THAT WHICH I SEEK AND THEREFORE THERE IS NOTHING TO BE SOUGHT. BY THE VERY SEEKING, I HIDE MYSELF FROM MYSELF. THEREFORE ABANDON THE SEARCH AND EXPECT NOTHING. THIS WAS FOR ME THE END OF THE LONG SEARCH, I DIED AND IN THE SAME INSTANT WAS BORN AGAIN. SPONTANEITY TOOK OVER IN PLACE OF THE OLD SELF-DETERMINED EFFORT, AFTER THAT I KNEW DIRECTLY THE CONSCIOUSNESS REPORTED BY THE MYSTICS AGAIN AND AGAIN.”
“On my journey from the fantastical to the practical, spirituality has gone from being a mystical experience to something very ordinary and a daily experience. Many don’t want this, instead they prefer spiritual grandeur, and I believe that is what keeps enlightenment at bay. We want big revelations of complexity that validates our perceptions of the divine. What a let down it was to Moses when God spoke through a burning bush! But that is exactly the simplicity of it all. Our spiritual life is our ordinary life and it is very grounded in every day experience. For me, it is the daily practice of kindness, mindfulness, happiness, and peace.”
ALL THE SLEEPERS IN A NIGHT OF DELUTION BEHOLDING SO MANY DREAMS. IN THIS WORLD OF DARKNESS, ONLY THOSE WHO SEVER THEMSELVES FROM THE MATERIAL WORLD, BECOME ABSORBED IN THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE SUPREME. NONE CAN BE REGARDED AS REALLY WOKEN UP FROM SLEEP TILL THEY HAVE RENOUNCED ALL SENSUOUS DELIGHTS.
SOMETIMES, WHEN THE CREATED WORLD HAS TO BE SUSTAINED, I MYSELF ASSUME NAME AND FORM AND INITIATE MANVANTHARAS (GREAT ERAS OF TIME) AND PROVIDE THE EARTH WITH APPROPRIATE DIVINE PERSONALITIES AND SAGES, WHO SET EXAMPLES TO BE FOLLOWED AND INDICATE THE PATH OF PROGRESS.
I end also the unlimited increase of beings, when it happens. For this sake, I take on the form of Rudra (the destructive aspect of God). I create the bad, in order to high-light and promote the good; and in order to protect the good, I set certain limits, both to the good and the bad, for, they would otherwise, stray into wrong ways and inflict great harm.
