Sāmkhya Kārikā Kārikā XIII

 

Sattva is considered to be light and bright, Rajas exciting and mobile, and Tamas is only heavy and enveloping. Like a lamp, their function is to gain an end.

Sattva is light and bright. When Sattva predominates then the limbs become light, the intellect becomes bright and the organs become clear (i.e. acute).

Rajas is exciting and mobile. Upaṣṭambhaka is that which excites or stimulates. Just as a bull is very much excited at the sight of another bull, so is the nature of Rajas. And Rajas is observed to be mobile. A man of the nature of Rajas is fickle-minded.

Tamas is only heavy and enveloping. When Tamas predominates, then the limbs become heavy and the organs become enveloped (i.e., dull)—incapable of apprehending their objects.

Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets

 

“The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life…labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION.”

Unknown Author

 

“Child of infinity. Awaken. Rise anew. The golden dawn rises with you, the time is now. Awaken. Transform through breath. Let yourself feel the eternal rhythm. The rhythm of the cosmos. The rhythm inside your heart. You are the cosmic chords; vibrating life force; living Light; breathing; carved from the stars. You are the living Prophecy. Breathe. Breathe deep in the center of your heart; There. There you will find the truth awaiting you. In the silence you will find the key to remember who you are…”

Swami Vivekananda

 

Let us therefore find God not only in Jesus, but in all the great ones that have preceded him, in all that came after him, and all that are yet to come. Let our worship be unbounded and free, because they are all manifestations of the same infinite God. Thus our salutations go to all the past prophets whose teachings and lives we have inherited whatever might have been their race, colour or birth.

S. Radhakrishnan

 

The world is a revelation of God’s nature. To the question, why does a perfect being instead of remaining eternally concentrated in itself, suffer the accident of manifesting the world, the answer is that manifesting is the very nature of God.

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

Metta Zetty

 

The entire purpose of manifest existence is simply to facilitate the realization of who and what you really are. There is nothing more or other.

Shriram Sharma Acharya

 

We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity – that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence oF our being.

-Baba Muktananda

 

When your inner Kundalini Shakti is stirred, She will release Her impulses of love throughout your body and its seventy-two thousand nerves. She will thrill your every blood cell with Her ecstatic joy. Only then will your craving for touch be truly gratified. You will recover the lost luster of your eyes. Your withered face will again glow with love and your lips will become rosy. Your world will quiver with beauty, joy, and love! You will become aware of the omnipresence of the Lord; you will realize that this entire world is His and that He is maintaining it.

Metta Zetty

 

Life is a direct and immediate experience of the infinite manifesting through the finite in the present moment. We simply do not recognize it as such because of our narrow focus on the finite.

Rabindranath Tagore

 

The revealment of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all Creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, or in the beauty of flowers – it is in the soul of man.