Lama Anagarika Govinda, 1969

The fundamental element of the cosmos is Space. Space is the all-embracing principle of higher unity. Nothing can exist without Space. .. According to ancient Indian tradition the Universe reveals itself in two fundamental properties: as Motion and as that in which motion takes place, namely Space. This Space is called Akasa .. derived from the root kas, 'to radiate, to shine', and has therefore the meaning of ether which is conceived as the medium of movement. The principle of movement, however, is Prana, the breath of life, the all-powerful, all-pervading rhythm of the universe.

THE DIVINE IS WITHIN

 

GOD IS PURE BLISS

The Embodiment of Supreme Bliss, The Embodiment of Transcendental Happiness, The Embodiment of Transcendental Wisdom, The One beyond duality, The One in Eternal Bliss, The Embodiment of Oneness, The Supreme One, The Eternal One, The Unsullied One, the Ever-steady One, and The Eternal Witness . In the Anandavalli portion of the Rig Veda, there is a beautiful and poetic reference to Brahmananda or Supreme Bliss. Brahmananda refers to Bliss that is limitless and beyond description by words; it is also something that cannot be comprehended by the ordinary mind. Unless one leads a calm, pure, noble, virtuous, peaceful, and unsullied life, one can neither understand nor experience this Brahmananda. Supreme bliss is beyond the physical, mundane, and transient world. 

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HAFEZ

"I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul.

Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever

known.

Joseph Campbell.

 

Joseph Campbell.

“The one God wears many masks,” wrote Joseph Campbell. In no other religion does the Supreme Being wear so many masks and invite worship in so many different forms as the eternal Vedic Sanatan Dharm of Hinduism. God's innumerable forms, and the acknowledgment of His Presence in everything, are an expression of the extraordinary vitality of India's collective imagination down through the ages. "To conceive of Hinduism as a polytheistic system is in itself a naivete of which only a Western student, inheriting Graeco-Roman concept of “paganism” could be capable. The Hindu Ishavara (Supreme God) is not a jealous God because all gods are aspects of Him, imagined by His worshipers; The Supreme Being has no form at all and yet is inherent in all forms

Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

“The knowledge you are is God. You worship that and one day you will realize that you are not an individual. You will realize that you are the universal consciousness which cannot suffer; there is no pain or pleasure for that consciousness. Not through intellect, but through intense meditation you will know it.”

Eckhart TollE

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

“People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The seeker is he who is in search of himself."

Give up all questions except one: ’Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ’I am’ is certain. The ’I am this’ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not – body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that — nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being."

ANNNAMALAI SWAMI

 

Swami RAMA TIRTHA

The moments of realisation are those when all thoughts of worldly relations, worldly connections, worldly ties, worldly property, worldly desires, worldly needs are all melted into God, into Truth.

Thus in order to get the whole Truth,

you must get rid of worldly desires;

you must rise above worldly attachments and hatred;

you must bid farewell to all the ties and bonds enslaving and clinging;

you must rise above all this.

This is the price,

and unless you pay the price you cannot realise the Truth.