KALI

 

The Mystic Poets of Maharashtra

 

  Their outstanding quality is a beautiful fusing of bhakti (devotion) with Jnana (knowledge). They worshipped and merged into Oneness with the God they worshipped. This is especially prominent in Tukaram. He declares for instance, "When I meditate on the Lord of Pandhari the body becomes transformed together with the mind. Where is there room for speech then? My I-ness is become Hari (God). With the mind merging in Divine Conciousness all creation looks divine. Tukaram says: 'how shall I put it? All at once I became lost in God-conciousness." And again, "The glory of the bhaktas is known only to themselves. It is hard for others to understand. In order to increase the happiness of love in this world they display duality without actually dividing. This is understood only by those who have experienced Unity through faith.

Jnandev

 

 "The distinction between liberated, aspirant and bound subsists only so long as this Elixir of Experience is unknown to one. The enjoyer and the enjoyed, the seer and the seen, are merged in the non-dual, which is indivisible. The devotee has become God, the Goal has become God, the Goal has become the path; this indeed is solitude in the universe.'

Samartha Ramdas From the Mountain Path

 

 The message and mission of Ramdas were summed up in the meaningful phrase 'Maharashtra Dharma'. His work contained that mixture of realism and intuition which are so characteristic of Maharashtra through the ages. In fact his Das-Bodha with Tukaram's Gatha or Book of Songs and the Jnaneshwari can be looked upon as the 'Triple Veda' of Maharashtra down to this day. Their appeal is both to the head and heart. They are couched in a form which some might consider more like rythmical prose than verse. But they are all alike embodiments of Satyam-Sivam-Sundaram - 'Truth, Purity, Beauty'. The truth must be experienced, and these had experienced it and could indicate it for others to experience.

IN TUNE WITH THE INFINITE By Ralph Waldo Trine

 

 THERE is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world. There is a golden thread that runs through the lives and the teachings to all the prophets, seers, sages, and saviors in the world's history, through the lives of all men of truly great and lasting power. All that they have ever done or attained to has been done in full accordance with law.

Swami Prabhavananda, The Upanishads: Breath from the Eternal

 “The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe.The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.”

Swami Prabhavananda, The Upanishads

“That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends—know that...”

Hazrat Inayat Khan:

 

Man likes complexity. He does not want to take only one step; it is more interesting to look forward to millions of steps. The man who is seeking the truth gets into a maze, and that maze interests him. He wants to go through it a thousand times more. It is just like children. Their whole interest is in running about; they do not want to see the door and go in until they are very tired. So it is with adults. They all say that they are seeking truth, but they like the maze. That is why the mystics made the greatest truths a mystery, to be given only to the few who were ready for them, letting the others play because it was the time for them to play.

RAM DASS FROM BE HERE NOW

 

Baba Ram Singh

"The only wealth that is going to be with us and which is permanent and will travel with us, is the wealth of Naam. That is the wealth which nobody can steal from us. Nobody can deprive us of that wealth. And that is something that we can build here and take with us. That wealth will help us get out of this ocean of life and death and will take us back to our True Home and have us meet with our God Almighty, our Father.

"So, we should make it a point to listen to Satsangs every day, even if we have to listen only for fifteen or twenty minutes. But, with all attention, we should listen to Satsangs every day and take out time for our meditations every day.