AUROBINDO

 

 The most difficult of all their knots is egoism, the delusion that we have an individual existence sufficient in itself, separate from the universal and only being, ekamevadwitiyam, who is one not only beyond Time, Space and Causality. Not only are we all Brahman in our nature and being, waves of one sea, but we are each of us Brahman in His entirety,

Anaïs Nin

 

“I have always endowed madness with a sacred, poetic value, a mystical value. It seemed to me to be a denial of ordinary life, an effort to transcend it, to expand, to go far beyond the limitations of the human condition.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

Man wrongly identifies himself with the physical body, calling it 'myself.' And when the physical body is in pain he says, 'I am ill,' because he identifies himself with something which belongs to him but which is not himself. The first thing to learn in the spiritual path is to recognize the physical body not as one's self, but as an instrument, a vehicle, through which to experience life.

Sri Swami Sivananda

The night that has passed away will not return back, just as the stream of the Ganga flowing towards ocean will not recede back. Death accompanies you in your walk, sits down when you sit, travels long distance with you and returns with you. You rejoice at the rise of the sun and feel delighted at the approach of night, but do you not understand that your life by this has been shortened ?

Eating, drinking, sleeping, little laughter and much weeping. Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up. Attain Immortal Bliss.

RELIGION VS SPIRITUALITY

 

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, The Second coming of Christ.

    The promise of Jesus to send the Holy Ghost after he was gone few in the Christian world have understood. Holy Ghost is the sacred, invisible vibratory power of God that actively sustains the universe: the Word, or Aum, Cosmic Vibration, the Great Comforter, the Saviour from all sorrows. 

Within the Holy Ghost Cosmic Vibration is the all-pervading Christ, the Son or Consciousness of God immanent in creation. The method of contacting this Cosmic Vibration, the Holy Ghost, is for the first time being spread worldwide by means of definite meditation techniques of the Kriya Yoga science.

 Through the blessing of communion with the Holy Ghost, the cup of human consciousness is expanded to receive the ocean of Christ Consciousness. The adept in the practice of the science of Kriya Yoga who consciously experiences the presence of the Holy Ghost Comforter and merges in the Son, or immanent Christ Consciousness, attains thereby realization of God the Father and entry into the infinite kingdom of God.

Manly P. Hall The Secrets Behind All Religions:

"Truth is eternal. The so-called revelations of Truth that come in different religions are actually but a re-emphasis of an ever existing doctrine."

Thus Moses did not originate a new religion to Israel; he simply adapted the Mysteries of Egypt to the needs of Israel. The Ark triumphantly borne by the twelve tribes through the wilderness was copied after the Isaac ark which may still be traced in faint has-relief upon the ruins of the Temple of Philae.

 Even the two brooding cherubim over the mercy seat are visible in the Egyptian carving, furnishing Indubitable evidence that the secret doctrine of Egypt was the prototype of Israel's mystery religion.

 In his reformation of Indian philosophy, Buddha likewise did not reject the esotericism of the Brahmins, but rather adapted this esotericism to the needs of the masses of India.

The mystic secrets locked within the Holy Vedas were thus disclosed in order that all men, irrespective of castely distinction, might partake of wisdom and share in a common heritage of good."

Artist; Jaima James Buidiniek

KABIR

 

KABIR

 

Chameli Ardagh

The Goddess path is not towards a goal in the future or some kind of static state of perfection. The deeper we awaken and jump off the carousel of grasping for certain states and resisting others, the deeper we dive into life itself and realize that nothing is static. Shakti energy is constantly shifting and changing. In the alignment with that flow, we find peace, a freedom that is not conditional on any circumstances or feelings. We access a freedom that is always here.

The words of Buddha quoted by HH Dilgo Khyentse RINPOCHE

 This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.

To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance.

A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

(136-137) The Yoga Sutras, Swami Satchidananda

 

“We won’t be able to alter the entire world, but we can alter ourselves and fly like birds. We can be calm even in the midst of disasters, and by doing so, we may help others to be calm as well. Serenity spreads like a virus. When we grin at someone, he or she will return the smile. A smile, on the other hand, is free. We should inflict joy on everyone. Why not die happy and laughing if we just have a minute to live? ”

SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARA

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

G.I. Gurdjieff

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the "I Am," our real presence, can awaken.

Ajahn Amaro

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart’s response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

Rune Lazuli

The only way to be truly loved, is to become love. Surrender to this freedom.

Hazrat Inayat Khan:

Our greatest enemy is ourself. All weakness, all ignorance keeps us from the truth of our being, from all the virtues hidden in us and all perfection hidden in our souls. The first self we realize is the false self. Unless the soul is born again it will not see the kingdom of heaven. The soul is born into the false self; it is blind. In the true self the soul opens its eyes. Unless the false self is fought with, the true self cannot be realized.

 

“When one’s [intellectual] nature is purified by the light of knowledge then alone he, by meditation, sees Him.''-Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.8

LAo TsuTao Te Ching

 

Empty yourself of everything.Let the mind become still.All things in the Universe rise and fall while the Self watches their return.They grow and flourish and then return to the Source.Returning to the Source is stillness,which is the Way of Nature..

HAFIZ

 

“Hidden beneath your feet is a luminous stage where you are meant to rehearse your eternal dance. ”