Tao Te Ching 25th Chapter

There is a being wonderful, perfect; It existed before heaven and earth. How quiet it is! How spiritual it is! It stands alone and it does not change; It moves, but does not on that account suffer. All life comes from it, yet it does not demand to be Lord. I do not know its name, so I call it Tao, the Way, And I rejoice in its power. 

According to Lord KrishnA

 

The unreal never exists and the real is never without existence at any time. God alone is real, permanent, indestructible, changeless, and eternal, but he is beyond thought, imperceptible, and quite above the flutterings of mind

Unknown but cool

 

A joy with a cause is more like dependence or uncertainty. It is bound to vanish. Luckily, we can enjoy The Causeless Joy which is eternally present. The Causeless Joy is the Perfect Joy and is the Nature of God or Self. God is ever joyous without a cause, such is His essence - Joyful. Peace and Joy are one and the same and never leave Home. To be absolutely quiet in heart, body and mind is to partake in this Causeless Bliss. It will exist eternally and is the Joy enjoyed forever. Even if you do not notice it, you are now enjoying it, perhaps covered by layers of illusion. Still IT is there, for sure. Bliss is not a feeling, it is the Ineffable BEING of the Almighty Supreme which is Now and Here. To become blissful is to become miserable later. That which IS Bliss has no opposite. Very simple, but True.

–Swami Chidananda, Divine Life Society

“Far from denying self-expression, [brahmacharya] is giving full expression to yourself because you are no longer identified with the lesser aspect of your total personality. You are identified with the higher aspect. It is a sort of a liberation and evolution to a higher level

Kabir: In the bliss of Sahaj

 

My mind has returned To its own primal state; I realized the Lord When I died while living. Says Kabir: I am merged In the bliss of Sahaj; I no l onger know fear, Nor inspire it in others

Brian A. Bain, BA

 

The "real seat of Vishnu," then, dawns on man "as the form of light."6 Brahman is seen as the light of an endless sphere.7 The "Brahman-OM" is "the highest light, the foundation and sovereign lord of all...."8 Brahma is light, says the Maitri Upanishad, and the mystic symbol OM is "a leader, brilliant, sleepless, ageless [and] deathless...."9 Brahma, "the limitless One," is that "shining form which gives heat in yonder sun.... Unending are the rays of him."10 Brahman is "self-shining," "self-luminous," and "shines by his own brightness." As He shines "does everything else shine after."11 As we find in the Brahmarahasya Upanishad

Osho

 

And the fourth is the ultimate awareness that makes one awakened. One becomes aware of one's awareness — that is the fourth. That makes one a Buddha, the awakened. And only in that awakening one comes to know what bliss is. The body knows pleasure, the mind knows happiness, the heart knows joy, the fourth knows bliss. Bliss is the goal of sannyas and awareness is the path towards

it.

Rasa Von Werder

 

Yoga is a terrific science or religion, choose what you want to call it.  It has many forms, we who seek God are all yogis.  There’s one I picked up from Muktananda, who said worship the Self, not the human self, but the God Self within.  Yes, Jesus said we are Gods.  Not the flesh, the Divine Nature, created in the image & likeness of God, & when we reach that consciousness or understanding or Union it is called Enlightenment.  This is not some sinister form of activity, it is the Highest Calling of our spiritual selves, to find Union with God.

Ivan Granger Poetry Chaikhana

 

"A mystic is content with nothing less than to touch the Truth in its most universal purity."

Sri Sivananda

 

Again, as you leave external form and dive into that light which you become, you realize beyond realization a knowing deeper than thinking, a knowing deeper than understanding, a knowing which is the very, very depth of your being. You realize immortality, that you are immortal—this body but a shell, when it fades; this mind but an encasement, when it fades. Even in their fading there is no reality.

 

Nityananda

  "Once one is established in infinite consciousness,

one becomes silent and though knowing everything, goes about as if he does not know anything

Though he might be doing a lot of things in several places, to all outward appearances, he will remain as if he does nothing."

From Bhagavad Gita:

"I am the birth of this cosmos, its dissolution also. I am He who causes, no other beside me. Upon me these worlds are held Like pearls strung on a string. These my wandering creatures are always within me. These, when the round of ages is accomplished, I gather back to the seed of their becoming: These I send forth again at the hour of creation. Helpless all, for Maya (delusion) is their master And I, their Lord, the master of Maya: Ever and again, I send these multitudes forth from my being."

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

 The Self God by

The  Self: you can’t explain it. You can sense its existence through the refined state of your senses, but you can’t explain it. To know it, you have to experience it. And the best you could say about it is that it is the depth of your Being, it’s the very core of you. It is you.

The Adi Granth

 

The Adi Granth makes frequent reference to the human encounter with a Divine Light: "God, being Truth, is the one Light of all." God "shines out in His own splendour." Moreover, "His brightness shineth forth" with "the blaze of the splendour dazzling like the sun."

Guru Nanak added more on this issue in other writings. For Nanak, God is "the light of all light." The light of God "illumines land and seas." God is "the embodiment of light; the lamps of the sun and moon and all their light emanate from Him...." God is "pure light"... the "ever pure light." This "all-wise Being of light sits on the throne eternal." God's light is "infinite," and God Himself "is immaculate and all light."

The Adi Granth also makes it clear that this Divine Light can be found within one's self: "the Eternal Light indwells in the human mind, and the human mind is the emanation of that light." Further, "the best light is the Light of God in the heart." Ultimately, the Sikh aspirant wishes to be immersed in the Divine light, as was Guru Nanak: "as waves blend with water, so my light is blended with the Lord's Light."

Sri Gawn Tu Fahr

All religions serve a purpose and vary in their teachings. They are all paths, but alas, they are constructs of the mind, destined to perish. Divine Love, the source of all life, resides in every heart, far beyond religion, philosophy, metaphysics, science, art, and the mind itself.

Swami Nirmalananda Giri

 

“Desire” is the usual translation of the Sanskrit word kama, which means desire, passion, or lust. Desire arises from the ego and is always “I want” with little regard for the principles of spiritual life or the ultimate consequences of fulfilling such desire.

That is why the Gita says: “Renounce all your desires, for ever. They spring from willfulness” (Bhagavad Gita 6:24). And: “He knows peace who has forgotten desire. He lives without craving: free from ego, free from pride” (Bhagavad Gita 2:71).

Surya RV(Rig Veda) 1.50

Gazing be dark we reach the supreme Light and attain the Sun, the God of Gods, the Light.