Kuan Yin

The Light part 2 -Lama Surya Das

This self-originated Clear Light, which from the very beginning was never born, is without any parents. This Clear Light has not been created by anyone, has never experienced birth and has nothing in it that could cause it to die. Although it is evidently visible, yet there be few who see it. Although it exists in everyone everywhere, it has gone unrecognized. And yet you go on hoping to attain some other fruit than this Clear Light elsewhere. Even though it is the thing that is most essentially yours, you seek for it elsewhere – how amazing! (Tibetan Buddhism)

What is the nature of this mysterious mystic illumination? Apart from the certitude it imparts, what is the form which it most usually assumes in the consciousness of the self? The mystics seem to assure us that its apparently symbolic name is really descriptive; that they do experience a kind of radiance, a flooding of the personality with new light. A new sun rises above the horizon, and transfigures their twilit world. Over and over again they return to light-imagery in this connection. Frequently, as in their first conversion, they report an actual and overpowering consciousness of radiant Light, ineffable in its splendor, as an accompaniment of their inward adjustment. “Light rare, untellable!

Said Whitman. “The flowing Light of the Godhead,” said Mechthild of Magdeburg. Saint Hildegarde described her revelations as appearing in a special Light, more brilliant than the brightness round the sun. It is an “infused brightness,” says Saint Teresa, “a Light which knows no night; but rather, as it is always light, nothing ever disturbs it.” It really seems as though the mystics’ attainment of new levels of consciousness did bring with it the power of perceiving a splendor always there, but beyond the narrow range of our poor sight… The cumulative testimony on this point is such as would be held to prove, in any other department of knowledge, that there is indeed an actual Light, “lighting the very light” and awaiting the recognition of men. (Evelyn Underhill)

If you were able to go inward right now and waken your sleeping Buddha, what would you find? Tibetan Buddhism says that at the heart of you, me, every single person, and all other creatures great and small, is an Inner Radiance that reflects our essential nature, which is always utterly positive. Tibetans refer to this Inner Light as Pure Radiance or Innate Luminosity; in fact, they call it Ground Luminosity because it is the “bottom line.” There is nothing after this, nothing before this. This luminosity is birthless and deathless. It is a luminescent emptiness, called “Clear Light,” and it is endowed with the heart of unconditional compassion and love. (Lama Surya Das)

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

As for reading books on Vedanta, you may go on reading any number of them. They can only tell you, "Realize the Self within you." The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it out for yourself.



Taken from Day by Day with Bhagavan.

~Swami Dayananda Saraswati

Living begins when one contributes something that will bring about more happiness, more wisdom and more freedom.
Until then, one merely drags one’s life.

The Buddhist goddess Tara

Gold, Precious Stone Embedded Ancient Indian PaintingsEpoch Times

This traditional painting style generally portrays Hindu gods, saints, and stories from mythology. (Venus Upadhayaya/Epoch Times). The Buddhist goddess Tara

Yogavata Lahiri Mahasaya

Osho

Shiva say, become loving. When you are in the embrace, become the embrace. Become the kiss. Forget yourself so totally that you can say, “I am no more. Only love exists.” Then the heart is not beating, but love is beating. Then the blood is not circulating, but love is circulating. Then eyes are not seeing, love is seeing. Then hands are not moving to touch, love is moving to touch.

Sant Dariya Sahib of Bihar

Blessed is the eye which is permeated with love. Without love it is like a pebble or stone. Like a gardener without a garden, the eye remains empty without love. What is the state of a human being without love? He is like one who is denied all delicacies, and whose mouth is filled only with dust. Without love one does not find the flow of the Sound Current.

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–The Sutta-Nipāta

Let your love flow outward through the universe,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without hatred or enmity.

Then as you stand or walk,
Sit or lie down,
As long as you are awake,
Strive for this with a one-pointed mind;
Your life will bring heaven to earth.