Chris Bourne

"Do you know that if you removed all the space

that's in between all the particles in your body,

there wouldn't be enough matter left in you

to fit on a pinhead. You are mostly space!

And if you looked into that matter on the pinhead,

you'd see that matter is not matter at all, it is energy.

The whole Universe is energy, a huge sea of energy."

Sant Tukaram says:

 

Once in water, salt cannot return to solid form.Likewise, the one who has understood reality is dissolved.Thought has become thoughtless.The Saint stays in Brahman.He never goes again into the illusion. Like the bee, only interested in honey from the flower,he is always thinking of the Self.Inside and outside,only Self.

** Please keep in mind that's what Tukaram says. It doesn't have to be that way at all. for some entities a few seconds can be enough, for a few several hours, maybe as many as a few days etc. We are all (as I see it)) on different stages on our personal journeys...

PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

 

Sons and daughters of the earth, steep yourself in the sea of matter, bathe in its fiery waters, for it is the source of your life and your youthfulness. You thought you could do without it because the power of thought has been kindled in you? You hoped that the more thoroughly you rejected the tangible, the closer you would be to spirit: that you would be more divine if you lived in the world of pure thought, or at least more angelic if you fled the corporeal? Well, you were like to have perished of hunger. You must have oil for your limbs, blood for your veins, water for your soul, the world of reality for your intellect: do you not see that the very law of your own nature makes these a necessity for you?

The Upanishads

If the universe is non-local at a sub-quantum level, that means that reality is ultimately a seamless web, and it is only our own idiosyncrasies that direct us to divide it up into such arbitrary categories as mind and body. Thus, consciousness cannot be considered fundamentally separate from matter, any more than life can be considered as fundamentally separate from non-

life.

—David Böhm

Like two birds of golden plumage, inseparable companions, the individual self and the immortal Self are perched on branches of the selfsame tree. The former tastes of the sweet and bitter fruits of the tree; the latter, tasting of neither, calmly observes.―The Upanishads

Robert Adams

*A reminder-

Let me remind you again. Do not try to change your thoughts, or to change your life style, or to work on your bad habits, or to try to remove fear, and the rest of it. Rather you lift your vision high, to the highest, by following the I-thought to its source. And one day you will discover something interesting. Your body will appear to melt, to dissolve. The world, the universe will appear to dissolve. Your God will appear to dissolve. Everything you stood up for, everything you have believed in, all of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, will dissolve. And you will find yourself as omnipresence, all-pervading consciousness. You will discover that you’ve always been the ultimate reality, ultimate oneness. You are the ‘I’ am. You are free.

Sadhu Om

No Sage (jnani) who ever came on earth was the product of an ashramam, math, or any such institution. Each one of them stood alone and realized the Truth by him/herself.

RIBHU GITA

 

Hafiz

The Earth has disappeared beneath my feet,

Illusion fled from all my ecstasy.

Now like a radiant sky creature

God keeps opening.

God keeps opening inside of Me"

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

HERMANN HESSE

Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, C 27, Autobiography of a Yogi.

Realizing that man's body is like an electric battery, I reasoned that it could be recharged with energy through the direct agency of the human will. As no action of any kind is possible without willing, man may avail  himself of the prime mover, will, to renew his strength without burdensome apparatus or mechanical exercises. By the simple Yogoda techniques, one may consciously and instantly recharge his life force ( centered in the medulla oblongata ) from the unlimited supply of cosmic energy.