The final state of Being...

"There is a final state of Being and Consciousness in which alone perfect bliss is found, to which every religion bears witness.

This state transcends all concepts of the mind and images of the senses, and is known only when the Divine Being chooses to reveal himself to man.

This is the ultimate mystery, the ultimate truth, to which everything in nature aspires, but which so transcends the whole order of nature that it appears as darkness rather than light, as something unreal or illusory, as a Void, a Silence, a Negation of Being.

And yet such is the witness of every great religious tradition: in this Void, in this Darkness, in this Silence, all fullness, all light, all truth, all goodness, all love, all joy, all peace, all happiness is to be found."



Bede Griffiths (1906-1993)
_Vedanta and Christian Faith_
Clearlake, CA: Dawn Horse Press, 1991, p 163