' The worship of lucifer '...
There are many humans that seek Power, Wealth, and Fame..
These are desires of the false self, otherwise known as the egoic consciousness..
They seek illusions instead of Reality..
This is the religion of lucifer..
Many leaders of this world belong to this church..
This is why, there are continuous wars and famine..
lucifer demands human sacrifices for the sustenance of negative energy..
These misguided souls that follow this line of thinking and acting are trapped within materiality..
they can never be set Free as long as they follow this egoic and selfish path..
lucifer is actually just a 'Thought Form' and exists as long as thought is projected to this form..
lucifer is part of the duality of good and bad..
he is just part of the dream that we are experiencing..
when We Awaken into Reality, lucifer is no longer in existence..
In Reality, Unconditional Love , alone exists..
There is no room for the duality of evil and good..
This Love is called by many names, such as Divine Consciousness, non-ego, and the most popular name called God..
These humans that worship selfishness and evil will eventually Wake Up and Realize that they were fooled but this is often through the Long Path of reincarnation and continuous pain..
When they become tired of the continuous pain of existence without Love, and they finally realize that wealth, power, and fame are false happiness,
They will begin to follow the Path back to Reality and Freedom...
- thomas
' The Way '...
"Every prophet and every saint has a way,
but it leads to God:
all the ways are really one."
-Rumi
Mathnawi, I.3086
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
' Desire Excites '...
Desire excites.
Excitement may
sometimes
elevate us
but
will depress us
eventually.
Inspiration elevates
further
and further.
- Swami Amar Jyoti
"In Light of Wisdom"
Swami Amar Jyoti
Truth Consciousness, Boulder, Colorado, 1983
' The Light of Overself '...
Mostly as a result of meditation, but sometimes during an unexpected glimpse, a mystical experience of an unusual kind may develop.
He feels transparent to the Overself; its light passes into and through him.
He then finds that his ordinary condition was as if a thick wall surrounded him, devoid of windows and topped by a thick roof, a condition of imprisonment in limitation and ordinariness.
But now the walls turn to glass their density is miraculously gone, he is not only open to the light streaming in but lets it pass on, irradiating the world around.
Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself >
Chapter 6: Experiencing a Glimpse > # 166 Paul Brunton
' Aim Highest '...
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are
thereby achieved.
It is looking below on the stormy
sea of differences that makes you sink.
Look up,
beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and
you are saved.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
' The Bondage Does Not Exist '...
"Self-liberation" is like being bound in iron chains in a dream.
If you do not know you are dreaming, your bondage appears to be real, you think it is real, and your experience seems to confirm that it is real.
But if you know you are dreaming, you know that the iron chains do not truly exist, and so you are not really bound by them.
The bondage does not truly exist.
In the dream, nothing needs to come along and set you free - you are free just as you are.
The dream experience, even though it appears to be an experience of bondage, is in fact self-liberated.
- Khenpo Tsultrim Rinpoche
' Surrendering to Source '...
When he feels the gentle coming of the presence of the higher self, at this point he must train himself in the art of keeping completely passive.
He will discover that it is endeavouring actually to ensoul him, to take possession of him as a disembodied spirit is supposed to take possession of a living medium.
His task now is purely negative; it is to offer no resistance to the endeavour but to let it have the fullest possible sway over him.
The preliminary phases of his progress are over.
Hitherto it was mostly his own efforts upon which he had to rely.
Now, however, it is the Overself which will be the active agent in his development.
All that is henceforth asked of him is that he remain passive, otherwise he may disturb the holy work by the interference of his blind ignorant self-will.
His advance at this point no longer depends on his own striving.
-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practicies Involved >
Chapter 9: Conclusion > # 30 Paul Brunton
' Unified Needs '...
As you integrate you become one,
and your needs become one accordingly.
Unified needs lead to unified action,
because this produces a lack of conflict.
You cannot behave effectively
while you function on different levels.
However, while you do,
correction must be introduced vertically from the bottom up.
This is because you think you live in space,
where concepts such as "up" and "down" are meaningful. Ultimately, space is as meaningless as time.
Both are merely beliefs.
-The above quotes are from the book
A Course in Miracles.
' Human Pride '...
Man's pride and satisfaction in what he knows limits the scope of his
vision.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
One wishes to be admired for his clothes, his jewels, his
possessions, his greatness and position, and naturally when this
desire increases it makes a person blind and he loses sight of right
and justice. It is natural that the desire for things that gratify
vanity should have no end; it increases continually. The tendency to
look at others with hatred and prejudice, to consider them inferior
to oneself, and all such tendencies come from this ego. There are
even cases when people spend money in order to be able to insult
another. To make someone bow before him, to make him give way, to put
him in a position of inferiority, to make him appear contemptible,
sometimes a person will spend money. The desire for the satisfaction
of vanity reaches such a point, that a person would give his life for
the satisfaction of his vanity. Often someone shows generosity, not
for the sake of kindness, but to satisfy his vanity. The more vanity
a person has the less sympathy he has for others, for all his
attention is given to his own satisfaction, and he is as blind toward
others. This ego, so to speak, restricts life, because it limits a
person.
All the knowledge that man possesses he has acquired by belief. When
he strengthens his belief by knowledge then comes disbelief in things
that his knowledge cannot cope with, and in things that his reason
cannot justify. He then disbelieves things that he once believed in.
An unbeliever is one who has changed his belief to disbelief;
disbelief often darkens the soul, but sometimes it illuminates it.
There is a Persian saying, 'Until belief has changed to disbelief,
and, again, the disbelief into a belief, a man does not become a real
Muslim.' But when disbelief becomes a wall and stands against the
further penetration of mind into life, then it darkens the soul, for
there is no chance of further progress, and man's pride and
satisfaction in what he knows limit the scope of his vision.
' Adyashanti - from The Fabric of Reality '...
We begin something anew.
As my teacher used to say waking up means you've actually begun.
You've got your foot in the door.
Waking up means now we can begin.
Which I always thought waking up means now we can end.
And depending on how deep and how thorough it is, of course it is an ending.
You can, by enlarge, tell how deep it is, by how much of the seeker the awakening removed.
Destroyed.
As the more reality comes in, then the less the seeker is.
Eventually when Reality has come fully into consciousness there is no seeker of it.
There is no possessor of it.
There is no user of it.
There is no grasper.
-Adyashanti
The Fabric of Reality
' Become Very Wary '...
With whatever I find myself reading
just as you are now reading this,
I have found it wise to be very, very wary!
Why?
Because our old arrogant, egotistical nature
seeks out sustaining agreement with itself
and its distorted opinions.
The habitual, unregenerate intellect of us all
is seldom interested in aught but
shoring up its forged and fraudulent foundations.
When it finds a line or a paragraph
that agrees with its view of Reality,
it says, "Ah hah!" and underlines the words.
When it finds an idea repugnant
to its already established concept
(usually something that tends to demean, diminish
or finish the high and mighty ego),
it grunts and writes "Bosh!" in the margin.
How often we are amused by these notations
at a later reading!
When a book is successfully communicating,
one may not be as impressed with the same words
at the end as at the beginning.
Insights are nearly always expanded upon rereading,
and very often the boshes of the first reading
begin to make sense with the second.
-The above William Samuel quotes are from the book
Experience Your Perfect Soul.
' Two Ways to Conquer Destiny '...
"There are only two ways to conquer destiny or to be independent of it.
One is to enquire whose this destiny is and to discover that only the ego is bound by it and not the Self, and that the ego is non-existent.
The other way is to kill the ego by completely surrendering to the Lord, realising one's helplessness and saying all the time: `Not I, but Thou, oh Lord!', giving up all sense of `I' and `mine' and leaving it to the Lord to do what he likes with you.
Surrender can never be regarded as complete so long as the devotee wants this or that from the Lord.
True surrender is the love of God for the sake of love and nothing else, not even for the sake of salvation.
In other words, complete effacement of the ego is necessary to conquer destiny, whether you achieve this effacement through Self-enquiry or through bhakti-marga."
-Sri Ramana Maharshi
Day by Day with Bhagavan
From the Diary of A. Devaraja Mudaliar
' Once the ego is gone '...
The Self is not going to be an experience the person is
going to have.
The true experience blasts the 'person'
out of the picture all together and what remains is only
the Self.
- Mooji
' Miracles '...
Miracles honor you because you are lovable.
They dispel illusions about yourself
and perceive the light in you.
They thus atone for your errors
by freeing you from your nightmares.
By releasing your mind
from the imprisonment of your illusions,
they restore your sanity.
A major contribution of miracles
is their strength in releasing you
from your false sense of isolation,
deprivation and lack.
Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind,
or a state of miracle-readiness.
The miracle is a learning device
that lessens the need for time.
It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval
not under the usual laws of time.
In this sense it is timeless.
The miracle makes no distinction
among degrees of misperception.
It is a device for perception correction,
effective quite apart from either the degree
or the direction of the error.
The above quotes are from the book
A Course in Miracles.
' Watching the ego '...
The further one goes, the more difficulties there
are; one finds greater faults in oneself as one
advances along the spiritual path.
It is not because
the number of faults has increased, but the sense
has become so keen that one regards differently
faults which formerly one would not have noticed.
It is like a musician: the more he advances and the
better he plays, the more faults he notices.
He who
does not notice his faults is in reality becoming
worse.
There is no end to one's faults.
To think of
them makes one humble.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Mastery Through Accomplishment
Omega Press, 1978
' The Higher Power '...
Holding on to the future in anxiety and apprehension must be abandoned.
It must be committed to the higher power completely and faithfully.
Calmness comes easily to the man who really trusts the higher power.
This is unarguable.
-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You >
Chapter 2: Be Calm > # 158 Paul Brunton
' Loving Kindness '...
"Rahula, practice loving kindness to overcome anger. Loving kindness has the capacity to bring happiness to others without demanding anything in return.
Practice compassion to overcome cruelty. Compassion has the capacity to remove the suffering of others without expecting anything in return.
Practice sympathetic joy to overcome hatred. Sympathetic joy arises when one rejoices over the happiness of others and wishes others well-being and success.
Practice non-attachment to overcome prejudice. Non-attachment is the way of looking at all things openly and equally. This is because that is. Myself and others are not separate. Do not reject one thing only to chase after another.
I call these the four immeasurables. Practice them and you will become a refreshing source of vitality and happiness for others."
-Gautama the Buddha
in Thich Nhat Hanh
Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha
Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion
' This and That '...
"Our way then takes us beyond knowing; there may be no wandering from unity; knowing and knowable must all be left aside; every object of thought, even the highest, we must pass by, for all that is good is later than This and derives from This as from the sun all the light of the day.
"'Not to be told; not to be written': in our writing and telling we are but urging towards it: out of discussion we call to vision: to those desiring to see, we point the path; our teaching is of the road and the travelling; the seeing must be the very act of one that has made this choice."
-Plotinus
The Six Enneads, 6.9.4
Translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page, 1917-1930
' The Illusion within the Illusion '...
Follow this one carefully...
At night in a dream, you are looking at a beautiful sunset over the ocean, so it seems.
But you don’t have actual eyes that can see nor functional ears that can hear the waves breaking on the shore. Yet, the experience seems identical to past experiences while awake.
The sunset and beach are 3D projections of mind, not real objects seen. Your body is also a 3D projection. Yet it seems your eyes are really functioning to make it able to see. All your thoughts, decisions, emotions and self identity (feeling like me) are also being projected by the mind.
When you wake up in the morning, you look around the room and believe your eyes are like windows through which you see the room. It seems “you” are in the skull looking out the eyes.
But we know in neuroscience, that eyes don’t function like windows or a camera lens through which a ghostly entity is looking out at a world.
Instead, we know the eyes are merely passive receptors of photons that trigger a series of electro-chemical reactions that result in a hologram-like 3D image appearing within the brain or mind. “We” are looking at this internal, mind generated hologram, not the actual outside world.
But then, who is looking at the 3D image of our bedroom within the brain/mind?
Just like the brain/mind generated a sense of personal identity (“me”) in the dream, the imagined one who was looking at the mind generated sunset, the mind is also generating the sense that a self (“me”) exists, as the one looking at the images of the bedroom. The mind is also generating the thoughts, the “me” seems to be thinking.
When the body gets out bed, the body “you” see, is also a 3D image produced in the brain/mind, that the brain/mind’s generated self, seems to be looking out at, through its eyes.
The self that feels like a real personal self-entity, as “me”, is just a thought construct produced in the human brain/mind. There is no self in there who thinks, sees or hears; just like in a dream at night.
Our self fully vanishes at night while in deep, dreamless sleep. But since that self isn’t being generated, it can’t report upon or remember what occurred during its absence.
During the dream when horrible things occur, the brain/mind generates an afraid “me”, but there isn’t some real self-entity in there that is afraid; it’s an imaginary self. There is no actual real self in there.
Likewise, when occurrences go horribly wrong in daily life, the brain/mind generates an afraid “me” who suffers, yet no other real self exists who actually suffers. The only possible self is the imaginary self generated by the brain/mind from prior memories and conditioning; just like the dreamed self.
Understanding this fully, it can be seen that the “practitioner” or “seeker” self doesn’t exist at all, and is only a momentary, mind generated “self” illusion. This is why no one can become enlightened or liberated, because no actual self exists to become enlightened or liberated.
How can progressive practices help a non-existent or imaginary self? How can “sudden” path insights liberate an imaginary self? There is no self to understand this and to benefit from this understanding. There is no other real self lurking backstage somewhere, waiting to be liberated.
Maybe this can clarify what’s been shared here continually regarding “no self”. In that case, the whole notion of a “practitioner following a path to enlightenment” is like an illusion pursuing an illusion.
-Jackson Peterson
' Uncomfortable Confusion '...
You're living out your life by unconsciously
reacting to what you've purposefully forgotten
that you already are.
Throughout your entire life, you will probably
remember and then forget this same truth
again and again and again.
Just as the depth of your sleep cycle varies
throughout the night, so will you also feel clearer
and more spiritually awake at certain times in your
life than you will at other times.
Allow yourself to comfortably move in and out of
your uncomfortable confusion.
And remember: "This, too, shall pass ".
- Chuck Hillig
Seeds for the Soul
Chuck Hillig
Black Dot Publications, 2003
' Psychoanalysis '...
Psychoanalysis, which is essential to understand
the structure of the mind, is part of Yoga itself.
Yoga is the highest kind of self-analysis.
- Swami Krishnananda
Facets of Spirituality
Complied by S. Bhagyalakshmi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986
' From Head to Heart '...
We were born with silence, and as we grew up we lost the silence and we were filled with words.
We lived in our hearts, and as time passed we moved into our heads.
Now the reverse of this journey is enlightenment.
It is the journey from the head back to the heart,
from words back to silence;
getting back to our innocence in spite of our intelligence.
- Eckhart Tolle
' Conscious Awareness of the Self '...
Sri Annamalai Swami spent many years in the company of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Sri Annamalai Swami said that his years of constant meditation in the 1950's and 1960's finally brought him to a continuous awareness of the Self. The Sri Annamalai Swami quotes in The Seven Steps to Awakening come from the book Annamalai Swami Final Talks.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's Guru told him to focus his attention on the 'I am' to the exclusion of all else. Sri Nisargadatta spent all of his free time doing that and after three years he realized the Self. The Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes in The Seven Steps to Awakening come from the book I AM THAT.
The Yoga Vasistha is an ancient scripture from what the West calls "Hinduism." Swami Venkatesananda's English translation of the Yoga Vasistha was published in 1976 under the title The Supreme Yoga.
-The above quotes are from the introduction to the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening.
' Master of the Worlds '...
"Master of the worlds!
You are One, but not in number.
You are He Who is Highest of the High,
Most Hidden of the Hidden;
no thought can grasp You at all."
"Patach Eliyahu"
_Tikunei Zohar_ 17a
' The Divine Eye '...
When mind is quiet, all is Self.
When mind moves the world arises,
so be still, throw away everything, and be free.
Then, when mind is pure, you will see Self
in all beings.
Give up seeing with the outer eye
and the Divine eye will open.
- Papaji
"The Truth Is"
Sri H.W.L. Poonja
Yudhishtara, 1995
' To Know Reality '...
You can only Know Reality after surrendering the egoic-desire to the Universe..
You do not need a name called God..
If your desire is to become without name or substance and are accepted by something called Grace,
You will Awaken within Reality..
There is only One Reality that is found by all Mystics regardless of Religion..
This is the Real Heaven..
This Source of Love and Creation..
This Place called Reality...
-thomas
' A Microcosm '...
"Man has been truly termed a 'microcosm,' or little world in himself,
and the structure of his body should be studied not only by those who wish to become doctors,
but by those who wish to attain to a more intimate knowledge of God."
-Al-Ghazali
in Whitall N. Perry
_A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom_
Varanasi: Indica, 1998, (1971), p. 927
' Neither body nor mind '...
To what shore would you cross, O my
heart? There is no traveler before
you, there is no road:
Where is the movement, where is the
rest, on that shore?
There is no water; no boat, no boatman,
is there;
There is not so much as a rope to tow
the boat, nor a man to draw it.
No earth, no sky, no time, no thing, is
there: no shore, no ford!
There, there is neither body nor mind:
and where is the place that shall
still the thirst of the soul? You shall
find naught in that emptiness.
Be strong, and enter into your own body:
for there your foothold is firm. Consider
it well, O my heart! Go not elsewhere.
Kabir says: "Put all imaginations away, and
stand fast in that which you are."
- Kabir
"Songs of Kabir"
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1977
' From Dualism to Duality '...
The basic split of duality happens in Consciousness
itself, as a part of the process of perceiving
manifestation.
For any manifestation to exist, it has
to be observed.
For observing to happen requires an
observed object and an observer object.
This duality
between observer object and the observed object is the
basic split.
In the human the split goes deeper
into the dualism of "me" and the other.
The observer
object assumes the subjectivity of the Absolute or
Totality or God, saying, "I am the subject, the rest
of the world is my object."
The moment the "me" and
the other come into play duality gets further
subdivided into dualism.
The observer object considers
himself the observer subject, the experiencer, the
doer.
Enlightenment is merely the reverse process where the
pseudo-subject realizes that there cannot be a
separate entity and the body-mind can only function as
an instrument in the manifestation of Totality.
When
the sense of doership is lost, dualism is restored to
its basic duality.
Consciousness Speaks pp. 111-2
- Ramesh Balsekar
' Unwisdom '...
"Putting off the body is not Freedom,
any more than putting away one's staff and water pot;
but getting free from the knots of unwisdom in the heart — that is Freedom, in very deed."
-Adi Shankaracharya
The Crest Jewel of Wisdom: And Other Writings of Shankara
Translation and Commentaries by Charles Johnston
Covina, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1946, p. 87, verse 558
' The Secret of Being '...
Commonsense too will tell you that to fulfill a desire
you must keep your mind on it.
If you want to know
your true nature, you must have yourself in mind
all the time, until the secret of your being stands
revealed.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' Leave the egoic-attachment '...
Dissociate yourself from the person who has to go through with the dream-drama of life.
He is forced to act, but you can inwardly practise this dissociation.
-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You > Chapter 3:
Practise Detachment > # 213 Paul brunton
' I Do Nothing '...
The body trembles,
The tongue falters,
The mind is weary.
Forsaking them all,
I pursue my purpose happily.
Knowing I do nothing,
I do whatever comes my way,
And I am happy.
- Ashtavakra Gita 13:2-3
Translation by Thomas Byrom
' Truth happens in Innocence '...
Truth happens in a state of not knowing, truth happens in innocence.
Truth happens where there are no clouds of thoughts moving in your consciousness, when sky is absolutely clear, when there is no abstraction, when you have no idea and God is or God is not.
When you don't believe in no-God, when you are simply in a state of not knowing.
You don't claim any knowledge, that non-claiming consciousness begins to open up.
All knowledge burdens and closes you.
~ Osho
' The Eternal Now '...
The illumined mind must live in the eternal Now, which is not the same as the temporal Present.
Because it is beyond the reach of events the Now is saturated with Peace.
Because it is forever drifting on the surface of events the Present is agitated with change.
Each of us can learn to live in the happy presence of this peace if he will prepare the way by (stoically) disciplining the thoughts he brings into every moment.
He alone is responsible for them, he alone must have the hardihood to reject every one that reduces his stature to the little, time-bound, desire-filled ego.
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 4:
Time, Space, Causality > # 182 Paul Brunton
' The Jiva '...
"The JIVA [individual self] has been doing its work for many births. Its tendency to work exists since times immemorial. Therefore, if the work is just started with a little cooperation of the mind, it will continue to go on just like a railroad car way in the back of the line if it is just jerked and pushed by the engine.
"It is necessary to bifurcate the work of the mind into main and secondary. Thinking of God (PARAMATMAN) should be considered as main and giving a little cooperation to carrying on worldly activities (VYAVAHARA) as secondary.
"Apply your body and wealth mainly, and your mind secondarily, to run the VYAVAHARA.
When the mind is mainly engaged in thinking of God, you shall receive His grace. God is all-powerful (SARVA SHAKTIMAN). Even a little of His grace is capable of bestowing on the JIVA all that is good in its entirety.
"The declaration of the Lord that is proved by the Vedic Scriptures is this: 'WHOSOEVER THINKS OF ME WITH ONE-POINTED DEVOTION, I SHALL CONDUCT HIS NECESSARY VYAVAHARA ALSO.' The experience of the Bhaktas also goes to prove this declaration of the Lord.
"Accumulate wealth (ARTHA) but in such a way that it is not against ultimate good (PARAMARTHA). That which hinders PARAMARTHA and results in accumulation of sin is not wealth (ARTHA) but the negation of wealth (ANARTHA).
"As is the cloth so is the price. For carrying on the short-lived activities of VYAVAHARA, employ your short-lived body and wealth. Mind is a permanent thing which remains with you always. Even in the other world, it will continue to stay with you. Therefore, connect it with a permanent thing. God, being the eternal existence both in animate and inanimate things, is the only permanent thing of the highest order. Connect your mind with Him."
-Swami Brahmananda Saraswati (1869 - 1953)
in Dr. Raj R. P. Varma
Strange Facts About A Great Saint: His Divinity Swami Brahmananda Saraswati Maharaj,
Jagad Guru Shankaracharya Of Jyotirmath, Badarikashram, Himalayas
(self-published)
Excerpt from a lecture of Swami Brahmananda appended to the text
' The Sage '...
When the country is ruled with a light hand
The people are simple.
When the country is ruled with severity,
The people are cunning.
Happiness is rooted in misery.
Misery lurks beneath happiness.
Who knows what the future holds?
There is no honesty.
Honesty becomes dishonest.
Goodness becomes witchcraft.
Man's bewitchment lasts for a long time.
Therefore the sage is sharp but not cutting,
Pointed but not piercing,
Straightforward but not unrestrained,
Brilliant but not blinding.
- Lao-tzu
' Confucius and Lao Tzu '...
Confucius' injunction to acquire specific virtues is Long Path,
whereas Lao Tzu's counsel to let the mind become empty so that Tao may enter it is Short Path.
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation >
Chapter 5: Balancing the Paths > # 36 Paul Brunton
' Cosmic Co-conspirators '...
When you don't recognize the world as yourself,
you'll always be entranced in seeing your own
unrecognized reflection.
The reflected image and the unblemished mirror
appear to arise simultaneously.
Without the mirror, though, the reflected image
is invisible.
Likewise, without the reflected image, the mirror
is equally invisible.
It's the same with you and the world.
As cosmic co-conspirators, you appear and you
disappear simultaneously.
- Chuck Hillig
Seeds for the Soul
Chuck Hillig
Black Dot Publications, 2003
' Will and Ego '...
As it is written; "Not my will but Your Will be Done"... this 'Will' that is spoken of is your belief that you are an ego, separate from God.. This 'will or ego' is the wall preventing You from Freedom..
This is the secret of the surrender of our will..
This is the secret of the surrender of the 'ego'..
This is the secret of God Realization..
This is the secret of Reality..
This is Unconditional Love and Light..
This is 'You' without 'you'..
- thomas
' Beyond the Teaching '...
O monks, even if you have insight that is pure and clear but you cling to it,
fondle it and treasure it,
depend on it and are attached to it,
then you do not understand that the teaching is like a raft that carries you across the water to the farther shore but is then to be put down and not clung to.
- Majjhima Nikaya
' The Unfathomable Self '...
True knowledge means to be empty; empty of identity and
belief in and attachment to psychological conditioning.
There is a great space and silence here in the emptiness.
A great intelligence looks out from that space as the unfathomable
Self.
You are one with this One.
This unity is love and Truth.
- Mooji
' Intellectually Free '...
In time, when the beginning state is well past, he will become intellectually free.
There will be no theories, no ideologies to hold him captive and colour his judgements.
This is not because he realizes how the widening of his study, outlook, knowledge, development, has produced a succession of varied theories but also because he is coming nearer to truth, which exhilarates and liberates the mind.
— Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practicies Involved >
Chapter 9: Conclusion > # 31 Paul Brunton
' True Heros '...
To be true heroes, we need to generate a noble aspiration.
We resolve with all our heart to work to benefit others, no matter what.
A truly noble resolve can produce noble conduct.
Those who harbor noble aspirations for the world and engage in noble conduct are what we call "bodhisattvas".
- Karmapa
' Naked Dancing '...
The soul, like the moon,
is new, and always new again.
And I have seen the ocean
continuously creating.
Since I scoured my mind
and my body, I too, Lalla,
am new, each moment new.
My teacher told me one thing,
Live in the soul.
When that was so,
I began to go naked,
and dance*.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
* "She is most well known for wandering and dancing
naked as she sang her songs. In the ecstatic line of the
hassids and the sufis she joined the pure joy of existence,
and so completely merged with it that the bare form of
"Lalla," whom she often addresses, seemed clothing
enough. Her awareness observes the body, but is not
identified with it." (Coleman Barks)
' What is Existence ? '...
KARL: Is there a difference?
You can make a difference, if you like.
You may say enlightenment is going from the "I am so-and-so" to the "I am."
Satori, going from identification to non-identification, you can make it "enlightenment."
You can say enlightenment is even to have an experience of that light, or an experience that you are light and everything else is illusion.
Then you run around like light.
"I am real, but everything else is not."
So you are landing there in what is called "light."
And then there is an enlightened one who sees all unenlightened ones around him.
So then you're in the God-consciousness and you see only pigs sitting around you.
JAMES: So you can be an avatar, or whatever.
KARL: Whatever.
JAMES: But what about Self-realization?
KARL: Self-realization I would call the realization that That which is Self is ever-realized and doesn't need anyone to realize anything.
But this is not a realization of something, this is a non-realization.
This is a realization that existence, for sure, doesn't need a pot to realize what is existence.
-Karl Renz
If You Wake Up, Don't Take It Personally
Aperion Books
p.88
' You Are Not a Concept '...
You are not your personality.
You are not your mind.
You are not your body.
These are simply tools that are used in consciousness for the fun of expression.
They have nothing to do with who you are--nothing.
You cannot be reduced to concepts.
-Jac O'Keeffe
' Annihilation in the Beloved '...
"Those who seek annihilation in the Beloved and poverty in life
have no need of religion, knowledge or intellect.
They do not even exist,
only the Beloved remains.
This is what the verse,
“The poor have Him only,” means."
-Abu-Said Abil-Kheir (967 - 1049)
from Nobody, Son of Nobody: Poems of Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
Translated by Vraje Abramian
' The Impersonal Functioning of Understanding '...
All effort at controlling thoughts, appetites and desires
cannot but strengthen them along with the ego.
Whatever has to go must fall off by itself.
All that you are
concerned with, all that you are, is the impersonal
functioning of understanding.
So let that understanding
work through witnessing without judgment, knowing that
there is nothing else that you can do.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
' Who Are You ?'...
"A woman in a coma was dying. She suddenly had a feeling that she was taken up to heaven and stood before the Judgement Seat.
“Who are you?” a Voice said to her.
“I’m the wife of the mayor,” she replied.
“I did not ask you whose wife you are but who you are.”
“I’m the mother of four children.”
“I did not ask whose mother you are, but who you are.”
“I’m a schoolteacher.”
“I did not ask you what your profession is but who you are.”
And so it went. No matter what she replied, she did not seem to give a satisfactory answer to do question. “Who are you?”
“I’m a Christian.”
“I did not ask what your religion is but who are you.”
“I’m the one who went to church every day and always helped the poor and needy.”
“I did not ask you what you did not but who you are.”
She evidently failed the examination for she was sent back to earth. When she recovered from her illness she determined to find out who she was. And that made all the difference.
Your duty is to be. Not to be somebody, not to be nobody—for therein lies greed and ambition—not to be this or that—and thus become conditioned—but just to be."
-Anthony deMello, Prayer of the Frog 1
' The Function of the mind '...
The function of the mind is studied in analysis
and all the various mental functions have to be
studied, and it requires time.
It is a long process
of analysis undertaken leisurely.
You need a guide
for this, because you are studying yourself, and,
therefore, will be prone to justifications of your own
way of thinking.
You hold an opinion, because you
are sure that it is right.
But it may not be so in the
final analysis which we have undertaken.
Therefore,
a personal guide is needed, because it is better to
have two heads than one.
Especially in the advanced
states of meditation, you need the guidance of a
competent person.
- Swami Krishnananda
' The Pain of Love '...
The pain of love is the dynamite that breaks up the heart, even if it be as hard as a rock.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
The effect of love is pain. The love that has no pain is no love. The lover who has not gone through the agonies of love is not a lover, he claims love falsely. ... Rumi describes six signs of the lover: deep sigh, mild expression, moist eyes, eating little, speaking little, sleeping little, which all show the sign of pain in love. Hafiz says, 'All bliss in my life has been the outcome of unceasing tears and continual sighs through the heart of night.'
The sorrow of the lover is continual, in the presence and in the absence of the beloved: in the presence for fear of the absence, and in absence in longing for the presence. According to the mystical view the pain of love is the dynamite that breaks up the heart, even if it be as hard as a rock. When this hardness that covers the light within is broken through, the streams of all bliss come forth as springs from the mountains.
' The Divine Will '...
The universe takes the pattern it does out of realization of its own inherent and latent possibilities.
The Divine Will prevails everywhere within it, from atom to planet.
-- Notebooks Category 26: World-Idea > Chapter 1:
Divine Order of The Universe > # 122 Paul Brunton
' Neither body or mind '...
To what shore would you cross, O my
heart? There is no traveler before
you, there is no road:
Where is the movement, where is the
rest, on that shore?
There is no water; no boat, no boatman,
is there;
There is not so much as a rope to tow
the boat, nor a man to draw it.
No earth, no sky, no time, no thing, is
there: no shore, no ford!
There, there is neither body nor mind:
and where is the place that shall
still the thirst of the soul? You shall
find naught in that emptiness.
Be strong, and enter into your own body:
for there your foothold is firm. Consider
it well, O my heart! Go not elsewhere.
Kabir says: "Put all imaginations away, and
stand fast in that which you are."
- Kabir
' Two Kinds of Drops '...
In the fountain there are two kinds of drops:
the one constantly touches the source as goal; the other rises, breaks on the way, and so drops in the source disconnected on the way.
The latter is the life of the people who simply live and die.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
' Possessed by God '...
As if borne away, or possessed by a god, he attains to solitude in untroubled stillness, nowhere deflected in his being and unbusied with self, utterly at rest and become very rest.
He does not converse with a statue or image but with Godhead itself.
And this is no object of vision, but anote mode of seeing, a detachment from self, a simplification and surrener of self, a yearning for contact, and a stillness and meditation directed towards transformation.
Whoever sees himself in this way has attained likeness to God,
let him abandon himself and find the end of his journeying.
-Plotinus
' So Many Questions '...
So many questions ..
You are Consciousness experiencing the manifestation of Dreams..
You enjoy the Dream so much that You fully immerse..
You are close to the 'First Reality' called Divine Consciousness..
Only within the experience of non-division does this occur..
Enlightenment...
Love flows from You and through You..
The Knowledge of Creation also flows through You..
But, dare to ask the Father,
" Is this the Final Reality ?"..
You will be met with silence..
The Final Reality is Pure Awareness..
Forget the egoic-desire,
Become Nothing,
Become Everything...
-thomas
' Stopping the mind '...
"Mystic understanding of truth is not perception or cognition.
That is why it is said that you arrive at the original source by stopping the mind."
-Non-ch'uan
in Teachings of Zen
Translated by Thomas Cleary
NY: Barnes & Noble, 1998, p. 21
' The Gift of Freedom '...
Does God command or does Love have no demands?..
A young nazarite once said; " I and the Father are One"..
There is no above and below..
We walk through pages and 'thee' and 'thou' appear, and our minds return to a young man in the desert that surrenders his life and egoic desires..
Therefore, returning to Source..
Forty days of pain and then Reality appears..
But, we continue to walk through pages and hope that this magic book will give us the gift of Freedom...
-thomas
' The mind is nonexistant '...
Mind is without form and pervades the ten directions:
In the eye it is called seeing,
In the ear it is called hearing,
In the nose it smells odors
In the mouth it holds converse.
In the hands it grasps and seizes,
In the feet it runs and carries,
Fundamentally it is one pure radiance;
divided it becomes
the six harmoniously united spheres of sense.
Since the mind is nonexistent, wherever you are, you are emancipated.
-Zen Master Rinzai;
' I ', ' I ' ...
"Is it an easy thing to obtain Knowledge of Brahman?
It is not possible unless the mind is annihilated.
The guru said to the disciple, 'Give me your mind and I shall give you Knowledge'....
A man attains Brahmajnana as soon as his mind is annihilated.
With the annihilation of the mind dies the ego which says, 'I,' 'I.'
-Shri Ramakrishna
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Translated by Swami Nikhilananda
Volume 2:13, Saturday, May 9, 1885
' Grace is Breath '...
Grace is everything.
Grace is another name for what we are.
Grace is indefinable, ever perfect and timeless.
It is that in which time and breath play as names and forms
in their brief dance called life.
We are the experiencing and simultaneously the witness of all this.
Grace is that which calls you away from the chaos,
away from the noise of the world.
Grace is the same as peace,
but here there is no peacekeeper
nor anyone being a doer.
Grace is the breath of the Self.
- Mooji
' Soul's Attainment '...
Each soul's attainment is according to its evolution.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Opinion is an outcome of mind. It is an outburst of its reasoning and judging faculty. And so, according to the evolution of a particular mind, its opinion is. Opinions clash when two people of different stages of evolution express themselves. Therefore the wise are more reluctant to express their opinion, whereas for the unwise it is easy. A simpleton is only too glad to express his opinion uninvited.
Everyone, consciously or unconsciously, is striving after spiritual attainment. Sometimes he does not take the same way as we do, sometimes his point of view and his method differ, and sometimes one person attains to spiritual realization much sooner than another. It may be reached in a day, and another person may have striven for it all his life and yet not have attained to it. What determines it? It is the evolution of a particular soul.
Every step one takes in evolution changes one's ideal. In your stage, if you love a jasmine today, it is possible that in your next step in evolution you may have grown above it and you love a rose. And it is not necessary that you should keep to the jasmine when your evolution brings you to the love for the rose -- thus one is kept from progressing.
To the question, "Are you a Christian?", "Are you a Muslim?", "Are you a Jew?", the Sufi's answer would be 'yes' rather than 'no', for the Sufi opposes no religion but sympathizes with all. In fact Sufism cannot be called a religion, for it does not impose either belief or principle upon anyone, considering that each individual soul has its own principles best suited for it, and a belief which changes with each grade of evolution. ... A Sufi does not dispute on spiritual subjects with everyone, for this reason: the spiritual evolution of each one differs from that of the other, the knowledge of one cannot be the knowledge of the other, nor is the understanding of one the understanding of the other. ... at every step in spiritual evolution a person's belief changes until one arrives at a final belief which words cannot explain.
' Beyond Reincarnation '...
Flowers, sesame seed, bowls of fresh water,
a tuft of kusa-grass, all this altar
paraphernalia is not needed
by someone who takes the teacher's words in
and honestly lives them.
Full of longing in meditation,
one sinks into a joy that is free
of any impulse to act and will not
enter a human birth again.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992
' Ram Tzu Knows This '...
Ram Tzu knows this - -
You can only be lost
If you are trying
To get somewhere.
- Ram Tzu
-No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced"
Ram Tzu
Advaita Press, 1990
' We Know It Not '...
Consider the fact that our individual lives are totally suspended during sleep, that the waves of personal consciousness then merge utterly in the ocean.
How clearly this shows the Divine to be also the Infinite and Universal, our lack of true spirituality, and our possession at best of its pale reflection!
For where else could we go to sleep except in this Infinite and Universal Mind?
Yet we know it not!
To get rid of such ignorance, to attain transcendental insight into the fourth state of being, is the most wonderful of all the tasks which this philosophy sets before us.
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 3: The States of Consciousness > # 179
-- Perspectives > Chapter 19: The Reign of Relativity > # 18 Paul Brunton
' Question Your Dream '...
When you shall begin to question your dream,
awakening will be not far away.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Seven Steps to Awakening.
' A Natural State '...
Without story making, without interpreting, without
projecting, without desiring, you are perfectly happy
and in a natural state of peaceful harmony.
But don't
be thinking this is a personal state.
In the absence of
the 'person' the ever-perfect presence prevails.
- Mooji
' Reincarnation '...
The very nature of reincarnation prevents anyone from completely proving it.
But there is no other theory that is so reasonable to help us understand our evolution, history, capacity, genius, character, and inequality; no other so useful to help us solve the great problem of why we are here on earth at all.
This doctrine, that the ego repeatedly visits our plane in fresh physical forms, is demanded by reason, supplied by intuition, and verified by revelation.
-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 2:
Rebirth and Reincarnation > # 95 Paul Brunton
' Realizing Truth '...
"Truth indeed has never been preached by the Buddha,
seeing that one has to realize it within oneself."
-Asvaghosa
Sutralamkara
quoted in Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945, p. 127
' Contentment '...
That one is blessed and at peace
who doesn't hope, to whom
desire makes no more loans.
Nothing coming, nothing owed.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992
' Learning by Experience '...
Once I said to God, "How do you teach us?"
And He replied;
"If
you were
playing chess with someone who
had infinite power and infinite knowledge
and wanted to make you a
master of the game,
where would all the chess
pieces be at
every moment?
Indeed, not only where he wanted them,
but where all were best for your
development;
and that is every situation
of one's
life.
- St. John of the Cross
' Reason and Desire '...
It is the nature of Reason to see the End;
it is the nature of desire not to.
- Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
' I AM '...
Q: Everybody says 'I am'.. The realized man too says 'I am'. Where is the difference?
M: The difference is in the meaning attached to the words 'I am'..
With the realized man the experience: 'I am the world, the world is mine' is supremely valid - he thinks, feels and acts integrally and in unity with all that lives.
He may not even know the theory and practice of self-realization, and be born and bred free of religious and metaphysical notions.
But there will not be the least flaw in his understanding and compassion.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM THAT ch 22
' Just be Quiet '...
“Just be quiet, be still and stop participating in the imaginary world created by your thoughts.
There is no identification when the mind is not engaged with thoughts; no suffering is a consequence of no identification.”
~Jac O'Keeffe
' Wisdom '...
"Wisdom is radiant and unfading, and she is easily discerned by those who love her, and is found by those who seek her.
She hastens to make herself known to those who desire her.
One who rises early to seek her will have no difficulty, for she will be found sitting at the gate.
To fix one's thought on her is perfect understanding, and one who is vigilant on her account will soon be free from care, because she goes about seeking those worthy of her, and she graciously appears to them in their paths, and meets them in every thought.
The beginning of wisdom is the most sincere desire for instruction, and concern for instruction is love of her, and love of her is the keeping of her laws, and giving heed to her laws is assurance of immortality, and immortality brings one near to God; so the desire for wisdom leads to a kingdom."
-King Solomon
Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-20
New Revised Standard Version
" I and my Father are One "...
In an adept's presence, as in the sun's presence, things begin to happen of their own accord.
People feel a spiritual quickening and begin to call him master and themselves disciples..
The whole institution of discipleship is nothing but a convenient illusion created by people themselves and tolerantly permitted by the adept for their sakes.
He himself, however, is aware of no such thing, has no favouritism, but sends out his light and power to the whole of mankind indiscriminately.
Yet this is not to say that the disciples' illusion is a useless or baseless one.
It is indeed very real from their standpoint and experience and affords the greatest help to their advancement.
Ultimately however, towards the final stages of the path, they discover him entirely within themselves as the infinite reality, not disparate from themselves, and the sense of duality begins to disappear.
Later they merge in him and "I and my Father are one" may then be truly uttered.
-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 5:
Teaching Masters, Discipleship > # 275 Paul Brunton
' Nisarga Yoga '...
Meet your own self.
Be with your own self,
listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in
mind ceaselessly.
You need no other guide.
As long as your urge for truth affects your
daily life, all is well with you.
Live your
...life without hurting anybody.
Harmlessness
is a most powerful form of Yoga and it will
take you speedily to your goal.
This is what
I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga.
It is
the art of living in peace and harmony, in
friendliness and love.
The fruit of it is
happiness, uncaused and endless.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The Scent of Sandalwood '...
Where Spring, the lord of the seasons, reigneth, there the
Unstruck Music sounds of itself,
There the streams of light flow in all directions;
Few are the men who can cross to that shore!
There, where millions of Krishnas stand with hands folded,
Where millions of Vishnus bow their heads,
Where millions of Brahmâs are reading the Vedas,
Where millions of Shivas are lost in contemplation,
Where millions of Indras dwell in the sky,
Where the demi-gods and the munis are unnumbered,
Where millions of Saraswatis, Goddess of Music, play on the vina –
There is my Lord self-revealed:
and the scent of sandal and flowers dwells in those deeps.
-Kabir
Songs of Kabir, XV
Rabindranth Tagore
' Live by Truth alone '...
Learn to live without self-concern.
For
this you must know your own true being
(swarupa) as indomitable, fearless, ever
victorious.
Once you know with absolute
certainty that nothing can trouble you but
your own imagination, you come to disregard
your desires and fears, concepts and ideas
and live by truth alone.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' Alaya: Not One, Not Two '...
In order to understand this difficult situation in which Alaya is one dynamic whole and yet two, let us remember the example of a mirror and its reflections. We could consider Alaya in its eternal
mode as the mirror, and Alaya in its manifest, evolving mode as the reflections, which are constantly coming and going. The mirror is immutable, stable, "eternal," the reflections are always changing. Yet in practice we see the mirror and reflections as one undivided
whole.
A favorite question of Zen masters is "Where are you from?" If see myself as "a reflection," then I come and go, I am one reflection relative to all other reflections. But if I see myself as the mirror, coming or going does not apply-the mirror has no relation to any particular reflection; it is just one immutable whole. As Zen Master Hakuin says in his verse In Praise of Zazen, "Coming and
going we never leave home."
A saying of Dagen's sums all this up. "Though not identical, they are not different; though not different, they are not one; though not one, they are not two." We shall come across the "one
not two" concept repeatedly while discussing the Lankavatara.
-Zen and the Sutras - Albert Low
' Bright Spirit IS '...
The spiritual heir of Muhammed is seated in front
of you, but where indeed is "front"?
He is before
you, but where is the soul that thinks "before"?
If you fancy you have a "before" and "behind,"
you are tied to body and deprived of spirit.
"Below" and "above," "before" and "behind,"
are attributes of the body:
the essence of the
bright spirit IS.
- Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
' The Mosquito's Complaint '...
One day a mosquito went to the court of King Solomon the Wise.
"O great Solomon, upon thee be peace," he cried, "I come to seek
redress at your court for the injustices which are daily being
performed against me."
Solomon said: "State your complaint, and it will certainly be
heard."
Said the mosquito: "Illustrious and all-just one, my complaint
is against the Wind.
Whenever I go out into the open, the Wind comes
along and blows me away. I therfore have no hope of reaching the
places which I regard as my lawful destination."
King Solomon spoke: "In accordance with the accepted principles
of justice, no compaint can be accepted unless the other party is
present to answer the charge."
He turned to his courtiers and commanded: "Call the Wind to make
out his own case."
The Wind was called up, and presently the breeze which heralded
his coming was felt to rustle slowly, then stronger.
And the mosquito shouted: "O Great KIng! I withdraw my
complaint, because the air is driving me round and round in circles,
and before the Wind is actually here I shall have been swept away."
Thus were the circumstances imposed both by the plaintiff and
the court found to be impossible to the cause of justice.
-as collected by Idries Shah
' Light of Truth '...
If the Light is not resisted, by timidity, ignorance, or egoism,
it will work upon the entire human being,
radically transforming his outlook, life, and consciousness.
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 4:
Introduction To Mystical Glimpses > # 159 Paul Brunton
' Beliefs '...
Belief, any belief, is based on the sense of
insecurity.
Only when all belief is given
up are you free to know yourself.
In self-
discovery what you find is the Truth - that
Truth which is total, self-evident and
which needs no outside support or justi-
fication.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
' Diving Deep Within Meditation '...
Those who dive deep within themselves can, when they touch the plane
of the abstract, percieve things that are preparing to manifest through
the mind onto the surface.
But the primitive state of these things is
so indistinct even to the seer that unless he knows the language
of that sphere he cannot understand what his experiences convey.
From the Teachings of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & arranged by
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT KHAN
' The Unified Field '...
When his mind moves entirely and wholly into the One Infinite Presence,
and when it settles permanently there,
the divided existence of glimpse and darkness,
of Spirit and matter, of Overself and ego, of heaven and earth, will vanish.
The crossing over to a unified existence will happen.
-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 2:
Enlightenment Which Stays > # 122 Paul Brunton
' Losing self into God '...
The soul is sustained by God, by the Supreme Being,
by God Himself.
The body can be sustained by a cup
of tea and food, but the food of the soul is God Himself;
it cannot be satisfied with anything less.
It wants only
that.
And so it goes on crying, and until that is got it
won't become quiet.
And though body can be satisfied
with little things, the soul cannot be satisfied with
anything but God.
Only when it comes in contact with
God, it loses itself.
And when it has contacted Him and
has realized it, it feels happy then and, only then.
- Swami Krishnananda
Facets of Spirituality
Complied by S. Bhagyalakshmi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986
' Love is Non-ego '...
For the average person, love is a manifestation of the violent, possessive doership of the ego.
Whereas for the spiritual person, it is not a sentiment at all, but a state of mind in which love exists to the degree in which the selfish element is transcended.
According to the average person, the desire for possession is the criterion, the touchstone of sincerity or reality by which love is to be judged.
Even the mother is accused of not loving her child if she is not particularly possessive towards her baby.
Love - the sentiment, and love - the non-affective state of mind, where a subject-object relationship does not exist, are infused by the same force.
Though basically not different, one is steeped in egoistic involvement, the other unaffected and pure.
The former is exemplified by the love of a man for a woman, the latter, sometimes called divine love or caritas, is a luminous pool of light and not a beam focused on one object at a time.
- Ramesh Balsekar
' The Devine Darkness '...
The final grade of inner experience, the deepest phase of contemplation, is one where the experiencer himself disappears, the meditator vanishes, the knower no longer has an object--not even the Overself--to know for duality collapses.
Because this grade is beyond the supreme "Light" experience where the Overself reveals its presence visually as a dazzling mass, shaft, ball, or ray of unearthly radiance which is seen whether the bodily eyes are open or closed, it has been called the divine darkness.
-- Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2: Our Relation To the Absolute > # 147
-- Perspectives > Chapter 28: The Alone > # 34 Paul Brunton
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