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When you keep thinking about sense objects, attachment comes. Attachment breeds desire, the lust of possession that burns to anger.
Anger clouds the judgment; you can no longer learn from past mistakes. Lost is the power to choose between what is wise and what is unwise, and your life is utter waste.
But when you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike,
there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you live in the wisdom of the Self.
— The Bhagavad Gita (2.62-65)
Teilhard de Chardin
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed. The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed. Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them… for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (May 1, 1881 – April 10, 1955) was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest, a paleontologist and geologist
“But mystics have never been very interested in theology. Mystics are interested in direct experience, they are empirical in their approach. And the taoists, being mystics, were the only great group of ancient Chinese people who seriously studied nature. They were interested in its principles from the beginning, and their books are full of analogies between the taoist way of life and the behaviour of natural forces seen in water, wind, or plants and rocks.”
—Alan Watts
Altarpiece No. 1, No. 2, & No. 3 Hilma af Klint - 1915 Private collection Paintings Height: 237.5 cm (93.5 in.), Width: 179.5 cm (70.67 in.)
Hard Times = Being Cooked by Divine Love
Chickpea to Cook, by Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)
A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot where it’s being boiled.
‘Why are you doing this to me?’
The cook knocks him down with the ladle.
‘Don’t you try to jump out. You think I’m torturing you. I’m giving you flavor, so you can mix with spices and rice and be the lovely vitality of a human being. Remember when you drank rain in the garden. That was for this.’
Grace first. Sexual pleasure, then a boiling new life begins, and the Friend has something good to eat.
Eventually the chickpea will say to the cook, ‘Boil me some more. Hit me with the skimming spoon. I can’t do this by myself. I’m like an elephant that dreams of gardens back in Hindustan and doesn’t pay attention to his driver. You’re my cook, my driver, my way into existence. I love your cooking.’
The cook says, ‘I was once like you, fresh from the ground. Then I boiled in time, and boiled in the body, two fierce boilings. My animal soul grew powerful. I controlled it with practices, and boiled some more, and boiled once beyond that, and became your teacher’.
On Love - Khalil Gibran
For even as love crowns you, so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun.
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself He threshes you to make you naked. He sifts you to free you from your husks. He grinds you to whiteness. He kneads you until you are pliant. And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
Love is Reckless
Love is reckless; not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Love comes on strong, consuming herself, unabashed.
Yet, in the midst of suffering,
Love proceeds like a millstone,
hard surfaced and straightforward.
Having died to self-interest,
she risks everything and asks for nothing.
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.
Without cause God gave us Being;
without cause, give it back again.
Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion.
Religion seeks grace and favor,
but those who gamble these away are God’s favorites,
for they neither put God to the test
nor knock at the door of gain and loss.
- Rumi
(translation by Kabir Helminsky)
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Banana Ganesha, Odisha India 25 feet high idol of Ganpati ji made with 5 MT of bananas. Made by Natraj Club.
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“You, being the Self, want to know how to attain the Self. It is like a man being at Ramanasramam and asking how many ways there are of going to Ramanasramam and which is the best way for him…There is no goal to be reached. There is nothing to be attained. You are the Self. You exist always.”
Sri Ramana Maharshi
open your mind.
They come in waves.
Silence is the true teaching. It is the perfect teaching. It is suited only for the most advanced seeker. The others are unable to draw full inspiration from it. Therefore they require words to explain the truth. But truth is beyond words….
~ Ramana Maharshi