Words of Wisdom
You say I
am repeating
Something
I have said before.
I shall say it again.
Shall I
say it again?
In order to arrive there
To arrive
where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must
go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order
to arrive at what you do not know
You must
go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order
to possess what you do not possess
You must
go by the way of dispossession.
In order
to arrive at what you are not
You must
go through the way in which you are not.
And what
you do not know is the only thing you know
And what
you own is what you do not own
And where
you are is where you are not.
T.S Elliot
With the drawing of this
Love and the voice of this Calling
We shall not cease from
exploration
And the end of all our
exploring
Will be to arrive where
we started
And know the place for
the first time.
Through the unknown,
unremembered gate
When the last of earth
left to discover
Is that which was the
beginning;
At the source of the
longest river
The voice of the hidden
waterfall
And the children in the
apple-tree
Not known, because not
looked for
But heard, half-heard, in
the stillness
Between two waves of the
sea.
Quick now, here, now,
always—
A condition of complete
simplicity
(Costing not less than
everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall
be well
When the tongues of flame
are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of
fire
And the fire and the rose
are one
T.S Elliot
The Eternal has no birth and
death...
...no beginning, no middle nor end; it does not die, it is not born,
it can
never be destroyed; it is witness, the Self, the Atma.
The Bhagavad Gita does not
intend that you should pluck a leaf or a flower or a fruit from some plant or
tree and place it before God.
Nor does it ask you to bring
water from a well or a river
or a roadside tap.
The Leaf that you have to
offer is your own body,
which like the leaf, sprouts green, fades, and finally
falls off from the branch.
The Flower is the heart freed
from the pests of lust,
anger, greed, attachment, pride, hate, etc.
The Fruit is the mind, the
consequence of its yearnings, which have to be dedicated to God.
The Water is the stream of
tears that flow from the eyes when one is in ecstatic bliss at the
contemplation of God's glory.
Offering these four is the
real act of Sharanaagathi (total surrender).
Difficulties are created to
increase the yearning and to sift the sincere devotee from the rest.
Prayer must emanate from the
heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts
clash.
Prayer has great efficacy. The Vedic seers prayed for the peace and happiness of all mankind, of all
animate and inanimate things.
Cultivate that Universal vision.
We do not get what we desire,
We get what we deserve.
God is the seed, the universe
is the tree.
/Sai Baba
If I cannot forgive myself for all the blunders
That I have made over the years,
Then how can I proceed?
How can I ever dream perfection-dreams?
Move, I must, forward.
Fly, I must, upward.
Dive, I must, inward,
To be once more
What I truly am
And shall forever remain.
