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Concepts , Concepts , Concepts..
Shall we banish them for a while ?

Is there any Joy in any Concept ?
Do they not keep us bound
In the realm of words ?

Do we need to know
The chemical formula
Before tasting sugar ??

--ramesh chivukula

"Atmanam viddhi-Know thyself. Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal
Consciousness. The concept of Infinity, Eternity and Immortality is
absolutely foreign to us. Why? The reason is quite simple. We live in
the body, rather than in the soul. To us the body is everything. There
is nothing and can be nothing beyond the body. The existence of the
soul we consider sheer imagination. But I assure you that the soul is
not imaginary. It is at once the life and the revelation of the Cosmic
Reality. Most of us live in the body, in the earthbound physical
consciousness. Our teacher is Darkness; our professor is Ignorance. But if ever we live in the soul, we shall see that our teacher is Vision
and our professor is Illumination.

"Life is effort." So says the body. "Life is blessing." So says the
soul. The human in man does not want to go beyond morality, society and humanity. The divine in man comes down from divinity into humanity, from unity into multiplicity.

Atmanam viddhi. Know thyself. The seers of the Upanishads not only
discovered this Truth Transcendental but offered it to the suffering,
crying and striving mankind. In order to know oneself, one has to
discover oneself first. What is self discovery? Self discovery is
God-Realisation."

--Sri Chinmoy

http://www.srichinmoy.org/

"The divine manifestation is governed by a certain rhythm, which is present even in the minutest atom. This state of being knows no antitheses, it casts no shadows, and always brings forth itself. Good is not set against evil, nor beauty against ugliness, nor love against hatred, nor reality against delusion. The Gnosis does not have love; it does not radiate love; it IS love."

- Jan van Rijckenborgh [The Chinese Gnosis]

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he
melts and perishes.

—Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi

The nature of being in tune with the infinite is this: comparing our soul to a string of an instrument, it is tied at both ends; one is the infinite, and the other is the finite. When a person is conscious all the time of the finite then he is tuned to the finite, while the one who is conscious of the infinite is tuned to the infinite. Being in tune with the former makes us limited, weak, hopeless, and powerless; but by being in tune with the latter we obtain the power and strength that will pull us through life in whatever adverse conditions may arise.

–From the Teachings of HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN