I. Karma is not living Truth, for it is but the unfoldment of law empowered by the Divine Will. The worship of Fate is idolatrous, and frees no serfdom of the...
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II. As thought, as word and act, the threefold Ignorance moves, and unceasingly begets its own dark future: its profits and losses time-defaced, Is seed, the...
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III. When life itself is offered service to the inmost Lord, and hope, fear and desire, fall away from such consecrated day and night, this is the purification...
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IV. And body's service is ritual, and wealth of its adoration And the service of speech is prayer and praise, clinging to the word that redeems. And the...
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V. And the ritual the Lord loves, the adoration that he takes unto Himself, is the service of all created forms as, verily, forms of the Lord. This is the best...
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Mar 5, 2009 9:03 am
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VI. And the service of speech is clinging to the redeeming word. Not verbal praise, but so unceasingly pronounced in the heart that tongue has no need of...
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Mar 6, 2009 1:35 pm
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VII. As the unbroken stream of fragrant oil, as the river flows ceaselessly into the breast of the sea; not fugitive thought, nor fitful preoccupation, this is...
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Mar 7, 2009 9:49 am
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VIII. To cease from imagining the Lord, to cease from all projections of Him, which are unreal, no longer to dream that we are separate, but, in truth, to...
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Mar 8, 2009 10:09 am
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IX. By the very Dynamics of surrender, to be one with the Essence, which is naked Being, beyond thought and dream; that is the core of devotion: For all...
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Mar 9, 2009 12:49 pm
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X. And this is the way of works, and this is the way of devotion, and this is the way of knowledge, and the way of striving or Yoga, that Mind is gathered into...
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Mar 10, 2009 7:22 am
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XI. When spreading thought defies the controllers grasp, and its speed of images renders stillness impossible, then gently still and even the breath. For with...
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Mar 11, 2009 12:18 pm
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"For thought and breath, as with knowledge and act, are twin branches of a single stem, the root. And the Yoga of tranquil breath thus safely leads to still,...
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Mar 12, 2009 12:15 pm
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XIII. But ordered silence is not the peace that passeth understanding. From silence, thought re-emerges, and the breath trembles into movement. But who has...
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Mar 13, 2009 8:59 am
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XIV. In the hour of silence that is your own, through the Yoga of tranquil breath, seek the source of the thinker, and thought, which is the Thinker, dissolves...
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Mar 14, 2009 8:47 am
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XV. When the form of thought dissolves, the Yogi is no more the truth-seeker, but the Truth. There is no more for him to achieve, gathered into the native...
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Mar 15, 2009 9:49 am
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XVI. True feeling is not the love of created things. Or the recoil from them, for they are set in a world exterior to the soul. But true feeling is the...
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Mar 16, 2009 12:20 pm
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XVII. And mind turned inward in unrelenting search, dissolves its abstract, unreal form. For there is no mind, there are only thoughts, To philosopher and...
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Mar 17, 2009 12:38 pm
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XVIII. And thoughts appear infinite as the waves of the sea, as cloudlets in the Indian sky. But thoughts are finite, and thoughts resolve into the...
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Mar 18, 2009 1:55 pm
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XIX. And the inner most shrine is the shrine of 'I'. And when the Truth-seeker storms this citadel, bearing the sword of Truth, he slays himself: his head bows...
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XXI. And Being alone is ever true, not the false, continuous self whose dreams are pleasure and pain, the sad texture of our lives. We are verily Being, since...
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Mar 20, 2009 12:42 pm
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XXII. As I am Being, the Illumination of all forms. I am not the vesture, Body, the outer sheath. I am not the senses moving in their orbits. I am not life, ...
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Mar 21, 2009 10:22 am
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XXIII. Since there is no separate knowledge to know Being, the Real, Being cannot be known. That is a hard saying, because delusion is ancient and fixed, and...
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Mar 22, 2009 9:34 am
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XXIV. As we are the Real, and the Lord is the Real, in the depths of the Real we are one with the Lord. Knowledge of fetter alone marks the distinction of the...
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Mar 23, 2009 8:44 am
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The final 6 verses of Upadesa Saram: Thus to know the Lord is to know our Being, free of the seeming fetters of body and thought. And to know Being is nakedly...
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Mar 24, 2009 12:33 pm
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The Realization is the result of the Master's Grace more than teachings, lectures, meditation, etc. They are only secondary aids, whereas the former is the...
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Mar 25, 2009 9:08 am
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.....although the expression of realization is impossible, still its existence is indicated. Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. ...
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Mar 26, 2009 6:25 am
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The Self illumines the ego, the predispositions, and also the gross senses, whereupon the predispositions appear to the senses to have materialized as the...
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Mar 27, 2009 8:43 am
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Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it occurs. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered...
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Mar 28, 2009 6:37 am
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Constantly search for 'I,' the source of the ego. Find out, 'Who am I?' The pure 'I' is the reality, the Absolute-Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. When That is...
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Realization of the Self is the greatest help that can be rendered to humanity. The Self alone is the Reality; the world and the rest of it are not. A realized...