The inner person is a jewel. It is life itself. It is the treasure of the vital breath called prana.
Everyone is deluded by errors and confusions about God. They don't understand the true inner meaning (marma) of life.
The divine love (prema) of the inner person does not usually appear in the earthly realm., but only through the inner person can people experience divine love.
Those people who experience the inner person are the inner person, because the inner person (God) recognizes the inner person.
These people and the inner person (God) seem to exist separately, yet it is the inner person who realizes the inner person (God).
Those who experience the inner person are dead-yet-alive (jiyante mara). They are the very essence of that inner person (God).
Initial experiences of the inner person (God) are signs of great good fortune. The inner person is on the far shores of experience.
Chanting the name of the inner person (God) leads to a separate mystical place (heaven). Distinct from this world, it has its own customs. Candidas says: Everything about it is distinct. Who can fathom its customs?
- from Manusa manusa sabai balaye, in Sahajiya sahitya by Manindramohan Basu
20041215
20041213
Krishna.com - Srimati Radharani's Appearance
Krishna.com - Srimati Radharani's Appearance: "Srimati Radharani is the eternal consort of Lord Krishna."
All About Hinduism (Shiva, Shakti and Maya)
All About Hinduism:
Siva, Sakti And Maya
The Lord Siva pervades the whole world by His Sakti. He works through His Sakti. Sakti is the conscious energy of Lord Siva. She is the very body of Lord Siva. The potter is the first cause for the pot. The stick and the wheel are the instrumental causes. The clay is the material cause of the pot. Similarly, Lord Siva is the first cause of the world. Sakti is the instrumental cause. Maya is the material cause.
Sakti is not the material cause of the universe, because she is of the nature of consciousness (Chaitanya). Siva is pure consciousness, but matter is pure unconsciousness. Sakti is the intermediate link between the two.
Sakti is the reflex of Siva. It has no independent existence. Siva assumes this form out of His great love for mankind. Siva wishes that all should know Him.
Commentary: Shiva is pure consciousness, and matter, pure unconsciousness. Shakti is the intermediary between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Maya is thus pure unconsciousness.
Anava, Karma and Maya
Souls (Pasu) are by nature infinite, all-pervading, eternal and all-knowing like Lord Siva (Pati). Yet they think that they are finite, limited and little-knowing, ignorant and temporary. This is due to their bonds (Pasa), viz., Anava, Karma and Maya which are called the three Malas or impurities. Anava is the impurity which makes the all-pervading Jiva think itself to be atomic (Anu). It produces the erroneous notion of finiteness. The second impurity or bond is Karma. The soul acts in certain ways on account of its limitation and does good and evil actions. Karma brings about the conjunction of the soul with its body. The results of the Karma have to be worked out in the world. There should be worlds and bodies, in order to experience the fruits of actions and acquire knowledge. These are provided by Maya, the third Mala or bond. Maya is the material cause of the world. The soul gets experience and limited knowledge through Maya.
The soul learns, by long experience, that this Samsara is full of pains and is transitory, and that he can attain eternal bliss and immortality only by attaining Sivatva or the nature of Siva or God-realisation. He develops Vairagya (dispassion), and Viveka (discrimination between the real and the unreal, the permanent and the impermanent).
Commentary; Anavan Karma and Maya are the Trimala, the three malas (impurities).
Jiva refers to the ego-self which thinks itself to be atomic.
Siva, Sakti And Maya
The Lord Siva pervades the whole world by His Sakti. He works through His Sakti. Sakti is the conscious energy of Lord Siva. She is the very body of Lord Siva. The potter is the first cause for the pot. The stick and the wheel are the instrumental causes. The clay is the material cause of the pot. Similarly, Lord Siva is the first cause of the world. Sakti is the instrumental cause. Maya is the material cause.
Sakti is not the material cause of the universe, because she is of the nature of consciousness (Chaitanya). Siva is pure consciousness, but matter is pure unconsciousness. Sakti is the intermediate link between the two.
Sakti is the reflex of Siva. It has no independent existence. Siva assumes this form out of His great love for mankind. Siva wishes that all should know Him.
Commentary: Shiva is pure consciousness, and matter, pure unconsciousness. Shakti is the intermediary between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Maya is thus pure unconsciousness.
Anava, Karma and Maya
Souls (Pasu) are by nature infinite, all-pervading, eternal and all-knowing like Lord Siva (Pati). Yet they think that they are finite, limited and little-knowing, ignorant and temporary. This is due to their bonds (Pasa), viz., Anava, Karma and Maya which are called the three Malas or impurities. Anava is the impurity which makes the all-pervading Jiva think itself to be atomic (Anu). It produces the erroneous notion of finiteness. The second impurity or bond is Karma. The soul acts in certain ways on account of its limitation and does good and evil actions. Karma brings about the conjunction of the soul with its body. The results of the Karma have to be worked out in the world. There should be worlds and bodies, in order to experience the fruits of actions and acquire knowledge. These are provided by Maya, the third Mala or bond. Maya is the material cause of the world. The soul gets experience and limited knowledge through Maya.
The soul learns, by long experience, that this Samsara is full of pains and is transitory, and that he can attain eternal bliss and immortality only by attaining Sivatva or the nature of Siva or God-realisation. He develops Vairagya (dispassion), and Viveka (discrimination between the real and the unreal, the permanent and the impermanent).
Commentary; Anavan Karma and Maya are the Trimala, the three malas (impurities).
Jiva refers to the ego-self which thinks itself to be atomic.
The Buddha and His Dhamma, by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
The Buddha and His Dhamma, by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
The strongest case for neo-Buddhism, the Buddha and His Dhamma, is a must-read for social activists with sympathy for the poor.
The strongest case for neo-Buddhism, the Buddha and His Dhamma, is a must-read for social activists with sympathy for the poor.
20041210
When My Eyes are Open
When my eyes are open,
three eyes are open.
One of them is Shiva's.
When my eyes are open,
only his glows like a ruby.
When my eyes are open,
I see with Shiva's eye,
an ocher dot on my forehead.
When my eyes are open,
Shiva's eye grants me foresight.
When my eyes are open,
his eye is omnipresent.
Whose eyes are opened
by the illumination
that Shiva provides?
three eyes are open.
One of them is Shiva's.
When my eyes are open,
only his glows like a ruby.
When my eyes are open,
I see with Shiva's eye,
an ocher dot on my forehead.
When my eyes are open,
Shiva's eye grants me foresight.
When my eyes are open,
his eye is omnipresent.
Whose eyes are opened
by the illumination
that Shiva provides?
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