Fw: [allspirit] Many Millions are the Skies and Solar Systems -- Skies Above Skies

[Guest guest]

Harsha wrote...

 

Billions of stars in the galaxy. Billons

of galaxies speeding in space.

There is an asteroid passing by our little

planet soon, I have heard.

 

Meanwhile, over on Allspirit...

 

Love,

 

Joyce

 

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"santmat_mystic ( James )" <santmat_mystic

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 2:45 PM

[allspirit] Many Millions are the Skies and Solar Systems -- Skies

Above Skies

 

> Many Millions are the Skies and Solar Systems -- Skies Above Skies

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> *JPG PICS: Millions are the Galaxies, Millions are the Worlds:

> The Edge of the Known Universe:

> Hercules and NASA Hubble Deep Field:

> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0007/deepfield_hst_big.jpg

> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000709.html

> http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~colbert/hercules.html

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> *JPG PICS: First planet ever seen outside our solar system:

> http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1998/19

> First direct image of a planet circling another star:

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3644410.stm

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> Many millions are the skies and solar systems.

> Many millions are the moons, the suns and stars.

> Many millions are the sources of creation and continents.

> Many millions are the jewel containing oceans.

> Many times has the universal expanse occurred.

> The Lord has strung all the creation in His thread.

> His limit no one knows.

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> Many millions go about in many existences.

> Many millions have been the incarnations.

> Many millions are the creatures of various descriptions.

> Many millions of beings, the Lord has made of good many

> descriptions.

> Many millions are the celestial singers.

> Ever and ever, the Unique Lord remains the same.

> From the Lord, they emanate and into the Lord they merge.

> Nanak says, with whomsoever, the Lord is pleased, He emancipates.

> The Lord is near all yet far from all.

> Nanak says, Lord is pervasive in creation yet He, Himself remains

> away.

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> Many millions searching for the Lord, find The Supreme One within

> their mind.

> Many million are thirsting for the sight of the Lord.

> To them the Imperishable Lord meets.

> They are imbued with the love of the Transcendent Lord.

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> In many ways the Lord has spread Himself.

> Nanak says, the Lord is all by Himself.

> Many millions are the devotees of Supreme Lord and their souls are

> enlightened.

> Many millions have realized the essence and with their eyes they

> behold the One Lord.

> Many millions drink the Name nectar.

> They become immortal and live for ever and ever.

> Many millions sing the praises of the Name.

> They are spontaneously absorbed in Divine delight.

> His servants, remember Him with every breath.

> Nanak says, they are the beloveds of Supreme Lord.

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> The Lord alone is the doer of all deeds.

> There is no other.

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> -- Adi Granth, The Gurbani or Psalms of the Saints of India

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> Through the Word the Worlds Converse

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> And the Highest One gave the Word to his worlds,

> which interpret his own beauty,

> recite his praise,

> reveal his thought,

> are instructors of his works.

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> For the swiftness of the Word is ineffable.

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> Its course knows no end,

> it never fails, it stands.

> Its decent and its Way are incomprehensible.

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> And through the Word the worlds converse.

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> The mouth of the Highest One spoke to them

> and he was made clear by his Word.

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> The dwelling place of the Word is man

> and Its Truth is Love.

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> -- Book of the Odes, Syriac/Aramaic, First Century AD

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> Countless Are the Earths, Spheres, and Devotees

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> Countless are the gospels, sutras, odes, upanishads, gathas,

> quatrains, abhangas, gitas, granths, vanis and vedas. As Guru Nanak

> says in his Morning Prayer (Jap Ji): "Endless are the harmonies

> played by the minstrels; the players prepare endless tunes and

> measures to sing to Thee, 0 bountiful Creator. Thy Light is within

> the beings and the beings are all within thy Light...countless are

> the countries, earths and spheres. Millions assign to Him ever new

> names, 0 Nanak."

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> From the Kirpal Singh translation of the Jap Ji, the Morning Prayer

> of Guru Nanak:

> http://www.ruhanisatsangusa.org/jj/japji.htm

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> Countless there are that remember Thee, and countless those

> that love Thee;

> Countless there are that worship Thee, and countless those

> that seek Thee in austerity and penance;

> Countless there are that recite from sacred books Thy praises; and

> Countless those that, absorbed in Yoga, stand indifferent to the

> world;

> Countless those Thy devotees who contemplate Thy attributes

> and wisdom; and

> Countless those that practice truth and charity;

> Countless are the heroes that boldly face the foeman's steel; and

> Countless those who have vowed silence, meditate on Thee

> with unceasing love.

> What power have I to conceive of Thy wonderful nature?

> Too poor, am I, to make an offering of my life to Thee.

> Whatever pleaseth Thee is good:

> Thou art forevermore;

> O, Formless One. (STANZA XVII)

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> Countless Thy names and countless Thy places;

> Unapproachable and inaccessible Thy innumerable

> heavenly plateaux;

> Even by the word countless, we fail to describe Thee;

> By words we describe Thee and by words we praise Thee.

> By words, we acquire Divine knowledge, and in words are sung

> Thy hymns and attributes;

> It is words we employ in speech and in writing;

> In them is our fate ordained;

> But He who ordains is above such writ.

> As Thou ordaineth, so do we receive.

> Thou art immanent in all;

> And nothing is where Thy Word is not.

> What power have I to conceive of Thy wonderful nature?

> Too poor, am I, to make an offering of my life to Thee.

> Whatever pleaseth Thee is good;

> Thou art forevermore; O Formless One! (Stanza XIX)

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> JPG PIC: "A Flock of Stars":

> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031213.html

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> JPG PIC: "The Andromeda Deep Field":

> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030519.html

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