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Tribhuvan Pabari wrote:

What is the meaning of "sat-chit-anand"

Scriptures say that Sat-Chit-Ananda is Existence Consciousness Bliss.

The meaning of Sat-Chit-Ananda is known fully only in the experience of

Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat-Chit-Ananda is our nature. It is both experience

and the foundation of experience. It is where the overwhelming dynamic

power of change and manifestation (Shakti which appears as the Goddess

or the chosen deity in the relative world) and the Self-absorbed power

of being (Underlying Reality referred to as Shiva, the ground of play

for Shakti) merge and One reveals its Eternal Wholeness to Itself.

Sat-Chit-Ananda-Nityam-Poornum.

Jnaneshwar the Celebrated Thirteenth

Century Indian Mystic-Poet, has stated it beautifully in

the Amritanubhav

(The Nectar of Mystical Experience)."

When He awakes,

the whole house disappears,

And nothing at all

is left.

Two lutes: one

note.

Two flowers: one

fragrance.

Two lamps: one

light.

Two lips: one word.

Two eyes: one

sight.

These two: one

universe.

In unity there is

little to behold;

So She, the mother

of abundance,

Brought forth the

world as play.

He takes the role

of Witness

Out of love of

watching Her.

But when Her

appearance is withdrawn,

The role of

Witness is abandoned as well.

Through Her,

He assumes the

form of the universe;

Without Her,

He is left naked.

If night and day

were to approach the Sun,

Both would

disappear.

In the same way,

their duality would vanish

If their essential

Unity were seen.

The book from

which these excerpts are taken, is entitled "Jnaneshvar: The

Life and Works of

the Celebrated Thirteenth Century Indian Mystic-Poet," by

S. Abhyayananda.

 

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"Love itself is the actual form of God."

Sri Ramana

In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma

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,

Harsha wrote:

 

 

"When He awakes, the whole house disappears,

And nothing at all is left.

 

Two lutes: one note.

Two flowers: one fragrance.

Two lamps: one light.

 

 

Two lips: one word.

Two eyes: one sight.

These two: one universe.

 

In unity there is little to behold;

So She, the mother of abundance,

Brought forth the world as play.

 

He takes the role of Witness

Out of love of watching Her.

 

But when Her appearance is withdrawn,

The role of Witness is abandoned as well.

 

Through Her,

He assumes the form of the universe;

 

Without Her,

He is left naked.

 

If night and day were to approach the Sun,

Both would disappear.

 

In the same way, their duality would vanish

If their essential Unity were seen."

 

 

 

 

 

 

You woke me, and it seemed

as one world disappeared,

another world appeared.

 

This other world is

not elsewhere.

 

In the dream,

I was.

 

I was living as if

without You.

 

Where am I

without You?

 

Did You awaken me to taste

Your absence, or reveal

where You really are?

 

Vast emptiness,

nothing holy in it --

 

is that the way it goes?

 

An orchid stalk in a blue vase

placed just so on the garden wall

suddenly drops two flowers:

 

When You go,

I go too.

 

I only came here

to watch You,

 

You called me --

 

"Come, Beloved!"

 

I fell out of a dark world,

a womb of emptiness,

and into love, for

You are love,

and You

woke me to You –

 

I, who am nothing but

Your love, awakening to You.

 

As we do, both worlds vanish.

Neither of us ever were.

Not a trace remains.

 

This is how we are.

This is how I

love You.

 

 

 

 

LoveAlways,

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