your eye, your finger

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" A man of full realisation instinctively becomes a lover of the whole

universe. Like spring, his is a love which demands no cause to flower

into a wealth of bloosoms. He who has discovered that the Self within

himself is none other than the All-pervading Consciousness which is

non-dual, he instantaneously discovers It to be in the core of all

pluralistic forms around him.

 

Living as he does in this intimate understanding of Oneness, he

cannot but love others as his very own Self. In his case, univeral

love is not an art to be practised, not a formality to be followed,

nor a goal to be reached; it is his very life breath. This can be

brought within the understanding of the laity through a comparison.

 

There can be no occasion for you to feel a constant hatred for any

part of your own body. Even if your hand or your leg gives you a dose

of pain, your anger towards them cools down when you realise that

they are but your own hand or leg. For instance, if the finger of

your right hand accidentally pokes your right eye, it is a case of

one part of your body giving pain to another part of it. These can be

moments of terrible protest of anger mixed with pain. But almost

immediately you realise that it is your own forefinger that is the

culprit and you cool down to a spirit of mercy and tolerance and

paternally ignor both the offender and the offended. It would be

foolish to punish the finger for, the pain to it would be more pain

to yourself only. Similarly, when one has realised that the Reality

within him is the pith and substance that constitute all others in

the universe, love and kindness are natural and continuous in his

bosom for all in the world............... "

 

Swami Chinmayananda on Sankara Vivekachoodamani (# 37)

 

UniversalMeditations

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Nisargadatta , " cornelius9x " <cornelius9x>

wrote:

> UniversalMeditations

 

i like the funky kundalini image of this group...cool.

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Nisargadatta , " Hur Guler " <hur@n...> wrote:

> Nisargadatta , " cornelius9x "

<cornelius9x>

> wrote:

> > UniversalMeditations

>

> i like the funky kundalini image of this group...cool.

 

thanks Hur, I can barely resist coopting TheNisargadattaGroup

image...what with its appearance in Matrix Revisited, the

iconographic connection of meditation-nisargadatta dialog and " the

matrix " is well drawn....