Guest guest Posted May 31, 2006 Report Share Posted May 31, 2006 Pain and pleasure, happiness and unhappiness owe their existence to you. O self: they are born of you and they loose their identity when their non-existence independent of you is realized. Even as an optical illusion comes into being and vanishes in the twinkling of an eye, the illusory experience of pain and pleasure appear and disappear in the twinkling of an eye. They appear in the light of awareness and they disappear when they are perceived as non-different from that awareness: they are born the moment they die and they die the moment they are born - who is the perceiver of this mystery? Everything is thus everchanging all the time; how can such momentary causes produce tangible and stable results? Waves may look like flowers, but can one string them into a garland? If it is credible to think that one can expect stable effects to accrue from such an unstable cause as the fleeting phenomena, then it should be possible to string lightenings into a luminous garland and wear it as an ornament! Vasistha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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