Days in an Indian Monastery

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Dear Devotees of Divinity in TBP,

Love and Love alone...

 

In fact, the Reality is very simple, but we make it complicated and

complex by moving forth and retreating back, never in now. See the

below posting, which I received from another source. You will

understand, what I meant.

 

Love and Love alone...

 

P. Gopi Krishna

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From " Days in an Indian Monastery " by Sister Devamata

Posted by: " milena1kiriakova " milena1kiriakova

milena1kiriakova

Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:53 am (PST)

" With a few words he (Swami Ramakrishnananda) could make a universe

crumble. " That this world is hollow and unreal I can prove you in a

few minutes, " he said to me one evening as we talked in the dimly-

lighted monastery hall at Mylapore. " All memory exists in the mind.

Indeed the mind is made up of memory, therefore all the past and all

the future exist in the mind; only the present exists in the senses.

Now how long does any sense perception last? Just at the point of

time when the object comes in contact with the sense organ, then at

once it becomes a matter of memory.

 

" This point of time, like Euclid's geometrical point, actually has

no magnitude. The present therefore is in reality only such a time

without dimensions; but man, because he wishes to live in his

senses, magnifies this point and extends to the " present age " or

the " present time " or to " now-a-days " , which means these few weeks,

or months, or years. Actually the present has no real conceivable

existence and only the past and future have duration. As these exist

in mind, the whole of the universe may be said to be in mind; and

when a man goes out of his mind he goes out of the universe. "

Gopi Krishna <gopi