Fw: Heart verses

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Gemini <currwamp

Ananda <Ananda >

Cc: K-ananda <K-ananda >

Thursday, April 01, 1999 8:03 AM

Heart verses

 

 

Heart verse 102 from Sky of The Heart:

 

Verse 102

 

A true guru can turn you

>From the jungle road of ignorance

 

To the royal road of spiritual knowledge.

 

There are two gurus:

 

The causal guru and the action guru.

 

The guru who gives the disciple a mantra

 

Or otherwise initiates him into spiritual practice

 

Is the causal guru.

 

The Self is the action guru.

 

 

No person can be another's action guru--

 

Only another's causal guru.

 

The causal guru can lead the thirsty disciple

 

To the well,

 

But only one's inner action guru can

 

Prompt one to drink deeply.

 

The first instructs, the second acts.

 

The divine force within all creatures is the Self.

 

This is the action guru, the supreme guru,

 

The all-pervading guru--

 

God.

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Gemini <currwamp

Ananda <Ananda >

Cc: K-ananda <K-ananda >

Thursday, April 01, 1999 7:56 AM

Heart verses

 

 

Verse 36 from Sky of The Heart:

 

Verse 36

 

Only constant practice makes the state of

 

Perfect desirelessness steady and

 

Permanent.

 

It is not related to the body.

 

With the mind fixed and unwavering,

 

Then one sees the Self.

 

When both wisdom and divine wisdom

 

Are transcended,

 

Then one sees the Self.

 

When one knows but is as if one does not know,

 

Then one sees the Self.

 

 

Those who see the Self are

 

Like the blind though they see,

 

Like the deaf though they hear.

 

Their actions are like inaction.

 

Though their senses are functioning,

 

They are not attached to them;

 

They tend toward dissolution

 

And away from creation.

 

Their capacity to forget is great.

 

They concentrate on the fruit of the

 

Coconut--not on its shell;

 

On the Self--not on the body.

 

 

Those who see the Self are

 

Beyond merit and demerit.

 

Differing like a boat from its surrounding water.

 

Like the gross from the subtle.

 

Indifferent to bodily functions,

 

Thery concentrate only on divine wisdom

 

As if drinking the juice of the sugarcane and

 

Discarding the stalk.

 

Once converted to sugar,

 

The juice cannot become cane again.

 

Once the Self has been realized,

 

The body-idea never returns.

 

Like old vessels renewed by repairs and polish;

 

When old desires and impressions are tied up

 

And controlled,

 

The higher mind can be transformed into

 

Pure illumination.

 

Then there is contentment!