chapter thirteen - dhāma

awaring

“This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my Self.”
- Buddha, Majjhima Nikāya, i, 135

"But already my desire and my will
were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed,
by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars"
- Dante, Paradiso

"Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither;
Can in a moment travel thither —
And see the children sport upon the shore.
And hear its mighty waters rolling evermore."
- Wordsworth, Ode on the Intimations of Immortality

"Nothing is lost, for ever all remains, deep in the waters of eternal Mind. Who can plunge within lives in the Cosmic Heart and sees Its mighty throbs send forth the cycling years to run their changing courses through the worlds back to the blue depths of Eternity [...]
Beyond all Gods, beyond all time and space, beyond all being even, flames Its dark transcendent Light [...]
Only the power of love, the Soul's own power, love that forever seeks to give itself, straining towards Eternity, can bring about the union of the self with the One Self by which alone the Cosmic Form is seen and ultimately entered."
- Sri Krishna Prem

Be always happy,
unshakeable,
free from the fear
arising from duality.
- Ribhu

"Meaning is entered into by words as things are revealed by a lamp [...] So, I, making use of various forms and images of things, instruct; but the summit of Reality can only be realised within oneself."
- Buddha, Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra

"We thus transcend both and know but one great Law, to help the play of the Eternal Life as It shines forth or hides Itself in forms."
- Sri Krishna Prem

"You are the supreme primal objective. You are the ultimate resting place of all this universe. You are inexhaustible, and You are the oldest. You are the maintainer of the eternal religion, the Personality of Godhead. This is my opinion."
- Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11, verse 18

"When I forget who I am, I serve you. When I remember who I am, I am you."
- Hanuman

chapter fourteen