God is both personal and impersonal and must be realised in all His aspects and phases for true universality to dawn on man.
This universe is a dream concocted by a product of the dream itself. The mind is the primal element of the dream and its derivatives in a descending series of degree compose the world. Smash the mind and with it dissolves the world.
The ego has a strange hold on humanity and conjures this phenomenal universe of name and form. Austerity essentially consists in dissolving the ego by refusing it sense attachments for survival. Desires banished, aspirations transmuted, the ego drops off as so much unnecessary appendage.
Surface aberrations notwithstanding, all of humanity stands secure in the divinity within, in the essential spirituality at the core of consciousness.
The relative values of life are assigned as per the standard of that which is absolute and, hence, the realisations of sages and saints hold premium even in a world vitiated by material cravings.
Violence is an integral element in phenomenal life in light of the fact that death is the violence Nature inflicts inevitably and in finality on all within its domain. Non-violence is an ideal that is reached only by transcendence of the phenomenal and by secure establishment in the Absolute. Till then the non-violence referred to in common parlance consists of the attempt to pacify the turbulent senses from inflicting physical damage to any. Psychological harm is violence as well but often eludes that epithet under the cover of high-sounding verbal delusions constructed to cause a configured escape route for the offender.
You may fool the whole world but cannot fool yourself who are the eternal witness of all your doings. Know It to be that God who you, in your extroverted understanding, know as your self, reflected manifold at a distance from its essence, yet, ever abiding in its majesty deep within where the eye peers not nor the mind gets access. It is the soul supreme, the Self which is truly the only reality in a world magically bound in space-time-causality.
The man of character is the man of the Spirit. He alone may be called spiritual who manifests a character untainted by the desire for gold and gain, for flesh and form, for fame and family.
Duty is far removed from love. Love is the spontaneous expression of the soul seeking its own domain in a world fractured by material cross-currents. The vision opens up as love, seated on the wings of poesy, flies to ethereal heights where aught of earth touches not the soul caught in the sublimity of the Self. There where duty is not, love is, and there is freedom from the eternal rigmarole of mundane material living.
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