Truth is Omnipresent !

We are Truth seekers, but Truth always eludes us. By Truth is meant Absolute Truth, Cosmic Truth, Universal Truth.

To some, Truthful existence is suffering. Somebody wrote

Truth on the scaffold
Wrong on the throne

We find that Truthful existence is painful and difficult. Truth always puts us in a controversial situation. Imagine the lifes of Socrates, Jesus, Bruno & Mansoor. They were martyred because of Truth.

But poets say Truth is omnipotent. Let us listen to Swinburne

Truth only is living
Truth only is Whole
His for only giving
Man’s polestar and pole !

or Aurobindo

For Truth is wider, greater than her forms
A thousand icons they have made of her
And they find her in the idols they adore
But she remains herself and infinite !

or Gandhi

Truth will win ultimately.

In our search for Truth, may be we confuse perspective with Truth. Maybe what our enemies say about us may be true. Are they saying falsehoods ? Yes, Truth is wider !

Philosophically, Truth is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Truth is all this. It is only our Ego which prevent us from actualising Truth

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The Hymn of Cosmic Consciousness !

In the void of Mind involute
The fleeting Universe rises and floats
And sinks back into the current ” I “

wrote Vivekananda. Where only the Universal “I” is and nothing else is !

I am the Silence which is more than sound
If therewithin thou lose thee, thou art found!
The nameless, shoreless ocean which is “I”
Thou canst not breathe but in its bosom drowned !

wrote Tennyson.

Cosmic Consciousness is a state wherein there is Pure Awareness, Awareness of Being, Knowledge and Bliss !

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Mythology is symbolic, never literal !

Carl Gustav Jung was a genius. He declared that all Mythology, including Christian Mythology, is symbolic and allegorical and not literal.

A disciple of Freud, Jung came across a fanstastic discovery. He was researching on the dreams of some of his patients. He wrote the figures seen by his patients and saw that they bear a close resemblance to the figures seen in Alchemy and Astrology.

He postulated that dreams are projections of the Unconscious.

He postulated that The Ocean of Reality resembles an ocean. The waves are the individual egos. Deep within the gross level is the subtle level. The subtle level of an individual ego he called the Personal Unconscious and the rock bottom of the Ocean of Reality is the Collective Unconscious, known as Brahman, the Absolute, in transcendental philosophy !

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Henry David Thoreau

” In the early hours of the morning, I bathe in my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Geetha, before which the modern world appears puny & trivial.”

Thoreau can be said to be Gandhi’s Guru. It was Thoreau’s book ” The Civil Disobedience ” which gave Gandhi the inspiration to launch the Non-violent Movement. It is said that Gandhi brought back from America what was fundamentally the philosophy of India, after it was baked in the mind of Thoreu !

His masterpiece ‘ The Walden” has 18 chapters, modelled after the 18 chapters of the Geetha and the 18 parvas of the Mahabharatha.

>He was truly the American Sage. Whitman, Emerson and Thoreau are the Trinity of American Transcendentalism !

His famous quote ” When the law of the land is against the Law of Conscience, the best place for a man is jail ” !

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The Song of Myself by Walt Whitman

Turning to the Inmost God is what is called ” Vibhakthi “, or worshipping the Absolute Self, knowing that I am Thee ! Vibhakthi in Sanskrit corresponds to the Amor Intellectualis ( Intellectual Love ) of Bruno. We are One. Only through Vibhakthi, Intellectual Love, Amor Intellectualis can the world be saved !

Walt Whitman wrote

Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God
At Nature and her wonders, Space, Time & Death
Then I turn to Thee, O Actual Me,
Lo ! Thou gently mastereth the orbs,
Thou matest with Time, smilest content with Death
And fillest swellest the vastnesses of Space !

The great poet Melpathur also wrote about the Absolute Self thus

In reality I am Thyself
For me there is no binding
By Nature’s triune attributes
Nor Salvation; as Nescience
It is that binds the Absolute Self !
The Individual Soul Thou art, all Thou art,
Thou art the Intelligence visible, Nature,
There is nothing in this visible Universe
Which is different from Thee !

Self Actualisation !

Kant’s greatest achivement was that he found Space, Time and Causality are modes of thought, but Vedanta knew it long ago and called it Maya.

The Universe is seen as Mirror; I AM THE SELF !
Like when a sleeper wakens from the dream state !
This,they say,is the experience of Enlightenment
Which is only possible due to Master’s Grace !

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Universal Love is All Conquering !

It can conquer all. It is the representative of Heaven on earth.

It rules the court, the camp and the grove
All men below and saints above
It liveth not in fierce desire
And it fierce desire it doth not die !

It is Nature’s second Sun and is Omnipotent !

What is this greatest positive Quality? It is Universal Love !

Let us cultivate this noble passion. Enstein said ” We have to free ourselves from this ego-prison” and this quality alone can free us from this earthly ego-prison.

Let us love humanity and Nature in her beauty in their entirety

The Razor’s Edge

Somerset Maugham came to India to learn about her philosophy and the quintessence of the Upanishads he wrote as the “Razor’s Edge”.

The Law of the Way is as dangerous as the Razor’s Edge. ( Kshurasya dhara nishitha durathyaya durgam pathasthat kavayo vadanti ).

Says the Upanishadic verse

Arise, awake
And stop not till the Goal is reached !
Like the Edge of the Razor
So is the path difficult to tread !

Those who have travelled that Path and reached the Goal triumphant, to them belongs eternal fame !

They alone are the conquerors
The conquerors of the Spirit !
The Self Actualised Poets
Whose fame body knoweth no disease !

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The Noblest Conquest is the Conquest of Mind !

The most dangerous enemy which is Mind
Conquer it and he who does so wins !
Subjugated becomes Sorrow worldly
Fortunate indeed is the winner, the Mystic !

Mano Jaya eva Maha Jaya – the noblest conquest is the conquest of Mind !

Manasvasthathaiva Ananda – The greatest bliss is mental peace !

Thus say the wise !

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The noblest conquest is the conquest of oneself

Buddha’s realisation was that Mara or Satan was an aspect of himself, his own negative aspect.

We all have a dark side, symbolised in Eastern Literature as the dark form of Diti. Only after we conquer our negative aspect, can we hope for Self Acutalisation.

I walk on the Razor’s edge alone,
The path is narrow, the way Unknown !

So let us embrace Universal Love, Universal Brotherhood and Friendship. Let us remove our negative aspect and embrace all of humanity and Nature in her beauty, as Einstein said !

Yet till evil is slain in its own house
And Light invades the world’s inconscient base
And perished has the Adversary Force
He must still labour on, his work half done !

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