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November 15, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Trident

Reason is in us what the sun is in the world…As long as our mind shines
brightly and pursues its appointed course, pouring its noontide beams into every part of the soul, we are within our sober selves and not possessed, but when it comes to set, it is not surprising that the e…[Read more]

November 14, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Trident
When your task is ended, resume your toil, and
seek your Lord with all fervour. — QU’RAN

Those wishing to contemplate withdraw from the public
light into privacy. — ALBERTUS MAGNUS

November 13, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Trident
Thou art the Creator and the Protector,
And the Helmsman,
Who steers my bark across the sea of life.
— MIRA

November 12, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Trident

Thus is devotion the potent power that leads to and makes possible the utter self-renunciation and self-surrender which are the only means for receiving spiritual illumination. — BHAVANI SHANKAR

The name of the third Hall is Wisdom, beyond which stretch the shoreless waters of AKṢARA, the indestructible Fount of Omniscience.19

If thou would’st cross the first Hall safely, let not thy mind mistake the fires of lust that burn therein for the Sunlight of life.

If thou would’st cross the second safely, stop not the fragrance of its stupe…[Read more]

“By pursuing the subject we may discover that the Law of Cycles rules every phenomenal experience in the world around us, that it governs even our states of passing happiness or misery, and rules also what men call life and death. Thus the continuous growth of Nature and of all beings is divided and punctuated by successive periods of rest and a…[Read more]

November 11, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Trident

Restrain the self, regulate the breath,
Sift the transient from the true.
— SHANKARACHARYA

November 10, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Trident

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. — ST. PAUL

November 9, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Trident

To be, or not to be; that is the question. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

November 8, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Yoga Sutras

When I identify myself with the body, O Lord, I am Thy creature, eternally
separate from Thee. When I identify myself with the soul, I am a spark of that Divine Fire which Thou art. But when I identify myself with Atman, I and Thou art one. — HANUMAN to SHRI RAMA

November 7, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Yoga Sutras
I have given up the world
And all it stands for.
I have rent my veil of many colours
And walk in sackcloth now.
— MIRA

November 6, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Yoga Sutras
A man faced with his own immensity
Wakes all the waves, all their loose wandering fire.
The murmur of the absolute, the why
Of being born fails on his naked ears.
— THEODORE ROETHKE

November 5, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Yoga Sutras

Devotion is the skilled charioteer, selflessness the shield, contentment the sword, charity the axe, intelligence the mighty bolt, the elevated mind is the awesome bow. A heart, pure, and unruffled, is the quiver, whilst the arrows are equality, disciplined life and self-control. — TULSIDAS

November 3, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Yoga Sutras
Be like the Ocean which receives all streams and rivers. The Ocean’s mighty calm remains unmoved; it feels them not. Restrain by thy Divine thy lower Self. Restrain by the Eternal the Divine. — THE VOICE OF THE SILENCE

November 3, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Yoga Sutras

The wonderous voice of Kwan-Yin,
The Brahma-voice, voice of the sweeping tide,
Surpassing the sounds of the world,
Is to be held firm in the mind
Unaccompanied by even the shadow of doubt.
— KWAN-YIN SUTRA

November 2, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Yoga Sutras

Concentration, or Yoga, is the hindering of the modifications
of the thinking principle. — PATANJALI

Observe this simple counsel of perfection: foresake all, and you shall find all.Renounce desire, and you shall find peace. Give this due thought and when you have put it into p…[Read more]

October 31, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Jivanmukta
Call the world if you please ‘The vale of Soul-making’. — JOHN KEATS

Man should study in three schools…He should send the elemental or material body to the elemental school, the sidereal or etheral body to the sidereal school, and the eternal or luminous body to the school of eter…[Read more]

October 30, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Jivanmukta
The mind, as it exerts all its powers to the limit of
human capacity, is flooded with light. — PLATO

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

— PLOTINUS

October 27, 2019 Theme for Contemplation: The Jivanmukta

Own little and be replete.
Own much and be restless.
Therefore the Sage embraces the ONE
And sets an example for the whole world.
— TAO TE CHING

The appearance of the Tathagatas in the world is for the benefit of all beings; out of a great compassionate heart they turn the wheel of the D…[Read more]

October 26, 2019 Weekly Theme for Contemplation: The Jivanmukta

Oh! the wonderous splendour beneath the Banyan Tree: there sits Gurudeva, a youth; the disciples are elders; the Teaching is Silence, and all doubts are dispelled.
— DAKSHINAMURTI STOTRA