...the body is the riverbed through which the river courses and that the body, while it seems set and directive of the river, is actually being eroded and reformed by that river, a constant, ongoing exchange between spirit and form... a divine union...
      

 

...When we arrived at Bhagavan’s Bridge dawn set in and Arunachala vanished. Arunachala, present as before but invisible–like it is when the darkness of ego prevails...

We have been taught, at least in our Western culture that we are separate. Advaita tries in every possible way to remind us of our unity, that the one that we take ourselves mistakenly to be is in fact the whole. The whole is the only thing that has the right to be called One. And it is so in many religions. The One. .

...The mark of the true Guru is that peace, Love and Silence are palpably felt in his presence. What Neo-Advaita gives in fact boils down to the seductive formula that  ''there is nothing you can do or need to do, all you have to know is that there is no one there."...   

...The power of the discriminative mind emerges, a Force of Intelligence permeates and rivets the body and mind to the Spirit, and the pure mind inverts and reflects the True Self in the Heart. The ancient Sages and Yogis call this the Enlightenment of the Whole Body...

...Then I saw a picture on the table behind her. I did not know who was smiling so alive inside the silver frame, but I knew I had walked through the right door...

  Sam Pasiencier, Ph.D.

Freedom by Jeff Belyea

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Madathil Rajendran Nair

Through the Veil
by Joyce Sweinberg