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Showing posts with label Will of God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Will of God. Show all posts
Once God, that Great Being,
Whose nature is Existence, Knowledge and Bliss, slept.
He was like a man in deep sleep
Who is, but does not know that He is.
He had no knowledge of His knowledge nor experience of His bliss.
He was like a still, shorless Ocean which no wind or wave moved upon.
There was nothing but Him.
There were no stars nor sun nor earth nor anything.
All things were within Him; but since He slept,
They also were asleep, unformed and unmanifest.
All knowledge of Himself and of all things were in Him,
But He did not know that He knew.
Then there surged within Him the desire (Whim) to know:Who He was;
and He spoke within Himself the First Speech,
"WHO AM I?" And with the utterance of this First Speech
All things in their potentiality came forth from Him.
But all things are Nothing; and so the universe of stars and suns Is nothing.
Nothing is included in His Everything......
Each thing He brought forth out of Nothing and caused to exist.
He created stone; thought He was stone; lived as stone.
Millions of years, and then said, "Something other am I."
He created vegetation; though He was vegetation; lived as vegetation.
Millions of years, and then said, "Something other am I."
He created in turn worms and reptiles, fishes, birds and animals,
And in turn thought He was, and lived as each, of these.
Then He created Man, and said, "This is sufficient for all My requirements.
I know Myself who I am, because this is in My own Image, Myself."
Whose nature is Existence, Knowledge and Bliss, slept.
He was like a man in deep sleep
Who is, but does not know that He is.
He had no knowledge of His knowledge nor experience of His bliss.
He was like a still, shorless Ocean which no wind or wave moved upon.
There was nothing but Him.
There were no stars nor sun nor earth nor anything.
All things were within Him; but since He slept,
They also were asleep, unformed and unmanifest.
All knowledge of Himself and of all things were in Him,
But He did not know that He knew.
Then there surged within Him the desire (Whim) to know:Who He was;
and He spoke within Himself the First Speech,
"WHO AM I?" And with the utterance of this First Speech
All things in their potentiality came forth from Him.
But all things are Nothing; and so the universe of stars and suns Is nothing.
Nothing is included in His Everything......
Each thing He brought forth out of Nothing and caused to exist.
He created stone; thought He was stone; lived as stone.
Millions of years, and then said, "Something other am I."
He created vegetation; though He was vegetation; lived as vegetation.
Millions of years, and then said, "Something other am I."
He created in turn worms and reptiles, fishes, birds and animals,
And in turn thought He was, and lived as each, of these.
Then He created Man, and said, "This is sufficient for all My requirements.
I know Myself who I am, because this is in My own Image, Myself."
Tranquility
'Tranquility is a state of mind, in which a person, while living in this materialistic world of transient happiness and suffering, is absorbed in devotional meditation within.
In order to achieve it,we have to develop perpetual consciousness of The Divine and full faith in His Grace, adhering to spiritual self-discipline, earning truthful and honest living, accepting in profound calmness... the Will of God.
The foremost perquisite to happy life is 'equipoise' -the inner peace.
The Bliss can be felt and experienced in the deepest of silence."
The foremost perquisite to happy life is 'equipoise' -the inner peace.
The Bliss can be felt and experienced in the deepest of silence."
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"The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility"............ (Swami Sivananda)
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