Spirituality folder

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I have of late written a few articles on some great masters who have transformed and shaped the course of my life and of course the style of my writing as well. I begin with Gibran.


Khalil Gibran

If anybody has been an ideal for me to pursue in life it is Gibran, and in him I found a reservoir of inspiration and particularly when it comes to spiritual domains he is reckoned matchless and unparalleled. He had seen life through a different focal point. He is a culmination of myriads of spiritual reflections and musings wherein man can see him in his seamlessly pure form. I see him as the Gateway to Heaven; through him I can enter the kingdom of God.

The Prophet is the one and only book I like to read every time when I feel down in every day reality and it gives me a different meaning to all I understand and indeed it is a different eye oftentimes conceived of as a third eye and indeed to see things through this eye is to see things or their unseen dimensions and all that we see may not be true and what is true may be yet to be realized. As such Gibran is a gifted writer. I bet if anybody reads the Prophet with no preoccupied mind one can go through rare expressions which are indeed singular and recherché in life. He indeed speaks of something out of the ordinary one can achieve through deep reflections in life, which are not otherwise realized in the ordinary course of life.

The prophet’s every word is a gem and of course a great treasure we are endowed with in this civilization, something that is tellingly digging up some truths we have never understood.

Gibran is an antidote unto those who suffer humdrum maladies and seek for a haven to pause and ponder and resume the course of life. Indeed he is a path blazer and directs us when we are blindfolded by smokescreens of day-today realities. To read Gibran is to start to think differently and of course through a different height so that nothing at the bottom remains obscured from our sight. He unmasks so that we can see for notwithstanding the fact that truth is as clear as a sunny morning yet we can not see owing to our misted and muffled kens.

Truth is layered is likened to a fruit that lays hidden by a shell and reading the Prophet is to break the shell and observe the kernel, the very seed of truth. For we see the manifestation of truth not the quintessence or nub of it.

We see problems but not the seeds of them, and we have enmities can not chekc the quarries of them and indeed through the Prophet we see what lies behind phenomena and day to day realities. We are in reveries and half awakenings and can not see things that govern all events, episodes and occurrences in point of fact. Indeed everything has a cause and some causes can be observed through scientific knowledge and our syllogistic understandings and yet there are dimensions which are yet obscured and even empirical science could not explain such things. They are beyond the ordinary.

Read the prophet and see the truths of everything and all happenings nakedly. The beauty of this is as regally superb as the baby, just born, unclothed and of course unconditioned.

[NikolaiI]

Just as the soul is ever elusive, so is this intelligence you speak of. It is the connection of paradoxes, it is when the beginning is at the end. I have traveled a long path, and studied many different things, before I understood this. We must blaze our own paths. Blaze, the truth is so spectacular. I've seen very, very dimmed glimpses of it, and still they were more brilliant than the sun. It is when we are firmly planted. We can reach the other shore, my friend. It only takes practice and study and surrender. We must let go of everything, especially the pride that keeps us from knowing the truth.

You might think humility is being aware of our limitations. And we do have limits, but we can never know them. Humility is approaching the truth without any prejudice against ourselves, and against the truth. For prejudice against the truth is a form of pride, and it only leads to ignorance and a dimmed vision. If we see how paradoxes spring from a common center, then there is no obstacle to any place in the universe, and we can see everything. There is no reason to have a prejudice against people, to think that they are incapable of attaining something. We fall into this, and it only limits us.

"Indeed everything has a cause and some causes can be observed through scientific knowledge and our syllogistic understandings and yet there are dimensions which are yet obscured and even empirical science could not explain such things. They are beyond the ordinary."

Yes, the truth cannot be seen with our ordinary senses. We can only see it in supplication or krishna consciousness or one-pointeded meditation or transcendental consciousness or trance. Trance is good because we approach a transcendental platform, and approach consciousness. Everything in this universe is inauspicious; what we see as the highest things are inauspicious in relation to what is real.

I have not finished my journey and I will continue, with an effort not to fall into negligence. One great piece of wisdom I found along the way was that life is a dream, and perceiving it we see our budda-nature. This is true for me. Also, it's important to be humble about truth. I believe there is a universal truth; but, as always, the finite does not know the infinite. The truth is invisible, me I may see it, as I said, very very dimmed glimpses of it; and I may assume it is a universal form for everyone, but this does not mean my thinking is right for others. For instance God is the highest reality for me, but to others this might cause problems.

There is something called the "Cloud of Unknowing" or unknowable. This is a good idea to think upon, as we try to come to consciousness and awareness.