Years ago, I left the ashram. I felt so full, filled with my being, overflowing with Knowledge. I needed to share it with the world, so I began lecturing on spirituality and personal growth. At an early lecture, I explained that our divinity lies deeper than thoughts and deeper than emotions. A woman put up her hand and asked, “But what else is there?” Shocked, I responded, “What lies beyond thoughts and emotions is the grandeur of your being, your Self, your divinity. The unbounded source of all life and existence”…
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The knowledge is so important.
I also love how the picture gives me an expansive feeling of the different levels you are addressing. Thank you.
Jai Shiva Sankara. At “home” the first lecture, 9/1996.
As always, your use of analogy to explain the concept of the Self is wonderful. Deep as the ocean and radiant as the sun. We are that: more than the waves and the warmth,and yet how can we churn without a wave and love without the warmth?