“You Are Not the Body”
“‘Think of yourself,’ she replied. ‘You were an infant body, a toddler body, an adolescent body, and an adult body. Someday you will be an old body and then a dead body. Through all these changes of the body, you remained you. The body changed completely, but the essence that is you never changed. You […]
Continue reading“In the Presence of a Saint”
“What radiance! What overpowering emanations of love spread out from this divine being! The friends automatically bowed their heads in the presence of such a highly developed soul. While it was her soul that overwhelmed them, Anandamayi Ma’s face was similarly powerful. Her ink-black hair fell in gentle waves down below her shoulders. Her brows […]
Continue reading“Feminine Energy”
“So it was that, as they sat there watching the fire, the friends were alive to the feminine, maternal qualities of creation. The fire itself, softly glowing and sending out regular crackles and crunching sounds, seemed in its emitted warmth to be wrapping them round with a protective blanket. The moon, nearly full now, had […]
Continue reading“The Dance”
“The cadence of the music increased. The spinning tore the dancers’ awareness away from their bodies and sent it flying out into a timeless dimension. Their minds had turned off, leaving their souls open and free to the spirit of God that enlivened the room. Faster and faster came the music. Quicker and quicker came […]
Continue reading“God Is Within”
“‘Scientists may hold up the material world as the be-all and end-all, but they are mistaken. Artists may claim that beauty alone is divine. Lovers know that their beloved is the all-supreme goddess. But all of them are wrong. What they are worshipping is actually the Reality shining through the material world, the ceramic wall, […]
Continue reading“Angels”
“Soon their inner vision was filled with the presence of angels. The celestial beings were conglomerations of soft, white particles of light. They not only glowed but pulsated. Only vaguely humanoid in appearance, the angels emanated a feeling of perfect peace and deep joy. Gradually, the angels’ light ceased to be individualized; rather, it merged […]
Continue reading“Immanence of God”
“‘The Quran says that God is nearer to man than his jugular vein. He is the parchment upon which all this beauty is constantly being illuminated. But how difficult it is for man to see the parchment behind the colorful illustrations! The common soul splashes about on the surface of the sea, while the true […]
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