Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

~ john wesley/Sri Chinmoy

Truth is the divine element in man. Truth is every soul's seeking. Therefore as soon as the clouds of illusion are scattered, that which man now begins to see is nothing but the truth which has been there all the time. He finds that the truth was never absent; it was only covered by clouds of illusion.

By changing his own nature, by making himself more truthful, he disperses the clouds of falsehood within and without, and begins to see life as it really is both inwardly and outwardly. From this time onwards, the meaning of religion becomes clear. One begins to understand what the great teachers have taught. Then one becomes tolerant to the various religions. Nothing seems strange any more. Nothing surprises. For now one begins to know the innermost nature of man; one sees the cause behind every action.

~~~ "Supplementary papers, Philosophy V", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)

Shiva Ratri is Sunday, February 26. The significance of this day
is that it falls on a day when the Moon, representing the mind, is
just a sliver. When the mind is empty, then God can enter. Some
people stay up all night during this day singing bhajans in praise
of Lord Shiva. It is a good sadhana listening to Rudra Namakam, a
hymn to Shiva, being chanted eleven times. It is a good day to
silently say the mantra "Aum Namah Shivaya". And remember that
GOD gives and GOD may take away at any moment.

SHIVOHAM
SHIVOHAM

The pleasures of life are blinding; it is love alone that clears the rust from the heart, the mirror of the soul.

The heart of man, as the Sufis say, is a mirror. All that is reflected in this mirror is projected upon other mirrors. When man has doubt in his heart that doubt is reflected upon every heart with which he comes in contact. When he has faith that faith is reflected in every heart. Can there be a more interesting study and a greater wonder than to observe this keenly?

There must be no feeling of revenge, of unkindness, of bitterness against anyone in the heart. When such a feeling comes, one must say: this is rust coming into my heart. When all such feelings are cleared off the heart, it becomes like a mirror. A mirror without rust reflects all that is before it; then everything divine is reflected in the heart.

The heart aflame becomes the torch on the path of the lover, which lightens his way that leads him to his destination. The pleasures of life are blinding, it is love alone that clears the rust from the heart, the mirror of the soul.

~ Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life is. There is no one living it. It is not' my life'. There
is no 'me' that lives. But I am Live. This 'I' is not a
personalized 'me'. It is not an assumed separate person. There
is no implied separation between the writer and the reader. This
'I' is 'you'. This 'I' is al that is. I am Life itself.
That I am Life itself is known. This knowing goes beyond
knowledge and intellect. This knowing is a knowing beyond
experience, beyond thought or emotion. Knowing in not knowing. I
don't know how I know, except that, I am. There is no doubt. As
this knowing of what I am, the character goes on playing the
game of being a character in a play. The play is no longer taken
seriously, but still everything can and does happen. It is
simply known that whatever happens does not happen 'to me'. It
simply happens in, and as, what I am.
These words are not pointing to anything new. In fact what is
being expressed here is timeless. It has always been known. It
is known. It is most familiar and ordinary. It is what I am.
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From: Unmani's book "I am Life itself"
Available from Non-Duality Press at:
[13]http://www.non-dualitybooks.com/.

Indra’s Net

"There is an endless net of threads

throughout the universe.

The horizontal threads are in space.

The vertical threads are in time.

At every crossing of the threads, there is an individual.

And every individual is a crystal bead.

And every crystal bead reflects

not only the light from every other crystal in the net,

but also every other reflection throughout the entire universe"


--The Rig Veda (Rig Veda version by Frank Joseph)