Welcome to “In The Heart of All Beings”
Each of us, at the very core of our existence, is lit by the divine. Part of the history of mankind is striving to express that divine light in words. But, as Dante discovered in writing The Divine Comedy; ultimately, words fail:
My pen leaps over it; I do not write:
our fantasy and, all the more so, speech
are far too gross for painting folds so deep.
our fantasy and, all the more so, speech
are far too gross for painting folds so deep.
The Divine Comedy Paradiso Canto XXIV 25-27
And thus, in representing Paradise,
the sacred poem has to leap across,
as does a man who finds his path cut off
the sacred poem has to leap across,
as does a man who finds his path cut off
The Divine Comedy Paradiso Canto XXIII 61-63
While words may fail, we, like Dante, still strive to express the inexpressible.
The “I” of I am. The “I” to which we attach to every feeling, thought and action.
I am happy, I am sad, I am thinking, I am doing. . .
Yet there may come a time – whether by luck or by chance; by effort or wholly by grace – we stop and inquire as to who this inexpressible “I” truly is. We stop and inquire into THE HEART OF OUR BEING
Yet there may come a time – whether by luck or by chance; by effort or wholly by grace – we stop and inquire as to who this inexpressible “I” truly is. We stop and inquire into THE HEART OF OUR BEING
God made sense turn outward, man therefore looks outward, not into himself.
Now and again a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.
Now and again a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.
Katha Upanishad 2.1.1
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all;
and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
I and my Father are one.
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all;
and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
I and my Father are one.
John 10:27-30 (King James Version)
When the sun has set, Yājñavalkya and the moon has set and the fire has gone out
and speech has stopped, what serves as light for a man?
The self, indeed, is his light, for with the self as light he sits, goes out, works and returns.
and speech has stopped, what serves as light for a man?
The self, indeed, is his light, for with the self as light he sits, goes out, works and returns.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 4.3