Gems of Wisdom

 

When a man dies, there is a dispute.One party declares he has gone forever, the other insists that he is still living. Which is true?

Katha Upanishad

I have been mining: listening and reading. I have been hitting these jewels of wisdom that leave me questioning. I bring them to the surface and I lay them before you. Can you see their brilliance? 

(The V is a quote from Vivekananda and the S is indicating a quote from Michael Singer.)

It is the God within your own self that is propelling you to seek for Him, to realise Him. V

He for whom you have been seeking all over the world, for whom you have been weeping and praying in churches and temples, on whom you were looking as mystery of all mysteries shrouded in the clouds, is nearest of the near, is your own Self, the reality of your life, body, and soul. That is your own nature. V

The world vanishes in a moment and is gone. Standing on the brink of a precipice beyond which isthe infinite yawning chasm, every mind, however hardened, is bound to recoil and ask, "Is this real?"V

...when man realises that so long as there is one life in this universe, he is living. When he can say, "I am in every-thing, in everybody, I am in all lives, I am the universe," then alone comes the state of fearlessness.

There is no individuality except in the Infinite. That is the only condition which does not change. Everything else is in a constant flux. V

You are not what you are defining yourself as, you are that which defined who you are S

People feel frightened when they are told that they are a Universal Being, everywhere present. Through everything you work, through every foot you move, through every lip you talk, through every heart you feel. V

The different philosophies seem to agree that this Atman, whatever it be, has neither form or shape, and that which has neither form or shape must be omnipresent. V.

Time, space and causation, therefore, are in the mind, and as the Atman is beyond the mind and formless, it must be beyond time, beyond space, and beyond causation. Now, if it is beyond time, space, and causation, it must be infinite...The infinite cannot be two. If the soul be infinite, there can be only one Soul, and all ideas of various souls- you having one soul, and I having another, and so fourth-are not real. The Real Man, therefore, is one and infinite, the omnipresent Spirit. And the apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man...a dim reflection of the Real Man who is beyond. V

The Real Man, the Spirit, being beyond cause and effect, not bound by time and space, must, therefore, be free. He was never bound, and could not be bound. The apparent man, the reflection, is limited by time, space, and causation, and is, therefore, bound...he appears to be bound but really is not V.....

Every soul is infinite, therefore there is no question of birth and death. V

Change can only be in the limited...Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else...but take this whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing beside it. So this infinite universe is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real man. Our reality, therefore, consists in the universal and not in the limited. V. ....

As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate. As soon as this idea of separation comes, it opens the door to all mischief and leads to all misery. V.

Behind all these stories we find one idea standing supreme- that man is a degeneration of what he was. v.

You are a Great Being. You have no needs...S

What is the force?

All it is, is one Consciousness vibrating at different levels. S

To say that the force called soul is the out come of the combinations of the molecules of the body is putting the cart before the horse. How did the combinations come; where was the force to make them? V

Quantum field is physical plane...consciousness is higher vibration deeper than the quantum field. S

The beginning position is consciousness.... Singer

...This bright body did not represent the force. Whatsoever has form must be the result of a combination of particles and requires some thing else behind it to move it. If this body requires something that is not the body to manipulate it, the bright body, by the same necessity, will also requite something other than itself to manipulate it. So, that something was called the soul, the  Atman in Sanskrit. ...V

The bright body is considered the receptacle of the mind, and the Atman is beyond that. It is not the mind even; it works the mind, and through the mind the body. V.

There never was a person who found happiness in the senses or in enjoyment of the senses. Happiness is only found in the Spirit. Therefore, the highest utility for mankind is to find this happiness in the Spirit. V.

Consciousness is One...vibrates at different levels  and becomes aware of Itself in different objects. S.

Thoughts are a certain vibration rate in the mental plane.  Emotions vibrate even faster.  S. 

Different planes of reality = different vibration rates. S.

Thoughts don't exist on the physical plane...S.

As soon as I think I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate. As soon as this idea of separation comes, it opens the door to all mischief and leads to all misery. V.

Let them make the sacrifice, knowing that this "me and mine" is not the real Self, but only a limitation. V.

You a great being don't settle with being a little thing that is caught down here. S

[Charity towards others is the  unconscious acting out of ] "I am the universe; this universe is one." V.

It cannot be known; in vain we try to know it. Were it knowable, it would not be what it is, for it is the eternal subject. Knowledge is a limitation, knowledge is objectifying. He is the eternal subject of everything, the eternal witness in this universe, your own Self. Knowledge is, as it it were, a lower step, a degeneration. We are the eternal subject already; how can we know it? V.

You are pure Consciousness...You are consciousness and consciousness is God...S

Every good thought that you think or act upon is simply tearing the veil, as it were; and the purity, the Infinity, the God behind, manifests Itself more and more...Finer and finer becomes the veil, more and more of the light behind shines forth, for it is its nature to shine. V. 

"I can handle it". That is your mantra. S

I may at some point delve deeper into each of these gems of wisdom...for now...just observe how they shine. 

All is well!

Michael Singer/ Temple of teh Universe/ Sounds True ( August, 2025) From False Identification to Liberation- Returning to the Seat of Self. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWG3nGGpBW4&list=PLyOuAoSmZkKoESr2acNWwhznusbBkKXsT&index=2

Vivekanada (n,d.) 2.5 Jnana Yoga- Complete Works of Swamin Vivekananda. Kindle Edition.