Is It The World That Says I

The Entire Universe Is Condensed In The Body, And The Entire Body In The Heart. Thus The Heart Is The Nucleus Of The Whole Universe.

The Body Dies, But The Spirit That Transcends It Cannot Be Touched By Death.

The 'i' Casts Off The Illusion Of The 'i' And Yet Remains 'i'. Such Is The Paradox Of Self-realization. The Realized Do Not See Any Paradox In It. Consider The Case Of The Worshipper. He Approaches God And Prays To Be Absorbed In Him. He Then Surrenders Himself In Faith And By Concentration. And What Remains Afterwards? In The Place Of The Original 'i', Self-surrender Leaves A Residuum Of God In Which The 'i' Is Lost. That Is The Highest Form Of Devotion Or Surrender And The Peak Of Detachment.

In The Heart's Cavity, The Sole Brahman As An Ever-persisting 'i' Shines Direct In The Form Of The Self. Into The Heart Enter Thyself, With Mind In Search Or In Deeper Plunge. Or By Restraint Of Life-movement Be Firmly Poised In The Self.

You Are The Witness Of The Three Bodies: The Gross, The Subtle, And The Causal, And Of The Three Times: Past, Present And Future, And Also This Void. In The Story Of The Tenth Man, When Each Of Them Counted And Thought They Were Only Nine, Each One Forgetting To Count Himself, There Is A Stage When They Think One Is Missing And Do Not Know Who It Is; And That Corresponds To The Void. We Are So Accustomed To The Notion That All That We See Around Us Is Permanent And That We Are This Body, That When All This Ceases To Exist We Imagine And Fear That We Also Have Ceased To Exist.