Suresh,
What is "The Book of Mirdad"? ...Bill!
--- In Zen_Forum@yahoogroups.com, SURESH JAGADEESAN <varamtha@...> wrote:
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> The Book of Mirdad Quotes
>
> "Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and
> companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you
> shall find a new companion."
>
> "Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things
> will be unveiled."
>
> "Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to
> catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple,
> but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the
> wise."
>
> "How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure
> him from head to foot and think you have found his borders."
>
>
> "So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the
> sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is."
>
>
> "Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love
> that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.You are
> the tree of Life. Beware of fractionating yourselves. Set not a fruit
> against a fruit, a leaf against a leaf, a bough against a bough; nor
> set the stem against the roots; nor set the tree against the mother-
> soil. That is precisely what you do when you love one part more than
> the rest, or to the exclusion of the rest. No love is possible except
> by the love of self. No self is real save the All-embracing Self.
> Therefore is God all Love, because he loves himself. So long as you
> are pained by Love, you have not found your real self, nor have you
> found the golden key of Love. Because you love an ephemeral self, your
> love is ephemeral."
>
> "Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his
> talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who
> attempt to set him boundaries. Live as if your God Himself had need of
> you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does."
>
> "No love is Love that subjugates the Lover.
> No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood.
> No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed
> more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh."
>
> "The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face."
>
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> "Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
> flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
> the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
> Unity and Holy Understanding"
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> Dear Joe,
>
> Please note in other Hindu forum what ever I quote from western, they
> will say these are already exist in Sanathana Dharma scriptures such
> as vedas, Upnanishads,
> smiritis, srutis, BG etc.,
>
> I feel the following
>
> Please note the absolute is only one for this whole universe, only one
> knowledge.
>
> But please note knowledge need not be copied, but same knowledge can
> be received from that absolute by any human being lives in any part of
> the world.
>
> So if some westerner says / writes it need not be a copy from Hindu
> scriptures, but may be of his own discovery from that absolute (god).
>
> Any people speak / write philosophy or religious matters, they don't
> do just for name, but due to their inner realization / inner
> experience.
>
> Buddha realized, Jesus realized, Mohammad realized, Socrates realized,
> so they have expressed their inner experience, which may be compared
> to similar knowledge taught in Upanishads, BG or Vedas.
>
> Any person in the world who drinks water how he will describe its
> taste, it will be more or less same i.e no taste but it quenches your
> thirst, it gives your energy.
>
> Every one in the world feels thirsty and look for water and find
> water, similarly everyone feels void in the life, searching for
> meaning and find it.
>
> So not to under value any body and say they have just copied. It may
> be the work of 2nd hand philosophers but not of Buddha, Jesus or
> Mohammad or Gurdjieff or Socrates.
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> Please comment.....
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>
> Good Reading
> Suresh
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> J.Suresh
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