"Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form,
When within thee the universe is folded?" - Baha'u'llah quoting Imam Ali, the first Shia Imam
"They say to me in their awakening, "You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea."
And in my dream I say to them, "I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore." - Gibran Kahlil Gibran
"As a leaking vessel never can fill, waters of Life so pure and still. So distracted mind fails to retain, wisdoms nectar in its brain. To fill waters from wisdoms spring, our minds we must to stillness bring. Then our crystal bowl of tranquil mind, with Gnosis fills of supernal kind. But if the very thoughts of mind, be as fleeting deer and hind, darting wayward ways they find, such men to wisdoms ways are blind. To ease disease of random mind, a remedy suitable we must find. A rhythmic breathing tension free, absorption as its sovereign key. Steady poise the arrow your will, and shoot the fleeting mind to still. The deer of thoughts, hinds & harts, felled by your concentrated darts. As one by one they die away, mind opens up to a new day, streams run tranquil willows sway, here tame and gentle deer do play. Tamed and tuned to natures flow, mind melts into the opal glow. Which radiates from the Soul within, where Wisdoms mystic fire is King!" - Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath, Mind Transformation
Namaste. The purpose of this site is to arouse within the mind and heart a sense of infinite expansion. Beyond the confines of day-to-day living, the snare of the endless cycle of death and rebirth, to Awaken a higher vision that transcends the ordinary limitations of the mundane senses that up until now have only imprinted and conditioned consciousness with an endless mirage of pseudo-meaning and false identifications fraught with materialistic sensibilities, thus allowing it only glimpses of the fleeting and ephemeral illusions of this transitory plane of existence. The 'poetic spells' contained herein are not mere fantasies projected by a pompous ego-pride, but rather, they are intuitions of a 'higher self', realizations that should reveal to you a sense of supramundane awareness, reverence for the mysteries of the sacred, and a detached disdain for the profane. If you are acquainted with poetry/art of this sort, then perhaps you will get an impression of the influences that have helped shape the angularities of these poetic-word formations. It would be in my contentment for you to leave this site in a mindfucked state, and to revisit it occasionally to check for further updates. This site is dedicated to all sages and warriors since time immemorial. Namaste.
"...Life for us belongs to neither the Past-that land of famous ghosts hoarding their tarnished grave-goods-nor to the Future, whose bulbbrained mutant citizens guard so jealously the secrets of immortality, faster-than-light flight, designer genes and withering of the State. Each moment contains an eternity to be penetrated-yet we lose ourselves in visions seen through corpses' eyes, or in nostalgia for unborn perfections..." - Hakim Bey from the book T.A.Z.
"When you are born you cry, but the whole world is overjoyed. When you die the whole world cries, but you may find the Great Liberation." - Padmasambhava, author of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
"The seed light shines everywhere, all forms derive life from it. When bodies are created, It does not take possession. It clothes and feeds the ten thousand things and does not disturb their illusions. Magical helix...smallest form, Mother of all forms. The living are born, flourish and disappear without knowing their seed creator, helix of light. In all nature it is true that the wiser, the older and the greater reside in the smaller" - 'The Seed Light' by Timothy Leary from Psychedelic Prayers
"...By practice, you may develop your thought power to be active and responsive at the same time, daily and systematically. Thoughts are effusive. They are elusive. They must be made captive and held fugitive. Be calm and collected, focus your mind to one point..." - Babaji, the Deathless One, Guru of all gurus
"I have long exercised an honest introspection, the exquisitely painful approach to wisdom. Self-scrutiny, relentless observance of one's thoughts, is a stark and shattering experience. It pulverizes the stoutest ego. But true self-analysis mathematically operates to produce seers. The way of 'self-expression', individual acknowledgements, results in egotists, sure of the right to their private interpretations of God and the universe. Man can understand no eternal verity until he has freed himself from pretensions. The human mind, bared to a centuried slime, is teeming with the repulsive life of countless world-delusions. Struggles of the battlefield pale into insignificance here, when man first contends with inner enemies! No mortal foes these, to be overcome by a harrowing array of might! Omnipresent, unresting, pursuing man even in sleep, subtly equipped with miasmic weapons, these soldiers of ignorant lusts seek to slay us all. Thoughtless is the man who buries his ideals, surrendering to the common fate. May he seem other than impotent, wooden, ignominious?" - Anonymous sadhu/sage mentioned in Paramahansa Yogananda's 'Autobiography of a Yogi'
"...It is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. Do not think dishonestly. The Way is in training. Become acquainted with every art. Know the Ways of all professions. Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. Although not only warriors but priests, women, peasants and lowlier folk have been known to die readily in the cause of duty or out of shame, this is a different thing. The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men..." - Miyamoto Musashi (the Unassailable warrior-monk) from 'A Book of Five Rings'
"Which do you think is larger, the highest mountain on earth or the pile of bones that represents the lives that you have lived over and over in every realm governed by the patterns of your own karma? Greater, my friends, is the pile of bones than the highest mountain on earth." - The Buddha
"...Every devotee who at will can command his attention to retire from the territory of the senses and to enthrone itself within is an object of admiration in the eyes of his own thoughts. A person who, like a detective, is busy observing the shortcomings of others gets a false conviction of superiority-either that he himself is free from those blemishes or is otherwise qualified to appraise others. A critical person rarely perfects his own life. A habitual critic is like a fly that sits on the moral sores of others. A true devotee, like a bee, sips the honey of good qualities from the hearts of his companions..." - Paramahansa Yogananda, from 'God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita'
"...Soon we all will die. All our hopes and fears will be irrelevant. Out of luminous continuity of existence, which has no origin and which has never died, human beings project all the images of life and death, terror and joy, demons and gods. These images become our complete reality. We submit without thinking to their dance. In all the movements to this dance, we project our greatest fears on death and we make every effort to ignore it. Illusions are as various as the moon reflecting on a rippling sea. Beings become easily caught in the net of confused pain. We must develop compassion as boundless as the sky so that all may rest in the clear light of our own awareness..." - Padmasambhava, author of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." - Japanese Proverb
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