"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Thus Spake Sri Rama


The sayings in this section have been collected from various sources like the Valmiki Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana and the Yoga Vasishtha Ramayana. 
  • There is no entity in this world which does not fall a prey to this all-swallowing Time. Time is very terrible. Time swallows up everything that is visible, sparing nothing. It does not spare even outstanding personalities.
  • Time which is collossal in its dimensions, brings a thing into being in a trice and breaks it to pieces in a moment. Time recurrently shifts, from heaven to hell and back, a creature which identities itself with its body.
  • Time devours everything. Man's ill luck and good fortune, restlessness and composure, greed and infatuation - everything resides in the womb of Time.
  • From a blade of grass and particle of dust to the oceans and the Sumeru and even Indra himself - all are subject to the mercy of Time.
  • Causing the rain and the moon to rise and set in this firmament, Time plays, as it were, with them in the fashion of a boy with his ball.

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