Is this about enlightenment? For me it's simply beautiful. As is roller skating. But in a different way
________________________________ From: curtisdeltablues <curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 10:06 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Chandogya Upanishad I'm pretty sure Kabir ripped this off in one of his poems. When I checked what was in my inner shrine recently I didn't get the stars and universe but I did find my missing Rollerblade skate key so now I can rotate my ground down wheels, yeah! I may not ever get the big prize of enlightenment but I can celebrate the little things with the best of them. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > I love this from Chandogya Upanishad, 8.1: > > In the center of the castle of Brahman, our own body, there is a small shrine > in the form of a lotus flower, and within can be found a small space. We > should find who dwells there, and we should want to know him. > > And > if anyone asks, "Who is he who dwells in a small shrine in the form of a > lotus flower in the center of the castle of Brahman? Whom should we > want to find and to know," we can answer: > > The little space > within the heart is as great as this vast universe. The heavens and the > earth are there, and the sun, and the moon, and the stars; fire and > lightening and winds are there; and all that now is and all that is > not. For the whole universe is in Him and He dwells within our heart. >
