Suresh, What is "The Book of Mirdad"? ...Bill!
--- In [email protected], SURESH JAGADEESAN <varamtha@...> wrote: > > ============================================= > > > 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." > > > "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" > > =================================================== > > 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. > > > Please comment..... > > > > Good Reading > Suresh > > -- > Thanks and best regards > J.Suresh > New No.3, Old No.7, > Chamiers road - 1st Lane, > Alwarpet, > Chennai - 600018 > Ph: 044 42030947 > Mobile: 91 9884071738 > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
