Sublime

assimilate meditation into one or another self-centered project. With a Zen of “no gain,” we step outside of our usual realm of questions and answers, problems and solutions, off the endless treadmill of self-improvement and instead experience the completeness of our life as it already is.

That tradition teaches that our essence-nature, the core of our being, which is also the ground of being itself, cannot be grasped by the mind and so it goes by many names (while being ultimately nameless)—in Sanskrit it is called sāra (“essence, core”), madhya (“center”), svabhāva (“true nature”), ātman (“real self, soul”), and śivatva (“divinity”

If you meditate on any aspect of Hers with firm conviction, She will let you know Her true nature. Then you will realize that not merely does God exist, but He will come near you and talk to you, as I am talking to you. Have faith and you will achieve everything.”

If we really want to know Devī, we have to realize our unlimited nature and become her. This is the purpose of sādhanā, and the result of moving from duality to non-duality, from taking ourselves to be the limited “me story” to knowing ourselves to be non-separate from Reality. It is realizing that we are far more than the character in the movie.

ānandamaya kośa.