Sublime

je l’ignore autant que toi. Je suis en route pour une destination inconnue. J’étais riche et je ne le suis plus. Que serai-je demain ? je ne le sais pas. – Tu as donc perdu tes richesses ? – Je les ai perdues, ou plutôt c’est moi qui les ai abandonnées. Elles se sont détachées de moi. La roue des transformations tourne vite, ô Govinda. Qu’est

As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. 38 Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.

Too much knowledge had been holding him back, too many holy verses, sacrificial rules, self-castigation, and striving for this goal! He had always been full of arrogance, the most intelligent, the most zealous worker, one step ahead of the others, the knowing and spiritual one, the priest or the wise one. His self had retreated into this arrogance,

While Śrīvidyā is the name of a particular path, it also refers to the central mantra of the tradition as well as its ultimate goal—svatantra or absolute freedom through the realization of auspicious wisdom.

In our lives, we experience gain and loss, pleasure and pain, praise and blame, victory and defeat, life and death. This is the nature of the Tao.

Remembering me, you shall overcome all difficulties through my grace. But if you will not heed me in your self-will, nothing will avail you. If you egotistically say, “I will not fight this battle,” your resolve will be useless; your own nature will drive you into it. (18:58–59)

Those whose consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do.

The recognition that This, too, will pass brings detachment and with detachment another dimension comes into your life—inner space.