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Title: Yogananda warns of straying down unsatisfied curiosities Post by: guest88 on Oct 22, 2019 09:37 pm II:28
Quote The devotee must beware of dangers involved in wandering into the byways of curiosity, forgetful of the direct highway to God. Many, many devotees would have found God and heard from His infinite lips the solution to all puzzles had they not strayed into blind alleys of unsatisfied spiritual or intellectual curiosity. Man should not desire knowledge of the mysteries of God's creation in preference to knowledge of God Himself. The true devotee loves God so ardently that He is compelled to manifest Himself in the devotional consciousness; the devotee leaves unto God the right to reveal, or not reveal, the secrets of His kingdom. Even with the best human friends, one does not betray a vulgar curiosity! Eventually those friends, without one's rude probing, confide fully and naturally all secrets of their lives. Elaboration taken from, Quote The beginning of all creatures is veiled, the middle is manifested, and the end again is imperceptible, O Bharata (Arjuna). Why, then, lament this truth? Title: Re: Yogananda warns of straying down unsatisfied curiosities Post by: Jitendra Hydonus on Oct 22, 2019 11:19 pm Good points. Not sure how Spirit replies to having some subtle experiences that one wonders the intent of; an example... spirit totems.
Title: Re: Yogananda warns of straying down unsatisfied curiosities Post by: guest88 on Oct 23, 2019 06:13 pm if the language of spirit totem is perceptible to you but you aren't sure what to make of it, then i'd say you are closer friends with god than you realize.
:) Title: Go Beyond Reason Post by: guest88 on Oct 25, 2019 07:40 am Quote Until a devotee's intelligence becomes cosmic consciousness, God cannot convey to man the meaning of creation. How to explain to the highest human faculty- reason, which reduces all concepts to cause-effect relationships- the motives of the uncaused God? Quote All created things seem to be explainable in the middle, as we have seen, but are infinite and invisible in the beginning and end. This mystery should spur man to trace the visible effect to the Invisible Cause, the Spirit. Nothing can be gained by grief about an unknown fate or the unanswered "whys," or by negative thought about the limitations of reason- the prevalent philosophies of our era discourage man from seeking in meditation to go beyond reason. The only way to know the beginning and the end of all things is to contact God. Quote This wonderful drama of life, this mystery play, this visible effect of Universal Existence, could never have come into being without a Cause; having existed, it could not be annihilated into nonexistence! Something cannot spring from nothing; neither can something end in nothing. All enigmas can be solved by the development of intuition, the divine medium of communication between God and man. Title: Re: Yogananda warns of straying down unsatisfied curiosities Post by: guest58 on Oct 25, 2019 02:14 pm I see the wisdom of my words are immortal! That’s from my book; Over the River and Through the Woods. Alfie |