35053668-Empire-of-the-Soul-Paul-William-Roberts

EMPIRE OF THE SOUL
Realities were Creator, Creation, and Language – all sacred, all
interlinked. This was the knowledge passed on by men of staggering
spiritual and temporal wisdom, preserved orally by the world’s first
priesthood – the Brahmanas, the original Brahmins – who
impressed upon those to whom they in turn handed it on, apparently
in a father-son chain, the crucial importance of not mispronouncing
one single syllable. The link connecting the three great realities
should never be broken.
Above all, it is the harmony, the sheer orderliness, of the universe
that is stressed – and stressed so forcefully because it is humankind
alone out of all creation that is capable of disrupting its serene and
eternal harmony. For this, too, is the exact moment when humans
acquire another extraordinary gift possessed by nothing else in all
the universe: free will.
Is is said in Hindu scriptures that the gods themselves envy human
birth, because only within time is there free will and movement.
Eternity in the Vedas is utter stillness; it exists entirely outside time,
conceived of as that point where the future meets the past.
The present itself, then, is eternity, according to Vedanta, and
only by stilling the mind through meditation can a person find the
eternal present. Time is in the mind; one knows eternity, the very
fabric of the universe, in the heart, the core where all things unite in
complete harmony. Love, in the spiritual sense, recognises our
oneness with all creation, and with what created it. The whole
spiritual science that is Vedism concerns the overwhelming need to
align human will with the will of the Eternal. This is conceived of
as the purpose of human existence: that the many return to the One
– through their own volition.
Virtues and vices are linked forever
within the human body.
When the Immortal Sculptor designed and
moulded us, all manner of good and bad
Came to dwell inside the mortal flesh,
came and made it their home.
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