TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

greeted me in the Indian style. When you do that, whatimage comes to mind?""One of devotion, of respect, the hope of receiving andrealizing the most precious teachings.""Do you think there's a fundamental difference betweenyou and me?""Yes, you are a master.""When you greet me, do not bow before someone whomay be what you are not. Even if Shiva were standing therein front of you, never bow before something distant andunattainable; on the contrary, bow before that which linksus and which makes us fundamentally alike, which makesShiva and his companion, Bhairavi, fundamentally no differentfrom you and me. When you bow, bow deeply beforethe divine which is in ourselves and in this moment,before the divine which has never been separate from us,before the divine which is not found anywhere other thanin ourselves, before the divine which one can never getcloser to or farther away from, before the inconceivabledivine out of which our entire being is fashioned, as thetexture of clay out of which we take the form given to usby the potter. As long as you imagine a way which separatesyou from the divine, you are preparing for lengthywandering, and this wandering will never end, because themore you think you are approaching the divine, the moreit will escape you."Shiva is inconceivable, unattainable, and yet it is impossibleto distance yourself from him, because fundamentallyyou are Shiva. You greet me, you greet the divine whichlinks us like the ground on which we both walk, like thesky in which our gaze gets lost."41