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The word, it is said, "killeth." How can the Self be captured in words?Yet when we begin to inquire, words, like those contained in the meditationverse above, are very useful. Recently at a flea market, a man sold an uncutsapphire for ten dollars that netted his customer, a professional rock hound,two million. Knowing what is was, is it likely the vendor would have partedwith it for that price? Like the rock, the buyer’s knowledge was a greattreasure. An idea of what we’re searching not only increases the chances offinding it, but of properly appreciating it once found."Realize That to be the Selfwhich illumines the sun,but is not illumined by the sun."(60)Physical light is limited because it depends on a source of energy otherthan itself to create and sustain it. It is unable to illumine darkness because itdispels it. It doesn't know itself.Consciousness, on the other hand, spontaneously and eternallygenerates Light from its own being. Pervading everything, it is that by virtueof which both light and darkness, physical and psychological, are known.And It knows itself."As fire permeates an iron ballthe fire of Consciousnesspervades the whole universe."(61)The author must have been passing in front of a blacksmith's hut whenthis eloquent verse came to him. He saw an iron ball, a symbol of inert andinsentient matter, come alive as it absorbed the smithy's fire. Consciousnessis the vital life in every atom of the material world. Without the blessing ofthis mystic fire the dance of life does not occur. Its simple being provides thespark necessary to kindle life in these inert material coverings."The Self is other than this, the universe.If anything other than the Self exists,it is unreal like a mirage."(62)90
“All that is perceived or heard is the Self.Knowing the Self one sees everything as Reality,non-dual Being, absolute Bliss, pure Awareness."(63)In a dream every object is the mind of the dreamer. If I dream a wolf isattacking me, I am the wolf and I am the "me" under attack. I am the dreambuildings, the trees, people, my fears and desires - absolutely everything.In a similar manner, we take the waking state to be real, suffering andenjoying accordingly. When I wake up to the Self, I discover that the wakingstate is a dream, suffering and enjoyment stop, overwhelming Bliss floods mybeing, and I find myself free of limitation."The Self, omnipresent Consciousness,is seen through the eye of wisdom. 117One whose vision is enshrouded by darknesssees It not as the blind miss the sun."(64)The attention factor in the unevolved flows exclusively into outerobjects. (fig.5) Imagine a triangle. Place each of the three consciouscenters 118 of the inner being (mind, intellect, and ego) at one of the threecorners. See each "looking away" from the center as it relates to objects in itsfield. Because each center is preoccupied with the happenings on its ownturf, it has little awareness of happenings in the others (a major cause ofinner-conflict or stress) and no awareness of the Self hidden in the center. Sothe person is spiritually blind, or in the language of this verse, a closed "thirdeye."117 See verse 46 page 84. for an additional explanation.118 In actuality there is only one conscious “center”, the Self. In the unevolved, however, the Self isapparently divided into three. The techniques of spirituality are designed to heal this inner split by focusingattention on a symbol or practice or, better yet, the Self.91
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