SAIVA-SIDDHANTA

TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. (,97
thinking on self surmount self, hushed <ill dreams and imagin
ary revelation, every tongue and every sign, and whatsoever
exists only in transition, since if we could hear, all these say
we made not to ourselves, but He made us that abideth for
ever. If then having uttered this, they too should be hushed
having roused our ears to him who made them, and He alone
speak not by them, but by Himself, that we may hear His
word, not through any tongue of flesh, nor angels voice nor
soiyid of thunder nor in the dark riddle of a similitude, but
might hear Whom in these things we love, might hear his
very self without these (as we too now strained ourselves and
in swift thought touched on the eternal wisdom which abideth
over all) rcould this be continued on, and other visions of
far unlike be withdrawn, and this one ravish and absorb and
wrap up its beholder, and these inward joys, so that life might
be for ever like that one moment of understanding which we
now sighed after, were not this, enter in My Master s "
joy
(St. Augustine s Confessions Book ix.)
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While earth and air, water and sky and fire
May change their nature, He changes and wearies not,
In him, I lost my body and sense, my
life and mind
1 lost my-self, I sing TeJJenam.
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Ye fools ! that speak of the unspeakable,
Can ye rind the limits of the limitless one ?
When as the waveless sea one gains clearness,
To him, will appear the Lord with braided hair.