By Andrew Harvey
This anthology collects the main lyrical, passionate, illuminating writings of the Hindu mystical culture. Andrew Harvey, the preferred non secular pupil and author, has chosen excerpts from historic and modern resources, together with extracts from the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and different classical Hindu texts; the phrases of such venerable non secular academics as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi; and the devotional poetry of Mirabai, Ramprasad, etc. The scope of this anthology makes it a wonderful creation to Hindu mystical literature, whereas the ability and wonder of the language will motivate these already accustomed to the style.
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Regulate your activities to lead you To the goal. Hold the reins of your mind As you hold the reins of restive horses. In deep meditation aspirants may See forms like snow or smoke. They may feel A strong wind blowing or a wave of heat. They may see within them more and more light: Fireflies, lightning, sun, or moon. These are signs That one is far on the path to Brahman. Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, A glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance Of body: these signs indicate progress In the practice of meditation.
The Tantric vision of a samsara that is also nirvana, of an earth that is also heaven, of a body ensouled and a soul embodied, can help us live in the creation as in a temple, transfigure banal desire into holy celebration, and love our lives with sacred passion and so gather our powers to protect and honor the lives of all beings with courage and wisdom. Only such a passion, courage, and wisdom—and the hope born from them of a divine life in an increasingly divinized world—can give us now the fire and the strength to save our world from disaster.
Those were the first established rites. These powers ascended up to heaven where dwell the ancient Gods and other beings. 90 Shanti PEACEFUL BE HEAVEN, peaceful the earth, peaceful the broad space between. Peaceful for us be the running waters, peaceful the plants and herbs! Peaceful to us be the signs of the future, peaceful what is done and undone, peaceful to us be what is and what will be. May all to us be gracious! This supreme Goddess, Word, inspired by Brahman, by which the awe-inspiring is created, through her to us be peace!