Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00004)

In a message dated 8/2/98 10:55:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mmrj@powersupply.net mmrj writes:

<< It seems the Hermetic axiom "As above so below"
 would apply to relative existence and manifestation and
 not the SOURCE,  which is neither "Above" nor "Below." >>'

If we identify the Cosmic Logos as Sat-Chit-Ananda, then I feel
we can talk of God in personal terms, for we too, have existence,
consciousness and the capacity for bliss though not in
the absolute sense (like God).  The Absolute can be seen as
a backdrop to both the Cosmic Logos and individual monads.


Yogananda in his commentaries on the Gita, says:

"When the devotee, by practice of loving mortals truly, learns
to love all beings, and by meditation learns to love God supremely,
then and only then is his longing for love satisfied.

"Every man who leaves the earth in an embittered state of unrequited
love has to come back here until he finds the perfect love of God.
When he recognizes the Lord as the only Perfect Lover, his
heart seeks no other affection.  After many prodigal wanderings
the yogi meets the Cosmic Lover in the bower of eternity.  Whenever
the yogi turns his attention, he sees his Beloved peeping at him
through the windows of stars and flowers, through every opening
in the atoms and the pores of the sky.  The Cosmic Lover similarly
beholds the lost-and-found soul of the yogi steadfastly looking at Him.

In the ordinary person, God seems to be absent or vanished from
the universe.  But the yogi sees the ever-watching Eye of God
gazing at him through all the windows of space.  The face of his
Cosmic Beloved is omnipresent."

TALK WITH ARJUNA: THE BHAGAVAD GITA
Commentaries by Paramhansa Yogananda
p. 635

Sutratman