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To live within
To live within
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First published January 1, 1972
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November 26, 2010
A very deep and profound story of a woman's very deep and very real search, with the help of a Baul Master, Sri Anirvan. This is a supremely beautiful book! Lizelle Reymond's words are sincere and unpretentious, and they offer both inspiration and direction to anyone willing to wrestle with the question "Who am I?"
May 13, 2018
Un libro meraviglioso!
March 1, 2020
Samkhya and Gurdjieff
I wrote this in the seventies: To Live Within has value to those who study Yoga philosophy as well as those who study Gurdjieff. I am sure now that it has also much to say to others as well.
I did not know of Lizelle Reymond, but Mrs. Rosemary Nott in the UK knew her and suggested to me that I should go to meet her (as I practiced yoga at the time). Eventually I managed: stayed in Hotel de la Paix in Geneve over a weekend and had contact most of the time with Lizelle Reymond.
While in Geneve, Miss Reymond gave me her unpublished book to read, which I managed to do also during this weekend.
I cannot even remember what the book was called, but I wrote a poem inspired by it. The poem is called The Three Pilgrimages - I believe it reflects somehow the name or the content of the book:
The Three Pilgrimages
The Climb to the Mountain
I follow a little stream
Looking for its source
Up the mountain
Choosing my way
In the shade
On the dark side
With the moon and stars
As my guides
The way is long
I hurry towads the top
Slipping in the snow
Getting stuck
I reach the peak
And look around in wonder
At the beauty of the scene
When I suddenly see
My own reflection in the spring
Was it meant this way
That I should work and suffer
This long way
Just to find out
That what I had managed
In all these years
Was to carry my self-portrait
An image of nothing
To the top
The picture of myself
Had always been
In front of my vision
Everything I thought I was
Had nothing to do with me
I see now
That I am in everything
And everything is in me
Adift Towards the Sea
I start my descent
Along the stream
Now growing to a river
In which I drift
Towards the sea
Clinging to the reflection
Of my own nothingness
I see others climbing up
Shouting: Look
There’s one who has given up
The cool water
Washes away
The dirt I gathered
On my way up
There is no pain
There is no pleasure
There is nothing I can measure
One with the Ocean
My picture buried in the sea
There is nothing left of me
There is something
I can still see
It has nothing to do with me
I am alive now
The ego is gone
In the void
Left by the ego
I am
To Live Within is a story of the writer's long time relationship with her teacher Sri Anirvan and her efforts to follow his teachings. Sri Anirvan's own studies include the Vedas and his teaching has elements of these ancient texts going back three thousand years.
The concept of 'Sahaja' is defined as Yoga in life. Sri Anirvan: 'To accept Prakriti in its totality is pure Sahaja'... And what has Gurdjieff created for you in the West? Surely a field of prakriti corresponding to your own possibilities.'
I have since discovered the writings of Sri Anirvan and now reading his book on The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Recommended.
I wrote this in the seventies: To Live Within has value to those who study Yoga philosophy as well as those who study Gurdjieff. I am sure now that it has also much to say to others as well.
I did not know of Lizelle Reymond, but Mrs. Rosemary Nott in the UK knew her and suggested to me that I should go to meet her (as I practiced yoga at the time). Eventually I managed: stayed in Hotel de la Paix in Geneve over a weekend and had contact most of the time with Lizelle Reymond.
While in Geneve, Miss Reymond gave me her unpublished book to read, which I managed to do also during this weekend.
I cannot even remember what the book was called, but I wrote a poem inspired by it. The poem is called The Three Pilgrimages - I believe it reflects somehow the name or the content of the book:
The Three Pilgrimages
The Climb to the Mountain
I follow a little stream
Looking for its source
Up the mountain
Choosing my way
In the shade
On the dark side
With the moon and stars
As my guides
The way is long
I hurry towads the top
Slipping in the snow
Getting stuck
I reach the peak
And look around in wonder
At the beauty of the scene
When I suddenly see
My own reflection in the spring
Was it meant this way
That I should work and suffer
This long way
Just to find out
That what I had managed
In all these years
Was to carry my self-portrait
An image of nothing
To the top
The picture of myself
Had always been
In front of my vision
Everything I thought I was
Had nothing to do with me
I see now
That I am in everything
And everything is in me
Adift Towards the Sea
I start my descent
Along the stream
Now growing to a river
In which I drift
Towards the sea
Clinging to the reflection
Of my own nothingness
I see others climbing up
Shouting: Look
There’s one who has given up
The cool water
Washes away
The dirt I gathered
On my way up
There is no pain
There is no pleasure
There is nothing I can measure
One with the Ocean
My picture buried in the sea
There is nothing left of me
There is something
I can still see
It has nothing to do with me
I am alive now
The ego is gone
In the void
Left by the ego
I am
To Live Within is a story of the writer's long time relationship with her teacher Sri Anirvan and her efforts to follow his teachings. Sri Anirvan's own studies include the Vedas and his teaching has elements of these ancient texts going back three thousand years.
The concept of 'Sahaja' is defined as Yoga in life. Sri Anirvan: 'To accept Prakriti in its totality is pure Sahaja'... And what has Gurdjieff created for you in the West? Surely a field of prakriti corresponding to your own possibilities.'
I have since discovered the writings of Sri Anirvan and now reading his book on The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Recommended.
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