God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World's Sacred Poetry and Prose (Essential Easwaran Library Book 4)

by Eknath Easwaran

Is to be freed from all conditioning. This is the state of Self-realization, Far beyond the reach of words and thoughts. To be united with the Lord of Love, Imperishable, changeless, beyond cause And effect, is to find infinite joy. Brahman is beyond all duality, Beyond the reach of thinker and of thought. Let us meditate on the shining Self, The ultimate reality, who is Realized by the sages in samadhi. Brahman cannot be realized by those Who are subject to greed, fear, and anger. Brahman cannot be realized by those Who are subject to the pride of name and fame Or to the vanity of scholarship. Brahman cannot be realized by those Who are enmeshed in life’s duality. But to all those who pierce this duality, Whose hearts are given to the Lord of Love, He gives himself through his infinite grace; He gives himself through his infinite grace.