Attain liberation
Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 12:04PM
Liara Covert in Consciousness
In the Crest-Jewel of Wisdom by Shankara, to know the nature of your Soul is to experience, not simply dream of, pure bliss. Perception, as you understand it, and the urge to compare, wouldn’t exist. You would forget. You would unlearn everything you have been conditioned to believe. You would see anew and be self-satisfied.

To value silence and be void of desire are what truly cause the greatest happiness. You wouldn't think about the past or speculate on the future. You would be indifferent to present. Time and space would have no meaning. How many people have you met who live quietly as if spectators, free from all desire and change?

William Wordsworth viewed Soul and a sense of home as points of self-realization. What does this passage from his poem, "Intimations of Immortality" mean to you?

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life star,
Hath had elsewhere, its setting,
And cometh from afar.
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home
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