Verses



98 – Containing

9 The Sack (The Universe-Soul)
8 Seeking The Form (Freedom-Prison)

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980) If your perception of the impermanence of life is real, then what thoughts alter your existence? If you believe in an Absolute Reality, what relative existence disturbs you? You forget, all begins and ends in being. The Beginningless and the Endless lie in non-being. Contain that, and smile at the Way.
981) Those who have contorted eyes see grim expressions in others.
982) Those who harbor evil between their ears listen to love and translate it into hate. Not knowing the origin, they construct horror.
983) Those who have words of chaos in their mouths, not knowing the rules, condemn others. Only when they have the gift of eloquence and become wise will they live with Love and no longer condemn anyone.
984) Only the eyes of Realized Beings are straight. They can see the eyes of the Soul; they have empty ears and do not translate. They have universes in their mouths, and donate rules.
985) When you see the Nature of the Realization in all sentient beings, your path will have begun.
986) If, of Love, you only experience form, you make empty words out of your life. In the universe, the prisoner experiences only the bars. The bigger you try to be, the more of a prisoner you are. To have no self is Infinite Freedom without bars.
987) Sentient beings who have realized the Higher Self in the universes manipulate the finite aspects they know as manifestation. But this nature that they believe to be manifestation, crystallized as a “creed,” will fragment, after illusion, when they encounter the True Vision.
988) Sometimes enlightened beings wander, inebriated by the world of form. Not themselves, they are prisoners of the void. Only at the end of error will they continue in the Light. But sometimes, the Light of the Absolute frees them.
989) Those who desire to possess bind themselves to what they possess. They do not know that, free from ties, it is earth and sky, it is the universe.