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=============================================================== Saturday, 17.  Feb  2023. 05:30. Mysticism Chapter 3: The Foundation of Religious Philosophy-1. =============================================================== The foundations of religion lie deep in the awareness of the relation that subsists among the primary principles of God, the world and the individual. A study of these ultimate truths often goes by the name of philosophy, metaphysics, ontology, theology, etc. God, the world and the individual—these sum up the principle scaffolding structure of every kind of study or any branch of learning, for the matter of that. All social relations that give rise to studies which are usually called humanities also come under the relationships already mentioned, namely, the mutual relation of individuals. During the previous session I brought your mind to a point where it could concentrate upon the possible character of the Ultimate Reality. What is meant by Reality? What ...

  ============================================================== Monday, 15  Jan  2023. 05:30. Mysticism Chapter 2: The Religious Ideal of God-realisation - 7. =============================================================== How could you be free by knowing your own self? You can have some idea as to how this could be. Knowing your own self is not knowing yourself as so-and-so. You have already understood to some extent that you are not any of these things—neither a man nor a woman, not even a body, not even a mind, not even a human being. Therefore, to know your own self would be to enter into the impersonal quintessence of your being, which is also the quintessential essence of everything else. When you sink below the surface of a wave in the ocean, you have touched the ocean, which is the root of all the other waves at the same time. So is the case when you go deep into your own self; you have touched the depths of everybody in the world. So to know yourself is to know ...

================================================================ Friday, 08  Dec  2023. 05:30. Chapter 2: The Religious Ideal of God-realisation - 6. ================================================================ What happens to the mind when the object comes nearer and is apparently possessed? The mind ceases to think of the object. The necessity to think of the object ceases because of the satisfaction or the conviction that the object has come to one's own possession. When you cease from thinking of the object on account of the belief that you are in control of the object, the mind has returned to the self. The mind returns to the self; you come back to your own self. The not-self has come back to the self under the notion that there is no further necessity to move into the not-self. When you have entered into the self, you have touched the border of this indivisible core that you are, about which we discussed a few minutes before as a state into which we enter in deep sl...