The One

 

"When a man knows God, he is free: his sorrows have an end, and birth and death are no more. When in inner union he is beyond the world of the body, then the third world, the world of the Spirit, is found, where the power of the All shines, and man has all—for he is one with the One. " KrishnaYajur Veda, Shvetasvatara Upanishad 

Who can describe the One?

There are waves, great and small, there are whirlpools and currents, but they are all just a part of one ocean.

There are different trees and shrubs,there are creepers and mosses and fungii, but they are all just a part of one forest.

There are bacteria and microbes, insects and reptiles, birds and animals and humans, but they are all just a part of one life-force.

The One alone exists.

When the mind is still and silent, anchored firmly in its source, then the quantum eye opens and sees the swirling energy of potential and probability that forms all reality.

When the intellect, speech and senses are struck dumb, baffled by the unknowable, then the inner eye opens and sees the unseeable.

When the heart blossoms in devout surrender, then the infinite eye opens and sees only the divine everywhere.

All the religions and holy books are like dead leaves blown before the wind -their essence is but one.

This One is pure existence-consciousness-bliss.

This One is the substratum of infinite love that contains all that exists.

This One has been called Brahman and Tao and Buddha-nature and God…..but it is beyond all names and forms.

You cannot know this One, you can only be it.

There is only One.

“ Abide in perfect stillness, with no movement of tongue or mind or body. Behold the effulgence of the Self within – the complete absence of fear, the vast ocean of bliss. Ha, so simple is Atma Vidya!” Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi, Atma Vidya Keertanam.