The Destiny of Man-7.

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They brought to bear all their intelligence, their logic, their thought-power, their discrimination, their reasoning, their analytical force in order to grasp what seemed to elude their ordinary thought.

They put to work their concentrated mind, they pondered over it, they contemplated it, they reflected upon it, they thought deeply about it, they entered into a state of absolute, one-pointed meditation about it, and it is to their eternal credit that they did not give up their quest until they got what they were searching for.
And we have to congratulate ourselves for the sacrifice of these great souls who were explorers upon the inner dimension of man, the dimension of the spirit, and we have to congratulate ourselves for their persistence, perseverance, their refusal to take a no and come back without achieving their objective.

They were willing to sacrifice their entire life, the last drop of blood for this quest.

And with this perseverance, with this determination to get what they wanted to the exclusion of everything else, they entered into a state of attunement with the cosmic mind, they entered into an experience of the universal being, and in that state of vast expanded consciousness they broke all the barriers of limitation, they broke the fetters and jails of mere objective perception through the senses and went beyond the senses into a state of transcendental consciousness—there in that state of cosmic consciousness all their questions vanished.

There was no more doubt, nothing hidden anymore—everything became revealed, everything became instantly known, past and future blended into the present, the timeless present.

They came into direct experience with the heart of existence, they became one with the Cosmic Mind... Some of these great seers (they are called seers because they saw what was unseen), some of these great sages of illumined wisdom have tried to bring to us some glimpses of what they had experienced.
They have tried to share with us their insights, their wisdom, their experience—what they knew with certainty. And there we can find some idea about the destiny of man.

SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
To be continued .........

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