FELIZ YULE.

“No Terceiro Corpo das suas Profecias, o Bandarra anuncia o Regresso de D. Sebastião (pouco importa agora o que ele entende por esse “regresso”) para um dos anos entre 1878 e 1888. Ora neste último ano (1888) deu-se em Portugal o acontecimento mais importante da sua vida nacional desde as descobertas; contudo, pela própria natureza do acontecimento, ele passou e tinha de passar inteiramente despercebido”

– Fernando Pessoa, "Comentário maior às profecias do Bandarra".

The Confession of a Jñāni

The Confession of a Jñāni

For a Jñāni who has realized the identity of his inner being with the infinite Brahman there is no rebirth, no migration, and no liberation.

He is beyond all this. He is firmly established in his own Absolute Existence-Knowledge-Bliss true nature.

The further existence of his body and the world appears to the Jñāni as an illusion, which he cannot remove, but which no longer deceives him.

After the death of this body, as in life, he remains where and what he eternally is, the first principle of all beings and things: formless, nameless, unsoiled, timeless, dimensionless and utterly free.

Death cannot touch him, cravings cannot torture him, sins do not stain him; he is free from all desire and suffering.

He sees the infinite Self in all, and all in the infinite Self, which is his being.

The Jñāni confesses his experience thus:

I am infinite, imperishable, Self-luminous, Self-existent, I am without beginning or end, I am birthless, deathless, without change or decay. I permeate and interpenetrate all things. In the myriad universes of thought and creation I Alone Am.

Robert Adams

We remember all kinds of words and knowledge, ideas, quotations. And we keep adding on and adding on and adding on. We've been going in the wrong direction. We want to take off, take off, take off not add on. We want to unlearn just about everything we've learnt since we were children. We want to become empty not so we can acquire new knowledge. 

~ Robert Adams