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T H E C E N T R A L F A C T
Who is the Self ?
He is the Spirit consisting of Intelligence,
illumined by an Inward Light
residing in the Heart.
Brhadâranyaka Upanishad 4:3:7.
That is the Light of Lights, known to be beyond darkness:
Gnosis, the Object of Gnosis, by Gnosis to be reached,
seated in the Hearts of all.
Bhagavadgîtâ 13:17.
The Inner Guide is that aspect of God
which abides in the Heart,
which out of Love remains with the soul
in all states of experience,
even heavens and hells.
Yatîndramatadîpikâ 9:26.
I am seated in the Hearts of all,
and from Me come Memory, Knowledge and Reason;
I am He Who is to be known in all Vedas (1),
I am indeed the Knower of the Vedas (2)
and the Author of the Vedânta (3).
Shrî Krshna in Bhagavadgîtâ 15:15.
I am the Generator of all: all evolves from Me.
I am the Self seated in the heart of all beings;
I am the beginning, the middle and also the end of all beings.
Bhagavadgîtâ 10:8, 20.
Jesus said:
I am the Light shining over all,
I am the All.
All has come out of Me, and all can be traced back to Me.
Split a piece of wood: I am there.
Lift up a stone: you will find Me there.
The Gospel of Thomas 77.
I hold the Gnostic (4) as verily Myself:
he, united with Me, abides in Me, the highest Path.
Bhagavadgîtâ 7:18.
He who sees Me everywhere, and all sees in Me,
he is never lost to Me, nor am I ever lost to him.
He who, established in unity,
worsippeth Me abiding in all beings,
that man of True Religion (5) liveth in Me,
whatever his mode of living.
Bhagavadgîtâ 6:30-31.
The Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Paul's Epistle to the Colossians 1:27.
Those verily who worship Me
in communion of love,
they are in Me,
and I am in them.
Bhagavadgîtâ 9:29.
Out of pure Compassion,
dwelling within the Soul,
I destroy the ignorance-born darkness
by the shining lamp of Gnosis (6).
Bhagavadgîtâ 10:11.
Of those whose mind is fixed in Me
I soon became the Saviour
from the ocean of becoming and death.
Bhagavadgîtâ 12:7.
If then God is present in the Soul as a Saviour, friend and lover, so faithful as to always remain with it, even in hell, what need do we have of gurus, priests, mediators, interpreters, churches, creeds and rituals?
At the end of many lives
the man of true Knowledge comes to Me
aware that God is all.
Bhagavadgîtâ 7:19
Abandon all dharmas (7)
and come to Me alone for shelter (8);
do not grieve: I will deliver thee from all evil.
Bhagavadgîtâ 18:66.
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room,
and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father, who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.
Matthew 6:6.
Notes
(1) Vedas: any sacred or inspired Scripture.
(2) No man can really understand the Scriptures unless enlightened by Him.
(3) In India, Vedânta means properly the end (anta) or final part of the Vedas, that is the Upanishads; then it also means the philosophical systems based upon the Upanishads; ultimately, Vedânta means the end of Knowledge (veda-anta), that is the final, unsurpassable, definitive Knowledge (veda).
(4) The original has jnânî, which bears to jnânam (Knowledge, Gnosis) the same relatioship as gnöstikòs to gnôsis. "Gnostic" is here to be understood in its general sense of "man of true Knowledge", not as indicating a follower of some gnostic doctrine or school.
(5) The original has yogî, which comes from yoga, meaning "union" or, better in the present context, "communion". We believe that yoga has, in the Bhagavadgîtâ, mostly the sense of "religion": in fact, if the latter term comes from the Latin religare ("bind together"), then the Sankrit yoga (from yuj: "join together") is an obvious synonym thereof.
(6) Here the original has jnânam (jnânadîpena: by the lamp of jnânam).
(7) Every form or practice of religion so-called, institutions, established order, usage, rules, prescriptions, etc.
(8) Not forgetting that He has to be worshipped "abiding in all beings" (Bhagavadgîtâ 6:30-31).
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