| |
ears will be able to hear the music of it.
That's why all over the world in all ages we have always painted pictures of people like Jesus and Buddha with an aura. That aura is not anything physical but it has been seen by people who are deep in love with Christ or Buddha. Love opens their inner eyes, they have seen it, they have seen Buddha surrounded by light.
In India you will come across many Shiva temples ana you will see the Shivalinga. Ordinarily on the superficial level, it is thought to be a phallic symbol, but it has a double meaning! For the uninitiated it is a phallic symbol; for the initiated it is just the form of a flame, the inner flame, the inner light. It is exactly the form of the inner light.
And why...?
(Words missing) ... really deeply in love they will be surrounded by a subtle glow. It can be seen, it has even been photographed. Although their energies are moving downwards, it triggers the inner flame too because the source is the same. Hence sex has something sacred about it. The whole science of Tantra was born out of this understanding -- that it is the same energy, the only question is that if it goes downwards it generates children; if it goes upwards it generates you, it regenerates you, it resurrects you.
That is the meaning of Jyoti -- flame. It is there, we just have to discover it.'
[A flame, a forgotten language -- bliss only has to be rediscovered he reiterated.]
The child knows bliss in the mother's womb because in the mother's womb he is in complete rest. For nine months there is no worry, no fear, no anxiety, no question of security; he is in the most comfortable position he will ever be. He is floating in the mother's womb in what is almost sea water. It is warm and he is in a total rest. He has nothing to do, nourishment is supplied; and he is in complete darkness -- no disturbance of any kind, no noise.
For nine months he tastes something tremendously blissful. And then comes birth and the disruption of his world. Then his whole world is shattered. Then he has to become acquainted with strange things, strange people, strange situations. Slowly slowly he has to be responsible.
|
|
|