“He alone sees truly who sees the Lord the same in every creature... seeing the same Lord everywhere, he does not harm himself or others.” ~ Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita
The end result of following Krishna’s wisdom and living the yogic truths is simple: we see “the Lord the same in every creature.” We experience the beauty and the power of seeing the inter-connectedness of our existence and do no harm to ourselves or others…
Reminds me of Abraham Maslow’s wisdom: “Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.”
And Einstein’s statement: “A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe’; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison.”
And, what about Donne’s For Whom the Bell Tolls?
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
We’re all ONE. Let’s see truly.
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