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O lead me soulward, upward, higher, I bow before Thee, hidden Fire,
"I know what pain is all desire, I empty self of that entire
And set my gaze on nothing less
Than That, deep peace which brings me rest,
"Enlightened Ones! I give Thee now My all in all, my I in Thou....."
A large stream of water flowed out before him. It was azure and crystal clear. It was so still and calm that he could see the floorbed of the water. A seed was stirring gently in the slime.
A change came over him so that he had the faculty of double vision; he could see within and without simultaneously.
He perceived that the joy, love, and life he had known before this moment had been merely a husk of this 'love seed' about to burst open. The hard crust he saw as his ego formation. The small seedling within had the potential strength to break open the shell-like enclosure and shoot up into the lotus of spiritual fruition.
The seed split open. From winding stem and inner seed a beam of light poured out. Slowly the crown of the unearthly plant appeared. It was a brilliant thousand-petalled lotus. Rup merged with it.
Revealed to him was the simplest yet most profound truth - the oneness of all life. He experienced an exultant freedom. It was a glimpse of that which permeates, penetrates, and irradiates all the forms.
From this height of awareness he experienced that which no words can come close to rendering. The insights which flowed from this supratranscendental state were exquisitely subtle.
He saw that life is nothing but giving. Like the spendthrifty lotus which gives unstintingly of its sweet-scented fragrance to all, man's nature is to radiate the creative life-giving qualities of his loving spirit to all without discrimination.
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