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finite moving towards the infinite, man going towards the source of his being, God.
Rising up from the ocean waters and forming as clouds in the high skies, being wafted by the breeze and winds once again over land, and there with condensation of mountains, pouring down as rain once again. The waters that rose from the ocean flow back towards the ocean in trickles, then in droplets, then streams, then small rivers, then great rivers, onwards and onwards, never stopping, overcoming all obstacles, ultimately finding once again the source, the origin, back into the ocean. That is what 'Ganga' symbolizes! The eternal quest of the human heart for communion, merging with the divine. Thus is the beautiful Ganga Darshan.
I am overwhelmed with a sense of unworthiness that God has brought me here into the company of all you beautiful sincere, seeking souls. You are questing after the life divine, questing after a life of self control, questing after a life of spiritual discipline, questing after a life of deep meditation, devotion, adoration, and questing after a life of keen spiritual, philosophical enquiry and investigation, vichara, viveka, investigation. And ever having but one great objective that you should again regain the temporarily forgotten divine perfection which is your true being. Each soul is potentially Divine, being a part and parcel of the cosmic divine spirit. That is the discovery of our ancients.
Your reality is divinity. Your human personality is only a very temporary assumed part, an assumed personality. It did not exist before you were born to your parents. It will cease to exist when you depart from your body. When you leave this little shell aside and go forth, then you are neither male nor female, you are neither name nor form, neither American nor Australian nor Indian nor Hindu nor Christian nor Islam nor Buddhist nor anything. You are not a human being. You are what you were before you assumed this temporary human personality to play your part in this drama of life on the stage of the world, and, therefore, your reality is not this physical or psychological human personality. You are beyond this temporary body-mind complex which is called your human personality. The physical and psychological complex constitutes the ingredients of the temporary human personality. Your shining center is of pure divine consciousness.
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