the gate of gates

Sri Samana

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That which appears as separate senses is separateness and as these apparent faculties of the bodily assumption, asserts difference and distinction. Mind arises, i arises, senses arise, and so too the world. The self-reflecting prism of mind colors the projected world and objects of the apparent perceiver and perceived, entrancing and romancing, yet Reality which is Self-Luminous and ever shining remains out of view.The outward seeking arc seeks not itSelf as Source, but to establish and re-establish this apparent separateness by means of the reflection of sense objects, which is coveted and asserted as it-self. The illusion of inside-outside is the basis of the dream. The tool and effort digs its grave while sleeping, and desires but The Gate. These so called senses are the Divine Gates, each The Way Unto itSelf. Appearances are untrue and one is an appearance. Yet appearances as the objects of the senses and the sense objects are the way and The Gate, as by Grace the phenomenal appears as the way of direct-experience, so too the phenomenal experiencer dis-appears. The love affair with the sense objects and objects of the senses is determined by the mirror of reflection as self-love which is the fundamental falsity. The love affair is not with but as Heart, which is the Self-Radiant Gate of Gates, as the ever shining I of I.

Who exists is I alone beyond the knower known and unknown. That which is the hearer and the heard are one as Hearing as the Sacred Stream of sound unto itSelf. That which is the seer and the seen are one as Seeing as the Sacred Stream of Light unto itSelf. The objects of the senses and the sense objects appear bound to a certainty which asserts itself as position, yet the Heart longs for itSelf, as this Heart does not reside in the body, but rather that which appears as the body appears in and as Heart. The body is the Gate of Gates yet one is not the body. That which is the hearing of Word, Name, and Song, is the Word, Name and Song. That which is the Seeing of the Light is Light. The body claims ‘to see’ yet Seeing is The Eye Of God. The sun appears to rise and set, yet as Light does not come and go, so too one has never moved. The body claims ‘to hear’ yet hearing is the Holy Sound which is the Flame of Silence. The Sacred Streams are unborn, and that which is the Hearing, Seeing, Knowing, is Unborn, and One is That, and That which is named Reality is Self-Luminous.