Monday, January 22, 2007

Spirituality Define: ENLIGHTENMENT

ELIGHTENMENT IS BEYOND SEASONS LIKE THE EVERGREEN coconut tree. Sometime the question cones up: “What’s the use of all these courses if someone’s behavior has not changed?” Yet the knowledge acquired by human being cannot be measured or judged by external behavior. Someone may behave as though they have absorbed all the knowledge, but internally they have not. The reverse is also true. Sometime who seems not to have changed at all may have absorbed quite a lot. Ordinary people just look at the behavior; the intelligent looks beyond behavior and is amazed by the play of consciousness.

Behavior affects relationships;
Attitude affects behavior;
Knowledge or ignorance affects attitude;
Grace brings forth knowledge.

Inside, you are like a tree- barren in some seasons and at other times blossomed. Enlightenment is beyond seasons- like an evergreen coconut that yields its fruit throughout the year.


-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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