Ref#24: The Great Silence or Samadhi

a) '. . . . no one can experience this birth [of God realized in the soul] without a mighty effort. No one can attain this birth unless he can withdraw his mind entirely from things.'
Meister Eckhart

b) 'Not by the slothful, nor the fool, the undiscerning, is that Nirvana to be reached, which is the untying of all knots.'
Buddhist scripture

c) 'Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall know God.'
Matthew 5:8

d) 'He who does My work, who is given over to Me, who is devoted to Me, void of attachment, without hatred to any born being, comes to Me.'
Bhagavad Gita XI:55

e) '..... man can transcend the subject - object dichotomy and achieve a total union of subject and object, in which all objectness vanishes and the I is extinguished, Then authentic being opens up to us, leaving behind it as we awaken from our trance a consciousness of profound and inexhaustible meaning.'
Karl Jaspers, Way to Wisdom (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 1954)pp33-34.

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