(Sanskrit) A cosmic period of repose or rest.
A Sanskrit word, formed of pra and laya. Pra, means “forwards” or “progression,” Laya, from the root li, which means “to dissolve,” “to melt away,” “to liquefy”.
The Eternal Law of the Pendulum
Lust can never bring happiness, real contentment. We have the idea that lust can bring happiness, and it can bring pleasant sensation, but we do not see that those sensations are a pendulum of energy. The more we push to have pleasant sensations, the more that pendulum swings back to painful ones. This is the eternal law of the pendulum. Craving and aversion are the pendular movement of suffering. We set that in motion continally, so long as we listen to desires.
The Essence of Meditation
Meditation is a skill, so it is something you practice. You practice at whatever level you are at. In a sense it is very simple, if we were to simplify our practice as much as possible, it would be to learn how to relax your body, close your eyes, and to work with conscious attention and conscious imagination. You are going to struggle, with the same exact factors that you are struggling with self-observation throughout the day, which is falling into fascination, into identification, into dreams. Gnostic Psychoanalysis
Muhammad
571 A.D. MUHAMMED. 632 A.D.
Prophet of God and Bringer of Light to Islam.
”The word this man spoke has been the life-guidance now of a hundred-and-eighty millions of men these twelve-hundred years. The hundred-and-eighty millions were made by God as well as we. A greater number of God’s creatures believe in Mahomet’s word at this hour, than in any other word whatever.” Thomas Carlyle. The Hero as Prophet. Mahomet : Islam. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited: Edition 1882: Page 53.
In the Koran, ”the light giving Book,” transmitted to Muhammed by the Angel Gabriel from the Lord “that He may stablish those who have believed, and as guidance and glad tidings to the Muslims,” it is written: “It beseemeth not a man, that God should give him the Scriptures and the Wisdom, and the gift of prophecy, and that then he should say to his followers, ‘Be ye worshippers of me, as well as of God;’ but rather, ‘Be ye perfect in things pertaining to God, since ye know the Scriptures, and have studied deep.’ God doth not command you to take the angels or the prophets as lords.
“Say: We believe in God, and in what hath been sent down to us, and what hath been sent down to Abraham, and Ismael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the tribes, and in what was given to Moses, and Jesus, and the Prophets, from their Lord. We make no difference between them. And to Him are we resigned (Muslims) .” The Koran, Sura HI, The Family of Imran. Everyman’s Library Edition, pages 393-4.