The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
Interpretation
The greatest experiences and truths often surpass our ability to articulate them.
This quote by Adi Shankara suggests that the most profound truths and treasures of existence lie beyond verbal expression and intellectual understanding. It implies that there are experiences, such as spiritual or existential insights, that are so deep and significant that they elude our capacity to fully comprehend or describe them through language.
In practice
In a speech about the nature of love, one might reference this quote to illustrate the idea that some feelings go beyond what we can articulate.
Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
It is not with a rush and a spring that we are to reach Christ's character, and attain to perfect saintship; but step by step, foot by foot, hand over hand, we are slowly and often painfully to mount the ladder that rests on earth, and rises to heaven.
I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.
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