Epigrams III

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000

RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

All that is embodied embodies all.

 

India, United States, Russia, Germany and Japan are going to destroy the Chinese capacity for belligerence so that the Chinese can be taught.

 

To know God I must know myself.

To know myself I must know God.

 

Has any individual involved as senior management of the operation which removed the Kennedy Administration felt remorse for their activities in this particular? Sought absolution? Receive absolution? Plenary indulgence?

 

Love is bestowing this commandment, together with all enablements: you will hold your position, and expand it if possible, until relieved.

 

Denial is acceptable if the denied disease causes less disruption than its cure would. If the disease causes more disruption than its cure would, treatment is indicated.

 

Service to man is Service to God.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Ora et Labora
Do not pray, be prayer.
Do not work, be work.

 

I pull the strings of this puppet show called life.

Sathya Sai Baba

is true and

You are the architect of your own fate.

Sathya Sai Baba

is also true when

I = You

 

How does God get the authority to forgive sins? She causes them.

 

Bind kama (desire) to karma (work) and karma (work) to dharma (propriety). This is the way to Brahma (God).

 

Mankind descends from a tail-less, hair-less, tree-dwelling simian.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

There is not anything that has an external referent.

 

Do not pray, be prayer.
Do not work, be work.

 

An educated person is one who has cultured taste, who discriminates between the eternal and the ephemeral.

The Sanctuary of God is the heart of man.

 

The only power in the world is light.

 

Everything we do in this world reminds us of the real one. Start out where you want to end up.

 

Religion is remembering man as paradox, as essential transcendence, radical surprise. Religion is the first and most important quid pro quo for the universe.

 

Measurements measure measuring means.

John Cage’s father.

 

The content are wealthy. The wealthy are content.

 

Docta = Learning. Doctrine is an assertion of fact. Christian Doctrine is an assertion of fact that is so.

 

In the Middle Ages we built cathedrals. Now it is hospitals. The standard of living has declined.

 

Everything depends on the Hand of a Living Master.

 

The Actuality of Divinity is the Engine of Culture.

 

All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.

William Wallace

 

Industry, temperance and discipline amongst the people, with moderation and justice in the higher orders, are the only ailments of independence.

William Wallace

 

Education is the plinth of culture.

Fulminacio Escalante

 

A common error is to allow a vision of what ought to be to obscure the view of what is.

 

Life is a river that never flows backwards.

 

A game is a game. Work is work.

 

Christianity is chanting the Name of Jesus.

 

There are three reasons for war:

tyranny over wealth
tyranny over dominion
tyranny over women

 

By World Wars I and II, humanity disallowed tyranny over dominion.
By World War III (Cold War), humanity disallowed tyranny over wealth.
By World War IV (in progress), humanity will disallow tyranny over women.

 

The method of tyranny is to call a penultimate ultimate. Tyranny is a superficial vedantha.

 

Happiness burns merit.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Animals are unaware that they are alive. They are unaware that they die. Humans are aware of both living and dying. Therefore, to compare humans with animals is ludicrous.

 

In every miracle (paradoxical — unexpected — phenomenon) there is a physical agency through which the miracle occurs. Usually, but not always, that agency is a human hand.

 

Hardly ever is anyone fully wrong. Usually, each of us is right so far as we go, which could be more or less or more and less depending on the time and the circumstance. But almost never is one of us absolutely wrong.
The movers and shakers are the monastics, the renunciates, the see-rs. People engaged in body-consciousness cannot see and therefore cannot do.

 

Faith is the prius of life. This is why Jesus reminded people that their faith is the engine of what happened during their career.
Biblical scholarship today is vested in stochastic structure and methodology which calumniate the Church.

This is intentional. So-called biblical scholars hate the church and use their position to boil the church in her mother’s milk: the Bible.

 

Jeremiah 7:22 : Pentateuchal stipulations which promote the notion of surrogate atonement are a worthless pill concocted for and cherished by the petulant and the dissolute.

 

We have cleared the enemy out of our front yard and secured its perimeter. It is time to go across the street and play in his front yard.

 

We need a plan of campaign, an Ecumenical Theology, and we need a plan of battle, the Preaching Protocols.

 

One’s problems do not derive from one’s color. They derive from one’s behavior.

 

Antarctica is the Sri Lanka of Treta Yuga, the kingdom of Emperor Ravana.

 

All existing phenomena are one reality.

 

The Gothic Cathedrals are dedicated to Jesus’ Consorts, Magdalene and Lydia. They are fruitful wombs.

 

Laity are the enlisted ranks of the church.

Clergy of all grades are the NCO cadre of the church.

Theologians and scholars are the company officers of the church.

Prophets and monastics are the field officers of the church.

Sages and martyrs are the general officers of the church.

 

Man cannot repress his cognitive function in dealing with the content of his religious devotion.

Paul Tillich

 

A Brahmarishi (Highest Sage) sees through the din and grime of battle to the Shinning Star ahead.

 

From God In Christ To Peace

 

Erasmus ends with Sartre and Luther never ends.

 

Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg

 

Theology governs the creation and collation of The Canon (The Sacred Scripture, The Standard).

Therefore, Theology is more primal and authoritative than The Canon.

Sages govern the creation and collation of Theology.

Therefore, Sages are more primal and authoritative than Theology and The Canon.

Sages are seeing and therefore puissant human beings.

 

The madness of scientists begins with their astronomy. Scientists are the aliens among us.

 

How do we know that we are not dead? We do not.

 

A Christian is fully in the Hands of Christ, without agenda and in perpetuity.

 

Existence implies essence. Essence implies existence.

 

Cosmogenesis is Christogenesis.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.

Its axis runs through hermitages.

 

Love is the definition of good breeding, of eugenics.

 

Reason is the record of our connectivity with God.

 

… the transcendent element that is always present and never manageable.

 

Freedom is the strength which holds desire bound to the ultimate.

 

Learning issues in ecstatic silence.

 

The creative ground of the Church is the monastery.

 

Open, interconnected education … On-line private schools …

 

The spiritual procession (Order of Piety) is from the gross to the subtle.

The cosmological procession (Order of Creation) is from the subtle to the gross.

The Order of Piety is the inverse (mirror image) of the Order of Creation.

 

The Vatican is a nation, not a Church.

 

The Descent of the Christ was Jesus’ journey from Tibet to Palestine before the crucifixion.

The Ascension of the Christ was Jesus’ journey from Palestine to Kashmir after the crucifixion.

 

The Davidic and Benjamite Royal Lines are a single element of the Bharatha Line of the Solar Dynasty of India.

They run through Saint Sulpice in Paris, certain Frankish/Celtic families of the Languedoc, Scotland and Italy (Mary Magdalene) and certain Teutonic families of Russia and Prussia (Lydia).

 

Theology is a body of knowledge and a body of practice, just as Law, Medicine and Mathematics are.

 

Self-serving is self-destructive.

 

Education today groans under the tyrannical nihilism of Nominalism — our so-called Science.

 

Truth is what is left after everything else has been swept away. Truth is the residue left in the crucible after the process of refinement.

 

God loves sinners and by definition, therefore, participates in scandal. Have you stomach strong enough to be loved of God?

 

Things are never as bad as they seem nor as good as they might be.

 

It is time to unravel the skien that shrouds the effulgence of truth.

 

The Truth is that which cannot be symbolized.

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA

Kings College Chapel West
Kings College Chapel West

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