Stillness, transcendent consciousness, Saraswati, Lakshmi, Parvati, love, and Christ

***

When I sit in stillness now, and I sit this way very often, it is not in an effort to attain anything, but rather it is an effortless enjoyment of the awareness of my subtle, eternal self.

To be everywhere is not necessarily to be everything, as a dye released in a pool of water colors the entire pool but is not itself the water, so to the transcendent consciousness, entering the all as a ubiquitous immanence, permeates all without being bound to all.

Indeed the word must become flesh, or there will be no song.

I am now, infinite, unconditional, intimate now.

I am Saraswati, the river running through us; I Lakshmi, the infinite ocean; I am Parvati, the union of river and sea.

On a cosmic level this same process takes place: crossing over into the Mother, the absolute female, one encounters her enraged animus, her dark lover, the Devil. During such an encounter a man must hold firmly onto his higher male self, the Christ, or that the man might be pulled under completely.

By accepting my darkness I no longer had to defend my inner sanctum with that very darkness, because the ferocious beast within me had been tamed and the darkness had been transmuted to light, and so I could instead build a great mote of love around me, and protect my inner core by emanating an unapproachable river of Love.

***

These inspiring fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.