A very advanced master can glow so strongly that you see divine in them. You look into them and you see infinity constantly changing, evolving and radiating in new forms.
The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.
The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.
In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.
The perceiver of the dream, the one whom the dream is unfolding before, is what we call the Self.
Once you have personally experienced enlightenment, you will see beyond the ocean of death to the everlasting shores of immortality.
Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
The awareness of place, space, or condition is not liberation. You can't say what it is, but you can sure say what it isn't.
Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.
Beyond the parameters of the self is an ocean ... and it's most excellent.
Self-realization is liberation. Liberation is self-realization.
Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra.
