Days go by... things aren't the same. I feel like I now understand what Einstein meant by Spinoza having a "permanent effect" upon him. It's quite a wild feeling, a sort of entrapment; I've noticed myself not keeping up when other folks speak, because I've become attuned to and absorb the surrounding environments as they're made available to my apperception. I've gained a fonder appreciation for my home as well, especially the pond--teeming with life of all sorts: turtles, geese, ducks, beavers, varied sorts of fish, and what not. My study room downstairs is penetrated by the resonating chirps of so many different and beautifully sounding birds. My conscious experience has been, and increasingly so as time goes by, so very blissful. I can't explain it, however, I'd like to direct you towards a hearty passage from the Bhagavad Gita for the sake of quotation:
"Four types of virtuous ones
Worship or seek Me, O Arjuna.
They are: the distressed, the seeker of Self-knowledge,
The seeker of wealth,
And the wise one who knows the Supreme.
Among them the wise one,
Who is ever united with Me
And whose devotion is single minded, is the best.
Because, I am very dear to the wise, And the wise is very dear to Me.
All these are indeed noble,
But I regard the wise as My very Self,
Because the one who is steadfast
Becomes one with the Supreme Being.
After many births the wise ones resort to Me
By realizing that everything is Brahman indeed.
Such a great soul is very rare.
They, whose wisdom has been carried away
By various desires impelled by their own Sanskaara,
Resort to other gods and practice various religious rites.
Whosoever desires to worship
Whatever deity with faith,
I make their faith steady in that very deity.
Endowed with steady faith they worship that deity,
And fulfill their wishes through that deity.
Those wishes are, indeed, granted only by Me.
Such gains of these less intelligent
Human beings are temporary.
The worshipers of Devas go to Devas,
But My devotees come to Me.
The ignorant think of Me, the Para-Brahman,
As having no form or personality and I can take form;
Because (these) people are not being able to comprehend
My supreme imperishable and incomparable existence.
Veiled by My divine Maya,
I am not known by all.
Therefore, the ignorant one does not know Me
As the unborn and eternal Brahman.
I know, O Arjuna, the beings of the past,
Of the present, and those of the future,
But no one really knows Me.
All beings in this world are in utter ignorance
Due to the delusion of dualities
Born of likes and dislikes, O Arjuna.
Persons of virtuous deeds,
Whose Karma has come to an end,
Become free from the delusion of dualities
And worship Me with firm resolve."
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