Know thou that Nature and the `Spirit are both without beginnings;
and modifications and qualities are born out of Nature.
In the production of the effect and cause, the Nature is said to be the cause.
The Soul seated in Nature EXPERIENCES the qualities born of Nature;
attachment to the qualities is the cause of his birth in good and evil wombs.
The Supreme Soul in this body is also called the spectator, the permitter,
the supporter, the enjoyer, the Great Lord and the Supreme SELF.
He who thus knows the Spirit and Matter TOGETHER with the qualities, in whatever condition he may be, he is not born again.
Some, by meditation, behold the Self in the Self by the Self, others by the Yoga of knowledge, and others by the Yoga of action.
Others also, not knowing thus, worship, heaving heard it from others;
they, too, cross beyond death, regarding what they have heard as the supreme refuge.
Baghavat Gita
There is variety in Creation ; the Infinite can be observed and approached from infinite directions and ways. Temperament and tradition are the main GUIDING not deciding factors here. The waters of the ocean are the same, whatever name given to the ocean at different points on the globe. Important is that we know how to SWIM.
Circle and centre are one. The circle is the expanded centre and the centre is the contracted circle. The ocean correlates with the circle and the swimmer correlates with the centre. When the swimmer and ocean have become One....drowning becomes impossible. This ONENESS of the outer and the inner can be attained with the Sacred Way of Eating.
FOOD is much more than "just nutrition" (protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, etc). Food is the LINK between the SOURCE and "as is". The "as is" becomes the Supreme SELF when it is AWAKENED from the slumber of ignorance. Food contains the MEMORY that we need for the awakening. So, when we are Awake we can RE-member. As such we can COMPLETE the Cycle of CONSCIOUSNESS of who we truly are, within the context of "ALL there IS". This is SELF-realisation.
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