A common space for harmonic peacemakers

II: 7

Chapter 2, Verse 7

“Is this real compassion that I feel, or only a delusion?

My mind and heart grope about in darkness.

I cannot see where my duty lies.

Krishna, I beg you, tell me frankly and clearly what to do.

Be a light unto me on the path of my duty.

I am your disciple.

I put myself in your hands.”

Sri Krishna Prem:

“The impossible is not demanded and, slowly, if there is patient perseverance, a new and divine knowledge will be felt lighting up the soul’s darkness within, for the true knowledge is to be found within. That which is simply derived from books is not the real knowledge. Outer teachings may be effective in helping to give clear expression to what is at first only dimly intuited, but it is no substitute for the latter. The work of any real teacher is to bring to birth that which already exists within, as has been so well expressed by Robert Browning in his poem Paracelsus.”

Truth lies within ourselves.

It takes no rise from outward things,

Whatever you may believe.

There is an inmost center in us all

Where truth abides in fullness;

And to KNOW

Rather consists in opening out a way

Whence the imprisoned splendor

May escape,

Than in effecting entry for a light

Supposed to be without.

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