But if you love the other knowing that it is the life principle alone in the other that you love, then that love becomes sublime.
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Life Principle ~ Atmananda krishna menon
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Atmananda krishna menon on External qualities
If you love another for his or her gross and external qualities alone, that love is of the lowest type.
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Consciousness ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon
Thought must have an object, but Consciousness has none.
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Attribute of the ultimate ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon
Equality or oneness is the attribute of the Ultimate. It is established only when you reach the Ultimate, transcending body, senses and mind.
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Empty words ~ Atmananda krishna menon
When you find that what you see is only yourself, the ‘seeing’ and ‘objects’ become mere empty words.
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The I-principle ~ Atmananda krishna menon
By reducing objects into Consciousness or happiness, you come only to the brink of experience. Reduce them further into the ‘I’-principle; and then ‘it’, the object, and ‘you’, the subject, both merge into experience itself.
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Form ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon
Form is nothing but seeing.
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The word ‘I’ ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon
The word ‘I’ has the advantage of taking you direct to the core of your self. But you must be doubly sure that you will no longer return to identification with the body.
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Diversity ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon
Diversity is only in objects. Consciousness, which perceives them all, is one and the same.
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Self-forgetfulness ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon
Self-forgetfulness is the cause of the creation of the world, and self-remembrance or withdrawal to the Self is the destruction of the world.
― ATMANANDA KRISHNA MENON