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Namah Think it Over
Nevertheless, Meaning is much sought after!
Journey of and journey with Meaning
And this search for meaning and meanings
has led to some intriguing and brow-
raising meanings: thought-provoking and
inspiration-invoking!
Meaning, in itself, now bears a different
meaning: Meaning is (of anything….), what Words too, from the Divine
it means to us. As we perceive, so we give
meaning to what encounters us and what we Words too are from the Divine and, are one
happen to stumble upon. And the encounters of infinite means through which the Divine
and the stumbling change in their effect and reveals Itself-Herself-Himself. Although none
impact on us. A given incident, a given inner of the means are capable of fully expressing
movement…. anything and everything, the Infinite, yet, perhaps each is a means
down the line of ‘years’, each and all are of giving a sense of the meaning of earthly
found to mean differently: Meaning is not existence, each a means of experiencing the
static, but verily dynamic. Divine, the Indefinable… each carrying in
itself the Healing Touch of Grace.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that we do
away with, completely, the foundation of “The Divine is lived, but cannot be defined (2).”
meanings.
The Divine, the Playful Creator (though
“Break the moulds of the past, but keep safe its oftentimes it seems otherwise), creating each
gains and its spirit, or else thou hast no future and everything uniquely, on purpose, the
(1).” meanings and ways of seeking, finding,
reaching, realising, relishing the Divine is
The dictionary cannot be and shall not be unique to and for all….
dispensed with, nor demolished: it promotes
and provokes us to find out the hidden “…. although the path is common to all, each
essence, infinite perhaps, in its recorded man has his own way of following it (3).”
meanings of each word and thereby also
increase the bounty of meanings! As is the creation unique, so is the creation’s
way to the Creator unique, knowing the
Thus, to Meaning it has led… Or rather, Creator how and when to reveal Itself to
has led to Itself the Infinite One Source of Itself in a particular creation.
all and everything, the All-inclusive, the
All-exceeding, the Divine, in the very word “O supreme and only Friend, Thou who acceptest,
Meaning. Thou who lovest, Thou who understandest us
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