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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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