Passage 41

In English

Being aspects of Divinity, the were the property of God.

Through their lives they demonstrated how God and His property became one. In a subtle sense, the with thousandpetals and representing sixteen-thousand Divine aspects is derived from the hridaya. The petals and the flower are not separate. The is the Mind and the hridaya is God. The enormous powers of the mind belong to God, and they cannot be appropriated as one wishes. Dissolving one’s ego, the mind must, in its entirety, be offered to God. It is this principle that is described by way of the on the one hand, and through the on the other. The and of yore understood all this and tried to elevate themselves so that the two came together. This is described as ascending from the to the . It implies the unification of the mind and the heart. Why were the so particular about this unification? Because this union led to Infinite Bliss. Happiness is union with God. The heart is the seat of God, and the mind is born of the heart. Thus the mind is the property of the heart.