Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal…
(Ramakrishna Vivekenanda, Address At the Parliament of Religions)
Is knowledge about the search for Her? Johannes Brahms performed with Joachim among the Hungarian gypsies, Adam Smith claimed to have been abducted by gypsies, George Soros, to a degree, lived the life of a gypsy having fled Hungary, the Nazis and Hungarian Communism and Victor Hugo wrote a novel with a gypsy protagonist.
The philosopher, Nietzche adored Bizet's opera Carmen with its gypsy namesake and its 'sundrenched' will and passion..
Like the gypsies, is it because we - humanity - do not know whence we came, nor where we go?
Nietzsche spoke about our philosophic need for 'perspective'.
The great Indian sage, Swami Vivekenanda met the inspired rishi, Ramakrishna Parahamsa. To his question how to discover God and reason, the sage replied 'Try to see the truth from all angles'.
With the lion of courage standing by, is knowledge wandering through the wild, playing our gypsy tune?
(Through, as Shakespeare noted, 'antres wild and desarts idle'..)
PS. Under Ramkrishna's guidance, Swami Vivekenanda apparently experienced nirvikalpa samadhi. States Heinrich Zimmer:
'Nirvikalpa samādhi.. absorption without self-consciousness, is a mergence of the mental activity (cittavṛtti) in the Self, to such a degree, or in such a way, that the distinction (vikalpa) of knower, act of knowing, and object known becomes dissolved — as waves vanish in water, and as foam vanishes into the sea. The difference to the other samadhis is that there is no return from this samadhi into lower states of consciousness. Therefore this is the only true final Enlightenment'.
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