These are
outward symbolic proofs of an inward lack of darkness and material
bondage. Such a God-man alone knows the Truth behind the relativities
of life and death. Omar Khayyam, so grossly misunderstood, sang of
this liberated man in his immortal scripture, the RUBAIYAT:
"Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,
The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again;
How oft hereafter rising shall she look
Through this same Garden after me-in vain!"
The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never.
The "Moon of Heav'n" is the outward cosmos, fettered to the law of
periodic recurrence. Its chains had been dissolved forever by the
Persian seer through his self-realization. "How oft hereafter rising
shall she look . . . after me-in vain!" What frustration of search
by a frantic universe for an absolute omission!
Christ expressed his freedom in another way: "And a certain scribe
came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever
thou goest. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the
birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to
lay his head." {FN33-1}
Spacious with omnipresence, could Christ indeed be followed except
in the overarching Spirit?
Krishna, Rama, Buddha, and Patanjali were among the ancient Indian
avatars. A considerable poetic literature in Tamil has grown
up around Agastya, a South Indian avatar. He worked many miracles
during the centuries preceding and following the Christian era,
and is credited with retaining his physical form even to this day.
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