the small self is dead

Sunday, January 01, 2006 Happy New Year & Happy Bangday to the Cosmos!

The Cosmos is 13.7 billion years old today. I wonder why they measure it in years? A year is just one trip around the sun, but the cosmos was here way before there was an earth or a sun. posted by Gagdad Bob at 9:00 AM

It lived, it knew, it saw itself sublime,

Deathless, outmeasuring Space, outlasting Time.

I have escaped and the small self is dead;

I am immortal, alone, ineffable;

I have gone out from the universe I made,

And have grown nameless and immeasurable.

I have become what before Time I was.

My heart is a centre of infinity

A momentless immensity pure and bare,

I stretch to an eternal everywhere.

--Sri Aurobindo