HOLY MOUNTAIN The higher one climbs, the more—we are told by scientists,gravity weakens; the less one can feel earth’s pull, the more one’s ties to earth are loosened; it becomes so much easier for one to depart from earth’s demanding and contending presence One becomes so much lighter, the horizon becomes broader, and what is true intensifies. The Holy Mountain is the place in Orthodoxy where monasticism is being lived in its most absolute form. Its rare and unique spiritual power it is not deteriorated by seasons, by people or religions. Its truth is resistant -not confined by languages; it is not enclosed by borders; it does not asphyxiate with technology, faith, intolerance quarrels, rivalries, or hatred. The Mountain touches every heart, not confined by languages, caste religion or culture. The Future is not portrayed for the purpose of relieving one’s suppressed feelings, but to transform the Present.Time itself is condensed, in the Mountain’s embrace, The Mountain lives in its own time. Space and Time acquire another dimension and perspective. One’s association with everything mortal, ephemeral, corruptible, is entirely conventional. Notions such as ‘money,’ ‘possessions,’ ‘wealth,’ ‘investment,’ ‘entertainment,’ ‘competition,’ ‘interest,’ all degenerate into totally secondary terms.Truth is far more convincing than reality.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:36:06 +0000