' The Unmanifest '...

You cannot catch your own shadow, and neither can you escape it.

So long as man thinks in terms of phenomena being real,

the shadow of ignorance will both evade and haunt him.

Just as waves arising on the surface of water have no independent existence and are only the water itself,

so also are manifested phenomena only the apparent created form or body of the Unmanifest.


-A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar