Quotes About Eknath Easwaran

Place this salt in water and bring it here tomorrow morning. The boy did. Where is that salt? his father asked? I do not see it. Sip here. How does it taste? Salty, father. And here? And there? I taste salt everywhere. It is everywhere, though we see it not. Just so, dear one, the Self is everywhere, within all things, although we see it not. There is nothing that does not come from it. It is the truth; it is the Self supreme. You are that, Shvetaketu. You Are That.

The popular etymology of the word mantram gives us some clue what it means to have the holy name at work in our consciousness. It is said that mantram comes from the roots man, "the mind," and tri, "to cross." The mantram is that which enables us to cross the sea of the mind. The sea is a perfect symbol for the mind. It is in constant motion; there is calm one day and storm the next.