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The Taj MahalThe message of the Taj Mahal is a message about Enlightenment, about the Enlightenment of the whole body. The Taj Mahal is a burial place, but its message is Life. The secret of Enlightenment is resurrection, the incarnation of love, and freedom from death.
"The spiritual problem of Shah Jahan, the Mogul Emperor of India who built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his favorite wife, is the mortality of the loved one. All the conditions for our ultimate Realization are present in the form of our relations, but they are confounded by mortality. Having discovered that the loved one is mortal, you must commit yourself heroically to the service of his or her immortality. You can love what is dying, but you can only be in love with what is already Transcendental. The process of your loving is confounded until you overcome death, not philosophically, but bodily, through bodily and Transcendental Enlightenment.
"The Enlightened man reveals his Enlightenment through bodily signs. Like the Taj Mahal, the body of the Enlightened man is a perfect balance between the descending and ascending forces of manifest existence. Photographs of the Taj Mahal generally do not convey this perfect balance, because they confine the image within a frame. But when the Taj Mahal is viewed in the undefined space of which it is the center, it is one of the most perfectly balanced visual perceptions in the world. The two forces, descending and ascending, are perfectly equal.
"The Taj Mahal is a description of the whole body. The body in its Enlightenment, the body when it is beautiful in Truth, is a perfect balance between what descends and what ascends. When there is too much attention to what is descended and only physical, or too much attention to what is ascended and only psychic, such imbalance yields mortality and delusion. Only the harmony is immortal, and conducive to Illumination. In our Enlightenment we represent that Illumined harmony in our physical form, like the Taj Mahal. When the whole body is Enlightened, we glorify that Divine harmony in our bodily life itself, and also in our sexual intimacy, which is thus always the dance of such harmony."
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