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Infinity, the Endless, Ananta in Sanskrit, Ayn-Sof in Hebrew, has became a universal symbol through mathematics.  This symbol is called the lemniscate.

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Before speaking about it, I invite you to take two coloured pencils, if possible two complementary colours, like red and green, or blue and yellow. Draw first a lemniscate with one of the coloured pencils, then double the first line with the other colour. The two lines have to be close together.

Do it again if necessary until you get a nice two-coloured lemniscate.
Then look at your drawing, and let it speak to you.
Take your time, you have got eternity on your hands!

The lemniscate let me hope that one day I would reach a condition of constant divine remembrance. To be One and manifest both. To have my cake and eat it too!

The centre of the lemniscate is one and the other. Therefore it is also neither this nor that. It is whole and nothingness simultaneously.


Life is not fixed. It is an endless beginning,
from the centre to the periphery,
to give form to the spring.
To set the nothingness.


The Infinity of all possibilities, coiled in its nothingness, is brooding but springing.
A nothingness matrix guarantees us a renewal never repeated.
It is never definitive, but there is always the certitude of coming back to the source to be reborn.
Life is not fixed. It is an endless beginning, from the centre to the periphery, to give form to the spring. To set the nothingness.

The great danger is not to want to return to the centre.  Nothingness, which is elusive, frightens us. In the Occident, we have a civilisation that wants to master everything. Therefore we become tense, we get entangled, we become crystallised and the lifeflow is disturbed, creating a knot.

The middle of the lemniscate is simultaneously the right wing and left wing, and both wings are also either one or the other. They have a dominating external aspect and a dominated internal aspect, which are reversed by going through the centre. Between the two lines is a meeting space. The internal world and the external world are inseparable.

Meditation leads us to the internal world, and material activity to the external world. By meditating we go from the external wing to the internal wing. By working with matter, physically or intellectually, we should start from the internal wing and go towards the external wing. Like a mutual enrichment, tirelessly, towards infinity.

Western civilisation’s dominant wing is the external world. We have excelled in wanting to model matter. We still have to learn to listen to our heart: the heart-centre, the One. This is the other dimension that take us beyond the limits of our confined, separate condition.

We have to learn to respect the principle of returning and of letting go. The evening return, the winter and the old age withdrawal.

The lemniscate is for me the symbolic expression of what I seek, and that is to be both One and manifested.
Heartfulness is the way. Morning meditation allows me to drink at the Source and to stay linked to the heart all day long. The evening cleaning and even deeper cleaning with transmission allow me to become free from a past that I don’t need anymore.

Heartfulness is, in my view, the infinity lemniscate way which springs, takes form and returns to the Source. It is Life.


Article by ANNE GRAFF



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