Morning
...so long as the cloud of ego hides the moon of jnana, the lily of the Self will not bloom.
– pg.77
The above is a paraphrase of a verse quoted on 31 March 1945 (p.7), in which Devaraja Mudaliar recounts:
.... Bhagavan quoted the last two lines of a Tamiḷ stanza from Yoga Vasishta which states that unless the cloud of the ‘I’ or ‘ego-sense’ which covers the moon of the Divine consciousness (chidakasa) is removed, the lily of the heart which knows nothing of the sense of ‘I’ (ahankara) will not open out in full bloom.