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O Goddess! O God, I have now grasped the heart of the teachings and the quintessence of tantra. This life will have to be left behind, but why renounce the heart of the Shakti? As space is recognized when lit by sun rays, so is Shiva told through the energy of Shakti which is the essence of the Self.

Vijñanabhairava

The unground is an eternal nothing, but makes an eternal beginning as a craving. For the nothing is a craving after something. But as there is nothing that can give anything, accordingly the craving itself is the giving of it, which yet also is a nothing, or merely a desirous seeking. And that is the eternal origin of Magic, which makes within itself where there is nothing; which makes something out of nothing, and that in itself only, though this craving is also a nothing, that is, merely a will. It has nothing, and there is nothing that can give it anything; neither has it any place where it can find or repose itself.

Jacob Boehme, Mysterium Pansophicum

The mind should be checked until it meets with destruction in the heart. This is gnosis (jnana); that is meditation (dhyana). All else is argumentation, verbiage, diffuse speculation.

Amrita-Bindu-Upanishad

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was spent here.

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High shoulders, long arms reaching down to the knees
(ajanubahu), chubby cheeks, broad chest, beautiful
forehead (sulalata), broad eyes (visalaksha),
majestic demeanour and gait (suvikrama)- all these
combine to make Sri Rama the perfectly proportioned
male and the personification of beauty. And, more
relevant, it is beauty that floors even His sworn foes
and those who have suffered at His hands.

MAHPRUSA GOMMATA
Larger than any know eqyptian statues, this jaina iconographical coloss measured 17.5 meters high from head to toe. Nude, standing erect in the Khadgasana pose with broad sturdy shoulders, long arms with triple coiled keyuras, massive at root (ajanubahu) dangling on the sides. The half -closed and wide contemplative eyes gazing the tip of the noise, the picked up large eye-brows, slightly projected and dimpled chin, the neck and the throat bearing trirekha (the three line of beauty), longlobe ears, the voluted ringlets like the peel of a custard apple, the dakshina vatra curls all 90 to enhance the grace charm and sublime stance of this colossal image. Conceived as the mulanayaka of a hypaethral temple, this gaintly human exhibites all the mahapurusa lakshanas, indeed he is a bahubali.

Sri Ramanuja, then a part of Yadavaprakasa’s entourage, is pointed out by
Sri Tirukkacchinambi with the words, “that is Sri Ramanuja, the tall, fair and handsome person with arms reaching down to his knees (ajanubahu)”.

Yogiraj Shri Shankar Maharaj was undoubtedly one of the greatest saints of Maharashtra in the modern age. He was an Auliya or Avadhut, a term used for yogis who have reached perfection and have achieved Siddhis (occult powers). He belonged to the Nath Panth (Sect), though he did not follow its their dress or mannerisms. He took samadhi in Pune at the age of about 150 years on April 28th 1947, an event which he had postponed for seventeen years at the request of his disciple Dr Nagesh Dhaneshwar. His Samadhi Mandir which houses his physical body is in Pune on the Pune-Satara road about 10 Km from Pune Railway station.

The external appearance of Maharaj has been described as that of Ashtavakra or bent in eight places. Maharaj had a short stature, but was ajanubahu i.e. having long hands reaching below his knees.

Hiding ignorance is to be preferred; but it is difficult to do so while relaxing and over wine.

Heraclitus