The Cup of Eternity, Serpent Grail, Holy Grail
The cup of Eternity
Classification: Sacred Object
Associated: immortality, longevity
Also Known As: the Holy Grail, The Cup of Life, The Serpent
Grail
Culture: Hindu. Indian Sub Continent, Christianity (Europe) ,
Eastern Philosophy myth of China and Korea
Literature: Aramahansa
Yogananda’s poem, “The Cup of Eternity”. Medieval folk lore
. . . The deathly thirst so fleshly born
Shall parch his soul, oh, ne'er again!
The cup he'll drink, but not the bane,
To quench his thirst and bliss attain.* . . .
aramahansa Yogananda’s poem, “The Cup of Eternity” speaker
is dramatizing the spiritual longing, metaphorically describes as “thirst,”
which can by quenched only by God-realization through gaining awareness of the
soul within the physical and mental encasements.
