Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 32:
(16)
lf you are not continuously of such bhava (conviction. attitude).
The distortion of the restless Mind will not cease.
Is it not the distortion of the restless Mind
That gives rise to the misery of this World ?
Tell me how the Mind's real nature, whole and faultless, be
impressed
Upon the understanding of those
Who have had the distortion of their Mind
Destroyed by such deep, daily bhava (conviction. attitude) ?
(17)
How will the wearisome Bondage of Worldly existence be loosened
For those who wander about without being established in their
own nature ?
Howsoever they try, the base Bondage of Worldly existence
can never be destroyed
For those who have not found their True Nature.
As the wrong understandings of the restless Mind are resolutely
destroyed
For those who adopt an unwavering bhava (conviction. altitude).
Their Natural State
Without any taint of veiling or confusion.
[selections based on Master
Nome’s Self-Knowledge]
The Teaching of Non-Duality, when inwardly “received”
& meditated upon, & then experienced, results on the destruction of all
Delusion & Illusion, & in the Realization of the Self. That Teaching is
what unfailingly puts an end to all of the imagined “bondage” (illusion of
being a mortal individual capable of suffering). To “receive” this Teaching
& to come to know it is the dawn of Self–Knowledge. Meditate on this
Teaching, applying one’s own effort to awaken from the Illusion of Duality
& thus gain clarity on Knowledge. To merge with its meaning is the direct
experience of absorption in Knowledge. Be so absorbed in it that it is one’s
very Identity & eliminated all possibility of Duality. Thus the state of
Knowledge & Being are one & the same in Self-Realization.
Reality is comprehended by Reality itself. This is Self-Knowledge, the all-comprehensive Knowledge of
Reality. Such does not entail an
all-comprehensive of the endless details of illusory objective things (science),
or of the wide variety of spiritual practices (religions & paths) or
states of mind (philosophy & psychology.
Rather the Teaching of Non-Duality & resulting Self-Knowledge amounts to
fixed gaze upon the Infinite, which is pure Consciousness & Existence, the
sole-existent Non-Dual Reality. Self-Knowledge is Knowledge of the Absolute
Self which is Reality, 1–without–a–2nd,
apart from which, there is nothing else.
[based on the Maharshi's Teaching]
The
Truth discovered by means of Vedanta is not something that can be demonstrated
or proved objectively by one person to another. It can, however, be directly
experienced as a clear knowledge in the innermost core of each person who
scrupulously pursues the necessary process of Discernment until the True Nature
of Being – which is the True Nature of Consciousness, & of Happiness – is
revealed in the full clarity of pure unadulterated Self-Consciousness. Vedanta does involve doing anything. It is an
art not of doing but of non-doing – an art of just being. The state of just being is one in which our
Mind does not rise to do, think or know anything, yet it is a state of full
consciousness – consciousness not of anything else but only of Being. The skill
that is to be learnt in this art is not simply the skill to be – because we
always are & therefore require no special skill or effort to be –, nor is
it merely the skill to be without doing or thinking anything – because we are
able to be so each day in Deep Dreamless Sleep. The skill to be cultivated is
the skill to remain calmly & peacefully without doing or thinking anything,
but nevertheless retaining a perfectly clear consciousness of Being – that is,
consciousness of our own being or essential Existence. Only in this pristine
state of clear non-dual Self-Conscious being, unclouded by the distracting
agitation of thought & action, will the True Nature of Being become
perfectly clear, obvious, self- evident & free from even the least scope
for doubt or confusion. Our first &
most direct experience of Being is that of our own Being or Existence.
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"There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth." – the "no creation"
for
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