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It is interesting to see how many images we create and live with. As a child, I have one image of myself. Then as an adolescent I cultivate another.
Probably imitating the images l admire, the matinee idols, the famous people,the brave adventurers, sometimes even terrorists.
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Probably imitating the images l admire, the matinee idols, the famous people,the brave adventurers, sometimes even terrorists.
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Some grow out of adolescence, some grow up but are still psychologically adolescent. Generally a new image is created to work, to marry, to have children, to save for the future ‘ad infinitum’.
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Then comes old age and the pains and aches and disappointments and unfulfilled desires. The image continues till death destroys all images.
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It may seem as if our thoughts go on continuously in a stream. Actually they don't. One thought comes and goes and another arises in its place.
The present thought, which is based on the one that has vanished into the past, then goes into the past, and a new thought arises.
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The present thought, which is based on the one that has vanished into the past, then goes into the past, and a new thought arises.
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All that is so fast that the minute gap between one thought going and the other coming up is not grasped.
If one watches with attention as the thoughts follow, one after the other, carefully, calmly, then one day, the gap between the thoughts is witnessed.
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If one watches with attention as the thoughts follow, one after the other, carefully, calmly, then one day, the gap between the thoughts is witnessed.
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Once the awareness of the gap dawns, one has found the eternal root from which thoughts arise and vanish.
The ground of all existence.
The reality beyond all thoughts.
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The ground of all existence.
The reality beyond all thoughts.
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The son of a great Rishi returned after his studies in the forest academy of another Rishi.
“Have you understood the Truth?” asked the father.
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“Have you understood the Truth?” asked the father.
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“I think I have, dear father” said the young man, “but I am still confused about one thing. How can this entire Universe come out of the attributeless, Supreme Brahman?”
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The Rishi said, “Go to that majestic banyan tree and pick up a seed. Then come to me and follow instructions.”
“I shall do that”, said the young man.
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“I shall do that”, said the young man.
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I am here, and I need to go there to reach the goal or get what I want. This is the linear approach.
What if, what I seek, is right here.
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What if, what I seek, is right here.
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How do I then find it?
By not reaching out.
By not desperately trying to grab, or grope about in the dark towards something I do not even know.
In this case, the Truth.
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By not reaching out.
By not desperately trying to grab, or grope about in the dark towards something I do not even know.
In this case, the Truth.
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I know only the definitions of others. So I construct the idea accordingly and try to reach out for it. This what we are taught to do from childhood.
What if there is another way, where I refuse to define, or construct the idea according to someone?
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What if there is another way, where I refuse to define, or construct the idea according to someone?
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When I was staying with Babaji for the first time in the Arundhati cave, close to the Vasishta Gufa in #Rishikesh, I used to sit in, padmāsana, close my eyes and try to meditate.
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#Mindfulness
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#Meditation
#Mindfulness
#VedantaWisdom
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Repeated attempts with no success.
One day Babaji smiled and said, “you can close your eyes but can you shut your mind up?”
I said, “no, trying hard.”
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One day Babaji smiled and said, “you can close your eyes but can you shut your mind up?”
I said, “no, trying hard.”
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“Theek hai”, Babaji said, “now untangle your legs from the Padmasana. Sit comfortably in Sukhasana. Face the river. Open your eyes and look at the #Ganga.”
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The Yogi said to the King, while at his palace, “So this is your caravan? Very luxurious. How long will you stay in it?”
“Ignorant man, mad as well, this is not my caravan, it's my palace, don't you see? Are you blind too?” said the King.
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“Ignorant man, mad as well, this is not my caravan, it's my palace, don't you see? Are you blind too?” said the King.
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“Oh!” said the Yogi, “and who sat here on the throne before you?”
“My father” said the King.
“And before that?”
“My grandfather” said the King.
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“My father” said the King.
“And before that?”
“My grandfather” said the King.
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“And before that?”
“His father”, said the King.
“And after some years who will sit here on the throne?”
“My son, the Prince”, said the King.
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“His father”, said the King.
“And after some years who will sit here on the throne?”
“My son, the Prince”, said the King.
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