Re: Searching for my path and for some answers
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Originally Posted by
Ametyst
Those were some of questions I keep asking myself constantly. I have the urge to go further, to go deeper in practice, I feel it every day, every second, but I feel left alone and I am not sure which way I am following and it's like I have this urge to define it. I feel that something important is happening, but I can't really sit and say- ok that's it, I consider myself this and that and I feel it in every bone. Sometimes I feel my philosophies are more traditions put together, but then again I have none to talk to about what's going on inside of me.
One more thing to mention is that until now I've never felt this urge to relate to any specific tradition- that I also don't know how to explain.
You have said much... If you ask your SELF constantly and get no response, then it suggests that this SELF is perfect silence. This tells you much, and it is great to listen to silence. Many miss this simple point and look for some ~message~. The message is silence. And one's attentive awareness of silence is a powerful approach. So much so it is considered a upāya¹( that by which one reaches their aim). Yet if no one tells the person that this is a upāya, then the person says , 'see... nothing is happening'.
It is like the person that does not know the value of a diamond that is hung around their neck. They say, ' oh this thing, its heavy and I do not know what to do with it'. Then someone comes and informs them of the value a diamond has; now the person comes to value this thing around their neck, the weight does not matter, in fact the heavier the better!
I never felt this urge to relate to any specific tradition
That is fine... like most humans we wish to belong, be accepted. Yet you will know when it is right time.
regarding dharma
I wanted to mention this. If there is one thing you can begin to do and you have interest, you can exercise this dharma starting now.
What is at the core of this ? We take our support on this from the mahābhārata, considered the 5th veda by the wise. Here is what it says:
Yudhiṣṭhira is asking questions of bhīṣma-ji in the anusasana parvan section of mahābhārata. Yudhiṣṭhira asks numerous questions. Yet with some additional questions bhīṣma-ji tells yudhiṣṭhira, here comes bṛ́haspáti¹ - none else is better then explaining the matter that you have requested.
Yudhiṣṭhira asks multiple questions - this begins with section CXI of the anusasana parvan for those that wish to look this up. Yet for this post, the relevant question comes in section CXIII. Yudhiṣṭhira asks 'absence of injury, the observance of yajya, meditation,etc. - which one of these are filled with the greatest merit for the the individial?'
Bṛ́haspáti talks of the merits of these virtues, yet says the following: One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self. He continues and says , this in brief is the rule of dharma.
He also says, 'that man who regards all creatures as his own self, and behaves towards them as towards one-self laying aside the rod of chastisement and completely subjugating his wrath, succeeds in attaining to happiness'.
So, of all the things one can do and comprehend when it comes to sanātana dharma¹ , this dharma offered by bṛ́haspáti is a choice of action one can make today.
iti śivaṁ
words
- upāya, - a means of success ; a technique.
- bṛ́haspáti - (brihaspati or brahmanaspati, some also write vrihaspati) known as the lord of prayer or devotion ; this name is also assigned to guru, the most beneficial graha, Jupiter.
- sanātana dharma is also called ārṣa dharma - the dharma of the ṛṣi-s ( saints, highly evolved people)
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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