Re: Questions from a well worn path
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
I wrote above,
“I am incredibly self-conscious” - this is self-conscious with a small ‘s’elf. make this Self conscious ( Capital ‘S’ ) and all will be well.
This small self is the field of differentiated awareness1 full of limitations, boundaries, full of 'i' and 'mine' - full of things that are conditioned and limited, yet we think this is a ~ normal~ state of affairs.
This large Self is the field of undifferentiated awareness , without boundaries. The wise call it akhaṇḍākara or akhaṇḍa + ākara
- akhaṇḍa – whole, entire, not fragmented
- ākara =plenty, a rich source of
Hence it is a source of wholeness and unfragmented fullness of Being.
Why mention this? Where can I go get this ? One need not go get this akhaṇḍākarsa as it is not for sale , nor is it something that can be attained, or pocketed. It is one's own foundation. If I asked you 'go get human', where would you go? You would say, what is there to get? I am human already. So it is for Self ( Being). No one could wake up today without it. In essence is existence itself ; its ~nature~ is awareness. Who can say they do not exist? How is that even possible to say it without existing to begin with. Like that, Self is there all the time, yet we have gotten all caught up with 's'elf, of limits.
Śrī nisargadatta maharāj said, to know the world you forget the Self, to know the Self you forget the world. So, many left their homes and went to a cave to 'forget the world'. Yet this was not the wisdom offered. If you go to the cave and you still are filled with differentiated thoughts, what have you left? You have brought the city, and the noise with you.
His wisdom is to leave the world of fractured awareness, full of limits. Submit to the Self ( which is you - svarūpāvasthāna) in a quiet state of wholeness. This quiet is even-ness, pure awareness. This is the ~path~ if there is one at all.
इतिशिवं
iti śivaṁ
1. differentiated awareness is the field of anyathāgrahaṇa i.e (anyathā) inaccurately , untruly , falsely , erroneously + (grahaṇa) – seizing holding;
Holding a false view of one’s own nature (svarūpāvasthāna); I am big, I am bill, I am happy I am sad; I am eager I am lazy, I am happy. I am fat, tall, limited, late for work, I am this and that; I am lame in one leg, I am slow in running I am _____(fill in the blank). What then is one’s real nature?---> akhaṇḍākara.
Last edited by yajvan; 10 May 2017 at 06:03 PM.
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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