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    Swami Mahatabakak at a tea party

    Do I make crappy threads? Or is it just that there's no one around much?

    Anyway - I was just reading from my copy of the Vijnana Bhairava where Swami Lakshmanjoo details how each dharana is accomplished properly. With a dharana that utilizes fixed staring on an immediate [close] object, he mentioned that his Guru,
    Swami Mahatabakak, used this once at a dinner invitation. He and Lakshmanjoo were seated and in front of them was a young girl. They were all waiting for tea to be served. Swami Mahatabakak fixed his gaze on the girl and, as Lakshmanjoo says, "went inside" and was "no where to be found".

    I love that story because it shows how even a recognized Master in a lineage [apparently] practices the same techniques which we all must use. It's very humbling!

    My question, for those who might know, is why this has to be done? Do you think it was merely illustrative for his student [Lakshmanjoo]? When he came out he told him that he had used that technique. Or is it that one has to continually immerse oneself in that state throughout the entire lifetime, continually re-realizing it? I think this is hinted at in Swami Lakshmanjoo's commentary on the Shiva Sutras - that some aspirants must by necessity keep this realization lively, not falling back into illusion, until they drop the body.

    Swami Mahatabakak in the center, Swami Lakshmanjoo on his left [our right].

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    Re: Swami Mahatabakak at a tea party

    Quote Originally Posted by sunyatisunya View Post
    Do I make crappy threads? Or is it just that there's no one around much?

    Anyway - I was just reading from my copy of the Vijnana Bhairava where Swami Lakshmanjoo details how each dharana is accomplished properly. With a dharana that utilizes fixed staring on an immediate [close] object, he mentioned that his Guru, Swami Mahatabakak, used this once at a dinner invitation. He and Lakshmanjoo were seated and in front of them was a young girl. They were all waiting for tea to be served. Swami Mahatabakak fixed his gaze on the girl and, as Lakshmanjoo says, "went inside" and was "no where to be found".

    I love that story because it shows how even a recognized Master in a lineage [apparently] practices the same techniques which we all must use. It's very humbling!

    My question, for those who might know, is why this has to be done? Do you think it was merely illustrative for his student [Lakshmanjoo]? When he came out he told him that he had used that technique. Or is it that one has to continually immerse oneself in that state throughout the entire lifetime, continually re-realizing it? I think this is hinted at in Swami Lakshmanjoo's commentary on the Shiva Sutras - that some aspirants must by necessity keep this realization lively, not falling back into illusion, until they drop the body.

    Swami Mahatabakak in the center, Swami Lakshmanjoo on his left [our right].
    Namaste Sunya,

    The posts are certainly not crappy, but on some days viewing may be low.

    I do not understand the post fully. What do you mean by "he went in" and "nowhere to be found"? Did the body become subtle and was seen to ener the girl, before vanishing? Or is the meaning something else?

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    That which is without letters (parts) is the Fourth, beyond apprehension through ordinary means, the cessation of the phenomenal world, the auspicious and the non-dual. Thus Om is certainly the Self. He who knows thus enters the Self by the Self.

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    Re: Swami Mahatabakak at a tea party

    Quote Originally Posted by atanu View Post
    Namaste Sunya,

    The posts are certainly not crappy, but on some days viewing may be low.

    I do not understand the post fully. What do you mean by "he went in" and "nowhere to be found"? Did the body become subtle and was seen to ener the girl, before vanishing? Or is the meaning something else?

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    Haha, no, I think it means he was centered in his subjective consciousness while his body remained motionless with fixed eyes facing outwards. Swami Lakshmanjoo said that the tea was finally served but "there was no one there to take it". And then, when he "came out" [returned to ordinary consciousness] he told Lakshmanjoo that he had held a certain dharana there [in the staring].

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