Posts Tagged ‘Self Realization’
The Gnana Yoga
This is the path of knowledge. Where a person accumulates knowledge in his head and consistently keeps on churning it out until he destroys the wrong knowledge, the avidya. The path of Gnana Yoga is to destroy the barriers which mind has created, and to set a man free from the mind’s grip.
The Bhakti Yoga
This is the path of emotions, where a person accumulates emotions in his heart and consistently keeps on churning them until his heart creates enough energy to help him meeting his beloved.
The Karma Yoga
This is the path of action, not the ordinary actions but the Dharma-driven actions … as the Dharma-driven actions set a man free from the worldly bondage.
Now which one is the best
Is it Bhakti Yoga? But without the touch of Gnana Yoga, it may lead a man into blind beliefs and false assumptions. And without Karma Yoga, a man may turn lethargic and may turn off to the family’s responsibilities.
Is it Gnana Yoga? Without Karma Yoga, it may have the similar impact as above. And without Bhakti Yoga it may not having necessary emotions and may turn “dry.”
Is it Karma Yoga? The karma, the actions, without Gnana may produce wrong actions ad may produce suffering to oneself and to others. And like Gnana Yoga, without Bhakti Yoga, it would become “dry.”
The Balance is the best
A man needs nose, eyes and ears and use them when he needs to smell, when to see, and when to listen, etc. The same way, Gnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Karma Yoga – all help in life, they all are necessary, but a balance is needed when to use what.
Read in his own words:
“… I was a simple man, but I trusted my Guru. What he told me to do, I did. He told me to concentrate on “I am” — I did. He told me I’m beyond all perceivable and conceivable – I believed. I gave him my heart and soul, my entire attention and the whole of my spare time. As a result of faith and earnest application, I realized my self (swaroopa). You may choose any way that suits you; your earnestness will determine the rate of progress” -Nisargadatta Maharaj
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“Consciousness needs a vehicle, a body; when a body takes birth a knower comes into being. As memory travels from one birth to another (like clouds of images) … due to memory, unlimited (self) is confined (identified) with limited (mind & body). That’s why self-realization is necessary to break this identification.” -Nisargadatta Maharaj
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You can know things only in duality. Isn’t it (think upon it)? As soon as you say, “I’m this,” or “This is mine,” or “This is my experience,” you start objectifying and only in duality you can objectify something.
You can only know “What you aren’t,” but you can never know “What you are!” This is important (very!) to understand. Subject can know only to objects, whatever you know it becomes the object: your mind, your thoughts, your emotions, your feelings, your love, your hate, your actions… body, memory, etc., all are objects. You are none of them. You are the subject, witnessing everything. And, to remain fixed forever in this subjectivity is called – Self realization.
If you say, you know yourself; you are putting yourself in illusion, in the projections of the mind. You are neither the mind nor its projections. Wake up!
A thought arises, Samsara arises; a thought ends Nirvana arises … and the cycle goes on and on. And ordinary person gets stuck with Samsara, and somehow unable to expand the state when a thought ends, Nirvana arises.
The creation of Samsara is identification with the thought, and forgetfulness to the state, when a thought ends.
Fortunately, Nirvana is happening all the time: between your two thoughts there is Nirvana, two thoughts can’t exist at the same time; between the gap of incoming and outgoing breath, there is Nirvana, two breaths can’t exit at the same time either. Between, two heart beats, there is Nirvana … Nirvana is happening all the time. But, unfortunately, we are stick only to that which looks more prominent to our senses … and this is the reason we are "only" get stuck with Samsara.
Guru says, first understand the body, then understand body’s actions and reactions and then understand the body with "I" and at last, understand "I" is not the body, "I" is the subject, enquire into this subject "Who am I?"
The body is made up of five elements, i.e., earth, water, fire, air and ether. And, in itself the body is just the lump of these five elements; these five elements integrate into a body during the time of a child birth, and at the time of death, all the five elements disintegrate.
The body works for various actions and reactions, for gross, they are: walking, talking, eating, sleeping and fighting etc, for subtle, they are: smelling, feeling, thinking, hearing and watching etc.
When one says, I did, I felt and I ate etc, one says to the body, can the body be "I?" Never! "I" is the subject, and the body is the object. But, when the "I" is identified with the object – a person forgets who he is, and starts determining that the body is everything.
Guru says — no panic please! It is the easiest thing to get and hardest thing to think and to do. It is neither in thinking nor in doing – it is effortless. It is not a sweet that you will eat, nor an object you will get hold of, nor a destination you will reach there. All efforts are useless!
Libration is not external, that you are librated from some cage or cave, it is internal, totally! Are you getting confused or knowing something? Ok! Carry on…
When libration comes?
You may call it enlightenment, self realization, godhood, divinity or anything you like. Libration only comes when you are able to understand yourself, i.e., your memory, your thinking, your emotions, your behavior and all the grossest and subtlest elements of yourself. When you understand them, how they begin, how they are created, how they come in process, how they are being left incomplete and how they end – you will automatically start losing what is not worth for, and become tranquil with the deepest sense of understanding, with the clarity of your inner world. Now, let me whisper in your ear – the clarity of inner world is "libration." It is never outside, it is inside, totally.
When someone says you that you might get enlightenment in 1 year, 2 years or within 7 years; actually, it is understood in wrong way, they don’t forecast the enlightenment but they forecast about how much time it might take to remove the dust from the soul. Enlightenment is also possible just in now! Because, it is already there, just the veil of ignorance is in between.
- Enlightenment doesn’t depend on time.
- Enlightenment doesn’t depend on thoughts.
- Enlightenment doesn’t depend on memory.
We can’t fix the time of enlightenment, it is beyond the time – if it is time-bounded then it is not enlightenment. It is just the game, or, say, projection of the mind. We cannot have it using our thoughts, because they are limited, then how can we approach to "unlimited" with limited, we can gain certain mental power by practicing with thoughts but enlightenment never. Like thoughts memory is also limited, no one can fix the theory of enlightenment into the memory.
The problem is with the words, sentences, and the language we speak. Actually, it has constraints; it has limitations. And the enlightened people have something which is beyond the mind. That’s why Gautama Buddha became silent, and his way of communication most of the time was only with "silence," with thoughtlessness.
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