June 2015
Those seeking the Absolute only with body and mind encounter great hardship – B’Gita 12
Personal-self/Impersonal-spirit has 4 conditions: (Mandookya-Upanishad)
1 – Looking outwards to the material condition
2 – The mental condition – perception turned inward, dreaming condition
3 – Deep sleep, no dream, free of desire, the intellectual condition in union with self, unbroken knowledge of it – the mind is illuminated
4 – The self, eternal, the most worthy of all: Not knowable by perception inward or outward. Neither known nor unknown nor the sum of all that may be known.
Like climbing a mountain to reach its pinnacle, only to find the mountain was not there as believed to be. It was just a mental condition.
Those on the devoted path are grouped in 4 stages – B’Gita Ch: 7
- They who suffer,
- Those who desire knowledge,
- They that thirst after truth,
- They that attain enlightenment
He who does not harm will not be harmed – B’Gita – Ch: 12
Accomplishing one-self, the beginning and end of all things are known.
Go back to the root, be as one; form without shape, image without body.
To attune with one by the ‘true heart’ is to become one, of inexhaustible attraction to all, whereas attraction to things is transitory; of limited duration.
To serve all things well there is none better than to revert to natural will, gaining deep roots, firm foundation. Live not beyond that of the natural, as things rise and fall by natural inclination – cultivating one with the true heart. Give up the excess of acquisition driven by desires and passions which drive beyond the Natural, the central normality. One, quiet and still, easy to grasp, naturally held; by the true heart nothing is broken or lost. Sages take care from beginning to end, fail at nothing.
Acquired learning, though at times appearing noble, only leads to artificiality. No acquired learning can bring about being of One; it only leads to transitory pleasures, impermanence and sorrow. Acquired and artificial benevolence, righteousness and principle through expectation and want of loyalty generate discontent and disorder. Exploring universal things with the false heart is a kind of sickness like deducing the universe in poor light. Only when we know the bitterness of untruth do we begin to correct it. By the true heart, all comes naturally without administration.
With acquisition and attachment, the false heart rises and the true heart is dimmed to view and lost. All things start tender and soft, and with the rise of the false heart end hard, brittle, fragile and die. The unbending is easily broken. Those who know how to stop and reverse the process take the road from death to eternal life. The false heart cannot solve its faults or rule itself. Demanding too much, by desires and passions we keep far from the truth. The corporeal (physical) body is limited in birth and death. Only the true self is eternal.
Seekers of true self know and value existence. Fear not the death of the false heart, conditions of attachment and mind, and no threat will be of concern. Using the false heart to calm itself only causes damage. Only stillness in tune with the central normality, the true heart, calms the waves. Recovering the true heart requires constant stillness, and congenital nature is recovered. In stillness, the true heart is revealed. Rid of all attachment so driven by desire and passion, congenital nature & life force is recovered
In constant stillness, consciousness of personal existence is reduced and so are the instruments of acquired ideas. Travelling not far on the path of death, and reversing direction leads to life. People of Truth are simple, free of contention, always complete, nowhere to go but here, and following their natural path. Those of understanding (not clouded by the acquired) practise regularly. Those of ignorance, ruled by acquisition (the false heart) laugh at the idea. If not laughed at would not be what it is. For those of ignorance, only freedom from the acquired can help.
Those who know don’t talk. Those trapped in acquisition need to discipline the false heart, unravel the mess, bring all as one, one with all; harmonise the six roots – eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, consciousness
At one with Eternal, the Sage holds on to the centre, the hub of all things.
The Sage knows the transforming path. Knowing High holds on to Low, Knowing Honour holds on to Humility. Knowing the transforming path tween honour and dishonour is to know proper action. Sailing against life current will know emptiness of One. Knowing what enough is, where to stop, no danger is met.
As all people have the same true heart, the heart of the Sage in true alignment, touches the heart of all. All cause of disturbance overcome – desires, passions, addictions conquered. All will happen naturally in great harmony – knowing harmony, enlightenment follows. Primal force is plentiful – things develop in their own, free and unrestricted course.
True and false hearts are opposite, so words spoken of the true heart are not pleasing to minds of the false. The good have no need to strive. Those of acquired knowledge do not know. Those aligned of true heart need not be learned, the more they serve, the more they know, the more they have and do things well without contending for credit.
In proper alignment:
- We will not be disturbed
- The root of all things are known and their consequences
- All things flow in choiceless will, as rivers flow to the sea
- All disease loses its foundation for existence
- Free of acquired action, all happens naturally
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