CH 2 Joy of Self-realization 22, 23, 24,25

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In a message dated 04/27/2001 5:58:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

insight writes:

 

<< Nor etc. - because the self is ever unattached and never identitifies

itself

with the body. >>

 

I don't know where these words come from...and that doesn't concern me

much...but what concerns me...is to mislead anyone here with them inferring

that the body is not important...for the self....Perhaps my interpretation

here, is my own...but I would like to say that the body is the vehicle to

free the self from all of the past which has controlled it and kept duality

alive......All the issues and conflicts have their chance for being resolved

within the body...And to deny this, is another ticket into reincarnation...

 

Norma

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> ...... but what concerns me...is to mislead anyone here with them

inferring

> that the body is not important...for the self....Perhaps my interpretation

> here, is my own...but I would like to say that the body is the vehicle to

> free the self from all of the past which has controlled it and kept

duality

> alive......All the issues and conflicts have their chance for being

resolved

> within the body...And to deny this, is another ticket into

reincarnation...

>

> Norma

 

So right, (but I would snip that last bit about reincarnation)

 

Love, Wim

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22. I am not this body, nor have I a body. I am not jiva. I am Pure

Consciousness. This indeed was my bondage that I had a thirst for this

life.

 

body - because the self is Pure Consciousness and the body is matter.

 

Nor etc. - because the self is ever unattached and never identitifies itself

with the body.

 

Jiva - refers to the infinite Self. The self identifying itself with egoism

etc. is designated as jiva.

 

Bondage - life presupposes identification of the Self with the body. Hence

to desire to live is to deny the true nature of the Self and is possible

only in the state of ignorance, that is, the belief that there is death and

cessation of being.

 

 

23. Oh, in me, the limitless ocean, on the rising of the wind of the

mind, diverse waves of worlds are produced forthwith.

 

In reality there is nothing but the Self. It is only name and form

superimposed on the Self that give the appearance of reality to the world.

But when this appearance vanishes with the dawn of Knowledge, only one

Reality, the Self, remains, just as when the wind subsides the waves also

suside; their name and form vanish and it is seen that they were nothing but

water.

 

 

24. With the calming of the wind of mind in the infinite ocean of

myself, the ark of the universe, unfortunately for jiva, the trader, meets

destruction.

 

Jiva etc. - jiva is a trader; his actions are his commerce; and his good and

bad fruits are his profit and loss. The world is his merchantman in which

he carries on his trade.

 

Meets destruction - vanishes. The universe and the jiva manifest themselves

with the manifestation of mind. With the destruction of the latter, the

former are also destroyed.

 

 

25. How wonderful! In me, the shoreless ocean, the waves of individual

selves, according to their nature, rise, strike each other, play for a time

and disappear.

 

According etc. - according to the karmas of the jivas.

 

Disappear - When ignorance is destroyed and karma is worked out.

 

 

Chapter 2 ends here. Chapter 3 begins with the Test of Self-realization. A

bit more nitty-gritty.