Forms created by act of seeing

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is one of a million paths. I have told you that to choose a path

you must be free from fear and ambition. The desire to learn is

not ambition. It is our lot as men to want to know."

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Ixtlan , Carlos Castaneda from

IntroductionThe basic premise of sorcery as don Juan presented it

to me - he said that for a sorcerer, the world of everyday life is

not real, or out there,as we believe it is. For a sorcerer, reality,

or the world we all know,is only a description. ...a description that

had been pounded into mefrom the moment I was born. He pointed out

that everyone who comes into contact with a child is a teacher who

incessantly describes the world to him, until the moment when the

child is capable of preceiving the world as it is described.

According to don Juan, we have no memory of that portentous moment,

simply because none of us could possibly have had any point of

reference to compare it to anything else. From that moment on,

however, the child is a member. He knows the description of the

world; and his membership becomes full-fledged, I suppose, when he is

capable of making all the proper perceptual interpretations which, by

conforming to that description, validate it. For don Juan , then ,

the reality of our day-to-day life consists of an endless flow of

perceptual interpretations which we, the individuals who share a

specific membership, have learned to make it common. The idea that

the perceptual interpretations that make up the world have a flow is

congruous with the fact that they run uninterruptedly and are rarely,

if ever, open to question. In fact, the reality of the world we know

is so taken for granted that the basic premise of sorcery, that our

reality is merely one of many descriptions, could hardly be taken as

a serious proposition.

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Maha Yoga - the real Eye The question whether forms are real is

therefore separately dealt with by the Sage. He says : "If the self

be with form, then the world and God would be so too. But if the

self be formless, then how and by whom are forms to be seen ? Is

the spectacle ever otherwise than as the seeing eye is ? The real

Eye is just the real Self ; It is infinite Consciousness, formless

and wordless." The meaning was explained by the Sage himself as

follows : "If the eye that sees be the eye of flesh , then gross

forms are seen: if that eye be assisted by lenses , then even

invisible things are seen to have form; if the mind be the eye ,

then subtle forms are seen; thus the seeing eye and the object

seen are of the same nature; that is , if the eye be

itself a form , it sees nothing but forms. But neither the

physical eye nor the mind has any power of vision of its own ; the

real Eye is the Self ; as He is formless , being the pure and

infinite Consciousness , the Reality , He does not see forms."

Forms are created by the very act of seeing.

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MAHA YOGA or The Upanishadic Lore in the Light of the

Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana By 'Who' (K. Lakshmana Sarma).

published by : T.N. Venkataraman Sri Ramanasramam , 1973

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