Guru, God and grace

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Dear Harsha

 

Within my experience, what is told, resting

consciousness, has no words. It's an "oh yeah, thats

it" and when the mind or circumstances are turbid, its

simply relaxing into that again. Teachers carry that

resting consciousness around, simply to show us what

the simple truth is. Guru, God and grace. The heart

is a type of church. Christ said "knock and the door

will open." When that door is open, we enter church

with whoever we are here with.

 

Love to you.

 

Michael

--- Harsha wrote:

> Thanks John.

>

> The spiritual path is difficult from one perspective

> because the Self,

> the ultimate Reality that we are, is not clear to

> us. As a mind/body we

> are subject to the whims of nature and circumstances

> (karma). This

> clouds understanding. So the Guru is needed to tell

> us that our nature

> is not that of the body which is subject to natural

> forces but of Atman

> and the nature of Atman is Being-Awareness resting

> in its own nature.

> Patanjali says the same thing about the nature of

> the Self. Ultimately

> the Seer rests in his own nature. That is the

> highest Samadhi. Self is

> Samadhi. Self is Nirvikalpa, beyond imagination and

> thought. Self is

> Sahaj or natural and always visible to itself

> despite imagination and

> thought.

>

> In Hinduism, the Reality is often referred to as

> Satyam-Shivam-Sundram.

> Truth-Consciousness-Beauty. That which is of the

> nature of the ultimate

> truth, pure consciousness, and the essence of beauty

> is the Self. One's

> own Self. It is of such overwhelming beauty because

> the devotee who

> worships the God or the Self with all love and might

> and with

> desperation suddenly realizes that the devotee and

> God are in essence

> identical. The seeker had been looking for something

> that constituted

> the core of his very own Being. Imagine the shock!

> That Realization is

> one of overwhelming beauty. It is empty of all

> concepts but of the

> nature of fullness. Sat-Chit-Ananda. All beauty.

>

> Love to all

> Harsha

>

> John Logan wrote:

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> > Absolutely correct.

> > It has been so since timeless time.

> >

> > Until the physical guru appears, everything which

> occurs to the

> > sincere seeker IS the guru.

> >

> > I can hear Ramana Maharshi asking: "Who is the one

> asking for the

> > guru? Who is this I?"

> >

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> Sri Ramana

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> In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma

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