thought for the week

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

I would like to humbly present my thoughts about the statement - " what is the

value of goodness if that too has to be removed ?"

I feel that it is not that goodness has to be removed but it is the

self-identification that has to be removed.

Here I would like to define goodness as that non-dual awareness of bliss and not

as the everyday notion of "what is opposite of badness".

Three 'Gunas' can be represented as follows:

Goodness+self identification = Saattvic tendency

Goodness + self identification + doership = Raajasic tendency

Goodness + self identification + passivity (laziness) = Taamasic tendency

Therefore to be good without self identification ( which is a product of

ignorance ) is the path to "Self" realization.

pranams

vijayakumar

[Guest guest]

Namaste Sri-Vijayakumar

 

The interpretation of 'goodness' I had in mind when the question arose was

different from the one you've interpreted it to be. Of course, I agree to

what you've written below, if goodness is interpreted as such. The goodness

I referred to are the actions + motives that are consistent with our dharma.

 

 

Somehow or rather I find it difficult to ascribe the quality of goodness to

the Atman. I prefer to see the Atman as beyond good & evil duality. This

is only my opinion. Regards.

 

Om Shanti

Kathi

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> Jyothi Vijayakumar [sMTP:nandini]

> Saturday, March 20, 1999 1:41 AM

> 'advaitin '

> thought for the week

>

> Jyothi Vijayakumar <nandini

>

> Namaste,

> I would like to humbly present my thoughts about the statement - " what is

> the value of goodness if that too has to be removed ?"

> I feel that it is not that goodness has to be removed but it is the

> self-identification that has to be removed.

> Here I would like to define goodness as that non-dual awareness of bliss

> and not as the everyday notion of "what is opposite of badness".

> Three 'Gunas' can be represented as follows:

> Goodness+self identification = Saattvic tendency

> Goodness + self identification + doership = Raajasic tendency

> Goodness + self identification + passivity (laziness) = Taamasic tendency

> Therefore to be good without self identification ( which is a product of

> ignorance ) is the path to "Self" realization.

> pranams

> vijayakumar

>

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