Avadhuta

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On 9/25/99 at 8:33 AM Vivekananda Centre wrote:

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>Posting this from Ramakrishna List

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>>From Sue:-

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>(translator - Swami Chetanananda)

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>It is God's grace alone which gives wise men the desire to

realize nondual

>Brahman; thus they are set free from great fear.

>

>(comments)

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>Desire - It is true that mere desire to realize Brahman

cannot save men from

>great fear, but the author has taken it for granted that the

aspirant is

>qualified and competent, and therefore Brahman will be surely

realized.

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>Nondual Brahman - "Brahman is one without a second," says the

Chhandogya

>Upanishad (6.2.1) In the nondualistic experience, the

knower, knowledge,

>and

>knowable become one. Thus, he who knows Brahman becomes

Brahman.

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>Great fear - The whole world is fraught with fear - death,

disease, dispair,

>grief, and so on. Where there are two, there is fear,

because one limits

>the

>other. Only in nonduality is there no fear. When an

aspirant attains

>Brahman, he becomes fearless.

>

>

>Sue.

 

One becomes fearless, when becoming convinced that there is

nothing to lose or to gain, whether is this life or another.

The consequences, natural detachment and dispassion, have

nonduality as their fruit but without desire as the carrier.

 

Jan

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> >>From Sue:-

> >

> >(translator - Swami Chetanananda)

> >

> >It is God's grace alone which gives wise men the desire to

>realize nondual

> >Brahman; thus they are set free from great fear.

 

Jan writes:

>One becomes fearless, when becoming convinced that there is

>nothing to lose or to gain, whether is this life or another.

>The consequences, natural detachment and dispassion, have

>nonduality as their fruit but without desire as the carrier.

>

>Jan

 

As I understand:

 

In way what Jan says is true. But the root cause for fear is the duality as

Dattatreya in the Very first sloka of Avadhuta Geeta points out.

"Eswararpitam eva pumsam advaita vaasana" - The emphasis of the sloka, as

sue pointed out from the traslation of the verse, shows that even to gain

the inclination towards understanding of non-dual nature of the Brahman,

advaita vaasana, and of course realization of that state is due to the grace

of God alone, Eswaraarpitam eva.

 

Whenever there is a duality there is fear - since there are two and one

limits the other and the limitation causes the fear. T. U. says "

udaramantaram kurute athathasya bhayam bhavati" - even a spec of difference

can result in the fear. Arjuna is afraid of viswaruupa and request Krinshan

to withdraw since he sees the viswarupa separate from him - seer and seen

and does not become one with it. That cuased him fear. Only advaitic

understanding or realization alone brings fearless state. The rest are all

if at all are by products rather than other way around.

 

Hari Om!

Sadananda