Understanding

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Dear Mr.Murthy,

 

You wrote:

 

namaste.

 

I fully agree with the above that one cannot 'practise' advaita.

Any 'practice' where the doer has the feeling that he/she is the

doer defeats the thing altogether.

 

shri nitin says that the key-word is understanding. I would say that

even 'understanding' is not the key-word because 'understanding' still

separates the knowledge and the knower: that someone is understanding

something. I would consider shri shankara's vivekacUDAmaNi expression:

"ahambhAvodayAbhAvo bodhasya paramAvadhiH" - the end of the rise of

the sense of 'I' of the ego is the culmination of knowledge - as the

key.

 

Regards

Gummuluru Murthy

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What you say is precisely true. In fact, that was what was meant by the word

"understanding." If you notice, Nisargadatta's statement is (significantly) made

in the passive tense ("Understanding is all," not "You must understand"). It can

be expressed as "Understanding without an understand-ER."

 

Best wishes,

 

Nitin

 

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