Guest guest Posted December 30, 1999 Report Share Posted December 30, 1999 (I posted this to my multifaith list StudyCircle, a few days back as my message for New Year which is probably not very related to Advaita, but serves to be a message for New Year 2000. Sorry, if this is off list parameters. - Ruben.) ----------- Dear Spiritual Aspirants, Recently, someone told me that "there is not much time left. We should read books to gain knowledge, contemplate and put them in practice." It seems that death is so near, that one should do this. But is there any use in all these? One starts the spiritual journey with spiritual efforts with DESIRES for getting inner peace or Liberation. All the bookish knowledge and spiritual efforts are aids to bring us into the edge of asking "WHO AM I?". If God or The Light is truly the ultimate reality and we are living the dream of life as puppets, we understand that all our material works are parts of this play. In a dream, we as dreamer take a character but the play is also directed by us unknowingly. Can't certain people see that if they agree that all their material endeavours are part of the script, so it their spiritual endeavours? Irony is what I see when a person said that spiritual efforts include: 1) prayers and meditation 2) dedication of daily actions to God as we are His Puppets 3) chanting of the Lord's Name etc. #1 and #3 are also puppeteered! There is no goal nor destination as we are all part of GOD, The Light and merely deceived by the mind. There is such thing as mental suffering - anxiety, stress, anger, envy, disappointment etc. We engage in spiritual activity to lose this and to lose the original desire of engagement. However, people do get disappointed in spiritual efforts - 1) not seeing results 2) unhappy that they procrastinated spiritual efforts that they resolved to do 3) not enough time in this life to engage in spiritual efforts. These ARE the kind of mental sufferings we want to avoid through spiritual efforts and they too come into the spiritual efforts!!!??? Is that not an irony? WHAT ARE YOU EXPECTING FOR? WHY HAVE YOU BEEN PRAYING? WHAT SPIRITUAL EFFORT IS MADE THROUGH READING? or thru this list even? One may praise the detachment from actions and fruits to God as we are not the doers but affected by the delusions of unreality and that we are The ONE Light (Brahman). But what irony that they ARE ATTACHED TO SPIRITUAL EFFORTS, and GOALS OF SPIRITUAL EFFORTS etc.??? There is even attachment to the act of detaching from actions and the fruit of that! Our lives are spiritualized when we stop spiritualizing it! When we can live moment to moment in bliss, love and happiness by emptying our minds without taking efforts to empty it! Without any effort, it is EMPTY! isn't it!?? Since efforts which are actions take up mental space! Therefore, this coming millenium, I call for all spiritual aspirants (and so- calleds) to take this EFFORT (irony) to contemplate all your spiritual efforts again to see if your resolutions have been justified for another year. God bless the coming year! HAPPY NEW YEAR! -- Warmest regards, Ruben rubenn _____________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 1999 Report Share Posted December 30, 1999 Greetings Rubin: First, I want to confirm that your message for the New Year is definitely related to Advaita. You want everyone to open up their hearts so that divinity can enter, stay and guide our life. Who can deny this simple truth which can pave the path for the Ultimate Truth. Desires, Thoughts will stay in our life from birth to death, but they move away from Evil to Divine. The efforts that we undertake to get ourselves adjusted to the realities of life will eventually disappear! In Bhagavad Git, Lord Krishna calls it as 'action in inaction' and 'inaction in actions.' What it really implies that all our actions (efforts) become spontaneous without duality of thoughts and desires. Your message is quite appropriate for the New Year 2000 and I am quite happy to endorse it! regards, Ram Chandran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 30, 1999 Report Share Posted December 30, 1999 >"Ruben" <rubenn > >(I posted this to my multifaith list StudyCircle, a few days back as my >message for New Year which is probably not very related to Advaita, >but serves to be a message for New Year 2000. Sorry, if this is off list >parameters. I think that your message is VERY relevant - thanks for posting it here. It sounds as if you may have been reading the works of Ramesh Balsekar. If not, then you should read him - you'll find a "soul mate"! W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 1999 Report Share Posted December 31, 1999 Warren wrote: > It sounds as if you may have been reading the works of Ramesh Balsekar. If > not, then you should read him - you'll find a "soul mate"! I have never heard of Ramesh Balsekar. Can I find his works online? -- Warmest regards, Ruben rubenn _____________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 31, 1999 Report Share Posted December 31, 1999 >"Ruben" <rubenn > >I have never heard of Ramesh Balsekar. Can I find his works online? Not that I know of (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). But here's the place to contact for more information: http://advaita.org/ If you're interested in ordering any of the books, I especially recommend "Consciousness Speaks" and "Your Head In The Tiger's Mouth" as good introductions. W Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2000 Report Share Posted January 1, 2000 At 10:06 AM 1/1/00 +0800, Ruben wrote: >I have never heard of Ramesh Balsekar. Can I find his works online? Try www.advaita.org --Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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