Guest guest Posted May 12, 2000 Report Share Posted May 12, 2000 A NET of JEWELS daily meditations for seekers of Truth RAMESH S. BALSEKAR <http://www.advaita.org/> May 13, 2000 If any individual considers himself enlightened, then he is not. The precondition of enlightenment is that the identified individual self has been annihilated. No personal self or individual phenomenon has ever been enlightened. The person disappears along with all other phenomena when he awakens from this dream of existence. **************************************************************************** ******* Our lives are in fact being lived for us rather than by us as we seem to think. All our experience, if carefully analyzed, would clearly show that volition is really not a significant factor in our lives. Only the most minute fraction of our total physical and mental functioning even appears to be subject to volition. Did you exercise volition when you were conceived? And when the conceived material grew in the mother's womb? How long can you live without sleep, without food or water? How long can you go without the excretory movements of the body? How do you breathe and digest your food? Do you have the absolute certainty of remaining alive for even the next five minutes on the strength of your own volition? Addresses: Post message: ANetofJewels Subscribe: ANetofJewels- Un: ANetofJewels- List owner: ANetofJewels-owner URL to this page: ANetofJewels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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