Our Mission: the Destruction of Life? ---concluding comments

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hariH OM!

 

obviously the intellect is the problem...our most

significant obstacle!...and attempting to satisfy it

is not our purpose (sadhana). the whole point in

attempting to intellectually clarify *at all* [in

terms of understanding... i.e. in discovering the ways

and means of the practical method in 'deep'

metaphysics], is to expose the fact that there's an

ongoing battle taking place within the Mind. and the

best way to defuse this battle is to come to terms

with the *invariably* negative judgments habitually

developing out of it; which is the product of the

fundamental 'self vs not-self' paradigm in conjenction

with its corresponding set-up in Relativity

[necessarily inherent within Life's manifestation]

which is itself an *archetypal* dynamic.

 

the message is: if we can process virtually everything

coming in through the six senses as brahman Itself

[the substratum thereof], and *not* as things in

themselves [which is the *only* factor spawning the

Unreal], which thus create this ongoing antagonism

between what is attractive vs what is repulsive or

what is aggreeable vs what is disaggreeable to us.

whereas, if we can maintain foucus on their subtratum

source we will have effectively succeeded in

neutralizing their impact on us...and therefore

neutralizing the impact of our philosophical

speculative Mind (this being the whole ball of wax!).

 

in other words, this approach is essentially a

medicine designed to dissolve the habitual churning of

the Mind. it's mean't to augment/compliment the

*primary method* of Self-enquiry, not replace it!

however, if this approach is adopted it will plant a

seed in the Mind, which will eventually blossom,

allowing us to dissolve the ongoing habit/infliction

in/of the Mind. this could be compared to fighting

fire with fire...that is, using the Mind to destroy

the Mind (i.e the philosophical Mind).

 

here's the problem, in practical terms:

we stand there judging this, categorizing that, in

terms of given things being tamasic, rajasic, satvic

or blends thereof, perpetuating thus the battle as to

what is attractive or repulsive to us. (it should be

pointed out that even the purely satvic guna, unto

itself, is still quite removed from its substratum

source in brahman. however, all of the gunas have as

their source, the brahman! and this is what i'm

struggling to convey here. indeed, i've been trying to

convey this for years on our List!)

 

here's the solution, in simple terms:

we need to be capable of looking beyond what presents

itself as exclusive, isolated Appearances, and

pragmatically realize the source and origin causal to

such Appearances. "All there is, is brahman." that

which exists, Manifest and Unmanifest, is a seamless

Whole. this is the central core of the advaitic

message.

 

namaste

 

 

 

 

 

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