FW: [BhagavadGitaLab] Shankara quote....and others

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I forward this message due to its beautiful quotes, which I hope this group

will also appreciate.

 

Brian

 

 

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Thursday, 9 August 2001 02:10

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[bhagavadGitaLab] Shankara quote....and others

 

 

Dear friends:

 

Happened upon these quotes....wonderful, they start a few of the chapters of

Ken Wilber's book One Taste. It is a journal account, very personal. He

has tremendous respect for TM and especially for the research being done.

This is a compliment given the respect Wilber has in the transpersonal

psychology area .

 

As for the quotes, we have all tasted that which is described, after a while

it does not seem so unusual, thus we forget how wonderful it is. I welcome

your thoughts on these quotes.....neil

 

 

 

Now I shall tell you the nature of this absolute Witness. If you recognize

it, you will be freed from the bonds of ignorance and attain liberation.

 

There is a self-existent reality, which is the basis of our consciousness of

ego. That reality is the Witness of the states of ego consciousness and of

the body. That reality is the constant Witness in all three states of

consciousness….waking, dreaming, and dreamless sleep. It is your real Self.

 

That Reality pervades the universe. It alone shines. The universe shines

with its reflected light.

 

Its nature is timeless awareness. It knows all things, Witnesses all

things, from the ego to the body. It is the Witness of pleasure and pain

and the sense objects. This is your real Self, the Supreme Being, the

Ancient. It never ceases to experience infinite release. It is unwavering.

It is Spirit itself…………..Shankara

 

 

 

There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean

that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What

is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not

permanent is not worth striving for. So I say that the Self is not reached.

 

You are the Self; you are already That. …………. Ramana Maharishi

 

 

The self-luminous, vividly clear, present wakefulness and awareness,

In which form and Emptiness are non-dual,

Is the consciousness in which the three states [waking, dream, sleep] are

spontaneously present.

Maintain it day and night in a continuous practice, my heart children.

This is how non-duality is the natural freedom…….Tsogdruk Randgrol