Guest guest Posted June 30, 2002 Report Share Posted June 30, 2002 In a message dated 6/29/2002 1:10:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, viorica writes: > Q: > What is this awareness and how can one obtain and cultivate it? > > A: > You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since > you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All > that you have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that > is of the not-self. If one gives up being aware of them then pure > awareness alone remains, and that is the Self. > There is more than just this intellectual proposition. Being intellectually aware of Self is one thing while being established in Self while performing action in duality is yet quite another thing, indeed, most profound. Yogastah kuru karmani. Established in Self, perform action. (Gita 2.45 or 2.48, I forget which.) Such an impact on personal realization is profound. Jnani alone is incomplete. Indeed the Gita itself is sankhya-yoga. The above definition of Self may well be an accurate summation of reality, but the internal psychological impact of personal witnessing of a simultaneous joy and bliss is yet far away. We just simply cannot talk our way into or think our way into samadhi. These fine perceptions are great to acknowledge and verify the contents of experience (to know by the mouths of others that we are not going insane), but they are not the actual experiences that are referred. jai guru dev, Edmond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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