Witnessing is part of our True Divine Nature

[Guest guest]

Namaste:

 

We possess the witnessing attitude while enjoying the nature -

whether standing in front of an ocean or a big mountain! We somehow

temporaily move our identity away from the paradigm of body-mind-

intellect and we have no problem to relinguish our possessions. This

may explain why our sages and saints of the Upanishads preferred to

move to top the mountain and/or wander in the wilderness to enjoy

the peace and tranquility. Those who watched the sunrise/senset

skies would have noticed the paintings of the creator and would

agree that those creations are beyond human comprehension.

 

Today morning, while commuting, we got trapped in a traffic jam for

about 15 minutes. But we had the opportunity to witness one of the

rarest display of the morning sunrise (6:30 AM just before entering

the city of Washington DC). Our conversation clearly established the

fact that we don't control anything that happens in our life,

whether we accept it or not, we are just witnessing the happenings

of events of our life! Unfortunately, such realizations do not stand

long and we are pulled back to the old habit of taking sheltor in

the kingdom of body-mind-intellect.

 

Though, we are responsible for our dreams, we are able to recognize

that we didn't get affected by it. Without me there will be no dream

but in the dream, I am not there! Our life is also a dream and we

can recognize this only if we wake up from the dream of life!!

 

Warmest regards,

 

Ram Chandran

[Guest guest]

Many Pranams to all: from Million paths group I found this ( Titled

Maharshi's Gospel 62). Very much like waht Ramji has written.

 

"

D. Through poetry, music, japa, bhajana, the sight of beautiful

landscapes, reading the lines of spiritual verses, etc., one

experiences sometimes a true sense of all-unity. Is that feeling

of deep blissful quiet ( wherein the personal self has no place)

the same as the entering into the Heart of which Bhagavan

speaks?

Will practice thereof lead to a deepr samhadi and so ultimately

to a fill vision of the Real?

 

Maharshi:

 

There is happiness when agreeable things are presented to the

mind.

It is the happiness inherent to the Self, and there is no other

happiness.

And it is not alien and afar. You are diving into the Self on

those occasions

which you consider pleasurable; that diving results in self-

existent bliss.

But the association of ideas is responsible for foisting that

bliss on other

things or occurrences while, in fact, that bliss is within you.

On these

occasions you are plunging into the Self, though unconsciously.

If you do so

consciously, with the conviction that comes of the experience

that you are

identical with the happiness which is verily the Self, the one

Reality, you call it

Realization. I want you to dive consciously into the Self,i.e.,

into the Heart

"

advaitin, "Ram Chandran" <rchandran@c...>

wrote:

> Namaste:

>

> We possess the witnessing attitude while enjoying the nature -

> whether standing in front of an ocean or a big mountain! We

somehow

> temporaily move our identity away from the paradigm of body-mind-

> intellect and we have no problem to relinguish our possessions.

This

> may explain why our sages and saints of the Upanishads preferred to

> move to top the mountain and/or wander in the wilderness to enjoy

> the peace and tranquility. Those who watched the sunrise/senset

> skies would have noticed the paintings of the creator and would

> agree that those creations are beyond human comprehension.

>

> Today morning, while commuting, we got trapped in a traffic jam for

> about 15 minutes. But we had the opportunity to witness one of the

> rarest display of the morning sunrise (6:30 AM just before entering

> the city of Washington DC). Our conversation clearly established

the

> fact that we don't control anything that happens in our life,

> whether we accept it or not, we are just witnessing the happenings

> of events of our life! Unfortunately, such realizations do not

stand

> long and we are pulled back to the old habit of taking sheltor in

> the kingdom of body-mind-intellect.

>

> Though, we are responsible for our dreams, we are able to recognize

> that we didn't get affected by it. Without me there will be no

dream

> but in the dream, I am not there! Our life is also a dream and we

> can recognize this only if we wake up from the dream of life!!

>

> Warmest regards,

>

> Ram Chandran