my new book

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hariH OM!

namaskaar.

 

greetings all. long time, no post! :-)

 

for years now i've been determined to write a book in *simple*

language re the advaitamarga and had in fact made some headway.

 

however, i recently came upon a book that eliminated the necessity

to do so!

 

likely many of you have at least heard of eckhart tolle's book THE

POWER OF NOW. if not, i urge you to at least order a copy from your

library. imo, it avails the most effective practical means that can

lead one to moksha. especially because of its stark-poignant

simplicity.

 

ok. please stop here. i ask that only jnanis read further. if you

don't believe or consider yourself jnani, what follows will prove

counterproductive.

 

now i will turn my attention toward writing a book about what i

believe is the phase following the thuriyatita.

 

obviously even jnanis will consider this absurd. nevertheless, i

cannot discount what the rig veda has revealed. that there is

indeed a purpose to life (as brahman's "desire" manifest in form of

Its lila), lest it would have never come into existence, even if

considered as pure mahamaya! my ontological question for anyone

denying the purport of what that ancient veda [even if circuitously]

implies, is: why would brahman (or Its saguna agent as prajapati or

hiranyagarbha or whatever "offshoot" one is satisfied to refer to

That which is able to create, other than the attributeless,

causeless Ineffable Itself) have perpetrated such a trick

entailing "purposeless suffering"? i contend that it is not at all

a trick! the Absolute brahman cannot possibly be what the human

mind thinks It is or isn't!! therefore, post-moksha, one is forced

to apprehend and COME TO TERMS WITH Its effects while never hoping

to realize Its cause. imo, to ignore and discount Its effects--as

the divine lila--is a blunder of the first order. for, if we were

being genuine to what appears to be the trend toward the utter

annihilation of the ahankara, why are we continuing to post to this

List? why are we following a given dharma? why surrender to an

ishtha devata? who is it that is surrendering and to what? why

can't we just cut off the snake's head and be done with it?!

 

because the snake Itself isn't categorizable as merely mithya! if

it were, our will to live would whither to the point of compromising

our immune system to the point where cancer would chew us up faster

than we'd know what hit us. no, this life's meaning is

*philosophically* discardable only "en route" to jivanmukthi. after

that, it will take on another meaning whether we like it or not!

for, as the mahavakya states: "all this, verily, is brahman." i

cannot help but see that all that's been revealed in the sastras is

not all that can BE revealed! even if at the end of a cycle of

manifestation (manvantara), all is collapsed into Void (pralaya);

life *was* and will again *be*, and cyclically so, ad infinitum.

so, in this context, who or what will be manifesting as souls? if

given jivanmukthas have their "soul-jersey's" numbers permanently

retired, what the heck does THIS imply?? we have to be capable of

thinking outside the closed-logical box, as well as the

sanctimonious high court of "idea-fixe cum metaphysical" finality.

 

moreover and in closing: as we know, adi sankara has said that maya

is beginningless and endless. thus and therefore, what are the

implications of THIS? :-)

 

namaste,

frank

 

ps. news for my friends: just married my 2nd wife. her name is

ethel, an indian/philippina, employed as mazda quality control

manager in japan, put in for resignation 31 oct, to move back into

poverty with me in florida :-) .. i must say i feel immeasurably

more at home in the orient (with visits to china, thailand and

philippines ...wish we could also go to south india to visit my

guru's mahasamadhi at sri ramanashramam!) than in the

spiritually/culturally bankrupt USA. my son and parents are there,

so i have obligations.