adhyasa/adhyropa

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Namaste,

 

Ramana is reading the newspaper in the morning and commenting on

the items. His adhyasa system is working fine, the same, identically

the same, newspaper is shining within his mind or his mind has taken

the immaterial form of that newspaper or howsoever you wish to put

it as various author favour different metaphors of their own. Ramana

has realised this - he suffers adhyasa ironically. He has no avidya.

He has vidya.

 

In the normal way continuous with the working of adhyasa; logic is

not working at that level so it is not a logical consequent of it; is the

separation of Self and other and the identification of the Self with the

perceptual apparatus. My hunch is that the discussions of adhyropa

and apavada are at the logical level and are therefore an 'applied'

layer to the fundamental adhyasa/avidya node. (( The metaphor here

is of pure consciousness like a string with individual nodes vibrating on

it.))

 

However the cure is not far from the disease. For the advaitin

perception is a mystical experience which he does not allow to go to

his head. For him it is amazing and paradoxical that the existent out

there should be somehow in here too. This is a single intuition and

having it is the first step on the way to being a philo sophos, a lover of

wisdom. Dhyana nourishes this intuition and slows the mind down

allowing it to become translucent to reality. ((Here the metaphor is of

the normal refraction of the rays of consciousness into the past and

the future i.e. pure reflectivity: its opposite being pure translucence)).

Samadhi ensues.

 

Felipe, I think with you that the childlike vision is important

cf.Wordsworth's Ode on the Intimations of Immortality. The ultimate

vision is Ramana reading the paper and not being fooled for a minute.

 

Best Wishes,

Michael.