RE: Yoga - [11]

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I would like to reply to this, maybe this would be helpful

 

In completely clearing the mind, finish the thought (they are always

overlapping) and there is a space there(between thoughts) stay with

it..(Maybe this you confronted?) first there will be a fear of dying which

is because of the cessation of desire even for breathing in this space..If

you stop breathing you will go to sleep and then continue breathing, no need

to fear. .. Many desires will bombard ..glass of water..scratch.. remain

with it..you will then cease thought and desire, therefore, also the

ego(best not to think of ego or its erasure here) After doing this once you

will be able to clear the mind at any time one becomes aware of it as a

burden As there is no ego with no mind there is no desire no desire..

nirvana.. ..Whether this is desired as a permanant state is up to the person

and circumstances.

Barb

 

 

viorica weissman [viorica]

Friday, September 06, 2002 12:10 AM

RM

Cc: SriArunachala

[RamanaMaharshi] Yoga - [11]

 

 

 

Q:

I practise Hatha Yoga and I also meditate ‘I am Brahman’.

After a few moments of this meditation, a blank prevails,

the brain gets heated and a fear of death arises.

What should I do?

 

Maharshi:

 

‘I am Brahman’ is only a thought. Who says it? Brahman itself

does not say so. What need is there for it to say it? Nor can

the real ‘I’ say so. For ‘I’ always abides as Brahman. To be

saying it is only a thought. Whose thought is it? All thoughts

are from the unreal ‘I’, that is the ‘I’-thought. Remain without

thinking. So long as there is thought there will be fear.

 

Q: As I go on thinking of it there is forgetfulness, the brain

becomes heated and I am afraid.

 

Maharshi:

Yes, the mind is concentrated in the brain and hence you get a hot

sensation there. It is because of the ‘I’-thought. When the ‘I

’-thought

arises fear of death arises simultaneously. With regard to

forgetfulness,

so long as there is thought there will be forgetfulness. First there

is the

thought ‘I am Brahman’, then forgetfulness supervenes. Forgetfulness

and thought are for the ‘I’-thought only. Hold on to it and it will

disappear

like a phantom. What remains over is the real ‘I’ and that is the

Self.

 

‘I am Brahman’ is an aid to concentration since it keeps off other

thoughts.

When that one thought alone persists, see whose thought it is. It

will be

found to be from ‘I’. From where is the ‘I’-thought? Probe into it,

the ‘I’-thought

will vanish, and the Supreme Self will shine forth of itself. No

further effort is

needed.

 

When the one real ‘I’ remains alone, it will not be saying ‘I am

Brahman’.

Does a man go on repeating ‘I am a man’? Unless he is challenged,

why

should he declare himself a man? Does anyone mistake himself for an

animal that he should say, .’No, I am not an animal, I am a man’?

Similarly,

Brahman or ‘I’ being the only existing reality, there is no one

there to challenge

it and so there is no need to be repeating ‘I am Brahman’.

 

from BE AS YOU ARE

DAVID GODMAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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