the physiology of intellect

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the physiology of intellect in Ramana Maharshi's enlightenment:

 

"When the mind, having pure sattva

as its characteristic, remain

attending to the aham sphurana,

which is the sign of the forthcoming

direct experience of the Self,

the downward-facing Heart becomes upward-facing and remains in the form

of That.

 

This aforesaid attention to the

source of the aham sphurana alone

is the path. When thus attended to,

Self, the reality, alone will remain

shining in the centre of the

Heart as I-am-I."

 

from:

 

<http://www.davidgodman.org/rteach/iandii1.shtml>

 

the turning up is a term used about

the petals of the lotuses at the

chakras.

 

here is the Amrit-nadi leading from

the Crown-chakra to the Heart-cave

down ward: after Enlightenment,

wich happens in the Crown chakra...

as E settles:

 

>From No Mind I Am The Self.. David Godman

 

 The experience of the Self #6

 

Q:  Some people claim to have had

brief experiences of the Self. Is

thisvery common?

 

Saradamma: Many people

make such claims but I doubt if more

than a few of them have had a genuine

experience of the Self. 

 

Because most people have never had

a direct experience of the Self

they think that blissful or peaceful

states of mind are glimpses of the

Self. The only real experience of

the Self occurs when the

mind enters the Heart.

 

Imagine a cave with a fierce demon

in it. If you go in to investigate,

one of three things may happen: the

demon may kill you, you may escape

through the cave entrance, or you

may break your head on the cave roof

while you are trying to escape and

die as a result. Taking the mind

into the Heart-cave is a little like

this. Either the Self destroys the

mind completely, or the mind enjoys

the bliss of the Self for a while

before escaping to the brain again,

or the strain of the experience is

too much for the body and death

results.

 

In the last case there will

probably be a rebirth in one of

the higher worlds.

 

   Most people who claim to have

experienced the Self have not even

taken their minds near to the entrance

 of the Heart-cave.  And even if the

mind does go into the Heart, there

is still an 'I' which is experiencing

the bliss of the Self.

 

The true experience of the Self

only happens when the mind is

completely absent, either temporarily

as in samadhi, or permanently, as in

 Self-realization.

 

Both of these experiences are very

rare.

 

   It is very difficult to make the

mind go into the Heart. Mostly it

is too afraid of its own death to even

 approach the entrance.

 

The mental experiences of peace,

bliss and

stillness, which devotees claim to

experience usually, take place

outside the Heart. They are all in

 the mind. People who think that

these experiences are the reality

 of the Self are only deluding

themselves.

 

      Love, Karta

 

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