lucy ma on the pitfalls of the path to realization

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The following warning comes from a highly esteemed Lady Sadhak, who

lived for many years at Ramanashram, Lucy Ma.

 

 

Lucy Ma writes :

 

"If on the other hand, the sadhaka tries to hold on that first

Revelation, in spite of his inner guide warning him (who is holding

on?), then the ego..I slinks again in where the Self is veiled again

and distorts the Revelation of the Self into the cry of victory: " I

have realized"!

 

Blindfolded by the bliss of the final success (whose success?) he never

stops to scrutinize his condition and thus never finds out the truth:

That he became a yoga brastha, one who has fallen out of his yoga, his

union.

 

The new and definitive disguise of his ego..I is "the guru", and this

last and most powerful pitfall never releases him, because he never

recognizes that he is its victim.

 

There are nowadays many whose guru-pitfall caught them even much

earlier on the path."

 

from Hunting the I, p.51

 

 

 

Peace

Chris

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